lol a a. lamp zero. the fight goes on violent crackdowns by egyptian police in cairo on protesters demanding the resignation of president mohamed morsi. so based on. israel faces an international backlash over its alleged to ask strike on a damascus recess center in syria which reportedly killed at least two people.

and the u.s. political elites and dos new secretaries for state and defense would neither expect to train in america is a foreign policy. the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here and i'll say it was me your leisure paula hello and welcome to the program set in egypt has ended a second awake 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 is so brutal crackdowns by police on demonstrators and reports. from cairo i personally witnessed

a lot of police brutality there's been a criticism of the place in the ministry of interior. i'm off the footage was broadcast of a protester stripped 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 that picture and he was just into any threats towards the police caught his trousers by his ankles was trying to face down and then a hit with truncheons people 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 blood shot to shot him he fell to the ground the mistakes taken by an ambulance this comes off a protest is three more talks on the palace yesterday after which the security forces have reclines with the excessive use of tear gas many people are condemning the police this morning saying this is another example all police because if you just making security pulls his hands of one of the keys i'm on to the resolution

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's second so possible 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 c.v. said preconditions we do see this see this kind 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 different prime minister has meanwhile had his car pelted with stuns and bottles in cairo's tahrir square according to local media mostly decisive measures to dealing with the unrest with the military enjoying expanded powers

during a month long state of the magine see the president made a brief trip to germany but cancelled his paris visit due to the rest journalist and political activist while as condign says the most is european travels only serve to increase tension in his own country is going to the europe trip to secure funds perhaps for for egypt but but what will you do with these funds when he's very hesitant and they you know he cannot even run his country how it works he left at a time when the police were exercising extreme brutality with a lot of people killed in the port. so where is him imposing the emergency law which he. promised he would never would. so so it's actually has the present and i think he's just trying to secure international relationships so that he can oppress the people you know back in his country the french box

intervention in mali has been marred by alleged human rights abuses with activists accusing the joint forces of killing civilians torture and ethnic reprisals by the local arming and with the media attention focused on the visit of president francois hollande information about the reported atrocities he's hardtop tain on his got an exclusive report from one of the war ravaged areas. well you my little focus is not on the ticket today molly's attention is gripped by the visit of president francois hollande to team group two where the french military's victory over islamist terrorists was celebrated so triumphantly in this mop the area we've discovered allegations of war crimes information about them is under the control of mali's military government. i think it's getting more and more that he called to talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses off saying that people climbing up and feeling the heat they are scared to speak

a lot of people here. very few fool the malian army seems to be doing whatever it can to prevent people from speaking to up a new take on the law but in this government took advantage of the media's interest in all and for the first time visited the city's worst affected by hostilities and today in the town of qana we were surprised by the arrival of mamadou seabed the minister for humanitarian action and solidarity this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to people who regard the capital as remote from them and this visit in this event staged by politicians coincided with the publication of reports by international organizations such as amnesty international and human rights watch alleging atrocities crimes and violence on both sides for instance in qana several civilians were reportedly killed in french air force shelling we tried to interview the injured however were unable to obtain evidence in

a community that has until now been strictly regulated by the military authorities . he said to the ministry says an investigation is under way it won't go so far no evidence has been provided an eleven a judicial system do its job and these governments all its people and military man with a well a way of current events and we know that we cannot play the game of course yes. the government has been attempting to assert political power despite very poor infrastructure today we spoke to an army private on his way back from god he told us he hadn't been paid or eaten properly for fifteen days if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. by. the french president during his visit to mali said terrorism has been repelled but not wiped out from salam to reiterate is the

operation will go on for as long as necessary with the u.k. joining the efforts by pledging several hundred troops for non-combat support and germany corben unable member of the u.k. parliament says a person could be in for a lengthy stay in mali. david cameron is getting sucked into something that i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france with insane force protection to back up the transport planes we send trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we don't have surveillance aircraft going over there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we're being dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what the term to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups you then have

a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long high tech surveillance. warfare being conducted by the french and possibly was britain and others. against people that know the terrain very worldly hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. on wednesday news of israel's as tricon syria brogue the arab league slammed israel for its alleged as strikes describing it as a flagrant aggression and a violation of syria's sovereignty moscow's and that if that is confirmed it will be an abuse of the u.n. charter serious as israeli jets destroyed a military research center near damascus killing at least two western diplomats and syrian rebels claim the target was unarmed convoy near lebanon's border destined for hezbollah militants israel has kept silent about reports that edge to attack follows multiple failed attempts by rebel groups to storm the complex iran great

aerated that it will continue to support c. or in the face of foreign aggression and by your way as a k. we added open africa news as editor why 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 inevitably a situation in which they are opening up a not a 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 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. has been a hint of a more a current efforts to broker and thence to see where this conflict russia's foreign minister my bonito the opposition syrian national coalition on both sides lines of a new nick security conference and both parties agreed that is a mountain to climb before negotiations between rebels and the government can happen how has today's house. 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 sundown for a meeting with moyes out of the t.v. 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 it's well 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 the go see a sions with the current syrian government syria featured very highly in the address that was given by sergey lavrov to the the security conference he also told directly to russia's western partners as a second 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 does 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 surrogate laughed it off 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. you're watching us here live from moscow and coming your way in just. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become. he talks to a former cia officer who became a whistleblower on a market stall and is now waiting to serve time to hope he's in prison.

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thanks. thanks. thanks. thank you. this is aussie live from moscow welcome back they us political establishment is continuing to endorse new chiefs defines a secretary nominee chuck hagel was grilled by the senate this week while senator john kerry has been sworn in as u.s. secretary of state kerry took over from hillary clinton and as international studies professor stephen zinn's told r.t. his likely to be a very old school in his approach. as an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that would authorize the war but. not only. making up the stance of

tales about massive biological chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear program and delivery systems the literary systems that are going but you know when it was clear that that was all brought on the so-called weapons of mass destruction you said you wouldn't vote for the war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible dictator and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapons sometimes mention of course my back right here together we're going to thirty countries will start hearing that i have the privilege of. unconventional weapons and kerry was essentially they can reopen certain lines of hey we have a right you know adelaide and he is putting aside the moral and legal arguments no iraq was just asterisk we're now in libya we're seeing all those consequences in terms of two hundred thousand men under arms. and these militias not controlled by the government you see the fault of the mali to algeria elsewhere is the same part

of shortsightedness that we've seen so many other politicians in washington. in the first man convicted of america's prison torture program is waiting to start to turn to harvey a jail sentence but a decorated cia veteran john kiriakou didn't interrogate anyone his plan was to tell the wild about washington's then secret for a run and in one of his final interviews before being locked away he told us exactly what he thinks 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 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. the timing closure of guantanamo bay as promised by president obama four years ago is as far away as ever the montages to with shutting down the detention center has been transferred and while investigations into america's so-called black science abroad have revealed little so huge details have been released from a years long probe into covert cia drills in poland in particular and there's. a report even if this were forthcoming just this might not be. one tunnel may hold all the headlines but all the interested it means people are moving their focus elsewhere so-called black sites secret prisons were established by the cia during its well publicized war on terror unlike the cause however these secret facilities were never publicly discussed by the authorities the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva

conventions to international law and humanitarian law reports suggest such prisons were in existence from two thousand and two basically not long after the events of nine eleven the us government denied the existence of these prisons until two thousand and six now the only country in europe which has acknowledged the presence of a secret cia facility on its territory is lithuania and if you were to look at it you will you will see something almost a deliberate site except for the imposing fences surrounding it likewise a suspected secret prison poland is believed to be located here apparently in one of the most beautiful spots in the country according to various reports mostly from journalists or human rights organizations so-called high value detainees were flown in by the cia for interrogation at these polish facilities. i managed to get records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have learned an

aircraft used by the cia very important evidence because until then everyone denied bs landings and reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what is on earth during its course remains unknown therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who what where when and how all of it remains a mystery and building investigation is rumored to conclude next month by the looks of it whatever its outcome it may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet. and on r.t. dot com for you right now iran demonstrators are growing self-reliant rolling out of design for homemade bided jets which officials say are designed for defense purposes only and can evade radar so take

a closer lens on our website. for you right now soldiers use tear gas and stun grenades against a group of palestinians erected a tent camp in protest at settlement expansion in the west bank we'll bring you more analysis on background on r.t. dot com. well gary's government is expected to suspend the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was deemed invalid because of a low turnout the government said it was halting construction because of the high cost of the plant although some experts suggest balgair is allies in europe and the u.s. fears the project could mean energy dependence on russia and remain of charles says authorities did their best to bring the vote down. you have to go that. using clear nuclear power for approximately forty years and the.

country also votes that were losing very. very real world problems in the super bowl year and so on usually supporting nuclear power just. approximately twenty percent just because of the efforts of the. majority but have created a special new special commission in the parliament just just for that is that people look to have all the support purple want but even in this condition for voting. and to some other news stories making headlines this hour at least also. three people have been told that some seventy injured after a group of gunmen under suicide bomber carried out attacks in the northern iraqi city of kirkuk they were targeting the police headquarters but failed to take control of the compound no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet for

kurds as an ass make a divided city deeply in broiled in a sectarian conflicts between shit faddish and sunni factions. roadside bomb attack in southern province of afghanistan has killed a family of five two of the victims were small children they were travelling by car when it ran over an explosive device it's not known whether the family was targeted on purpose. in spain riot police clash with hundreds of protesters in the capital madrid outrage was sparked after point minister of the holy denied corruption allegations and vowed not to resign or has been accused of receiving of receiving more than two hundred fifty thousand euros in bribes or a decade the opposition is planning more demonstrations across the country if he doesn't step down and the pictures you're seeing right now among us from recently formed international media news agency ruptly. under greece

thousands of supporters of the extreme right golden dawn party much past the u.s. embassy in the torchlight procession there were chanting and to us and anti turkish slogans to commemorate a boarding 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 adrian sea with the tigris military accused of shooting it down. so greece was also hit by austerity strikes this week and this time protests as were angry at an imminent round of cuts to pay and pensions hundred bottles with police after storming the building of the labor minister's office and lord george could regard as the authorities response was part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up all of the c. of zero thought that us as its ace idea is the that is distance to the state to measure us so we have steam the government to take in medicine measures that they

are opposed to do so another idea is that they sent stocks and now we have soon door there it will release luck very violently against a generally peaceful and the most recent when it seemed the last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda try to convince us that now their worst is becoming best there is i don't believe that this is that is exactly because we are following this same set the full resources of was thirty minutes notice that the first three hears because content greece the us fight of slow death that this recession of the economy going to axiom of the economy and a third source of measures oh by the vote but i do see some of the book relieves you and also that the source of that it's i think that us fighters are well aware of these said that. there's not cool us. and it's lead free here and i'll say getting the same treatment as the treated medical was

a sin far rain claim they are constantly targeted by the authorities for treason does cut an anti-government demo. and also i had would take a look at how one of britain's oldest and local shops has found a way to survive against the domination of sopa stalls and the struggling economy all the details after a short break. the first baby steps are joy. folds and bones 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 can make old. i'm source way.