military campaign in mali a success so far but questions arise over alleged human rights violations in the west african nation. israel faces an international backlash over its alleged airstrike on a. in syria which reportedly killed at least two people.

on the u.s. political elite to endorse new state. with neither expected to change much in america's foreign policy. where you are just in time for the weekly he with me will receive we're highlighting the top stories over the week and of today. now the french about intervention in mali has been marred by human rights abuses with activists accusing the joint forces of killing civilians torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army and with the media attention focused on the visit of president francois hollande information about the reported atrocities is rather hard to get so we did manage to get there an exclusive report from one of the war ravaged areas. i am

a little focus this time on the day he goes 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 really meant becoming 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 open as they put it this government took advantage of the media's interest in all and for the first time visited the city's worst affected by hostilities today in the town of qana we were surprised by the

arrival of mom i do see the bad 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 for them with 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 of 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. and the ministry says an investigation is underway has got so far no evidence has been provided so let the judicial system do its job to list all of these government its people and military are well aware of current events and we

know that we cannot play this game. 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 even properly for fifteen days and see if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. now the french president during his visit to mali's said that terrorism has been repelled but not wiped out francois hollande reiterated the operation will go on for as long as necessary now with the u.k. joining the efforts by pledging several hundred troops for non combat support a german call been a labor m.p. a member of the u.k. parliament says britain 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 we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been 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 a 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 well will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict are turning our attention now to that of egypt

reaching its second week of turmoil now with your position stepping up calls for president mohamed morsi to resign and the latest wave of violence and protests one person killed and more than fifty injured in clashes near the presidential palace over sixty people of died throughout the country since the latest protests began. well the egyptian prime minister as meanwhile had his car pelted with stones and bottles in cairo's tahrir square this according to local media president morsi warned of decisive measures in dealing with the unrest with the military now enjoying expanded powers during a month long state of emergency imposed last week the protesters accuse the islamist leader of betraying the twenty eleven uprising a claim but he denies activist just sort of smile says that morsi is repeating the mistakes of his predecessor. but this is very unfortunate that. he is repeating the mistake over. the mubarak of egypt. i believe he uses the

people that run the country in the same fashion and that's very unfortunate because the outcome of mubarak was very very clear. that the second term to look forward for which is kind of this practice continuing on the street and the eternity and the lack of security the unemployment it has meet a new generation problem really for. the people. there is nothing changing the reality that people who work in and train under mubarak for years they are running from there's the in the books the people because the only way to know how to do the top echelons of the police is still there and running the country with the seat that. the leadership of mubarak and they don't know how to do differently. it was on wednesday when news of israel's air strike on syria broke the arab league slammed israel for its alleged as strikes describing it as

a flagrant aggression and a violation of syria's sovereignty and moscow said that if the attack is confirmed it will be an abuse of the u.n. charter syria says israeli jets destroyed a military research center near damascus killing at least two western diplomats and syrian rebels claim the target was an arms convoy near lebanon's. border destined for hezbollah militants iran reiterated it will continue to support syria in the face of aggression this is russia's foreign minister met the leader of the opposition syrian national coalition on the sidelines of a munich security conference both parties agreed there's a mountain to climb before negotiations between the rebels and the government can happen if you figure all of it has more on this. 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 such down for a meeting with moyes out of the t.v. he's the leader of the syrian national coalition the foreign minister of russia

coming away seemingly quite happy for the this 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 fragmented he could hardly really agree with themselves never mind sit down to open the gates the ations 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 sin 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 surrogate laughed it off in his address where he said that there was no real need. to expand in the way that it was in those two thousand or so people in the city also voicing the similar opinion. one appear over putting right now marcus papadopoulos or the editor of politics first magazine says that while the sideline meeting was

a good thing the still an awfully long way to go the meeting between the leader of the so the planes syrian national coalition and the foreign ministers of russia and iran is an acknowledgment by the leader of the syrian national coalition that the syrian government it's not going to be defeated on the military battlefield and in his acknowledgement that thousands of syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and all because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar at being followed in weapons and cash so the militants in syria i think certainly lateral the russian foreign minister said last year how surprised he was by the way he did see the form of a syrian opposition in calling perceptual kristen's sat to go from power to resign to step down except that's not the way diplomacy works that's not the way peace process put together hillary clinton about

a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands flow unfortunately it's more the countries saudi arabia gets on saudi arabia we have the blood of thousands upon thousands of syrian civilians on their hands because of their own geo strategic ambitions i.e. to see that removal of presence is sad and the syrian government's. you're watching on t.v. it's a good to have you with us today and still to come your way in just a few. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become. a former cia officer who became a whistleblower on america's torture program is now waiting to see two and a half years in prison. and greece's labor ministry headquarters turns into a battleground hundreds of protesters brawl with the police so the imminent pension cuts that and more after a quick break. here

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live from moscow this is on the us political establishment continuing to endorse new chiefs defense 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 many analysts believe he is likely to be rather old school in his current approach you know there may be some changes in style and tone but there won't be a change in substance to to kerry and clinton any more frankly than there was between kind of these already seventy three clinton in the last twenty years even in the last since bush and obama what is really change trey's first rate wars in afghanistan and pakistan and now they're positioning so-called missiles the fence which is essentially a first rate weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and his

assertion of his right to ordered the killing of american citizens anywhere in the world is kerry going to stand up an international forums and say no that's wrong we can't do that i don't think so neither did hillary clinton. the first man convicted over america's prison torture program is now waiting to stop a two and a half year jail sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou didn't interrogate anyone rather his crime was to tell the world about washington's then secret program one of his final interviews before being locked away he told us there were dots he exactly what he thinks why he's being punished. 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 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. are you watching that we can hear or not see with me researchers still ahead for you in this hour fighting to stay afloat we'll take a look at how one of britain's oldest local shops has found a way to survive against the domination of superstores and an ever struggling economy. but somehow a bug areas government is expected to suspend the russian finance construction of a nuclear power plant and this comes after a national referendum sora vote in favor of the project and the ballot however was deemed invalid due to a low turnout the government said it was holding construction because it can't afford the high cost of the plan although some experts suggest that bog areas

allies in europe and the u.s. just fear the project could mean energy dependence on russia then maybe rumors of charge off says that earth or he's used every angle they could to get a no. you have to take him to go that we are using clear nuclear power of approximately forty years and the source of. all three books that were using very safe very real world will look once in the super bowl year in cern usually supporting nuclear power or just. more with. approximately twenty percent just because of the fear for the. majority but i think if created special new special commissions in the parliament. who are going to just go there is the people look to have all the support. but even in these conditions bulgarian vote. and on r.t.

dot com for you right now iran demonstrates its growing self reliance rolling out a bold design for homemade fighter jets which official said designed for defense purposes only and can evade radar i take a closer look a much closer look on our website at some doggone. for you israeli soldiers using tear gas and stun grenades against a group of palestinians who are. in protest at settlement expansion in the west. background on the web site. twenty minutes past the hour moscow time let's get into it now the world update some other global headlines for you in brief starting with iraq at least thirty three people have reportedly been killed some seventy injured after a group of gunmen and of suicide bomber carried out a northern iraqi city of they were targeting the police headquarters but failed to take control of the compound no group claimed responsibility the ethnically divided

city a deeply embroiled in sectarian. a roadside bomb attack in the southern the province of afghanistan has killed a family of five a two of the victims were small children they were traveling by car when it ran over an explosive device it's not yet known whether the family was targeted on purpose roadside bombs are a favorite weapon for taliban islamists fighting the western backed government but innocent civilians are often caught in the crossfire. to spain where riot police have clashed with hundreds of protesters in madrid outrage respond after the prime minister denied corruption allegations and not to resign has been accused of receiving more than two hundred fifty thousand euros in bribes over a decade if your position is planning more demonstrations across the country if he doesn't step down the pictures you're seeing now are among the first for marty's recently formed international video called raptly. and to greece where thousands

of supporters of the extreme right golden dawn party marched past the u.s. embassy in a procession they were chanting anti us and anti turkish slogans to commemorate a border incident that caused a crisis between greece and turkey seventeen years ago back at the time though a greek helicopter crashed over a disputed island in the aegean the turkish military accused of shooting it down. was also hit by austerity strikes 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 lawyer george country says the authorities response was part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up all the c. of zero dollar us as it sees ideas that is distance to their state emissions so we have steam to the government to take the medicine measures that they are of

course to do so another idea is that there isn't it now we have seen the order it will release very violently against identity and kind of the most recent when it seemed the last three or four weeks i campaigning for propaganda try to convince us that now the world has become a mess that is i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set the full resources of was thirty minutes of the fourth the hears has condemned greece just fine on a slow death that this recession of the economy going to actually move the economy on a third source other measures hope by a vote when i see some of the book releasing and also look at that the source writes i think that as far as what we're following this said to offer up all this is there's no call for us. and believe or not a economists in the u.k.

have recently warned about the heavy snowfall in britain that it could actually lead into a triple dip recession independent retailers though already face a struggle to keep going as it is but also as polly barker went to see one ancient business which has turned the tide and is thriving with little help from its friends kim palace mtow a bridge and it's been a local store in the heart of rural easting land for three hundred and seventy years this is you stumble across the altering and village shop in this remote region of norfolk say that it's like an oasis in the middle of the does it. it was faced with going out of business until twenty five villages stepped in raise five thousand pounds to keep it open and offered to walk them for free i couldn't live in this village without. the community nature of the village which ensured the free workforce allows it to stay open and breakeven i think people are happy in

their lives by working for free. to come in and do something knowing that your contribution has a meaning and a purpose isn't ours it is heritage and we've got to make sure he does continue to the next generation volunteers who run the say that there are two secrets to success the locally sourced produce means that the propping up the local economy take for example your free range eggs delivered from a nearby village there's a second recess secrets alerts the famous chocolate biscuits customers travel far and wide for this homemade treat but even with volunteers staying open is hard the onslaught of major national chains is immense buying power tempts shoppers with food sold for next to nothing has killed off thousands of independent british shops leaving ghost villages in their wake when obviously we're 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 meet everybody the gossip that goes on in here is amazing it would be dreadful if we did it because once you lose 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 communities stores in some of the u.k.'s most rural pockets winning customers by knowing that retail means detail so operating in really difficult economic times but they really punching above their weight shops are offering something. very often quite different from what a supermarket is. offering for example they offer cafes they're offering 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 well joe you know. i really do it's the kind of spirit that could see

this tiny store whether the worst and hopefully stay open for another three hundred years. r t north norfolk u.k. . or to try and not to get frostbite on the next program in just a sec prepare yourself to go zero on oxy. 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 that's just my opinion. mission. critical three.