which on the gigli doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about human to. dish is why you should care what you're only on. today's news on the week's top stories about france here you have a clash of the northern ireland at least twenty nine police injured i made anger over the city's council decision to remove the british one for most of the year. security on high alert in france amid fears of portable islamist reparation after paris launched airstrikes on al qaeda linked insurgents in mali. the brother of the then is a while and present a good show that denies rumors the leader is in a coma and made mounting concerns how the government will that without a charismatic leader.

the latest news on the week's top stories this is the way with me hello and welcome to the program. they are lying prostrate so were the flying of the union jack in northern ireland once again ended in a street battle between loyalists and nationalists yesterday so it's been almost six weeks since belfast city council voted to reduce the number of days they were displayed sparking the fury of loyalists twenty nine police officers were injured in some very sick tear and clashes violence broke out and smiled at the house and in unison marching on the whole passed a classic enclave and were attacked by locals police used water cannons and plastic bullets to keep the two sides apart he's a sour for the force now from the city. clashes breaking out once again on the

streets of belfast you can see the police are just trying to push back the crowd of protesters that a huge number of police rather sadly fights like this becoming all too common other to think going to have been helped by the fact that many feel inflammatory political language it's hard to look at the tension here on the street. recreational rioting that's what some people are calling it. you can see the protests in the background just right in the back of rocks the police responding with the words the kinds of the certainly for you to have been about the flag with the sky and tells it to your good fortune that really this is a much much more than just that the students the director of the east belfast mission group is working with young protesters to try to calm the tensions are doing it for fun or doing it for more sinister motives in terms of to true terms of

par in terms of ego. or doing it because it's sexier than the playstation you know young girls are doing it because girls even with young children we shoot on the streets. of fully realized what the russians traversal what they're just. showing we're starving on. and yet there's nothing funny about it one of the protesters here asking for just one or flag back up on water and pays to get off their back ses peter robinson least you're not silly not them he was the one that had to start. their day forty thousand they floods for us to come out on the street to protest against their land and nice and on his back save maybe take all the flak he's called was rubbish and. you know but when he wanted also to on the streets for his election we can write for anything the paper says that would accept any kind of pulled from life when it comes to this the plywood could bring the flag of it's the

flag down and not said. we know we're not going to get a backup plan or an election because it's the law of majority rule. any unionist warns now holds to try to reengage politically but we're told much more will need to be done they'll be no quick fixes here i don't think there's any silver bullet i think there's so many different things need to happen economic. investment political investment community investment by and by all the stakeholders in these communities to try to resolve the wide draft of issues that are a blight here it's a fall there's been a one hundred people arrested more than sixty police officers injured and millions of pounds spent in policing these riots and in lost business revenue. these riots have been highly localized the damage has already been far reaching. this is

a new generation printing file it's back on to the streets of belfast it's a far cry from the darker days of northern ireland's complex that doesn't make it any less troubling. now and analysts and political. just to make things think quest has come from a lack of a consistent opposition in the local politics. what we're seeing here is in northern ireland as a result of the peace process we have a government in which everyone who is elected to the parliament is part of that government and that leaves no spheres for parliamentary opposition and so when something like this happens that is seen by certain mostly working class president suddenly in lower middle class communities to use being provocative there is no political way of actually expressing your opposition so to some extent we're seeing just how are you difficult it is to manage a popular protest in

a situation where there is no option to change the government so to speak because the government includes everyone who ever gets elected. france has stepped up security in the country amid fears of islamist at tongue steve his ongoing operation mali it comes after paris how does the government drive out al qaeda linked militants from the key town of qana a french helicopter pilot was killed along with more than one hundred militants and at least ten civilians including three children a west african forces are now set the joint efforts with its troops due to arrive in the country by monday the u.k. also agreed to help transport foreign troops without sending any soldiers on their own the african contingent is expected to draw around five hundred soldiers a trunk bicheno far so unusual and cynical and while french president francois hollande said on saturday their military support will go on for as long as necessary france based independent journalist robert harness believes french

foreign policy is contradictory. i think as long as the french people are to buy the consequences of this sort of intervention they generally favorite has a great military tradition in france and they've grown accustomed to fearing other people's countries but if you if the minute it starts to get nasty i think you'll find they'll be a very quick a reversal of public opinion the sort of islamic extremists they're very tough soldiers and they've grown tougher over the last twenty years and if france starts to find these people who have been armed as a result of the intervention in libya and all the arms of the swilling about in the in the sahara as a result of that intervention ironically instigated by france then they're going to find it's a very dangerous place to intervene in mali has requested help and they get it instantly when the central african republic requested help from the french forces

there they were told no no we got into the air to help any particular regime were neutral. it to do it if you had wanted to destroy the credibility of france and the western countries over the last five or ten years you couldn't have done a better job by the absurd contradictions of what they do. for in troops have not enjoyed the same success in somalia wade special forces failed in their mission to rescue hostages in the south of the country the borscht operational of the captives secret agent dead along with at least one french soldier and seventeen militants from al qaeda is al shabaab cell currently eight other french nationals are still to be held hostage across africa. the brother of ailing president hugo chavez has denied rumors the venezuelan leader is in a coma this after thousands of a supporters rallied on the day when he should have been sworn in for another term the venezuelan supreme court has postponed gratian

indefinitely while chavis recovers from cancer surgery in cuba political analyst eric draitser fears forces from abroad could try to take advantage of travis's absence. so the opposition despite all of their posturing and despite the fact that the private corporate media inside of venezuela and around the world is very much squarely behind them and us imperialism they lack a very real base of support on the ground they have some support but as we saw in the results of the recent elections that opposition is still very much in the minority now in terms of an international destabilization using this opposition this is very much a very real possibility of course we've seen much of the destabilization campaign emanating out of the u.s. embassy out of the institutions that's why we saw u.s. a id and other international organizations that are controlled by the state department booted out of that country or at the very least minimized so this is

a standard tactic that is very much part of the playbook of twenty first century imperialism of the united states but again the danger here is that without chavez and without the power of his personality that they'll be able to attack those institutions inside the country the question will be how strong are the ball of aryan institutions and how willing is that base of support to come out into the streets in support of the revolution and against what could only be called counter-revolutionaries of the opposition representing wall street and washington. caged without trial eleven years on the infamous gone time in the prison remains open for business despite human rights calling for the full senate seats of a shutdown or bringing along the public arena with a fine from former detainees and iterates and. closing up as rival pricing and groups from france that try to bridge that divisions look into how israel's occupation policies and i have all the functions pulis have to get that that's

gonna happen. the u.s. forces will end most combat operations in afghanistan by the spring and switch to mainly support for it some may say in washington between the president and afghan leader hamid karzai it was agreed that in they snoop capacity american forces could remain beyond the twenty fourteen pullout and phyllis bennis from the washington based institute for policy studies believes it's still a long way off before local forces take full control we're talking about an official acknowledgement by the two governments that now the afghan military is in control what that means is anybody's guess but what it does not mean is that the u.s. troops are going to be pulled out early there's a huge occupation force in the country that's not going to be brought out in twenty thirteen in the spring what we're talking about is it's a claim that as of that time the afghan people the afghan military the afghan

government will officially be in charge they will be in charge of the military now the idea that the u.s. forces still there or the nato forces still there are going to take their orders from the afghan military i think is rather spurious that's certainly not going to happen i don't think the afghan government has the capacity to survive without massive u.s. support that means both economic support and crucially military support but his reliance on that support leads to one massive corruption which is widely hated throughout the country cars i had very little public support in in the country and militarily his his very large army isn't capable of standing up to the other militias it's one more militia the u.s. leaving will leave his government and his own position in a very and in a very precarious moment and he may well not survive that politically. the notorious u.s. descension facility had gone time

a bay in cuba marks its eleventh anniversary this week despite president obama's four year old promise to close the camp human rights groups are calling for freedom for those cleared for release and for a fair trial fathers meanwhile as church account reports now polls show the majority of americans have moved on. president obama's call to look forward not backward has resulted in attempts to sweep the past under the rug including some of his own promises i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo under george w. bush he later became a vocal critic of the practices there and strongly supported president obama's pledge to shut down the prison he says the perception of guantanamo in the u.s. has come a long way since two thousand and eight when he was a burning and highly controversial issue with the nation demanding action he gets a free pass on i mean the public largely could care less the mainstream media

here in the us. you know is more interested in him car dash and then they are and what happens at guantanamo. so who's going to challenge it if we're looking for the biggest threat to america right now she's right there her name is kim carr daschle and. america has moved on and so has its perception of torture polls by the american red cross show the majority of americans now find torture acceptable sixty percent of young people agree whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the us. hollywood has arguably contributed to that evolution of public opinion in the movie zero dark thirty day or trade the information that led to the capture and killing of osama bin laden was obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques or torture and in fact that's simply not true actual information was obtained through a report based interrogation techniques the government classified everything

related to its torture practices which allows politicians pundits and filmmakers the freedom to perpetuate all kinds of myths although a slew of washington insiders including the senate intelligence committee point out how torture has proved to be ineffective but in america it's often fiction not facts that make history this is more important than reality this is the movies where americans learn their history and today the history in the making is the drone strikes this amounts to the administration executing people without due process often in absolute secrecy in foreign lands with a remote control but will obama's drones generate as much of a backlash as one tunnel did for george w. bush and we've now got have a generation that only knows the post nine eleven hero. where things like guantanamo and the. warrantless wiretapping that's all they've ever known you know

for a decade now and i think it's just become an accepted part of life unfortunately judging by how the guantanamo controversy evolved here is what may transpire with regards to drones the urgency of the issue will subside in the west because there will be no american troops dying there will be no strong public movement to oppose the program there may even be a movie or two how to become the logical capabilities of the drones and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal american move on. in washington i'm going to talk to. my colleague kevin now and spoke with kornacki who was held in guantanamo on what turned out to be groundless accusations that he was released after the u.s. military failed to get him to confess to crimes he never commit if you are not a terrorist they want life to try to make you. i should example i must say if i

should agree that i am be a member of. that i did fight with taliban together against american soldiers between the war. and i should i should sign papers that i am be a member of al qaeda what were the charges first. there was no no reason for just the. pakistani people they sold me for a bounty of through some dollar to the americans they said this man he's a terrorist and very soon few months later they found out that i'm innocent and they want me. that i'm going to sign papers they forced me to sign papers that i should agree that i'm be a member of al qaeda because because they didn't have anything against me in their hand and you're saying force you have they force you to say what were they doing to shoot to do that. they used torture techniques like waterboarding and electroshocks they sought after this i'm going to sign and agree that i'm being a member of al qaeda and every time i refused to sign they tried another kind of

torture they saw i was one time can you tell us the worst thing one of a better word that you saw going on there. example i saw. i had naples they used to be just nine or refuse or childs and. i think it was the worst ice over there. there was not treating better than us i didn't saw that they getting tortured but. to see children in the same camp it was bad enough for me and also i saw people they got killed on the torture the bigger portion of the. kill so. i mean i have seen many things during this five years many thinks this is just a couple of those how do you feel after what you've been through in guantanamo

through no fault of your own how does it make you feel as a human being. of course nobody can be happy after after all this happened but. i myself am trying to support human rights organizations to fight against torture around the world not just going to normal. around the world exists more than more than twenty one secret prisons where people getting tortured and guantanamo is just one of course madrid has seen the first spanish brush as the twenty third scene i made a burgeoning economic crisis in the us thousands of doctors have marched through the country's capital angered by the government's plans to privatized the national health service and that was the nation's latest the times to come the budget and dig the country out of debt investment advisor patrick young says spain's economy has been spiraling out of control. there's really absolutely nothing that can be

done about the current spanish situation the government is affectively running a deficit or rounded up by nine percent of g.d.p. three year that's a huge number to be in has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any country and effectively it's hemorrhaging money at the moment because the budgets were made in the good old days when property markets were going through the roof nowadays nobody can sell a property liberty can manage to get a job and obviously the government simply doesn't have the money even for essential facilities like health care clearly there is a concern amongst the doctors that you're going to see an incredible amount about religious profiteering being made by the private health sector but i think actually the truth is that ultimately governments are hideously inefficient when they do large scale health provision that's the pure and certainty spaniards are not sure whether their economy can survive in its current creaking state the un or our big peace envoy to syria has said there can be no military solution to the

conflicts well scott has voiced its support for political transition in syria but says present as sons exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the crisis washington says the syrian leader must step down with the pentagon now saying the u.s. could provide forces to secure the country's chemical weapons if assad agrees to a peaceful transition there are fears they also could fall into the wrong hands u.s. and middle east experts are also saying the conflict is putting the country's you're a new stockpiles at risk so you are reportedly has up to fifty tons of them in the rich to rein him enough to create five uclear bombs and a middle east commentator and a blogger culture believes the uranium ratio is just another red herring. now there's a kind of a sequence a chain of alarmist scenarios that are being produced concerning chemical weapons on a nuclear granules top of the syrian regime there's a process of planning for that they authorized as western powers are imagining it

and i think they're buying up all these different reasons for them to step in and take control of their own tree a country it shouldn't happen i do want to start is that said now they're afraid that iran might get this uranium minor injury and you know and in fact be conducting it now how do i sound happy and so i think it's another in this long list of possible reasons for good as to our western states to intervene and it seems that there's a lot of preparation for great thanks for stepping in and should i cited for not taking control of the situation including the u.k. when the u.k. government decided to plan for that possibility so you see that there are mounted both failures engaged in that process which is kind of really shocking the fate of syria could be decided outside this blatantly. and while some people suffer from bloody conflicts others literally make fun out of that. develop the u.k.

releases a game allowing players to take part in the film with the ultimate goal of bringing down president our son as i read more about at all she dot com. and also dr jordan as all the government was wrong about prisoner abuse scandal the country's parliament says freed two hundred political prisoners overturning a presidential veto for the first time in the country's modern history from all that had to offer these weapons. and right now to some more world news and briefly this hour is forcefully and it's you know the international protesters from a tent camp that they'd erected in the west bank to the building of jewish settlements there several people have also been arrested their building plans and legal under international law and palestinians for once they claim an east jerusalem prime minister binyamin netanyahu is ordered to the area of these so-called tent city to be declared a closed military zone and shut off axis describe the high court's earlier ruling

that the company could stay for six days. of the internet freedom activists are assured was have accused the u.s. criminal justice system really twenty six year old cold groundhog social news website read it because it's so side of friday by hanging himself in place permanent hacking charges which carry a potential sentence of not that thirty years jail for downloading and publishing i think demick papers online and an open letter his relatives claim the harsher way of charges contributed to his death saying that a young hacktivist was driven to the edge by government's handling of the case. turkish prime minister tired other water has demanded an explanation from french president francois online as to why his previously meddled with while sri kurdish activists shot down in paris also has day the murders of the kurdish growing independence party members sparked outrage with around fifty thousand demonstrators

staging a protest in paris involving the time i was at the police and found otherwise request for a statement from a long time only one of the dead the k.k.k. members person and open house meeting as despite the group being branded a terrorist organization by. at least five people have been injured after our parlance of the president has been camping outside his palace in cairo came under attack and alone through three petrol bombs at the time to come which has been in tahrir square for weeks and fired rubber bullets at security forces so egypt remains deeply divided by political turmoil since president mohamed morsi wanted him so swiftly powers in late november. the leaders of rival palestinian groups fatah and hamas have decided to implement a unitary agreement signed sued years ago how talks in cairo wednesday and made is

really claims the biggest stations were and she undermining the peace gross's this as the easing of tension between the two while functions has already helped reunite one family in gaza previously torn apart by political strife and us policy in our reports israeli policies may have prompted both sides to discard their differences but it's been five long years since this family was together one thousand eight hundred days since i'm you know last saw her son his crime belonged to a group the gaza government was opposed to except this time it wasn't the israelis . forced him into exile but hamas and other brands are happy about alec with family and house in gaza and headed for the west bank but it was only after the negotiations began with seventeen of us were given approval to go back home. it was back in two thousand and seven in a surprise coup that a must to control of gaza from wyvil faction group fatah one hundred sixty one

people were killed and more than seven hundred injured when the dust settled the palestinian people were divided a mass was in charge in gaza fatah called the shots in the west bank hundreds fled their homes from both in fear of their lives like other fatah supporters from gaza mohammad took refuge in the west bank waiting for the day we conciliation would come. all denied i prayed to god to protect my son mohamad i prayed for his safety and asked god to bring him back home safe and now for the first time we conciliation between the two sides looks promising each feels boosted by recent successes and is more willing to compromise her muscles capitalizing on the recent conflict with israel despite the heavy cost for fatah who's claiming victory after its president mahmoud abbas successfully upgraded palestinian status at the united nations as hamas and fatah move closer together the irony is that they getting help from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his right wing policies and rhetoric

are winning the palestinian support and sympathy on the international stage it was on that on yahoo's watching that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood bid demonstrated european unfailing support for israel has floundered it was also an attorney on whose watch that u.s. is revelations reached their lowest ebb and now it's on his watch again that palestinian unity seems plausible for her it's a long term interest of her for us that i think cooperate are good because otherwise they're running the risk that goes on the west bank will be and probably part of the same political structure which in fact zero. right now is the leaders from both sides have a new day course for the conciliation if you left with them you know we think that of course. between hamas and fatah is a catastrophe it's proof that for the peace etc etc but for this family nothing can detract from the feeling of gratitude and joy of

a father and son coming home they tears and smiles the hope that a new chapter is also about to open in gaza political life points here r.t. on the israel gaza border and in a few minutes takes an exhilarating trip to the shores of the wives seem to stay with us. do we speak your language as i mean from my view or not be an. all news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news the alternative angle has hidden stories. are you here to. enjoy our tea spanish find out more visit i too early.