calls for justice from moscow following the death of a three year old adopted child from russia in the us it's alleged his new american parents could be to blame. u.k. prime minister david cameron admits hundreds of millions of pounds of foreign aid money could actually be spent on the military critics say this is no way to compensate for defense budget cuts. also a week of violence in the west bank thousands clash with israeli settlers and police calling for the e.u. to stand up for the rights of palestinians prisoners on hunger strike. the popular comedian scandal prone berlusconi under former communist the choice for tolerance voting in a dry new election torched with a three hundred calls a debt rocked europe. and syrian opposition fighters rebel over peace talks boycotting that own leaders efforts to end the civil war and refusing to meet even their staunchest allies.

the latest news and the week's top stories we're watching the weekly here on ars he was me of a hello and a very warm welcome to the program the death of a three year old boy in the u.s. has caused a storm of outrage and dissent inside russia it was revealed this week that the russian died whilst in the care of an american foster family the boy's adoptive mother claims it was just an accident but moscow suspects the toddler might have been killed well that's from he's an associate churkin ana. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas mark simkin meehan known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news. just the kid had some scratches. that's all i know

three year old mark and his younger brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to come back his legs had an internal organs were allegedly severely bruised. it could mean could if this is confirmed as a result of the investigation that maxime's death was a result of certain violent actions but specific circumstances of his death have yet to be announced i can't get into because it would be speculative. for the result of russian officials had no knowledge of the incident until almost a month after the boy's death it was a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that live there it just took a little more time moscow says this is far from the first time it has been left in the dark about an adopted child stuff. even is unfortunately it's usually months

after russian child has died in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it and one case it was five years after a boy died a probe is now being conducted in texas and russia has an ongoing investigation of its own. if as a result of the investigation it is determined that maxine was killed by his mother for example if this is the conclusion of the investigation naturally those responsible for the death of the russian boy will have to suffer the most severe punishment there have also been allegations that the mother continually fed the child drugs intended to treat schizophrenia and adults meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously. the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little co-operation was shown until it was demanded. with almost two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in

a move often criticised recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids i've always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure autopsy and investigation results are expected to take weeks if not months to be announced no arrests have yet been made the dead boy's younger brother's destiny is yet to be determined for now he continues living in the adoptive family where his brother died while the investigation is slow paced and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it take a rigid push from abroad for the us to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on its soil and r.t.e. actor county texas. and new york who given a spokesperson for pound puppy legacy which children placed with new families says

the case highlights the fools in the u.s. adoption rules. the united states has a very complex adoption system where the state department has federal responsibilities which it can't properly executed because adoption itself is performed at the state level in america the federal government has no control over what actually happens in options you need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts auction monitoring all that is not really in place there is screening but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy. coming up shortly here on r.c. attends to ensure the allies of the future will take a look at how the u.s.

is using its well respected educational system for long term geopolitical game. that's coming up later but now the u.k. prime minister david cameron has botched the idea of redirecting hundreds of millions in foreign aid money towards military operations security peacekeeping and demobilization are the most likely recipients but the german from the stop the war coalition believes there are much more urgent areas which remain underfunded. britain spends forty five billion pounds a year on the war in afghanistan whereas last year it was committing a hundred seventy eight million pounds a year to aid and you do really ask yourself what would be more useful in a country like afghanistan more more training of troops or money spent on improving infrastructure or improving agriculture and on giving people better education because wages aren't sufficient to cover anything apart from their

housing their fuel in the very basic food that they need they don't have money to spend on things yet there seems to be endless money for war and this is a war which it is generally recognised has not been won and david cameron also discusses the military and the money during a visit to india being pm got today launched trade delegation seeking to gain favor and popularity points over his french colleague who visited new delhi early in the month but the park trip but hey an ornery research fellow at a university or a hunter saying hey colonial past makes cameron's go a hard one to achieve the size of the delegation certainly shows the aggressive nature of far right mr cameron's drive to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friend and all the rest of the with specially france and germany so i think the interests of the two countries france

and britain are quite separate britain who feels that because of the historical relationship with india. britain. can perhaps first with the indian government how well i would say this the historical memory of connie and root doesn't sit very well with the indians still. on clothes guards charities and circus animals name but a few british prime minister david cameron has announced a one policy policy before turning around and following him not to stay with at the moment the paralysis of the governing coalition and he did carry. on the challenge number one primarily because new top diplomat secretary of state john kerry starts off on a marathon tour of u.s. friendly european states and the volatile immediately. millions uneasily are choosing their next government today in

a parliamentary poll that will define rome's economic fortunes leading the race of three factions the democrats the party of political diehard silvio berlusconi and a movement led by a former comedian who has captivated thousands with his anti austerity rhetoric. in a row for. these are close elections for it's least it's highly in step one in how days to go in the parliamentary election some people are actually going to start to say it if they vote it leaves alexa's that the country is not going anywhere at. least for these decades of talentless it's hard to believe at least solicited elin. obviously didn't have a hard time finding a job there having it was hard to see since the. explicit are running a little. bit easier since you feel full of

the to do with the supplies. firstly and the such easy eleven. days were one of the most i'll read says lee not some form of art is out there it's full of lies and the facilities self indulgence establishment i did everything that was good it's really takes up a little bit wrong the personal stuff you still need with the opposition it was in season one another. in the political arena it will with a month old about being a political force. loves it it's going to stay with. the subtlest there's a. lot of money is illegal

. to the full thirty for illegal gold. the steel plate. to. get the full if you leave the slayer illegal so these. are big bucks along just above the law and work at the entire eurozone depending on how things go here the future of your opinion it is also a. syria's rebels have pulled out of the planned peace talks suggested by their own leader the national coalition is now even boycotting meetings with the friends of syria group its chief financial and political baca it was jaw was justified by a perceived international failure to condemn president assad and also this week a suspected rebel so side bombing in damascus killed at least fifty three people and wounded more than two hundred opposition fighters in the west of sea where also apparently threatens to strike hezbollah over the border into lebanon something

that middle east expert tariq ali says that had disastrous consequences. for kids often worse than their bite but were there to do that they would be dealing with a totally different entity limby deal within syria because as follows a popular mass organization with support of a very sizable section of the lebanese population watched that going to be going to be to reopen the wounds of previous civil wars in lebanon which no one wants neither has learned nor its opponents and backer don't forget the last attempt to crush a split i was made by these release who invaded lebanon bombed a bare root drive to a grocery store but suffered reverses themselves a recent attack was. the syrian government. it was a introduce stabilize so further there should be

a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue. any longer of course saner elements within the opposition we should sit down and see what's going to be sorted out even at this late late stage because if this doesn't happen the war will expand as we are seeing into lebanon on and then anything's possible and. the joint french african force in mali takes heavy casualties while president francois hollande is a peace prize for god. going toward his country's former african colony. and also playing out the internet and moving toward citizenship my friends proposal to alberto delta movies online as critics are launched this is the tip of the internet calm down i've got a lot of these stories on threshold break. and. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture. issues. gritty take three. four three. three. three. three.

golds three blog video for your media project a free media oh god our t.v. dot com. the way he won i'll say welcome bach they diplomatic skills of america's new to appointed state department cheney well the part to the test box on his first official trip john kerry's mission won't be easy and that includes some of the world's most. troubled regions. explains america's new secretary of state john kerry is on his first official overseas trip visiting nine countries in western europe and the middle east over the course of ten days hillary clinton's replacement will reportedly consult with allies on topics including iran the up peoples in the arab spring countries and syria's civil war secretary kerry is also scheduled to meet with members of syria's opposition. the top u.s.

diplomat thinks of this trip as a listening tour meanwhile in his first speaking engagement as u.s. secretary of state mr kerry ran into some geography problems when referring to democratic reforms in the non existant country of cures ixtapa they fight corruption in nigeria they support the rule of law. they should pour democratic institutions and george kyrgyzstan is the country kerry should have said but unfortunately his speech was written with the mistake of reporting from new york. r.t. and is not only through diplomatic tools or negotiations the us is spreading its agenda around the globe the doors of american educational facilities are thrown open for potential foreign leaders who often prove a useful political force to washington when they return home he's going to take a look now at the success of the strategy. the u.s.

is investing in potential for invaders by educating them in america convinced that back in their home countries when the time comes most of them will side with u.s. interests impair our future generations of political leaders who've had a positive american experience and they are more likely to be global partners libya's mahmoud jibril could be one example having studied in the us he went on to become the head of leave us transition government he's now the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties there's little doubt which country he would favor when it comes to dividing lucrative oil deals in the future u.s. foreign service officers had their eye on him even before the revolution broke out a leaked diplomatic cable from november two thousand and nine written by the u.s. ambassador to libya gene credits described mr jebreal as quote a serious interlocutor who quote unquote gets the u.s. perspective and of course mr gibril is not the only one who gets the u.s.

perspective ninety two percent of the people who go on u.s. government exchanges go on to work in civil society positions in the parliament or in n n g o soraya took a two year course in public diplomacy in two thousand and six at the university of south in california in this particular program this was every single lecture has a state department member. so you know that you're not really learning public relations that you. had to implement with the u.s. trade and development agency an offshoot of the state department's usa id claims that what they call aid is actually investment for every one dollar they invest they get eight dollars back in u.s. exports it's absolutely an investment and there's a return on investment. and it's very hard to quantify that return completely but i can tell you that you could quantify it in troops but you don't have to send

somewhere so i never pursued a career with the training she were sicced. it was seeing other countries i mean i may not be fond of the government in iran but i support a hundred percent occupancy and i was sitting last. lectures and people saying how do we think the market seek to undermine the government we thank you two thousand and seven when i was in that program they had or distorted the push towards africa diplomacy is good business as it's been made clear by this the department time and time again getting foreign leaders and their advisors to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states in their policies is much cheaper than bombing their country so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising some power in washington i'm going to. have a fighting has continued through the week in the north of mali asserting soldiers

from chad were killed there was such a day the highest casualty count for joint french and african force since the start of the military campaign against islamist rebels and while the u.s. has deployed one hundred troops to neighboring nations says despite the ongoing guerrilla war and fears of escalating violence french general say they still plan to wrap up their involvement and under which a local forces next month filtration has earned the french president a peace prize from the run cultural agency unesco when isolation decided francois hollande has made a valuable contribution to stability in mali but peace activists can stone believes it's nothing but a throwback to colonialism. money or colonial powers are once again flexing their muscles and they're starting to reach back into and into yugoslavia into iraq. afghanistan into libya and now into west africa. if the main product of mali for example were mushrooms there would be no french troops there are in niger but

the the main export is you're aiming at and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies began so tragic that there is a further problem that the west has introduced in a successful overthrow of the look of the gadhafi government it introduced. al qaeda types terrorists into africa where there weren't them where they didn't exist in any significance before so that has created a can of worms the main point though is that the western powers. and europe the neo colonial powers and the united states nato these countries have no right to act as the police of the world iran has announced it's found thousands of tons worth of you raney and resent it and it says it will use it to expand its nuclear program and to build more power reactor so it's online find out it will be u.s. and europe hope to do about it. also the governor of nevada home to las

vegas has signed a new law he says will put the u.s. stays at the forefront of gambling legislation so go to the dot com to see just what he's planning. on doing new pope is about to be elected but accusations are swirling that benedict the sixteenth resigned in the face of a murky advance against sex scandal google details on our web site to that. palestinians are demanding an international investigation into the death of a palestinian prisoner and israeli trail it's reported he died of a heart attack but it's alleged he was being interrogated at the time so this follows a week on rest which so hundreds of west bank presidents clashing almost daily with

israeli settlers and police dozens were injured in the fighting the protests were in support of the victims on hunger strike and his rage a monday negotiator found the letter to the e.u. foreign policy chief requesting help in securing the prisoners release meanwhile israel continues to push forward with building on occupied land effectively blocking any negotiations as a policy of reports. it's rugged and remarkable landscape largely empty but full of meaning this is one of the west bank's most sensitive pieces of real estate for fourteen years plans to build here have existed but were kept on hold but all of that changed last november less than twenty four hours after the u.n. general assembly recognize palestine is a nonmember observer state tel aviv fast track to construction plans here prompting the palestinian government to call it a slap in the face of the entire world. this plan to build here is not legal according to international law which states that when one country occupies another

change facts on the grounds of what israel is doing exactly that while also keeping people out of the lands soley for the benefit of the settlers. known as the one this controversial patch of earth exists between east jerusalem where palestinians aspire to establish the capital of a future palestinian state and the huge israeli settlement of miley. it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank and of plans go ahead in the israelis extend the syria it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see mark palestinians fear it's part of

a long term strategy to extend the one and build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a part of ongoing policy that has been growing for years now in at the end to grab palestinian lands but first the israelis need to get rid of the people who live here among them around three arab jerusalem neighborhoods and one hundred fifty bedouins for whom this has been home for nearly half a century tel aviv complains the bed when camps were set up eagerly without permits and stand in the way of urban planning but critics say this is just an excuse for a land grab it makes me furious this dump site is going to harm the environment and it's going to harm the health of the people and they make it harder and harder to find a solution for the situation demolition orders have already been issued threatening to destroy the last remnants of bedwyn life in these hills and while israeli

officials say the construction anyone if it happens at all is many years away it cuts to the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict which fundamentally is about the land and the fate of the people who live on it pointlessly r r t in the west bank. in a world palestinians are manufacturing this smell of victory all on their own they've released. named after iraq which they fired into israel with both sides claiming they won the latest conflict so watch our report on that in an hour's time . internet pornography could soon be bond in iceland making is the first western nation to do so officials insist their aim is to protect children but freedom of speech acts of us disagree the u.k. leader of the pirate party last kayak believes politicians just don't realize how much damage this might cause we've seen another area of the world were being eroded asuncion homes also

a show act again by lack of technical knowledge or behold of our kind of our politicians under the real objection to this whole proposal is that there is no magic switch that we can push that will actually do what's being proposed we need to set this in the context of rising attempts to to block and filter and sensibly internet right across the world and we've seen just in the last year in the united states for example google reported there was a seven hundred percent increase in requests for takedowns of search results there is a move ever increasing move towards into internet censorship who want to have a reason. the muslim brotherhood expands its presence in children and they become the most viable opposition group that winning over the population with aids programs coming up social and break were important why some are worried about the rise of the islamic.

oh those north korean scamps added again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in two thousand and two the north koreans calling for the b.b.c. rule that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people see the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again with great just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country would turn into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the us not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes

the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going on and on and about two years the same headlines will be back with the same fear will be back lather rinse repeat but that's just my opinion . this is the weekly on r.c. welcome back the muslim brotherhood has been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the kingdom's most viable opposition movement but even as that when i was asian has gained acceptance within the ruling monarchy with its humanitarian work winning over some of the population but is this

a calf and of reports now many locals worry about the possibility of life under the organizations islamic call. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's going concerned about the muslim brotherhood's rise to power in the region a force says his students don't want to lose the freedoms they now enjoy and often worry about how their lives could change if jordan came under islamist rule. but. maybe if all is covered by islamic brothers. we are afraid. of the mass. but not all share in that fear for decades the muslim brotherhood enjoyed a safe haven in jordan even as it was outlawed elsewhere in the middle east the

monarchies tolerance has helped the group to become the country's most influential islamist organization. so. that system was on a full display at this islamic hospital in downtown amman the muslim brotherhood has gained support throughout the arab world with its model of combining political activism with charity work here in jordan the brotherhood is responsible for building schools clinics and hospitals like this one a critical lifeline for the nation's poor. emboldened by the arab spring rise of their counterparts jordan's brotherhood is seeking more power it rallied behind calls for democratic reform of the country's political system trying to cast itself as the face of the opposition the group has vowed to refrain from violence but its

leader promised jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice. victory is. this law mixed street will be created on this subject can prevail. in january the brotherhood made its move leading a boycott of the parliamentary elections but instead of being a nonevent high voter turnout evidence perhaps that jordan's brotherhood isn't ready for prime time just yet. and. i have a lot of concerns that must be resolved before i can support the muslim brothers we've seen the recent rise in egypt. but so far they haven't proven to be a good solution in either of those two countries despite such sentiments and fears about its true intentions the brotherhood still remains the only organized political opposition in town for now the group will have to bide its time helping perhaps that regional instability could tip the balance in their favor it's a game of political chess and chance for now the students could only wonder whether

their futures will be shaped by the islamists or by their own you see how full of r t amman jordan. the war is over jordanians could be fueled by the example of egypt where the muslim brotherhood's grip on power has caused months of violence and let our report on the alarming allegations of abuse and torture used by local police while the government hands out weapons to the law with ranking officers. were just prime minister david cameron has done more u. turns than a learner driver new figures from the guardian newspaper show is going on more decisions in three years than i though the two leaders before him. tried not to find out why the coalition government is so quick to go into a river. it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime minister say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and

from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus and old petrol and even pass these the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that some wonder if this is the most indecisive british government ever it's kind of difficult to get the data right he partly because people change what we call them so you know after modifier to talk about you turn a low you stop turning. everybody use the word you turn for up top our coin downs or part downs or whatever back then the words you turn carried negative connotations you turn if you want to i thank the ladies not for turning my but while mr might not have been for turning this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocks up to get thirty five you

tend to say far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like i can pass around for two days from gordon brown and tony blair was much more on was less likely to change ration he was one of the himself when margaret thatcher you know you turned i took around four hundred days to go to change direction out of tony blair's government go back to the coalition then when it comes to why do you think we have seen this government have so many so many more than previous governments i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think i think it's been difficult for the leadership point of view but i think it's something that. has been accepted going in and during the coalition agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government it's clear that what they say might not always be exactly as i think it is the fact that

they clocked up so many you terms a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well false it's not good is not a good thing. if you vote for government aspects of what they say it's going to be good for you that. it's not proper democracy well i don't know why i think if it's an issue that obviously people are worried about that it will interest them if it's something people don't care about and. bill with the quality you turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many thera it's a case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well be recorded as being indecisive but he was being indecisive check for the opposite for being. so ultimately and this is something we often used to say you take your money you pays your money and takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david

cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind so. london. now some international news and refigure this hour a massive pileup at a nascar rally in the u.s. as love surges three people in the crowd injured at least two are critical they were hit by debris that was thrown into the stands the accident happened on the last lap of the florida race course as a driver it's hurtle to will be checkered flag so it was caused by the race leader turning sideways at high speed and excuse me in the chasing pack smashing into his car and. tens of thousands of people have gathered across spain to show their anger at austerity measures put in place by the incumbent conservative government two people were injured and haitian were arrested in the capital a big protest against sweeping counts to public services as well as political

corruption the government approach to avoid asking for you when i'm sure aided by using budget savings to reduce the national debt. the police have stopped several hundred antifungals protesters from breaking up but candlelit vigil held by new notes is more than a hundred people from the extreme right will knocking down a verse or of the british bombing of the city of full time during world war two police used the terms to despise the demonstrators marching on the vigil even one. hundred gun rallies were held across the u.s. and the day of resistance actually is and officials denounce the bronco bombers blanched of further regulate firearm ownership sightings our constitutional right to bear arms support for gun control has soared in america in recent years following a number of high profile killing sprees. and in a moment his exclusive interview with america's former chief of the national intelligence council on how his report helped stable the military down showdown

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well. with me today is thomas finger a former chairman of the national intelligence council and

a man who many say played a big part in preventing us from taking military action against iran by boldly claiming it had halted its nuclear weapons program well if we could just start by talking about what happened back in two thousand and seven you oversaw a national intelligence estimates on iran's nuclear program at the time your government was posturing for war he was claiming that it was trying to develop a nuclear weapon but your report effectively blew that out of the water was it difficult to get the truth and the reality with in the government was almost universally this is really good work. the focus was on. the quality of the intelligence collection effort that have been successful and the quality of and the clarity of the analytic process and judgments there were people outside of the government that did not like

the conclusion of the implicit conclusion diplomacy had worked if diplomacy had worked it might work again. and that. the tactic they adopted was not to attack the substance which they couldn't do because they hadn't seen it classified except for the little summary and. because it became clear very quickly that the trade craft initialing was good you couldn't say it was a sloppy is the iraq. so it became an ad homonym these evil incompetent individuals who oppose the president dash this off with will to repurpose said given what you've said is this guy full featured whistleblower if i could call you that for someone to come forward with an opinion that's different

there was no political blowback. that of me not from within the government from outside of the government but. that the. you know members of congress read newspapers are affected by what their constituents read in the newspapers. one needs only to watch the. criticism of susan rice at the possibility of she would be announced of chuck hagel. that. is this is ludicrously unfair of course it is of course is. but that's also part of the reality of living in a political environment say six years on do you think iran is still out.