stories that shaped the week. and the death of another russian. leads to allegations he could have been killed. right here in russia. on hunger strikes in the west the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail for the fuel's week long protests against the plight of. an italian parliament and one of the most unpredictable votes in the country's history which could see a comeback by show. or breakthrough.

you are just in time for the weekly he with me. highlighting the week's top headlines. it has been revealed this week that another russian child died after being adopted by an american family the twentieth such death since the mid ninety's the news that three year old was found bruised and the home of a texas couple has caused. and the boy's adoptive mother claims it was an accident but there are suspicions of maxime could have been abused and killed and the story . twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas might seem close me and 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 that because it would be speculative. for the results to come by 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 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 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 cooperation. shown until it was demanded. or we're going to. come up 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 an 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. after county texas. and meals were given from pound puppy legacy that's a group that monitors children placed with new families so that the case highlights some rather large shortcomings within the u.s. adoptive system. 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 to adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts adoption monitoring all that is not really in place there is screening but it's not properly done both of the monitoring is impossible . especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy of the treatment of russian orphans by their adoptive u.s. families and the subsequent russian adoption ban against the u.s. certainly sparked fierce debate at r.t. dot com you'll find more stories from all sides you can also get involved and leave your own comments if you like. europe is holding its breath on sunday

as austerity hit italians choose their next parliament from a former comedian to disgraced ex prime minister silvio berlusconi there's certainly no lack of choice on the ballot but as artie's are in a close call reports the outcome may well throw the debt ridden e.u. into a state of even higher anxiety. these are close elections for its leader tell you in step one in the days to the week in the parliamentary elections the clerics are going to start to say and if they vote at least alexa's that they contribute is not going. to leave i think it's a challenge let's see. elin . obviously didn't have a hard time finding a job there having a little hard to believe in the. explicit a problem that. you see the full the

subtle. look and the w.c. eleven. days were one of the most read says lee not the smartest out there still might start a new business in the cells in the south the study this weekend and it's a little bit of a little bit wrong still to get along with this like lindsay certainly not in. the political arena along with a. lot of the political. team on the scene with the illegal

. illegal the insolence still am putting ellipses lamar along to a lot of work at the entire eurozone depending on how old things go here the future of your opinion it is also a. what you not see live from moscow are tensions escalating in the west bank where the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail has triggered the fresh wave of violence now thousands of palestinian prisoners are already refusing food in a show of solidarity with the dead man with dozens of protesting palestinian youths have now been tear gassed by israeli soldiers the israeli side says the prisoner died of a heart attack palestinians and says to use torture during interrogation his death

is for the anger the palestinians who have already been rallying for a week against the conditions inside israeli prisons and in support of long term hunger strikes protests are repeatedly ended in fierce clashes with israeli soldiers and use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. well the prisoner she wasn't the only one causing divisions between the two sides this week more clashes erupted when jewish settlers attacked palestinian demonstrators in the north of the west bank shooting to. pull a sleigh reports could be no end to this confrontation as long as there israel continues building on land that is considered to belong to the palestinians 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 ground israel is doing exactly this while also getting people out of their 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 if plans go ahead and 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 to research and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see that palestinians fear it's part of a long term strategy to extend iran and build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a 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 policy or r.t. in the west bank. and now it is full of slavery's are closely following developments in the west bank updating us on the latest via twitter feed you can do said to paul or underscore arts he for the very latest on the rallies and the ongoing plight of the hunger striking prisoners.

this is the weekly on out see with me rule research syrian rebels have received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the border to fight president assad that's according to both arab and rebel officials it comes as a fleeting efforts to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict appear to have stold and the main opposition group syria's national coalition announced it's pulling out of upcoming international talks aimed at helping to end the bloodshed of the group or skip meetings in russia the u.s. over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the assad government it's also boycotting

the gathering of the friends of syria alliance which consists of the rebels foreign backers syrian activists about to walk off he says the western powers could be losing their influence over the opposition the rebels are not interested in negotiations. and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government although a strategy based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of on the ground the awful he is for the rebels rather than the political elite called the national council of the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to form they know that the western society the western countries have invested a lot in them both in money and time and so on in organizing them and they think that they could probably. make a stand here with regards to what the sea is. this is a bit funny because now if they choose to get out of this sort of international

friends of syria meeting then the western communities really would have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis and he has spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict who had some rather tough comments for the opposition we're talking about the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi he said the opposition's reluctance to make any concessions to the assad government is one of the major roadblocks to peace you can watch these clues even if you that will be just a bit later this hour here on our say. well meanwhile the u.k. is set on boosting support for the syrian rebels london has failed to persuade its partners to lift the arms embargo but could provide what it calls technical assistance instead and this comes against the backdrop of revelations earlier this week of how britain has been selling weapons to sri lanka and is looking to boost sales to libya both countries are listed as of concern regarding their human rights

records by the foreign office and geo political analyst patrick henningsen says it's a u.k. military policies that increasingly cause the concern. the money that the government collects in taxes is already is already spoken for what the british government is doing here is it going sadly the way of the american model which is to put the country and the government into debt in order to fund these various foreign aid projects or military aid specifically i've seen the exact same words coming out of the mouth of bill clinton barack obama george bush and david cameron said that he admits that much of the foreign aid that british government's been doing out is being wasted or ends up in the wrong hands we in american and british gloom aircon empire were responsible for the majority of these conflicts flaring up in this unrest flaring up in places like africa the middle east in asia i think people need to take a very close look at what's going on and what their political leaders are up to in

this department. weapons and money also the focus of the british prime minister's visit to india this week. bringing you an indian perspective on what stumbling blocks may jump of the links between london and. president struggles to a peace protesters with promises lower enforcement continue to. abuse by the local police. officer the.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. mission free cretaceous three. four judges three. arrangement three. three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media project a free media. dot com. it isn't just approaching four twenty on sunday afternoon here in moscow this is with

me. the weekly. there is a further turmoil in egypt where the government is struggling to contain street violence president mohamed morsi has brought forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second the opposition leader is calling for a boycott of the vote of protests have been going on for weeks now with the opposition accusing the president of hijacking the revolution and backtracking on reform promises. to use belt true reports the unrest has often been accompanied by claims of widespread police abuse and torture in his hometown of tanta the bill i'll give the point south where local you have renamed to street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on tyreese square and on the first time i went to see mohammed in hospital i didn't recognize him seriously this research was covered

with a fractured when i asked the daughters they told me this is mohamed odeh. hundred will be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash if you had to be a but that's what vehicle breaks teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legs yeah. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the worst divide it's often a cause in places like this infamous security directorate behind me which can be big for mohammed's kokanee however the most worrying trend activists say is the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria only to explains

how her. thirteen year old son abdulrahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander i thought demonstration. the police used violence against children my son has caught some of those are all over his body as a hound's young children because kids can't run away from them or. if anyone cries to contact their family or friends they would beat us despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and refutes that torture is systemic in the police force but instead the government says it will arm and lower ranking police officers sparking fears of other abuses back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform but people here say there is no evidence of that until there is crowds of thousands continue to push for change though many fear the

worst is yet to come true for see cairo. it's gears and turn our attention out of out of mali where heavy fighting has continued throughout the week in the northern part of the country thirteen soldiers from chad were killed there on saturday that's the highest casualty count for the joint french and african forces since the start of the campaign against islamist rebels meanwhile the u.s. has deployed one hundred troops to neighboring to assist despite the ongoing guerrilla war and fears of escalating violence french general say they still plan to wrap up their involvement in the handover to local forces next month the operation is under french president a peace prize from the u.n. cultural agency unesco the organization decided francois hollande had made a quote valuable contribution to stability in mali but peace activist ken stein believes it's nothing but a throwback to color as. the former new york colonial powers are once again flexing their muscles and they're starting to reach back into into yugoslavia. into iraq

into after 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 them the main export is uranium and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies beginning with the tragic fact there is a further problem that the west has introduced to and the successful overthrow of the look of the gadhafi government it introduced. al-qaeda type 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. of europe the neo colonial powers and the united states nato these countries have no right to act

as the police of the world. we go now starting with afghanistan where at least one person was killed and six wounded in a series of splosion is across the eastern side of the country a car bomb went off near the national director of security building followed by two suicide blasts targeting police under security checkpoint in the logan. the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attacks a would be suicide bomber was also killed in the country's capital he tried to enter an area housing internal security office as. pope benedict has delivered a final blessing before his resignation to thousands of people gathered in some peter's square vatican city he would be stepping down earlier this month becoming the first to have to do so in nearly six hundred years that he cites simply nothing but health reasons that critics of the catholic church claim the move could be a result of brewing sex and corruption scandals. have

a look that this footage right here it's pretty scary stuff a massive a pile up the nascar rally in america has left thirty three people in the crowd injured two critically they were hit by debris that was launched into the stands at the accident happened on the last lap of the florida race course as drivers total to watch the checkered flag it was caused by the race leader turning sideways at high speed and the chasing pack smashing into his car. you can find out a lot more about the crash in daytona along with other news from the world of sport . in the next twenty four hours and every monday on a c. this week the british prime minister david cameron was on a charm offensive in india he was there to discuss military and money matters with one of the world's fastest growing economies the prime minister gathered a large trade delegation seeking to gain favor and popularity points over his french counterpart who visited new delhi earlier this month but deepak to pass the

honorary research fellow at the university of roehampton things that britain's colonial past makes cameron's goal a rather tough one to achieve. the size of the delegations certainly show the aggressive nature of far right mr cameron's drive to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friend all the rest of the specially france and germany so i think the interests of the two countries france and britain are quite separate britain feels that because of the historic on relationship with india. britain can. then perhaps fuss with the indian government however i would say this the historical memory of colonial rule. doesn't sit very well with the indians still. this

is a city and america's newly appointed state department chief john kerry will be getting the chance to make his mark the mbox now in his first foreign trip in the job of a nine nation tour will see kerry outline policy positions on the syria crisis as well as the ongoing iranian nuclear energy dispute marina portnoy it takes a look at washington's new top diplomat 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 according to the state department the top u.s. diplomat thinks of this trip as a quote 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 and they support democratic institutions and george kyrgyzstan is the country kerry should have said but unfortunately his speech was written with the mistake reporting from new york. r.t. . becoming military crises in the middle east suddenly has become america's burden later in the program we'll look at how washington strengthens its key foreign ties using its education system plus. good schools. have been a series of some of the sort i don't know about to fire up to four children a day of cold bringing weapons into u.k. schools before he was desperate to end an epidemic of violence and more about story after a very quick break. all

of those north korean scamps are at it 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 to the north korean scoring to the b.b.c. ruled 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 whether 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 will be turned 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 . live.

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this is the with me rory sushi knives knuckle dusters and even guns at the tools of the trade for many an average criminal but these items are increasingly being found in the backpacks of more and more pupils across britain with violence at schools seeing a shop rise. reports and other problems being dealt. teaches that certain things you probably end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you know our parent is gone our current is not for no for teaching them to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of britain's schoolchildren despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day with weapons in british schools guns knives a knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are men who are

always searching the school and. gone to the school i had. gone to see this first gun about the fire schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing is a veil that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with a number of violent incidents on the rise the reality for many schools across the bay is that your classmate can quickly become your enemy and the school playground can be a dangerous place it becomes normal to you and you you get sucked into this last thing to violence the best approach. is it's just waking up in the morning and going for run yeah after a while it becomes normal to you stephen is now working with us charity x l p thirty nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing founded patrick regan has been

helping young people tackle gun culture and violence to a member a kid coming up to me when a bullet proof vest underneath his school uniform he said i'll be dead by thursday according to patrick it's early intervention which is key in prison is forty thousand pounds a year a young person's secure unit is one hundred sixty five thousand pounds a year a murder can be a million pounds a year to investigate. so actually you know if we keep kids in education. grow and flourish the problem of violence in schools is nothing new one but it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly acute in the country's deprived. schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons to the premises so they do not readily give the information so i guess the problem is significant all they teach kids can

now say that they suspect they're carrying a weapon many politicians the still. intake. and until more is done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. the. nuclear program and build more. online you can. of course.

thanks for joining us today with education the doors of america's top universities are always a job for people looking to become the world's next leaders. looks at how the u.s. uses its education system to help tip the political. 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 empower future generations of political leaders who've had a positive american experience and they are more likely to be global partners would be a small djibril 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 general as quote a serious into lockett or 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 an n g o sariah 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.

how to implement. 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. it is 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. it was intimidating 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 class. lectures and people saying how do we think the market i'd be underminded the government. two thousand and seven when i was in the program they had already started the push towards africa

diplomacy is good business as it's been made clear by the state department time and time again getting foreign leaders and their advisors to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states in their policy is much cheaper than bombing their country so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising power in washington on. shift gears now to syria where the civil war there are locked in a cycle of death and destruction and we also international peace envoy lakhdar brahimi when he believes that the calm will truly be restored is not exclusive interview coming up in just a few. wealthy british style stock.

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the syrian president bashar al assad are are possible not with president bashar al assad the terrific element. it is necessary yes sure. i think you know there are more and more people who accept. but there is no military victory for any side and that you need a political solution and that party to consider solution meets make concessions negotiations i think can take place between deliberation to presenting the government and the delegation representing the opposition so when you're saying q. maybe talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself or the steamroller is that the opposition is seeing every five minutes but they don't want to talk about. this is the problem six months ago your prep predecessor coffee on resigned saying that there is no way

they could be a peaceful resolution in syria no he didn't say that it has anything changed you still believe that a peaceful resolution a serious possible i mean you know first of all kofi never said this what is reducing is never possible he never said. what he said there were was that you know he was counting on the international community to help him and the international community did not have so he said for the moment there is you know we were out in front of a war he didn't say that he never said that there were never disorders so unless you are saying that there must be a military solution. which a lot of people say. but kofi annan did not say that and i'm not saying what's your take this peaceful resolution is still

a great possibility it is it would not oppose for the moment it is extremely difficult it's not that it's not happening but it is a must. the syria either has a peaceful resolution or then war for i don't until the countries destroy and if you don't want to be the country to be destroyed and i don't think you do then you really call for this war resolution difficult as it may be. the. the choice really is between destroying syria and having a peaceful clear ask you something why do you think syrian uprising has such a strong terrorist element to it is if this is again. what is it that you call terrorist.