choose direction. well going to a branch of the olympic flame makes it to the final straw which barriers have started them. from relay through russia into a laundress century twenty four city. beach battles across cairo seafair to eight people died during gatherings for the forces anniversary of egypt's last war with israel. and u.s. special forces are reportedly pushed upon during a medicine to raid in somalia but a separate operation in libya is a topic so tara leaders seized as claimed sua that washington is suspiciously pick a in its war against insurgents. last primary school pupils are

targeted by a suicide bomber in iraq has killed twelve children and made away well we can't bonham's that. the latest news on the week the week's top stories this is the weekly here on ars he with me hugh nash thanks for joining us and it's a big day for russia the olympic flame in moscow for the final countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics. a massive convoy of bikers brought it safely to a red square under a cheering crowd before president putin send the torch on its way. washed the festivities by the kremlin walls for. historic events for the whole

nation and possibly even for the history of the olympic games themselves the olympic flame was first delivered on board the special flight from greece to then was a scored by the knight wharves biker gang one of the most famous ones in the country many of these guys are athletes themselves they're also known for their various charity projects they said it was a great honor for them to be able to take part in the surveillance then several thousand people were waiting for the flame to arrive the heart of the capital to red square where was greeted by president putin and celebrities congratulating pretty much the whole nation with the flame finally arriving to moscow and basically laying the foundation ahead of the start official start off the a longest olympic torch relay in the history of the games that we're talking about one thousand nine hundred cities and villages across the whole country it's glenn that

the flame will be taken on top of the biggest mountains like the war on the bottom of the biggest. it's also plans of that the olympic flame will be taken on board the international space station and even outside into outer space but cosmonauts themselves so far have been hiding the secret hell technically that's going to be possible fourteen thousand people are going to be taking part in this really it's estimated that around one hundred thirty million russian citizens will be at a reachable a distance to the flame at one point or another to be able to see it with their own eyes or possibly even participate in the relay itself when it comes to the transportation that this flame is going to be transported all the possible. means of transportation not only airplanes and trains but dogs and reindeer camels even hot air balloons and spaceships so this is truly a historic event. what we've seen here in moscow but it's also really the start of

i guess the final stretch sort of before the actual start of the winter olympics which so many people have been waiting for. and your fellow mouthful of bell and big flame all the way from greece on board the very gent abroad here and his shirt his impressions on the journey with us. which is going to take you back a week because this flame started its life in a limpia this time last week and the reason it's been increased for the last seven days is just to remind us about the history of these olympics the birthplace of the olympic games two and a half thousand years ago two and a half thousand years ago and in the limpia there are still the remains of the great temples that were there then and you can also still see the original running track that the europeans used back in seven hundred b.c. so essentially what happened was they used the rays of the sun as they did back then to light the flame that flame is used to light the first torchbearer in

olympia and then this top twenty around greece the flame was handed over to the russian olympic committee it's a beautiful stadium it's called the palace and i call stadium in athens and that's where the first modern olympics were held at the end of the nineteenth century and the public were allowed to go in and watch and they did in the hundreds so it was well received there and then the question was what happens to the flame now how will we get it to russia well i found it so the question is how do you take the flame from sunny athens all the way to moscow while 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 a b. i paid plane and i've got a ticket. we're now cruising at thirty thousand feet and turn it into you see twenty five billion pick flame you might notice it has been used to light a couple of other lanterns and that's because one of them might go out god forbid so they've got those extra ones just in case now they are in good company because

on board among other people is the president of the sort she organizing committee dimitri tunisia and he sent just over here dimitri you spent the last eight years of your life trying to bring this flame to russia you must be pretty excited yes very broad very much so because it's once in a way of democrats really doing for the generations. of the new more than russia to the war with the global with girls. 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 my immediate city of sochi ok we've got a busy time ahead so i will let you get small rest we are g.'s to touch down in moscow in a bank. time. and we have just landed in moscow it is in this story moment and if you look out of the door you will see the olympic flame for sochi twenty fourteen is about to receive a very warm welcome. and we spoke to

a veteran organizer of olympic torch relay who is a consultant for sochi twenty fourteen and he told us about choosing torchbearers and the logistics in making it a success for four years have been planning this and like i said over the last two years is thirty to forty people with the organizing committee and with the operational agencies in addition and presenting partners there's a hundred people who've been working on this over the last over the last year and when when we go in there all there will be be thousands every day involved it's a fantastic story behind the forty thousand torch bearers and you can see your problem they are and. it's really building the excitement for the games so basically the celebrations start now everybody will realize what with your four months till the games and we are carrying this message all the games now you know all their selection processes were different category holders select. number have been selected through campaigns with the percentage partners where they have gone

out in public campaigns and people can apply or be nominated based on their merits and they're good your local communities they apply in or some are nominated but there's there's more than a hundred thousand applications behind these really. deliberate torch design much epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through jansen muslim leaders of russia. relate more jintao to people for sixty five thousand. in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on the marquee and. turning to developments in egypt this sunday fierce clashes have broken out between muslim brotherhood supporters and anti mostly protest as across the country leaving

at least forty four people dead pitched battles have broken out in several areas of cairo after people gathered for the forces anniversary of the tome capel war which was egypt's last conflict with israel on his belt troopers in tahrir square brings us the nation's. very fierce street battles erupted this afternoon between security forces and supporters of the ousted muslim brotherhood leader mohamed morsi on the fortieth anniversary of the nine hundred seventy three arab israeli war this and we also had rival protests with supporters of the military gathering in tahrir square as you can see behind me this time people even collecting signatures calling for army chief of the sisi to be president however just a few kilometers away from where i'm standing here in the giza district and in other locations across the capital there were very bloody scenes and mohamed morsy supporters and the missing brotherhood had attempted to march on this very square that they wanted to hold on to military protests they say they went against

necessarily the institution of the army but they were against their generals who they want to see changed as they say they are really leading the country to destruction and targeting the most brotherhood and those calling for mohamed morsi to be reinstated at the scene it was very chaotic the battles are spilling over into the science streets of what is essentially a residential middle class neighborhoods and security forces were joined by civilians who were throwing tear gas and also firing these protesters with birdshot but it's and i've had reports of mine i mean it's not that i can't confirm that we have heard the interior ministry of said at least two hundred and muslim brotherhood sympathizers or supporters of mohamed morsy have been arrested in mass roundups around the country as the death toll continues to rise however there are a number of people here as on to his square and also the presidential palace who were celebrating what is considered to be one of the greatest military victories in egyptian history and they told me today they were very angry with the mizzen brotherhood and their supporters for staging the protests however the brotherhood

for their part say they are being treated in a very heavy handed manner and these clashes are no sign of abating we expect them to go on through the night and possibly through the week as this egypt remains extremely divided. and. journalists hugh miles says there is a way out of this cycle of violence. the government could reconcile with the muslim brotherhood. it is possible the egypt could turn around in a short space of time probably not this current government because this is pretty to steal me running the country at the moment but in a few months when elections have taken place that will be a new government and one would expect that they will be much slated to back and saw i mean that that was beyond the democratically elected i'll be on the national pressure local pressure inside egypt and also international pressure to reconcile with the brotherhood and of course the brotherhood aides

a force to be reckoned with in egypt it's going to be very difficult for them to run the country without without having the reconciliation with the brotherhood. before long the weapons inspectors in syria say big government's chemical stockpiles have started to be destroyed but will the process continue as smoothly stay with us here as a report on the risks from rebel promises to get in the way to fears that present some of my time to some of his arsenal. and the netherlands goes turning to national tribunals to try and free the flashing green peace all activists who rushes taking to court on piracy charges the details just ahead.

the. economic up and downs in the find out all day long to do your shanghai and the rest of life doing the case you will be every week. we know how to do banking it should be like infrastructure to support the economy it shouldn't be for the benefit of it leads to think they're above the law as we currently have.

this is the weekly on r.c. welcome back the destruction of syria's chemical arsenal has begun international inspectors in the country have been found that warheads chemical mixing installations and rockets are on the going dismantling and eradication the process is expected to take months but historian and middle east specialist tariq ali says they may have been provocations ahead the opposition was very disturbed because they were banking and this applies to all sections of the opposition even those sections like the more religious extremist groups who loathe the united states who are hoping for an invasion which which tickled their news to the concrete and then fight each other like it's happening in libya but that hasn't happened where the

sections of the opposition are going to disrupt the inspectors from taking off disarming doing whatever they're doing to the chemical weapons i don't know what totally surprised me of some sections from within but tried to create a procreation and then blame it on the government because they were very upset when . down middle east correspondent has just arrived in damascus to report on the destruction of syria's chemical weapons and here is their report policia centers across the border from lebanon. we've just driven through the lebanon syrian border and aside from a couple of bureaucratic delays the whole process was relatively smooth it took only about twenty minutes for our passport to be checked and stamped on the lebanese side and there in the departures who are they were around two hundred two hundred and fifty people everybody staying in and in a queue everything or to be the lebanese army managing and controlling everything

the situation is really stable here at the border post it took us around an hour and a half to drive from beirut to the border at this time in the morning it's around ten o'clock the traffic is mostly in the direction we are going which is from beirut to damascus and here there are a number of mostly civilian cars there are a number of taxis that also some buses i mean side those buses are mostly women and some with children i managed to speak to some of the taxi drivers and they say that business is still good between beirut and damascus you still have a number of lebanese gangs that are working inside syria at the same time you have a number of businessmen who while being based in beirut are still having to come through to damascus on a fairly regular basis trying to speak to some of the passengers particularly the women that no one would speak on camera of course they're afraid of any kind of retribution that the situation as you can well imagine is still very sensitive here

closely are on the lebanese syrian border. rasika mom's controversial politicians and even hardened to wounds have all submitted applications to run in afghanistan's presidential election next year already fears of bonnet rigging violence and corruption that. pales in comparison to warrant a possible return of the taliban i'm gonna start accent. who was kidnapped and held by the minute and the group explains why the time the bond wound recognized that they consider democracy western religion for them islam of course which is submission to god which should be the rule of god which is what they want in democracy meaning the rule of men is anathema to them this is they are diametrically opposed to this so for them to see in their eyes a western religion come to power truly by having

a democratically elected president step down a new one come forward is not something they're going to want at all you have right now nato the united states depending upon the afghan national army and the police force which number three hundred fifty two thousand to take over you have the taliban who number approximately twenty to thirty thousand at the most and you have the taliban on the upswing they killed four american soldiers today you have to do you have a desertion rate of up to thirty percent in the afghan national army can they stand up to the taliban there are many people and i am one of them who question whether they can the united states and its allies may pull out in total about two thousand and fourteen but can they afford that because that will mean twelve years perhaps have gone to waste. u.s. special forces in somalia have reportedly had to pull out to heavy it was this transfer militants during and navy seal attempts to capture that leader but another

terror raid of a thousand kilometers away maybe it was more productive as the ministry captured a suspect from the nineteen ninety eight u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania peace activist ryan dawson says washington is 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 in yemen who want an election because it is the only name on the ballot or they are supporting al qaida or getting mercenaries in syria or whether it's in the being 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're 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 our

nursery and many other terrorist groups all over the world. a suicide attack on a primary school in iraq has left at least fourteen children dead as another string of blasts hit the was home country a separate incident claimed the same number of lives as a bomb a time to share pilgrims has been to a shrine in baghdad and to discuss the story i'm now joined live by tracing debts who is a new and he will go home mrs welcome to tease good to have you with us some of the most graham forecasts predicts a new wave of a full scale sectarian war breaking out in iraq soon if this happens how will become true. but i think the first place is really a question here it's fair to ask is whether or not iraq is already very. nervous just calls all through the summer and i think the reality is kind of mind

doesn't now. reasonable policy response. and kind of seems to be boosting its power fost in iraq what does that mean for the want of me at least. but it's definitely a problem for the whole region we're seeing a lot of still over violence back and forth with syria especially i think. intel the fighting in syria shakes out we probably won't see it expanding other neighbors in the region like jordan but sooner or later it is going to be something that's nine have to be dealt with region wide. right and it makes like a wanky securities unable to put up a fight against terrorist activities so what needs to be done to restore peace in iraq or conditions. fine i think the biggest problem is that there is just an enormous amount of sectarian tension above and beyond what we saw

during the u.s. occupation. supposedly coalition government or rose from the last direct election has ended up being a disaster our prime minister maliki basically lost that election and ended up retaining his post anyway power sharing deal bit he never really followed through on and it's creating a lot of serious i harassed among sudanese and making it that much in your throat predator through. all right tentacles the main goal of the u.s. led invasion was to create a democracy in iraq is a democratic process possible in such conditions way saying that. well i think it's possible but. the systems certainly isn't working the way it is now because we have factions that are unwilling to share power with

anybody else we have a lot of hostility going back and forth a lot of distrust molecule government trying to keep sunni's out of major ministries going so far as to accuse a zone vice president of terrorism when he happened to be out of the country at the time it's. really the disastrous way did democracy has sort of failed and interact is a lot of why we're seeing all of this fighting. all right to jason dead from antiwar dot com mr david thank you very much indeed. for your insight frank. then that's an instance of legal action against russia this week it's finding a claim with the international maritime corps so when the release of thirty greenpeace activists arrested after trying to scale a russian oil rig nearly three weeks ago they protesters were traveling on board.

some rides it's up to fifteen gays in prison on charges of piracy and are currently in custody awaiting trial russia says it's well with them that's wise to defend its assets on the international nor stay so demonstrations calling for the release of the activists in dozens of countries former greenpeace leader patrick moore believes the acts of this should have found a better way to get that 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 designed specifically to withstand the intention is to make it a safer way of extracting oil and that's the news this hour let's take a few moments to look back at the day of excitement a moscow of the century twenty fourteen winter olympics flame has begun its epic four month tour of russia. the olympic torch relay has been touring the campus so after a colorful welcome ceremony a few hours ago let's take another look at the highlights of the flames.

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i recently read headlines all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has just bought five percent of ukraine now they're writing that china will lease five percent of ukraine over ukrainian officials themselves claim that china won't be getting out of there and if this is a deal about some drip irrigation system the situation didn't explode onto the internet to the fantasies of bloggers the south china morning post reported that one company does have a crop in pig farming plan design utilize ninety percent of ukraine's territory also last year the ban on foreigners buying land ukraine. been lifted although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting a rich foreign country to pay to develop your nation's agriculture might not be too bad of a deal it would definitely take a lot of money to restore ukraine's farming to its former glory they see that ukraine used to be the bread basket of europe agree that status spec could really

help the country but selling off or even just leasing nine percent of the nation's territory is absolutely unacceptable doing a large project with the chinese that is mutually beneficial is one thing but selling or leasing off your country is another and by another i mean treason but that's just my opinion. it's time to. market. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy because the reports. say thank you.