today's news on the week's top stories in israel suggests it was behind this week's strike near damascus attempts to mediate peace and a meeting with the syrian opposition. and the claims french troops will stay in mali as long as necessary to root out the insurgency that's amid mounting accusations of war crimes by forces. and there's no sign of compromise looming

between the government and the opposition in egypt where protests demanding the resignation of the president turn violent and rage on for another week. you know back in the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly him on. the syrian president bashar al assad says his army is able to confront any aggression aimed against his nation he also says israel is trying to destabilize the country and softer comments made by the israeli defense minister ehud barak today hinting for the first time that his forces were behind this week's attack on his northern neighbor. has the details. that does come from the israeli defense minister. 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 of course asserted that the syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as a major blow to his and you need to look at this israeli strategy and its 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 opposite of as mines it is a culture later because the simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisal 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 the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is purported 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 of. meanwhile hopes of ending the ongoing conflict in syria have received a slight boost 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 he called on them to be realistic and begin peace talks with president assad while reiterating that any use of fools is unacceptable and it reported its first magazine marcus papadopoulos thinks diplomacy still has a long way to go before any real success can be achieved. between the leader of the so the planes syrian national coalition and the foreign ministers of russia and iran is 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 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 and weapons and cash to the militants in syria i think certainly lateral the russian foreign minister said last year how surprised he was by the e.d.t.

or the fall of a syrian opposition in calling perceptual kristen's assad's to go from power to resign to step down except that's not the way diplomacy works that's not the way peace process. hillary clinton about a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands oh unfortunately it's more the countries saudi arabia qatar and saudi arabia who have the blood of thousands upon thousands of syrian civilians on their hands because of their own geo strategic ambitions to see the removal of presence is sad and the syrian government's. francis military has reportedly carried out major air strikes on the training and logistic centers of islamic insurgents in northeast mali but the ongoing military campaign in the country's been marred by alleged human rights abuses with activists reporting civilian deaths torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army r.t. has an exclusive report now exposing the realities on the ground in some of the

most battle scarred areas of the country. these and i mean in this mob 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 difficulty talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses all saying that people climbing up and feeling the heat stay out they are scared to speak a lot of people here. very sheer fool the malian army seems to be doing whatever it can to prevent people from speaking to open. 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 mamadou see the bad the minister for humanitarian action and solidarity this was

an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to the people who regard the capital as remote from 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 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 in this all of these government its people and military are well aware of current events and we know that we cannot play this game with. 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 them he told us he. hadn't been paid or even properly for fifteen days if he ever swore continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. during his visit to money president forceful and claimed french troops will remain in the west african states until the complete reinstatement of its sovereignty for those maji from the independent pan african research organization says the local governments primary goal is to enrich themselves and their backers what this intervention does is strengthen the arm of a group of junior officers who took control of the state and who are just simply. yes i mean the reports we get from mali from bamako is holies troops just simply control everything and not interested in any kind of development they're only

interested in acquiring wealth for themselves they go in they rock banks complete impunity they control the economy now with complete impunity they are now the sort of. i guess you know the servants now of all of the french in the u.s. but their real agenda has been to to sell of mali to to the french and to the corporations mollies a place with enormous amount of of all wealth your anian book site gold and so on and there's no doubt that french and canadian and upper interests are clearly interested in occupying that territory. deepening divisions in egypt's society continued to grow this week as an ongoing crackdown on anti-government protests failed to silence calls for president morsi to quit some of the latest violence saw one person shot dead and many others injured when security forces tried to disperse

angry crowds which had attacked the presidential palace this only worsened the political and social stalemate the opposition yet again refused to join a national dialogue and vowed to step up their protests the president warned of decisive measures in dealing with the unrest military currently has increased powers to two a recently imposed months not long state of emergency activists yes israel says he is repeating the mistakes of his predecessor. and this is very unfortunate that. he was repeating the mistakes of. the mubarak of egypt. i believe he was the same people that run the country in the same fashion and that's very unfortunate because the outcome of our it was very very clear and i don't think you have a second term to look forward to walk with this car with this practice continuing on the street under the color of the. security that i'm employed in and here's me a new generation the problem really for forcing his agenda on the people. there

will not be changing the reality that people are working and training under mubarak for years they are running from the same books. people who called the only way to know how to do with the national police are still there and running the country with the seat that big. dictatorship of mubarak and they don't know how to do it differently you're watching the weekly here in r t coming up this hour a final say before going behind bars we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become party talks to the former cia officer turned whistle blower of america's torture program is now serving two and a half years in prison plus. she was beating me and she took to. medical workers in bahrain claimed. by the authorities for treating those in government knows those stories of the.

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global financial headlines kaiser report. weekly continues her naughty the first man convicted for blowing the whistle on america's prison torture program has begun a prison sentence. who was convicted and convicted of exposing washington secret interrogation tactics in one of his fun interviews before being locked away he told exactly what he thinks 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 some of the john kerry was sworn in as the new u.s. secretary of state this week well defense chief nominee chuck hagel was grilled by the senate kerry to go from hillary clinton and many analysts believe he is likely to be very old school in his approach. you know there may be some changes in style and tone but there won't be a change in substance between kerry and clinton any more frankly than there was between conda lisa rice that we had already clinton in the last twenty years even

in the last since bush and obama what is really changed first strike wars in afghanistan and yemen and pakistan and now they're positioning so-called missiles defense which is essentially a first strike weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and its assertion of his right to order the killing of american citizens anywhere in the world is kerry going to stand up in international forums and say no that's wrong we can't do that i don't think so neither did hillary clinton. hundreds of greek protesters clashed with police on wednesday off to storm the building of the labor minister's office and to visit with demonstrating against reforms to pay and pensions part of the latest spending cuts announced by the government around thirty people were arrested following the protest lawyer george kept regardless says the authorities response was part of a new approach to the strikes which have crippled the country. the government has

decided to follow up all the sea of zero dollar us as it sees ideas that is distance to your state the measures show because fifteen of the government to take in medicine measures that they are unconstitutional i guess the very sentence that makes it now we've got soon the door of the lease worked very violently against a generally peaceful and their most recent where only seemed to last three or four weeks i complain of for propaganda try to convince us that now the worst has become that there isn't i don't believe that this is that is exactly because we are following this same set of policies of a spirit in most of us that for three years has condemned greece. of slow death that this recession of the economy going to actually move the economy on a third source or other measures but we don't see some of the court relieves you and also the source of rights i think that as far as what we're following this set

of policies there's not a chorus bug area may be about to pull the plug on the construction of a new nuclear power plant which is being financed by russia that's despite a national referendum voting in favor of the project last weekend the result was an old due to a low turnout the country's ruling party is now expected to use its majority in parliament to believe the power plant to the high costs and some experts believe it's the result of pressure from gary's allies who are concerned the country could become dependent on russia. local m.p. woman of jar of says that the government went out of its way to discourage people from supporting the project. you have to take into account that we are using clear nuclear power for approximately forty years and the results of every three city in the country are also boats that were using very safe and very reliable nuclear

power plants in this situation bulgarian beaulieu and some are usually supporting nuclear power just a little more were. approximately twenty percent just because of the efforts of the ruling majority but they have created special means special commission in the parliament just so though i just thought that is the people not to vote not to support the new purple one but even in these conditions bulgarian favored. child abuse scandals and alleged cases of sexual harassment have dealt a serious blow to the reputation of the german catholic church and has resulted in more and more worship is turning their backs on it you may find some of the details in piece or all of his report on that lack of faith disturbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence.

in one nine hundred seventy nine i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol so he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court no it's very

difficult to get to a sentence because their weaknesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also the twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with senior clergy over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks

there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back into the flock. and when we do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste that something has been covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot in a church again he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.t. germany. while reportedly being held hostage for eight months by russian mafia and irish real estate tycoon claims he was given a punishment he'd never forget find out what was carved into the man's forehead on a website. of the moment the russian football premier league's dark horse and

squad was once said to be the third most expensive transfer in the country's history discover who set to join samuel eto and friends at the dagestan club on r.t. dot com and. medical workers in bahrain said that being targeted by the authorities vote treating injured protesters doctors say the retribution has been severe on the government insists is now investigating the allegations. he looks at those at risk for trying to help not to dive 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 or forty's turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first a 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 and eat there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my torture she she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospital's grounds into the scene of the rally the some 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 integrated 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 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 doing the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes have been. has been. fishley charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the government stands resumed that the action to

condense the hospital was the right thing to do. these doctors managed to control the emergency unit and 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 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.

you be watching the weekly here on a t. i'll be back with a news team with morphine about half an hour from now shortly we report on those who bear the hardships of brittle bone disease that saw special pulled off the brain. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it. any glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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