the united states delays an intercontinental nuclear stuff for a week of atomic threats naval provocations and. put the korean peninsula on the brink of war. children are reportedly killed as a nato missile slams into an afghan village and a stark reminder of the price of it. the u.s. led coalition to cut and run from the country. the hacker group anonymous has launched a wave of cyber attacks on israeli websites testing against the mistreatment of palestinians. the cyber attacks come in the wake of a renewed wave of discontent crashing down on israel's deadly clashes broke out between activists and soldiers. of a high ranking palestinian prisoners in israeli detention.

for the look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. this week's or dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. response was left wanting with u.s. and south korean war ships and swarming to the north coast but washington has canceled a planned continental nuclear missile test to avoid further inflaming the situation . this report. to north korea. that. even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel. and clear danger the white house. 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 and other bombers that it sent to the region 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 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 it's a first 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 did 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. and geo political analyst patrick henningsen believes the situation is only playing into the hands of the u.s. . right now since this crisis began the philippines has already okayed the use of more bases for the united states and our country and there was a deal to decommission some of the okinawa sites in japan and that might be off the

table as a result of the hype of this particular conflict so you know you see the military industrial complex needs a reason to exist and i believe the north korean threat to be a theatrical real gives us that reason here's the pretext for the expansion of the military economy from the u.s. side and. both career also featured in one of this week's episodes of breaking the sets where host abby martin explores 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. training exercises in south korea as a show of military strength including sending b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars

but wait before you run for your bunkers supported understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place. where. are they going to be like. oh. the heck is group anonymous has launched a major cyber offensive against israel thousands of israeli websites were unavailable as of early sunday with one of the latest being the israeli ministry of defense page you know activists say their aim is to disrupt and to raise israel from cyberspace in protest over the policies towards palestine they've accuse israel of human rights violations and illegal settlements on occupied palestinian territories so the state shows no respect for international law former m i five agent believes the damage of these attacks is negligible compared to what some governments have been doing in cyberspace and towards the people it is very much

national 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 fiber attacks can be seen very stark what happened when the u.s. and the israeli governments committed an act of fiber terrorism when they attacked the iranian nuclear production facility when they released the stuxnet virus now this is the first we have western governments colluding to attack the infrastructure of another sovereign country so that is cyber terrorism that is what a real cyber attack looks like and of course it has ramifications now because the stuxnet virus well. to attack these precise facilities 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 and the israeli government did with stops net is actually far more damaging than any protest movement trying to bring down certain websites in certain countries. street battles prison strikes and fresh exchanges of far in the gaza border palestinians have been venting their fury at israel off to one of the high

profile nationals died in an israeli jail while serving a life sentence some of the following clashes in the west bank turned deadly after two teenagers were shot dead by israeli defense force soldiers. has more on the developments for us. one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow 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 the as well as thousands of other palestinians in confinement. a state of widespread anger and diggnation of. what many people here. primitive. israelis 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 him d. his death because it 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 out. 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 that is an issue that can really explode there can be very very sophisticated how to go forward to deal with you and with one. of. palestinian prisoners. and demonstrations. demonstrate that. the whole thing can explode this was the second palestinian death in an israeli jail this year old earth large 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 which some believe could be and should be. that israel will. release. good number of palestinians who troll. for 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 ways they. even. while palestinian prisoners in israeli custody claim they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied any medical treatment from the rector of the prisoner support and human rights association says the situation is complicated by the fact no one in israel

is actually bothered over the plight of palestinian detainees unfortunately in the latest years there is no much reaction from there is that oily mess public in these shows of course there is human rights n.g.o.s really in geos that they would be condemning and of course following these cases and small groups of activists there they would be supporters of the palestinian cause but in general i think almost over the israeli community would believe that this person was a terrorist and he obviously deserved to be dying. and it's prison is it america's war on terror a call for justice is also being ignored as the hunger strike at guantanamo bay and its month later in the program we assess why the authorities are still talking down the scale of the protests. also still to come. dozens of residents are forced to flee their homes as a major player bursts swamping a small u.s.

town with. oil. and. markets close as bird flu hits china but with only six deaths the media is on course to break out of all proportion those stories and others after the break.

the international and the very heart of moscow. news continues here on r t this is the weekly at least ten children are reported to have been among eighteen people killed today in the latest air strike by u.s.

led forces in afghanistan the raid was allegedly called in by troops on the ground after bitter fighting nearby and the target was a small isolated village in the east of the country seven men also perished in the strike though u.s. forces immediately claimed they were insurgents such strikes a strongly soured relations between international troops and the afghan government prompting president karzai to ban his forces from requesting western air support now his artie's medina question over to tell us how this ties into past tragedies. well the decade long war in afghanistan that started back in two thousand and one has caused the deaths of thousands of afghans directly from insurgent and foreign military action as well as possibly tens of thousands of afghan civilians in directly in recent years the death roll has rocketed there is no single official

figure for the overall number of civilians killed by the war but i still mates for specific years or periods have been published by a number of independent are good news ations now let's have a look at the civilian casualties in some months of last year there's going to be some figures over here soon well in february two thousand and twelve eight civilians including seven children were killed in a narrow airstrike in the same month six more civilians died in a night and these numbers continue to grow almost every time women and children have been among the casualties now frequency these strikes have been called in by forces on the ground but such has been the over the so-called collateral damage cost president karzai recently banned his own forces from requesting the support were as we've continually seen these rays have not stopped.

but in a question of a thanks very much indeed. but you talk 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 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 remember possed bird flu and swine flu outbreaks and the attention they grabbed across the media or his country pilbeam has more on why the hype took hold the 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 but 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 bans poultry imports from china and taiwan it raises quarantine level alerts while the 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 and produce a cure out of 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 are 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 directly are flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. a toxic swamp of oil is down streets in

a small town in arkansas this week forcing dozens of residents to flee after an aging pipe burst and currently staying in hotels and may not be able to return to their homes for some time and locals have started to feel like victims as i say the company responsible for maintaining the pipe did little to address their concerns one hundred forty residents in the town have filed lawsuits against exxon mobil worried that the value of their homes has plunged local resident chris harrell says the spill came as a complete surprise i got off work early and was headed back to my home and a police officer at the entrance to the neighborhood not allowing anybody in i asked why he said the issue was there were all still 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 them on the road in any kind of survey the damage and they 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 or 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 that would be much. nearly three hundred protesters were arrested in montreal this week as they defied them or making an unannounced protests illegal and there are concerns heavy handed police repression is having a chilling effect on human rights that's coming up a little later this hour. the first egypt has once again been gripped by protests and fighting violence has erupted outside car his main cathedral following the funeral of four other five coptic christians killed in a sectarian standoff side the capital on saturday the mourners unhappy with the government's inability to protect them clashed with local residents when leaving the service this follows a day of rage against the ruling islamists which also ended up with scuffles on the streets of karachi journalist tom dale witnessed the unrest. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being called across the street tear

gas and smoke fills the air and the wave of sirens the familiar green laser cutting through the gas once again clashes and spread to the town of my house which was 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 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 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 two april sixth and that's why people are on the streets and that's why they're angry. authorities at the guantanamo bay prison again this week the hunger strike among the camp's inmates is growing if issue a number of those refusing food now stands at forty one inmates lawyers however say the figures 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 in a protest over treatment and conditions jonathan hafitz who's from presented a number of the kuantan of inmates believes it will be some time before the extreme action achieves anything i think the more pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n.

i think may have been affected over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what's act want to animal 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 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. president vladimir putin has arrived in hannover in germany today where he'll try to calm the international hype stirred by office searches of non governmental organizations here in russia plus the role of the country's funs in that hit cyprus. has more on what to expect from the upcoming talks that. 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 that have been 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 nor does it limit close down anything should 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 the law is not some sort of innovation of our own also during the interview he backed the you wrote he said that russia would continue to hold some of its reserve currency in 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 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. and 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 will be where the future of the relationship between angola and blood in me of 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. of the russia demands a more balanced approach into chemical attacks in syria because the u.n. are trying to undermine the probe and drawn parallels with the weapons of mass destruction the u.s. used as a pretext to invade iraq. story coming your way shortly and also u.s. students to give every american the ability of making that very own weapon in the comfort of their own home that incredible story in just a few moments. ten

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streets of canada. in moscow this is the weekly heavy handed police of. montreal arresting nearly three hundred protesters demonstration has to be registered with the authorities for it to go ahead legally you think is the quebec correspondent for the canadian affairs website rebel dot ca and says the law is a clear violation citizens' rights. municipal bylaw six was an active at the height of the student strike last year in your provincial law. law as well which was announced by everyone in the united nations high commissioner on human rights to

back bar association representing all the provinces lawyers and prosecutors and it was a serious violation of civil liberties which was then revealed by the incoming provincial government nobody really knows what to make of this we've lived in a country where we've always taken for granted the right to protest the right to express our opinion and so a lot of people right now are very very fearful and so there's an attitude that people want to go out they want to challenge this by law they know what's happening it's not right but at the same time they're afraid it's the pros are getting whatever he wants whenever and however you want it it is three d. printing office to fulfill your dreams to the nearest millimeter it has a dark side to reappoint not has more from new york. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing but has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything to a store in soho new york three d. printing technology has officially gone mainstream the demand is much greater than

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