if you believe. israel says it's going ahead with fifteen hundred homes and. despite them being illegal under international law. taken into custody. refused. us president barack obama support a ban on assault weapons. elementary school.

in international news and comment from. already authorities have used tear gas and rubber bullets on anti-government protesters arresting a number of them during mass rallies in and around the capital on monday police detained leading human rights campaigners say you do yourself a favor and have stated he will be held for seven more days prosecutors say he's being investigated on charges of spreading false information on twitter police have expanded their presence across the capital as groups of hundreds of people commemorated protesters killed during an uprising eighteen years ago the shia majority are demanding the release of all political prisoners and more of a political voice bahrain has come under increasing pressure from rights groups for not reforming instead it has banned public gatherings jailed opposition activists

and taken away their citizenship and political science is calling the gulf monarchies purposely misleading the outside world. you know. they're trying to crack down on the opposition they tell the international community that they have lifted the ban on protests but at the same time they are mostly they're beating the protesters they are jail you know three quarters of the population are opposed to them and the population is no longer scared of them the population wants the our colleagues to am beginning to leave the country they want democracy they're tired of two hundred and thirty years of our. wires or side silence of the united states when the violations of human rights are

so gross i just mean and generally quiet since completely parker see and of course you and everyone else known as the reason and that's because the fearfully based in bahrain and from the bahrain the us uses that as a pivot point to try to intervene in control the end only the idea of a few monarchy is completely outdated as a joke in the modern world and the only ones who don't get it on the upper lip. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defied international criticism and is pushing through settlement expansion in the occupied west bank he's digging at the possibility of four thousand homes and two more settlements on top of the controversial fifteen hundred in east jerusalem which is already given the initial go ahead to. call jerusalem the eternal capital saying israelis should be united the palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of future state and threaten

to go to the un security council. for e.u. members are reportedly preparing a statement condemning israel's plans push for expansion was announced after the un upgraded the palestinians to observer state a step towards recognizing its statehood. she says that the israeli government is using the settlements for its own political gain. they don't need them for security they don't need them for what they like to call natural growth the settlements are a political point that will be condemned perhaps by the security council criticised even by the obama administration but without any serious repercussions for israel which will largely be allowed to get away with it and as long as the israelis can count on uncritical support from the united states which so far they can there will be mild criticism but there will not be a hint of what real accountability would look like that would mean for example the

u.s. saying to israel your settlement policy is illegal all the settlements are illegal and you need to stop them now when israel says no the answer would be ok you're an independent country you can do what you want but you know that thirty billion dollars that we've pledged over these ten years you know the four point one billion dollars in tax money directly to your military that we're giving you just this year alone we're not doing that anymore and you know how we protect you in the united nations so that you're never held accountable we're not going to do that either that would be what real accountability would look like what real pressure would look like the timing of this was also rooted directly in that election that's scheduled for january the current prime minister bibi netanyahu who is supported by the right the far right and the extreme right in israeli politics is looking to shore up the most far right component of his supporters and they will be very

pleased with a further escalation in the building of illegal settlements which now total somewhere over six hundred fifty thousand people who are living illegally in the occupied west bank and occupied east jerusalem people who are violating international law every morning simply by getting out of bed because their homes are built on illegally expropriated land. with israel becoming increasingly isolated by the international community over its expansion as policy the arab spring means the country is becoming surrounded by potentially hostile governments which makes some israelis say that opposed to take the ships were safe but for the country than the new democracies its borders of is paul a sliver reports 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 when 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 is symbolized by the muslim brotherhood sweep to power in egypt from this rally in june an ominous promise by the movement to make sure we sell him and not kind 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 mubarak was committed to the peace process. the situation today 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 board democracy is 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 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 to speak many israelis feel of a big growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood policy r.t. tell of of. people in spain say their dignity is at stake

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elementary school tragedy has sparked a long running debate over gun control in the country well live now to merida porton she joins me live now from our new york studio marina this looks like a brave stance for obama to take on an issue as divisive as this. it sure is but when you consider the tragic events that unfolded at an elementary school last week in the us it is not surprising that finally u.s. president barack obama is taking a position as you mentioned the president said that he's willing to throw his support behind legislation that would reinstate a ban on assault weapons in america not the last federal assault weapons ban which expired in two thousand and four for him that is the manufacturing of eighteen specific models of semiautomatic weapons along with the manufacturing of high capacity ammunition magazines that could carry more than ten rounds now according to white house spokesman jay carney obama would also support legislation that

closes a so-called gun show loophole that has allowed some weapons to be sold without criminal background checks of the buyers since obama has been president for mass shootings have taken place but until now critics say that obama has skirted the issue of federal gun control last week's massacre at that elementary school in newtown connecticut when the lives of twenty innocent children ages six and seven and also six staff members were killed gun control advocates say it's a shame so many lives have been lost before u.s. leaders finally got the ball rolling on legislation but here we are u.s. president barack obama supporting a move for federal legislation and for viewers aren't aware in the u.s. each state has its own laws regarding gone so this could be a massive overhaul of gun control in the u.s. but realistically is there any chance for a ban on the sales of assault weapons. look

bill last week's tragedy has been described as a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level in recent days we have heard no interviews being given by any members of the n.r.a. the national rifle association a very powerful lobby group in washington they've also taken taken down about taken down their facebook page another indication that this overhaul may actually go through is the fact that the largest firearms maker in the u.s. also announced on tuesday that it's being put up for sale by its owner freedom group international is the maker of the bushmaster rifle the weapons thought to have been used in friday's connecticut massacre and it's you know that massacre is considered one of the worst mass shootings in u.s. history another indication that there could be federal gun control that goes through is the fact that shares in publicly traded gun makers have been dropping

for a third straight day there's also been reports of a large spike in gun sales in recent days because many believe that the federal government will in fact enforce stricter gun control but. we have been reporting in the past the n.r.a. the national rifle association is a very powerful lobby group that is doesn't want to curtail gun ownership in the u.s. but at this point public opinion is on the side of the u.s. president there is a lot of grief that's taking place in the aftermath of twenty innocent children being killed just fun in the all of the people of newtown fearing no to this tragedy. well as you can imagine this is a horrific event for for that town and for that state and for this country to be dealing with a very very sad event innocent children being gunned down and killed and staff

members dying at that elementary school trying to save those children artie's an associate you're going to did visit newtown and wanted to get a closer look and paint a better picture of what is taking place there and she brings us this report 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 your mind i'm so glad you're in our family i'm so glad . you're you're here i'm still so glad that i'm having breakfast with you this morning candles flowers toys and grief filled newtown i keep hearing on the news over and over about the parents of one terrorist or evil to get their kids. 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 a 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 two 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 them devon let's get to him that you would

like him for. the six and 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 she 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 it could mean. you can't you could create change change that heartbroken locals are now demanding. strict severe gun control. but. second amendment to bear arms but. it was written three hundred years ago two hundred fifty years ago 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 the streets they do have the power to decide what happens next in a country where two hundred seventy million firearms almost one per person aren't private possession. and. newtown connecticut. the number of homeless students in america hits a record high topping one million for the first time as a result of the economic recession a number that has risen by more than a high since two thousand and seven a website has more on those statistics. plus a russian volcano awakes. you tube channel spectacular footage of the spewing smoke don't worry it's not the end of the world well not for another two or three days anyway. the fruits of the arab spring which kicked off two years ago has left many vying for democratic change feeling bitter thousands of egyptians have marched in the presidential palace in cairo in protest at the islamist leaning constitutional draft which they view as undermining basic freedoms

it comes out of the country's justice ministry ordered an investigation into alleged polling violations in the first stage of the constitutional referendum and the results show the islamic leaning draft was backed by fifty six percent of voters a slim majority after a very low turnout and another group of judges has refused to oversee the next stage of the referendum on saturday while the top prosecutor has resigned under pressure from courts boycotting the vote political analyst i want to show you a little earlier on r.t. he says that the arab spring is being overshadowed by ongoing violence and double standards. the violence is massive and it's leading to massive destruction i know some people may argue perhaps that revolutions are always you know aggressive at the beginning there are always violence and there are always casualties and then things will go will go back as they are supposed to be and they will be democratic reform but egypt is an example that this has not been the case

for far so yes i think that it is fair to say that we should wait a bit longer yet i mean when you look at the suffering of the people i think it's hard to actually say that so strongly and so conclusively i mean and there has been you know these these what the so-called revolutions have been characterized by double standards because look at the situation nobody cares about and there's been condemnation of violence in other places whereas in bahrain the condemnation was very minimal the second characteristic of these so-called revolutions is that there's been a lot of interference from foreign powers you know that evolution is supposed to be by the people of that same country they want to change their own system that concerns them. about interference from other nations of course we're seeing the west supporting all of these revolutions and they of course it ended up with islamists grabbing power in the region you say we should wait for the outcome of what happens but is that really what the west wanted couldn't these powers actually

become anti western this is likely to turn this way the same thing that happened with osama bin laden and with al qaida and you remember the ronald reagan administration supported al qaeda in afghanistan and. you know cause suffering for the united states more than any other force in the history of the united states perhaps what our what i'm saying is that the west does not support all the revolutions or the so-called revolutions i was talking about this double stranded in iran where the west seems to side with the with the with the monarchy that is the you know this is. whereas in syria for example there's interference not just the feelings of the political level on the media level smuggling weapons to syria they're sending money to syria they're sending foreign fighters from different terrorist groups sending them into syria to fight and to help the local the evolutionary and this is creating more destruction and divisions among the

civilians are massive and there's huge destruction that is ongoing and that that is really deplorable and that doesn't show that this is playing or this is going anywhere. thousands of people have hit spain streets to protest against the government's ever growing a sturdy people outraged by cuts to the health care education and pensions with anger also directed at changes to labor laws the protests across fifty five spanish cities were called by unions and social groups the prime minister defended the tough measures saying twenty twelve will be remembered as the year in which the foundations for the country's recovery well laid the brick keeps insisting it doesn't need a bailout despite its deep recession strategist gonzalo there i spoke to him earlier he says that spain is run out of money after years of lavish welfare payments. the eurozone. is on a path to involve them and i want to argue that spain is one of the few that is essentially broke if not in the natural that are just breaking the spanish economy

and it's going to get worse so my sense is. has been living for too many years with too much many benefits social benefits social programs that are simply untenable in the long term and now that we have had this economic downturn that have as shown up to five. years on in particular cannot afford this very large social welfare state they're going have to start cutting that in order to get back on some sort of to growth and of course people are against these cuts because of them personally and i completely sympathize and i understand their position but people have to start looking at the long term health and wellbeing of their country as opposed to their own particular situation but i don't agree with you i think that teams are going to get a lot worse i'm saying before they get any better and. people can ask how can any

worse considering the unemployment rate in spain and the massive debt that it has i think that two thousand and thirteen is going to be pretty bad because right now we have a situation where germany is a little bit par last september we have elections in june in germany they don't want to do anything at all except hang on until that september election and we also have in the spring spain and italy are going to have to roll over a massive amount of debt so we're going to have a crisis points in two thousand as seen this huge turn a little they have in the spring and keep in mind that that's a big crisis everybody saying that spain are good they've been the best they've been in over a year there are dogs leave off five point three percent yield on the ten year us spanish bond but all bets are off march april when this huge debt turn as you roll over we're going to. come to a head. well protesters in spain have been getting creative with their posters one

red cups will be with a guillotine and a little later our financial experts max keiser and stacy herbert discuss whether the trend could pick up. but madrid is also the first store max throughout europe where you can find this tool in solid pine with a height of two meters in the motto is cuts are necessary they encourage people to get one for their home for their living room for their bar and perhaps in the public square right well you can cut. more cut. i told you two years ago if you did because the price and the market's going to be exploding i expect a gay teen manufacture to go public. and you can catch the kaiser report of the next on. in the run up to christmas parts of northern ireland have been gripped by violence there has been

two weeks of fierce clashes between police and british residents in belfast on monday violent protesters wrapped in union flags stormed the local council meeting chanted sectarian abuse counselors and made threats to members of a nonsectarian alliance party police managed to disperse the crowds it was decision to end the century old tradition of flying britain's union flag over city hall three hundred sixty five days a year eleven officers were injured and dozens of people including children were arrested during overnight protests an eleven year old was also among the detained research of northern ireland dr kevin says that some politicians might be interested in keeping northern ireland divided. goldeneye in this note doesn't face the same type of conflict that for example existed at the height of the troubles but in many ways it is a peace in the sense of a normal society in which politics are conducted through normal peaceful democratic means there is still.