egypt's opposition threatens to storm the presidential palace amid nationwide protests against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia witnessed a similar scenes of unrest government protests that were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing catcalls and protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program will take america's spy bureau.

plus concerns arise if the u.s. missile defense shield is to fulfill its announced a goal repelling any possible strike from iran as classified studies unveil serious flaws in the costly system. and russia counts down to the two thousand and four winter olympics with moscow promising a grand spectacle the highly anticipated games are shaping up to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing a. lot for moscow recapping the week's top stories. to have you with us. egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and threatened to storm the presidential

palace the protesters accuse mohamed morsi of not upholding the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago but turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for a month over its anti islam content but as artie's beltre reports the decision is only likely to inflame more tensions. there's been a lot of condemnation of the band by protest movements who see you cheap 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 all egypt has 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 an egyptian. justifying a 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 tourney went into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt set complaining that their president had mostly had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's they had to critique thousands of protesters gathered across the main rolling 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're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that same 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. egyptian journalist and blogger while counter president morsi and his allies actions are causing the country's citizens to become increasingly disillusioned but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is

restore autocratic rule and much like or not. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that was not ruthless enough and did not clamp down on freedom is enough to sustain israel and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many of the decisions that clamp down on so. 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. another country rocked by unrest this week was tunisia public fury there has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader chokri belle-isle you had dozens were injured and more

than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police artie's more if an ocean has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islam is to government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not in the museum. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year in a huff but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and they both to protect its citizens to leave. some crime because billy 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. the interior

ministry said that one million in the have during 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. here attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the ceremony try to make their way to the city's main haven't yet since continued absence of government protests that they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately to start the day such a siege is packed with people but slogans we are hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people mass to rally in support of the woman and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and 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 did it through the people support and believe our party needs all of our revenue or 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 protests to form a new cabinet and consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and cruz and anxiety over possible farthest pleat and fears a growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims because i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have

an arab spring revolution and it has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it's maybe only now that this train 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. heene while the streets of europe are also lacking stability as a wave of a very wide protests in spain and ireland of this week with the people expressing their discontent over austerity policies this story and much more later in the program. john brennan barack obama's pick to head the

cia and the architect of the drone assassination program had his senate confirmation hearing this week while critics accused lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride and some members of the public weren't shy in expressing their disapproval multiple protesters interrupted the session raising you toasters accusing brennan of being of a driving force by. and the so-called targeted killing operations human rights activists claim the using drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after demonstrators were removed from the hall lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings however critics claim that these inquiries seem strictly ceremonial scholar and author collin says that given brennan's views his confirmation could have set a troubling precedent. and this is a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process. and equal protection of the will and you know with the administration is

doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be judged jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they aren't yours and we can kill and the danger of this is when you look at ministrations says we can determine who are the jurors and that means they go anywhere and kill any american citizen. without any trial without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. on tuesday john brennan is said to go through a closed door classified hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities the debate is already bring about what direction he could take the cia as artie's going to church can comment. 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 in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and keep you from half a world. 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 and 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 on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america 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 the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the

world drama has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a pride 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 war 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 a 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. be back with more news after a short break you're watching are today. couldn't take free. free. free. free. free. free. video for your media project free media. is to get rid of. the treasure.

it's worth fighting for. and the trap was no way out. back you're watching the weekly here on our team classified studies have revealed that the planned a multi-billion dollar u.s. missile defense shield in europe might not be able to protect america from possible iranian air strikes russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to

its borders which the u.s. insists strictly in preventing attacks from iran and north korea anti-nuclear campaigner bruce says despite the recent findings washington is likely to pour more money into the complex. i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles something in fact that do not even exist today iran has no nuclear weapons nor do they have the capability to launch a missile all the way to the united states clearly this missile defense system has always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system in fact as nato is expanding in its encircled moment of russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato

countries looking at how this oligarchies runs our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is a strong ally of this system. massive strikes have shaken the streets of spain this week as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts but the government seems to be turning a blind eye to the grounds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where tens of thousands of trade unionists gathered in a massive show of anger against a severe austerity measures the tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's

creditors it's been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund loans in two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of evil leaders as they celebrate in a historic budget deal cutting the blocks spending for the first time ever however the bill left the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p.'s now planning to block it over in during a private vote rather economist 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 present parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads 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 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 the angle of merkel in particular so he can even try to push that line that 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. the syrian opposition leader says he is willing to negotiate with president assad's representatives in the north of the country but this comes as heavy fighting in the capital rages on with the rebels attacking damascus with mortar shells and roadside bombs they also seized several neighborhoods but were soon pushed out by a government counter-offensive dr ali mohamed from the syria tribune

a news website says even if the opposition succeeds in its quest to to remove president assad the crisis will be far from over so this is just i mean it's just like there was this will be there and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's enough to really have a d.v.d. he can actually call the right even when the u.s. listed. it on its black live with a nod of defending it because they know they're going to control it so nobody because lucian is dreaming you believe that they can control the groups are sort of the odds of winning and the most important point is these are the princes and the well if you created people they are not full of the shoes they are not the fighters for freedom they are just workplaces and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and i mean finally think the. entity we asked them to do and if they

don't do that they will lose the financing they would lose the support so they have to do this in the same plan they don't know how to who and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was that it's a big mess and if the west would like to see this big mess for the currency. meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring the pentagon chief leon panetta admitted that he backed the plan of arming syrian rebels the white house reportedly vetoed that idea russia's envoy to the un told r.t. that despite this the u.s. still has a lot to do with the ongoing crisis in syria retelling churkin is exclusive interviews coming your way later this hour but here is a quick look. the united states chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems there are things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in that the radical islamists are where we were active and that then original scenario they had in mind that it would take

just in a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic but i mean they're not us this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of mentor influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly of the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so the fact they simply say that they themselves are not doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. well look like a distant olympic dream for russians has 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 but celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and

missed deadlines are to center farmer reports from such a. 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 a limpy 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 referred and furnished to show 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 private grass and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping

center the any venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall bill which are initially we were assessing the amount of the loan with the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price was one point two billion dollars now it's a bit worse when 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 nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last one. games in vancouver and ten million dollars more than the ferry she knew some against 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 limpid 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 stuck. the past arena was she strikes spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak in the ice hockey final in the she so tropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the park is than by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up there to the resort 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 slate 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 and new hotels all they want 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. than has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember. this time next year and. the olympic spirit also reached new york this week where un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organization's headquarters for those of you who want to see the sochi games in person tickets are already on sale and are available

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battling the islamist militants in the northern city of gal the area was retaken from the rebels by the french backed government forces a fortnight ago earlier the city was rocked by two suicide bombings although only the bombers themselves were killed in these attacks the latest violence is feeding fears of a jihadist insurgency france says its campaign in mali is almost complete after rebels were pushed from their positions into the desert two weeks ago but john laughland from the paris institute of democracy in cooperation believes the mali intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa in the two main factors in this fraunces a desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular piece of being a european. and also the americans to egypt plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans full establishing a.