good luck. to building a new. mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. today's news on the week's top stories here on. israel suggests it was behind this week's. to mediate peace with the syrian opposition. president claims french troops will stay. necessary to root.

of war crimes by money in force. between the government and the opposition in egypt the protests demanding the resignation of the president turn violent. headlines of the week today here on. a welcome to the weekly. now the syrian president bashar al assad he says that his army is able to confront any aggression aimed against his nation he also says israel is trying to destabilize his country and it's all of the comments made by the israeli defense minister today

hinting for the first time that his forces were behind this week's attack on its northern neighbor i want has details on the story. it does come from the israeli defense minister it would be iraq and he has said that it is proof that when israel says something it means that he did stop short of actually a third being israel's involvement now u.s. officials have said that the strike targeted an arms convoy that was carrying anti aircraft weapons from syria to lebanon according to the israeli defense minister ehud barak he said that we do not think and i'm quoting that syria should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into live unarmed it is important to make the point that his comments does not constitute acknowledgement of israel's involvement in the strike but it certainly does suggest the possibility that it took place and it was responsible for it but also said that the syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as a major blow to his villa and iran need to look at this israeli strategy and it's

a strategy that israel has employed in the past and that is namely a strategy of silence it is strategic it doesn't give any kind of confirmation or any kind of denial what israel has done in the past is launch an attack then leave and it really its response has been a no comment which really leaves the question in observations minds it is a culture lated moves because the simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and its collation against the jewish state of course the international for now for any kind of israeli strike in syria would create immense arguments in the international community we've heard for example from moscow who says that if indeed israel did carry out the strike it was an attack on a sovereign state and as such it breached international law and the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is reported against in another sovereign state so israel of course will not want to come out publicly and acknowledge that it carried out such

a strike because it would not want to have the kind of diplomatic complications and diplomatic fallout that would follow from such an admission. ending the ongoing conflict in syria have actually received a slight boost and this on the sidelines of a key security conference in munich russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov held his first direct negotiations with the leader of syria's main opposition group called on them to be realistic and begin peace talks with president assad while reiterating that any use of force is unacceptable and the editor of politics first magazine. things diplomacy still has a long way to go before any real success can be achieved. the meeting between the leader of this of the plane's syrian national coalition and the foreign ministers of russia and the wrongs an acknowledgement by the leader of the syrian national coalition that the syrian government it's not going to be defeated on the

military battlefield and it is acknowledgement that thousands of syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and all because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar have been to holland weapons and cash to the militants in syria i think circulator of the russian foreign minister said last year how surprised he was by the e.d.t. or the form of a syrian opposition in coolie perceptual kristen's sites to go from power to resign to step down except that's not the way diplomacy works that's not the way peace process is put together hillary clinton about a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands oh unfortunately it's more the countries saudi arabia it's on saudi arabia who have the blood of thousands upon thousands of syrian civilians in their hands because of their own geo strategic ambitions i.e. to see that removal of presence is sad and the syrian government's. attention not

of that of mali my friends is military has reportedly carried out major air strikes on the training and logistics of islamic insurgents to the northeast but the ongoing military campaign in the country has been man by a pledge to human rights abuses that diverse reporting civilian deaths torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army he has an exclusive report now exposing the realities on the ground in some of the most battle scarred areas. pony's the economy's in this mop the area we've discovered allegations of war crimes and information about them is under the control of mali's military government really meant to be coming i think it's getting more and more the 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 stay out 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 openly when i was there because this government took advantage of the media's interest in our lawn and for the first time visiting the cities the 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 of solidarity this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to the people who regard the capital as the mold for that 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. 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. of the government has been attempting to assert political power despite very poor infrastructure so the day we spoke to an army private on his way back from god he told us. he hadn't been paid or even properly before. and if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. but i have it and it was our during his visit to mali that the president francois hollande claimed french troops will remain in the west african state that is until the complete reinstatement of its sovereignty it came only days after the u.k. announced it's sending up to three hundred fifty non combat military personnel into

the area for assistance and germany corben a british labor m.p. believes his country could be poised for a lengthy operation. david cameron is getting sucked into something that i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started by 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 train as it were 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 who 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 as its allies against people that know the terrain very well and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. and to egypt now where deepening divisions in its society continue to grow this week as an ongoing crackdown on antigovernment protests fail to silence the calls for president morsi to step down some of the latest violence so one person shot dead and many others injured when security forces tried to disperse angry crowds which actually attacked the presidential palace there's only worsen the political and social stalemate that the opposition get again refused to join a national dialogue and vow to step up their protests the president warned over decisive measures in dealing with the unrest the military currently has increased powers due to a recently imposed month long state of emergency activists say yesterday smile says

more see is repeating the mistakes of his predecessors. this is very unfortunate. repeating the mistake over. the mubarak of egypt is the same guy did i believe he was asleep people that run the country in the same fashion and that's very unfortunate because the outcome of mubarak was very very clear and i don't think you have a second term to look forward to all with this guy with this practice continuing on the street and the brutality and the lack of security the unemployment and yes meet a new generation drug problem really for forcing his agenda on the people. there is nothing changing the reality that people are working and training under mubarak for thirty years they are running from the c m s y e books around this table because it's only way to know how to do with the top echelons what the police are still there and running the country with the seat that could be learned. dictatorship of

mubarak and they don't know how to do differently. or you want you want a lot from moscow still to come for you shortly in the program a final say before going behind bars. we don't realize how much of a police state the united states has become so you told us of the former cia officer whistleblower over america's torture program he's now serving two and a half years in prison. for family or direct he was responsible for my torture. she was beating me and she had. medical workers and claim they are constantly targeted by the authorities for simply treating those that are in the anti-government demonstrations.

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watch in the weekly here with me. in the top stories of the week and today. the convicted for blowing the whistle on america's prison torture program has now begun a two and a half year prison sentence cia veteran john kiriakou was convicted of exposing washington secret interrogation tactics and one of his final interviews before being locked away he told exactly what he thinks it is that 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. well i was in for most rendition regime was one of the key issues raised during the week of pretrial hearings for the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and his four accomplices in guantanamo bay meanwhile investigations into america's so-called black sites abroad have revealed very little so far the saudis are ridiculous reports even if facts were forthcoming just. guantanamo 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 u.s. claim they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions and 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 u.s. 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 quite 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 b.'s 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 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 the 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. in a colossal reporting right that now britain which once boasted some of the best

legislation in the world to homelessness now has over fifty thousand people sleeping rough with the government assuring public sector spending cuts in the age of austerity the number of homeless people is only on the rise his pony boy he went to meet some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's no way for you to go to trial and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to birmingham the case capital homelessness. my memory. i think. you should drop grandma don't have one. of these out well i mean you shouldn't be home readers a lot of people you called me a short time wondered me real rock carpark were people really. all over the

place this is why god. there yes. yes we do know here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to a wall so. coldness is stupid specialist told me we had to go for four days on the phone to its twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the dole no load job ready from the moment

trying to get it stand you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in an out of foster care he's struggled to keep a roof over his head you've got to do whatever it takes to find somewhere to sleep following morning. help and support the scariest thing like you know you still go for ice all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presenting as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on

the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas and there are people that don't have working. with it being such a one time many industrialized center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that with the poverty is just sort of breaking the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population is expanding the housing stock isn't it reached that point where you're spinning i can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates. r t . i this is a lie from moscow and while reportedly being held hostage for eight months by the russian mafia and irish real estate tycoon claims he was given a punishment he would never forget find out what was right into the man's forehead

do so want to website. online for you just a click away the russian football premier league's. squad with what's said to be the third most expensive transfer in the country's history and discover who set to join samuel to and friends. but medical workers in bahrain say they're being targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say the retribution has been severe while the government insists it's now investigating the allegations. look at those who are always at risk for simply 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. 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 do jean 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 about twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and leave it there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she electrocuted me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospital 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 taken 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 the jail but in my country protester were tortured and so. 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 way the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured nada and others princes. has been. fishley charged by police she denies all

allegations against her meanwhile the government stands resumed that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do i went and 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 turned into a base for political ethnic work this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital condemn the acts of these doctors as. the case against one of the members of the world family may seem as an indication the 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 lets you see reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. thanks so much for watching here with my colleague bill daughters here in half an hour's time but coming up next are prepared to wrap up and go subzero. sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the. government no longer represents the people. the people are going to take structure

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