as long as it needs to until people's daily me and europe is engulfed in protest as frustration over disintegrating economies and biting cuts turns into violent clashes with police. syria and iran top the debate at this year's un general assembly with russia calling for peace and israel drawing prospects for war . and r.t. provide julian the science with a video link to the un he makes his first speech to world leaders in attacks the persecution of wiki leaks while holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london.

hello this is r.t. live from moscow this sunday evening it's kevin owen here now with our roundup of the big stories of the past seven days and first protests against biting spending cuts continue throughout europe as people vent their anger over a bailout sponsored austerity mass demonstrations in madrid turned to violence earlier this week as police were forced to fire rubber bullets to calm the theory of the public the big dozens of injuries and arrest graves has been following developments. for some time greece to spain have approved the body of bands just there to protest in the year is our first time passes their frustrations and anger only seem to be hardening less of a chance of a crowd. politician. as many people are already being fed a diet police baton rouge broken promises bruised protesters battered buildings

overcoming the euro zone's currency from athens to madrid capitals this week have been braced for an onslaught of the angry and indeed. meant. to get out all the belligerents on the rez here charge mashers job benefit us they just benefit very few people. on the european union on the banks these are cheats of betrayal the first force that increase. more and that is the agreements between greece and. interstate. for almost any smoke you and the other european leaders just implemented. last athens saw fire bombs and mass spaniards claim they were victims of police brutality chasing down protesters they fired rubber bullets into crowds the injury

count from just one night topping sixty this will last as long as austerity says as neoliberal austerity lasts and as long as. it's going to last as long as it needs to last until people's daily needs are met the m.t.s. their t.'s rank and file have most recently been posted by portuguese protesters a nation known for its tolerance of bailout sponsored cutbacks reforms that put the onus of social security payments on workers appear a step too far but this week's hot spot remains madrid where three demonstrations oppose real resistance to the government's public sector cutbacks he the surround congress movement has called for the dissolution of parliament but the heavy claims made to the group more harm than good counsel only in separatism with the potential for spain to lose twenty percent of its current output or likely because then the

government yet more sleepless nights but prime minister a new budget shows no concessions to anti austerity protesters. forty billion euros of fresh cuts economists and activists alike have labeled the move as pandering to e.u. euro zone and i.m.f. demands adding fuel to the fire as people populate the central madrid a day to hurl accusations at police and the politicians they shield. greece r.t. madrid. well some shrink their budget others splurge seems india is pumping more money into its space programme now launching the largest satellites and planning ambitious projects on a far away planets reporting on that so plus the cities that made their pitch and one fee for announces the final list of venues for the twenty eight hundred football world cup in russia you can read all about the big spending on big stadiums at r.t.

dot com. we'll take some time before the state of the art football arenas a bill but even without them the competition in the russian premier league is heating up it's all change at the top then you know yeah it certainly is an historic day as well kevin earn jamie and all their millions of dollars that they spent on becoming a world class team they are finally at the summit for the first time ever the big people get to one today in the russian premier league we've got much more all not in sport today that's around forty minutes time but the rest of a very busy sunday. ok now in syria a new wave of fighting has been reported in the second city of aleppo which is said to be seeing unprecedented clashes government forces claim they're beating back the rebel onslaught but the insurgents are talking only of a successful offensive now casualties are mounting in the battle that began in july with neither able to seize the initiative so dozens of also reportedly been killed

in firefights in the suburbs of damascus this weekend meantime washington has pledged more multibillion dollar support to the rebels but russia's war the such moves are only serving to see. syria deeth more political analyst says washington considers the assad regime expendable. well it's a standard policy of the us government it is it is designed to oust rulers of regimes that are independent of what might be called the us military empire and replace them with pro-u.s. rulers so we have the dichotomy of supporting dictators in countries that are loyal to the us government and trying to oust dictators that are not loyal to the us the u.s. is committed to the ouster of the assad regime and whenever you hear the united nations it just designed for the american taxpayer the american voter create the appearance that the u.s. is interested in spreading democracy and freedom when in fact it has

a long history of supporting dictatorial regimes in saudi arabia even iran under the shah of iran syria itself don't forget that the cia used the assad regime to torture some of its rendition torture victims and so the the whatever goes on in the un is really ridiculous and senseless the issue of syria has been raised to the annual u.n. general assembly gathering this week as russia called on those who support the rebels to stop studds to stop sidestepping international law and the long running question of whether iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons was also of heated debate with israel trying to draw up quite literally a case for intervention but important the latest from new york. as world leaders gathered for the annual u.n. general assembly international anger over and islamophobia american film was still blazing in the muslim world addressing the world body u.s. president barack obama condemned the video nonetheless defending the right to free

speech as president of our country and commander in chief of our military i accept that people are going to call me awful things every day. and i will always defend their right to do so obama also pledged his support for arab spring nations like egypt and libya however when egypt's new president spoke at the un for the first time mohamed morsi said free speech will not be accepted as a free pass to insult islam spoke only prophet. the obscenity is recently released as part of an organized campaign against islamic center is unacceptable and requires a firm stand egypt respects freedom of expression one that is not directed towards one specific religion or culture but the opening of the u.n. general assembly is usually criticized as political theater with a lot of talk this year however there was no talking with u.s. president barack obama the leader of the country hosting the un left immediately

after his speech on day one and held no bilateral meetings on day to the eighth and final speech of the always controversial iranian leader so accusations of corrupt western politics and a subtle tipping of the hot to the occupy wall street movement are we to believe that those who spend hundreds of millions of dollars in election campaigns have the interests of the people of the world at their heart in the united states and in europe their voices are not heard even if they constitute ninety nine percent of their societies meanwhile israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu called for a military also made on iran over its nuclear program using some surprising methods to illustrate his point this is a bomb this is a fuse a red line should be drawn right here. before iraq and completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment. necessary to make

a bomb israel stole the show in more ways than one will be. what's more the y. e. coyote a nuclear bomb. you're really going to hurt standard are you going to pretend to the you don't know what a nuclear bomb well it's like. here israel. one downstairs in a look in the basement on another us show russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov recalled another time problems were used at the u.n. executive to garner support for military intervention when my good friend colin powell's colin powell was shaking this violence some white ball in there in the security council. and then mary can say what they're doing us unless we also writes the use of force against iraq we would do in their own thoughts a few story. and the turned out to be that there was no anthrax and that while

today russia and the u.s. remain divided over how to end the civil war in syria moscow says some countries supporting the opposition are turning a blind eye to terrorist attacks committed by the rebels. they pushed syria even deeper into the of base of bloody internet seen strife in the militarization of the conflict is continuing with calls of an open intervention russia says confidence in the un has also been compromised by unilateral actions taken against countries like cuba iran and now syria there are consequences to unilateral sanctions imposed by state group of states sidestepping the un to advance their political goals we have no doubt that such sanctions especially when they are applied next territorially weaken the unity of the international community and undermine the effectiveness of its efforts the un was originally founded as an arena for all

parties to respectfully discuss issues and diplomatically collaborate on solutions as the sixty seventh year of the general assembly begins many are left wondering why at least one country has cemented a pattern of acting alone in a port ny artsy new york. coming up the gloves are off in georgia read a parliamentary election in just a few minutes we reported opposition that's setting out to mount a tough challenge to the country's ruling party after holding a hundred thousand strong marks that much more after this short break. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you have got to catch it first.

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hello again welcome back this is the weekly on r t highlights or the big stories of the past seven days from us with me kevin owen the major political conference is underway in turkey is probably his to do and said to be reelected as the leader of the country's ruling party for the last time was his last ever once again slammed the regime in neighboring syria this is an increased ruggles to suppress a recent surge in attacks from kurdish militants of demanding independence is up to speed on this one we're joined by the chairman of the middle east technical university dr hussein but she's on the phone from ankara talked to hi there thanks for being with us much appreciated now to india has been notable for constant efforts to undermine the army what does that mean that at a time when the army has got its hands full with the spike in violence from kurdish fighters in turkey then. first of all in turkey is now fully under control of the syrian government and in the recent days the turkish army has several peculiar. has been successful to defeat at least from military point of view.

but it does not mean however that prickly calculation is finished it will still continue negotiations you know it's going to last a couple of lasted but concerning syria and connection definitely k.k.k. has been using these for attacking turkey and army but at the moment it looks that turkey is responding very hard pick a case at the moment trying to negotiate with turkey and stop probably the devival yes indeed take the kurdish minority in syria gain momentum cheering the ongoing civil war there as you just alluded to which turkey of course but the rebels how does that affect on chris conflict with the kurdistan workers party. yeah this is interesting because the turkish government syrian policy has not been supported by

the majority of the people in turkey this is the first time in years of keep the government at the same time this syrian kurds the moment they enjoy of course certain support not only from turkey about the from the united states of america and of contrails however because there is no use of creation among the groups fighting in syria definitely the kurds are also not the success they have expected to be going to the fight is still going on and turkey is somehow in between on the one hand they support the kurds in syria but fight the kurds in turkey but what about the change relationship between turkey and syria itself me turkey used to have a strong good relationship with syria recent years but then korea was pretty quick to support the free syrian army why the sudden change of heart. this is so the what the people probably the turkish government has miscalculated the events

in syria they have expected that arab spring would be having the same situation like in libya or like in tunisia or in egypt. believe but in case of syria turkey has been indeed in the last five years particularly very very close to syria . have gone became good fellows if you want and suddenly this change of turkey has been not understood in turkey and this is why they took these people do not support the policy of the government what is anyone offering an explanation for why everyone seems to change tack here. i would repeat it again turkey has miscalculated the power structure in syria they have expected that bashar assad would also leave the power like mubarak like duffy but they took

a president prime minister and foreign minister if you want they put all the dates in the one basket and they spoke with the thought of that he has to go as soon as possible so they said assad is now not going to the gaining of power on the contrary so it will remain a very big problem between first of all the for the future developments so i think turkey has done here the poor to see what the united states of america and it being you suggested but they underestimated the power structure in syria and turkey definitely is not going to intervene in syria alongside the i think the do not have the government i mean because government does not have any support of the public well i think you have so much to say about she chairman of the middle east technical university on the line thank you. georges seen some of his biggest opposition rallies to date with over one hundred thousand people turning up for

pre-election demos in the capital and the country's second largest city as well on saturday georgians will choose their new parliament tomorrow the anti-government moves been filled by the recent prison torture scandal which spot mass protests and international condemnation georgian authorities are also accused of high level corruption and cracking down on activists who speak out against the government the opposition blames to places using dirty tricks to retain its image and is a physical off reports that there claims that some are the expense of georgia's northern neighbor to. the outcome of a recent alleged police operation near george's border with russia as we probably got the biggest on eleven suspected terrorist dead the b.b.c. says that the armed men were chechens who crossed into georgian territory and kidnapped around ten locals before being caught by police the news spreads quickly but not everyone is why. this was all organized by georgian security services

the lack of transparency and details about the incident has led many to believe the whole so-called terror operation was a complete hoax georgian authorities have been very successful in creating an image of a modern western civil i see a beacon of freedom george w. bush once called it but in this case the opposition is accusations are fighting supporters on the other side of the caucasus meet his beyond a month he spent two decades fighting on the sign of chechen militants against moscow and efficiently representing them in georgia he also has downs about what really happened at this latest water operation. first of all their weapons were american made second none of them fired off a single shot that's not to the uniforms of the so-called fighters were brand new that was saakashvili planned he sent his guys across the border into. to russia and then have them shot by the georgian police this was a setup just to frame russia no one will ever be able to prove anything of course.

he's really going to be easy for division with terrorists began in the ninety's when he personally helped chechen separatists by delivering weapons and aid from georgian. surely the pankisi gorge in georgia is really close to chechnya it takes just ten minutes to fly across the border by helicopter so we helped our warriors from georgian territory from the gorge we delivered weapons money to the injured and then send them all around the world for treatment and all with the help of georgian security services and. we got the weapons from the depositories of the georgian anti terror center our guys came there with cash were able to choose whichever weapons they wanted and bought them an. album of says the interest in jewish and milton's didn't diminish even after president saakashvili came to power a man often bridge street as an envoy of democracy. if it will be everything is

still controlled by the anti terror center or the mujahideen in the gym marks are in its hands they are their people any chechen who lives in georgia and wants to study in an islamic country have to go through the anti terror center they tell you to believe see you go to this center meet with some official and they won't let you go until you say yes to you agree to work for them are them of graeme's that his knowledge almost cost him his life following an assassination attempt he was allowed to return to church with a green light from russian authorities after he asked for forgiveness now he plans to reveal everything he knows you are just going off aren't the girls only the chechen republic. julian assange just managed to address world leaders in new york despite still being holed up in ecuador's embassy in london it's been sheltering the wiki leaks editor for months during which britain keeps stressing me that an american nation must hand over to swedish authorities is r.t. sarah for. split having been. in the air the way to.

find stuff like the. u.s. administration is in trying to erect. a national regime of secrecy a national regime. a regime where you need government employees revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death life imprisonment. now he spoke not only about his name but little bit about the wider implications that this could have if the us to continue along this calls to leave the songs the founder of wiki leaks wanted in sweden the questioning the sexual assault allegations that some of the sunday critics. and his legal team claiming asylum from it will be

tempting in some way to say justice not julian assange is if you think the way about the fact that they want the questioning to go ahead they're ready to accept that they do say they want to hear it whether they. know we see these like documents take us. feel the fact that the sound. of the name. is even there any clues that wiki leaks the people who want wiki leaks could end up committing. well now that. we would like to take. the pulse the capital gang and the overall although i detail. that the u.s. government said well palin would rather you didn't know about. sarah first not a couple of minutes a wiki leaks spokesman explains the limits on journalistic freedom and the future

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an enemy an enemy combatant. and we all know what that entails this is an indication we see him in documents that have surfaced that show that that communicating with we can lease and provided we can use with information in considered is considered communicating with the enemy which is aiding the enemy i.e. we can use is the enemy. and what is we can use it's a platform for whistle blower to get information out to the public we are doing what any media organization should be doing we are doing journalism and the implication is that journalism getting the truth out there is considered an act of an enemy which is rather than against the muslim or is it published i mean i'm not trying to discredit what wiki leaks is doing but there's a difference.