ten children are reportedly killed as a nato missile slams into an afghan village with the war in the country dragging into a high stakes stalemate. with. israel's cyber attack retaliation a several palestinian activists are reportedly arrested in response to a massive hacker assault on israeli websites launched in protest against the continuing occupation. deadly sectarian violence in gulf egypt with religious minorities saying the embattled islamic government is unable to protect them. and the united states delays an intercontinental missile test after a week of atomic threats naval provocations and ballistic catamounts games put the korean peninsula on the brink of war.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team recapping the week's top stories i'm john thomas glad to have you with us now at least ten children are reported to have been among eighteen people killed 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 all parts of mass land and air operations intended to temper a local taliban insurgency artie's. is following the story for us. ten children's are said to be among the eighteen killed in the narrow 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 and local right through hell and the were seen carrying. the bodies of children spend other tools from the rubble the u.s. led coalition has 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 duraid was apparently called in by an international troops in the vicinity after a heavy fighting with the taliban insurgents me the pakistani border at their local governments officials confront another women and seven men also died in that

airstrike the u.s. led forces say they were carrying out a major operations aimed against the senior taliban commander in that area operations began on friday after a tip off that dozens of taliban fighters where concentrated in that area according to eyewitness nat'l strikes began in the early hours of the morning and continued till late evening a number of fuel is troops. and the civilians working for them are also said to have been killed in the same operation and history of such high casualty strikes have strongly polarized the afghan public leading to mass protests and a growth in support for the taliban or she's going to counter reports on how it has soured 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 chorus eyes words they fuelling security 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 no gannets then pass the twenty four team

although president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of backlash he may have enough against them in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan law and that's what they are good 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. and you've been voting on our website on what you think the quantum consequences of the latest deadly strike vote will be now let's see what you have been saying so far let's take a look at the results and almost half of you think that the afghan president will make forceful statements but little else close behind about thirty nine percent believe that it will spark attacks from groups looking to hit back at coalition soldiers around seven percent think that hamid karzai his hand will be forced and he will have to band nato strikes in his country and then trailing just

a little bit behind six percent of you believe that the date for nato troops to leave will be brought forward in american troops will come home sooner rather than later now you can head to our tea dot com and tell us what you think and have your say there. and for more analysis on this let's now cross live to jason did who is the news editor at antiwar dot com jason thank you very much for being with us now according to u.s. officials we're getting a little bit of a discrepancy here that this raid was launched after they were attacked so in response to an attack do you think that this missile strike was justified. you know not at all certainly not i think even if the stories of them coming under attack

are true it's certainly not justified to kill a bunch of innocent bystanders in retaliation and more importantly than whether or not it's justified is whether or not it was wise and i would say that the anger that killing a large number of children is going to have is going to far outweigh any problems that they would have had if they'd had to withdraw from the area because because of an attack now you mentioned these children being killed civilian casualties in particularly as a result of nato airstrikes has been one of the most contentious issues in this war provoking mass criticism and public protest do you think there will be like reaction this time there will be but i'm not sure how much it will change anything because of course this is far from the first time something like this happened we have similar events happening. several times

a year ever since this war began and. the karzai government has repeatedly tried to ban airstrikes or tried to limit airstrikes in civilian areas and really it hasn't had any impact at all on made of the the only thing that has is when general mcchrystal is in charge and he seemed to be the one u.s. commander out of well over a dozen now that seem to get that killing large numbers of civilians was causing a lot of additional problems for the occupation forces now causing those additional problems let's turn to that a little bit aside from me because as government aside from the people do you think that this will cause more reaction from the taliban will we see more intense fighting as a result of this. well we might but i think the long term effects are the bigger deal in that civilians who had relatives that were killed in this sense a dent are more likely to support the taliban fighting age men who are maybe on the sidelines are more likely to join the taliban after an incident like this and. you

know they've said all along that even airstrikes that kill militants tend to acri eight more militants than end up killing and certainly f. you killing a random children it's going to be a dramatically worse impact now briefly in your estimation do you think in two thousand and fourteen will the country be stable enough for u.s. troops to withdraw well i think that in my estimation the country would be more stable if u.s. troops withdrew. i don't think it will be any more stable in two thousand and fourteen than it is right now. and i don't think u.s. troops have any intention of withdrawing in two thousand and fourteen to be stepped up to reduce their numbers it will certainly improve the situation there but i don't think they'll be there at any time soon all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject jason ditz news editor at antiwar dot com thank you very much

appreciate thoughts on the subject thank you for having me k. now reports are emerging of israeli and a jordanian police arresting activists in response to the massive cyber offensive by the hacker group anonymous the computer attackers have said there is to disrupt and erase israel from cyberspace in protest over its policies towards the palestinians artie's it has more. the information is coming from a palestinian twitter account from the palestinian authority presidential adviser on the technology and communication who said that israel has retaliated to the day long 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 sides have been down including in the knesset cited out of the israeli parliament which we are hearing is also. saying that tens of

thousands of israeli facebook and twitter accounts have been brought down as well as they tried to target the banking system as well as other major sites all of this of course is being done. by the had to his group anonymous or or groups associated there with of course saying that this is their way of getting back at israel for buying limbs in the west bank and mistreatment of palestinians where there is an attack there's seems to be a response now at least their husband response from the israeli hackers who have issued a statement saying that whoever whoever is participating in the so-called all israel is weak and feeble minded and for every attack that they do is really happy as well 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 the stock 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. now our team managed to ask a middle east hacker about the aims of the cyber attack on israel's online presence here's what he had to say i said. we are the sons of palestinian people and we feel the pressure of the israeli occupation not only in gaza but also in all the arab and muslim world and as the first retaliation we committed a fast and full scale attack on israeli web sites to warn israel and all its supporters about the threat that hangs over them they have weapons and we have our own means as a result of this attack we receive the names of those who cooperate with israel the aim of the attack was to show the world the true face of israel and its armed

forces and we coped with our task we failed to fulfill our goal by using force to resist but we succeeded through the cooperation of palestinians in the whole arab and muslim world and so now we make a clear warning to israel in the future be ready for a new larger surprise this. russia's president vladimir putin addressed the largest industrial fair in and over germany as 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 funds indebted cyprus as well as europe's economic troubles up for debate artie's put it all over has been keeping across developments for us. of lot to me of putin used 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 that while rush's three point four percent growth rate in the 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 is the lowest it's been in twenty years lot of saying 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 to me a putin angle a merkel visit 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. artie's peter oliver reporting for us from there now egypt is once again being gripped by protests and fighting one person has been killed and around sixty injured as violence erupted outside cairo's main cathedral that's following the funeral of four coptic christians killed in a sectarian standoff outside the capital on saturday following the unrest in cairo for us is journalist tom dale 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 has 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 locals fired weapons into the cathedral there were five people killed in four fools 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 by 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 and 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 conses broke out when police attacked that demonstration spurting take us and rocks once again in downtown cairo. now calls for justice from prison. america's war on terror camp are being ignored as the hunger strike at guantanamo bay enters its third month later in the program we assess why the authorities are still talking down the scale of the protests and. also toxic river dozens of residents are forced to flee their homes as a major pipeline burst swamping a small u.s. town with five thousand barrels of oil that's after the break. with. its technology innovations all the leaves developments from around russia.

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and live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. glad to have you back with us this week saw a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. a response was it not left wanting with u.s. and south korean war ships and aircraft swarming into the north coast japan is now reporting that its warships have also been deployed ahead of a potential missile test by pyongyang washington though has canceled a planned intercontinental missile tests to avoid further inflaming the situation michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization says north korea is just another country pulled into u.s. war games. every single year the united states and south korea hold these war games and the war games this year is a nuclear attack. i guess no korea i've been reviewing scenarios of walking.

i tell you that the pentagon identified the so-called axis of evil as the target them both korea loss of the percent of its population during the korean war and how on earth under those circumstances could this country be heralded as a threat to global security i see a way out of this stalemate america's allies the matter good public and people across the land in western countries come to realize that the united states and nato are correct that global security and if they wish to wage a preemptive nuclear wall on any country in the well that is a friend you would to a global war fare in the us a toxic swamp of oil has moved down the streets of a small arkansas town this week forcing dozens of residents to flee after an aging pipeline burst their currently stay 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 pipeline did little to address their concerns one hundred and forty residents in the town have filed lawsuits against exxon mobil worried that the value of their homes has now 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 was no will still in the area and i told him my family and my wife and children at the home so he let me in and we get a little town to pack them up and get them on the road in and begin to survey the damage and there was a little just flowing down the street behind our house were 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 residents that would be much. and

we've got more news for you just a click away including venezuela's acting president nicolas maduro claims that there is some one badly wanting to prevent him from taking the country's head office in next week's election for more details you can head to our website. plus his tourism and the best strategy for claiming disputed lands well that's certainly what china thinks says it plans to open the contested carousel islands to travelers the full story on r.t. dot com. authorities at the guantanamo bay prison acknowledged this week the hunger strike among the camps inmates it's growing efficient number of those refusing food now stands at forty one the inmates lawyers however say the figure is several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen currently being force fed the strike began two months ago in a protest over treatment and conditions jonathan hay fits who's represented

a number of the guantanamo inmates believes it will 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 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'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. and to some news in brief from around the globe for you this hour. indian police have arrested nine people on suspicion of

a coating to illegally construct a high rise building in a suburb of mumbai the arrested include two builders police officers and it mean this apology officials may face life sentences if convicted the eight story apartment building came crashing down on thursday claiming seventy four lives building collapses are common in india which weak construction standards being blamed. the portuguese government has announced deeper spending cuts two days after the country's constitutional court over ruled several tax hikes as part of this year's budget cuts will be made to social security and health and public enterprises the government is struggling to stick to the terms of the seventy eight billion euro international bailout granted in two thousand and eleven the opposition has criticised the prime minister for using the court ruling to push forward cuts to public services and urged of the government to step down. thousands have marched in madrid in protest against the countries that rampant

unemployment smaller rallies were held in barcelona and other cities across the country the nation's youth unemployment rate has hit fifty five percent for saying that many young spaniards to move abroad in search of better work opportunities spain is struggling through a double dip recession and is one of the worst hit countries in the eurozone crisis . a new type of bird flu has been discovered in china this week prompting the government to call 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 let's now 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 will remember past bird flu and swine flu outbreaks and the attention of a grab across the media or to use kitty pilgrim has more on how the hype called

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 pounds 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 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

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. now coming up after the break we continue our report on the lives of palestinian families brushing shoulders with an israeli waist up what's next. ten years ago by god was overtaken. ten years of political infighting terrorism and economic decay. turn to russia

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