stories that shaped the week of the death of another russian toddler in an adoptive u.s. family leads to allegations he could have been killed stoking anger in russia. rallies clashes and hunger strikes in the west bank the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail further fuels week long protests against the fight 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. it's four am and. bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week that was 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 bruised body was found near his texas home caused outrage in russia boy's adoptive mother claims it was an accident but there are suspicions he could have been abused and even killed or he's out of stasi churkin reports. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas mark simkin is me and known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news. just that kid had some scratches. 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 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 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. that is 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 maksim was killed by his mother

for example underscored 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 with the. shown until it was demanded to be political. nobody wants to love 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 is 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 churkin our r.t. after county texas kneels who giving in from pound legacy group monitoring children plays with new families as the case highlights the shortcomings in the u.s. adoption system. the united states has a very complex adoption system where the state department has federal responsibilities which comes 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. you need to have a proper system in place that checks the parents much better before

the. child's posts in 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 adoption ban against the u.s. both sparked fierce debate on r.t. dot com you can find more stories from all sides and leave your own comments. tensions rising in the west bank where the death of a palestinian and israeli jail is triggered a fresh wave of violence thousands of palestinian prisoners are refusing food in a show of solidarity palestinian youngsters of also gathered on the streets in protest israeli officials say the prisoner died of a heart attack to palestinians and says he was tortured during interrogation his

death further angered palestinians already been rallying for a week against conditions in israeli prisons and in support of hunger strike protests repeatedly ended in fierce clashes with soldiers we use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. the prisoner issue wasn't the only one though causing divisions this week more clashes erupted when jewish settlers attacked and palestinian demonstrators in the north of the west bank shooting two of them as artie's policy reports there may be no end to this confrontation as long as israel keeps a building on the 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 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 that so we'll also look at people who are of the land 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 the syria it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build

a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see 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 growing for years now in the 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. paul is as always closely following west bank developments updating us on her latest via her twitter feed head to. underscore r t for her latest updates.

europe holding its breath as austerity hit italians choose their next parliament from a former comedian to disgraced ex prime minister silvio silvio berlusconi is certainly no lack of choice on the ballot but. reports from rome the outcome a wall throwed the debt ridden e.u. into 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. that was if i. was a candidate that was . thirteen i. was it was thanks to the program lows 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 israelis 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 i think we ought to feel i believe that yes there will be that was ok i began to feel that way he lives of the all of it 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 that one of the

main thing to say they have to wall or home. oh. they're finished this right because the the political class has lost in the in the influence of the landrieu part of the population especially young people. the crisis 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 italian regions basically italy's 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. well. the doubts that any of the candidates on about will be able to handle it all these financial woes. well the problem of your is not the problem of public debts this is a financial assault that's has been consulted 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 obstacle and to the moment he wasn't really so much better despite being well connected going on. oh yes' is a wonderful word. but very little continent and this is a bit worrying because as soon as you get in it gets in parliament and it's not just you town and. make politics in the world and frankly for the moment i

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 elements to this budget really to study very hard and very false to come up with something credible. stay with us here on r t still ahead. oh mcleod's costs are going to have an aisle seat is down about to fire up to four children a day caught bringing weapons to u.k. schools with authorities desperate to end demick of violence more on that still to come. plus america's new top diplomat john kerry setting off on a marathon foreign tore his first as secretary of state after the break we'll look at where he's going and why.

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with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for staying with us at r.t. as we can review sixteen minutes past the hour now america's newly installed secretary of state john kerry's and marked on his first foreign tour as the country's top diplomat on the list checking the boxes with the key allies in europe plus and delving into the turbulent middle east as our teams were 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 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 as 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 in georgia kyrgyzstan is the country kerry should have said but unfortunately his speech was written with a mistake reporting from new york. r.t. kerry's first stops will be in major european capitals including london paris and berlin u.s. foreign policy expert john reduce things kerry's mission there will go beyond courtesy calls to traditional nato allies. it's always been very important for the americans to keep the nato alliance together but they always wanted to keep it

together on their own terms it's always been the case for instance that the senior commanding officer in nato is from the american armed forces and what the americans constantly want to do is to shift the burden all military intervention on to the european powers but to keep political control over the process and i think that the we've seen a number of problems recently especially since the american focus is now beginning to shift towards the pacific to deal with the rising threat of china we are going to the europeans now take on a greater share of burden in respect to policing the arab world and north africa what we're seeing here is an attempt to convince the nato allies that they should pay more but have no more influence it's not only through diplomatic tourism negotiations the u.s. is spreading its agenda around the globe the doors of the u.s. educational facilities then open to potential foreign leaders waffen prove useful political forces to washington when they return home or he's got

a cheeky cart artie's than a chicky on looks at the stick cess of that strategy. the u.s. is investing in potential for in the years 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 libya's mahmoud jibril could be one example having studied in the u.s. he went on to become the head of libya's transition government he's now the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties there's little doubt which country he would favor when it comes to dividing lucrative oil deals in the future u.s. foreign service officers had their eye on him even before the revolution broke out a leaked diplomatic cable from november two thousand and nine written by the u.s. ambassador to libya gene credits described mr jebreal as quote a serious 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 n n g o soraya took a two year course in public diplomacy in two thousand and six at the university of south in california in this particular program this was every single lecture has a state department member. so you know that you're not really learning. big 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. and it's very hard to quantify that return completely but i

can tell you that you could quantify it in troops but you don't have to send somewhere so i never pursued a career with that training she will see that it was interfering in other countries i mean i may not be fond of the government in iran but i support hundred percent it's not pretty and i was sitting in this class lectures them people saying how do we think the market how did we undermine the government we thank you two thousand and seven when i was in the program has already started the post africa diplomacy is good business as it's been made clear by the state department time and time again getting boring leaders and their advisors to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states in their policies is much cheaper than bombing their countries so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising some power in washington i'm kind of shaken. afghan president

hamid karzai has ordered u.s. special forces out of the country's wardak province within two weeks this issue was made to allegations of murder and even torture of civilians the move comes as nato is readying to hand responsibility for security to local forces by two thousand and fourteen professor patricia de janeiro an adjunct professor of politics at n.y.u. 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 are and comment cards that president karzai needs to take care has and to seize definitely president karzai is trying to make a statement and our fact they haven't come to an agreement yet and you know there is there's still a 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 afghan leader is going to have to show that he has a little bit more support throughout the nation and just his region and within the south there are three now to some other stories making global headlines this hour at least six people have been killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria this 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 a radical sect boko haram. ten soldiers from chad were killed in armed clashes with rebels in northern mali it's the second incident resulting in charity in casualty since friday when thirteen troops died in battle in the same area allied troops from france and african countries have been fighting out the link is limited rebels since january despite ongoing clashes friends claims the operation has entered its final stage with parasitizing its readiness to withdraw military presence from the country. raul castro has been

reluctant as president by cuba's national assembly for another five year term castro announces will be his final term due to his age and said he's ready to start transferring power to the new generation in two thousand and six raul castro took over the presidency from his elder brother fidel when the country's leader for more than thirty years. science art and language is what students supposed to be studying in school but across the u.k. many students end up learning what's considered the trait of an average criminal knives and even firearms are increasingly found in backpacks of more and more students with violence at school seeing a sharp rise arty sarah for reports on how the problem is being handled. settlings 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 members always searching the school and. so on gun 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 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 you and you you get sucked into this last

offering 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 these 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 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 keep that sense of a safe 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 called 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 well they teach it can now say people as if they suspect that carrying a weapon many theel politicians to still failing. and take notice and until more it's done to address the problem and the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. egypt's president struggling to appease protesters with promises well as law enforcement tactics lead to more iger after the break 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 stay with us.

there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot at people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these top. gets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or an l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women you know law enforcement targets offers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the

unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion. thanks for staying with us as we continue our week in review on our t.v. bottom of the hour now syrian rebels got a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the border in jordan to fight president assad is according to arab and rebel officials is comes as renewed efforts to promote peace to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict appear to have stalled the main opposition group syria's national coalition says it's pulling

out of the upcoming international talks aimed at helping end the bloodshed google also skips scheduled meetings in russia any u.s. over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the assad regime is also boycotting the friends of syria gathering syrian activist omar what cost says the western powers can be losing their influence over the opposition and the rebels may not be interested in negotiation. and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because only a strategy east peace in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of on the ground legal to look east for their beliefs rather than the political elite cooled the national council of the national can. so all they're interested in is for the government to feel they know that the western society is a list of 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 the c.e.o.'s do policy this is a bit funny because now if he choose to get out of these sort of international friends of syria meeting then the list of committees really would have no leverage what so live in the syrian crisis. but there being no end in sight for of a stalemate in syria women have taken up arms head over to our website to find out why for the first time ever there one hundred fifty kurdish women have set up a female only battalion in the heart of the conflict also on. china's economic boom taking its toll on the nation's health the government admitting millions of people could get life threatening diseases due to pollution from nearby factories. the muslim brotherhood's been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the came in as most viable opposition movement of late islamised organizations gained acceptance within the ruling monarchy with its humanitarian work winning over some of the population to

those artes lucy cavanagh reports many locals worry about the possibility of life under the organisation's muslim rule. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's going concerned about the muslim brotherhood's rise to power in the region a force says his students don't want to lose the freedoms they now enjoy and often worry about how their lives could change if jordan came under islamist rule. but like an idiot i do think that maybe if. the brothers. we are afraid. of the mass. but not all share in that fear for decades the muslim brotherhood enjoyed

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

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

their futures will be shaped by the islamists or by their own hands you see catherine of r t amman jordan germany's vowed to renew stalled talks on turkey joining the e.u. as chancellor angela merkel goes there on an official visit increasingly frustrated over a lack of progress in negotiations with the prime minister calling the delay on forgivable but now well oxen a writer a political analyst and journalist says the current economic situation in the e.u. we have turkish citizens without any desire to enter a bloc. we have 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 have the euro for example fifteen years ago a 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 out any democratic base it's an ideological base and so maybe hopefully we can hope for for the church's people that they will have the right to take part in the referendum a vote about a turkish you membership because i can imagine that for a turkish citizen to see how they view repeat the how of the european union develops now in the states is doesn't seem very attractive to become a member of that club egypt's president mohamed morsi has brought forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second as the opposition leader is calling for a boycott of the vote accusing him of retreating from his promises of reform meanwhile further turmoil in egypt where the government struggles to contain street violence that arrest has been shaking the nation for weeks now as artie's bell true reports protests have often been accompanied by claims of widespread police abuse and even torture. in his hometown of tanta the big game the point south where local youth

have renamed their streets 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 i know that one would be although muhammad'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 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 the violence often occurs in places like this infamous security directorate behind me risking being for mohammed's own 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 abdul rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration. the police used violence against children my son has cut some of bruises all over his body and a hundred young children because kids can try on away from them. no 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. it's that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police offices sparking fears of further

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 kyra. coming up after the break art his exclusive interview with a former chief of the u.s. national intelligence council on how his report help stave off a military showdown with iran several years ago. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care

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a big part in preventing us from taking military action against iran by boldly claiming it had halted its nuclear weapons program well if we could just start by talking about what happened back in two thousand and seven he were oversaw a national intelligence estimate on iran's nuclear program at the time you'll government was posturing for war it was claiming that iran was trying to develop a nuclear weapon but your report effectively blew that out of the water was it difficult to get the truth and the reality within the government was almost universally this is really good work. the focus was on the quality of the intelligence collection efforts that have been successful and the quality of the clarity of the analytic process and judgments.