in-store charge is free. range month free is free. to charge for free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video dog r.t. dot com. stepping up the crowd down the hall rain suppresses until regime protests using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse rallies and ignores calls to improve its record on human rights and. gives the green light to plans to build fifteen hundred new settler homes and honesty and east jerusalem but it's claimed the move will lead to further israeli isolation. and the wave of mass shootings that have swept the u.s. and the connecticut massacre twenty children brings the gun control debate a bunch of the forefront of american politics.

international news life for most of this is aussie with me. and welcome to the program. bahrain has again moved to crush dissent after acts of it said police arrested twenty five protests at monday's anti regime rally in and around the capital our forces use tear gas and rubber bullets on the crowds in manila and taint a well known campaigner from the bahrain center for human rights the street marchers were calling for more freedoms from their sunni rulers and the release of all political prisoners including a leading right advocate in a bill read job his sentence was reduced last week at court at an appeal for his release was rejected around eighty people have been killed by security forces in nearly two years of continual reformed aspirations bahrain is under pressure from

rights groups for not following up on a vast and modernize its political institutions and medical scientists calling carvell says the main reason the gulf monarchies still in power is due to vital biking from up or. trying to ride on the opposition. the international community have left the protests but i'd say they are mostly. just used. three quarters of the population or oppose them and the relation is no longer. relations want to leave. the country know what they're trying to do hundred thirty years. why is. the united states when the by relations of human rights are so gross i just mean are generally quiet. and of course you and everyone else lomas the reason

enough of the bully. in bahrain bahrain the us uses that as a pivot point tried to intervene in control the middle east the idea. is clearly there are. a joke in the modern world and the only ones who don't get it on the. israel says it will go ahead with plans to build fifteen hundred new settler homes in east jerusalem and the part of the city that is considered palestinian land they project was given an intermediate green light by israeli officials on monday this comes less than a month after the un granted punished by nonmember observer status listing is want is jerusalem to be the compass a lot of ph a palestinian state and promising to raise the issue at a security council meeting all time and historian child porn says that with palestine's recent upgrade israel is playing a risky game israel is making a very dangerous wager that its chief ally and washington can protect it from the

reach of international law but i think that's a misjudgment on israel's part the enhanced status of the public swimming authority raises the possibility that the israeli bitter ship can be dragged before the international criminal court in the hague for various transgressions not only that but the neighborhood of israel is changing with the rise of the solid on the rise of the islamicist so i think israel is playing a very dangerous game in the short term and in the long term the problem is that mr netanyahu does not want a settlement of this question he feels that his regime can continue in a grab the palestinian land and settling palestinian land with jewish settlers ad infinitum into the future however it's well known that israel's main protector in washington is declining in international significance because really authorities

would be wise to change their ill advised policy before it's too late. and as israel feels increasingly isolated at the u.n. over its expansion policy the arab spring means it's increasingly isolated in its own neighborhood as well the turmoil has seen it become the target of more toxic militant rockets and even stray shells from across the border with syria policy a report. there's a storm brewing in the middle east and it's leaving a chill in the hearts of most israelis say what you might about the arab spring it poses an obvious problem for tel aviv they mean and so we've seen just a few weeks ago. plenty of missiles falling on israel form a radical. i dream and we see. already the beginning of maybe a attrition war in the golan heights we see plenty of the angels in the

mediterranean sea israel's backyard has become a lot more dangerous in the last two years weapons from libya are leaking across borders and landing in the hands of unknown militant groups the trouble ahead a symbolized by the muslim brotherhood sweep to power in egypt from this rally in june and ominous promised by the movement to make truce a limb and not a crime of the capital at a minimum what we'll see is the free flow of weapons money and supplies from egypt into the gaza strip we will see egyptian volunteers going into the gaza strip to fight that's the minimum. moving up from there the possibility of egypt israel war is by no means impossible but it was democracy that both the muslim brotherhood to power and our deal both israel and the west came to espouse but both are now waking up to the reality that things might in fact have been better under the previous dictatorships at least for them we had a difficult situation but at least we had the contact you know with the leadership

secondly president was committed to the peace process this is a washington day is that we are confronting a new president who belongs to a certain institution a certain movement which do not believe in the right of israel for existence israeli leaders know all too well that whatever friendships however useful they have with arab leaders it doesn't alter the basic freight posed by an arab awakening that in most countries is empowering militant islamic groups we will expect that these governments when when they will will but pressure not only on the friends of we feel also this. the new changes in the arab or the democracies that is emerging in the arab world will have a tremendous challenges and. in order to maintain.

law and order to establish a real democracy the need need some time but television fears that in the time it takes for that democracy to really take root and for the arab public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing despair many israelis feel of the growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood here r.t. tel aviv. thousands have demonstrated in madrid against austerity policies with much to the anti government anger based on the broken promise to raise pensions in line with inflation pensioners and the elderly made up a large section of the crowd in the ronnie organized by spanish labor unions the protest comes a day after medical workers marched through the campus so enraged by the government's plan to privatize health care spain's current debt stands at at least

eight hundred billion euros however madrid has gone out of its way to avoid a requesting a sovereign bailout economist younis iraq is as the mistakes made by the country's government could ultimately cost a part of its territory. this is a government like the one greece like the one i love which is with all its eggs in the basket or. agreement with germany and we agree on something but it will take a lot more than one of them inspiration they. risk losing an election to change the course of the spanish government and are very much afraid or all of. the possibility of losing a lot you know if. force for so long you start thinking that perhaps the best of all outside its forms. and just ahead and does serving time mean

you were paid the crime later on this hour focus on the failings of british jails examining why so many people are thrown back in prison almost as soon as they've been less house. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming 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 at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit is now this picturesque place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction.

really has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . me the most the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious selman caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . and to a large extent this is old to do what cycling offers environmentally the tonight

show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination. for in. the world including. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's the part of it and realize that everything you thought you. heard was a big. this is welcome to talk it's a long running debate with a tragic new context as the relatives of the twenty six victims of a sunday elementary school shooting mourned the loss the argument over gun control laws in the u.s. has been can dispel tonight oh she's in a city trick and i went to newtown connecticut to find out what people think to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the sad words in the

dictionary and combined them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the heartbreak really the grief the sadness the tears that we saw on the ground this town is really at the hit me of grief during this holiday season in this country more last half of the population supports gun control and of the country is split and half believes that it's a civil right and it's a right that americans are entitled to so whether or not any legislation good strong legislation can be passed to prevent these kinds of things is a question we're going to have to wait and see exactly what kind of steps lawmakers take and what the u.s. president takes but certainly i'm sure people are going to be demanding. so they don't happen in the future over and over and over again parents holding their kids a little tighter and a little longer these days oh gosh i'm so glad that i have so many opportunities to

tell i love you i'm so glad you're mine i'm so glad that you're in our family i'm so glad that. you're here here i'm still so glad that i'm having breakfast with you this morning candles flowers toys and grief have filled newtown i keep hearing on the news over and over about the parents when terror and or evil to get their kids and those that had to be told. their kids were in college. and i can't imagine. if i was in their shoes as a parent that my daughter wouldn't pick up home with the twenty first graders none of them older than seven were killed in a mass shooting at school twenty year old adam lanza lived with his mother nancy in a well off residential neighborhood on friday morning he shot and killed her with her own gun got into

a car drove about ten minutes to sandy hook elementary quoting to witnesses he didn't say a word during the rampage eight year old zachary was saved by his teacher my youngest son since and he had school and. he was in a classroom right near where the shooting took place and he was with a reading teacher just him in the reading teacher and she closed the door and took them into the bathroom they said bathroom floor until police came and said prayers and just a very quiet until the police came six school employees were also killed in the shooting including the favorite one of eight and then devon in the midst of to them that you would like to encourage them. the six to nine year olds held a garage sale with their family after surviving the shooting with proceeds going to their school they did tell them to close their eyes my my daughter. course you never listens so she she didn't and she's pretty she's been talking about that a lot she said she said mommy i can't get that body out of my head i keep seeing

people's emotions are stretched to the limit make it in here like make it worth something we could meet. because you can't you could create change change that heartbroken locals are now demanding. strict severe gun control but really all it can be bear arms but. then when it was written three hundred years ago two hundred fifty years ago the forefathers never thought that it come to this while politicians don't have the power to bring back the twenty little children who used to play on these streets they do have the power to decide what happens next in a country where two hundred seventy million firearms almost one per person are in private possession. of. newtown connecticut. and the website enormous volcano eruption in russia which has become a magnet for scores of thrill seeking tourists it's not as appealing for others who

fear it's an omen heralding the apocalypse. and around cyber security experts are sounding the alarm as it's revealed the nation's computers are in jeopardy from a brand new data hungry virus more of these stories online at. its being reporters are bold garia has invited the yards to send troops through its territory one ball bearing the daily newspaper says washington has already found around sixty million dollars into rebuilding a training range in the country's east the government in sofia says this will help boost regional security and assist with the training of its soldiers. backers says the u.s. is seeking to extend its influence in eastern europe we've seen. out of force to maintain the cold war even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an

american spear of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the incorporation of this as part of the nato strategy is one a threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of bug area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates both gary and makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation nato in the creation in development of u.s. military bases which are always done under the pretext of security whether it be american security or regional security or global security what that really is is a method by which that country and its economy and its political leaders become securely fastened to to washington both in terms of the incorporation of u.s. military equipment selling u.s. military goods abroad which is

a big business here but more than anything having undue influence in the host country you really can't be a free country and a free people and have foreign troops on your on your soil the reputation of britain's prison system is taking a tumble with her pools showing jails have become folding due to is the government has promised a ten day trying to round by improving its systems and walk and training in areas of confinement but. now it seems that being said and done. person locks up more people than anywhere else in europe yet where we do we get a glimpse of what life on the inside is really like i would describe it as a sea of boredom. peppered with small ones of extreme violence and disruption stretched to breaking point you case prison systems are once again in the spotlight following a series of critical reports by the country's prisons inspectorate this government

promised the rehabilitation revolution the trouble is the revolution things taking its time to get. i don't see any rehabilitation revolution i mean the last government passed hundreds of new laws which was sweeping people back into the prison system and this government is going down the same line you know. it's getting people out that's the difficult bit getting them out so much that they they don't come back but despite all the rhetoric say far the government's promise is improved regimes all work and training in prisons have failed to materialize well as a bit of a cliché but prisons of education colleges of course you can go to prison. no not only have to hope was like become a vast amounts of knowledge that's what prisoners do criminals and it's not only mixing with other criminals that's a problem it's become an ape in secret that the u.k.'s prisons are all washed with

drugs. oh i would estimate that. there will. be a viable. it's a troubling accusation given that today the inmate population stands at more than eighty thousand people right now in a person's release from prison they've given forty six pounds but very little of the support released back into the same communities have all the same problems as before so it should be no surprise that also often it's not long before those people and up back inside the figures show a startling rise over the past years in the number who leave prison to go on to commit further crimes forty seven point five percent of the reconvicted within one year of being released prisons prisons it seems have become a revolving door of ray offenders and with all the government cuts the

situation's going to improve obviously it's much more challenging if what you're doing the population is increasing resources are reducing and you're asking prisons to do those taping to stay out of prison within number of published books he's focusing on his writing career giving tools to schools orning children of the realities of a life behind bars but with tens of thousands of people released from prison every year until person comes to grips with what's happening on the inside prisons will continue to risk the safety of all of us on the outside surface r.t. london i'll bring in more news in half an hour after next it's abby martin and breaking a sweat.

it's perched atop a jog and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see up for a city that chilled all of siberia for centuries it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance siberian railway but the bowls cremains a spiritual center. oh. oh things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers. commemorate the baptism of jesus you. go there when you pull up on board the matter with you doesn't matter if it's minus

thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard church is the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. to be their stronghold constructed on top of an old. enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the balls committed location head of the uses for the russians are the boy's own to moscow is one of the most popular places to fantastical to fantasy any people were exiled once a giant bell that was used to incite riots. ten. minutes later the russian

heiress the crowds who led a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hare and drove there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they lead a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always echo with

a glorious past. it will likely provide the livelihood for some habitants in the future. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean. i guess i'm still really messed up. in the original mostly. worse for the little. white house soup of a. radio guy and for a minute. because you've never seen anything like this until.

go on i mean martin this is breaking the set so today is army private whistleblower bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday and as of today he spent nine hundred thirty six days in attention in iraq kuwait and now quantico virginia is in prison and has been condemned by the un and countless activists who see his treatment as nothing short of torture bradley manning is accused of providing wiki leaks with hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military documents that shed a light on some of the u.s. government's most horrific war crimes even more so the reaction to those revelations has revealed the u.s. military's utter impunity from said crimes many people including myself see bradley many as a hero who put his life on the line to provide the truth to the american public the u.s. government however sees manning as a traitor and is charging him with aiding the enemy something that could land him the death penalty by the time he's scheduled to be court martial you'll have spent

over a thousand days in confinement much of which in solitary might be a lonely one but happy birthday. we haven't forgot about your body breaks. the law. says you never seen anything like that. on this show i've talked about israel and palestine as it relates to war peace and human rights and because i've covered the issue in a way that rivals the mainstream media i've been viscerally attacked for it by the israeli lobby the media and by netanyahu his very own spokesperson all of this for simply providing the other side of the story something that my next guest has now committed his life to and it's extremely significant considering his the son of a decorated general from the israeli defense forces he was drawn to peace activism in one thousand nine hundred seven primarily.