a look at those stories that shape the week the death of another russian toddler and an adoptive u.s. family leads to allegations he could have been killed stoking anger in russia. fresh rallies clashes and hunger strikes in the west bank the death of a palestinian israeli jail further fuels week long protests against the plight of palestinian prisoners. italians choose their parliament and one of the most unpredictable votes in the country's history that could see the return of silvio berlusconi or a breakthrough by a former comedian. in moscow. giving you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. we start off in the u.s.

where police are investigating the death of another russian child who'd been adopted by an american family the twentieth such death since the mid ninety's news that three year old maxime cruz means a bruised body was found near his home in texas college outrage in russia boy's adoptive mother claims it was an accident but there are suspicions that maksim could have been abused and even killed or he's honest r.c. church in your reports 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 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. unfortunately is usually months after 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 but. 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 ah. 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 of flow 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 with the r.t. after county texas meals were given from power legacy a group that monitors children now placed with families says the case highlights shortcomings in the u.s. adoption system the united states 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 who 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. treatment of russian orphans by their adoptive u.s. families and the subsequent russian of option ban against the u.s. both sparked fierce debate and argue that time you can find more stories from all sides and you can leave your own comments as well. tensions rising in the west bank where the death of a palestinian and in israeli jails triggered a fresh wave of violence thousands of palestinian prisoners are refusing food in a show of solidarity palestinian youngsters have also gathered in the streets in protest israeli officials say the prisoner died of a heart attack palestinians and says he was tortured during interrogation his death

further angered palestinians who have already been a rallying for a week against conditions in israeli prisons and in support of the hunger strikers protests repeatedly adding fierce clashes with soldiers who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. prisoner issue though 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 policy reports there may be no end to the confrontation as long as israel continues building on the land considered palestinian its rugged and remarkable landscape knowledge of the 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 kicked 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 only now that. 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 that some loss of getting people out of their lands soley for the benefit of the setlist. 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 mali are. it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank and have 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 ongoing policy that has been going for years now in that 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 big one camps were set up illegally 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. the fate of the people who. point to. in the way. all those closely following developments in the west bank updating us via twitter head over to head over to at underscore r t for the latest updates.

europe holding its breath as austerity hit italians choose their next parliament from a former comedian to the disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi there's certainly no lack of choice on the ballot but as arnie artie's reports for the outcome they will throw the debt ridden 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. since i. was . thirteen i. was given. the programme low 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 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 was possible to live here that. there will be no wall street i began to feel. like he was living 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 they have to go or home. oh. yes they're finished this right because the the political class has lost in the in the influence on the 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 euro 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 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. while ago i was dollars polity doubts that any of the candidates on the ballot will be able to handle italy's fiscal was. well the problem of europe 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 work. 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 he will 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. or stay with us here on r t here's what's coming up. we have. done a lot to fire up to four children a day bringing weapons into u.k. schools with authorities desperate to end an epidemic an epidemic of violence war later in the program plus. america's new top diplomat john kerry setting off on a marathon foreign tore his first as secretary of state after the break a look at where he's going and why.

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mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for staying with us as we review the week here on our t.v. sixteen minutes past the hour now america's newly installed secretary of state john kerry's embarked on his first foreign tour as the country's top diplomat on the list checking the boxes with he allies in europe plus delving into the turbulent middle east as artie's marine important i reports from new york. 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. 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. . president ahmed karzai has ordered u.s. special forces to leave the country's wardak province within two weeks the decision was made due to allegations of murder and torture of civilians the move comes as nato is readying to hand responsibility for security local forces by two thousand and fourteen but tradition their own adjunct professor of politics in new york university says even though it looks like afghanistan is willing to go it alone the

path isn't likely to be smooth. no wardak province is you know the family is strong the place isn't volatile and i think they're kind of tired as well as most afghans having u.s. forces going in and out of people's houses that have an incumbent karzai president karzai needs to take care has and that sees definitely president karzai is trying to make a statement and fact they haven't come to an agreement yet you know there is they're still little i'm sure power play going on between the u.s. and the president as to who's going to stay who's going to be in charge you know what kind of numbers they want and how they're going to work but absolutely you know an afghan leader is going to have to show that he has a little bit more support throughout the nation and then just his region and within the south where syrian rebels got a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the jordan border to fight president assad this according to arab and rebel officials is comes as

renewed efforts to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict appear to have stalled main opposition groups syria's national coalition's announced it's pulling out of the upcoming international talks aimed at helping and bloodshed group will skip scheduled meetings in russia and the u.s. over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the assad regime is also boycotting the gathering of the friends of syria alliance syrian activist m r what says the western powers could be losing their influence over the opposition and rebels aren't interested may not be interested in negotiations. they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all this 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 also the east for their beliefs rather than the political elite called the national council which received the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to feel they know that the western society the list and 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 and it with regards to what they see east policy this is a bit funny because now if the choose to get out of these sort of international friends of syria meeting. no leverage what so live in the syrian crisis. there being no end in sight for the stalemate in syria women have to take up arms head to our web site to find out why for the first time ever in the country a hundred fifty kurdish women set up a female only battalion in the heart of the conflict. also on our t.v. dot com china's economic boom taking its toll on the health of the nation the government admits millions of people could get a life threatening diseases due to pollution from factories nearby. germany's vadra news stalled talks on turkey joining the e.u. as chancellor angela merkel heads there on an official visit her is increasingly

frustrated over a lack of progress in negotiations with the prime minister calling the delay unforgivable but manuel oxon a writer a political analyst and journalist thinks the current economic situation in the e.u. leaves turkish citizens without any desire to enter the block. to see that european union is no democratic pro-choice it's a political approach a sort of ideological approach because when you ask the people in germany if they wanted to hit the euro for example fifty years ago a huge majority of the people who were against the us the people if they want to send troops to the turkish syrian border they say no the european union is a construct with. a critique base it's an ideological base and so maybe hopefully we can hope for for the churches people that they will have the right to take part in the referendum of zero two of petitio membership because i can imagine that

for a turkish citizen to see how the european the whole of the european union does the lopes now in the states is doesn't seem very attractive to become a member of that club. turned out as some other stories making global headlines this hour at least six people have been killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria as according to the country's military no suspects have yet been arrested the region is frequently targeted by islamic extremists with local residents putting the blame for the attack on the radical second boko haram. ten soldiers from chad have been killed in armed clashes with rebels in northern mali it's the second incident resulting in shadi in casualty since friday when thirteen troops died in battle in the same region allied troops from france and african countries have been fighting al-qaeda linked islam is rebels since january despite ongoing clashes france claims the operation is entering its final stage paris announcing its readiness to withdraw military presence from the country. nobs ductile dusters even firearms tools of the trade

for many an average criminal but these items also increasingly found in backpacks and more and more pupils across britain with violence at school seeing a sharp rise arty sarfarosh reports on 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 carrot is not for no for teaching them 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 a knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are remember we're always searching the school and. gone to the.

gun. and i see this first gun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing as it were veiled 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 laugh into 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. lp set up in one thousand nine hundred ninety six after a school stabbing found apache gregan 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 first 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 but 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 for 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 resume give the information so i guess the problem is significant or they teach kids can now say it's people's that they suspect that carrying a weapon many politicians is 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 retirement. azzi london. coming up after a short break a report on the life of rebel militants in the new shared delta stay with us here at r.t. . we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. no

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