today's news in the week's top stories in israel suggests it was behind this week's strike near damascus while russia attempts to mediate peace and a meeting with the syrian opposition. president. 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 under. the artistic

director of the bolshoi theater says he knows who attacked him with acid just over two weeks ago in central moscow. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly 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 that's after 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 its northern neighbor. as the details. 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 lebanon 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 this simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and it's collation against the jewish state of course the international for now for any kind of israeli strike in syria would create in its 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 all the arab leaders also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is reported against a nother 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. and beirut based middle east affairs expert says that israeli attacks and its apparent admittance

could provoke a return to the nation from damascus. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that. law is one of syria's allies iran is also one of syria's allies and it's important to note here that the the head of the supreme national security council the iranians are really national security council side really is currently in syria so paid more not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be harder means used targeting for example sort of israeli officials stirring the trouble for israel in general and i think that some that something would syria is an expert of doing syria has been on the side and also on the his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side and on his role once the fall because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the

biggest threat to the not and your government. 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 we're waiting that any use of force is unacceptable in a true politics first magazine marcus by the governess thinks diplomacy still has a long way to go before any real success can be achieved but the meeting between the leader of the so 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 it is acknowledgement that thousands of syrian civilians have died unnecessarily

and all because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar of being followed and weapons and cash to the militants in syria hillary clinton about a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands flow unfortunately more the countries saudi arabia qatar and saudi arabia who have the blood of thousands upon thousands of syrian civilians on their hands because there are geo strategic admissions to see that removal of presence is sad and the syrian government. forces military has reportedly carried out major restaurants on the training and the district centers of islamic insurgents in northeast mali but the only military campaign in the country has been marred by alleged human rights abuses when activists report in civilian deaths torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army but he has an exclusive report now exposing the realities on the ground in some of the most battle scarred areas. bunny's people 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 becoming i think it's getting more and more the she called to talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses all saying that people are 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 openly when i was there because this government took advantage of the media's interest in a line and for the first time visiting 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 of solidarity this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to the 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. 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 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 games and if you ever swore continues there will be

a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power there might be molly during his visit to mali president francois hollande claimed french troops will remain in the west african state until a complete reinstatement of its sovereignty former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament new says considering the current political state in mali violence is inevitable. but i hear now is how this surprises me i mean first of all the mali an army does hold a grudge against the people who are lost them from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and have very little armaments and they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can your existed people and examine what they do you can't you just ground in a country like that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people

night be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly are doing this kind of actually judicial executions but it hardly surprises me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs are why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves. the artistic director of moscow's world famous bolshoi ballet who suffered horrific injuries when acid with thrown in his face and said he knows who was behind the incident said if it is currently undergoing surgery following the attack in the center of the russian capital the doctors are warned they may not be able to save his sight sean thomas reports. it certainly is a strange and bizarre story under exposing the deep and dark underbelly of the world of ballet if you believe it or not. who is the artistic director says he doesn't know exactly who did it he says he's certain he knows but he won't say

anything until the police have released their statement regarding the situation and have made an official announcement a little bit about the attack that actually happened about two weeks ago sergei filin was coming from his car to his home here in moscow where an unknown assailant splashed acid in his face. and then suffered from third degree burns in his eyes has undergone the multiple surgeries in fact he will be going to germany later this week for further treatment but about the investigation itself while he won't say exactly who did it even though he says he knows he says he is certain that it is to ruin his reputation and of the reputation of the ball. in an interview listen to what he had to say about the investigation itself. so all i can say is that i'm amazed by the amount of effort they've put into the investigation i think in the future get the answers we're looking for. but do your own suspicions match the facts that will voiced by the police. afraid to come back to the bolshoi

. for one main reason i still don't feel that i have ever left now ballet believe it or not is notorious for having this jealous dark side to it dancers and artistic directors thinking that they should have their way of the artistic direction of the community in fact. just reopening after a six year long multimillion dollar renovation. being the artistic director ever since that renovation took place a lot of people who are not happy with the direction it has taken in fact actually an entire movie was made about this side if you recall the black swan about dan. not liking the parts that they're getting of doing anything that they could take to go and get the parts that they need so one thing about the ball so itself. who is one of the prima ballerina all of this great stage she has fled to canada and they

are saying that she has received threats also not sure that they're committed they're connected but talks about what's going on behind the scenes at the bolshoi . deepening divisions in egypt 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 nation's fallen so one person shot dead and many others injured when security forces trying to disperse angry crowds which attacked the presidential palace this only worsened the political and social stalemate your position yet again refused to join the national donald and vowed to stop the protests the president warned of decisive measures in dealing with the rest of the tree currently has increased powers due to the recently imposed month long state of emergency exits yes it is man says that this is repeated in the states of his predecessor. and this is very unfortunate that. he was repeating the mistake over. the mubarak of egypt. i believe he was the people that

run the country in the same fashion and that's very unfortunate because the outcome of barak was very very clear and. you have a second term to look forward for with this practice continuing on the street under the color of the. security the unemployment has meet a new generation of problems really forcing his agenda on the people. there is nothing changing the reality that people are working and training under mubarak for years they are running from the. people because the only way to you know to do with the national police are still there and running the country. they don't know how to do differently. coming up a final say before going behind vaughan's. we don't even realize

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this is the weekly hit on the first man convicted for blowing the whistle on america's prison torture program has begun a two and a half year jail sentence veteran john kiriakou was convicted of exposing washington secret interrogation tactics and one of his fellow interviews before being locked away he told r.t. exactly what he thinks he's being punished for all. 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. washington's infamous rendition regime was one of the key issues raised during a week of pretrial hearings for the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and these four accomplices in guantanamo bay we maun investigations into america's so-called black sites abroad have revealed little so far and reports even if forthcoming just. 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 u.s. claim they could hold prisoners outside the u.s. 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 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 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 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. hundreds of greek protesters clashed with police on wednesday after a storm in the building of the labor minister's office the activists were 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 george had to go as the authorities response was part of a new approach to the strikes which have crippled the country. the government has

decided to follow up on receipt of zero dollar us as it says i guess the that is distance to your state measures so we have seen the government to take in medicine measures that they are unconstitutional i guess the very center stocks right now we have seen all of their lives very violently against a generally peaceful and calm their most recent where only seem their last three or four weeks i campaigning for propaganda try to convince us that now they're worse is becoming that's the reason i don't believe that the system is exactly because we are following this same set of policies of was thirty missiles that the for three years has condemned greece plus five of slow death that this recession of the economy went like scene of the economy unfair social measures followed by a vote but i see some of the population and also at that the socialites i think

that as far as what we're following this set of policies there's no hope for us. while reportedly being held hostage for eight months by russian mafia and irish real estate tycoon who claims he was given a punishment he'd never forget find out what was calm into the man's forehead on a website. also online the russian football premier league dark or sign g. versus squad was said to be the third most expensive transfer in the country's history discovered he said to join samuel eto and friends at the dagestan club on party dot com. medical workers in bahrain say they're being targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say the retribution has been severe when the government insists it's now investigating the allegations aunties and looks at those at risk for trying to help

. nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the oath or at least 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 there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested like this

for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospital's 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 three gaited 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 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 at the action it took against 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 eight condemn the acts of these doctors. 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. or shortly on our t.v. report and those who suffer from brittle bone disease that some special point next . 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 maybe working at your local school bring the bureaucracy zombies at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergarten. 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 that 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 the somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion.

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