the stories that shaped of this week the death of another russian toddler in an adoptive u.s. family leads to allegations you could have been killed. in russia. fresh rallies clashes and hunger strikes in the west bank the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail for their fuels week long protests against the plight of palestinian prisoners. and italian shoes their apparent moment in one of the most unpredictable votes in the country's history of which could see a comeback by schoeman for school need for a breakthrough by a former comedian. good to see you with us this evening i'm lucy catherine on when you're watching the weekly here on our t.v.

it's our week out of the week's top stories as well as today's news well it's been a real to reveal that another russian child died after being adopted by an american family this is the twentieth such death since to mid one nine hundred ninety s. the news that three year old maxim koosman was found. dead at the home of a texan couple caused outrage here and russia the boy's adoptive mother mother claims that it was an accident but there are some suspicions that maxim could have been abused and murdered are going to take up the story twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much known to locals as just what i heard on the news. just a kid had such great. that's all i know three year old marquis him 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 the russian officials had no knowledge of the incident until almost a month after the boy's death it wasn't 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 they 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 is usually months after a russian child has died in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it in 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 underscore 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. 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 if they see a church r.t. after county texas. now and who have benefited a pound puppy legacy a group that monitors children placed with new family is says that the case highlights shortcomings within the u.s. adoptive system and i did state has a very complex adoption system where the state department has federal responsibilities which it comes properly executed because adoption itself is performed at the state level in america the federal government has no control over

what actually happens in. the need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts option monitoring all that is not really in place there rescreening but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible . especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy. well the treatment of russian orphans by their adoptive u.s. families and the subsequent russian adoption ban against the u.s. has sparked fierce debate on r.t. dot com you can find more stories from all sides and you can also weigh in yourself by leaving a comment. tensions are escalating in the west bank when the where the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail has triggered a fresh of wave of violence thousands of palestinian prisoners are refusing food in

a show of solidarity with the dead man palestinian youths have also taken to the streets in protest now the israeli side says the prisoner died of a heart attack was hella finian's and says that he was tortured during his interrogation the death has further angered palestinians while already been rallying for a week against the conditions in israeli prisons and also in support of hunger strikers that a protest repeatedly ended in fierce clashes with israeli soldiers who had used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. now the prisoner issue wasn't the only one causing divisions this week more clashes erupted when jewish settlers attacked palestinian demonstrators in the north of the west bank shooting two people and authorities possibly reports to could be no end to this confrontation as long as israel continues building on land considered palestinian. it's rugged unremarkable 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 television 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 argue buys another change facts on the ground of israel is doing exactly that 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 of 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'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 burst of ongoing policy that has been going for years now in at them 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 r t in the west bank. well paula is also keeping us up to date on her twitter feed so if you want to follow her head over there or to twitter dot com you can follow her apt post later underscore r t for the latest.

well europe is holding its breath as austerity hit italians choose their next parliament from a poor former comedian to disgraced ex prime minister silvio berlusconi there's certainly no lack of choice on this ballot but our teams are going to show reports the outcome could a well throw the debt ridden european union into even more uncertainty. 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. i

think i. was a good candidate was experience yes it. was it. was good was. the program lo is 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 say for my part i don't feel protected by the state i want to stay 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 was possible

to feel i believe that or do you think there will be what was ok i began to feel that way he was living off the wall. but it is time for a change at least one hundred thousand people showed up to support carlos 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 they have to go or home. oh. yes they're finished this right because the the political class has lost in the in influence on the entrepreneur to 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 is huge a 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 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. political analyst alessandro polity doubts that any of the candidates are on ballot will be able to handle at least financial woes. well the problem of your is not the problem of public debts this is a financial assault that has been concerted by private entities to milk money from the eurozone that said of course berlusconi is not really the best choice to to drive around these difficult obstacles and the moment he wasn't really so much

better despite being well connected with the financial world has a wonderful words. but very little content and this is a bit worrying because as soon as he gets in it gets in parliament and it's not just italian politics who make politics in the world and frankly for the moment they don't feel he is really well equipped i hope he will make up because anyhow he will come up with a sizable number of parliamentarian's but they have really to study very hard and very fast to come up with something credible. egypt's president is struggling to appease protesters with promises of well his law enforcement tactics are causing more anger just ahead we report on the alarming allegations of abuse and torture used by local police while government handed out weapons to the lowest ranking

officers. also coming up america's new top diplomat john kerry sets off on a marathon foreign tour its first us secretary of state after the break we're going to look exactly where he's heading and why.

you are. so. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. any time and you were. welcome back lucy catherine of here. or well egypt's new president mohamed morsi has brought forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second this as the opposition leader is calling for a boycott of the vote accusing him of retreating from his promise for reform meanwhile there's further turmoil in egypt where the government is struggling to

contain street violence the unrest has been shaking the nation for weeks now and authorities tell true reports the protests have often been accompanied by claims of a widespread police abuse and torture. in his hometown of tanta nobel al-kindi points out where local youth have renamed a street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on to her a square deal with a hold on the first time i went to see mohammed in hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his face was covered with his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohamed odeh in the pool and the other one will be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash yet to be about 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 legacy. 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 big for 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 caught some of bruises all over his body and a hundred young children because kids can try on away from them. police 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 rift. the torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says. police officers. back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform but people here say there is no evidence of it and is crowds of thousands continue to push for change though many feel the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo. well it's time for a world update now and we begin with of on a stand where afghan president hamid karzai has ordered u.s. special forces to leave the country as a ward of the province well in two weeks the decision was made due to allegations of murder and torture of civilians a presidential spokesman said the troops were responsible for instability and

insecurity in the region the move comes as nato is preparing to hand over responsibility for security to local forces by twenty fourteen. at least six people have been killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria that is at least according to the country's military no suspects have been arrested yet the region is however frequently targeted by islamic extremists while local reporters putting the blame for the attack on the radical sect boko. pope benedict has a liver to final blessing before his resignation to thousands of people gathered at the same peter's square in vatican city he's announced that he would step down earlier this month becoming the first pope to do so in nearly six hundred years when he cited health reasons critics of the catholic church claim the move could be a result of a brewing sex and corruption scandal. germany is

valid to a new stalled talks on turkey joining the e.u. as chancellor angela merkel heads there on an official visit on car it is increasingly frustrated over a lack of progress in negotiations with the prime minister calling that a lay quote on her big unforgettable but what manuel oxana writer any of the political analyst and journalist and he says the current economic situation any you may have stark if citizens without any desire to enter the book we have to see that european union is no democratic protect its political approach next to sort of ideological approach because when you ask the people in germany if they wanted to have the euro for example fifteen years ago the huge majority of the people who were against getting that europe ask the people if they want to send troops to the turkish syrian border they say no the european union is a construct with the democratic base it's an ideological based and so maybe

hopefully we can hope for for the turkish people that they will have the right to take part in the referendum of zero two two of the turkish your membership because i can imagine that for the turkish citizen to see how do you repeat how the european union does the looks now in the states doesn't seem very attractive to become a member of that club america's newly installed secretary of state john kerry has embarked on a first born to are as the country's top diplomat on the list is checking the box says what key allies a new europe as well as developing into the turbulent middle east i did more in a partner has more details for us. 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 evil's in the arab spring countries and serious 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. 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. but changing gears and knives that knuckle dusters even firearms they may be the tools of the trade for ordinary criminals but these items are also increasingly being found in the backpacks of students across britain with violence at schools

seeing a sharp rise or do you think our fourth report on how the problem is being told dealt with. 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 parrot is gone our carrot is now for no for teaching going to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of christian school children despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day a court with weapons in british schools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are remember we're always searching the school and. gone to the school almost gone. around to see this first shot gun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing is have

revealed 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. get sucked into this last thing to violence is 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 set up in nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing found apache gregan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence 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 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 intervene early keep kids in education keep that sense of a slave place an environment where they can grow and flourish the problem of violence in schools is no sinew one that it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly a keats in the country's deprived in a city before schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons into the premises so they do not readily give the information so i guess the problem is significant or they teach it can now so people as if they suspect that carrying a weapon many politicians a still failing to sit up and take notice and until more it's done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons in violence south. london. right folks unfortunately that

doesn't for me this evening but do stay with us here on our t.v. after the break our technology update looks at some of the gadgets being used behind the scenes and the preparations for the exciting sochi twenty fourteen winter olympic games don't go away. well with. the finish as world class athletes to sit down sochi brand new olympic venues are kept seat.