egypt's opposition. presidential palace amid nationwide protests against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring with similar scenes of. opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing. but it's still hard to the architect of the targeted assassination program. in the u.s. missile defense shield. repelling any possible strike from iran. and russia countdown to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics promising

a grand spectacle. to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing him his job. bringing you today's top news and a look at the week's stories this is art. egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and a friend 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 the turmoil has also been fulfilled fueled by via authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for more than a month over its anti islam content is are true reports the decision is only likely

to inflame more tensions there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movement who see you keep it 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 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 proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square and you had 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 that complaining that their president had mostly have not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of 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 violence. at the we have more protests on the horizon which by their expected violence we don't see this as finishing anytime seen gyptian journalist and a blogger while as condor says that president morsi and his allies actions are causing the country's citizens to become increasingly disillusioned what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule in much like the or method of governing and i think the way the political activists see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not 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 regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. another country rocked by a unrest this week was to nisha public fury there has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader chokri be. dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police in ocean has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital. forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islam is to government for creating a religious state internees here and burying democracy now belied is dead but his

ideas are not the museum. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half 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 mabel to protect its citizens to leave the. city with. some crime because billowy 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 in the 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 avenue to continue to get an eye test but they were not allowed to do that at least used tear gas immediately said the day it is such a city is 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 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 looking in public men did improve the people support and believe our party. all 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 protests to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible farthest pleat 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 say x. why is that person there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger do you see go tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that 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 crane 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 calm and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering here a few nationalist t. g.'s yeah. meanwhile the streets of europe are also lacking stability as a wave of countrywide protests hit spain and ireland of this week with people expressing their discontent over austerity policies the story much more later in the program. john brennan barack obama's pick to the head the cia and the architect of the drone assassination program has had part of his senate confirmation hearings this week while critics accuse lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride some members of the public weren't shy in expressing their disapproval multiple protesters interrupted the session raising posters accusing brennan of being the driving force . behind the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim

the use of drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a number of civilian casualties after demonstrators were removed from the hall lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings however critics claim that those inquiries are seen strictly ceremonial i think scholar and author says that given the writings of years his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process of all and equal protection of the law and you know what the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be judge jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are yours and we can

kill them and the danger is this is when you look at ministrations says we can determine who are the jurors then that means they go anywhere in any american citizen. without any trial without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent on tuesday john brennan is set to go through a closed door classified hearing tired out sensitive technicalities the debate is already brewing about what direction he could take the cia as artie's got a chance you can comments. 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 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 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 are 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 killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world drama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private 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. petrol war when you

can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not worth it john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the u.s. 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. probably back with more news after a short break right here in our two.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything. i'm. going to the big picture. from moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us classified studies have revealed that the planned a multibillion dollar u.s. missile defense shield in europe might not be able to protect america from possibly iranian air strikes russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders which the u.s. insists is aimed to strictly on preventing attacks from iran and north korea and nuclear campaigner bruce gagne 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 fact as nato is expanding in its encircled meant 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 all of our 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 av shake in 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 crowds says it is 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 severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors it has been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund loans since two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate an historic budget deal cutting the blocks of spending for the first time ever however the bill left the european parliament unimpressed

with its m.p.'s now planning to block it in a private vote come mr james meet way 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 politics to said he would 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 support it so it can 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 the 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 wouldn't 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 without the rebels attacked in 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 news website says even if the opposition succeeds in its quest to remove president assad the crisis will be far from over. but this is just funny it's just like all of this will be live here and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not really

having the can actually call and the right even when the u.s. listed. that's it on its black live with a nod of defending it because they know they cannot control it so no be because lucian is dreaming you believe that they can control the groups are. the most important part is that these are the princes and the will if you feed people they are not full of the issues they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do that they will lose this financing 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 yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the currency. meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring the pentagon chief leon

panetta admitted that he back to the plan of arming syrian rebels however the white house reportedly vetoed the 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 the full version of vitaly churkin the exclusive interview is on our website r t v dot com but they're not as these chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in the radical islamists so we're we're we're active and the original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then that 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 enter of influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly 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. now to some other world news in brief for you this hour at least twenty people have reportedly been killed in a stampede at a railroad station in northern india after a crowded overpass collapsed the local media says the death toll could rise the accident occurred as tens of millions gathered on the banks of the ganges river for the cloned religious festival. in the u.s. a one million dollars reward is being offered for any information leading to the rest of the l.a.p.d. officer who was declared war on his former colleagues it is the fourth day of the manhunt for christopher dorner the dismissed officer accused of three murders

officials promise that they will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his colleagues that has created the uproar on the internet. drenching rains have caused severe flooding leaving at least six people dead in peru's a southern city of thousands of people were left without electricity and drinking water at least two bridges were destroyed cutting the city off from a neighboring villages it was rainy season typically begins in it february often resulting in heavy flooding and landslides. what looked like a distant deliberate 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 artie's and your former reports from sochi. the

sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the games begin since two thousand and seven case by case 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 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 us what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of the loan with the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price is 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 alan thicke committee fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the 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 i'm 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 ice day.

the past arena was used for a spectacular skating show it was part of the came down celebrations and in a year's time it will host the and in the ice hockey final in the sheeny so tropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by. blocks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away i can. progress is wrap it 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 and rail lee and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes thought she itself has undergone massive upheaval as calamities of road am rail lines are put in place and new hotels are they ought 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 on a disc 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 they were brilliant future she then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel 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 coming up after the break we take an in-depth look at our america's occupy wall street movement stay with us for that.