today's news in the week's top stories clashes across northern ireland. the union hall but just. the u.s. criminal justice system pushing him over the edge. french president tougher security at home the country's intervention in mali. and yes we. shut down guantanamo bay still rings hollow with more than one hundred

sixty people held without charge or trial eleven. days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. at least twenty nine police officers were injured on saturday in belfast. northern ireland reach into a six week rest was triggered by the belfast municipal councils decision to fly the union flag above city hall for only eighteen days a year the latest clashes broke out after about a thousand unionists marching. in the area police were forced to use water cannons . the angry mob. has been following the protests of the.

recreational. people calling it. they are saying where this is about much much more than just that look he students the director of the east belfast mission creep is working with young protesters to try to calm the tensions some kids are doing it for fun or doing it for more sinister motives in terms of control terms of par in terms of ego some are doing it

because it's sexier than a playstation you know young girls are doing it because and young girls even with young children we've seen on the streets who i don't think a fully realized what their actions can result or what they're just right there in some ways having a laugh and yet there's nothing funny about it what are the protesters here asking for just a one hour flight back up on one hour and pays to get off their backs aids peter robinson least you're not silly not them he was the one that had to start. today forty thousand they flipped for us to come out on the street to protest against their land and nice said 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 election we can make for anything the paper says it predicts that any kind of compromise when it comes to this is the flying the flag of it's the flag and not

said. we know we're not going to get it back up to normal action because it's the law of majority rule. any unionist warrants now to try to reengage politically that 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 draft of issues that are a blight here. these riots have been highly localized damage has already been far reaching. this is a new generation putting violence back onto the streets of belfast it's a far cry. signal the night it's complex that doesn't make it any less troubling.

of internet freedom aaron swartz has blamed the u.s. justice system for his death the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit hanged himself on friday amid a massive cyber crime case. spoke to a representative of the party from the parliament fabio on heart he says that the charges swartz was facing were too harsh but u.s. attorney's office pursued a spread of charges possibly leading to over thirty years in prison and a million dollar fine this ultimately for downloading and redistributing mit academic papers do you think the punishment is justified. no i definitely don't think this money this time it was justified it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fines for just are not into music from the internet or into what was putting pirates on the internet that should have been

on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. where the fire came from and said they wanted to put the fire on the internet anyway and aaron swartz just did a perfectly good job doing it and he actually took a lot of effort from them which would have been there for i think the system the drop in this case whenever it comes to internet freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then other senators other people in the house of representatives in the united states on the same side there is no differences. there they are five same side as hollywood does they are actually fighting for hollywood and making the last four of them it's sometimes it's ridiculous what they what they are thinking what would be a good law should always think about the laws actually have an effect on society this is carrying a very heavy legacy that will be difficult to phillis footsteps but there are a lot of people that fight for the same goals that were tried to go into what he

was fighting for and i think there's a political movement that is fighting for a free internet it's the strongest now and with get stronger and there's no risk that this very heavy loss for the internet community will bring a stop to the political movement. a rebel spokesman in mali says french aircraft bomb targets in two central terms of the country with air strikes also reported in the third one at least eleven civilians including three children have been killed in airstrikes and fighting since the french intervention began on friday france's first casualty in mali came on saturday when the pilot of a helicopter shot down by islamist rebels was killed the first task of troops in mali was to help the government regain control of the key central town of qana neighbors of the west african states are also sending troops to help battle many of . the military operation in mali will continue for as long as necessary civil writer and journalist barry lando i spoke to him a little earlier he believes that france will have to negotiate with the rebels. if

the country was really ready to come apart house the french seem to feel that perhaps it was i think the problem is that it's totally open ended the french have given no they probably don't know exactly what they're at your tips are what is there in how long is this going to go on you're talking about a country just north of our mallee which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know he's there is how do you deal with with a few hundred troops there is a way it's a potentially huge involvement a very long task in the end what they're going to want of doing this i mean to negotiate with these people that's the only way i think it's going to come to their . feet fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him and who had a lot of very here be arms took off and came south and some of them originally from

northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time to having their own homeland in northern mali these were the twice as they were when joined by radical more radical islamic groups and apparently. have now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things but i don't think anyone really knows what's going on there a new round of diplomatic efforts to solve the own going syrian crisis has failed to reach a breakthrough he wins international media to that but he me reiterate of this week they could be no military solution to the conflict and let's go again voices support for a political transition adding that president assad's polish i cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the war. we are united in our view that the crisis is becoming increasingly menacing not only for syria but for the region as a whole in this situation the only ones that benefit are the radicals and

extremists who are connected to terror groups like al qaida were convinced the solution lies in following the geneva agreements without any preconditions because preconditions will make it impossible to start a dialogue it's necessary to force all sides including the opposition that's now refusing the talks to come to the negotiating table with. rebels seized. while regime forces bombarded opposition fighters out of the suburbs of the capital damascus earlier western experts claim the government might be hiding up to fifty tons of roll up to make five nuclear bombs well enough to recent the regime could lose control of its massive stockpile of chemical weapons is now concern you reyna may fall into the hands of islamic extremists however some say that's just one side of the story. 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 i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.a. said that there were traces of fuel rain 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 a number. i did some research and it appears that they came up with the number because they they feel 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 than past six months there's 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 countryside where rebel fighters are in some areas in the countryside where the

syrian army withdrew from these areas because they thought that these areas were not important strategically but 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 being pumped into syria to these rebel groups by neighboring country especially by by turkey by qatar by other european and by the united states there is a sponsorship of these terror groups. coming up this hour here in the weekly eleven years of indefinite detention without charge or trial on time obey remains open despite barack obama's long running pledge to shut it down we have from a former inmate who was held and allegedly tortured on groundless accusations. plus fun is when the supreme court suspends you know gratian of hugo chavez amid intensifying speculation over the leader's health and the future prospects of his country those stories in detail just ahead for you.

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but. one of the world's most notorious detention facilities marked its eleventh grim anniversary this week with more than one hundred sixty people still being held there without charge or trial the closure of guantanamo bay is a promise barack obama has so far failed to keep what's more calls to stop indefinite detention have largely died down in the us where even torture is gaining acceptability is going to come explains. 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 earlier 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 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 does she 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 so makers 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 in effect. 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 tunnel did for george w. bush that 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 u.s. 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 that the logical capability 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 check out. some activists say washington shouldn't be lecturing other countries about human rights when america's own policies include indefinite detention and the targeted killing of terrorist suspects. i think that the united states has very little to stand in terms of its own human rights record when it talks about exporting the rule of law and promoting human rights and democracy in other countries it has no credibility actually at this point and we're not just talking about. we're talking about detentions and other facilities and now we're talking about killing we're talking about a targeted killing program that is based on the same premise of this global war against al qaida and a situation where the administration is not only authorizing detention without

charge or trial but now killing the use of lethal force outside of battlefields without charge or trial so in my mind it has it has very little to stand on and it's setting an extremely dangerous precedent for other countries. people to beijing have been given strict stay indoors warnings find out why it's too risky to go outside at all to don't come. and the thirty boys troubled by fells and kilometers across to international borders at the wheel of a car without raising any suspicion more on the underage avoid on a website. the people of venezuela are still in suspense over the health of the leader hugo chavez who's recovering from cancer surgery in cuba earlier this week tens of thousands held a rally at a symbolic inauguration ceremony his job as his official swearing in was postponed indefinitely by the country supremes called. from asia times online believes that with the protracted absence of the charisma there's

a severe power struggle on the way. chevy's war is not a monolithic saying like would dare to say the communist party in china dad least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside except there is more him at the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference in trying to rule that you know as louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington all the news he will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just of xabi as well let's split it up thousands of russian opposition activists to march to moscow to protest against a law banning u.s. citizens from adopting russian children of course many even to this canal was at the running. the protesters are demanding that the stories abolish the law passed

recently which bans americans from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the money to be act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states off while eating human rights are the reason why russian lawmakers chose to ballot meghan's from adopting russian children is due to the meaning of pieces of abuse and sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue of the option has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the key pieces of abuse themselves but also the lack of a proper legal reaction from american authorities including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so

authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and it's fair to say that they do have quite a large number of supporters in society in the washout just recently about why the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin we signed the bill in the end asking him to change his mind to abolish this law she explained it by saying that in many cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans and many foreigners but americans in this case they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive the proper medical attention here in russia and we both already heard from the president's press secretary the need to be responsible to said that i was going to put in will review this walk post even though it's not an official request at all so right before the end of last year one of the russians newspapers managed to gather. around one hundred thousand signatures protesting this law and under the degree of

the president. also asked to review this protest it's also needed to point out back to due to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all those people who have already been able to find children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to finalize this process so these kids who are already sort of approved to be adopted will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. in other news this hour 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 the two thousand and eleven revolt the court's decision follows an appeal by mubarak and his former interior minister who have previously received life sentences for the killings of anti-government demonstrations the former leader's defense says the court should consider his deteriorating health at that we trot.

around a thousand people have flocked to paris from all over france to protest against same sex marriage and adoption by gay couples the three big rallies march through the streets join up in the center of the capital the president's project marriage for everyone has faced criticism ever since he was elected last may and this really is the biggest yet. 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 quieter 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 and families refusing to bury the bodies until the government improves security. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pledged to continue building settlements in the west bank his announcement came just hours after police evicted around two hundred palestinian activists and protesters from a site marked for construction one of those activists believes that israel's

upcoming election was the reason for the developments when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. there doing. with the force of. that by itself. but even within the process of. many. many. brutal beatings. that even exist. that unless.

there's a lot of coming. to. that position on. this. you know nine days ahead of. elections. well that's it from a show and tell us the news team will be here in about thirty five minutes from now as news continues but in the meantime coming up after the break all to heads to northwest russia for a fascinating trip to the shores of the white sea. do we speak your language anything about the will not advance. news programs and

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the white sea its surface remains choked with ice for nearly seven months a year. the chilly breath of the arctic ocean keeps the water freezing cold. near the coast however the high winds and bitter cold recede. that even in winter also can be seen through holes in the ice. squeals and cracking sounds can often be heard around the ring. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice the white sea is then filled up a tux.