syria's claims that israeli jets have bombed its military research center near damascus killing to spark conflicting reactions from the international community. concerns grow over the human cost of the french led military operation in mali amid a lack of information on civilian casualties and reports of government atrocities. and the british government raises twice as many taxes as a cuts as a new study shows how it shelling out billions in revenues from people's pockets. this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing syria claims israeli jets have carried out a deadly bombing raid on its territory destroying

a military research center near damascus at least two people are sought to have been killed and five more wounded in the attack if confirmed it would be the first attack by israel on another state not in response to military action in decades was no talk to. hold you paul now tell us how it all happened and whether has there has been any reaction internationally to this. paula hello can you hear is it or not. if i can call well my for my question to you is if you could tell us how it all happened and if there has been any international reaction to this. well if indeed the israeli military strikes in syria are concerned moscow has condemned them in the strongest possible terms saying that the strikes unprovoked and that they're against a sovereign state indeed they are in violation of international role and as such

they are completely unacceptable now we are hearing that that is well apparently informed that washington and this is according to an anonymous american sort of a plan to target minute by inside syria that we as of yet have no confirmation of that it's not exactly clear whether there was one strike or two strikes what we are hearing is that is radio with planes bombed a military target inside syria that was apparently a research center and according to syrian state television she points workers were killed in that attack but we also hear reports of a fifty foot incident in which is radio playing a convoy that was making its way from syria to lebanon now apparently the convoy was carrying weapons that were destined for his but some people also jase thing that this was a warning to damascus not to arm kids but at the same time there is many opinions that this attack will merely come on

a date the military forces inside syria against israel and not against the law that they get in the mind of that if indeed these reports on accurate these reports or the israeli strike was unprovoked we have received confirmation from the united states as well as civil regional sources although at this stage israel has. night kind of attack i can't. think. all right paul thanks very much indeed for bringing us that. policy and that. now but you may as at a tear of pan-african news wire says the alleged israeli air strike in syria is all part of a plan to bring down the os a government that's quite interesting that the israeli government as well as the united states has not officially responded to this provocation against syria so it is inevitably a situation in which they are opening up

a nother front in the war against the government of bashar al assad is part and parcel of a broader strategy part of that strategy of course has been a deployment of patriot missiles in turkey which is also a nato country on the border with syria and then of course with the airstrikes this is designed to create a sense of encircled that in regard to the syrian government i think that the syrian government and those who are want are seeking a negotiated and political settlement to this crisis you know very well that this is only designed to weaken the syrian government and that it will not be successful because in the long term on the ground the syrian government has maintained the military initiative against the various a rebel organizations who have been funded now for nearly two years to work havoc in south of the country in an attempt to overthrow the government of bashar al assad. while israel is accused of intervening

in the syrian conflict there are also claims it's trying to influence u.s. cabinet nominations as the u.s. prepares to decide on whether child hago will become the new defense secretary later this hour we'll look at why his candidacy is annoying israeli lobby. as french and malian forces make more gains in the battle against islamist rebels in the african country concerns are growing over how the conflict is being sought while human rights groups and in a panic activists are raising the alarm over the information blackout on the number of civilian casualties during the french led intervention on the western backed troops are now being accused of war crimes in the towns liberated by the french army there is also a growing sense of revenge well the food is that we are showing you now here is apparently filmed by an amateur camera man shows a mob attacking and mutilating the corpse of a young man while the crowd suspected him of two as law medicine other images are

too graphic to show in full local record and sell one show told r.t. more about atrocities reportedly taking place across the country. dinny moving north we find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of him all crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of survivors are not only did they kill them they shove the bodies into the drinking water well located in the center of the town making the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants all sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i stopped working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty around but then i was put into prison i am no

terrorist you know i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cut include for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs until the eggs said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants in the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. well a lot of honest and a national consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he's not surprised by the developments in mali. what i hear now is how this surprises me i mean that first of all the million army does hold a grudge against people who are stemmed from the known part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and at very little armaments at such as

a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can your adjusted people and examine what they do you can't you just ground nic underlying that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them what you should not do is say this is kind of extra judicial executions but entirely surprise me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs are but why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves and there are fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the french led military campaign more in this as well as images from the conflict or country an article dot com.

the u.s. senate is gearing up for a potentially heated confirmation hearing for a new defense secretary chuck hagel candidacy is widely viewed as president obama's most controversial pick for a key post during his presidency the decorated war veteran stance of seeing military force as a last resort and pro israel in foreign policy has attracted both admiration and criticism but the latter has been far more vocal artist going to take on the reports chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated as president obama's pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what

a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be also out december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between commercials of beauty products prescription drugs and what so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iraq voted against the legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran. military action is not a viable peaceable responsible option president obama or secretary of defense chuck hagel is not responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel so what that truck a will do to deserve that as a u.s. senator chuck hagel has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that

the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that the chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s. policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this one that he's been under attack take a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is

a special and historical. but it need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and dangerous fault choice some saw president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating chuck hagel is his way of bringing down the tension and not not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of withdrawing their objections over charcoals domination some say could be because they received assurances behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies. and coming out of this our athens returns to

a battlefield once more police use the tongs in syria gas hundreds of protesters stormed greece's labor ministry over pension cuts. plus it is president dismisses opposition calls for a unity government as a country dives deeper into chaos and ongoing clashes between opposition tampa police forces that of war right after a short break. the first baby steps are joy. folds. are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma. for children can be broken by their touch. and only the will of life can make. i'm source.

fragile people are today. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future of coverage. welcome back here watching r.t. live from moscow more clashes have broken out in athens with police using tear gas to disperse protesters who have broken into the greek labor minister's office the demonstrators were advancing their anger over fresh pay and pension cuts all part

of the government's austerity drive laura george control says this kind of crackdown on protesters is part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up only c. of zero thought that us as its ace i guess that is distance to their state to measure us so we have steam the government to take the medicine measure us that they are and push the deuce another i guess that he sent strikes and now we have seen that door there that were released very violently against identity peaceful and counted mostly so when it seemed their last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda try to convince us that now their worst has become the us that is i don't believe that this is the world is exactly because we are following this same set the forces of asperity missiles that the four three he us has condemned greece to us fight on a slow death that this recession of the economy kentucky and of the economy unfair

source of measures but i see some of the population and also at back the subset rights i think that as far as what we're following this said the girl for up poorly says there's not one of us. in egypt the ongoing turmoil has claimed more lives with at least two people shot dead during fresh clashes between protesters and police on cairo stuck or your square deadly violence has led to the opposition calling for talks with president morsi but their leader has made it clear a unity government is not an option came during morse's visit to the land where he was wooing german chancellor angela merkel hoping to get investment he plans to visit france next but return home empty handed blogger and journalist wallace kundera says if morsi have received european backing the egyptian public's outrage would have only increased. i think the public the public

will be very upset if foreign countries start lending a hand to president mohamed morsi while he is executing these very oppressive measures against his people he has cracked down on a lot of freedoms sidelined. arrested people justly and i think that. the sentiment in egypt is basically a rejection of mohamed morsi and the monopoly on power that he that he has and it's not so much as mohamed morsi he's he's viewed here as a puppet to the guidance bureau so unless he starts taking control and actually doing the steps taking the country forward towards a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. take a look at some other stories from around the world in the u.s. all ballad police have surrounded a bunker where a man has been holding a six year old boy captive for more than a day the youngster was kidnapped from

a school bus on tuesday after the driver was shot dead the gunman has been identified as a sixty five year old retired truck driver by neighbors. one of the owners of the brazilian nightclub in which more than two hundred thirty people died in a fire has tried to commit suicide while in custody for is one of four people arrested after the incident an investigation into the blaze has found evidence the club could have been overcrowded and fire extinguishers weren't functional. seven members of a rescue operation have been killed while saving six trapped miners in northeast china it's believed that carbon monoxide was the cause of the deaths chinese mining facilities have a poor safety record with dozens of employees losing their lives at work each year . complicated and offering very little relief that's the

assessment for u.k. government's tax policies figures revealed by the taxpayers the lines show the coalition government has raised twice as many taxes as it's cut the spine promises to ease the pain. reports by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country needs that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of those taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go up they're also going to see an increase in. which means more expensive travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre. h.m. revenue and customs recently increased v.a. t. for head dresses renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent hot baked goods scandal when u.k.

tax code stated that a pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex times. they kill jobs increase prices and it lowers wages so the time and families are struggling with the roys in cost of living the idea so many tax increases will really make life difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public finances which means that by trimming a little bit of tax hair and adding more tax burden that by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. artsy london.

well later today max kaiser and stacey herbert focus on the british government and the tricks used to distract the public's attention from its financial mishandling. all the chairman of the web giant google has set out his vision for the future of the internet in a gloomy forecast eric schmidt's just people's online id could be taken hostage in an online form of kidnapping or the skin off has more. the image of a human future liberated by technology and to hunger teleportation and so on just got a reality those from a guy who knows eric schmidt who is worth one point five billion u.s. dollars and the chairman of google voiced his views on in the internet and the dangers that lurk within it warned that as technology becomes cheaper and easier to use cyber terrorists could use the web to run a drone war a century or nerd in california could fly a drone strike a target in

a remote part of the world in fact schmidt says hackers will be known as cyber terrorists could well become the targets of the same drones but it's not only about potential terrorists states and governments can use cyber technology to isolate and distort the lives and periods of their critics call this online ethnic cleansing moreover a cyber identities that's your online avatar in social networks could be taken hostage for ransom actually there are already cases of hackers remotely blocking personal computers and demanding cash tolan or feet cyber identities me soon also form a global black market where users will be able to buy an identity the always dreamed of in real life also pointed to the record so much of our lives is stored on servers now any past mistakes will be there for all the world to see typically at the worst possible moment when you're applying for that job mortgage making the marriage proposal or running to become president in fact the lives of everyone will

be so public turns will have to teach children about cyber safety before safe sex well these are only predictions but smith's depressing vision for the internet is a reminder to be careful whatever you post and do online may bite you back when you least expect it. bulgaria's government is expected to vote against resuming construction of a new nuclear power plant despite a recent referendum showing public support for the development the results were invalidated due to low turnout well let's further discuss this with bulgarian m.p. peter joins us live from sofia. hello to mr gorbachev well due to a low turnout of the referendum it's hard to say really whether the majority of bulgarians support the building of a nuclear power plant or not so in european how legitimate is the result of this referendum.

i believe we're having some technical problems there was that live from saffir well in the meantime a more international news will be coming your way in about thirty minutes at the top of the hour i'll be back with more updates before that we have a short break and then our special report fragile people will be coming your way stay with us. you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the illusion of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of them may be working at your local school braindead bureaucracy zombies at

a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like them somebody shoot me with a bubble gun just my opinion. just so. the so bad.

lisa was born doctors told us she had multiple fractures they also said lisa would be a difficult child to handle she was bedridden for the first year after birth she had to eat and sleep on a cushion because she would cry when we touched her. i probably style from the chair and i had from the sofa and that didn't hurt at all but then i thought of the arm chair and i broke my leg. i cried for a while. and then at those sleep. but why why why why did it have to be us.