egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace and the fresh show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence could you see on the streets of tunis here but the assassination of a prominent opposition figure ignited fresh outbursts of public unrest people blaming the islamist government for betraying the values of the arab spring uprising. protests and catcalls welcoming cia

hopeful john brennan at a confirmation hearing and made fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination program could take american spy. counts down to the twenty fourteen winter olympics games promised to be the most unique and the most expensive in history with a huge overspend already costing a key organizer his job. you're watching artie's weekly news review welcome to the program. egypt's position groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president mercy with some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding the see up holds the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago and what's increasingly becoming

a similar scenario meanwhile in the gyptian court has ordered the government to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for a month citing anti islam content was artie's well true now reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions of the on the rest continues. there's been a lot of condemnation of the 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 for opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking today. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january to five revolution when thousands gathered in the

streets of egypt complaining that their president had morsi had not made to keep 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 anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups attacked the the building with molotov they were pushed back 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. gyptian journalist and blogger wireless says many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by president mercy and these are lies. what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the

political actor see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not climb down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the region did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. well egypt wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week a wave of violent protests have swept through to news here on the assassination of a second opposition leader dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing

with police from the national hospital following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islamist government for creating and really just state in tunisia and to bury in democracy now the light is dead but his ideas are not at the newseum crees the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone it's been a year in a huff but we didn't see any progress the death of all come right becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the sugar with. some crime because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior ministry said that one million and they have joined the ceremony that turned into

a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to visit is made and you have to continue and sick i didn't protest if they were not alive to do that police used tear gas immediately that day such a city is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. kerry an islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest in demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men didn't prove that people support and believe our

party is. over but. they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible for the plate and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and x.y.z. said person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger to use a go tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution and it has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watched the

country face a political implosion it may be only now that this fringe that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering here a few nationality. for a correspondent for national news here and updates us on the latest there but her twitter feed from oracle follow her underscore r.t. . president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced a senate confirmation hearing this week while lawmakers generally gave john brennan an easy ride some members of the public did not the session was interrupted several

times by protesters against brennan is the driving force behind the so-called targeted killings operations where rights activists claim the use of drones against suspected terrorists both america. and foreign citizens is unlawful and needs to a high number of civilian casualties but off the chairman or the protesters to be removed lawmakers question brennan on torture and cia shortcomings they seemed reluctant to challenge him sciences scholar and author colin campbell says that given by his views compilation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete denial our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process and equal protection of the law and here with the ministration is doing here is they're usurping the right night and to the american citizens and saying that we can be judge jury and executioner we can kill american citizens

abroad without them having their day in court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the danger of this is when you look at ministrations says we can determine who the jurors then that means they go anywhere and kill any american citizen without any drought without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. well john brennan is now up for a closed door hearing to i doubt sensitive technicalities but the debate has already brewing about what direction he could take the cia so he's going to check out experience. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was 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 in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and . 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 touting 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 individual 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 would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone 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 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 on targeted assassinations from the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic. would present the idea that it would be ok for the president joe order that that person be killed despite the un raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the us is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war there and intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act didn't apply 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

claiming 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 working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice fister 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 stick around. but he was under pressure for planning

a high expensive attack against those who criticize the book on social media but this hour we take a look at why some say the nation can violate the principles of european parliament . u.k. government looks to expand its own access to citizens into the top to between mobile phone use in the state could be crucial for national security and more after a short break. there is is trash to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. it's worth fighting for. and a trap with no way out.

choose your language. of choice because we know if they still cannot. choose to use the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that entire life choose to access to often. well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and

students voiced their anger over education cuts the government seems on moved by the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig their country out of its debt hole spain is also experiencing a staggering unemployment rate with one in four currently out of a job a message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of arland where thousands united in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please our ends creditors has been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund loan since twenty ten. angry crowds have also been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate and historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever it was sealed after hours of debates and bickering described by some as a bizarre however the deal left the european parliament unimpressed with its only piece now planning to block it in a secret vote economist james medway weighs in. constitutionally they're well

within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already present you politick to said he won't be able to support the steel and the head of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there are likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of

language merkel in particular so he can you can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this what is one item that's apparently immune from cuts in the new reduced budget the e.u. is reportedly planning to spend more than three billion dollars to wage a propaganda blitz on its critics in the social media here a skeptic m.e.p. national firearms from the u.k. independence party explains are the so-called troll patrols will work. they decided that they're going to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections are twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misstep branches 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 in other parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the staff are supposed to be new they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic. where it is our economics professor laurence kotlikoff shares his opinions on how to heal the global financial woes an exclusive interview with r.t. so if you have enough. now what looked like a distant and then pick dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown has kicked off across the country walking one year before russia hosts

its first ever winter games celebrations and the praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and missed deadlines under far more reports from such. 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 picture in 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 tests competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and 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 progress 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 costing what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of. the story 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 lynn pick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most. spence even in history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten million dollars more than if she knew some eight 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 limping which is sixpenny all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was she strikes spectacular skating show it was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and in the ice hockey final in the she so tropical 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 there to the rows of poor resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road to rail 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 hotels 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. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up 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. soft chief. well the olympic spirit and anticipation also reached new york this

week where u.n. chief ban ki-moon enjoy the celebrations at the organizations headquarters just to remind those of you who want to see the sochi games in person tickets are already on sale on the variable online. the massive explosion has rocked the area near molly's northern city of galle some ten kilometers away from a french military base it came just hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city fears have been escalating throughout the week after is that making extremist leaders vowed to keep up a guerrilla war against french bad local troops security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent terror attacks the french army says it's with your

operation is almost complete and it's preparing to hand over to a un peacekeeping force but on laughlin to form the paris institute of democracy in cooperation the intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa and the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the her role on the international stage in particular piece of you know european markets and also the american strict budget plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports france in this mali an intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used the phrase but this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it started the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if

not most to 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 even be the decisive factor. some other world headlines in brief for you there. for the us los angeles police department says it will open an investigation into the dismissal of a police officer who's now on the run suspected of murder christopher dorner allegedly killed three people off the posting about the first online saying he wanted revenge of being fired five years ago in his statement we highly trained officer accused the l.a.p.d. of racism and corruption. five soldiers have been killed and one wounded by suspected militants in a roadside attack in tire that they say a car bomb was detonated as a truck carrying the troops. and killing all the soldiers except one security

forces are frequently ambushed in the rest of south where attacks have claimed more than five thousand lives inst all. iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's talks with us on the country's nuclear ambitions are still possible as pressed washington would have to stop pointing a gun that iran comes out from earlier statement from iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei he said the program was non-negotiable today marks the thirty fourth anniversary of the islamic revolution celebrations planned across the country. now a web privacy in the u.k. could be compromised if the government pushes on with its plans to spy on citizens online document describes the snoopers charter would allow authorities to track people's internet activity and mobile phone use governed explained that the bill was crucial for national security for the draft legislative proposal as spot on

britain's some believe the monitoring of personal data is just a step too far jim of the open rights group there will be no place beyond the reach of the state. firstly because charles is a bill that would go. meant to collect data about everybody on my and data mining not data so it's not just about the guilty it's not just about records being kept it's not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is a right the potential of anybody and more important to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you leak we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals. so our people are right to think of these proposed laws as a serious invasion of privacy for websites and have your say on what you think

could happen if the government manages to push the so-called a sniffers charter through. the back with more news after a short break. the government no longer represents the people. the people are going to take the trip. we. leave movie.