it's. the week's top stories are the latest news on r t n a security conference in germany israel hints its forces were behind the airstrike i don't know arms transport near damascus. military operation in mali will go on as long as necessary according to france's president this 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 all of the country's streets as thousands stage a nationwide protests demanding president morsi resign. and they are now on ball shortie theatre's artistic director says he's certain who's behind the acid attack that has doctors fighting to save his eyesight. six am in moscow i met reza good to have you with us here on our t.v.'s we review the week's top stories we begin in syria where president assad says his military can handle any force that confronts it while accusing israel of trying to destabilize the country it was assad's first public statement since israel

reportedly struck an arms convoy inside the war torn nation wednesday this coming after the israeli defense minister gave the strongest indication yet that the i.d.f. was behind the airstrikes or 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 israel's involvement now u.s. officials have said that the strike targeted an arms convoy that was carrying anti aircraft weapons from syria to lebanon according to the israeli defense minister ehud barak he said that we do not think and i'm quoting that syria should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into live unarmed it is important to make the point that his comments does not constitute acknowledgement of israel's involvement in the strike but it certainly does suggest the possibility that it took place and it was responsible for it but also said that the syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as

a major blow to his villa and iran need to look at this israeli strategy and it's a strategy that israel has employed in the past and that is namely a strategy of silence it is strategic it doesn't give any kind of confirmation or any kind of denial what israel has done in the past is no intimate attack then leave and it really its response has been no comment which really leaves the question in observations minds it is a culture lated moves because the simonds allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and its coalition 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 other 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. but middle east affairs expert ali rizk 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 iranian supreme national security council side really is currently in syria so had more 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 his role in general and i think that somewhat something would syria is

an expert of doing syria has strong has not underwater on the his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of this we're all once before because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not for your whole government. meanwhile in munich hopes for peace in syria were raised after russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov but with the leader of the main opposition group lavrov welcomed the opposition's willingness to negotiate with the baskets while insisting any force imposed from outside the country is unacceptable the other of politics first magazine marcus papadopoulos peace is impossible while other governments are influencing the conflict. the meeting between the leaders to sew the planes syrian national coalition and the following minister 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 for military vets or fields and it is acknowledgement that sounds and the syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia of being flown in weapons and cash so the militants in syria hillary clinton about a year ago. she says the russian government of having blood on its hands who unfortunately gets more of the country saudi arabia it's on saudi arabia we have the blood transfusion controls of syrian civilians in the hands because there are. ambitions to see the removal of christians as sad and the syrian government's kuantan of 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 a look at the so-called black secret cia facilities the u.s. government denies even exist.

but before we get to that french fighter jets have launched air strikes on islamist militants in northeast mali targeting logistical centers and training camps this is human rights activists accuse the mali an army of war crimes including extra extra judicial killings torture and ethnic reprisal attacks r.t. is an exclusive report exposing the realities on the ground in some of the most battle scarred parts of the country. these but 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 the she called to talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses are saying that people climbing up and feeling the heat 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 openly went on with 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 mom i do see the bad 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 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. and 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 heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. on his visit to mali president francois alon claim french troops will stay on the ground until the government regains complete control there's just days after the u.k. announced it's sending up to three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel in the country jeremy corbyn a labor m.p. fears britain could fall victim to mission creep in what promises he says 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 don't 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 a would anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what it 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 and high tech surveillance and warfare being conducted by the french and possibly was britain and others as it is against people that know the terrain very

well it will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. but later in the program tortured for caring for the injured. was a member of the oil family who died in the place responsible of my porch. she was eating. to teach me medical workers in bahrain claim authorities are targeting them after treating those who are hurt in anti-government protests. but first egypt's falling deeper into a severe political crisis one person has been killed and dozens injured in the latest clashes with police as protesters who are old stones and threw fire bombs at the presidential palace in cairo situation got worse after footage emerged showing a naked man being dragged in beaten by security forces and he while the opposition store fuses to enter talks with the government involved to step up their protests the military now has sweeping powers after the declaration. a state of emergency

last week opposition activist often gives us the military council's looking to tighten its power upon the country as it did during the time of obama. 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 potations 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. the grip over this way to intensify their presence militarily over there probably don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would mean handover to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal 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 branch and it has more military members on this board. which numbers the civilians including the commander in chief the president which means that 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 so to come after a break more on how the artistic director of moscow's famous bolshoi ballet who had acid thrown in is face could be able to identify those behind the attack stay with us.

thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now the

artistic director of moscow's world famous bolshoi ballet who suffered horrific injuries when i said was thrown into his face says he knows who was behind the incident sergei filin is currently undergoing surgery after the attack that happened in the center of the russian capital but doctors have warned he may not be able 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 does 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 first future get the answers we're looking for. but do your own suspicions match the facts that by the police. you are 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 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're 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 not just over the air also online to head over to our website for more interesting stories including this the european fiscal crisis may not be subsiding anytime soon but easier officials seem to have found their two million euros lying around they want

to spend it on an internet troll to find out what european politicians have in mind for the spare cash plus. there's an interesting fact that until recently any woman who wore trousers and paris was actually breaking the law on r.t. dot com we'll tell you why the ban on ladies wearing pants has only just been looked. like. the first man to blow the whistle on the u.s. prison torture programs been sentenced to thirty months behind bars cia veteran john kiriakou was convicted of exposing washington secret interrogation tactics 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 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. the want automobile detention center continues to court controversy as pretrial hearings start for some of its 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 had been reported in eastern europe and the middle east. reports even

if facts were forthcoming the justice might not be one tunnel may haul go 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. claimed they could hold prisoners outside the u.s. 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 to 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 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 deny these landings and reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what earth during its course remains unknown therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who wants 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 out of some other stories making global headlines this hour hundreds protested and instead administered kashmir to call on india to renounce its territorial claims and also demand an end to violence in the troubled region it's less than a month after five soldiers from both sides were killed in a shootout both pakistan and india seek full control over the disputed territory. hundreds of animal rights activists demonstrated against bullfights in mexico city some protesters lay on the ground covered in favor lud imitating slaughtered animals other activists chanted slogans demanding the sport be banned despite concerns over animal cruelty bullfighting remains highly popular in mexico.

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 party leaders launched the event while vowing never to resort again to guerilla tactics it also promised to step down from government and let people choose the next leader in a democratic election. in bahrain authorities are continuing their crackdown on popular uprisings medical workers in the country claim they're being detained and tortured for breaking the ban on aiding injured protesters parties alexei looks and some of those who are at risk for trying to help nanda died 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 thought she she was beating me and she looked up to to me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then 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 a human rights activist 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 will be arrested beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester and in jail where torture insults and money we have a story and testimony of people and protester being tortured and the jail but in my country protester were tortured and so. not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the 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 resumed that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do i went and these doctors managed to control the emergency unit 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 and this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight 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.

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