as rival palestinian groups hamas try to heal the rift between them they look at how israel's occupation policies may have brought the factions together all about a more after a quick right. to represent. the people we're going to take the term. the way our economic system. where.

i. live from moscow this is r.t. it's now a half past the hour thanks for joining us on wednesday rival palestinian groups on hamas tried to implement a unity agreement they first signed some two years ago and the easing of tension between the parties has. already helped reunite one family in guarded torn apart by

political strife as artie's paul a slip reports it's really policies that prompted both sides to look past their differences you know it's been five long years since this family was together one thousand eight hundred days since i'm in a muslim last saw her son his crime belonging to a group the gaza government was opposed to except this time it wasn't the israelis who forced him into exile but hamas and other bronzer i left my family and house in gaza and headed for the west bank but it was only after the negotiations began that seventeen of us were given approval to go back home. it was back in two thousand and seven in a surprise coup that he must took 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 mohammed took refuge in the west bank waiting for the day reconciliation would come . all denied i prayed to god to protect my son my harm and 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 hamas is capitalizing on the recent conflict with israel despite the heavy cost fattah who's claiming victory after its president mahmoud abbas successfully upgrade a palestinian state has at the united nations as her mustn't factor move closer together the irony is that they getting help from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his right wing policies and rhetoric are winning the palestinian support and sympathy on the international stage it was on that one young who's watching that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood bid demonstrated european and. fading support for israel has floundered it was also an attorney

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 a long term interest of her for a start think of cooperate again because otherwise they're running the risk that gaza in the west bank will be and probably part of the same political structure which de facto right now is the case leaders from both sides have a new day course for the conciliation if you will as with things that are of course . between hamas and the catastrophe it's proof that doesn't mean 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 echoed the hope that a new chapter is also about to open in gaza political life police here r.t. on the israel gaza border. and staying in the region as we get into the r.t.

world now the israeli prime minister netanyahu has pledged to continue building settlements in the west bank that's just hours after the country's police a victory to round two hundred palestinian activists and protesters from the site marked construction of the outpost made up of twenty tents were set up on friday to protest an israeli housing project in the contentious area known as e one a tel aviv's building plans are illegal under international law and would split palestinians from the lands they claim in east jerusalem activists promised more protest camps in other areas. family of internet freedom activists to aaron swartz has blamed the u.s. criminal justice system for his twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit hanged himself in his new york apartment on friday and swartz faced thirteen felony charges connected with hacking the network of mit university and downloading academic papers online and with he could have spent decades in prison

for charges he pleaded not guilty to. egypt's former president hosni mubarak who was ousted in a popular uprising two years ago will be retried over the deaths of protesters during twenty eleventh's revolt and the court decision follows an appeal by mubarak and his former interior minister both previously received life sentences for allowing the killings antigovernment demonstrations a former leader's defense says the court could consider his deteriorating health in the retrial. a roadside bomb has killed at least fourteen soldiers in pakistan's northwest it comes on the third day of protests by shia muslims in the city of quetta following some of the deadliest terror attacks in the country's history which claimed the lives of over one hundred people demonstrators blocked the city's main road with coffins of the dead but it's a refusing to bury the bodies of their relatives until the government improve security pakistan is serious. surgeon sectarian violence since the shia minority

population in recent. european leaders are voiced their support for a deal is signed to reduce ireland's banking dad and the news comes as the president of the european council. held top level talks in dublin after the country took over the e.u.'s rotating presidency although some experts believe ireland should get its own house in order before taking up the challenge of pulling the european union out of a financial. island has its own economic problems which are continuing its course as has the economic problems which have been happening ever since the euro which created high inflation there and then of course exacerbated the faster they had ready to take on the presidency of the european council is of course a very large piece of work not just for the senior politicians in the government but also for many this it will servant and be better off spending their time really trying to address arlen's economic difficulties rather than trying to solve the

problems within the european union which are very great indeed of course unemployment now in the e.u. is alarmingly high and of course the thing is that arlen when he says island is that we mean the islands are poster boy for austerity means that the irish people are not protesting and taking up their white to protest as people in spain and greece have done because we know that austerity at this time point actually work last year in the euro in the single currency it will create more economic problems and that's why we see unemployment across the eurozone rising quite alarmingly so he's very happy that arlen is getting on with the e.u. policy of austerity but actually it's actually the wrong policy this time. now in the midst of the economic crisis regulators are coming under fire for making life easier for banks rather than for the people and it appears the wider public knows little of how when where the big decisions about the global financial future are being made he's pretty oliver went to investigate. have you ever heard the wall

about the bank is the billions and bars all the chances are you probably haven't but six times a year central bank heads from the u.s. europe asia and everywhere in between representing around three quarters of global economic output gather in the swiss city to talk shop behind closed doors i personally also don't like these secretive meetings because. you never know what in effect. is discussed in these meetings it's something that has a tradition that's put there play i mean bankers have always talked to each other in a more secretive way the whole business of banking is not really built on transparency but rather on trust and confidentiality the continuing global financial crisis has seen the banking sector firmly in the spotlight with more than a few accusing fingers pointed in the direction of bankers it's the job of the

secretive bars all committee to set regulations on banks the chairman of the group says he wants the public to be better informed about the work they do it's not that many years ago since this was basically a group of central banks it's expanded its membership considerably and in the process of that the whole governance arrangements of have changed as well and i think this is an attempt to explain to you in the world in general what those changes amount to and whether critics of the group are scathing in their criticism of what they see as an old boys club looking out for the needs of banking bosses as opposed to keeping the industry in line bezel three has failed to meet any objective in the you know faint hope of reining in banks this this is what we talk about today the banks does have to be reined in because the banking system in itself as a general rule has left its you know bottom sense despite mervyn king saying that

he wants. people to better understand what the basel committee actually do the very nature of the banking industry and its need for a certain level of secrecy means that the big decisions that will affect people all over the world will continue to be made by a small group of people in that building just behind me peter all over r.t. basel switzerland. for now such that i saw thousands take to the streets in bahrain and the latest wave of anti-government demonstrations a general topic of his son the chief of public security in the gulf state believes these protests are simply part of the democratic process the interview with r.t. just ahead.

crime is a plague of the big cities but in a tiny arkansas town of twenty five thousand it is really getting out of hand pure gold is a property crime index of more than double the national average and rape burglary and assault are also way above average poor poor gold is a dangerous place to live in but what's the answer to living in constant fear of criminals well the mayor thinks that the answer to that problem is to live in constant fear of the government how logical the mayor and police chief have a doorstop plan to send out police patrols with a ar fifteen and full swat armor to i guess intimidate the local population into submission well actually the plan is for them to stand around it ask people an important question ask them to show id the answer to crime isn't a police state sending guys out with automatic weapons and body armor around just to check people's i.d.'s like it's the berlin wall or something won't do anything a guy who breaks into your house for crystal meth money isn't going to be affected

by this only the good average citizens will have to show an armed thug of their id just to go buy milk but that's just my opinion. if. leakey. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images called world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

for the last twenty months sparring i've been seeing demonstrations and protests in its streets and how is the government dealing with those dissenters we're joined in bahrain by the country's chief of security the general i asked thank you so much for joining us and my first question to you would be what is the current situation security situation in bahrain how is the government dealing with the protests because i've seen in the baby's here and everyone television that protests will take place and how is the government dealing with i thank you very much for coming and seeing me. actually as you know behind has been on a reform project since the last over twelve years now. this has been a vast project and behind it and the reform is actually on all fronts the main or

the heart of this project is the democratization of bahrain now protests are actually at the heart of the democracy of the democratic process in bahrain protests were never good if you have a democracy so it's something that we learn and we learn to live with this is we talk about protests however riots are what you cannot accept in a democracy and that's when. people come to a protest maybe even a peaceful protest but you would find a group coming for example prion with most of cocktails and other weapons and then they start breaking the law attacking. public cross property or attacking police force that's where you have to intervene and preserve the law but heard many accusations from the opposition that preserving the law and body has been done with

excessive force at times do you agree with that notion i mean is there any chaotic and. yes of the excessive force but there are three main standards that we use when we deal with any security situation and we have to use force. and the proportionality legality and the city. so in any situation. these three standards are observed now that does not mean that. you won't find anybody that would sometimes probably go beyond this that happens and people sometimes break the law either you know. as protesters and rioters or even as members of the police who would go and sometimes maybe go beyond the limit the legal limit that was given to them or the oldest when this happened and if it

happens we have our legal procedures to take care of this and deal with it so people are put to trial and they face the will do you often if a policeman break them or use excessive force do they often get punished yes of course. now as you know we have a and but it's been within the ministry of interior who actually is. independent of the public security and answers directly to the minister of interior and this embodiment is in charge of looking into these accusations. abuses by by any member of the public security was the way of you know from the opposition that. the torture allegations in prisons and things like that is that all the reality was just made. i mean you know we've had. delegations visiting the prisons and maybe i think you've had a visit to one of our police stations and i was hoping that he would visit the prison. you know these are allegations they are baseless we have

investigated i mean if there is a real. complaint by someone then we would go and investigate and we would take action if we found any basis for that complaint however to act you know to throw accusations in the air i mean you can everybody can say anything but the reality is the evidence is that you know that's not happening and actually why do we need to have any. type of torture if the the public prosecutor is a different or independent entity from the ministry of interior we don't we don't we're not in charge of the full investigation and prosecution in the court of law. so torture is usually happens in countries where the police need to extract.

may be confessions to go with the chorus to the court of law we don't have to do this or we have to do is a rest and we have to do the initial inquiry and then the rest of the investigation is done by the public prosecutor so that is something that we are way away from so we you know it's nothing that we have to really. worry about because. you know as i said if you have a complaint please come forward and will investigate it however all the prisons now . are fitted with c.c.t.v. even the interview rooms and police stations they're all fitted with c.c.t.v. and visual and audio recording and i'm sure if you have visited as i said one of the police stations. and now every police station has that so you know. i don't know how we how would the people at the gate how these allegations of torture are made or what but as far as i understand it if i got to correct you all the city

councilors and all the all your records were put in place. because of the allegations of torture so what the cases before it's actually these are actually in response of the recommendations by the b. i.c.i. the recommendations of the the bahrain international. commission commission. they had recommended a number of recommendations we have actually we've you know the all these recommendations are only part of our modernization reform process within the ministry of interior so all that accommodation did was to expects be done i some of the projects that were already had in mind of course. but just protect ourselves but also for better. policing and better

rest a geisha why are those protests turned violent i mean bahrain has always been a rather peaceful country like many countries in the region and what do you think what's behind the radicalization and who stands behind it don't forget that we live i mean we are a small country and the region and. i think the whole world has seen by could always ation in one way or another. no difference and i mean the internet and the open sources today the media they will play a part in this. so you know this wave of radicalization that took place actually made us and actually resulted in more violence on the streets against the police during protests and public gatherings i'm sure but very quickly things will go back as they were however with better restrictions and better knowledge of limits. and procedures as they come along an immediate all this protest is

about to be said about religious segregation that is so nice is that it does happen actually does have a substance that's not true i mean if you ask anybody who lived in bahrain who was behind we have always had a very cosmopolitan country be it in nationalities or even you know religions we have we have almost all the religions or many religions but not just muslims like sunnis or she has never we never had problems with religious and behave. however as i said aside because. i'm not talking about. radicalized or not anybody can i say sion and any side actually leads to bad things. to to violence. people are actually trying to take law by the hands of people thinking that. you know they own they have the right they hold that they only have the rights no others have no i think

then behind them. we all live together we have the same rights everybody there's no segregation on the basis of religion or ethnicity or anything else there had been a story which shall we say made lots of noise in the press about doctors who were arrested and detained and some of them even claimed they were tortured. what was the story behind that if you could clarify for. such of the doctors anybody who commits a crime. would have to face the law and in the court of law and behind you can you can if you have any allegations have any complaints you can file them an investigation will take place and that's exactly what happened in this case. doctors have filed complaints and the investigations going on by the court but what are the charges against me. whether that is the part of the public prosecutor's because they are in charge as i said of charging and prosecuting of the court of law it's not the police issue but obviously that story as it is that we are picked

up from the press brought some additional pressure international pressure in bahrain about the human rights situation the torch allegations everything do you feel that question international pressure as the chief of police don't to be honest i have the law and i follow the law i abide by the law now if i break the law my. main concern why pressure is from within behind not outside but as i said you know there are people can i get anything they can they can have their own allegations. however we were investigating if there's any complaint as i said we will investigate them the problem with bahrain is that. i think that has been a. media campaign against craig. and i don't know. what i mean the. people come to the train and i have people here in my office we

have them here sitting and they say we you know they came from outside they heard something and then when they came to the train they saw something totally different and they say you know. it's a totally different story and that's what we see before. you go one report something from behind your disk do as you just did you come to bahrain and you try to report the real story from. my heart from the rich just recently from the minister of justice that a new kind of measure be implemented so that the religious leaders local mosques in local communities will be more. not to start right. will this become something of a new legislation will this become a law or just a temporary measure to silence the writing of protests or will not about silencing the protests but. i think that question should be addressed to the minister of justice goes that's the field we have the police if a when the legislation comes out then we are. responsible for

forcing the cloak thank you so much for the general this was just all about it all for us to get on the security situation. deadly rivals for decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will contact myself am i going to tell my brother understand my contact my immediate i'm going to leave basically attack

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