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 as anti-government protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing this week amid 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 fit to fulfill its announced goal repelling any possible strike from iran as classified studies unveiled serious flaws into the constantly system. russia countdown to the two thousand and fourteen 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 key organizer his job. and live from our studios in moscow this is our team thomas certainly glad 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 the 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 islamic content but as artie's true reports the decision is only likely to inflame more tensions. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements to 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 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 the. justifying sects 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 january twenty five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt said 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 had to critique 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 that's in kabul 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 while it's condor 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. governing and i

think the way the political actors see it is that was not ruthless enough and did not sign down on three times enough to sustain israel and this is what they're trying to remedy you to verdict comes in light of. you know many of the decisions that clamp down on freedom. yes 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 theory very has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader chokri. dozens were injured and more than three hundred

people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police artie's marie 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 delight is dead but his ideas are not the museum could ease the country's 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 a comrade becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and they both to protect its citizens to leave the city with. some crime because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country to see that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior

ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political minister's station 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 ceremony try to make their way to the city's main haven't yet to continue and see government protests but they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately was such a central 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. members approved 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 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 i was 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 but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger do you 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 come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering here a few nationality. meanwhile the streets of europe are also lacking stability a wave of countrywide protests hit spain and ireland this week with people expressing their discontent over austerity policies this story and more later in the program. john brennan of barack obama's pick to head the cia and the architect of the drone

assassination program has had part of his senate confirmation hearings in 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 a raising of posters accusing brennan of being in the driving force by. the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of drones against a 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 those increase seem strictly ceremonial scholar and author column cavell says that given brennan's views his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this was a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process. and equal protection of the law and yet when the administration is

doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be just jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having their day in court we can say they are yours and we can kill and the danger is this is what did they look like ministrations says we can determine who isn't yours 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 our team is going to touch again 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. all the way 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 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 despite the un 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 three intervention in libya he made the case that the

war powers act in a quiet 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 queen meaning that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs. in 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 u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's 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 stick to. what you're watching from los angeles or terre haute indiana i'm glad you're with us i'll be back with more news after a short break you're watching are today. today. these are the. operation. is to get rid of. the treasure.

it's worth fighting for. the british. it's time to. market. happening to the economy. and welcome back you're watching our team with our weekly show glad to have you with us classified studies have revealed the plan to multibillion 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 is. preventing attacks from iran and north korea. 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 the fact is nato is expanding in its encircled meant 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 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 have shaken the streets of spain this week as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced of their anger over education cuts but the government seems to be turning a blind eye to the crowds and 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 their tough cuts were implemented it to please ireland's creditors it's been relying on a joint e.u.

international monetary fund alone since two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have also been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate and historic a 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 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 and the budgets are already present when you politick 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 that they were likely to support it so it's going to be rocky right 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 discourses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so we can we can 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 leaders 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 attacked in damascus with mortar shells and roadside bombs they also seized several neighborhoods but were soon pushed down by government counter-offensive dr

ali mohammed from the syria tribune news website even if the opposition succeeds in its quest to remove president assad the crisis will be far from over it's just i mean it's just like. the nicer ones this is now and it's machiavelli you know with the helm are actually on the right even with the you listed. it's a black lives with not. defending it because they know they cannot control it. will not be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups are. singing and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you feed the people they are not full of the shows they are not the 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 it and they will lose this financing and the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring and pentagon chief leon panetta admitted he backed the plan of arming syrian rebels however the white house reportedly vetoed that idea russia's envoy to the un told r.t. that despite days the u.s. still has a lot to do with the on going crisis in syria the full version of vitaly churkin exclusive interview is on our website our teen dot com but they were not as they 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 that the radical islamists are 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 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 an 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. now to some other world news making headlines at 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 of their local media says the death toll could rise in the accident occurred as tens of millions gathered on the banks of the ganges river for the compliment of religious festival. in the united states

a one million dollars reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the x. l.a.p.d. officer who has declared war on his former colleagues it's the fourth day of the manhunt for christopher dorner the dismay. the officer accused of three murders officials promised that they will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his colleagues that has created the uproar on the internet. trench the rains have caused the severe flooding leaving at least six people dead in peru's southern city of the queen thousands of people were left without electricity and drinking water at least two bridges were destroyed cutting the city off from neighboring villages peru's rainy season typically begins in february often resulting in heavy flooding and landslides. now what looked 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 prayers for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and missed deadlines artie's and farmer reports from. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year before the games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its lean picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host a test competitions all hotels in the limpet villages or in the final phase of construction being referred based unfurnished 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 manages 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 grants and was taking no prisoners as a ski jumping center the anything not yet up and running and this exchange with russian olympic officials. well the costs of this whole facility cost. what's the overall. initially we've been assessing the amount of. the story what's a rough estimate. this initial crash of one point two billion. 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 winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take

a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi ice day. the fast arena was used for a spectacular skating show it was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will host the olympic ice hockey final in the sheeny so tropical vacation the slogan for saatchi twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the big park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place in 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

sleigh track and a road and rail in 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 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 on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up 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 over hold in just six years but the transformation asia will most complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew fama. so if she. and coming up we'll take an in-depth look into the lives of gamers

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