week's top stories from r.t. palestine the moves up in the international arena becoming a un recognized observer state which could allow it to pursue israel with claims of crowds. egypt's power struggle spirals rival forces gather strength in a showdown over the draft constitution and the president's self-imposed supreme authority. plus watch the space for wiki leaks on the way during the sarge promises more ground shaking revelations next year he talks exclusively swati.

are you watching our weekly news review with me carrie johnston the palestinians moved a step closer this week to being fully recognized as independent the u.n. voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to a non member observer state a middle east correspondent force their ports now and how them may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. 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 forty one abstentions it's an important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way. of national law and its violations the. rights of the palestinian

people especially 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 or the birds does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. burke that's really the international community gives of this violation the u.s. was also quick to cast a cloud over the palestinian party mood the unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today's grand pronouncements will soon see. 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 in 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's 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 are. whores. a provocation which

heroes of course. saw god. it was a 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 now turns out he was wrong and whether israel wants it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give policy r.t. tel aviv. egyptians are supposed to decide on their new constitution in two weeks time but if this week is anything to go by the way be easy it was widespread anger as the president granted himself sweeping new powers supreme court judges could

rule on the legitimacy of the draft charter after supporters of mohamed morsi stopped them getting into the chamber itself well the court has now suspended its work indefinitely in protest parties tom barton is in cairo. 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 a dictator. in order to that we made elections and rid of illusion and 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 he nor any of the b.b.q. in the world. will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency it told us the serious the same thing city is a war under president obama 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 their scorn for judges who would block the constitution and i'm here to support the president morsi films operation might it be for his opposition for the. institution court. or most of us knows that since it is the most it is that they got elected by their viewpoint when it was that they fired for the failure of the rifts in society are undeniable and perhaps more even than or

for a tarion ism is fear is that chaos will tear apart any gains made by the revolution this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more city thing in a way where you find that people are facing each other in the streets in the ministrations 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 egyptians do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving elusive tom bottom party. journalists. are also frustrated that life's getting harder for them since mubarak was ousted. isn't doing enough. i think morse's made a big mistake he may have thought that basically people were anti mubarak and barak's gone and therefore he had a bit of leeway but no the underlying problems that corruption that the policies of

mubarak out you know that people want to cling great with these policies they wanted radical change not cosmetic change not merely a change of leader tot mom with the same economic policies the same social policies etc they wanted a real radical change they're not getting that and so it's really at a at a crucial stage now where he's got to listen to the people egypt has occurred before that had a lot of temporary powers what they got down the years way governments have said they do this on a temporary basis ended up lasting a very really long time to mubarak once and so i think there is that sort of fear among egyptians that what they're getting is a new pharaoh as i said they want they wanted more democracy back in twenty eleven but they also wanted fundamental economic changes which haven't come about because there are widespread concerns of the public about what morsi has done the last few days that's not what the people in the hundreds of thousands took to the streets when twenty eleven was to have a new dictator but the underlying cause i think are economic factors and the fact is people voted for morsi because they thought he'd bring changes it but the economy has got worse one in four young egyptians are out of work poverty is on the

rise so i think there is this one issue this constitutional crisis at the moment but beyond that there are deep issues in egypt you have to be addressed. true in the sun she is promising some new a shock revelations to rival the hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables published by weekend weeks two years ago interview with r.t. the editor of the whistle blowing web site also claims the u.s. is becoming a totalitarian state the help of social media. the problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search you know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts requests that the 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 their sources investigated is already partly turned and you know the question is would go all the way. and you can watch the full interview with you in the sun on our website r.t. dot com. u.s. army private bradley manning charged with handing over classified u.s. documents to wiki leaks spoke out for the first time in over two years saying we considered suicide one in detention which in his pretrial hearing the twenty four year old said his detention conditions triggered anxiety attacks made him want to

hang himself manning has been locked up for more than nine hundred days and the longest pretrial detention of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war a chase nodar lawyer and author of a book on manning says even members of the military are supporting the imprisoned prophet. 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 we can weeks was 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 if they advance our force to be in in measurable good so there is disagreement that the military and intelligence communities about this. well coming up election turnout has tumbled in kuwait this has paid off in a few minutes we'll tell you the changing rooms as great as the buttons. or minister rest of them in. downing ethics in arms these free media indeed regulation these just ahead.

a lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house all alone in some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose

house you're storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but it's just my opinion.

for world news for you now in kuwait pro-government candidates have won the lion's share of seats in parliament after saturday's election but it is a missed led opposition which boycotted the vote fame a turnout was as low as twenty six percent and dismissing of the making body as illegitimate the opposition has valid protests until the u.s. backed monarchy does also parliament r.t.c. caffein off reports from kuwait. well voting in kuwait's highly controversial elections may be over but the battle over the country's political future has only just begun lots of new faces in the newly elected parliament which is deemed to be

far more government friendly than the previous assembly but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates and no boycott of the vote nothing that the protest was deemed to be a success with official estimates of placing voter turnout at roughly thirty nine percent in stark contrast to the sixty percent voter turnout that we've seen in the last three elections in this country the opposition claims the turnout was in fact much lower and it's obvious the new body is illegitimate in fact they told the new assembly on constitutional and according to the popular committee for boycotting election votes the new body doesn't represent the majority of the kuwaiti people and has lost popular and political legitimacy the question is of course whether the opposition is now going to take its battle to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand which now what happens here in kuwait has implications far beyond the country's borders as an opec member any sort of on a rest is bound to have an effect on world oil prices the country also serves as

a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of american combat troops stationed here as a military council wait to iran now the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the countries but the worry here is that the trend could be reversed over the past few months the country has seen increasingly violent escalating protests between the opposition and security forces with the latter using tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds political parties are banned as are political gatherings of more than twenty people and activists are claiming of a clamp down against dissent here in this country authorities did allow thousands of the opposition demonstrators to gather in a largely peaceful rally on. friday of course the coming weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self control of the opposition what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of

the arab spring this is calf another party to wait. while some analysts say kuwait's regime will have staying power as always enjoys the support that comes with being a key u.s. ally. the most important element in all of this is whether or not the opposition is able to stand up against this family the ruling the ruling class in kuwait and most importantly standing against us imperialism in and of itself is not terribly important but when seen in the context of the g.c.c. and seen as one of the most reliable u.s. allies particularly juxtaposed against what is happening in bahrain and we understand that the united states in the western powers cannot allow the saw family to fall you have to see that kuwait is a launching point in a possible war against iran so all of these taken together really shows that the united states has both political geo political and then of course social reasons why they want to maintain the status quo. britain's free press learned it could

face its toughest regulation in three hundred years across the line when court hacking the voice mails of royalty celebrities and i'm the victim. reports now in the inquiry expose these seedy relationship between the paper police. revelations that the british press phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and one of the big media scandals. at the time that threatened not just story. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the hot and 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 witness says 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 jeremy 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 actually 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 that any way in which you can be a little bit censored or a little bit monitored and most people say no 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 cut to last week i have some serious

concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiry's 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 predecessors 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 after leveson published the report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing there proportionate and workable and i'm. come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the reports corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of self-regulation supported by new independent checks recognized

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. i think. obviously we are being very worried about. some time i think it's always going on between 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 polly boy k r t london. we're getting reports of explosions in syria's western city of homs with up to forty people either dead or

injured the blasts happened there a mosque and a stadium witnesses say there were two separate car bomb attacks but it says are heading to the scene with updated further with more details coming. this week gruesome footage image the hat is showing syrian rebels playing ten on the prisoners and then lives one of the gunmen is head referencing the kind i think. it was behind several suicide attacks in a country. internet and phone access is cut off the two danes the opposition widely blamed the asaad government mission well paid news on this to say to me and then backing the rebel militias. become a massive problem again with syria we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights was responsible for a lot of the visual bogus claims that allowed the west to sort of justify the

backing of the for you syrian army terrorist groups the leaders of our western countries particularly nato countries or encouraging the syrian terrorist rebels guerrillas whatever you want to call them to really accelerate the bloodbath in that country because in the eyes of washington and london the bigger the blood out the quicker they can have reaching change just a report just came out this week with a supplying satellite units to rebels rebel groups terrorist groups essentially in syria so they can communicate while the internet is down to their country there was an image initially sold in the media on places like the washington post a move by the assad government possibly to shut down rebel communications but actually upon further investigation it looks like it's possible that actually the combination of the united states operatives and the syrian rebels could actually be behind the bringing down the internet and the reason is is because if the blood

escalates from that country the last thing that the west wants is any reports coming out on the internet of actual rebel terrorist atrocities in that country. things that we've seen quite a bit of recently. german lawmakers overwhelmingly back to giving greece its next pay out button to keep the country from sliding into bankruptcy means athens can now pay wages and bills this. package is among other things that interest rates and seymour hersh chancellor angela merkel acknowledged the newness of. this but insisted the measures help to bring stability to the eurozone. crisis says the germans are ones frustration with the greek of. i think there are a considerable number of people who would like to cut greece loose at this juncture a because it's probably the most humane thing to do but second of all because ultimately the greek government has simply field to do anything that it has really

been supposed to do in terms of privatization and so on many times it's enacted legislation but feel to follow through the taxation system in greece is broken all of these sorts of horrible things lead us to the fact that greece is governed in a third world fashion at the moment not in a first world fashion and that ultimately is causing a huge amount of frustration with a great many e.u. finance ministers some of them because they've got lots of money such as say germany and poland and so on some of them because they've actually taken their medicine the poor irish twenty five thousand people on the streets of dublin at the weekend complaining about your stereotype medicine they've had to take a no they're hearing that the greeks are going to get all manner of concessions in order to be allowed to get through the next hurdle and get their next meal light that's not fair in very unreasonable a lot of people and that's leading a huge number of politicians to be increasingly fed up with the whole greek situation. well some of today's world headlines now taliban suicide bombers have

attacked a joint u.s. afghan military base in the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan but two vehicles part of explosives were detonated at the main gate followed by gunfire all none of your sons and both were killed also says at least six afghans died and seven longstreet's were injured this is the knowledge of such assault in the city since every suicide bomb attack claimed the lives of nine afghans. c.c.t.v. footage shows inside a collapsed tunnel in japan where least five people have been killed authorities say as many as seven people could still be trapped miscue mission and complicated by six move on live inside the tunnel the road remains closed for the cause of the collapse of the distribution. but a short break in the first feature length documentary on the occupy movement capturing the phenomenon that spread through america's last year stay with us.

docked in between the russian mainland japan and the succulent island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders zone and was completely restricted to use it is now the speak choice place is open to tourist plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at. your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for.

here is very clear the visibility is very good and the world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the. iran tops my list while some go to the region to enjoy the sights convert the nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight show hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious caviar and necessary attribute of anything. the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . this is. environmentally. operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sites and delicious seafood.