israel and gaza seeing the heaviest exchange of rocket attacks following palestinian prison riots street clashes over the death of a former hamas member in an israeli state of custody. the war of words saws on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing all out conflict as pyongyang suspends access to a crucial industrial zone jointly run with seoul. and with the presidential race now underway in venezuela we take a look at whether any of the main candidates could fill the shoes of the late. worldwide news live from moscow this is our with me rule received it's good to have you with us today. tensions are once again flaring up on the border between israel

and gaza palestinian militants launched rocket attacks on tuesday and early this morning with. nobody was hurt on either side but cross border salvos threatened to destroy a cease fire brokered last november but the hostilities were partly spawned by the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody this report from ramallah. basically this was a very heated and uneasy morning for the region there have been protests in several cities including ramallah where i am right now as well those numbers and hebron now have drawn is something that we should be paying special attention to that was the hometown of. the prisoner who died just very recently in an israeli jail and we're expecting more protests a very kind of i guess strenuous protest to take place there on thursday when when he will be buried there so we're watching out for that very. but of course there

was also the exchange of fire between israel and gaza for the first time since the november truce so really a lot of tension in the air now why is this happening this is happening because a palestinian prisoner sixty four sixty four year old prisoner died in an israeli jail after he was diagnosed with cancer in february or to be more precise he was diagnosed with cancer at the end of february now palestinians are accusing israel of not providing sufficient treatment to the man because he has complained about his health. actually in summer of last year and nothing literally nothing was done . no information was provided until march when doctors told him that he has cancer literally has days left to live so of course this left a lot of palestinians incredibly angry and of course there is you can see that their sentiments were best expressed by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas.

we have sent a letter of complaint to the israeli government and to all the international institutions regarding this unfair action that israel calls the death of my sorrow our prison we will continue our struggle to free prisoners and i ask you to read a funeral prayer for the minister for prisoner affairs of palestinian authority has also has also called on the international community for for an internationally led investigation into the death of a. prisoner of course still people are outraged you have to understand this is the second palestinian prisoner to die in an israeli jail in two months in february a thirty year old man died in israeli jail a from a heart attack that has also spawned a lot of protests so we're really at this very uneasy period in the in the middle eastern conflict situation and we're watching it very closely because we can expect more clashes to be happening in the west in the west bank in palestinian

territories as well as on the gaza israel border in the immediate future. well it is there in a political reporting right there let's get some more analysis now of the situation with a palestinian journalist. now are joining us live here on c it's a pleasure to see you sir thanks for coming on r.t. today we've gone from prison riots and rockets solve those in just two days how fragile is the situation do you think now well the potential for. all out confrontation with israel. is always there but i don't think. hamas in particular is eager to escalate the situation to. this. where you say you say the palestinians and israelis perhaps both on either side of the table here don't want to escalate tensions but of course it was just four months ago back in november we

had a story of israeli bombing of palestinian areas across the gaza border that basically started a four month truce a four month cease fire is that not now all up in smoke. well it depends on the israeli reaction to a very large extent because the. you know the trail is keep being gassed by way of airstrikes then this would probably make the situation on bearable even for all of the. islamist rulers of gaza. but at the same time everyone expects both sides to maintain a semblance of self-restraint and we hope that the situation will not. deteriorate into an all out confrontation in gaza he talked about how you talk

about perhaps about size needing to practice some self-restraint i mean you're in a hebron right now and there are some serious clashes that erupted there over the past twenty four hours with the reaction to the death of a palestinian prisoner in hebron now what is what is the situation like. well here the. state of widespread anger and diggnation over the what many people here. a primitive. israelis palestinians think. the death of my father was a direct result of a criminal negligence as well as moral powerlessness and of course the palestinians yet are. to such reactions and from. actions and

from these very and it is possible that. to morrow when. you know of mr hamby you will take place in hebron the situation. indeed escalate into a violent clashes between b. israelis and we certainly keeping a close watch on that as you say to morrow inside twenty four hours mr hamdi of the palestinian prisoner will be buried you for cos there could be concerns of more clashes tomorrow. it all seems it all seems a bit bizarre to some that we can have this ongoing clash between both israelis and palestinians what has been going on for so many years now i mean the situation in israeli prisons i'm sure is far from perfect you say israeli negligence is due for the death of abu hamed from what i understand he died of throat cancer didn't.

yes indeed but his medical condition had been known to abuse their lives for a long time and he himself and his lawyers. alerted rarely prison or thirty's to his situation but these releases did not move to give him the medical attention he needed so abuse rarely according to most voters finian's here decided to be responsible for his death and. correspondence their visit was the second place. to die in years religio less than sixty days so the israelis cannot be given the benefit of the doubt at all our palestinian journalist thank you very much indeed for joining us live on r.t. from hebron thank you well it's good to have you with us here on out here we did have a chance to speak exclusively to morrow one bought of gucci a bit he's

a member of the palestinian parliament and former minister of information he believes that support for the palestinian cause is set to grow simply due to the injustice inflicted on the people by israel. settlements and this apartheid system contradicts even the american interest in having stability in the middle east those who think the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you will see more and more people in the middle east siding by the palestinians and demanding the right of the palestinians. now you can watch other exclusive interview with mario was about to go to hear one r.t. that is that at eighteen forty five g.m.t. . for now north korea has barred workers from the south from entering a jointly operated fact to resign it's pyongyang's latest move in the conflict between the neighboring states which has been simmering in recent weeks the chi

song industrial park has been one of the few successful efforts of reconciliation between both koreas from which the economies of both countries stand to benefit a south korea based journalist joseph kim has this. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps if she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's main objective is actually to start a dialogue with the u.s. with north korea's recent. what the u.s. calls provocations it's actually been easier for the united states to convince its military back into the studio something that the pentagon has said that it was wanting to do to rebalance back into east asia so because of this we've seen a larger increased presence of military expansion by the u.s. into east asia during these annual drills something that we haven't seen before

we're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through these threats from north korea or what people say are perceived threats have actually become common and lending to many people in south korea but this time around the rhetoric has actually gotten a lot harsher so many south koreans are actually getting more of an eerie feeling on what this might turn out to be i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious sense can't even the south korean government is taking a coup worse this time so it feels like it is getting closer when the u.s. is more forceful it has a less positive effect from the perspective of a south korean citizen i feel anxious and it doesn't feel like protection. first of all it's not the first time north korea has issued threats so to us we don't feel the threats we don't perceive them to be dangerous but it seems there are a lot of things happening inside kim jong un's regime it seems that the u.s.

is doing those things to make correct evaluation on king john so that the nuclear problem doesn't see it and i'm putting stress with south korea with the joint military drills but i don't think it is really helping in terms of into korean peace to. well let's just recap the events that have been developing on the korean peninsula as of late. announced plans to revive a nuclear reactor that's been shut down for six years it previously said that all of its missile systems have been mobilized to run a state of high alert the north also declared itself to be in a state of war with its southern neighbor all the while washington meantime has been taking more solid steps by upping its military presence in the area and come the f. twenty two the navy has sent in a second guided missile destroyer to the korean peninsula that was on monday off the u.s. stealth warplanes arrived in the region following the development of a nuclear capable b. fifty two long range bombers as well certainly quite an impressive os in all to say

the least gregory ilitch of the advisory board of the korea policy institute he believes that could well be some the hidden motives behind this big display united states hundreds of bases throughout the middle of it throughout the world. north korea collapses united states stablished military bases right on the border with china and then circumvent of that nation. also there's because of our middle east deposits in north korea which would be useful for exploitation by u.s. corporations and the united states. has never tolerated a country that won't criticize economy of the service of its foreign corporation they want to know that about north korea knows that if their approach diplomatic we don't negotiate but if they're threatening only respond with firmness so you were kind of a feedback loop where your bottom or strangeness come in and kind of on a door stations were never at work and nothing since since the last several years

obama is following a policy of what he called strategic patience which is enough to act a slow strangulation of north korea through sanctions and economic measures in the hope that it will collapse at some point in time. well. i just.

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international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for joining us here on r.t. on rule researcher in moscow where the race for the top job has kicked off in venezuela as the country's acting president nicolas my daughter proposed to take on his main opposition rival that of and the greek a cup realise both are eyeing to replace the country's laid charismatic president hugo chavez he did die last month following a long battle with cancer my daughter who is the former confidant and designated shadows looking to continue in the footsteps of his predecessor. central state governor has vowed to deliver a free market economy and strengthen ties with the western world in washington earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to dr francisco domingo as head of latin american studies at middlesex university where he says despite the good intentions

the chances of securing the top job assume. nicolas maduro has demonstrated to be a formidable communicate so easy so person he said to you seem holy land which he is the masses very he conveys a good message is he's very good very astute politically and i think he's doing very well that's why he's leading in the polls is gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief or for chavez is he capitalizing that for want of a better word on the grief. oh i'm sure that is a lot of sentiment about it i mean now. his was a figure of haters in the international media now the population of venezuela realize how much he was loved those two million actually that came out in the streets to be a bit him fair world as he possibly was the debate is a demonstration in the history of the country and any candidate whoever they are

will be foolish not to use it however the key point is that i think is the most is people are saying you know the mother is saying to them do you want the continuation of what you had we did for forty years improve in a perfect in need or do you want to go back to the bottle days of course about the question of british represented the message in that says is very clear last boy mother will live in between ten to forty percent in the balls. the united nations has adopted its first ever treaty designed to control the global trade of conventional weapons of the act was already dubbed historic or the document has no informant mechanism let's take a closer look at what it's aimed at achieving right now for example where the treaty bans countries from exporting arms to embargoed states and perhaps the sale of weapons to those who could use them to carry out war crimes or acts of terrorism and the document also requires states to prevent conventional arms from reaching the black market and the u.n.

chief said the document will become a powerful new tool to help prevent human rights abuses but some do point out however that the deal is ambiguous and lacking clarity guy nature can report on what it could mean for the world's major arms exporters. the u.s. accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany friends china seven six five percent respectively the figures are provided by the stockholm international peace research institute they cover the last four years of arm sales by the way this global. is worth around seventy billion dollars and four out of five of the world's largest stakeholders in this business happen to be permanent members of the un security council two out of which abstained from the vote that is russia and china they cite a lack of clarity in the language of the treaty in the part where it says arms transfers should be subjected to risk and human rights assessments first so it's supposed to tie arms sales to the buyers record on human rights which sounds like

a very good idea but then this raises all kinds of questions like do the brain or saudi arabia have a perfect human rights record so the treaty leaves lots of room for all kinds of interpretation is russia being actually supportive of the effort to regulate arms sales says it abstained from voting for the treaty also because it has not been arms sales to non-state actors. despite the calls of the number of states it was not reflected was the ban of the supply of weapons to known or thrown state and this is a significant shortcoming inevitably in that it will be effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the u. way congress has made it clear that they will not let anyone tell the us who to sell arms to so it would be like the kyoto protocol the one that set obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s.

also signed it and yet never ratified it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or a northrop grumman have an army of lobbyists on capitol hill to make sure that their ability to sell weapons and profit is not constrained in any way but then thomas countryman. the system secretary of state at the american delegation to the talks defended the treaty saying it will actually give american weapons manufacturers a better competitive competitive position in the world so maybe the u.s. government is actually trying to help it's done producers by supporting the treaty anyway the international community seems united on one thing and that is something has to be done about the unabated flow of arms in the world but as they say the devil is in the details in washington i'm going to. and we're coming to you live from the heart of moscow when police are on fit to protect women from abuse in india technology comes along to the rescue you can find out on our web site r t v

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insurgency is gaining popularity among afghans and the occupying nato forces are actually helping to boost this. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all those thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan if the taliban under mullah omar is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato and i say have troops of course do catalyzed pro taliban support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity in kidnapping torture and summary executing people in the province because i told the americans they better get out and of course those kinds of atrocities around

town and support. an r.t.c. caffein of who has reported from afghanistan believe that karzai is just playing politics one his closeness to the west ultimately makes him a bit of a make president. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar working to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't

very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government when we can talk to the occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there's also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been encouraged probably costly to the united states and the taliban has long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of the day i don't think anyone actually realistically expects peace with the taliban anytime in the next few years for sure when i was in afghanistan most of the afghans that i've spoken to have seen this deadline with with the looming

trepidation in fact they think that once the americans draw down and there's no indication the americans will fully withdraw from the country but of course that will leave a massive power vacuum there's the potential for the country to descend into civil war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the elections in two thousand and fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having legitimate. elections it really could spark much much much further unrest than we've seen so far. and you can stay with us here on r.t. our special documentary off label that's coming up in just a moment a technical us look at the world of medical experiments on the office and reported failures this is out so. do we speak your language i mean some of the or not at the end of. the music

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