president morsi has announced the emergency law or import syeed killings and violent scenes in egypt where clashes rage on protesters against both the government and the death sentences over last year's football stadium massacre continued to vent their anger at. the french military machine rolls over islamic militants in mali amid fears a country could be seeking to recall them eyes its former turner tree. and britain's prime minister david cameron finally committed to holding a referendum on breaking away from the e.u. sparking a new wave of criticism both at home and abroad. look

back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. as violent unrest continues to rage in egypt president morsi has announced emergency law will be imposed in the worst affected cities of port saeed so is is my idea echoing the days of x. president hosni mubarak president morsi has just addressed the nation that says the city of port so you've has descended into bloodshed yet again as clashes broke out during a massive funeral march for people killed and hundreds injured the latest now from our correspondent bill true. seen in. protesters there were killed yesterday was it not. gunfire. that hundreds have been injured many. saying that's not.

true to the military the funeral march by an army the army has been deployed to the city i mean this is saying. they are seeing tanks on the street in the moments three months since any between anti-government protests is heightened security forces here in the capital just off the high square on the most rainy streets which means a key government buildings such as the one housing hahnemann sure council today are suspending from consignee to the cornish and. i. think christian against the presidency by protest this to say that they are living you know making a change to stay safe in the country team isn't ready should say i guess seventy troughs it's a constitution which they say is reason via the means is consistory send me money by the president the i'm signing these things you need to change this i might. not

get into schumi house i mean the sort of council saying they were marching this is fines that i was signing books to the crisis lessening issues are going to have a shift from reading the statement yesterday listening find them on said to the president to the crisis approaching the country they want to and i was out beijing government to take that saying the president is not capable of running the country in addition main more he caught me part of my transactions you need a road runs cold presidential elections and as they say president mohamed morsi and his organization the midst of an article missing the forum saying the money in the right mix may be just at the moment so the country's very much to my taste definitely the final scenes online is easy. the egyptian government is not putting enough efforts into dealing with the crisis that's the belief of political activists some of full z. . we have to distinguish between two things first of all evolutionary

forces who are looking for implementation of the slogans or words that evolution used to freedom and justice and struggling to do work. other groups would lie. but it is the belittling of the situation in egypt and we have to be. very courageous to uncover all those people who broker violence will support the violence or violence or violence because it's good difficult to build our democracy on such a violence but at the same time the government has to be willing to start a new process of national reconciliation but unfortunately we haven't seen until now any government official is beginning to people including is a president himself as a government is this still looking into the situation from very a narrow perspective they limit what's going on in the street into violence and

into violent groups and ignoring there are real demands the french intervention force is continuing its advance in mali helping the local unelected government beat back islamic militants and several french allies including britain and the u.s. are also providing support for the military offensive some experts warn the campaign is a move to recall and eyes the african countries mirror for notional reports for us now from paris. french have died had no name to the military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has put boots on 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 the there we think is to become specifically i mean relations do it to states i know we seeing 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 where in the past gold and especially 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 reigning in. 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 a simpler road france is far from the only nation to have and defended its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the

last fifty years since official decolonization contact in regimes from rebels likened to booty to central african republic all fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by its own economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different i like to call the cold eyes 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 or so british forces 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 former to mission in bassa 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 among the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been in paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies the body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and forward. french colonies are independent of someone that along no ideas are just part of history and that he three may be repeating. now our team from paris. france has stepped up security measures at home fearing reprisal attacks from is going to have valid to avenge the money intervention dozens of foreign hostages

were killed when terrorists seized a gas plant in algeria last week middle east expert topicality thinks that further retribution strikes will likely be focused in africa i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group but one mind already said that the the phrase war against terrorism is a day to be united states will abandon the sort of ironic that the french imo taking it up the french intervention which has many people in the south a lot 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 and cheerio and incidentally the role of the french played in algeria advice helping in encouraging the government to stop an election midway has also left an impact on baghdad and chrysalis no doubt it will do stay below as well. the outgoing u.s.

secretary of state has admitted the arab spring revolts which washington backed lead to a rise of extremism and shouted 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 she took responsibility for failures that led to the assault on stressing that washington should continue to exert its influence across the arab world u.s. senator john kerry is expected to take over from clinton and some analysts doubt a new face will overhaul u.s. foreign policy. but 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 crystal 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. coming up on the weekly here on r.t. he may have hung on to his job but he failed to convince his photo is great prime minister benjamin netanyahu clinched a majority in the country's parliament by only

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continues here in r.t. prime minister dmitry medvedev has criticized washington's move to sanction a number of russian officials for alleged crimes which no court has found them guilty of speaking to c.n.n. the russian premier said the magnitsky bill passed on capitol hill falls outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the us. that each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to its territory this is something normal but something that corresponds with

international conventions without having to explain the reasons for it i mean the united states could and still can get any russian officials entrance to america the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of the convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution but. dmitri medvedev also spoke out on the twenty two month syrian crisis which shows no signs of abating moscow's stress it doesn't support any side in the conflict while maintaining that foreign intervention should be completely ruled out but the premier did say time is not on president assad side. i think there are fewer chances for him to stay with every new day every week and every month but let me repeat it is up to

the syrian people to make a decision not up to russia the united states or any other state now the main task is to launch a national reconciliation process we should think about the future for instance if the opposition which by the way has been formed outside of syria comes to power what is it going to do with its members will exterminate representatives of other islamic movements and other confessionals they are already doing this and that's why there are two options either it will be a protest of national reconciliation and held under the control of the international community or an endless civil war and there is no in-between. and you can get more of dmitri medvedev as interview on our website dot com and now to more international news in brief this hour the revised number of deaths in a massive fire at a nightclub in southern brazil now stands at two hundred thirty the tragedy took place after

a fire that was forming in the club started launching fireworks off the stage where they set fire to insulation foam in the ceiling the flames spreading in a matter of minutes the venue was packed to the time there's only one exit and then it spread as people try to get out some witnesses claim that security guards attempted to keep the only way out of the club shot until they were overpowered. thousands of rallied in washington calling for improvements to gun control nationwide among the participants were the residents of newtown connecticut where an elementary school massacre last month left twenty six day president bombers unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades leading background checks and a ban on military style assault weapons the proposals have divided the nation with about half of americans insisting it's their right to bear arms without distractions. a roadside bomb has killed at least ten policemen in afghanistan and the southern province of kandahar it detonated next to a police truck just as officers had finished diffusing another explosive device

it's the third such attack in the past twenty four hours which in total have claimed the lives of more than twenty offices. in the world update this hour over one hundred thousand people have rallied in paris in support of a bill allowing gay marriage and adoption by single sex couples demonstrators waved banners proclaiming equality is not a threat the draw of marriage for everyone has been high on president agenda ever since his election but the move still greatly opposed by many in the country recent anti gay march gathered twice the amount of people attending today's rally. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu won the country's parliamentary election this week but 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 and you know he will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel could be

a challenge is the right wing and orthodox religious parties one half the seats in the parliament and in this project the focus for netanyahu will be bread and butter issues facing his nation not foreign policy a columnist for israel's had its newspaper gideon levy says that the controversy over 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 say 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 think that this kind of adventure without 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 term 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 they are always so devoted about it but sure the chances are much smaller now both because the new government the mystically and the old new president in the white house. the prospects for palestinian statehood will be another important issue for the israeli prime minister the peace deal is now deadlocked with netanyahu saying more settler homes will be built in his third actor and director. known for his prank videos decided to take an orthodox look at the israeli land expansion my name is me more than israeli citizen living here among all of the. you one housing crisis of it all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also live among arabs

and i think i can get there much better deal with the wise. would like to see the flood to buy 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 to one flat is one million shekels is. in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and the one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the us almost all these really critical parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talk location he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big new one investor understand is the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills more outposts. and no

one except occupation two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man living i want to cash in on my jewishness and like be in touch with my roots . so it's all jewish or yeah yeah any non jewish part because. not from here many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many subtle. it's 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 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 notice 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 and. it says this is the fell stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy. i pay so much money for rent in london in london and here. and in the big city. comfortable. so beautiful all of us is ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built up as if

you want i just call this. three days and all the flats in this part of town and i 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 want to see an. agent to get to the phone the legalities. of the. house and. i have my house.

and we caught up with the filmmaker nimrod com he says if you want to live cheap and easy in israel the disputed west bank areas are the place for you nobody really goes get the mites mindset of the settlers the religious ones and the 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 but if people are going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government would pay them compensation for being beaten if you buy a float over there you get good discounts if you've got many kids even more discounts you don't even have to be religious that easily states like actually de

facto build another well first 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 like a jewish americans some of the people i talked to never going to i mean give up their house bill from like benign please go heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and the told me that like jordan is also the kind of part of the jewish state just call and like the other ones are just like non-religious 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 leave chip in israel that's the only option internet mogul kim dot com founder of a controversial and now banned file sharing services he's in gulf to the major political power play closure of the mega upload website cause uproar among

international online freedom activists dot com told r.t. that he believes the american government went out of its way to persecute him. 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 with us 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 and you can watch the full interview with kim dotcom later on r t also still ahead for you this hour keeping a nation in the dog complies with

a public request to share details of domestic surveillance techniques publishing a part of almost completely black tell me documents. on the british prime minister's opponents get hot under the collar as david cameron pledges to hold a referendum on the country's possible e.u. exit if his party wins the next election this story and more after the break. the first baby steps i join. foals and are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma. for children can be broken by bare touch. and only the will of life.