the week's top stories in the latest news on our t.v. at a security conference in germany israel hints its forces were behind the airstrike on an arms transport near damascus. the military operation in mali will go on as long as necessary according to france's president despite the growing number of reports government troops are engaged in war crimes. berman

a revolution egypt back in crisis as deadly clashes return to haunt the country's streets as thousands stayed in nationwide protests demanding president morsi step down. and the ball choice theaters artistic director says he's certain it was behind the acid attack doctors. which has doctors fighting to save his sight. for i am 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. we start out in syria where president assad says his country's military can take on any force that confronts it while accusing israel of trying to destabilize as a nation it was assad's first public statement since israel reportedly struck an

arms convoy inside the war torn country wednesday this after israel's defense minister gave the strongest vacation yet that 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 lebanon that 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 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 the simonds allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisal and it's collation against the jewish state of course the international for now for any kind of israeli strike in syria or iran 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 reflected 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. middle east affairs expert ari risk says damascus has covert means to retaliate against any israeli attack. for now i do believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that the 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 iranians who are national security council side really is currently in syria so him are not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be other means used targeting for example through an israeli officials storing the trouble for years well in general and i think that some that something would syria is an expert of doing syria has on the struggle has not underwater on the his

father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side and ideas were on one before because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not of your government. here while in munich hopes for peace in syria were raised after russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the leader of the main opposition group lavrov welcomed the opposition's willingness to negotiate with damascus while insisting any force imposed from outside the country is an acceptable the editor of politics first magazine marcus papadopoulos thinks peace is impossible while other governments are trying to influence the conflict. the meeting between the leaders to so the trains syrian national coalition and the following minister of russia and the wrongs and acknowledgements by the leader of the syrian national coalition that the syrian government is not going to be defeated on the military battle fields and it is acknowledgement that thousands of

syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and all because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia at being followed in weapons and cash so the militants in syria hillary clinton about a year ago she. russian government having blood on its hands oh unfortunately it's more the country saudi arabia its own saudi arabia we have the blood of fantasies of controls of syrian civilians in their hands because there are geo strategic ambitions to see that removal of christians is sad and the syrian government's guantanamo bay may be in the media spotlight but mounting evidence suggests the u.s. has other prison camps around the world later in the program a look at the so-called black sites secret cia facilities and u.s. government denies exists. but first french fighter jets launched airstrikes against islamist militants in

northeast mali targeting logistics centers and training camps this is human rights activists accuse mali's army of war crimes including extrajudicial killings torture and ethnic reprisal attacks r.t. has an exclusive report exposing the realities on the ground in some of the most battle scarred areas of the country. these i mean in this mop 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 all saying that people. are feeling the heat they are scared to speak a lot of people here. very shifu the malian army seems to be doing whatever it can to prevent people from speaking to openly when i was there but 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 bear the minister for humanitarian action and solidarity this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to people who regard the capital as remote 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 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 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 heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. on his visit to mali president francois hollande claimed french troops will stay on the ground till the government or against complete control there is comes just days after the u.k. announced it's sending up to three hundred fifteen non-combat military personnel to the country but jeremy corbyn a 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. stay with us still to come in the program tortured or caring for the injured. there was a member of the oil family who died it was a responsible of my porch and he was beating me to the truth to do. medical workers in bahrain claim authorities are targeting them for treating those who work for anti-government protests. but first egypt falling deeper into a severe political crisis one person has been killed dozens injured in the latest clashes with police as protesters hurled stones and firebombs at the presidential palace in cairo the situation worsened after footage emerged showing a naked man dragging beaten by security forces meanwhile the opposition store fuses to enter talks with the government and vows to said step up their protests the military now has powers sweeping. hours after a declaration of a state of emergency the opposition activist says the military council's hoping to

tighten its grip on the country in the time with. 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 they are deeper into positions of what's going on some of the intimidation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that they can have. the grip over this way to intensify their presence militarily over there probably really don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canard rather than military oversight of the kind of according to the new constitution 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 that has more military members on this board. which numbers the civilians including be 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 more on how the artistic director of moscow's boys bolshoi ballet who had acid thrown in his face could be able to identify those behind the attack stay with us for that. the first baby steps are joy. folds and

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for staying with us here on our t.v. quarter past the hour now the artistic director of moscow's world renowned 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 the russian capital but doctors have warned they may not be able to save his sight or his 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 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 yes. you're 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 bolshoi 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 that 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 is all of this a 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. artie's not only on air it's on line to head over to our website for more interesting stories including this

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kiriakou 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 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 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 senator john kerry was sworn in as the new u.s. secretary of state this week while defense chief nominee senator chuck hagel was grilled by the senate kerry took over from hillary clinton but as international

studies perfecter is a professor stephen zoo news tells r.t. he's likely to be very old school in his approach. it was an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that vote authorizing. and not only. making up the stance of tales about massive via logical some of the weapons stockpiles the nuclear program and delivery systems the livery systems that kind of thing but you know when it was clear that that was all just often enough so called weapons of mass destruction we said you wouldn't vote for the war in the way because saddam hussein was a terrible dictator and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapons sometimes eventually of course i back right here together we're going to thirty countries regard that i have or have the capability. in this alleged incident carry was essentially they can reopen certain lines that hey we have a right to know that only to date and putting aside the moral and legal arguments

no iraq was or sastre is clear now in libya we're seeing all those consequences i'm very sure of thousand men under arms. in these no less is not controlled by the government you see the fault of the mali to algeria elsewhere is the same part of short sightedness that. we've seen so many other politicians in washington. gary and may be about to pull the plug on the construction of a new nuclear power plant being financed by russia this despite a national referendum voting in favor of the project last week the result was an old because of low turnout though the country's ruling party now expected to use its majority in parliament to hold work on the believe how it played to the high cost some experts think it's the result of pressure from bulgaria as allies are concerned the country could become dependent on russia local and p three men of chad of says the government went out of its way to discourage people from supporting the project. you have to take him to go that we are using clear nuclear

power of for approximately forty years and that's the cheapest source of city in the country and also books that we're losing very safe and reliable nuclear power plants in this situation will go didn't bowl year and some are usually supporting nuclear power just a little bit more with. approximately twenty percent just because of the efforts of the ruling majority but they have created special means special commissions in the parliament just so do i just thought that is the people look to vault to support the nuclear power plant but even in these conditions bulgarian. child abuse scandals alleged cases of sexual harassment have dealt a serious blow to the reputation of the german catholic church peter oliver reports it's resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on their priests.

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. 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 now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christian 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 that 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 it lapsed catholics not to be brought back into the flock a woman in mia knew anything and when we do not make things clear there will always be enough that sized something is being covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is about foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. within a month or jaime 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 of a r.c. jimmy hundreds of greek protesters clashed with police wednesday after storming the

labor minister's office activists were marching against reforms to pay and pensions part of the latest spending cuts announced by the government but thirty people were arrested lawyer george culture gallo's says the response by the authorities part of a new approach to public demonstrations that have crippled the country. the government has decided to follow up one of the seals the c.e.o. told us as it sais i guess that that is distance to their state emissions so we have steam the government to take the medicine measures but they are of course to do so another idea is that they sent stocks and now we have seen toward the. luck very violently against identity and kind of the most recent when it seemed the last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda try to convince us that now the worst has become this the reason i don't believe that he says that is exactly because we are following this same set the full receipt of was thirty minutes

notice that the fourth we hear us has condemned greece justified on a slow death that this recession of the economy when flexing of the economy on a source of measures oh but when i see some of the book releasing and also like the satellites i think that as far as what we're following these said to of course is there's no school for us stay with us here on r.t. still to come the u.s. secret prisons uncovered we take a closer look at what went on behind closed the so-called cia black sites in eastern europe plus. there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my car chase scene she was beating me and she took to true to me medical workers in bahrain claim they're constantly targeted by authorities for treating those hurt antigovernment protests stay with us from.

the secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to come. congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't 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 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 shouting democracy if libya would have been low.