philippic torch touches down here in moscow it's now on its way to a red square ceremony to kick off its relay across russia culminating at the launch of the sochi winter games. also running today u.s. special forces reportedly forced to fall back during a military raid in somalia but a separate operation in libya sees a top terror leaders seize as claimed swirl the washington suspiciously picky in its war against insurgents. how the netherlands scios an international tribunal to try and free the thirty greenpeace arctic oil activist who rushes to take him to court piracy charges.

just after four pm in moscow this is the weekly on our round of of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen but dominating our coverage from moscow this afternoon one big story unfolding right now it's a big day for russia as the flame of the twenty forty winter olympics arrives in moscow from greece. if you're watching earlier on you'll know but let me tell you otherwise it was greeted at the capital by military lineup and it's now on its way to the heart of the russian capital red square let's go there live. as it waiting by the criminals for flame to arrive we just been watching the pictures actually in the last five or so minutes ago those bikers two hundred of them heading your way sir what's going to happen then. exactly level of excitement. is hard to underestimate

everyone knows that the flames already arrived three said it's now en route this is its next stop being accompanied by bikers that you were talking about this the last the most by them day in the country that many of these guys apart from the business . weather jacket for many of them are athletes themselves they said that this is a great privilege and honor to be able to take part in this event obviously everyone's gathered here waiting for the wave to arrive shortly and this is going to be a ball goes. in the history of the olympic games we're talking about over one hundred twenty days it's going to be taken for the whole country. about thousand or nine hundred villages and towns really at some point they say that each citizen of the country will be a small distance from the olympic torch so they'll be able to either see it

themselves or perhaps participate the torch will be taken on top of the highest mountains. and down the biggest lakes like the bike it's even going to be taken on board the international space station and is going to be taken outside into outer space story for the whole country and perhaps for the history of the olympic games themselves fourteen thousand people are going to. participating there really. for sure is going to be transported pretty much by all means possible even camels and dogs and the rangers ledges air balloons and space rockets so for now we're waiting for it all right here to red square there will be a ceremony here including music and dancing performances the president is going to attend the red square a little bit later so right now although that tension basically and into because it's a patient it's really focused on that flame to finally arrive to the heart of moscow

all right ok will become but she later of course for a lot more coverage throughout the night let's now though go to of an airport where the olympic flame touched down just a little bit earlier on about an hour or two ago. or so in culture within my lexicon quiet where you are now but it was a real scene a pride earlier almost night before. went with two hundred bikers i want you to tell us about those bikers in a minute because maybe a western audience would think what. no ordinary bikers out there take it for what happened you were at. what is indeed a much quieter here now but suggests an hour ago the excitement was literally tangible here at the airport when we bunch of journalists several dozen of them with the situating historic moment for russia for the first time in three decades the olympic flame landed here in the russian capital and indeed last time this happened in the one nine hundred eighty when moscow hosted the summer olympics i wasn't even born then so for me it was especially exciting to see the olympic flame

here it was greeted by a lot of fanfare by the presidential regimens band then a little short speech by the vice prime minister of the russian federation who was responsible for bringing the olympic flame to the russian capital after that the motorcade drove away from here and i was lucky to shoot a picture for artie's instagram account you can see it there. the olympic flame was carried literally ten meters away from us the journalists here at the site now this is the start of a very long an epic journey as my call that you go to just sat for the olympic flame it started on the a week ago in september twenty ninth in olympian greece so it usually happens when every live big game takes place the olympic flame was lit there a week later in fact yesterday. on saturday the flame was officially handed over to the russian side and now it landed in moscow needless to say that r.t. will be covering every step of the way of the torch relay we'll have our reporters

on every point of the torch relay throughout and one of us. i was lucky enough to be on board the plane carrying the torch carrying the flame from greece to russia and he filed this report for us let's have a look. so the question is how did you take the flame from sunny athens all away to moscow well it's quite simple you put it in a small lantern and then you put it on a plane but that's not just any old plane that's of a i pay plane and i've got a ticket. we're now cruising at thirty thousand feet and tucked into the c twenty five east berlin pick flame you might notice it has been nice to light a couple of other lanterns and that's because one of them might go and god forbid so that got those extra ones just in case now they are in good company because on board among other people is the president of the sochi organizing committee dimitri tuna shanker he sent just over here dmitri you spent the last he's of your life

trying to bring this flame to russia you must be pretty excited yes very proud very much excited because it's once in a lifetime opportunity for the generations to showcase the new more than russia to the wall with a global audience with this several billion so viewers you're in the opening ceremony which will be held on one hundred twenty four days in the very heart of mine and then to see. such ok well you've got a busy time ahead so i will let you get some more rest we are g.'s to touch down in moscow in a band two hours time. and we have just landed in moscow it is in the story moment and if you look out of the door you will see the olympic flame for sochi twenty fourteen is a back to receive a very warm welcome. writes let's follow the path of the flame gather we've got live pictures of those of bikers that bikers convoy part of the roughly half where there they are roughly half way to their

destination are selected to describe a bit about it if you thought it was slightly odd that some leather clad bikers were making their way there but nothing out about these guys that night was the cause of the most well known russian bikers group at the night wolves says he was approached by the organizers of the olympic torch relay was asked to participate it was a great honor for him it is him and his comrades there some two hundred of them forming this motorcade to carry the flame from going to the airport was brought my special plane earlier on to moscow's red square these guys do a lot of work for charity very very upstanding in the community thought a lot of here you're seeing the night wall this is a say the most well known russian bikers group flames on its way then sylvie think about twenty minutes or so away from red square let's focus in on red square should we see what's happening there it appears can often be taking us. through what's happening there little bit later you can see the band playing at the moment there's a lot in store there later on. huge audiences gathered to await the limpid top

ships going to arrive carried by that two hundred strong convoy which includes some renowned russian athletes as a just mention after they brought the torch to red square russia's president vladimir putin is then going to deliver a speech to signal the start of the top will be eleven torchbearer as we bring you all the images of that it's going to be a very nice scene to take in live as it happens our coverage continues then of the olympic flames arrival in red square in the russian capital throughout the day hope you can stay with us. the olympic torch is on a big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others.

a limp toward. bustle coverage on our. yes over a couple of hours particularly the next couple of hours with regular lot more but put to meantime while we wait for the torch to arrive in the center of moscow let me take you through some of the big stories that shape the news this week from r.t. and u.s. special forces in somalia have reportedly had to pull but my off the heavy resistance from militants during a navy seal attempt to capture their leader but no other terror raid over four thousand kilometers away in libya was more productive as the military captured a suspect from the one nine hundred ninety eight u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania piece like this one dawson said that washington's very selective when it comes to fighting terror the war on terrorism has really replaced the cold war to justify massive military spending and so when they're supporting a dictator like hadi any men who want an election because it is the only name on the ballot or they are supporting al-qaeda or getting mercenaries in syria or

whether it's in the in afghanistan or any of these terrorist groups or drug cartels and so on if they are supporting u.s. policy in the region then it's not terrorism it's not spoken of if they are opposing neocolonialism in us and they're terrorists it's not about how the actor who they kill us has no problem supporting terrorists all over the rest of the world so for them to be fighting terrorists in somalia sounds a little disingenuous when they're supporting. al-qaeda in syria as well as and many other terrorist groups all over the world. it's not just the u.s. that's being accused of supporting terrorists russian diplomatic sources are blaming a saudi backed group too for the deadly august chemical attack in syria claiming they wanted to provoke foreign intervention independent utility james corbett believes that's exactly why it's incorrect to describe the war in syria as civil. mistaken assumption that's often purveyed in the media that what's happening in

syria is some sort of civil war as some sort of internal conflict and a lot of the narrative has been framed around that that frame but i think it's fundamentally false to assert that i think we have to understand what's happening in syria as the planned result of a nearly decade long intervention foreign funded foreign armed foreign supplied foreign trained intervention in syria that has been arming and training syrian opposition groups on the record documented lee back to the bush administration as far back as two thousand and six they were starting to fund and train the opposition forces in syria so we have to understand that this is not some sort of spontaneous uprising and that as a result there are many different outside forces including the united states including the saudis qatar ease and others. come out the victim or the victim egyptian authorities continue the crackdown on the muslim brotherhood but the islamist movement appears to grow any stronger as a result. and they broad daylight cut chase in washington

d.c. ends in a hail of bullets and a mother despite no apparent danger we're going to report on the circumstances and what authorities had to say about the use of force but later in the program too. but next with america's government in shock for a sixth day now various agencies are doing their best to try to bypass the partisan deadlock the pentagon says its lawyers have found a way to get hundreds of thousands of employees back to work on the politicians causing the stole a vote to pay laid off workers for the days they're messing economist mark fried wolf says that that dispute is a sudden shock waves worldwide. there's literally nothing the u.s. government can't and won't do for unclear reasons sending whatever shock waves they feel like sending into the u.s. and global economies i cannot imagine a recipe that would undermine confidence in the dollar and the us or particularly the us government faster or more effectively than what we see on every news channel

in the world every day for a week and countdown to the us congress presently enjoys a ten percent approval rating and the way you could think about that is ninety percent of the people they asked nine in ten do not approve of the u.s. congress that makes the u.s. congress a little bit less popular than a sexually transmitted disease. the hardest hit is government branches and related to defense including massive thousands of its employees have been sent home with various programs severely affected your job it used to manage the international space station for nasa he told us how repercussions are likely to fall and. there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months fairly critical motions or missions that robotic flights that are going to the planets they have launch windows that have to be maintained and if the workers are working and being done and so there is going to be in effect on the one where i was the director of the johnson space center and we were flying the space shuttle and of course flying

missions to time so we had to maintain a schedule so i managed to keep the workforce. working we kept the work going on in the johnson space center and the kennedy space center in florida and we didn't really have an impact but this time with about ninety seven percent of the workforce at the johnson space center laid off there will be an update down the line. both president obama on the republican majority leader of the house of representatives said they're no closer to a breakthrough but this is far from one president said washington's been here before and holding its staff hostage to partisan deadlock in for the last four decades been rife with shutdowns the last one only well known tonight if i was a fair while back but it lasted for three weeks eighteen shutdowns in the recent past in some cases several times a year london based market strategist mike ingram told us that washington will look for another thrill even when the current crisis is parts makes them look like

idiots quite frankly. i think previously detailed the government just about managed to avoid a shutdown two and a half years ago and at that point in time credit agency standard poor's downgraded u.s. debt from its aaa status and one of the reasons they gave was they said all that you know that this country is becoming ungovernable there's no visibility on what your fiscal policy is because politicians are just playing with fire a year after year and here we are again two thousand and thirteen in the same situation i would have to say that even once a deal is finally thrashed out this time around on one must hope that that will actually happen we're probably going to be in the same sort of situation next year . much of our government must now shut down until congress funds it again. it's very good to have you with us today i hope you stay with r.t. for extensive live coverage of the limpid flames arrival in moscow and more of the

week's main news as well i'm kevin o. in this is our duty. there's a nine story building i noticed that standing on the truth was a man in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. to say something that offends so they really do they don't use blank or wooden shells but the building was burning through my how much time it took to restore it. reloaded for yeltsin in the referendum the deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us not all we have to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war.

with the economic downturn in the final. day. and the rest. will be everything. the netherlands started legal action this last week against russia it's following a claim with the international maritime court to win the release of thirty greenpeace activists arrested after trying to scale the russian ark to go rig nearly three weeks ago the netherlands followed a lawsuit against russia with international maritime court suits claiming that the tension of twenty eight greenpeace activists to join this was unlawful the activists were to tell you that if they attended the scale a russian or like last month said those protesters were traveling on board the dutch registered upticks sunrise the face of the fifteen years in prison on charges

of piracy and currently in custody awaiting trial my russia says well within its rights to defend its assets under international law all saturday so demonstrations calling for the release of the activists in dozens of countries from a greenpeace data project more believe the activists should have found a better way than to get the message across. you can't expect to have people allow you to continue to storm their oil rigs oil rigs are a very serious operation with really big safety issues and you start scaling the rig and then people have to come and try to get you off it puts them in danger and so i can certainly understand why they were apprehended and finally told away from the site i do tend to agree with president putin that they are not pirates. it's pretty obvious i think their intentions were not to loot the rig or anything like that but they're still putting people in danger and it is a serious situation it's my understanding that this is the first oil platform that

is done zines specifically to withstand ice the intention is to make it a safer way of extracting oil. but assurances that the oil rig can withstand the conditions are enough for everyone the head of greenpeace is up to campaign says the guys from platform poses a threat to the fragile environment greenpeace has spent a lot of time in russia talking to the authorities talking to gazprom about the specific risks that this rig platform posed at every stage we've been ignored we've written letters we've sat down in conferences said you shouldn't do this time and time and time again we think completely ignored this platform is about to start drilling they're about to start the pumps working this platform has been cobbled together from decommissioned oil rigs that rusting in a mine and shipyard finale two decades we haven't published a full oil spill response plan we did not storm the present new platform we tried to put a team of two climbers up the side of it to protest the work gazprom were doing and

the threats that this region the platform itself poses to the arctic region are people who are very well trained we have expert climbers at no point was there any danger of anything happening to the platform. the fatal shooting of unarmed woman after a car chase in washington d.c. has left police no promising to investigate the use of force it's thought the woman who was killed in front of a young child may have been mentally ill police went after she and successfully tried to ram a car full of barricades at the white house details about this marty samstag. we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut reportedly suffering from mental illnesses including postpartum depression she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist she tried to gain access to a secure area near the white house here in washington d.c. just really a block away from the studio here she was confronted by police she did

a three point turn striking a police officer and sped off to the u.s. capitol where she was again confronted by police shots rang out she alluded police again where she drove another few blocks near senate office buildings the car was then crashed and police opened fire killing her only then realised killing her in front of her one year old child it's worth noting she was completely unarmed the only shots fired during this entire incident were from the police and some people are saying this could have been a misunderstanding if you know this area around d.c. there's constantly drills going on there security checkpoints going on. you know it's hard to drive around and figure out and if someone made a wrong turn and were confronted by police someone who might have a history of mental illness could get confused and drive off it's tragic that it would end in someone's death will be investigations into this i mean we're talking about the two most secure locations probably in the plain of the u.s. capitol the white house which might be why police were quick to jump to lethal force but

a lot of people be saying you know why he why didn't police try and shoot out the tires when they had the vehicle cornered why wasn't another police car brought in to further box in the suspect vehicle and once the suspects car was immobilised the third time why was she just shot dead and really on a week to week basis unfortunately in the united states where we're hearing stories of police shooting unarmed people who they perceive as a threat and weren't so this is just another tragic instance of that unfortunately here in the nation's capitol. well this is the route the car chase that took for washington d.c. after failing to ram through those barricades of the white woman then drove towards the capitol building which came under police fire if you see those pictures the pursuit ended about three kilometers away with the suspect killed in a barrel of bullets peace and see racism campaign back are told as american police it seems are too quick to reach for the gun. there's five or six police officers

just inches away from her head with guns drawn and that's when she starts to flee she runs from them she's running away and they start opening fire and they keep shooting and finally when she's when her car is immobilized she's riddled with bullets why the police now terry gainer who is the sergeant of arms at the u.s. senate formally the chief of capitol police he said there was no possibility at all that she could have gotten access to the capitol grounds because there are so many barricades so if a car is disabled and the police chief or the sergeant in arms says there's no possible way for her car to pose a danger to congress why then did they open fire i mean it's because they shoot first ask questions later the police in washington and around the country have a license to kill they know there's never a prosecution and as we saw in congress the congress members just cheered they cheered over the slaughter and it really was the slaughter of an unarmed black woman in front of her baby. rise which we saw through a truck you the progress of the olympic flame it's with

a group of bikers at the moment called the night wolves that taking the flame to red screw i guess they should be pretty much there let's take a look at the live pictures it's in a small box it's a big about better. the streets have been cleared. as would live television just gone past the camera less that coming now not sure but i can tell you that the bike has a cool the might wolves if you think it's slightly old but not the most. because they did lot of work for the charity. i'm told they still may be coming let's play with it. yes there they are i think there should be two hundred of it we can see three but part is a big entourage of them coming past any second as you see that show. there is the flame itself it's in the mini bus not exactly being carried by the boy there the bike kids as well do a lot of work for charity they do listen to a very own it. be the first to take that lantern entailing the very special.

olympic flame from the local airport where it landed just over an hour ago in a special hour of what flight to red square there it goes should be a red square a guess and it hurts for five minutes time we'll cross that. more the day's news in the week's big news stories as well this being the weekly on r.t. meantime muslim brotherhood protests are expected in egypt today on a major military holiday as the country remains highly volatile three months since the ousting of the islamist president mohamed morsi deadly clashes rocked the capital this last week as riot police dispersed brotherhood protesters in cairo four people were killed it was part of the government crackdown on the organization which saw its activities banned last week but as bell two reports next the pressure only helps build cohesion within the group. egyptian security forces stormed to cairo incumbents for ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tents are torn down over six hundred people are killed

a month on brotherhood activists like most people say they have been driven underground. have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed and show it's not tracked now i can live in my apartment if i move from one place to another life has become very difficult for over a month this was the site of one of cairo's main pro morsy sit ins after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing but there are activists like mr fair they say they aren't able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's court order banning them as a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and it's.

related to the muslim brotherhood this is of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood or anything but supporters of the interim government say there is documented evidence the brotherhood uses violence so silencing its membership they say is necessary to ensure stability and the transition to democracy to hang with the ministry in the thirtieth of june revolution which was the second wave of the twenty fifth of january revolution muslim brotherhood killed a lot of egyptians they had no problems killing innocent people they proved they were to push egypt into civil war morsi supporters maintain they are being prevented from peacefully protesting the brotherhood's newspaper was also shut down its website when web announced this week they had to move operations to london due to the escalating crackdown. rather than stifling the movements mr arthur and his fellow activists say it makes them more determined than ever potentially pushing egypt third its awards and make a crisis. for r.t.

cairo. yet another of the big stories that continues to shape the week talking of which big what happening here in russia let's return to the main event we're covering here today the such a twenty fourteen winter olympics flame there's arrived in moscow a little earlier on all eyes are on red square in moscow the convoy of bikers way from eventually transporting the olympic torch has reached the russian capitals main square his skin off is there. igor do you hear me sir i give you a very lovely they are all the band struck up earlier on we saw the bikers they literally just around the corner i'm not sure if they're with you yet i got there i can see right now the flame itself isn't particular on word square but there's a police helicopter was just appeared just a couple of minutes ago in the skies which means that basically it should arrive. at any possible minute if you say that they're behind the quarter i guess that's very away scores of people have gathered here waiting for the over.