the week's top stories in the latest news on our t.v. had a security conference in germany israel hence its forces were behind an airstrike on the are on an arms transport near damascus. the military operation ali will go on for as long as necessary according to france's president despite the growing

number of reports government troops are engaged in war crimes. permanent revolution in egypt back in crisis as deadly clashes return to haunt the country streets of thousand state countrywide protests demanding president morsi resign. and the bolshoi theater is artistic director says he's certain who is behind the acid attack that has doctors fighting to save his sight. three m. in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. our top story president assad says the syrian military can take on any force that confronts it well accusing israel of trying to destabilize a nation it was assad's first public statement since israel reportedly struck an

arms convoy inside the war torn country wednesday this after the israeli defense minister gave the strongest indication yet the i.d.f. was behind the airstrikes are his policy reports. 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 labor 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 we 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 does not want 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 cult of moods because this simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisal and it's collision against the jewish state of course the international for now for any kind of israeli strike in syria in iraq 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 filtered against a nother sovereign state so israel of course would 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 they were middle east affairs expert hourly risk says damascus has covert means to retaliate against any israeli attack. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that husband 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 iranian supreme national security council side really is currently in syria so more and not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be other means used targeting for example so an israeli officials stirring the trouble for israel in general and i think that something that something would syria is an expert of doing syria has on the side and also on the his father has been

a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of the news we're all one for because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not the you know government. meanwhile in munich hopes for peace in syria were raised after russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov met with the leader of the main opposition group welcome the opposition's willingness to negotiate with damascus while insisting that any force imposed from outside the country is unacceptable the editor of politics first magazine marcus papadopoulos things peace is impossible while other governments are influencing the conflict. the meeting between the leader of the so the planes 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 vets who feels and it is acknowledgement that thousands of

syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and school because of outside play is in the region turkey saudi arabia are being flown in weapons and cash so the militants in syria hillary clinton about a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands flow unfortunately it's more the countries saudi arabia its own saudi arabia who have the blood of fountains of controls or syrian civilians in their hands because there are geo strategic ambitions to see that removal of presence is sad and the syrian government's kuantan i'm obey may be in the media spotlight but mounting evidence suggests the u.s. has other prison camps around the world later in the program we'll look at the so-called black sites that cia facilities the u.s. government denies even exist. but first french fighter jets have launched air strikes on islamists in northeast mali targeting logistic centers and training camps this is human rights activists

accuse the mali an army of war crimes including extra judicial killings torture and ethnic reprisals r.t. has an exclusive report exposing the realities on the ground of some of the most battle scarred parts of the country. these 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 that he called to talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses off saying that people. are 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. 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 cd bed 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 and he said. the ministry says an investigation is underway so far no evidence has been provided so let the judicial system do its job and 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 eaten properly for fifteen days and if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than the heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of. the. on his visit to mali president francois alon claim french troops will stay on the ground until the government or gains complete control this comes just days after the u.k. announced it's sending up to three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel to the country jeremy corbyn the labor m.p. fears britain could fall victim to mission creep in what promises to be 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 it is 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. still to come in the program tortured for caring for the injured. one of the members of the little family

who died it was the response of one of my fortune she was eating. suited me medical workers in bahrain claim authorities are targeting them after treating those who are hurting at government protests. but first egypt falling deeper into a severe political crisis one person killed dozens injured in the latest clashes with police as protesters threw stones and firebombs at the presidential palace in cairo situation worsened after footage emerged showing a naked man being dragged beaten by security forces and he while the opposition store if user to enter talks with the government and values to step up protests the military now is sweeping powers after the declaration of a state of emergency last week. opposition activists are mad at you as the military council wants to tighten its grip on the country on the title bar. the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that there are groups who are willing

to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military. on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes is that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that they can have. tighten the grip over this race canal and intensify their presence militarily over there probably we don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would mean handover to civilian oversight of the canard rather than military oversight of the according to the new constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory stature right now it has more of an executive stature and it has more military members on this board. which numbers the civilians including the

commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they had the commander in chief see that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas after the break we'll look at have more on how the artistic director of moscow ballet who would accept throwing his face could be able to identify those behind the attack stay with us. it's technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia. the future covered. here the reindeer isn't everything for the herders.

and when it suffers. people do their best to help. the distances are. thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour now the artistic director of

moscow's a world famous bolshoi ballet who suffered horrific injuries when acid was thrown in his face said he knows who was behind the attack sergei filin currently undergoing surgery following the attack in the center of russia's capital doctors of war and they may not be able to save his sight artie's 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. 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 theatre 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 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 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 the theater 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 you doing anything they could to you to go and get the parts that they need so one thing about the ball so itself though. who is one of the prima ballerina 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 it's talks about what's going on behind the scenes at the bolshoi remember artie's on air and online click on our website for more interesting stories including this european financial crisis may not be subsiding anytime soon but e.u. officials seem about the spare two million euros they want to spend on internet trolls find out what european politicians have in mind for the cash.

may not have known but until recently anyone who wore trousers in paris was breaking the law dot com will tell you why the ban on ladies wearing pants has only just been lifted. the first man to blow the whistle on america's tora prison torture program has been sentenced to thirty months in jail cia veteran john kerry who was convicted of exposing washington secret interrogation tactics and one of his final interviews before being locked away he told r.t. why 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 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. we're on top of a detention center continuing to court controversy as pretrial hearings begin for some of his most notorious inmates including the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks but america's so-called black sites remain largely unknown the existence of secret facilities for enhanced interrogation techniques have been reported in eastern europe and the middle east as our hearing and lucia go discovers even if the facts were forthcoming just just might not be one tunnel may hog all the headlines but all the interested it means people are moving their focus elsewhere so-called black sites secret prisons were established by the cia during

its well publicized war on terror unlike the cause however these secret facilities were never publicly discussed by the authorities the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions 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 the through any 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 in poland is believed to be located here apparently in one of the most beautiful spots in the country according to various reports mostly from journalists or human rights organizations so-called high value detainees were

flown in by the cia for interrogation at these polish facilities. i managed to get records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have learned an aircraft used by the cia very important evidence because until then everyone denied bs landings and reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what is on earth during its course remains unknown therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who what where when and how all of it remains a mystery and 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. turning now to some other stories

making headlines across the globe hundreds protesting pakistan administered kashmir to call on india to renounce its territorial claims they also demanded an end to violence in the troubled area is less than a month after five soldiers from both sides were killed in a shootout both pakistan and india see full control over the disputed territory. in nepal more than one hundred thousand people are taking part in massive celebrations marking the general convention of the ruling party it's the first major maoist assembly since the decade long insurgency brought them to power in two thousand and eight the party leaders launched the event while bowing never to resort to guerilla tactics again they've also promised to step down from government and let the people choose the next leader in a democratic election. hundreds of animal rights activists have demonstrated against bullfights in the capital of mexico some protesters laid on the ground covered fake blood imitating the slaughtered animals while other activists chanted slogans demanding the sport be banned despite

concerns about animal cruelty bullfighting remains highly popular in the country. in bahrain authorities are continuing their crackdown on the popular uprising there medical workers in the country claim they're being detained and tortured for breaking the ban on aiding injured protesters he's alexy our shows he 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 off to violently crushing the dissent. toward 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. 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 he did there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my torture she she was beating me and she electrocuted me almost two dozen doctors were arrested black man this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals 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 beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester and in jail were tortured in certain money we have a story and testimony of people and protester being tortured and the jail but in my country protester were tortured inside. britain not or 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. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands recently at the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do. 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 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. up next a look at life for people a village of hypersphere which is tucked away in the tundra of siberia stay with us

. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony clinton rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya. so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the

justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion.