as a protest against his treatment of palestinians then known as hug a group has descended upon a zero with a massive sign about top blocking thousands of websites. also stories that shape the we can all see north korea gives its military the green light to strike the u.s. as a counter to what it calls washington's aggression i mean growing doubts pyongyang has the capability of fulfilling its rights. also quote has been launched into an oil spill caused by one of america's corporate giants in the state of arkansas while local households seek reimbursement for the damage done. and a fresh outbreak of rage towards israel as the death of a palestinian prisoner spock's riots last hunger strikes in jails and rocket exchanges.

the latest news on the week's top stories this is the weekly on our she with me thanks for joining us the hackers group anonymous has launched a major cyber offensive against israel the activists say their aim is to disrupt and iran from cyber sprays in protest over israeli policies towards palestine. has the details. it all started with anonymous seeing their operation on you tube on thursday the group published a clip accusing these stradley government of failing to and settlement inspection and violating palestinian streitz addressing these directly government of the group stated you have not stopped your and liz human rights violations you have not respected the cease fire the announcement of the intended attack on israel was spread via social media together with this picture off warning you better secure

your sites now there were reports that scores of large organisations had to close their websites to shield them from hackers and us of early sunday dozens of israeli websites were available so now it's officially on and if you try to access some of the israeli sites you will be greeted with this. it's hard to ask me how many sites were hacked numberous range from hundreds to thousands israeli officials claim the damage was minimal but that's not the impression you get when you go online and unless we're joined by other hacker groups and individuals from all over the world leaving their own different marks right in how has a zero responded to this offensive at least they warned right well they responded with an online attack of their own now the site of the operation itself was hacked

and if you try to visit the page devoted to the operation really quite an a spectacle what you see and hear is a video of israeli national anthem and than the hackers also left some few forgotten facts as they call it all of us time and all of us to talk to israeli side disposable to give us some more background on this right philip previous operation happened during last year's gaza war. now during the four days lost it hundreds of his rally websites suffered from more than forty million unique attacks some seven hundred israeli websites suffered repeated attacks we did high profile government systems such as the foreign ministry the bank of jerusalem and these really defense ministry anonymous posts are the only line personal data of thousands of israeli officials and the group took part in an attack in which the details of thousands of users of the popular israeli e-mail service wallah were

also released online so as you can see the previous operation had some major impact so let's wait and see how this one develops. dot com we've got the full footage posted by the hikers with more details on bond ground to the vicious sign of a strike that. today is once again. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. north korea iran top its war a trick this week announcing it's dami is now officially also rise to wage a nuclear attack on the u.s. the warning was followed by reports pyongyang moved to ballistic missiles to its

east coast north korea is saying its actions are aimed at countering aggression by washington which has built up its military presence in the region but as the crisis deepens so do dolls that young is capable of turning its war words into action unlike the u.s. she's going to shut down explains. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an even more intense buildup of military power in the region to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea real and clear danger of the white house. large scale movements from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets. for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now deploying an advanced missile defense system to guam one post a major u.s. military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has

the final approval for a nuclear attack on the us as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach the u.s. mainland but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between the soviet union and the u.s. even though the rhetoric is probably as hostile as it's ever been no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack north korea itself knows that if it didn't attack it for the attack the united states it would be committing national suicide the united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states in the us media to you have all pundits basically saying the same thing that north korea is not going to strike because they know it's a suicide that they want to reach some kind of

a deal with washington but they're not going to get it you have former officials experts all saying that but with all this war talk from north korea and with u.s. military buildup in the region some say all it may take is for one of the sides to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington i'm going to check out. and independent journalist james corbett says despite the facts neither side wants all out war there are those who benefit from keeping the situation on the knife edge. i think that really the all of the players here have a vested interest in keeping the tension up but not allowing it to spill you anywhere and i think that obviously works for north korea which could be easily wiped out in a military confrontation but it also works for south korea and america and all of the allies here in this region that are that also serve to benefit from this and we've seen this directly for example with the announcement of more missile defense on the western coast of the united states that there are now going to be fourteen

new ground based interceptors deployed at fort greely alaska at a cost u.s. taxpayers a one billion dollars by two thousand and seventeen so this is this is doing a fantastic business for the defense contractors who serve to to feed into this tension and play off of it so i don't i think that honestly there isn't a lot of plans for preemptive strikes at this moment i think it's more a question of if this will accidentally spill over into something more. the north korean crisis is also the main focus of breaking the set here and also this week so had to website to see the full progress when among other things. gassed what the u.s. could possibly gain from keeping the situation. the rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s.

training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including same b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers supporting understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place you know i just read today that north korea's actually proposed continued efforts for a peace treaty in the past it kind of flies in the face of everything that we're told that north korea is this hostile nation and if this is true why isn't this proposed peace treaty come to fruition well because the united states is interested in peace i mean as we know as many people in america do not know one of the key negotiating points for the north koreans has always been the side of peace treaty only the armistice has been signed the united states refuses to sign a peace treaty because they feel they have no interest in a peaceful resolution of north korea the north korean issue because their north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into

a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we. want. to do their job or she's going to be like. u.s. state of arkansas has launched a probe into an oil spill in the city of mayflower which affected at least sixty homes they local government along with two households which filed a federal lawsuit seeking bassman from one of america's largest oil companies responsible for the disaster and chris harrell his home was affected by their pegasus pipeline rupture told out a message made i got off work early and was headed back to my home and the police officer at the entrance to the neighborhood not allowing anybody and i asked why he said the issue was there was no will still in the area and i told him my family and

my wife and children at the home so he allowed me in a little town to get them on the road in and to kind of survey the damage and it was all just flowing down the street behind our house when i actually went through some yards and some of the houses and down one of the main streets in our subdivision. a big effect on quite a few houses what about the people that were turfed out of their houses i think it was twenty two you know it was affected what are they back in now with. no sir they are still staying in local hotels in the area and they they've been allowed back in their homes from you know twenty minutes at a time and together belongings take care of pets and they don't know when they'll be back for good i guess we should lots of people officials in exile know bill been coming to apologize and one of the speaks to a larger. there are some in the area there's a claims apartment that's been sent out but we've not heard a lot from just yet so it's we're kind of taking a wait and see approach what happens next how are we going to be compensated and

along with for our some of our neighbors can get back in their homes would you have hope for more i'm sort of approach maybe from them so far could you don't mislead a few more people from the company. well so far as the cleanup process they've done a good job there but they've not done a really good job of communicating to some of the residents that would be much this all part of a large city sixty five years old is one of the oldest in the country isn't it i do with the worries in your community about this before considering the amount of all that was going through it daily and it's a huge well truth of the matter is a lot of the residents in our neighborhood weren't aware that the plan was even there. yes believe it or not and that may be a shame on us kind of thing but friday afternoon when the hole was running down the street that was the first time many folks even knew it was anywhere in the area and you can follow the in-depth oil spill timeline on our web sites out of call including photos and videos from the disaster hit area. launching on c.n.n. to more news coming your way after a short break including

a day of rage in climate watchers in egypt's capital with police firing tear gas to disperse that is protesting against the islamist latest. behind us tripod gone time of day and to the side monks and to whisk to prisoners house rose rapidly we'll look at why washington continues to talk down the scale of the protest that's not rational for a. world with. its technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia

we've got the future are covered. international that in the very heart of moscow. this is they're working on aussie welcome back as the world keeps a close eye on the blood break in china panic is already spreading across

neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the eighteen affected figures fall from an epidemic and also his case to pill being looks now at who might hope to benefit from any but so hype that. panic is already spreading across the globe over fears of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local market japan has health warnings on people coming into the country from china hong kong shares slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china and taiwan raises quarantine level alerts while u.s. and china are already looking into creating a vaccine for this specific type of bird flu drug producers are already poised to jump in produce a cure at a price of course now let's look at the example of britain the swine flu epidemic which cost the british taxpayer one point two billion dollars off of the government

panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant black say smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it making a billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu a third of which dive regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. and it wasn't only britain where big pharmaceuticals made billions from this swine flu panic and let's now take a look at how the sea is spread across the globe during that outbreak and after the fast a suspected case was reported in mexico in march two thousand and nine it took less than a month for the world epidemic to appear in the media and that was even before the floods deaths from the swine flu was confirmed while one that happened swine flu immediately became the most common story in the media shortly after the world

health organization declared a swine flu pandemic and markets nations work produced despite thousands of deaths worldwide it transpires that many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine were wasted less than a year after the doses were ordered in the u.s. alone forty million of them expired and had to be destroyed and as a result billions of dollars worth of profits were made by the big pharmaceuticals in a little over a gear as you can see here and it will have to wait and see now why the current flu i believe. egypt is once again being grabbed by protests and fighting five people have been

killed and at least eight wounded in clashes between christians and muslims in a town near cairo this hour the while six terror and violence the country has seen in months in the capital itself and anti-government demonstration demanding regime change attended by thousands and didn't scuffles with riot police and cairo based journalist tom de who has the details now for us. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being pulled across the streets tear gas and smoke fills the air and the wave of sirens the familiar green laser cutting from the gas once again clashes and spread to the town of mahama which is so important for the first of the april sixth movement five years ago on that day five years ago police fired live ammunition into a crowd protesting against rises in food prices they killed three people including a fifteen year old boy to do their own only easy echoes of that day once again an unarmed peaceful demonstration has been fired upon there are complaints of the

interior ministry and the security services are brutal and reform food prices are rising while wages remain stagnant and in that context this is just the latest sign of a growing polarized zation between mohamed morsi says the misled government and the opposition on the streets i spoke to the leader of the april sixth the un she led the movement to support the muslim brotherhood. and president mohamed morsi indeed against the alternative contender for the presidency in some way last year but now the muslim brotherhood and president mohamed morsi have broken the promises which they made to the revolutionary youth including two april sixth and that's why people are on the streets and that's why they're angry. and staying in the region tensions between israel and palestine have flared up once again this week fueled by the death of a high profile palestinian prison serving a life sentence in an israeli jail the backlash included a violent protests across the west bank last hunger strikes by palestinian inmates

and fresh rocket exchanges between israel and hamas has renegotiate i was in the west bank closely following the developments. one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow book handy a died in the israeli prison according to his family the palestinian prisoner has complained about his health since the summer of last year but it was only in march that doctors told him that he had a terminal illness and only days left to live news about the hunt is that spread like wildfire cost palestinian territories clashes haven't asked numerous towns and villages across the region resulting in the deaths of two palestinian teenagers but the most intense clashes between israeli security forces and palestinian protesters took place right here in hebron the hometown of a home to rage smoke tear gas and rubber bullets filled the streets as people expressed their feelings about the treatment of from dia as well as thousands of

other palestinians in confinement. a state of widespread anger and diggnation or. what many people here. a primitive murder by. palestinians think that the death of my father was a direct result of israeli criminal negligence moral carelessness more than four thousand palestinian inmates went on hunger strike to show what they thought about humvees death gaza broke the fragile four month long cease fire rockets into southern israel and the listing an airstrike from tel aviv come to his death provided an outlet for frustration that has been building up for years since the palestinian uprising in the beginning of the century known as the second intifada a growing number of israeli settlements palestinian prisoners and as a result a peace process in jeopardy every. palestinian being israeli

prison issues. can really explode there can be very very sophisticated how to go in full world and all to be with you and with such one. of the palestinian prisoners and demonstrations in shooting the demonstrators the whole thing can explode this was the second palestinian death in an israeli jail this year the three year old earth larger i doubt died of a heart attack in temporary causes such as these only adds to the anger palestinians feel towards israel people on the street want some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of certain elements intensification of abduction and killing of

people every aleksey which some believe could be and should be changed. that israel will. release. good number of bullets the moon. to. troll. for really. means a simple solution that maybe to some but it still depends on whether israel has the good will to get it was very into leave even our team. from owner to online stories including sometimes why you just can't have enough with the to stick to shedding light on the rising number of america's richest people cashing in millions in unemployment benefits learn how that's possible at r.t. dot com. under merkel baby in india a ten month old girl survives after thirty. six hours trapped under the rubble of

a collapsed eight story building in mumbai so i had to our website for the full story. behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strikers had gone time of day have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for two months now their worst of their house is growing rapidly but here selfishness continued to downplay the scale of the crisis and the federal public defender carlos warner a lawyer for gun tunnel of detainees told r.t. the government the drug itself into a no win situation. the military is under estimating the number by at least two thirds i think we have at least one hundred thirty men on hunger strike in guantanamo as we speak today the resolve has changed in the week the military can force feed them they are playing a game of chicken with an opponent who is ready to die and you can't do that you will lose that game of chicken the military doesn't seem to grasp this logic at

this point it's premature to even ask that the president close guantanamo we're just asking that he charge somebody with with the responsibility just one person if president obama gives us one person we can talk to and gives that person the strength of his office we can close guantanamo the pentagon general kelly from the southern command went on the record and said look this is frustration because the president broke his promise that's unprecedented in our society to have a general tell the president look this is what's causing it it's not about the qur'an it's about the frustration that is going to animals so there is no law and kuantan i'm all you have people that everyone even the ones that have been declared innocent are there for life until they die they are indefinitely detained. and coming out will take a look at the natural wonderland of russia such a region as it applies to the twenty four speedway talent.

what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest is in arab country it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of france's capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of less than two point five million people this was a huge protest for a card less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show

that's liberal values around and yet that doesn't really seem to listen to the citizens very much who want to stop the madness of waves of illegal immigrants bailing out members on the dimes of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you actually try you know listening to a few voices who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion. of the black sea coast of the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter a link. the game's construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled access points of being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's

most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summer as the spacious beaches on the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a time it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucuses reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with one very experienced. and we all fall out of that. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride so you might be lucky and find some tama but mostly it's just to try to control fortunately alexei's wonderfully named wozzeck is up to the top.

model looks like much of this is spin spin on this the seconds until. we have gone up and down and crashed blasts. still going. for the last couple of. days of it's. just a couple of days in the caucuses reserve had what my appetite for the mountains the biosphere here is filled with unique flora and fauna some of the best hiking trails in the country. but getting to them wasn't going to be easy especially as there are plenty of places that even the wozzeck can't go. james take this one place it'll be my bike. i'm on the blue one. to get into the forest we need to cross a nearby or.