the latest news and this week's top stories broke obama's foreign policy actually kicks in quick after soft talk security is controlled by the white house for another four years. urged by western powers to step down and facing death threats from the rebels the syrian president exclusively tells our t.v. that he will stay until he's voted out. and israel warns of more attacks on gaza after its related strikes kill six palestinians four of them teenagers. meanwhile after some of the most intense austerity clashes in the months greece of braces for more protests as it decides on a direct holy and twenty thirteen budget. today's

headlines on the top stories from this past week you're watching our team with me tough enough when republicans in the u.s. are licking their wounds after voters put democrat barack obama back in the nation's top job it was a close race that ultimately ended in a clear win over hard liner mitt romney but obama's soft campaign talk on foreign policy soon transformed into action and all this even before the ballots had all been counted archie is going to has more. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are on american family and we

rise or fall together as one nation. waiting for him right after reelection is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i got the pen right to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff is probably not the first issue addressed by the president. he also rise the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the un has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes due to reported heavy civilian casualties on lack of transparency on the u.s. part we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones this week the administration imposed financial sanctions against iranian officials so the u.s. planes were jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking internet access anywhere and that comes on top of a whole lot of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s.

which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy the goal is not to change the iranian government's decision making it's actually leverage ordinary civilians against the iranian government and to threaten to topple the government by inciting you know food riots or you know people who are on happy because they can you know their grandparents are dying and can't get medicine and on friday despite president obama's claims the u.s. should move away from the cold war thinking in relations with russia the white house launched its first permanent military presence on polish soil the issue has been a constant sword in the side of relations between moscow and washington as the u.s. also plans to install missile interceptors in poland but the president every other democrat that i'm aware of is also made it clear that if we leave russia is still opposed to it still sees it as as a we're just going to go ahead with any of the president's actions so far have shown while he may be talking soft he's acting tough looking at all is president

obama's first moves after reelection one could say he picks the idea of america being the wall police very seriously but the question is who can hold the world police itself accountable in washington i'm going to check on. a former cia officer told us that obama needs to break free from the strings are being pulled from the right. what i would suggest is that he call a press conference and what he would say is you know the campaign is over and i found out that i've been grievously misled they told me to say that iran had threatened to wipe israel off the map and i found out that they never said that as a matter of fact the israeli deputy prime minister sort of said ok ok they never said that and so my speechwriters are being canned i'm going to get some new speechwriters the intelligence community keeps telling me that he run has not yet decided to build a nuclear weapon and so i'm going to get rid of all those folks from brookings

other places who are the solvent so speech saying well you know you still have to worry about this instead of negotiations once these troublesome people have their own agenda are dismissed then he has a square chance of saying look we're going to do a deal with the run just as i said five years ago we're going to talk directly to them and we're not going to let that be sabotaged by either israeli intelligence or is really not ose within the neoconservative camp in washington. well r.j. spoke exclusively to the embattled syrian leader this week who is clinging on to power from the heart of the conflict zone president assad rebuffed western calls to step down and warns that foreign intervention will spark a global disaster of that interview is available for you at r.t. dot com and it's also coming up in fall later this hour. but the thing that really marked me the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside series

that from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided and even the people who didn't like us before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to power fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that i mean this is like the only secular are had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether it's sunni or shia or always or christians so they're really scared that if the army will fall apart and then you know you have this extremist muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them so it's not just about assad i think people feel like whether he goes or stays. it's only can get worse if it goes because it will get i mean the terror attacks will continue and the fundamentalists will come to power so they're very scared of that. that he is not a western puppet he also denies the fact that civil war is taking place in his

country he is saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to five different fractions of terrorism. on the fact that the financing of this terrorist fractions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad he also said that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have to do from atlantic to pacific would probably be from vision if it's going. to be more the whole world came before because if you have a problem in syria and the flow through. ability in the region and coexistence. it will have to do mean off. the pacific. you know because you know. it's going. to go but you do so. nobody can tell what's next but.

i did it are to exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com president bashar al assad says that only elections can determine his future but it seems that everyone agrees with that the free syrian army is media chair says they want the president head on a plate be that it in his statement to your channel he said he would not leave syria we know this very well because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people will not manage to leave the country the free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria lying he'll be lucky if he meets the same fate as market. the leaders of the syrian opposition in exile say they've signed an initial agreement to form a new umbrella coalition and during a conference in qatar the body has lost support within syria itself this after the local coordination committees of activists there just a valid the exiled officials meanwhile the president of the arab lawyers

association says that foreign backed syrian national council does not represent the revolution. there since he has the only credibility it had was with the western powers we all remember when the us forced many countries to attend a meeting in turkey to recognize this as the legitimate representative of syria which was part of the political gimmick that the u.s. and the western powers nato france britain were following because what they wanted is the change of regime but this is a unique case where there is a true revolution within syria but those who are recognized by the u.s. and others have absolutely nothing to do with it and so most of them have never been there and most of them have been out of the country for tens of years and the u.s. knew that and the west knew that but they were still nevertheless recognized as the representative of the people now they've come to realize that actually the

revolution is going on in syria there is the free army there is the people who are revolting in syria and they have no links with the external. people who are claiming to represent them so i don't think they credibility before i don't think it would have credibility at the present moment because this is an attempt to create a revolution or of additional anybody in the west created this something outside and they called it a present that. there's graded teeth in greece some more protests are planned just parliament prepares to vote for the next year's budget it doesn't make comfortable reading for hard pressed citizens but does need approval in order for athens to secure a fresh international loan and out of condition it was further wage cuts and tax hikes which now only squeezed through parliament on thursday but public patients had worn out long ago it seems five years into the crippling slump more than a quarter of the country is now out of work while and broke out as lawmakers in the

latest cuts and as riot police try to secure the parliament building they have faced molotov cocktails from furious crowds there were over one hundred arrests during those clashes meanwhile turned journalist and analyst charlie mcgrath has been watching developments from wide awake news and he says that nothing will get better until athens admits that it's bankrupt. we already have people killing themselves in front of greece you have people that are losing everything using old the last thing to go i think is going to be there since they have anybody representing them with so far whatsoever you have tyranny of the technocrats already inside these hundred fifty three out of three hundred more austerity and the people i think it as they continue to lose all hope that they have any control of their own financial destiny whatsoever how can you do anything that you don't digress into but potentially civil war the financial health of the country is not

going to change for the better until they realise that they are in default they're bankrupt and they tell the banks that are holding their debt and the european union and the e.c.b. and the trail they are going to default this is what happens in free market capitalism their their prospects for a return to a healthy economy has to start with they're realising that they are completely and utterly broke and start over from scratch. israel's military is engaged on both its northern as well as southern frontiers right now there are new reports that israel had fired into syrian territory apparently in response to a mortar attack at the golan heights and tel aviv's warning of tougher action against militants in gaza after a surge in salvos from the palestinian territory let's cross over live now to our correspondent on the ground paula slayer paula these warning shots into syria what more can you tell us about what's going on there well. for the first one since the one nine hundred seventy three war in too soon to reach as

just kind of the phone with the i.d.f. spokesperson who does confirm that these warning shots took place he says that they were in response to a. felony of any israeli military post in the israelis do not believe that they are the target. she they believe of the internal faction fighting happening inside syria between fighters and forces loyal to the sitting president bashar assad but the army does say that it will not tolerate any more checks from syria that violate the disengagement agreement between israel and syria now than it has been several such incidents over the past two weeks last week syrian tense into the demilitarized zone between the two countries and at that time the israelis raise the below to mabel's of a complaint with the united nations so we are seeing a lot of increasing tension longboard it's difficult to say how this will in fact penalty well paula and of course in the gaza also massive problems there it looks

like tel aviv is ready to crack down on militants with an iron fist that at least according to prime minister benjamin netanyahu talk a little bit about the developments and that and of israel what he said here you quite. well. look in a minute and. all right unfortunately it looks like we don't really have a stable connection right now we're going to try to bring you paula slayer back please stay tuned to our broadcast all right there is change at the top in china and a once in a decade power we shuffle the say with us here on our team we'll explain to you how the country is on track to become the world's largest economy as well as the challenges that face us along the way. plus bomb brains reform campaigners are facing troops instead of tops in our long struggle for a voice to find out what's driving the crackdown.

recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and buck rein a curfew as in you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and holds you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me that nato is already fueling up ready to take action bomb some freedom into warmer eight well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think they'd

be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion. just give me going to speak with you sir let me. by sort of i don't agree you don't agree with everything my son is and isn't in the arena i don't know what it's going to be you're going to try to are you fairly. sure and your country. is the country during. the moon or in hope to help you through me. some of the old says war. wealthy british style. is not on the.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on our. bahrain's leadership shows that it is still far from being ready to concede to its public's desperate pleas for reform as clashes erupt yet again in the capital national guard troops have joined police and their battle against protesters and the growing political crisis there the latest wave of protests began on friday after security forces tear gassed thousands of shiite worshippers who were trying to reach their mosques for prayers a teenager was killed in a traffic incident during the clashes and there was more violence during his funeral on saturday authorities have banned all public gatherings last week to

quell nearly two years of ongoing anti-government actions meanwhile geo political analyst patrick henningsen says western nations are helping the monarchy gag the opposition. if you look at you know william hague and hillary clinton gallivanting around with the friends of syria meetings accusing the assad government of crimes against humanity you only have to look at barbara. to look at a litany of crimes there revoking nationality of protesters right now they're they blaming the latest bombing on his bowler as if it's his ball has any any connection with bahrain so not be a rajab he's going to have his appeal denied next week by the the all talk we see in bahrain so you know the europe loves bahrain they go down there for loads of money in their country formula one grand prix every year and loads of oil coming out of that country there's absolutely zero chance of any democratic reform in this

country and this is a country that absolutely needs it washington and london have more or less given the. go ahead for the bahraini rule family and that and that government that all talk received to really go hard and fast and drop the hammer down on any pro reform movements and that's exactly what we've seen. several high ranking russian officials were sacked this week in the wake of a corruption allegations scandal shaking the country's military the defense minister and his first deputy and the joint chiefs of staff were forced out after the ministry was drawn into a scandal over allegedly selling assets at well below market value and it's not just there russia's space industry is also improving a corruption scandal a government backed probe is underway to a company developing russia's satellite navigation system called glow nass this after it was revealed that over two hundred million dollars were allegedly embezzled by management president putin and his predecessor dmitri medvedev both

named countering corruption and russia as one of their main goals. five months behind closed doors is certainly taking its toll on julian assange it's fear that the whistle blower's deteriorating mental health is putting him in real jeopardy we report on that for you. plus the feeling that cause a cia boss his job but is infidelity really the only reason that forced betray us out. also for you rolling with us so in the tough times force one of mick jagger's girlfriends i'm sure there's many from the one nine hundred sixty s. to auction off the legend love letters the details for you up ahead at r t v dot com. china launched its once in a decade transfer of power this week the communist party congress is now reviewing the list of candidates and is expected to announce the final decision in about three days the incoming officials top officials valid to tackle the growing challenges facing the world's second largest economy the i.m.f.

predicts that it will overtake the u.s. become number one by twenty sixteen now beijing is promising to increase its influence across the globe it's buying up businesses in europe building infrastructure in pakistan and cashing in on africa's vast natural resources but it won't be that easy as economic researcher william angle told r.t. . the corruption issue and that's a huge issue among the chinese population i've talked with students as recently as three weeks ago when i was in beijing. and i asked them what they considered the greatest weaknesses and this is a pervasive sense among young people that the party leadership is not. in touch with the aspirations of the younger generation or the people generally in this this is a question of the very legitimacy of the party and that i think is a huge challenge that they're going to have to address the chinese are very concerned about these so-called obama pivot the asian pivot which is really

a china pivot obama announced earlier this year the south china sea the provocations there were in the eastern part of that with the islands next to taiwan where the japanese government made an extremely provocative move no doubt at the behest of washington to claim that those islands are japanese islands because private investors sold them to the japanese government now that those islands are a security necessity for the chinese in their long term defense as they see it and historically the chinese have. quite a strong right to claim those as chinese territory so it's a very provocative kind of game that's going on between japan and australia and the chinese with the u.s. very much in the background. all right well back to our story on israel now of course earlier we were discussing the attack on a cause i was a sensibly in response to a surge in salvos from the palestinian territory more now from our correspondent

who is on the ground polish there. the latest we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that his country is ready to strike hondo against the gaza strip if it does not stop attacking israel he made these remarks today sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting in which he said and i'm quoting that the world must understand that israel cannot sit idly by while attempts are made to attack it now hostilities along the israel gaza border have is going to choppy particularly this past weekend this follows israeli airstrikes that killed six palestinians four of whom were teenagers and two of whom belonged to the militant group islamic jihad according to the gaza health ministry spokesperson there are any number of people who were injured the biggest stands at around thirty including children the problem though is that often in these israeli airstrikes israel lands of killing civilians and not militants as its intention is a mass has taken responsibility for this attack there were four israeli soldiers that were wounded in it and response from the palestinian side was dozens of

rockets that were fired into southern israel early on sunday morning the whole sort of israel is in a state of high alert and this comes as palestinian militants about to take revenge for the stiff's now flare ups along the israeli gaza border are quite common and we have seen already two flare ups this month this though is one of the highest casualty counts in gaza in a single incident in recent months iraq is pouring over the details of a major arms deal with russia after suspicions were raised over the way baghdad handled it reports on saturday first suggested that iraq had pulled the contract which was sealed just a month ago and then it was quickly denied by the iraqi defense minister the four billion dollar deal would make russia iraq's second largest arms supplier after the u.s. government and business consultant christophe horsetail suspects from washington may play a role in the obstacle to this deal. if this deal heard gone through that would

have meant for the iraqi people. you know start to a balanced situation of the east and with sort of see that would be healthy for the iraqi people because this is. geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that means that. insisting on a model polled in the region it is it is very clear if you go it is nobbs and mr maliki was calling the shots in the rocky policies that is the u.s. right now in that they are not able you know. called a petition just a little you that is a very sad story for washington and it doesn't bear good sides with the future. some of today's news stories this hour on a series of violent attacks across karate in pakistan have claimed more than twenty four lives wounding dozens more gunmen on motorcycles had carried out several

targeted killings with a magazine editor and find students said to be among the victims the motives are being investigated and there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks sectarian political and ethnic violence in the city has killed around one hundred people this month alone. there's been a mass anti-nuclear energy rally in japan with thousands gathering in front of the parliament in tokyo all the country's reactors were shut down after at last year's fukushima disaster but two plants were later reopened to help cope with the severe power shortages before the accident caused by the earthquakes and tsunamis a third of japan's electricity it was made from a nuclear power. well coming up we'll look at those signing up to serve uncle sam in just a few minutes and whether predators play a part in any way more stuff for you had.

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