today's news on the way stop stories belfast fury have a clashes in northern ireland leave at least twenty nine please indra i need anger over this city council's decision to remove the british flag for most of the here. person is on alert and fronts are made fears of possible islamist retribution after paris launched as trikes an al qaeda linked insurgency in mali. also the brother of venezuelan president hugo chavez denies rumors the media is in a coma i made mounting concern was how the government will have without its charismatic leader.

the latest news on the week's top stories this is the weekly one l.t. with me here our thanks for joining us. these are linked so were the flying of the union truck in northern ireland once again ended in a street battle between loyalists and nationalists yesterday it's been almost six weeks since about four city council voted to reduce the number of days they were displayed sparking the fury of loyalists twenty nine release officers were injured in saturday's sick town of quantifiers violence broke out as about a thousand to unionists marching on belfast city hall past a catholic enclave and were talked by locals police used water cannons and plastic bullets to keep the two sides apart our first reports now from the scene. clashes breaking out once again on the streets of belfast you can see the police are just

trying to push the crowd upright deserve a huge number of police rather sadly sites 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 there just writing about the growth of the police responding with the words the cannons and the certainly for it to have been about the right but the scale and the tent city of good fortune that really this is about much much more than just look he's students the director of the east belfast mission group is working with young protesters to try to calm the tensions kids are doing it for fun or doing it for more sinister motives in terms of to true terms of par in terms of ego. because it's sexier than

a playstation you know young girls are doing it because young girls even with young children we shoot on the streets goofing off really realize what the russians commercial what they're just. showing we're starving a lot and yet there's nothing. but what are the protesters here asking for just a one hour flight back up on water and pays to get off their back ses peter robinson these doorknobs really 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 a nice set on his back save maybe take all the flak he's called was rubbish and skull mannering out you know but when he wanted also it on the streets for his own actions we can make for the thing the protesters would predict that any kind of pulled from life when it comes to this is the plywood could bring the flag of it's the flag down and not said. we know we're not going to get it back up to normal

action because it's the law of majority really. uneasy nudist horns now will just try to reengage politically but we're told much more will need to be done they'll be a quick fix is good 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. these riots have been highly localized the damage has already been far reaching. this is a new generation putting back onto 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. surf. and walsh from the christian science monitor says the protests in northern ireland have deeper worries and just discontent about displaying the union. at this point it's we've got six weeks so it's difficult to believe that the flag alone is the cause. there are laws a lot of talk about economic issues and recreational rioting but it's really difficult to say because the protests know what the ship despite the appearance of some groups such as the ulster people's form no one is entirely sure exactly what it is that the protesters want northern ireland in general and belfast in particular have traditionally being protestant going to just loyalist are going to going to areas around their recent census results should go with golf. but that's not a slight nationalist majority northern ireland is one of those internationalist majority

that no longer has a unionist one is more sort of fifty fifty situation it's deep highly unlikely that irish nationalists connoisseurs would vote to raise the flag and second of all even if they could be convinced to do so in the name of public order i think it would look very bad for the consul too competent to block done in the face of violence. france has stepped up security in the country amid fears of islamist at times due to his ongoing operation in mali as comes after paris held the government drive out al-qaeda linked militants from the city of qana a french helicopter pilot was killed along with more than one hundred militants and at least ten civilians including three children and west african forces are now set to join their efforts with their first troops due to arrive in the country today the u.k. has also agreed to help transport for increased without sending any soldiers of their own the african contingent is expected to draw around five hundred soldiers each from burkina faso nisha and cynical while french president nicholas france

arline said our saturday their military support will go on for as long as necessary and strasburg based independent journalists are all the time it believes france's foreign policy is contradictory. think that as long as the french people aren't too bothered by the consequences of this sort of intervention they generally favorite this as a great military tradition in france and they've grown accustomed to fearing other people's countries and if you. need 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 that they were told no no we got into. any particular regime were neutral. it to do 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 contradiction of what they do. i mean the troops have not enjoyed the same success in somalia where its special forces failed in their mission to rescue a hostage in the south of the country so here's the botched operation led the captive secret agent dead along with two french soldiers and seventeen militants from al qaeda is al shabaab cell currently nine other french nationals are thought to be held hostage across africa. the brother of ailing present and go chavez has denied rumors the venezuelan leader is in

a coma they say after thousands of his supporters run it on the day when he should have been sworn in for another term even as a well and supreme court has postponed the now we ration indefinitely while travis recovers from cancer surgery and pepper escobar from asia times online says several factions including coronations will be wrangling for power in china says continued absence. shows these war is not a monolithic saying like all there are to say the communist party in china there at least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems if we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez helps because there will be an eternal struggle for power inside. him at the same time we're going to have more possibilities of for it either serious trying to you know a loser of this process and specially our friends in washington all the news he

will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just shut these work let's get it out so that is well it has been increasing attracting those seeking a better living with more and more immigrants flocking to the country and this account and if examines why people are trading life in countries such as the it was for the south american nation. with no end in sight to the financial crisis many are finding refuge in countries with an alternative economic model or some venezuela represents a whole new opportunities the bolivarian republic may be a surprising choice after all it's been ranked as one of the most corrupt nations in the hemisphere whose murder rate exceeds that of iraq still the world bank says venezuela draws the largest number of immigrants after argentina with one million flocking here in two thousand and ten alone. and get weaker rosa is one of them after decades of struggling in the u.s. she decided to start anew in venezuela. and that come to you completely alone

you go that trying to find a new way of really alone nobody helps you there nobody in caracas the helping hand came from the government a cheap loan to kickstart a small business and subsidies that enabled her to purchase this home that's why rosa and others like her see the country as a place where. you can move more freely you have more opportunities. robust economic growth and increased spending on social projects to help create those opportunities having the state on your side in terms of the benefits is a huge thing because you don't have to worry about your basic necessities everyone has the right to universal free health care quality health care education at all levels the government provide subsidies to start up small businesses medium sized businesses that do the same in terms of housing to help people if they're coming from a country where the economic crisis is so bad they've been cutting all those benefits but as we begin to look like

a paradise that may certainly seem to be the case for those on the bottom president hugo chavez helped bring the poverty rate down from fifty percent when he took office to roughly thirty one percent and the u.n. says venezuela has the lowest level of inequality in latin america. it's one child has diehard supporters among the poor but what about the rich critics say chavez is alienating the wealthy many of whom turned out in droves to vote for his opponent in october closely contended election twenty first century socialism hasn't helped us it is her job as opponents blame his so-called socialist experiment for problems like limited foreign investment they say that it's. out of the country. but dentist himself a young businessman disagrees after spending to as but for the chance to protect.

venezuela. caged without trial eleven guys on the in front of the infamous gone time a prison remains open for business despite human rights calling for the facility to be shut down will bring you more of a public reaction along with insight from former detainees that made some late. while the one peace envoy says a military outcome brunow can lead syria out of civil war the country is now accused of hiding nuclear weapons more interesting from.

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. you live from moscow president obama said u.s. forces will end almost cold but operations in afghanistan by the spring and swished a mainly support role as a meeting in washington between the president and afghan leader hamid karzai it was a grace that in this new capacity american forces could remain beyond the twenty fourteen pullout hillary mann leverage was working who worked extensively with the u.s. diplomats in the middle east and asia believes president karzai is in a no win situation. i think these talks are for the president and his national

security principals to let afghanistan's president karzai down as softly as they can to let him know that unfortunately they're not going to make good on their promise to completely train. the afghan military and police before u.s. troops leave i think this this visit is about trying to parse i know was as nicely as they can that they're not going to make good on their promise to continue to defend afghanistan and train up afghanistan's military i think part of it is president obama you know after he agreed to surge the troops into afghanistan i think pretty quickly realized that he didn't realize even before the surge that there is no military solution for the united states in afghanistan i think for an american population that is both battered financially and very tired of endless wars and occupations this is something that will basically go go forward without

a hitch in terms of american public opinion the notorious u.s. detention facility had gone time of bay in cuba it's eleven percent of us read this week despite president obama's four year old promise to close the camp human voice groups are calling for freedom for those cleared for release and for a fair trial full of those. pools 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 to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo and to george w. bush and 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 now

here in the us. you know is more interested in 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 is 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 it 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 era. 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 out of the top and logical capabilities of the drones and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal and america will move on. in washington i'm going to struggle. and for my going time our prisoners have shared that painful memories with our t. saying more attention has to be drawn to the fact the prison is still operating despite the condemnation i don't know why i was released and others are not ok i mean like especially when you know that people. are not involved in anything and

want to know more people who have been cleared ok at the time i don't know what i was really so i don't know if i was cleared or not really i don't remember but for today there are people who have been cleared and they're not out of guantanamo and i think one card but but feel uncomfortable and you feel that's guilt lingering in yourself that's why am i out there still and the memories of one town of course they're very clear because of what happened. the mistreatment doesn't go away easily i think it's. it's kind of i think in those create. an deep wound that will last a long years so the memories are very clear and when we talk about them kind of these things do come back the people might have been forgotten and i'm still exists . you know it's very difficult to get the media interested into a story when speaking just for some existing you or if you're like is important because every individual that is locked up in one town can use their

family. the messages they can from a sense to the world is a very disturbing and very serious message that has to be has to be. has to be like you know exposed and spoken against. the u.n. arab league peace envoy to syria said there can be no military solution to the conflict moscow has a voice to support for the political transition in syria but says president assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the crisis. with the pentagon now saying. forces to secure the country's chemical weapons if assad is restart peaceful transition and there are fears the also could fall into the wrong hands middle east experts are also saying the conflict is pushing the country's uranium stockpile christe say reportedly has up to fifty times. and after create five nuclear bombs

a political analyst on mohnish says western states present only one side of the conflict. there's a lot of noise about it there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the visited the site the i.a.e.a. said that there were traces of uranium of depleted uranium but they did not confirm that there was any quantity or at least you know this huge quantity that is being publicized i mean they're saying fifty tons of uranium this is this is i don't know where they come up with the number. of use the i did some research and it appears that they came up with a number because they. are coming up with the story that this site that was there that was bombed in two thousand and seven would actually require fifty tons that doesn't mean that the syrians actually have fifty tons and that doesn't mean that the site is actually for a nuclear program the syrian central government was able to control more. past six

months there is an advance of the syrian army and the syrian official police and they are controlling most of the country there are only some areas in the country where rebel fighters in some areas in the countryside where the syrian army withdrew from these areas because they thought that these areas were not important strategically about. overall the syrian central government under the leadership of president assad controls most of the syrian territory obviously it's difficult because there are many fighters infiltrating from outside syria there are many a lot of money being infiltrated be pumped into syria through these rebel groups by labor grudge especially by by turkey by qatar by other european and by the united states there is a sponsorship of these terror groups and while some people suffer from bloody conflicts others literally make fun out of the mobile app developer in the u.k. releases a game allowing players to take part in the sewer and wall with the ultimate goal of bringing down president and son in that article. and

also the georges all the government was run by a prison abuse scandal the country's parliament has freed two hundred political prisoners of attorney a presidential veto for the first time in the country's modern history from all that had to r.t. his website. some more news in brief this hour israel has forcibly possibly evicted palestinian and international protesters from a tent camp they had erected in the west bank to prevent the building of jewish settlements there several people have also been arrested in the building plans are illegal under international law and what made the list unions from loans they claim is jerusalem prime minister binyamin netanyahu said order to the area of so-called tent city to be declared a closed military zone and shut off access describe the high court earlier ruling at the camp that could stay for six days. from the family of the internet freedom

activist ira shorts have accused the u.s. criminal justice system for his death the twenty six year old co-founder of the social news website reddit committed suicide on friday by hanging himself swartz face criminal hacking charges which carried a potential sentence of more than thirty years jail for downloading and publishing academic paper online and an open letter to his relatives claim the harsher ray of charges contributed to his death saying that a young heart of his was driven to the edge by the government's one hundred of the case. in pakistan projects by the sheer muslims have enters their third day following a series of deadly sick terror and bombings on thursday demonstrators blocks the main road would be coffins of the dead more than one hundred people were killed and they coordinated attacks some of the deadliest in pakistan's history families are refused to bury their dead until the government improve security the shia minority in the country has been the target of a recent surge in violence. the turkish prime minister tayyip i just wonder

has demanded an explanation from french president francois hollande as to why his purpose he met with one or three kurdish activists of power is still so straight the murders of the kind of pro independence party members sparked outrage with around fifteen thousand dollars traders staging a protest in paris wowing return haitian against france in the killers and everyone's request a statement from our learned that he knew one of the dedicated members personally and often held meetings with her despite the group being branded a terrorist organizations. and they will continue looking at the ok by a movement that swept through the u.s. on three and four american feature writers of grain.

because of recent events guns have a game become a big issue all over the usa both sides are throwing their talking point ammunition back and forth and we hear a lot of conflicting stories well in australia they got tough on guns and crime went down but then again others say in the u.k. they got rid of all their gods and all hell broke loose i've heard stories that you are way more likely to be killed by a deer in your headlights than get taken out by a maniac with a tech nine but then again i've heard that soon deaths from guns will exceed even deaths from car accidents japan is safe because it has no guns but switzerland is even safer because automatic weapons are all over the place the information is all very contradictory but ultimately it doesn't matter what facts and reports you throw at the other side the gun question is a philosophical one some people would rather at least feel like they have their

fate in their own hands even if there is a chance they will shoot their own dog in the middle of the night and other people are so concerned with safety and are so full of fear for their fellow man that they'd rather disarm everyone and leave all the weapons in the hands of the criminals who will have them legal or not anyways and in the hands of the government who was seems pretty happy to use force at home and abroad i don't know i'd rather risk the unpredictable actions of some idiots out there in society but at least have the ability defend myself and have some control over my life in a means to resist oppression but that's just my opinion. full disclosure i got some really good in it. and i work for i think my father is a seat of the way and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of cedar way district one chris shelby one of the groups c.w.a. represents is.