day's news on the week's top stories in our t.v. u.s. lays into israel over plans to build three thousand more subtler homes immediately after the palestinians u.n. status was upgraded. egypt divided as tens of thousands rallied to both supporters and opponents of president roh see a referendum on a controversial new constitution set for two weeks time. and the world's top promises more sensational revelations next year we talked to during the sun an exclusive interview. this is artie's weekly news review i'm carrie johnson and welcome to the program the u.s.

says it's trying to steer israel and the palestinians back to the negotiating table but so far to no avail washington has criticised israel's approval of three thousand more settler homes in disputed territories the move came immediately after the un voted to upgrade palestine to a nonmember observer state despite america's opposition. looks now at how the vote effects the situation in the middle east. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against look at me forty one abstentions it's an important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations the national law and its violations the rights of the palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal settlements

palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizations giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced it was building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. back this really a period that the international community gives hand to this violation the u.s. was also quick to cast a cloud over the palestinian party may be unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today grand pronouncements will soon fade. and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed but washington's unflinching support for tel aviv has separated from some of its longtime allies in the un more and more

countries are turning their back on decades of negotiations that have led nowhere what has changed has been the continual failure of the us controlled so-called peace process to lead to any kind of end to occupation and what i think was the catalyst here is that political pressure on other matters and on the palestinian authority from their own population from their own people who were saying you know what we've had twenty one years of failed diplomacy we're not looking for twenty two we want something different and that something means a real shift in policy first and foremost the consensus on the international stage is that israel needs to stop building settlements deemed illegal by the un and certainly the international community you know is a horse. a provocation which heroes our cars are getting so

called. it was little more than a year ago that palestinian president mahmoud abbas came to the un in a bid for statehood since then tel aviv and washington's approach to the middle east conflict has gained them an ever shrinking minority of supporters the irony is that the bid was passed on the watches of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rightwing foreign minister avigdor lieberman it was last year that lieberman boasted in the united nations that the moral majority of western states was with israel it's now turns out he was wrong and whether israel once it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give policy r.t. tel aviv. egypt's supreme court has postponed ruling on the legitimacy of the panel that draft of the country's new constitution of the. several thousand supporters of president morsi prevented the judges from entering the building by sea has set the date for a referendum on the charter for two weeks time and made harsh criticism from opponents who claim the draft undermines basic democratic freedoms but is tom

barton reports now from current. unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for over a week now it resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have ended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to creep president morsi meaning his decisions would face no legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant dictator. and we in in order to do that we made elections and rid of illusion and made it actions to choose someone to the present us and turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary you know

any of that the two in the world hitler will be will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full immersion see it told us the serious the same thing six usable on the president that were bought and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years opponents say egypt's new constitution is too islamist and could set the country on the road to religious dictatorship but some sections of society are keen to show their support for morsi and the storm for judges who would block the constitution and i'm here to support the president morsi from the operation i repeat for his opposition from the constitutional court. or most of us knows that since it is the morsi is that he got elected by the people we know that the fight for his failure the. since society are undeniable and perhaps more even than author terry unism the fear is that chaos will tear apart any games made by the revolution this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more sitting in

a way where you find that people are facing each other in the streets in demonstrations and facing that type of violence from islamic groups egypt's president its government its courts its very constitution are now matters of heated debate one of the few things most of gyptian do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving elusive tom bottom party. the world's most notorious whistleblower jewel in the sun she is promising a new sensational explosion next year to rival the release of thousands of secret american diplomatic cables two years ago in an exclusive interview with r.t. the wiki leaks supremum also claims the us is becoming a totalitarian state the help of social media. problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded

every web search do you know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago now you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts requests the load of u.s. border it knows will be. a national security agency whistleblower who was the research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning a key totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the case has already been turned a little bit and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having this. sources investigated is already partly turned. into a course newsgroup would go all the way.

but meanwhile a more personal note her son's dismissed reports his health is deteriorating you can see the full interview with the world's top whistleblower and it's how you like what i website r.t. dot com. u.s. private bradley manning who's charged with passing classified that u.s. documents to wiki leaks says he considered suicide while in detention speaking publicly for the first time since his arrest two years ago the twenty four year old told the pretrial hearing that is detention conditions even feel that it caged animal and he wanted to hang himself his defense team claim he has suffered mistreatment and abuse in detention and said the charges should be dropped because of his ordeal or chase and our lawyer and author of a book on manning says even some members of the military are sympathetic to his plight. both opinion in the military and intelligence and law enforcement is quite divided about this i am not going to lie most people in the military have a very strict by the book attitude towards many of the rules not all of the rules

but many and would like to see many convicted but i have talked with infantry one of whom who is caught on camera at that infamous collateral murder helicopter video who sees bradley manning is a hero who sees the leaks of the iraq war logs including that helicopter video as an unqualified good because now americans can finally see how that war is actually going in ditto for the afghan war logs there are also people in the f.b.i. who think such a thing is week in week so it's very good for national security including the former director of the minneapolis office of the f.b.i. fully roundly who is a time magazine's person of the year in two thousand and two and i have a long interview in my book with the former top cia analyst ray mcgovern who also sees this public knowledge of this benefit to the public debate about our force to be in measurable good so there is disagreement that the military and intelligence

communities about this. ok up shortly a ballot box drama in kuwait the opposition voice on an entry poll saying that unconstitutional paving a new government backs political and pop legitimacy. day for the british media the leveson that publishes his damning report with lots of press speculation. with details off a short break. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said

fired in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually a firing or a forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big dreams in a big country that is big corruption spoiling all of those dreams a country can't survive with every infrastructural or scientific project is sucked dry from within whether the government is unwilling or unable to sternly punish these offenders is a huge topic by could tell you that if there's no real fear of punishment this will just keep going on for ever perhaps it's time to put a big asterisk for high level corruption next to the moratorium on the death penalty but that's just my opinion. the a.

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welcome back to our weekly news review be that just in a sea of the newly elected parliament in kuwait is being called into question the

shiite minority grabbed the biggest tally of seats but the opposition boycotted the ballots over the ruling monica's decision to amend the voting rules. explains. polls are closed doors olds are in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was cast voter turnout varied widely from polling place to polling place but with very low numbers at some locations the legitimacy of the results are certainly bound to be questioned now the crisis was sparked after the islamist dominated parliament it was dismissed over a row with the ruling power of the situation was then brought to a boiling point after the emir issued a surprise decree changing the country's complicated voting laws critics allege that it was a move in order to force

a more compliant parliament which had sparked massive street battles as well now the political rift is only likely to deepen the question is whether the opposition is now going to take their fight to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand course what happens here has implications far beyond kuwait's borders as an opec member any sort of unrest is bound to affect oil markets the country is also a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of combat troops stationed here as a military counterweight to iran now the gulf monarchies have been struggling to fend off possible instability from the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait has largely seen as the most tolerant of the countries in this region but the worry is of course that the trend could be reversed recent months have seen as fleeting clashes between the position groups and security forces who have used tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds political gatherings of more than twenty people have been banned and activists are complaining of

a clampdown against the center authorities and did allow thousands of protesters to gather for a peaceful rally on friday but the worry is. but the next few weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self-control displayed by the opposition what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring this account for no r.t.e. kuwait's. but britain's a coalition government is divided for in the leveson report into press standards u.k. newspapers were accused of wreaking havoc on the lives of innocent people for reporters for illegally parked regulator which critics fear could clamp down on press freedom . reports. revelations that the british press phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and one of the big media scandals. at times that threatened not just story. but downing street as

well as the allegations went all the way to the heart the british government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witnesses and millions in taxpayers' money the leveson report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government for what it says was their cozy relationship with the media cameron has been shown with hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire was part of all of this so you know i think there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the failures of the police. to do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is for higher standards of self-regulation by the press in forced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal

a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k. is there any way in which you can be a little bit sensitive or a little bit monitored and most people. with britain now in the midst of a post leveson going over it's the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable flashbacks back in october the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers and cut to last week i have some serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality and mississippi but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiries findings would be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor prepossessions will be will be remembered as the government who took your

freedoms away. we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore here he is off the leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of so for a glacial supported by new independent checks recognised in law recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that when dealing. with you know obviously we are being very worried about murdoch and his pressure sometimes i think it's always going on but we should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into

a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place. r t london. we have plenty more stories on our website including flying into trouble if washington develops its drone program over the us crashes and misses a civilian authorities questioning their safety why not more all to dot com. but also online today a material hoax news agencies are left red in the face of the publishing assigned to the floor diagram they claimed was proof of iran's nuclear bomb and missions critics say could have been produced in the science student. russia's second largest mobile phone operator megaphone off with its shares to the public in moscow

. london this week and then watch them slide in the first hours of trading the company didn't manage to bounce back to the level. of raised. is becoming russia's biggest since the giant back in twenty ten shares were priced at twenty dollars each the bottom end of its estimated range listing is part of the agreement with many shareholder. runoff and partner company. let's take a look at some other news making headlines this hour. taliban suicide bombers have attacked a u.s. military base in the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan intelligence officials say there were as many as nine militants involved in incursion explosions went off outside the gate and a gun battle ensued nato says at least six afghans were killed and several alliance troops injured. c.c.t.v.

footage has revealed a collapsed tunnel in japan where at least five people have been killed instantly trapped an unknown number of vehicles in the accident on the highway west of tokyo caused a fire with plumes of smoke seen exiting the kilometer long tunnel the road remains closed while the cause of the collapse is still being investigated. and north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month after a previous failed attempt to visit a likely to further strain relations with washington and neighboring south korea the u.s. has previously suspended food aid to the north of the pyongyang went ahead with a rocket test in april or so nearly tripled its only ballistic missile range of the recent deal with the states south korea has now held an emergency meeting of the upcoming launch. coming up shortly on r.t. there's underlying tension between russia and finland about the rights of children in mixed russian finnish families maybe. this documentary has. children suffering

from the actions of the notes. you can tell an ordinary russian and a siberian appalled in the blink of an eye wrote one thousand nine hundred sentry anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes a different food. different animals. but what about now my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian outpost. so i decided to. a small town just outside.

many these humble me dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia put them in soup bowl filled with cabbage and jam making sure you can have many as a start the main dish. although it may draw the whole of us most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer months and winter a path is cleared through dogs it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that my. great it had before the russians.

and this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but this thing through enough to show that after all these yeahs siberia still not quite like kenya where else. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

download the official t. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time. for a child to be taken for something really serious an extraordinary must happen. social services here or a new way worse when the finnish system has decided something there is nothing that can be done it's not a mistake of them it's just how they want. to change don't take away a child without reason a child does not belong to his parents but to the states. when they bore me here

the policeman asked me many times does your mom. i said no she didn't. you know i've recently been to stonier and brought in town a present which i always bring him some presents candies sweets for miss tonia. the russian citizen of this brief packing ritual means the weekend has begun. it's also a time for celebration she's going to see her son. at weekends they make me an appointment in their on saturday or in sun address now with the subject so i take the strain. overall it takes me one day to get there meet with

anton and return. the three years that you need under supervision and spend three hours together there are supervisors and an interpreter present at the meeting or on their behalf so they can write of course that they're that it takes two hours by train to reach poetry on the west coast of finland from temporary in the south even this link fee journey there was enough to tell the entire story of three people at all it's with two countries in the mid ninety's remembered parvo selling it from finland they were in a relationship for some time before getting married they lived together for ten years then they divorced. after nine months after palmer and i got divorced and tun was born on october the second two thousand and three was followed his release when anton was month and a half old poverty saved paternity status and then nine months later he became.