israel online group anonymous a wave of cyber attacks on israeli websites ultimately protesting against the. united states delays an intercontinental nuclear missile test after a week of atomic threats. but the korean peninsula on the brink of. thousands of residents forced to flee their homes as a major pipe busts a small u.s. town with five thousand barrels of oil. and twenty thousand. birds flew. it with only six deaths the media is on course to break out of all proportion.

with the top headlines of the week and today this is the weekly on r t with me life in moscow. the hackers group anonymous has launched a major cyber offensive against israel the activists say their aim is to quote to disrupt and erase israel from cyberspace in protest over the policies towards palestine within a culture of those details it all started with and now i'm seeing their operation on you tube on thursday you know the group published a clip accusing these really government of failing to and settlement expansion and violating the palestinians right now addressing the israeli government of the group stated you have not stopped and les' human rights violations and you have not respected the ceasefire and now the announcement was spread through different

social media to gather with this type of warning you better secure your site and passed off early sunday dozens of israeli websites were on available and if you want to access some of these rally websites you might be aggrieved sits with this is heart ready to ask the maid how many sites were hacked and numbers range from hundreds to thousands however these really officials say that the damage was minimal but that's not the impression you get as if you go online and these really responded by their own online attack now the site of the operation itself was hacked and if you try to visit the pages you will see him here at the israeli national anthem and also the hikers posted so these so called a few forgotten facts all these facts are jewish such as this one for example

king david found as the city of jerusalem muhammad never came to jerusalem you know it wasn't really the fast time guys and non-image attacked him. israeli cyberspace now the previous time it happened during last year's gaza war now during the four days it lasts one hundred. words from forty million unique attacks and around seven hundred israeli websites suffered repeated attacks including some high profile government websites like the websites of the foreign ministry the bank of jerusalem and the israeli defense ministry so as you can see that previous attack had some major impact so wait and see how this one. former m i five. so as the damage of these attacks is negligible certainly compared

to what some governments have been doing in cyberspace it is very much matter of inconvenience to the websites that are under assault but of course it does get a lot of publicity the difference between this and real hacking real cyber attacks can be seen very starkly what happened when the u.s. and israeli governments committed an act of fiber terrorism when they attacked the iranian nuclear production facility when it released the stuxnet virus in august of the first we have western governments colluding to attack the infrastructure of another sovereign country so that is cyber terrorism that is not a real cyber attack looks like and of course it has ramifications now because the stock went out to attack these precise solidities but it's now out there in the wild it can be used and abused and tasted by real for the criminals out there so what the u.s. government starts net is actually far more damaging than any protest movement trying to bring down certain websites in certain countries. cyber attacks come in

the wake of a renewed wave of discontent crashing down on israel. did nothing to save his life. a bit later in the program. there are more scenes of st elsewhere in the region thousands of protesters. egypt's capital police using tear gas to disperse the crowd. this week. with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. a response was not left. to the north coast but washington. to avoid further inflaming the situation.

to go. to north korea. with the even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea clear danger the white house. but. apart from. the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon. defense system. has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack. but they can.

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 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. an independent journalist james corbett he says that despite the fact neither side wants all out war and there are those who benefit from keeping the situation on a 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 earlier 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 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. this is a tame toxic swamp of oil has used down streets in a small town on a console this week forcing dozens of residents to flee off to an aging pipe they are currently staying in hotels and may not be able to return to their homes for quite some time and locals have started to feel like victims as they say the company responsible for maintaining the pipe did little to address their concerns almost one hundred fifty people have taken legal action against exxon mobil saying the river of oil has forced the value of their homes to plummet industry expert richard steiner says basic regulation is just not being enforced. there's no excuse whatsoever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old or general design

life is maybe twenty to thirty years the federal administration within the department of transportation in the us the pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration isn't doing its job or is industry there is this general complacency with an industry and government that look don't worry we've got this be happy we know how to do this work stay out of our business but this happens time and time and time and again and it just goes to show you that people make mistakes human error always crops up and equip fails or at a time has passed they almost go time this is ati a street battles prison strikes and fresh exchanges of fire on the gaza border palestinians have been venting their fury at israel after one of their high profile nationals died and his right knee jail while serving a life sentence of some of the follow up clashes in the west bank turned deadly off the two teenagers were shot dead by i.d.f.

soldiers aussies are going to go sco has more. one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow book from dia 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 of the hunt is death spread like wildfire cross the 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 there is. a state of widespread anger and diggnation of.

what many people here. primitive murder by israelis palestinians think that the death of my father a humvee 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 are. can really explode there can be very very sophisticated how to go forward to deal with. and with such 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 february 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 somebody could be and should be. that is royal we.

release a good number of palestinians to show goodwill. readiness for really negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the west bank in tel aviv even though i can. and for first hand experience of what's actually going on in israeli jails or we have spoken to one of the prisoners there he claims palestinian inmates are simply left to waste away behind bars and i denied any basic medical treatment. or. 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 i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from kidney stones who was only getting painkillers instead of treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars we ended minding an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospitals all of them. that america's war on terror called for justice and respect is also being ignored. to inmates health continues to grow but look at why washington continues to tone

down the scale of the protests. exposed politicians celebrities and captains of industry old man with tax evasion scheme revealed by millions of a leaked e-mails from the british virgin coming up. ten years ago. it was overtaken. ten years of political infighting terrorism and economic. april ninth.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for joining us here on out see on rule re sushi egypt once again being gripped by protests and fighting five people have been killed in clashes between christians and muslims outside cairo in some of the worst sectarian violence in

months in the capital itself meantime a thousand strong demonstration demanding regime change ended in scuffles with police cairo based journalist tom dale witnessed the unrest. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being pulled across the streets take us and smoke fills the air in the way of sirens the familiar green lasers a cutting from the gas once again clashes and spread to the town of my house which is so important 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 still there on 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 fix 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 to april sixth and that's why people are on the streets and that's why they're angry. the russian president vladimir putin is heading to hanover in germany today will try to calm the international hype stirred by office searches of nongovernmental organizations in russia plus the role of the country's funds and debt had cyprus. reports on 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 event 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 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 which is the law does not prohibit anything you know there's a limit close down anything for sure to organizations financed from abroad a lot for didn't carry out any type of activity including internal political ones the only thing we want to know is who receives money and where it goes i repeat

going to law is not some sort of innovation of are also gearing up to interview he fact the the you wrote he said that russia would continue to hold some of a reserve currency in russia holds just over forty percent of the currency in euros and it continues 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 year zero 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. europe and with around a quarter of a million people expected the come here to hand over for the trade fair hoping to do a little bit more business in the future but we'll also be getting

a glimpse 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. now a new type of bird flu has been discovered in china this week promoting the government to cull tens of thousands of birds so far the virus has killed six people out of the eighteen infected it's not the first time a new strain of flu has hit china that's a look at how the infection has spread but not only across the population but across the media as well and many of the articles written read like horror stories sparking panic way out of proportion with the facts you'll remember past bird flu and swine flu outbreaks in the attention they grabbed across the media kitty pilgrim has more on how the hype took hold. 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 says slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel vietnam bones poultry imports from china and taiwan raises quarantine level alerts all of us in china are already looking into creating a vaccine for this specific type of bird flu co-produce is already poised to jump in produce a cure at a price of course now let's look at the example of 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 pharmacy school giant black say smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it making your billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu

a third of which die regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. hold on the heels of cypresses downfall yet another tax haven may be seeing its time running out for millions of leaked e-mails have exposed the client list of the british virgin islands politicians superstars top businessmen worldwide all being implicated cyber security expert and a whole soul who's a campaign manager of the u.k. pirate party points out of the irony that some of those with the offshore accounts were the ones actively promoting austerity. some of these people appear to be in positions where they wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with sticking a lot of money onto an office into a offshore tax was clearly a disconnect between what people are saying in terms of taxes and austerity especially and what they're actually doing in terms of their personal finances and clearly there is some regulation needed this may well change that having this kind

of information out and may well cause this to be a much bigger political issue than it has been for a long time it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and for most people everybody's known that offshore tax havens exist but haven't really understood the amounts of money involved in this case i think somebody suggested up to thirty two trillion pounds worth of cash assistance in those. offshore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked and monitored or available to governments that maybe should be. this is ati authorities of the guantanamo bay prison acknowledge this week the hunger strike among the camps inmates is growing and the official number of those refusing food now stands at forty one and the enemy it's lawyers however say the figures of several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen currently being force fed the strike began more than two months ago when a protest over treatment and conditions jonathan hafetz who has represented a number of the guantanamo inmates believes it will be some time before the action

achieves and. i think the more pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure that's triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think amino may have a defect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on amoa and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact eyeing him in jail and i think it's it's very difficult to. you know be able to to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so or a special report named good garbage in just about. you

know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut and get mall i hate that term condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and gloriously declaring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine million dollars expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are super cool and awesome do you realize it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to

keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paper work tomorrow buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

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