egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace in a fresh show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence could be seen on the streets of tunis but the nation of a prominent opposition figure ignited further outbursts of public under arrest people blaming is mr government betraying the values of the arab spring uprising. protests and can cause welcome the cia hopeful john brennan that's a confirmation hearing amid fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination program could take america's spy. and russia 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 the organizer his job. here watching artie's weekly news review with me carrie johnston welcome to the program well egypt supposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against present mercy some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that holds the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago what seemed creasing becoming a similar scenario meanwhile in the gyptian court has ordered the government to block the video sharing website you cheap in the country for a month citing content was artie's bill true reports decision is an i.q. to inflame tensions as the unrest 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 is ation 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 opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the egyptian channel justifying it sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey one hundred five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president had morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day and security 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 talk to 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 but journalist and blogger wireless says many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by the person c. and his own r's. but 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 israel 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 regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. but egypt wasn't the only out of spring country plunged into turmoil this week and wave of violent protests swept through tunis here for only assassination of a second opposition leader dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the route is which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police on his roof a notion that has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not museum crees the country has been in crisis economic

political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year and a half 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. city with. so i'm crying because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. 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 the city's main haven't yet to continue to government protests but they were not allowed to do

that police used tear gas immediately such a day such a city was packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion 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 looking into the man that proved that people support and believe our party it's all over but. they try to save 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 split 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 do years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this plane that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country living 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. race nationality tunisia. when maria is still in tunis there and she's a keeping us up to date with the latest from there via her twitter feed and in her most recent posts are reports on the political crisis in the country saying the prime minister is still waiting to reshuffle the government despite the funds from his own party and is promising to resign if the new cabinet is not approved. president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced his senate confirmation hearing this week while lawmakers generally gave john brennan an easy ride some members of the public to not session was interrupted several times by protesters against him driving force behind the so-called targeted killings aeration the rights activists claimed use of

drones against suspected terrorists of american and foreign citizens is unlawful leads to a high number of civilian casualties of the chairman or the protesters to be removed or make us question brennan on torture and cia shortcomings seemed reluctant to challenge him on his own since scholar and author colin campbell says that given britain's views his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete denial our constitutional rights are who are doing due process. and equal protection of the law and here with the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are yours and we can go there and the dangerous is when you look at ministrations we can determine who the jurors and that means go in

the room or any american without any drugs without any problem and that is a very dangerous precedent but john brennan is now up for a closed door hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities but the debate is already brewing about what direction he could take the cia as artie's gonna chicken explains. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in 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 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 to order that that person be kill the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote. intra warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war there an 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 lord 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 is another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic 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 strip down. but he was under pressure for planning a highly expensive attack against those who criticize the social media thanks this hour we take a look at why some say that could follow a main principles of european parliament. you could government looks to expand its

own access to citizens internet activity and mobile phone use. could be crucial for national security. after a short break. the government no longer represents the. people who are going to take the term.

away or. welcome back this week or so days of strikes in spain tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger of education cuts the government seems on moved by the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening there just as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole. well the message from the people of spain was

a code on the streets of island where thousands unite in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented these are unscripted says he's been relying on a joint u. international monetary fund since twenty ten. they're angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate an 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 over the deal that the european parliament unimpressed it's only now planning to block it in a secret vote with mr james midway 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 the president of the new parliament 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 be supported there's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right to 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 wrangler 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. but as one item that's apparently immune from cuts in a new reduced budget the e.u.

is reportedly planning to spend more than three million dollars to wage a propaganda blitz on its critics and social media you're a skeptic m.e.p. nigel farage from the u.k. independence party explains how the troll patrols will work but they decided that they're going to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections are twenty fourteen 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 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 in other parliaments around the world but he has all the rest of the staff are supposed to

be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact of 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 you can log onto r.t. dot com for a unique take on the global financial woes and those who cause them in the kinds of reports or programs are available online. a massive suicide explosion has rocked a checkpoint and tomorrow is northern city of some ten kilometers away from a french military base came shortly after another suicide bombing in the same place tax of fuel fears of a looming insurgency by jihadists in the french and malian forces have pushed into nearby desert two weeks ago. and charming says its military operation against islamist rebels almost complete john laughlin from the paris city to democracy corp he's the my 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 you know 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 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 that this was america leading from behind that america had decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were its dirty work 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. some other world headlines in brief for

you now the u.s. with a los angeles police department says it will reopen an investigation into this missile of a police officer that was now on the run suspected of murder officials will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his makes use of the dorner was fired in two thousand and nine after falsely accusing his training officer i wanted for and should be killing three people after posting a manifesto online saying here's what he targets his hit list. suspected militants have killed five soldiers and wounded one in a roadside attack well and they say a car bomb was detonated as a truck carrying troops drove by its acars then opened fire on the soldiers security forces are frequently ambushed in the restive south where attacks have claimed more than five thousand lives since two thousand and four. iran's

president mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that talks with the u.s. on the country's nuclear program are still possible stressed that washington would have to stop pointing a gun at tyrone it comes after an earlier statement from iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei who said the visions were non negotiable today marks the thirty fourth anniversary of the islamic revolution with celebrations ground across the country. now what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians it's now become a very close reality a countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games sort of ration is in praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and missed deadlines but is under follow reports from sochi. 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 italy dream. 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 in the limpet villages are in the final phase of construction being refurbished and furnished their share jewels to open in the autumn 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 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 loan. what's

a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. 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 limp dick committee at 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 if they she knew somebody gains 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 has six venues 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 stay. the past arena was she strikes spectacular skating she i was part of the came down

celebrations and in a year's time it will. the in the ice hockey finals in d.c. me so tropical like ation the slogan for thought you twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is down by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid. the road toward 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 bobsled track and a road or elite class spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes thought she itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are 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 those brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation most complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. soft chief are you going to experience an anticipation also reached new york this week or un chief banking join the celebrations at the organizations headquarters just remind those actions i was amongst you who want to see the sochi games in person tickets are already on sale in the variable online.

well coming up we'll take an in-depth look at the key player movement in the us itself the break here that. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their.