before i go it's on the violent crime down by egyptian police in cairo on protesters demanding the resignation of president mohamed morsi. is row places an international backlash over its alleged as strike on a damascus research center in syria which reportedly killed at least two people. one hundred former senator and white house hopeful john kerry takes over as u.s. secretary of state bringing with him expectations of normal to say. the latest news on the week's top stories this is their weekly here on r.c. with me kulish above all of us thanks for joining us the turmoil in egypt has ended a second week with the opposition stepping up calls for president mohamed morsi to

resign the latest wave of violent protests so one pass and killed and more than fifty injured in clashes near the presidential palace well true so brutal crackdowns by police on demonstrators and reports now from cairo. i personally witnessed a lot of police brutality there's been a criticism of the police in the ministry of interior i'm off the footage was broadcast all the proof of a protester. beaten and trying to cross the tarmac i saw this with my own eyes it could just but i this balcony the man who did no picture and he was just in to any threats towards the police caught his trousers by his ankles was dragged face down and then a hit with truncheons before being taken off in a vehicle and later i also saw police go down an employee of a restaurant just off the front line the man was trying to get he said before the police officer with bird shot to shot him he fell to the ground which makes taken

by an ambulance this comes off a protest is three more talks on the palace yesterday after which the security forces of replying with the excessive use of tear gas many people are condemning the police this morning saying this is another example of all police brutality that makes in the security forces hands of one of the keep them on to the revolution something that president morsi must address there are still people on to her square and protest plans in the future opposition forces on not it's backing down there has been calls from both sides for dialogue the president said and so it's also a dialogue with the opposition forces ahmed el baradei one of the need is of another salvation front said he would engage in dialogue on the condition that they would be the day the government would be to resign and national salvation government would take over and the constitution would be revoked the president himself has said he will not this in t.v. set preconditions we do see this you see this type of company any time in the future so we expect the violence in the streets the protests across the country in

the coming weeks. the gyptian prime minister has meanwhile had his car pelted with stones and bottles in cairo's tahrir square according to local media president morsi warned of decisive measures in dealing with down the rest with the military enjoying expanded powers during a month long state of emergency imposed last week the protesters accused there is a mis leader of betraying the twenty eleven hour prizing and activist yes it is my old says morsi is repeating the mistakes of his predecessor and this is very unfortunate that president morsi has repeated the mistake over. the mubarak of egypt. that the i believe he was the same people that run the country in the same fashion and that's very unfortunate because the outcome of arc is very very clear. you have a second job to do to look forward to walk with this guy with this practice continuing on the street and the brutality and the lack of security the unemployment has to

meet a new generation of problems really for forcing his agenda on the people. there was nothing changing the reality that people are working and training under mubarak for thirty years they are running from the. books of the people because its only way to know how to do with the block action not what the police are still there running the country with the seat that the. dictatorship of mubarak and they don't know how to do differently the french banks intervention in mali has been marred by and large human rights abuses with active it's accusing the joint forces of killing civilians torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army the u.i. is on to genocide and what he says he was deeply disturbed by the reports also he obtained an exclusive firsthand account from one family who found victim to the intervention. grosser that out of one of us as betty ellis the war became

a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the segura region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital by marco the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who are left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid is the price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. late my brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but missed and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we laid his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. just because this is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plaguing the weakest the most no

one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. the french president during his visit to mali said terrorism has been repelled but not wiped out as those reports of human rights abuses continue to mount and the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament a lot when you used says that criminal investigations into those allegations that too much to ask for. what i hear now is how this surprises me i mean that first of all the million army does hold a grudge against the people who asked them from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and at very little or armaments at such as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only a hardly a state apparatus functioning how can your existed people and examine what they do you can't you just ground nick 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 but you certainly will do is say this is kind of actually judicial executions but entirely surprise 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. you're watching the weekly here on aussie and coming your way in just a few minutes. we don't realize how much of a police state the united states has become so r.t. talk stouffer was a cia officer who became a whistleblower on america's story for a while and is now waiting to serve turned a half years in prison. greece's labor ministry headquarters turns into a battleground as hundreds of protesters brawl with police over imminent potential

cuts as a reporter late. on wednesday news of these roles and strike on sea where broke the arab league slammed for his alleged air strikes describing it as flagrant aggression and a violation of syria's sovereignty. is confirmed it will be an abuse of the u.n. charter so us as israeli jets destroyed a military research center near damascus killing at least two western diplomats and syrian rebels claim the target was an arms called born near lebanon's border destined for hezbollah militants israel has kept silent about the reports that led to attack for use in multiple failed attempts by rebel groups to storm the conflicts and only as a kiwi editor pan african newswire says it's all part of a wider plan to bring down the syrian government. well it's quite interesting that the 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 there has been quite resolute in its 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. that is what a hint of a breakthrough in efforts to broker an end to see where this conflict russia's foreign minister met the need of the opposition syrian national coalition on the sidelines of a new nick security conference both parties agree but as

a mountain to climb before negotiations between rebels and the government can happen on his petone of a hospital south park. this is the biggest security conference really in the world and arguably syria is one of the biggest security issues in the world right now sergey lavrov son down for a meeting with more is our see of who's the leader of the syrian national coalition the foreign minister of russia coming away seemingly quite happy from the meeting he said upon his arrival back in moscow that swell. the syrian national coalition seem to willing to speak with the current syrian government citing the fact that the whole reason that the national coalition exists in the first place is because they had previously refused to talk to president assad however sergey lavrov did err on the side of caution saying that there was no guarantees that this dialogue would take place bringing up the point that the coalition is so frank amended they

can hardly really agree with themselves never mind sit down to open negotiations with the current syrian government syria featured very highly in the address that was given by surrogate love rove to the the security conference he also told directly to russia's western partners as called for unity and trying to bring in an end to the violence and bring discussion to the forefront rather than talk of international intervention he did however raise a few questions towards russia's western partners suggesting there was it worth while pursuing their mantra of regime change in countries like syria at the expense of terrorist acts being cast a blind eye to as those acts take place against the civilian population and the the syrian army we also saw around two thousand people gather elsewhere in munich in protest against what they say is they just continuing growth across europe that was

relatively peaceful but it was also a topic that had been touched on by saying for of in his address where he said that there was no real need for nato to expand in the way that it was in those two thousand or so people in the city also voicing the similar opinion. and on r.t. dot com for you right now iran demonstrated the growing self-reliance rolling out an old design for hollow made fighter jets which officials say are designed for defense purposes only and can evade radar so take a closer glimpse on our website. and also days really soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades against a group of palestinians who elected erected a tent camp in protest at settlement expansion in the west the buying so i will bring you more analysis and ground on r.t. dot com. the us political establishment is continuing to endorse new chiefs senator john kerry was sworn in as u.s.

secretary of state this week while defense troops nominee chuck hago was grilled by the senate a goal sees military forces as a last resort of you which has attracted both admiration and criticism among american politicians and some experts believe washington is far from finished with its foreign military campaigns no matter who's in charge at the pentagon. president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope to mizzen was there with shutting down get mo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking

about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people the fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that whoever is secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spinning us into having the finest mind convicted of america's prison torture program is waiting to start and to end a hopeless jail sentence that's decorated cia veteran john kiriakou didn't interrogate anyone his crime was to tell the wild about washington's event secret and want to his final internees before being locked away he told r.t. exactly what hope things he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were

able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just a part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone

aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. we're watching our see and still ahead for you this hour fighting to stamp load but take a look at how one of britain's all those local shops has found a way to survive against the domination of super stores and a struggling economy. also had medical workers in bahrain claim they are constantly targeted by the authorities for treating those hard in antigovernment demos we investigate. the government is expected to suspend the russian of finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after

a national referendum voted in favor of the project to vote however it was deemed invalid because of the low turnout the government said it was halting construction because of the high cost of the plant although some experts suggest while gary's allies in europe and the us fears the project could mean energy dependence on russia and m.p. a real man of charles says authorities did their best to bring the ball down. your particular good. using clear nuclear. approximately forty years and the souls of. all three books that were losing very. very real world war. once the super bowl units usually supporting nuclear power or just. more were. approximately twenty percent just because of the efforts of the ruling majority but they have created special new special commissions in the parliament. just

for that is the people look towards local support. even in distributions bulgarian voting. was a co-worker's in crisis log bahrain say they're being targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say they were tribunal has been severe while the government says it's investigating the allegations. of skin looks at both at risk for trying to help. nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the all thorough turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taken to

a place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up. there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my torture she she was beating me and she took to q. to me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals grounds into the scene of the rally the sound money hospital is bahrain's leading medical institution and that's where most of the arrests have been made after those events it now looks like a fortress guarded heavily by the right police and not everybody can get in human rights activists say if you had suffered for speaking out against the regime and decided to come here for treatment you could make matters even worse for yourself

anyone who was injured from the protests they cannot go to the hospital because they would be arrested in the gated beaten and taking to the jail last year many protester and in jail where torture insults and money we have a story and testimony of people and protester being tortured and jail but in my country protests there were tortured inside. britain not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands resilient that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do. these doctors managed to control the emergency

unit in the first floor of the hospital and started to perform political acts when a hospital is journeyed to the base for political and sick work this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight condemn the acts of these doctors and the case against one of the members of the world family may seem as an indication that bahrain's government has bowed to the negative global reaction with the doctor scandal being far from the only torture accusation c.c.t.v. cameras have been installed at all prisons in a move to become more transparent according to the authorities but with protests in the gulf states still continuing and accusations of human rights violations intensifying the opposition is still wondering what happens in the places where the cameras cannot see. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. and to some other news making headlines this hour in spain riot police clash with

hundreds of person in the capital a trade outrage was sparked after prime minister raw oid denied corruption allegations and about to resign or has been accused of receiving more than two hundred fifty thousand heroes and bribes over a decade position as wanting her to aspirations across the country if he doesn't step down and the pictures you're seeing right now on the fast from recently. the hearing news agency grossly. d.n.a. tags have fun to set aside wallet from a turkish extreme left organization carried out an attack on the u.s. embassy in turkish capital on koran a security guard was killed by the explosion on the mission's entrance on friday police have arrested three people the radical group being blamed strongly condemns or they see as u.s. influence over the nation and calls turkish prime minister type of one an american puppet. in a for me

a romanian passenger plane with fifty people on board overshot the runway at rome's main airport at least six people were injured two seriously as the aircraft and it up on the grass and tipped on to its way in because of the accident isn't known yet but officials are suggesting high winds and bad weather conditions could be to blame. in greece thousands of supporters of the extreme right golden dawn party marched past the give us embassy in a torchlight procession so they were chanting anti us and anti terrorist slogans to commemorate a border incident that caused a crisis between greece and turkey seventeen years ago at the time a greek helicopter crashed over a disputed island in the agency but the turkish military accused of shooting it down. greece is also hit by a stir to strike this week this time protesters were angry at an imminent round of cuts to pay and pensions hundreds battled with police after storming the building

of the labor minister's office and lord george who drew gallows thought his response was part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up on lucy of all of us as a good ses i do use the that is distance to your state emissions sure we've got a scheme going to take emergency measures that they are. they sent stocks it now we have seen the order it would least like very violently against a generally peaceful and kind of the most recent where only seem the last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda that i have to convince us that now is the worse it's become best there is i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set of course is overstated news is that it for three years has condemned these last five years of slow death that this recession

of the economy going to actually move the economy on a third choice other measures followed by a focus on season of the population and also affect the socialites i think that as far as what we're following this said of course is there's no cornish. economists in the u.k. how warned recent heavy snowfall in britain could push us into a triple dip recession independent retailers already face a struggle to keep going as it is but also his point of boyko went to see one ancient business which has turned the tide and is a thriving with a little help from its friends it's older than buckingham palace and tower bridge and it's been a local store in the heart of rural east england for three hundred and seventy years visits as you stumble across the it's a ring a village shop in this remote region of norfolk say that it's like an oasis in the middle of the desert. it was faced with going out of business until twenty five

villages stepped in raise five thousand pounds to keep it open and off but to what them for free i couldn't live in this village without. the community made sure the village of. the free workforce allows it to stay open and breakeven i think people who are happy in their lives by working for free. to come in and do something knowing that your contribution has a meaning or purpose isn't. it just heritage and we want to make sure it does continue for the next generation volunteers here say that there are two secrets to success locally sourced projects means that they're propping up the local economy take for example your free range eggs delivered from a nearby village there's a second recess secret alerts the famous chocolate biscuits. travel far and wide this homemade treat but even with volunteers staying open is hard the

onslaught of major national chains has immense buying power attempts with food sold for next to nothing has killed off thousands of independent british shops leaving villages and now wake up against supermarkets and we all use supermarkets but to be able to have a local store which does local produce and is something where you can chat to people you meet everybody the gossip because i mean here is amazing it would be dreadful if we'd all sit through something like this you can never get it back again and they're not alone in getting together to save their small shop from extinction there are three hundred other community stores in some of the u.k.'s most rural pockets winning customers by knowing that retail means detail. in really difficult economic times but they're really punching above their weight shops are offering something. very often quite different from what a supermarket is. offering for example they off the cuff

a storefront postal services they're offering somewhere to go in and talk to your neighbors and your friends and if working for free is what it takes to keep it hearing him shop open and so be it you know and you. really do it's the kind of spirit that could see this tiny stall whether the wost and hopefully stay open for another three hundred yeahs polyploid see north norfolk u.k. and after a short break alice he travels to one of the coldest readers in the world so i will look at how people survive the often extreme weather conditions that.