israel. launched a wave of cyber attacks on israeli web sites protesting against. nuclear threats provocation. week for the korean peninsula with north warning foreign embassies to evacuate over the heightened risk of. thousands of residents forced to flee their home. ultimately swamping a small town with five thousand barrels of oil. markets closed as bird flu hits china killing six of the media's on the outbreak out of all proportion.

with the top headlines of the week today this is the week to be with me will receive life in moscow. the hackers group anonymous has launched a major offensive against israel the activists say their aim is to quote disrupt and erase israel from cyberspace all in protest over israeli policies towards palestine. as details. it all started with anonymous and then 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 less 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 i saw 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 while they responded

with an online attack over their own now this side of the operation itself was hacked and if you try to visit the page devoted to the operation really quite an inspector what you see and hear is a video of israeli national anthem and then the hackers also left some few forgotten facts as they call it all of the first time anonymous to talk to israeli side disposable to give us some background on this right from the 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 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 or let's get some more now of the latest tucker talk and its implications from former five. now joining us live here on a good to see you today thank you for sharing your sunday with us do you think or do you think cyber attacks or an effective way to produce or does anyone really pay that much attention to them. well obviously they do i mean this is getting worldwide headlines and i think that this is a new front in protest in the sense that there's been such crackdown across many many countries including across the west now against people who take to the streets to protest an issue if you can do it over cyberspace you get global awareness of what you're doing and the message you're trying to put out and this is precisely what anonymous is a cheat with this publicized assault against certain israeli websites let's not say

let's not call metaxa they are distributed denial of service. tents against certain countries and where certain websites so what we're seeing here is a sort of automated mass influx into websites of course want to crash so they're not trying to steal anyone's information they're not trying to get your bank details or anything like that what they're just trying to do is make that websites of certain governments and big organizations crash so that people can be aware that there is an issue here that needs to be addressed so ultimately getting the message out there getting some information around the on the worldwide web but ultimately you don't call it an attack but you know when when and that of course of action is taken like this i did to call it an attack on a website do you think it poses any real threat because ultimately all i can see really is a matter of inconvenience. ok it is very much matter of inconvenience to the websites that are under assault but of course it does get a lot of publicity and the difference between this and real hacking real cyber

attacks can be seen very starkly lot happens when the u.s. and the israeli governments committed an act of cyber terrorism when they attacked the iranian nuclear production facility when they released the stuxnet virus now this was the first we have western governments colluding to attack the infrastructure of another sovereign country which is not deemed to be a threat by those governments from the two thousand and seven national intelligence estimate put together by all the american intelligence agencies they assess that iran was not trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability and yet the us and the both you stop trying to attack a nuclear facility knowing they weren't thread so that is cyber terrorism that is not a real cyber attack looks like and of course it has ramifications now because the stuxnet virus went out to attack the precise but it's now out there in the world it can be used and abused and mutated by real cyber criminals out there so what the us

from the israeli government starts net is that you far more damaging than any protest movement you just trying to bring down. a government or governments military getting its own hands on some sort of what you call cyber terrorism is much more devastating than perhaps something put out there by. with american and european governments are seemingly increasingly trying to clamp down on such moves as we see from the anonymous today do you think we could see further clamp down on people who do these kind of things on the internet absolutely i mean we've seen over the last decade many many attempts legally to put new laws in place that will stop freedom of expression freedom of our right to ingest information over the. many many assaulted by western governments usually in the name of trying to protect copyright and stop piracy on the internet of course once you get. to do that. used by intelligence agencies for example so we've had. democratic. countries actor. like the legal.

illegal. in order to protect copyright but actually to stifle freedom of the free flow of information of the internet so i think the government's a very aware of this potential threat and it's almost like an arms race to try and take away our freedoms and we need to push back ensure that we keep the freedom been hard won over the last five hundred years. joining us live here on our great pleasure thank you very much indeed. well the cyber attacks come in the wake of a renewed wave of discontent crashing down in israel deadly clashes broke out between palestinians and israeli soldiers by the death of a high ranking palestinian prisoners in israeli detention about soul amid accusations he did nothing to save his life. and there are more scenes of st elsewhere in the region as thousands of protesters vent their. egypt's

capital with police using tear gas to disperse the crowds or more on these stories just a bit later in this hour. or the so just minutes past the hour here on this week's or a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on america followed shortly by the arming of two ballistic missiles a response was not left wanting the u.s. and south korean warship swarming to the north coast u.s. stealth fighters are also being repositioned to the peninsula with intercept systems on route and washington has apparently stopped for now and its planned into intercontinental nuclear missile test to avoid further inflaming the situation and this report now to. north korea's. response with an even

more intense build up. to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea clear danger the white house says. movements from north korean military forces. talks washington apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon. defense system to guam. north korea and the north korean army has announced that it has the final. for a nuclear attack on the u.s. 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 or for that 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 u.s. 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 on. a specialist on security and nuclear weapons dr jim walsh he offered us his

take on the risks and the payoffs of america's engagement in korea. u.s. is for sending a signal to the south koreans it's treaty ally saying we've got you back it's also intended to send a message to the north koreans say we can reach out and touch you you know be careful what you wish for i do worry though that you know all these moving pieces and plus all this new leadership a new leader and new leader in north korea all this stuff going on someone could make a mistake and that could light a match that would lead to a conflict that no one actually wants to have the north koreans are crazy. they're not going to deliberately start a war but they are they try to stay just below that level of provocation will they react the way we want them to react i just don't know we don't know what's inside the minds of north koreans it's the most closed country in the world but when we brandish arms and do that we we are taking a risk that they will misunderstand that and respond in the wrong way well north korea also featured in one of this week's episodes of breaking the set i will host

abby martin explores a who gains from provoking the communist state to the brink of war the war 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. train exercises in south korea as a show of military strength including saying b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers it's important understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place. where do you ever seen anything like that. this is artsy street battles prison strikes and fresh exchanges of fire on the gaza border this is palestinians have been venting their fury at israel after one of

their high profile nationals died in an israeli jail while serving a life sentence as some of the follow up clashes in the west bank turned deadly after two teenagers were shot dead by israeli soldiers there were reports. one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow a book from d. 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 a couple hundred days death 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 abu hamed 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 big nation of out of the what many people here. primitive murder by varies by the third young think that the death of my father was a direct result of israeli criminal negligence moral callousness more than four thousand palestinian inmates went on hunger strike to show what they thought about him d. his 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 are. can really explode there can be very very sophisticated how to go forward to deal with. and with thirty one occasion of. palestinian prisoners. and demonstrations. demonstrate that. 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 immense intensification of abduction and killing of people every ality something could be ensured. that israel will. release a good number of palestinians to show goodwill and. readiness for really negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it still depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the west bank in tel aviv even acting. and for first hand experience of what's actually going on in israeli jails we have spoken to one of the prisoners there he claims a palestinian animates simply left to waste away behind bars and are denied any basic medical treatment. we suffer from an

incredibly low standard of medical assistance among those detained here there are at least twenty five people who suffer from cancer and they're not getting the treatment they need the most recent example is abu hamed daya who died in the prison hospital but this hospital is really like a jail like the ones in fascist germany during the holocaust it only has a small infirmary if you get placed there for several hours you leave with sick kidneys or liver or any other kind of disease his life could have been saying if you receive treatment at an early stage medical assistance in the prisons is not given on purpose they do it to break the will of the detainees we are a people who are forced to live with occupation we are demanding that the international community take historic responsibility for the life of palestinians we are demanding that the international community uses the security council to free the sick detainees we're talking of those who are mortally ill i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from kidney stones who was only given painkillers instead of

treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars demanding an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospital all of them. and as prisoners that america's war on terror camp call for justice and respect is also being ignored at the hunger strike a. month and of course the inmates health continued to decline we look at why washington continues to top down the scale of the protest. and hidden exposed politicians international celebrities and captains of industry are all implicated and a man with tax evasion scheme revealed by millions of leaked e-mails coming from the british virgin items that's coming up. ten years ago. overtaken. ten years of political

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. thank you for joining us here on r.t. i am a real re sushi i live in moscow a toxic swamp of oil has who's down the streets in a small town in arkansas or forcing dozens of residents to flee after an aging pipe burst in the currently staying in hotels and may not be able to return to their homes for quite some time in all about five thousand barrels of oil was spilled in the area and the company responsible for maintaining the pipe exxon mobil has not said what caused the incident at the pipes they were more than sixty years old one hundred and forty residents in the town have followed lawsuits the value of their homes has plunged local resident chris howard says the spill came as a complete surprise. 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 in i asked why he said the issue was there was normal school in the area and i told him our family and my wife and children at the home so he allowed me in a little town to get the moment rode in and begin to survey the damage and it was all just flowing down the street behind our house we're taking a wait and see approach what happens next how are we going to be compensated and along with four hours some of our neighbors can get back in their homes 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 there would be much. a new type of bird flu has been discovered in china this week causing panic because the government calls tens of thousands of birds on clothes as poultry markets so if all the so far should say the virus has killed six people out of the eighteen infected and it's not exactly the first time though the new strain of flu has hit china let's have a look at how the infection has spread not only across the population but in the

media as well many of the articles written read like horror stories sparking panic way out of proportion with the facts you'll remember of a boat flu and swine flu outbreaks and the attention they grab across the media on things alexia chef he has more on the hype and the numbers. in almost a decade the bird flu has claimed three hundred seventy one lives the swine flu of course killed far more people but if we look at the statistics of common flu which happens every year it kills almost half a million people every year and this is not a one off it happens every year and it's not a single epidemic and moreover the common flu has vaccines has no medication against it but still people are dying in huge numbers and nobody is ringing any bells about it not to mention of course scores of other diseases which are not causing concerns by the media and by the societies worldwide certainly the numbers the huge difference in numbers between deaths from

a common flu and the swine flu and bird flu has caused many to believe that this is being orchestrated by the pharmaceutical companies in two thousand and ten german m.p. was going to describe the epidemic as the biggest scandal in the history of medicine in two thousand and ten also the british medical journal and the daily mail published a list of people there were twenty people there who worked as advisors to the world health organization at the same time they had financial ties with pharmaceutical companies even last year an independent research suggested that the the death toll from the swine flu was exaggerated by as many as fifteen times so definitely we'll have to wait and see whether this situation in china will become another case of huge worldwide caused by the epidemic of the of the flu. nearly three hundred protesters were arrested in montreal this week and this is the making protests illegal and there are concerns that heavy handed police repression is having

a hard effect on human rights that story just a moment on that one. for now egypt is a once again being gripped by protests five people have been killed in clashes between christians and muslims in cairo in some of the worst violence the country's seen in months in the capital itself a thousand strong demonstration calling for regime change ended in scuffles with police cairo based journalist tom dale reports. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being called across the street tear gas and smoke fills the air in the way of sirens the familiar green laser cutting through the gas once again clashes have spread to the town of mahalla which was so important for the birth 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 still there and an easy echoes of that day up once again an

unarmed peaceful demonstration has been fired upon there are complaints that the interior ministry and the security services are brutal and on reform food prices are rising while wages remain stagnant and in that context this is just the latest sign of a growing polarize ation between mohamed morsi says the misled government and the opposition on the streets i spoke to the leader of the april sixth he actually 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. president vladimir putin is heading to hanover and germany today will try to calm the international hype by officer searches on a governmental organizations in russia plus the role of the country's funds and

debt hit crisis because we cyprus. has a more and what to expect from the talks. a lot of mia putin will begin his visit to germany in the netherlands by opening the world's largest trade fair here in hanover russia is one of the main partners of this year's events and over plenty of russian technology on display but also provide a chance for vladimir putin to sit down and have a chat with german chancellor angela merkel just recently to be a putin gave a interview on german television one of the things that he spoke about there was giving reassurances really to germans as well as other europeans about new laws that are being brought in in russia regarding n.g.o.s he said that they aren't laws that are being put in place to form any kind of witch hunt against non-government organizations working in russia they have merely in order to make these organizations reveal where their funding comes from for the work that they're doing

the law does not prohibit anything you know there's a limit close down anything for sure to put organizations financial from abroad a lot for didn't carry out any type of activity including internal political ones. we want to know who receives money and where it goes i repeat are going to lou is not some sort of innovation of our also during nothing interview he backed the euro he said that russia would continue to hold some of its reserve currency the russia holds just over forty percent of its currency in euros they said they would continue to do that and the major players in the european union were doing the best job possible in order to try and get the ailing euro back on its feet however it's not all smiles there are some disagreements between europe and russia notably one of those regarding cyprus which russia was very critical of a decision to place a levy on deposits that were in banks in cyprus germany is russia's largest

trading partner and you. european with around a quarter of a million people expected to come here to hanover for the trade fair hoping to do a little bit more business in the future but we'll also be getting a glimpse asked will be where the future of the relationship between angola merkel and vladimir putin is heading after we hear what the two leaders have to say after they've sat down and discussed the many things that need to be talked about by the two leaders on his patrol car right there now authorities at the guantanamo bay prison have a knowledge that this week that the hunger strike among the camps inmates is growing the official number of those refusing food now stands at forty one that's up from a half dozen of the beginning of the month now the inmates lawyers however say the figures are several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen currently being force fed the.