israel and its powerful allies keep silent over syria's claims that israeli jets breached its sovereignty and killed people in a bombing raid on a target near damascus. france says it will soon hand over the n.t. is the most offensive in mali to local troops just as reports surface of alleged atrocities and war crimes committed by the mali and amid a media blackout. one out two in british

taxpayers cry foul amid revelations of back door hikes further complicating what some say is an already loaded tax system. and obama's pick for defense secretary goes before the senate ahead of a potentially heated confirmation hearing for the vocal protests coming from the israeli lobby. is four pm here in moscow seven am in washington you're watching our team with me and use now a straight to our top story this hour the arab league have slammed israel for its alleged strikes inside syria with the organization describing it as flagrant aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty that's what officials in moscow say that if the attack is confirmed it would be an abuse of the u.n.

charter leaders in damascus claim that the deadly bombing raid destroyed a military research center near the capital it follows multiple failed attempts by rebel groups to storm the complex more on that now from archies call this leader. if indeed this israeli military strike inside syria is confirmed moscow has condemned it in the strongest possible terms saying that it was unprovoked and it was a strike against a sovereign state that is in violation of international law and is unacceptable now what we understand is that israeli warplanes bombed and this is according to syrian sources a military research same to outside damascus where at least two sites workers were killed now there are some reports also suggesting that the war planes bombed a convoy of weapons that were making their way from syria to lebanon allegedly to his beloved the syrians have denied this although some saying that it might have been a warning from tel aviv to the syrian president bashar assad not to his but now we

are hearing from an unnamed american official that prior to this incident tel aviv had in fact informed washington that it was planning a military attack inside syria there is the opinion that this attack could to consolidate military forces inside syria against a common enemy namely israel and that it will merely bring them closer together and divert them away from fighting each other and instead to in their forces against israel israel for its side has declined to comment on the whole incident. for more twenty four seven updates on the reported israeli bombing as well as opinions from inside the middle east check out paula as the twitter feed and one of her latest tweets she talks about that if the airstrikes did take place and are confirmed it would be the first time in decades that israel has launched an attack on another state that is and of course not in response to military actions to follow her on twitter. we also spoke to all but you know me as

a kiwi editor of pan-african newswire he says that this is all part of a plan to bring down the syrian government. well it's quite interesting that. israeli government as well as the united states has not officially responded. to this provocation against syria it is doubly a situation in which they are opening up a nother front in the war against the government of bashar al assad 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 the syrian government has been quite resolute in his campaign against these rebels over the last two years although the rebel organizations many of which are backed by the united states and the other nato countries have caused a lot of disruption and dislocation inside of syria they have not shaken the result of the syrian government to maintain its position of authority inside the country so this is of course is another effort on the part of the backers of these rebels

to further weaken and destabilize the government in damascus. bug areas government whereis over energy independence and still get past a block of us and finance their power plant after invalidating a national referendum that backs the construction plan. the first in mali there's growing concern over how french and local forces are handling the fight against islamist mainly information is lacking on civilian casualties and mali and troops are now being accused of war crimes we managed to get our hands on exclusive footage of their alleged atrocities and spoke to local journalists gonzalo wants about its origins as we continue moving north we find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of war crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of survivor not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok to in the center of

the town they can the rest of the population watch rules or hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants 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 wasn't a terrorist and i was just thirsty then i was put into prison i am no terrorist 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 cooking food for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs and 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. the french abzar retaking the final major city of canal front from the islamist isis they say they will soon leave mali handling operations over to government troops but loder news international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says this is a bad idea considering the low discipline and lack of funding in the west african nation. 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 have very little dominance at set as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can your existed people and examine what they do you can't you just ground in

a country like 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 but you certainly do as it is this kind of action judicial executions but eternally surprises me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs honor 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 also fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the french led military campaign more on this as well as images from the conflict torn country on our website our to the dot com.

here at senate is expected to grow one of the president one of president obama's most controversial choices for a key job in his cabinet chuck hagel is likely to be quizzed on everything from relations with israel and the arab world to his view of women in the military during his confirmation hearing to be the new defense secretary are you going to can explain why certain political groups are so against his nominations. 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 our december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between commercials of beauty products prescription drugs and what dot so somewhere between those you could catch

attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on the right people voted against illegal 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 legal says military action is not a viable he should be 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 a 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 of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel there 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 has 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 historic. but it need not and care about the 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 withdrawn their objections over chuck hagel nomination some say could be because they received assurances behind closed doors that defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies. for hundreds of four hundred i should say million dollars in debt and ukraine has to ask russia for more time to pay find out all mind how it managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out. and craving for

call energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you at our dot com. but various government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project now the vote was invalidated due to a low turnout vogue areas allies in europe and the us feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia. room and. charles i should say says authorities did their best to bring the vote down.

it was. very sorry about that having a bit of technical problems you can go online to listen to that we have corresponded for you next hour meanwhile trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece. after a break we also report on the new flurry of protests paralyzing greece as citizens face up to a government bent on that still more austerity. and eric schmidt says there are many monsters lurking in the dark spots of the world wide web but stay with us and find out what the google chairman is so concerned about. the.

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here with r t live from moscow athens has again ground to a halt with public transport workers and doctors joining a twenty four hour walk out over pension cuts it comes a day after protesters entered the labor minister's office with police and demonstrators then clashing in the streets lawyer george cut through gallows says the heavy handed response from authorities was intended to send a message that. the government has decided to follow up on receipt of zero tolerance as it say's ideas that is distance to the state to measure us so we have steam the government to take the medicine measures that they are unconstitutional against that he sent it now we have seen the order that were released very violently against a generally peaceful and the most recent where only seem the last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda try to convince us that it now is it worse is

becoming that there isn't i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set of policies of which thirty minutes of the fourth leave us has condemned good use. of slow death that this recession of the economy going to actually move the economy on a third source of measures pope or both better in season of the population and also the socialites i think that as far as what we're following this said that. there's of course. britain's government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them that's according to a new report putting a damper on david cameron's plans to create a lower tax country a figure so almost three hundred thirty hikes from the ruling coalition further complicating an already notorious system artie's probably boycott picks up the story. 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 news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the 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 air passenger duty which means more expensive air travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased. for hairdressers renting a chair in the south lawn and then who can forget the recent. good scandal when u.k. tax code stated that it 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 tax codes. increases prices and it lowers wages

so the time when families are struggling with the rising cost of living. so many tax increases. 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 there 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. and a few minutes max keiser and stacy herbert focus on how british authorities are handling the financial crisis and how they've tried to manipulate public perception.

google's eric smith has put forward a scary vision of what the internet could become in the near future he says hackers could use the web to launch attacks with drones and that embarrassing information about you could be stored and used against you at any time. as 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's worth one point five billion dollars and the chairman of google voiced his views on in the internet and the dangers that lurk within it warned that technology becomes cheaper and easier to use cyber terrorists could use the web to run a drone war essential your nerd in california could follow 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 appearance of their critics call this online ethnic cleansing moreover a cyber identities that 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 carriage to all or fifty 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 schmidt also pointed to the record so much of our lives are 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 powerful it turns will have to teach children about cyber safety before safe sex well these are only predictions but 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. now to some international news in brief the north korean leader kim jong has reportedly imposed martial law and told just troops to be ready for war as a nuclear test looms and the isolated communist state is why the expected to hold its third ever test late next month meanwhile hundreds of protesters in south korea have called for the north to back down from its military threats so has one part there will be grave consequences if it goes ahead with you know to your destination . iran has said it will install modern centrifuges in the natanz nuclear facility three hundred kilometers south of the capital tehran this could allow the government to enrich nuclear material more quickly stiff sanctions have previously been imposed on iran by a group of countries including e.u.

members and the u.s. concerned the country's program is for military purposes iran says its nuclear work is peaceful. more than one hundred people have protested in johannesburg against proposal electricity price hikes by the country's largest and human supplier it's a company eskom has asked the national energy regulator to allow it to raise prices by more than fifteen percent a year for five years unions are concerned higher bills will badly in the standard of living of portugal across south africa. egypt's top politicians have reportedly signed a document renounce of widespread violence at protests across the country they remain came at a meeting chaired by the country's most influential islamic scholar attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of liberal and secular opposition movements a meeting was called as president morsi visited germany forcing him to cut short

his trip blogger and journalist while eskander says if morsi had received european backing tensions may have spiked out of control. i think the public good. 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 editors arrested people and 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's he has and 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 steps taking the country forward towards

a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. place edition of the kaiser report is coming up in a couple of minutes for you here. 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 losing 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 the somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report episode number of fora hundred i'm max kaiser for four hundred episodes we've been exposing markets finance scandal jamie diamond silver liberation german gold collateral faking zombie banking paper printing the bond apocalypse currency wars oh reason. yes max zero bills above is in the headlines but first i want to get is set this up in that you and i watched an interview with the legendary photojournalist who is often a war war reporter don mcallen and he said referring to his time in vietnam he said that he often slept next to corpses and in war one gets.