the latest news of the week's top stories more accusations of a clamp down on freedom in egypt as a popular social networking site used by the edge a regime movement to shut down amid fresh demonstrations against the islamic government. while similar scenes have been unfolding in the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia where protests against the government a week mitered by the murder of a prominent opposition figure. tolerance and protest march cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing while senators will shy from probing his extensive history of drones torture and executions. a divisive and roughly negotiated each budget respond rapidly with the european parliament reckoning to be to their strategic region package.

brushes a black sea resort of sochi celebrates a one year to go before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever a major major reshuffles among the games officials with key organizers fired. it's been another regular so week for egypt and you're joining us here on our t.v. plumbs of spoken to is covering the country's main cities following street battles between anti-government protests and police in egypt thousands of people armed with sturdy little petrol in the south and only seen their anger against islamic. mostly

the political turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site for months for posting off a controversial end to islam film belching reports from the capital cairo on how the motion has been received by the opposition. there's been a lot of condemnation of the band by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the ships and. justifying the sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square what we really feel here in egypt is this will only fuel further violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the

second anniversary of the journey went into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between on top of protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace. the building with molotov there pushed by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon another country that's still looking for stability following the arab spring is a tunisia the country's witnessed public fewer this week following the assassination of a key opposition figure. it's of protesters from the seas up with up to tunis

a painting the blame for to create murder on the islamist government the demonstrators made a tough response from the right please attempt to smooth the tension the prime minister has pledged to form a nonpartisan government next week ahead of a snap election the proposal was however rejected by the country's ruling and not a party international relations professor marc gellman does says the government will now struggle to survive. to this it has been presented as the nearest thing to a success story there had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these disappointments with the failure to make life better life we got worse and the sense that there is a trick true that takes many people away from the people did it strike you one of the place he was violence in the fall was to two zero zero zero zero zero being presented as an islamist but it seems from the kurds engine do both have a turn in order to so that may be a deep resentment against what is really pretty simple paltry but not mobile majority and i think the general feeling is that. script since those election

returns about the coming elections and whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps. mali and rebels i gehring up for tara was there while civilians are suffering in a worsening humanitarian crisis with supplies like and most delivery routes blocked by the world we've got the story nato. and the predicted the years of belt tightening and severe austerity i mean irish tens of thousands of angry citizens protests in cities all across the country against the cards with some experts saying all government efforts to rein in the crisis is finding. a champion of drone strikes and barack obama's pick to head the cia john brennan faces senate confirmation hearing this week the session started hard but it was. and lawmakers who were the most of the local from the onset jazz and catcalls

erupted from the audience until the judge ordered the protesters to be removed lawmakers then poked and prodded brennan on torture cia shot comings and targeted executions similarly reluctant to challenge him on his long service but given his performance at the senate activists and author david swanson a surprise he was nominated in the first place. someone who was deemed unacceptable four years free v.s.p. close of his involvement in torture and rendition is now acceptable because he engages in a program of murder and the goodness of the murder outweighs the bad list of the torture recent polls found that while only twenty four percent of americans support killing americans with drones eighty three percent support killing nine americans with drones there is a clear bias you can do the math and see what percentage of americans are bigots were i dragged before us court charged with mass murder i could not say your honor i have a memo was drafted explaining why this is ok it's

a president should not be able to do that either but that seems to be where the debate is going on. a close here and now way to jump right in in order to iron out sensitive technicalities but already speculation is rife over what direction you might take the cia but on the issue of drones as art is gonna judge a candidate off his confirmation could only broaden the horizon on america's on men . in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream with drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s.

public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan he would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity so the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without

evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come to the cliff you might say that we're in danger going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states. then this illogical logic would present your idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the un raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the us is said to expand its remote control were fair setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in the quad because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address

queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not war john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice mr teacher consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to treat them. well drones aren't the only thing about the cia

causing controversy at the moment next hour we'll tell you how thousands of americans are for such a blind detector tests to keep their jobs soft often having to answer very intimate questions. and break a story of abuse and neglect of the most vulnerable patients in a major hospital the brunt of a leg last. ok from health professionals when they need to. cut. cut. cut

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a twenty five all-american up tools snobs and haggling have left the e.u. with a new budget one that's been described as perfect for nobody coming in at nine hundred sixty billion euros it's the first time the block spending plan has been cut in its history the differences of opinion with visible along with joe graphical divide with traditionally wealthier countries from the north led by britain calling folk. in reflection of the continent wide austerity but france and corey e.u. states resisted with bets between opposing leaders threatening to undermine the talks and robert oulds chair of the brogues of group think tank says it always is a disunity within the e.u. . we have seeing the limits of integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation if the national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in

britain because of course there's just not money available and a lot of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that eighteen years now the european court of order to is you haven't been able to sign off of the would be accounts because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of force and corruption and that's why the eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. well the deal in visions a sweeping cuts to a number of the e.u. projects including integration and infrastructure but millions of euros are reportedly still advocated for so-called p.r. blitz against the blocs critics on social media websites euro skeptic nigel farage from the u.k. independence party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. they decided that they got to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to

look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman of the parliaments around the world but he has all the rest of his staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to make any political position and the fact of the parliament decided he's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic. on saturday protestors flooded the streets of eighty six cities in ireland with tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity

measures across the country in the public crazy years of severe cuts after the save banking system was crippled by the financial crisis monocle bits were partly a financial adviser says that despite all the government's effort ireland is still on the road to ruin. i think it's going to be difficult for the on. going to that are going to campaigning or it. is difficult because of course all the come. from relief. from the. from the europeans the irish catholics have ended up with big bill most countries to the back and i've been there for. a great deal more. with the presidency certainly going to be able to. much pressure or much influence to be trying to your up because the power remains that the german.

giant clocks are taking all of the russian officially started to calm down until the beginning of the soul she went to the black sea resort to a spellbinding celebration marking one yeah until the games got underway are you then just mama looks at the construction already completed and how much work is still ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its elim picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred to and furnished to share jewels to open in

the also we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on private grass and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility cost what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of the loan. what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion. in one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's alan thicke committee fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in into history they have cost ten times more than the

last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the flashy new summit games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the. and the crime the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was she strike spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and then the ice hockey final in d.c. meet subtropical like ation the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because they don't pick pockets than by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up that there was

a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by athlone in cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road to really for the last spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotel it's all built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially at this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up there but which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew

farmer. softy. there lympics period to even reach a new yorker this week as un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organizations headquarters and just to remind those of you action lovers all day who don't want to miss the games tickets already on sale and are available online. a massive explosion has rolled the area name on the city of golf something kilometers away from a french military base it came hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city fears have been asking throughout

the week up to islamic extremists leaders volved to keep up a guerrilla war against french backed local troops security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent a new terror attacks the french army says its military operation is almost complete and it's preparing to hand over to a un peacekeeping force john a lot planned from the paris institute of democracy and cooperation and believes the intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa. i think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the her role on the international stage in particular piece of being a european partners and also the american strict budget plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports france in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated and have used the phrase that this was america leading from

behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it's the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may even be the decisive factor. online bush had access to the private lives will follow president i can get access to the e-mail accounts of the bush family publishing some personal photos online about that on r.t. . and a year in the army now male foreigners in russia will now have to do military service if they receive citizenship even if they have already served in another country also this. a huge health care abuse

scandal has erupted in the u.k. this week go public inquiry has found hundreds of patients of it at the hands of health workers tosca with looking after them the british prime minister david cameron has officially apologize for the suffering calls but the issue only looks like glowing. party worker reports from stuff which hospital. stuff and hospital in september two thousand and eight it was just a disaster to total chaos when you walk through the doors of the world you can smell it people. know stuff from very little to from under. the bus that was left. on the floor. since breakfast on. the. line right for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term from the now notorious stuff that hospital

before sandy would describe it would not stand. in the most horrible circumstances. to know and be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospitals practice says she was faced. the cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital stuffs was failing and the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without

painkillers is the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages a person's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t

stafford. also in britain and the prying eye of the authorities a private messages sent between internet users could be decoded and monitor according to a draft bill with the government saying it's to keep the country safe don't miss the story next hour here on r.t.e. . right coming up meg says are. t.v. is a game in for live a documentary stay change for that. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers.