ten children are reportedly killed as a nato missile slams into an afghan village in a stark reminder of the price civilians are playing in a war that has bogged down into a high stakes stalemate. israel cyberattack retaliation several palestinian activists reportedly arrested in response to a massive hakka assault on israeli websites launched in protest against the continuing occupation. that the sectarian violence in egypt continues into a second consecutive day with religious minorities saying the embattled islamic government is unable to protect them. the united states delays an intercontinental nuclear missile test after a week of atomic threats naval provocations and ballistic cat and mouse games put the korean peninsula on the brink of war our top stories this hour.

back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly here on. at least ten children being among eighteen people killed in the latest strike by u.s. led forces in afghanistan the raid was allegedly called in by troops on the ground after a bit of fighting nearby all part of mass land an air operations intended to temper a local taliban insurgency. he had been following the story for us. ten children's are said to be among the eighteen killed in the natural strikes in afghanistan's konar prevents according to officials there reports say it all happened actually when and that two airstrike hits the home of a suspected taliban insurgents in a small village at the same time his family was inside taking shelter from

the ingoing strikes after the house was hit a local running through hell and the were seen carrying. the bodies of children spend other words the rubble the u.s. led coalition has gone beyond that it carried out the airstrikes on that area and in a statement about the spokes man for the forces acknowledge that they were aware of the reports that civilians had been killed also but as yet he could not come from the total dead dreda was apparently called in by international troops in the vicinity of heavy fighting with the taliban insurgents need the pakistani border and the local governments oficial is gone from

another women and a civilian also died in that airstrike the u.s. led forces say they were carrying out a major operations in again as the senior taliban commander in that area operations began on friday after a tip of dozens of taliban fighters where concentrated in that area according to eyewitness natural strikes began in the early hours of the morning and continued till late evening a number of fuel is troops. and the civilians visor working for them are also said to have been killed in the same operation. history of such high casualty strikes as strongly polarize the afghan public the need to mass protests in the growth in support for the town about what he's going to church can report on how it is also the relations between the west and afghanistan these airstrikes come

amid repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so president karzai although he does owe his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one in september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed an afghan family including six children and two women earlier this year president karzai banned afghan forces from calling in airstrikes although his order appears to have been ignored by international forces now these attacks also undermines u.s. efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in of ghana's then past twenty four team

although president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash it may have been of ghana's then in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan law and that's what they were negotiating now the deadly strikes killing civilians certainly make it hard for the afghans to accept such a deal and allow foreign forces to further operate there with impunity in kabul both political analyst habib hakimi has told me that the taliban is to an afghan life to be separated which all but guarantees collateral casualties in strikes. in this kind of war which is going on in afghanistan it is very difficult to a white civilian casualties because the taliban are living among the people among developed his. presidential areas. they are receiving support from the people and they are eating and drinking. among the people and living among among developed is because of this i think it is very difficult for nato forces of

particularly in an air strike to avoid civilian casualties. well we've been voting on our web site and we want to know what you think of the consequences of this recent airstrike there in afghanistan and we've got the results here on screen almost half of you think that the afghan president will make forceful statements but little else close behind forty percent believe that it will spark attacks from groups looking to hit back at coalition soldiers and seven percent think that hamad karzai is hand will be forced and he'll have to ban all nato airstrikes in the future and we can see that just six percent think that this would possibly bring the date for nato troops to leave forward will head to r.t. dot com and tell us what you think if you could to hear from it's on our home page on our web site.

reports are emerging of israeli and jordanian police arresting activists in response to the massive cyber offensive by the hacker group anonymous the computer attackers have said the aim is to disrupt and raise israel from cyberspace in protest over its policies towards the palestinians. has more. the information is coming from a palestinian twitter account from the palestinian authority presidential advisor on the technology and communication of said that israel has retaliated to the daylong how king attack on israel by arresting several palestinians and several of the west bank towns they have the attack on israel is going on for the entire day. twenty eight meijer israeli sites have been down including the knesset's site of

the israeli parliament which we are hearing is still down also the activists are saying that tens of thousands of israeli facebook and twitter accounts have been brought down as well as well as they tried to target the banking system as well as other major sites as well all of this of course is being done. by the had to his group anonymous or or groups associated there with who are saying that this is their way of getting back at israel for occupying limbs in the west bank and mistreatment of palestinians where there is an attack there's seems to be a response now or at least their husband response from the israeli hackers who have issued a statement saying that whoever whoever is participating in the so-called israel is weak and feeble minded and for every attack that they do is really have retail ever tell you doesn't fold but at the same time you have to understand that israel is a rather powerful country and of course the officials long before the attack has actually taken place and it was well it was well advertised you may say they have

said that they're fully prepared for this attack and they have their best specialists working on preventing it and yet we're looking at twenty major sites down we're still looking at thousands of israeli accounts which are being housed which kind of brings the question exactly what exactly is happening with the israeli specialist and just how powerful the the anonymous hackers really are and. an emotion believes the damage of these attacks is negligible compared to what some governments have been doing in cyberspace. it is very much national inconvenience to the web sites 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 what happened when the u.s. and the israeli governments committed an act of fiber terrorism when they attacked the iranian nuclear production facility is when they released the stuxnet virus not just 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 went out to attack precisely but it's now out there in the world it can be used and abused in and tasted by real cyber criminals out there so what the u.s. and israeli government did with stops net is actually far more damaging than any protest movement trying to bring down certain websites in certain countries and from. stories including sometimes why we just can't have enough statistics shedding light on the rising number of america's richest people cashing in millions in the one point benefits that is possible at r.t. dot com. plus a miracle baby in india a ten month old girl survives after thirty six hours of being trapped under the rubble of a collapsed eight story building in mumbai head to our website for the full story and that and plenty of others. egypt is once again been gripped by

protests and fighting one person has been killed in iran sixty injured as violence erupted outside caro's main cathedral that's following the funeral of four coptic christians killed in a sectarian standoff outside the capital on saturday following the arm resting car of forces journalist tom valle. i spoke to one witness who said that events began when bottles were thrown from a nearby building down on to the funeral march and march as responded by attacking cars but what is clear is that fighting quickly escalated between the funeral marches and locals the marchers retreated within the i would say a cathedral compound and after that security forces were involved in standing by whilst the locals fired weapons into the cathedral there were five people killed in the soules which is a town outside of cairo and sectarian rioting four of those were christians and it

was their funeral which was being held at the st mark's cathedral sectarian violence in egypt is nothing new it goes bang decades so we have a combination of hardline religious activism and security forces by the standing by we're actually getting involved themselves many mourners and many others feel that the muslim brotherhood and freedom and justice party government is encouraging an exclusive religious identity the basis of what it means to be an egyptian so this is the second consecutive night going we've seen violence in cairo on saturday the clashes resulted from a protest by the april sixth youth movement which was calling for a new more inclusive government and an opportunity to rewrite the constitution again on a more inclusive basis on saturday clashes broke out when police attacked that demonstration sporting take us and rocks once again in downtown cairo. this week's or dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening

a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. response was not left wanting with u.s. and south korean war ships and aircraft swarming to the north coast of japan is now reporting that its warships have also be dispatched ahead of a potential missile test by. washington those canceled a planned intercontinental nuclear missile test to avoid further inflaming the situation independent journalist james colbert says despite the fact neither side wants or out war there are all 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. 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. into something more. a specialist on security and nuclear weapons dr jim walsh of foot is us his view on the risks and payoffs of america's engagement in korea. the 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 in south korea a 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 calls for justice from prisoners that america's war on terror can being ignored as the hunger strike at guantanamo bay into this month later in the program we assess why the authorities are still talking down the scale of the protests. dozens of residents are forced to flee their homes as a major point because small u.s. town with fine files and barrels of oil. and twenty thousand of them poultry markets closed as a new strain of avian flu hits china there were thirty six deaths immediate on

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about international and world in the very heart of moscow. is continues here in r.t. president vladimir putin addressed the largest industrial fair in germany's hundred there is he arrived in the country on sunday for an official visit the russian leader will also be meeting with the german chancellor angela merkel with the role of the country's funs in debt hit cyprus as well as europe's economic troubles up for debate which are all of ira's being keeping across the developments for us. of lot of mia putin use the opening ceremony here at the hanover messy trade fair to

really highlight why people should be doing business in russia one of the main point i see he made was well rush's three point four percent growth rate in g.d.p. in twenty twelve also the low levels of unemployment the secure amounts of currency and gold reserves that they have he did however point out some of the problems he was aware that russia had particularly when it comes to inflation inflation at six percent last year and russia worth pointing out that that is the lowest it's been in twenty years a lot of the same that the u.s. committed to getting inflation down as that was key in order to get businesses to invest in russia now. angela merkel the german chancellor also taking to the stage here she praised the cooperation that had gone on in the past between germany and russia or in the terms of not just trade but also political cooperation on monday

what we're going to see is not a mere putin an angle a merkel visits a memorial here in hanover to those who lost their lives in the fight against naziism during world war two they'll be laying a wreath there and then the two will be taking to the floor of the trade show the message from putin was from mr putin was very clear he said russia is open for business and open for investment. and president putin is also expected to try and calm the international hypes by office searches of non governmental organizations in russia dr max out ahead of the cologne based institute for asset development told me earlier that the countries concerned about the activities of foreign funded groups on its territory is a legitimate. because in germany it created an outcry because some of the organizations were searched and so on and so forth but really i mean that question is the area of state sovereignty as put in pointed out there's some of that going

on in the us and it's an open debate i mean if foreign. institutions are financed by a foreign country i mean that's legitimate but it's also legitimate to kind of put that on the list and say ok the state sovereignty reaches i'm still here and that's the place for civil liberties because we know that of course those institutions are political but don't have political objectives i mean i'm a scholar of one of those i'm not in the administration but i was was fun though does a student sort of course of political objectives and of course there's some justification in controlling it. a toxic swamp of all his who's down the streets in a small town in arkansas in the states this week forcing dozens of residents to flee after an aging pipe bust and carney 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 they say the company responsible for maintaining the pipe did little to address their concerns one hundred forty residents in the town of filed lawsuits against

exxon mobil worried the valley of the homes as plunge 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 the police officer at the entrance to the neighborhood not allowing anybody in i asked why he said the issue was there was no will 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 the moment rode in and kind of survey the damage and there was oil just flowing down the street behind our house we're kind of taking a wait and see approach what happens next how are we going to be compensated and along with for us 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 our residents that would be much . a new type of bird flu has been discovered in china this week prompting the government to cull tens of thousands of birds so far the virus has killed six people out of the twenty one infected it's not the first time a new strain of flu has hit china and some of the infection is spread not only

across a population but in the media as well many of the articles written read like horror stories sparking panic way out of proportion with the fact you remember past bird flu and swine flu outbreaks and the attention they grabbed across the media or his case you pull beam has more on how the hype to call it 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 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 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 die regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. authorities at the guantanamo bay prison the knowledge this week the hunger strike among the camps inmates is growing official number of those refusing food now stands at forty one inmates laws 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 some of them have hit series represented

the number of the guantanamo inmates police it'll be some time before the extreme action achieves anything. i think the more pressure may force the u.s. 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 me you know may have a fact 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 on a moa 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 tires off and not to do so. you're watching the weekly here in r.t. still to come this hour russia demands a more balanced approach into chemical attacks in syria moscow's accuse the u.n.

of trying to undermine the investigation and drawing parallels with the weapons of mass destruction and the u.s. used as a pretext to invade iraq. plus a u.s. student wants to give every american the ability of making their very own way in the comfort of their own home that's and plenty more stories so after the break stay with us. you know i always try to stay clear of falling into the trap of fake outrage on this program people love to come on t.v. and be angry over this and angry over that just to fill air time but trust me saying obama signing into law with that wacky lobster like way he has of writing the bill marked the month santo protection act well it does not put a smile on my face that's for sure not only does this bill effectively bar federal

courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of g.m.o. seeds and crops no matter what the health concerns are according to ib times but the bill was also written by senator roy blunt who's gotten sixty four thousand dollars for his political campaign pain from the g o giant monsanto itself so that's what it costs to allow companies to possibly poison millions if not all americans with risky and unproven g.m.o. technology sixty four thousand dollars that's not even enough to buy a decent house sixty four thousand dollars is chump change well citizens of america now you know how much your lives are worth in washington but that's just my opinion .

the weekly continues here in the hot on the heels of cypresses downfall yet another tax haven may be seeing its time running out millions of leaked e-mails have exposed the client list of the british virgin islands with politicians superstars and top businessmen worldwide all implicated cyber security expert andy holsapple who's a campaign manager of the u.k. pirate party points out beyond any that some of those with offshore accounts actively promote a stir. 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 off into an offshore tax site 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 going to has been for

a long time it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and so 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 as such in those well isha is sent offshore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked and monitored or available to governments that maybe should be. in the three hundred protesters were arrested in montreal this week because they defied a law making unannounced protests illegal there are concerns heavy handed police repression is having a chilling effect on human rights that's just ahead for you here. no breakdown but no breakthrough either the latest round of international negotiations over iran's nuclear ambitions have wrapped up in kazakhstan and even been described as positive the u.s. china russia u.k. france and germany proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iranian nuclear

enrichment concessions iran says it's responded with its own set of counterproposals but may consider suspending enrichment in order to build trust speaking exclusively to r.t. and chief negotiators so you also denounce sanctions as counterproductive. chance in economic threats against my people and nothing new that various u.s. administrations have leveled threats and taken hostile action against my people including the imposition of sanctions that this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they're trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunities at the moment iran is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists had managed to build a rocket ship and same live creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much a fire you know.