they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive the proper medical attention here in russia and we both know all good and heard from the president's press secretary to be spoke to said that i was going to push and will review this walk post even though it's not an official request also right before the end of last year a lot of russians newspapers managed to gather around one hundred thousand signatures now protesting this law and under the the cleat off of the president the parliament also has to review this protest it's also needed to point out that to due to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all those people who have already been able to find the children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to finalize the process so these kids who are already sort of approved to be adopted the will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. on wednesday rival palestinian

groups fatah and hamas try to implement a unity agreement they first signed two years ago the easing of tension between the parties has already helped reunite one family in gaza torn apart by political strife and as paula slim reports it's israeli policies that pull to go side to look past their differences. but 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. at the ago 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 mohammad took refuge in the west bank waiting for the day we conciliation would come. all day and night i prayed to god to protect my son more 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 her muscles capitalizing on the recent conflict with israel despite the heavy cast after his 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 this one young was watching that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood bid demonstrated european unfailing support for israel has floundered it was also on it on yahoo's watch that u.s. is revelations reached at the lowest ebb and now it's on his watch again that palestinian unity seems plausible for. a long term interest of or for us to think of as a cooperative good because otherwise they're running the risk that the west bank will be and probably part of the same political structure which defacto right now is the case leaders from both sides have a new day calls for the conciliation if you think that of course. between hamas and for the catastrophe it's proof for 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 in smiles it to the hope that

a new chapter is also about to open in gaza political life policy r.t. on the israel gaza border and staying in the region israeli prime minister netanyahu has pledged to continue building settlements in the west bank that is after the country's police around two hundred palestinian activists and protesters from the site marked for construction of the outpost made up of twenty tents were set up on friday to protest against an israeli housing project in the contentious area known as the one television building plans are illegal under international law and would spit palestinians from lands they claim in east jerusalem activists promised more protest camps in other areas. also the world of 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 two thousand and eleven revolt the court's decision follows an appeal by mubarak and his former interior minister previously received life sentences.

feelings of anti government demonstrations the former leader's defense says the court could consider his deteriorating health in the trial. a roadside bomb has killed at least fourteen soldiers in pakistan's northwest it comes in the third day of protests by shia muslims in the city of quarter pulling some of the deadliest terror attacks in the country's history which claimed the lives of over one hundred people demonstrators blocked to the city's main road with coffins of the dead the families are refusing to bury the bodies until the government improve security. and in other news making headlines this hour a tree falling on to the cables of a ski lift near russia's city of sochi causing two empty cabins to plunge to the ground there were no casualties however one hundred skiers remain stranded on the ski lift in temperatures below zero degrees and rescue operation is underway at the moment situated on the coast of the black sea the city of sochi is preparing to host the twenty second winter olympic games next year.

european leaders are voiced their support for a deal designed to reduce banking debt and use comes as the president of the european council herman van rompuy held top level talks in dublin not the country took over the e.u.'s rotating presidency although some experts believe that ireland should get its own house in order before taking up the challenge of pulling the european union out of a financial bitch. island has its own economic problems which are continuing it course 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 of the civil servants and they're 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 the reason that ireland's a 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 can't 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. as policy of austerity but actually it's actually the wrong policy this time. in the midst of the economic crisis regulators are coming under fire for making life easier for banks rather than for people and it appears the wider public knows little of how and where the big decisions about the global financial future are being made as r.t. peter oliver reports. 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 secret if 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 there's a three has failed to meet any objective in the you know faint hope of parading in. this is what we talk about today the banks just have to be reined in because the banking system in itself as a general rule has left. 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 we think in that building just behind me peter all over r.t. basel switzerland. well that's it for me the news team for the moment will be back with more in about twenty minutes from now in the meantime a few months the u.s. military in afghanistan will hand over leadership of combat operations to local forces and refocus on assisting the decision came off the discussions this week between the u.s. and afghan president sparking doubts of a promise is to pull all american troops out of the celtic country from the you will coalition believes that the afghan government is in no position to take full control the american government is sort of caught in a paradox it didn't want to give up afghanistan it wanted to use it as a strategic base but can't win a military victory they have to begin to draw down whether they will leave completely i don't think so so now you have cars i hear in washington meeting with

obama he is extremely vulnerable but he is seen within the afghan population as nothing but an extension of the power of the occupiers and the afghan people like all occupied people resent the occupiers and they resent those who are there collaborators so karzai from time to time sounds like a nationalist he stands up any how is a little bit against american atrocities again trying to play for domestic consumption and but at the end of the day karzai is seen as just that is a collaborator with the occupation a very rich collaborator so he may have a way an exit plan of his own scripted out but i think he knows that without foreign occupation his government's days are very very precarious. the saturdays will thousands take to the streets in bahrain in the latest wave of anti-government demonstrations general topic of a son he's the chief of public security in the gulf state believes that these protests are part of the democratic process will his interview in full is coming up

in just a moment here on out and i'll be back with more news in twenty minutes. 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 fifteen's and full swat are 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

for the last twenty months barring i've been seeing demonstrations and protests in its streets how is the government dealing with those dissenters we're joined. by the country's chief of security a general i asked thank you so much for joining us and my first question to you would be what is the current situation the security situation in bahrain how is the

government dealing with the protests because i've seen in the papers here and everyone television that protests to take place and how is the government doing with the 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 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 lots of cocktails and other weapons and then they start breaking the law attacking. public cross property or attacking police force. it's a really grand preserve the 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 case and cases of excessive force being used by police there are three main standards that we use when we deal with any security situation and we have to use force. and these are 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 happens 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 law do you often i mean 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 school was the way you like or 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 torturers usually happens in countries where the police need to extract. maybe confessions to go with the chorus to the court of law we don't have to do this all 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. this 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 people ever gate how these allegations of torture are make or watch 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 were the cases before i 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 recommendation did was to expects be done i some of the projects that were already had in mind of course any modern police station police service or force today. we rely on modern technology to. not just protect ourselves but also for better. policing and better rest a geisha why those protests turned violent i mean bahrain has always been a rather peaceful country like me 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 but the causation in one way or another. is no difference and i mean the internet and the open sources today the media they will play a part of 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. go back as they were however with better restrictions and better knowledge of limits. and procedures has been coming in in the media that all this protest is about he said about religious segregation so he says it does have ensured that he suffered that's not true i mean if you ask anybody who have been behind who knows 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. with religious and behave. as i set aside because. i'm not talking about.

radical about. whose record any side actually leads to bad things. to violence to. people. 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 and 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 or shall we say made lots of noise in the press about doctors who were arrested and detained and some of them later were tortured. what was the story behind that if you could clarify for. such of the doctors or anybody who commits a crime. i would have to face the law and in the court of law behind you can you

can if you have any allegations have any complaints you can file of 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 with the law that is the part of the public prosecutors because they are in charge as i said of charging and prosecuting of the court of law it's not the police issue it was you 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 and my pressure is from within but 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 will investigate if there is a complaint as i said we will investigate them the problem with bahrain is that i think there have been an. 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 you say 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. the heart from the rich just recently from the minister of justice that a new kind of measuring be implemented so that the religious leaders local mosques

in local communities will be more. not to start right will this become something of in with 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 that field we has the police if a when the legislation comes out then without a buffalo. responsible for them forcing them to look they did so much for the general this was just all but i think for us to be honest you're easy situation. could be somebody ever after. going under left something to live.

syllables of and for precious children. like on my fragile shoulders. leave it to die. on our to. thank. you. thanks.

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