protesters against the government and the death sentences for. the french military. and. david cameron. holding a referendum on breaking away from the e.u. .

with the top stories over the weekend off today this is the weekly with me rule received. in cairo. being thrown back and forth by police and government protesters on the fourth consecutive day of street violence in egypt so far at least forty one people have been killed and the deadliest clashes shook the city of port crowds infuriated by the death sentences handed down over a football stadium riot tried to storm a prison his bell true with an update from the capital. here in the capitol there are clashes raging between protesters and security forces on a corner on a key areas near government buildings in the city got in the air here in downtown cairo rocks have also been exchanged security have upped their presence around

government buildings as the focus of the anger here for protesters is very much against morsi ministration they say that so the president is not going to just admit he can't run the country and he hasn't listened to their demands to the unrest here is still continuing it's very tense to put saeed as well as the situation in egypt really descend into a bit of a crisis president mohamed morsi council his travel plans yesterday met with his national defense council to discuss the deepening crisis across the country one of the options at this meeting was that they may consider an emergency status we don't know the details of what that would actually mean but of course here in egypt they lived under most state of emergency for thirty years the mubarak which led to protests being banned and censorship being legalized something people would really be very angry with and want to avoid to get to see if the situation continues on the streets of cairo imports i need and we see further deaths and they may resort to emergency status but here we don't actually know what's going on quite yet of course a lot of anger towards the president this started just at the end of last year when

he pushed through what was very seen as an unpopular constitution drafted by an islamist dominated constituency and really people also say that he has not made any of the changes that were called for during the journey if i can believe in two years ago so he's really lost quite a lot of legitimacy on the streets at the moment we're seeing a very restive undivided egypt. meanwhile gunfire is being reported at the funerals of some of those killed on saturday in port saïd violence has flared there after people became enraged at the capital punishment verdict delivered to twenty one defendants taking part in a stadium massacre last year egyptian human rights activist tell me says people won't buy the government's questionable attempt at serving justice. people of course. many of them think that. the people who were convicted were actually scapegoats for the actual criminals. who are supposed to be. like.

christians in the ministry of interior or in the military who are in power when the courts i think are happened. so many people think that that was that was in i just . twenty first people and. scapegoats for the other big person in the too many faiths who should be in jail and should be convicted on the other side where the the ultra larry in their supporters here in cairo i think after you know after more than ten months participating and calling for a just. for the martyrs if you like the verdict was the beginning of the process. where they're marketed. to and this is part of the polarization that egypt has gone through it can squat some time now it feels like the government is trying to you know like. this is the second and

a great solution they're trying to show people that they're actually doing something to get there but this is not a convincing for many people. shift our focus not about of mali where the french intervention force is continuing its advance and helping the local unelected government beat back islamic militants several french allies including britain and the u.s. are also providing support for the military offensive but some experts warn the campaigns of move to recall allies the african country has more if not in a reports from paris. the french have had loaning to the military operation in mali but the discussion is to ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has african soil again costing money and people's lives. official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of the war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of

france's defense minister has declared total reconquest of mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they will to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is there with english to become specifically i mean in relation to the united states i know we sing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past gold and especially the iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african uranium. french companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets all this is

neocolonialism but with s. simple rule france is far from the only nation to have and defend its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official decolonization protected regimes from rebels like in djibouti or the central african republic or fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by its own economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different radical de carlo is asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east britain and france have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to save them because their army is not equipped to are trained to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation

as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists misery had that is a philosopher in the formant an asian embassador to unesco his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come you resources but then it's logical that locals profit as well those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way is wild a kind of slavery mali him on the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been going to paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies their body able to minister to french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and forward. frank colonies are independent of someone that's a law new ideas are just part of history and that he three may be repeating. now

team from paris. or france has stepped up security measures at home fearing reprisal attacks from islamists who have vowed to avenge the mali intervention and dozens of foreign hostages were killed when terrorists seized a gas plant in algeria that was last week a middle east expert tariq ali things further retribution strikes will likely be focused in africa i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group but by my already said that the phrase war against terrorism is a day to be united states will abandon the sort of ironic that the french romo of taking it up the french intervention which is many people in the south applaud because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking rangers resawing algeria and incidentally

the role of the french played in algeria bice helping in encouraging the government to stop an election midway has also left an impact on that can increase when is no doubt it will do stabilise and as well. now the outgoing u.s. secretary of state has admitted the arab spring revolts which washington did support ultimately led to a rise of extremism and shattered security in the region hillary clinton testified before lawmakers about last year's attack on the american consulate in libya which saw four u.s. diplomats killed and she took responsibility for failures that led to the assault or stressing that washington should continue to exert its influence across the arab world a u.s. senator john kerry is expected to take over from clinton but some analysts doubt a new face will end up overhauling u.s. foreign policy. well the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state

department what hillary clinton did which was more important than anything else during her four years as secretary of state was to be part of the coalition the phalanx if you will of pro-war people which really left to president obama no choice but to go along with the forty thousand troops that the military was demanding that mcchrystal is demanding for afghanistan john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well that there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s.

policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. so good to have you with us who are not so huge that i used to come for you though he may have held on to his job but he failed to convince his photos of scenes in egypt where also was a protest as against the government continue also against the death sentences for last year's football stadium massacre continue to vent their anger. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu clinched a majority in the country's parliament by only a narrow margin now struggling to form a stable coalition. and the british prime minister's opponents get hot under the collar as david cameron pledges to hold a referendum on the country's possible exit if indeed his party wouldn't the next election stories just ahead.

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this is the week with me rory sushi the global political and financial elite met up in the swiss resort of davos this week to discuss ways of driving europe out of the crisis but as ati's katie pilbeam reports there were many promises made at the world economic forum but no clear solutions. double's twenty thirteen is now and as the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair admiring the beauty of the swiss as you can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved well first we had russian prime minister dmitry medvedev he spoke about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you

know we've heard that before that was something. we also had british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the only topic people wanted to press him on here was the father he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seven tabling business community here they felt that that was a grammar announcement and that it would do the economy no good already challenged and in a fragile situation with dismal growth figures just released europe was of course in the spotlight as predicted we had european central bank president mario did r.k. he said that spending cuts are necessary austerity is the way forward and german chancellor angela merkel she agreed with him she reiterated that and this really comes the same way that we've had process ongoing in greece we've had a backlash in germany as well as spain's unemployment for the youth coming out at

sixty percent we also have the premiers from the arab world they came together valiant to improve the future for the people in the region but no clear strategy on on how to do that so you know i can tell you there's been a lot of talking a lot of pledging a lot of promise saying but no clear cut poll that says by have a real fairing that the interesting conversations happened behind closed doors. r.t. davus. well the annual world economic forum was certainly shaken up by a speech this week by the british prime minister david cameron and its artie's andrew farmer reports the long anticipated address some of his future relations with the e.u. has certainly ruffled a few feathers at home as well. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can says win the next election in twenty fifteen basically he wants more

powers returned from brussels to westminster and will try to renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech indicted he plays many of the euro skeptics within his tory party there are many dieties u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away tension investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but other e.u. members are less sympathetic than mark says that the e.u. is not a self-service where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens speaking to said the e.u. would simply become a mess so while david cameron appears to solve any internal squabbles within his own party to take a place in the euro skeptics it also appears that he's driving a wedge between britain and other e.u.

member states andrew farmer. london. european parliament member and deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all he says that the prime minister is once again just trying to delay solving the long standing issue. the point is that renegotiation is going to be nigh on impossible we've heard of under-employed the president of the european council you had a man well but also you've had as schultz who's the president of the european parliament you've had the prime minister you the list can go on of all of these people who are saying that britain cannot cherry pick this is an attempt by cameron to kick this issue with the long grass we're talking about a referendum five years down the line and it's all dependent on whether he wins the next general election or not and we know that if you look at the polls today it's showing quite clearly that cameron will struggle to win the election so i do think that this is an attempt to kick into the long grass and quite frankly this man has

lied before and referendums he gave as a cast out and say that we were friends and members. of lisbon he went back on that referendum pledge show i don't think you can be trusted on this issue. just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he did win the country's parliamentary election this week but he suffered a serious setback the results gave his right wing likud party the narrowest of victories with just thirty one out of one hundred twenty seats now in netanyahu will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel could be a challenge as other rightwing and orthodox religious parties one half the seats in parliament analysts predict the focus for netanyahu will be bread and butter issues facing his nation and not that of foreign policy columnist for israel's harris newspaper gideon levy he says iran's nuclear program is unlikely to give him enough support. to tell you're always very devoted to this issue and he believes

almost in a religious way that he's here to see the state of israel in the jewish people from the danger of iranian bomb but he will heavy. more difficult this time because at least on this topic he will find fewer partners who would support it because i've seen that this kind of adventure without the minister of defense old barak who supported the then we'll look most probably in the coming government will tell you how we find himself more easily to barack obama second. no doubt that he will not let this happen but you know it does not react all raising very racial terms so i wouldn't exclude the because that there you know is so devoted about the. other prospects for palestinian statehood will be another important issue for the israeli prime minister the peace deal is now deadlocked with

netanyahu saying that more settler homes will be built in his. actor and director nimrod came rather well known for his prank videos he decided to take an unorthodox look at the israeli land expansion. my name is. living here among. you one. time the thing is there is another one in jerusalem where i can also live among artists and i think i can get them much better. would like to see. i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up. is one million. in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and he won big. despite a few haters in the u.s.

almost all the political parties support the building and selling charming flats on palestinian land the latest. east of jerusalem i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big one investor understand is the only building. but if i can show him more. hills mall outposts. and no one except. two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man leaving london i want to cash in on my jewishness and i be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any known jewish parts because. not from here many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build

a new settlement. this is the future for israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scam and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the u.k. . you see. there's just rain too there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. this is the most disputed area you never noticed it just because people told us. but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even constructed i was coming up.

it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing to offer you one facing the holy. i pay so much money for rent in london in london and here. and in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so beautiful all of us in ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built up as if you want i just called this state it's called free they said all the flats in this part of town and they say no to see them and it will never be evacuated today selling more and more. of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish label. me. i went to see an. agent to get to the all the legalities.

of. you selling your house and. i had my house. but we actually catch up with the film's director nimrod came he says if you want to live cheap uneasy in israel the disputed west bank areas a place for you nobody really go. get the mindset of the

religious ones in that not only just want to just come there for the deal and i mean they don't even think about politics for them it's just buying and selling and like they told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe in but if you're going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for them because if you buy a float over there you get good discounts if you've got many kids even more discos you don't even have to be religious these are early states like actually defacto build another welfare state which is the settler jewish only west bank cities and if you just go there and you buy a flat you can sell it to they could reach jewish americans some of the people i talked to never going to give up their house the other bill from like benign is the heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and the told me that jordan is also the kind of part of the jewish state just call and like the other

ones are just like just people who used to live in these early election is all about social justice kind of the whole. the whole like housing prices so pretty much if you want to live chip in this world that's the only option. we are coming to live from moscow this is the weekly on our t.v. internet mogul kim dot com the founder of a controversial and now banned file sharing service he says he's engulfed in a major political power play a closure of the mega upload website basically caused uproar among international online freedom activists dot com told us here at r.t. that he believes the american government went out of its way to persecute. i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because they went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and

ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying and i mean the whole picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that. you can watch the full interview with kim dotcom that's later this hour but also coming your way in the program here on our keeping a nation in the dog the f.b.i. complies with the public the quest to share details of domestic surveillance techniques by publishing a pile of almost completely blacked out documents and plenty more just a few moments.

georgian president how saakashvili military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history great villains wouldn't even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck.