the stories that shaped the week here on t.v. and the death of another russian toddler in an adoptive u.s. family leads to allegations he could have been killed stoking anger right here in russia. fresh rallies clashes on hunger strikes in the west bank the death of a palestinian and israeli jails further fuels week long protests against the plight of palestinian prisoners. and italians choose the parliament and one of the most unpredictable votes in the country's history which could see a comeback by show. or breakthrough by a former comedian. from

moscow this is arts and the weekly with me rory sushi we're highlighting the week's top stories right now. it's 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 maxime koosman was found bruised and dead at the home of a texas couple coast here in russia and the boy's adoptive mother claims it was just an accident but there are suspicions maxime could have been abused and killed he's an associate talking to house the story. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much she was mean known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was just that a 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 head and internal organs were allegedly severely bruised. it could mean could 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 back 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 underscoring 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 was shown until it was demanded. well what. with almost two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids on. 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 afloat paste in 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. act or county texas. kneels would have enough from pound a puppet legacy that's a group that monitors children placed with you families he says of the case highlights some rather looming 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 who will actually happens in adoptions you need to have a proper system in place that checks the adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has ghosts option 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. and the treatment of russian orphans by their adoptive u.s. families and the subsequent russian adoption ban against the u.s. certainly sparking fears debate and r.t. dot com you can find more stories from all the sides on this also you can get involved in the your own comments the. tensions are escalating

in the west bank where the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail has triggered a fresh wave of violence thousands of palestinian prisoners are already refusing food in a show of solidarity with the dead man of dozens of protesting palestinian youths have been tear gassed by israeli soldiers the israeli side says the prisoner died of a heart attack the palestinians insist he was being tortured at the time his death has further angered the palestinians who have already been rallying for a week against the conditions inside israeli prisons and in support of long term hunger strikes the protests repeatedly ended in fierce clashes with israeli soldiers who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. now the person or 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 as artie's polis lay reports there could be no end to this confrontation as long as 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 it can really 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 ma'ale adumim it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank and if plans go ahead in the israelis extend this area 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 that palestinians fear it is 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 bird of ongoing policy that has been going 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 ash policy r t in the west bank. and paula is closely following developments in the west bank updating all of us on

how twitter feed us news we can get if you had over to paula underscore r.t. you can get the latest on the rallies and of course the plight of the hunger striking prisoners. it's ten minutes past the hour moscow time this is artsy europe certainly in some parts holding its breath on sunday as austerity hit a tally and choose the next parliament from a former comedian to describe his tax prime minister silvio berlusconi there's certainly no lack of choice on the ballot but reports of the outcome may well throw

the debt ridden e.u. into even more uncertain. this italian parliamentary election offers plentiful options for the country's voters at first glance but dig deeper and you'll realize the choice isn't all it seems but the talents are confused and there is still a part of them who has no style gee awful the good old times with mr berlusconi. you know they thought they could all become millionaires and this was the biggest loser it wasn't the streets of rome aligned with posters from various political parties and candidates all smiles and bright colors offering the best future possible for italian voters. have. been since i. was a candidate was. i. think

it's fair to say. it's not because i didn't know. the programme loz not the leader but the face of a movement whose plan is simple to do away with the politics that italy has been used to for the past couple of decades and bring about a new type of rule the number saved on my part i don't feel protected by the state i want to state that is visible there is no more state in this country just a bureaucracy of laws that has replaced democracy there isn't anything left among the crowds disillusioned with italy's politics is done the analysis has started small by successfully challenging politicians in his small hometown in the south like many talents he does not trust the current political system if it were possible to live here that you think there will be no wall ok i begin to feel. like you live off the wall over there but it is time for a change at least one hundred thousand people showed up to support close movement

in the center of rome the biggest political gathering in half a century people say popular because it speaks clearly and they say it's one of the main thing to say so they have to go or home. oh well they're finished these right because they're the political class has lost in the in the influence on the one hundred part of the population especially young people. the crisis in which we have a political class absolutely unable to cope with the situation and the situation is a desperate one the longest recession in twenty years more than one third of the country's youth are without a job corruption that feeds organized crime and manages to siphon off as much as sixty billion euros a year by some estimates and declaring wealth divide between various a tally and regions basically it's always huge or parliament will have a mouthful to chew to avoid choking on the problems which have accumulated over the

years perhaps doing away with the old men in suits no matter how respectable they may appear in favor of a foul mouth but seemingly honest comedian may be just the thing to put an end to italy's political drama in rome it in a goes. well there was a rather special welcome for scandal plagued silvio berlusconi at the polling station where three topless activists protested his candidacy lots of pictures there more details on our website r t dot com of course parliamentary elections ongoing at the moment and. also there were egypt's president struggling to appease protesters with promises of his lower enforcement toxic scores only more anger we report on the alarming allegations of abuse and torture used by local police while the government hands

out weapons to the lowest ranking officers plus. we have around to see this first. fire up to four children a day a court bringing weapons into u.k. schools with authorities desperate to end an epidemic of. more on that story now than years after the break. 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 you thought you

don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. mission free critique a should free in-store charge is free. range three. three stooges free. download free loading video for your media projects a free media to r.t. dot com. also joining us here. in moscow there is father tom all in egypt where the government is struggling to contain street violence president mohamed morsi has sport forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second was the opposition

leaders calling for a boycott of the vote and the protests going on for weeks with the opposition accusing the president of hijacking the revolution and backtracking on reform promises and salties bell true reports the on rest has often been accompanied by claims of widespread police abuse and torture. in his hometown of tanta the big game of the point south twelve 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 tahrir square. when the first time i went to see mohammed in hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his race was covered with his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohamed odeh the other hundred would 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 west divide it often occurs in places like this infamous security directorate behind me which can be banned from mohammed's balcony however the most worrying trend activists say is the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son up to rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration. the police used violence against children my son has caused some

of the loses all over his body a hundred young children because kim scantron away from them. told us if anyone tries 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 refer. it's that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police offices sparking fears of pieces 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 so many fear the worst is yet to come true for ought see kyra. are less good answer now the aussie world updatable start of afghanistan where at least one person was killed and six were in a series of explosions on the eastern side of the country when

a car bomb went off near the national director of security building followed by two suicide blasts targeting police headquarters and a security checkpoint in the logo province the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attacks as a would be suicide bomber was also killed in the country's capital as he tried to enter an area housing internal security offices. pope benedict has delivered a final blessing before his resignation to thousands of people gathered at some peter's square of vatican city in allister would step down earlier this month becoming the first pontiff to do so in nearly six hundred years all the while citing health reasons critics of the catholic church of claim the move could be a result of brewing sex and corruption scandals. just a massive pileup at a nascar rally in america has left us thirty three spectators injured at least two critically they were hit by debris that was launched into the stands the accident

happened on the last lap of the florida racecourse was drivers total towards the checkered flag it was caused by the race leader turning sideways at high speed and the chasing smashing into his car. and you can find out more about the crash in daytona along with other news from the world of sports starts old day on monday here nazi. for now knives knuckle dusters and even firearms are the tools of the trade for many an average criminal but these items are also increasingly being found in the back packs of more and more peoples across britain violence in schools saying a sharp rise. and how the problem is being dealt with. 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 courage is not far no for the teaching going to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of christian schoolchildren despite

having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to full peoples a day with weapons in persist schools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are members always searching the school and . gone to the school. discourse. and i see it is first of all shut down about the fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the figures of revealed that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with the 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 founder patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence a member 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 keep that sense of a safe place an environment where they can grow and flourish the problem of violence in schools is nothing new one it's not something you're likely to read about in

a school prospectus and it's particularly a heat in the countries to try to see. schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons onto the premises so they do not readily give the information so i guess the problem is significant well they teach kids can now say people's if they suspect that carrying a weapon many politicians to still failing. and take notice and until more it's done to address the problem children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. and aussies come july from moscow announces it's found thousands of tons worth of pure rainy m reserves says it will use them to expand its nuclear program and build even more power reactors online you can find out what officials in america and europe hope to do about it. and the governor of nevada of course home to las vegas

to sign a new law that he says will put the u.s. state to the forefront of gambling legislation his plans online. and for now syrian rebels have received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the jordanian border to fight president assad that's according to both arab and rebel officials it comes as fledgling efforts to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict appear to have stalled 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 the group will skip meetings in russia and america and what it sees as a lack of international. nation of the gulf it's also boycotting the gathering of the friends of syria alliance which consists of the rebels foreign backers are syrian pro-forma activist of ottawa and says the western powers could be losing their influence over the opposition and the rebels well they're just not interested

in negotiations. and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all their strategy is based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of forty on the ground we also know that he is for the rebels rather than the political elite that are called the national council would receive the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to form they know that the western societies of 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 they see is the policy this is a bit funny because now if the 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. well it's good to have you with us here on our to

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