killed as a nato missile slams into an afghan village with the war torn in the country dragging into a high stakes stalemate. israel cyber attack retaliation 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 that the embattled islamic government is unable to protect them. and of the united states delays and intercontinental 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.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our t.v. i'm sean thomas certainly 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 an air operations intended to temper a local taliban insurgency are. following the story for us. ten children's are said to be among the eighteen killed in the natl 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 run through and the were seen carrying. the bodies of children spend other words from the rubble the u.s. led coalition has gone to plan 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 it 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 the local government's officials confront another women and

a civilian also died in that airstrike the us 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 off that 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 working for them are also said to have been killed in the same operation a history of such high casualty strikes as strongly polarize the afghan public leading to mass protests and a growth in support for the taliban or to going to if you can 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 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 pass the twenty four team all to president karzai appears to be prepared to strike

a deal he knows what kind of backlash it may having again is that 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. well for more perspective on the volatile situation let's cross live now to david swanson a peace activist and author of war is a lie david thank you very much for being with us let's get right to it this recent attack has it once again drawn the attention to the issue of civilian casualties is this is war though is this justifiable on any level well this is an illegal war as all wars are it was not authorized by the united nations though americans like to believe it was in contrast to the iraq war which they

believe wasn't accurately enough but this you know is not an exception this is not a mistake out i after over a decade of this story appearing over and over and over again it's just unbelievable for anyone to suggest that this is some kind of of of unique event in the course of this war but sadly i'm not sure u.s. attention has been drawn to this i mean even the the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry the secretary of state and the u.s. deaths of course are always smaller numbers but they dominate the coverage of americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one sided slaughter of helpless people who meant us no ill and has been for over a decade now we don't that over here now you mentioned this separate attack where

a suicide bomber attacked a u.s. convoy killing five americans will the nato withdrawal in two thousand and fourteen put an end to such attacks and is the situation is this going to make anything more stable. well you know that the other thing that takes americans outrage away from this war is the pretense that it's ending where we all of the news stories about these two different attacks talk about the waning days of the war which is still scheduled to continue until at least the end of two thousand and fourteen that is longer than most wars have taken from be an end to end and we call it ending and here as you were just discussing and the debate going on is how many u.s. troops will stay beyond that forever of course if they can't get immunity from from legal prosecution for crimes as was the case in iraq maybe they won't stay but the idea that they should be staying until the end of two thousand and fourteen and

that we should just accept that is sort of built into all the news coverage in the united states and it's actually rather outrageous because there's been no evidence put forward that there is any sort of progress or any sort of good being done in fact karzai is exactly right that these strikes are counterproductive and he ought to resign well karzai mentioned he ought to resign how much power does he actually have he has said he's forbid in strikes in populated area areas this is continued i mean how stable is the afghan government can we expect even a reaction from them. well i don't think he's ever had significant control over the entire nation i don't know that anyone has he is widely seen as as an illegitimate on a limited president and as a puppet government and to a great extent he it is but he has the power to resign in protest he has the power to say i have instructed nato in the united states time and again to stop murdering

civilians they will not stop i refuse to be part of a government that is aligned with their occupation when the occupation ends i will run for office in an independent afghan election that is that is what he ought to do if he means what he sent on the right persian thoughts on the subject david swanson peace activist and author of war is a life thank you very much for being with us i was interesting to hear some thoughts thank you all right now you've been voting on our web site to hear what you have to say about the consequences of this war let's take a look at your thoughts on the subject what will be the result of the nato airstrike that reportedly killed eighteen people at this point almost half of you think that the afghan president will make forceful statements but little else close behind about forty percent of you believe that it will spark attacks from groups looking to hit back at coalition soldiers seven percent think one hundred cars i've

had will be forced and we will have to ban nato strikes and just about five percent just a small sliver of you there believe that the date for nato troops to leave will be brought forward and they'll be coming back to the united states sooner rather than later you can head to our two dot com and tell us what you think have your say there. 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 an aim is to disrupt and erase israel from cyberspace in protest over its policies towards the palestinians. as more. the information is coming from

a palestinian twitter account from the palestinian authority presidential advisor on the technology and communication who 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 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 there has been the 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 little 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 to act 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 specialists and just how powerful the the anonymous hackers really are. now or to be managed to ask a middle east about the aims of the cyber attack on israelis online presence here's what he had to say. we are the sons of palestinian people

and we feel the pressure of this really occupation not only in gaza but also in all the arab and muslim world and as the first retaliation we committed to fast and full scale attack on israeli web sites to warn israel in all its supporters about the threat that hangs over them and they have weapons and we have our own homes as a result of this attack we've received 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 is 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. president vladimir putin addressed at the largest industrial fair in hanover 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 in debt hit cyprus as well as europe's economic troubles up for debate parties peter oliver has the details for us. ovata 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 well 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 the lowest it's been in twenty years a 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 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 it is peter all of our reporting for us there now sticking a with this story president putin is also expected to try and calm the international hype stirred by office searches of nongovernmental organizations in russia dr max autor head of the colona based institute for asset development says the country's

concern about the activities of foreign funded groups on its territory is legitimate. because in germany it created an outcry because of 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 as food and 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 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 until here and that's the place for civil but give it to us because we know that of course those institutions are political have political objectives are enormous call of one of those i'm not in the administration but i was was from the dozen students so of course the political objectives and of course there's some justification in controlling it on days of now where the country has once again been 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 de. 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 cathedral compound and after that security forces were involved in standing by while first locals fired weapons into the cathedral there were five people killed in four fools which is a town outside of cairo and sectarian rioting full 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 on saturday the question is 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 countries broke out when police attacked that demonstration sporting take us and rocks once again in downtown cairo calls for justice from them from prisoners that 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

protest. also toxic rivered dozens of residents are forced to flee their homes as a major pipeline bursts swamping a small u.s. town with five thousand barrels of oil that's coming up. after a short break you know naughty. world. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered wealthy british style it's time to. find. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on.

the news about international and world in the very heart of moscow. and that live from moscow recapping week's top stories here with r.t. glad to have you with us now this week saw a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. their sponsors not left wanting though with u.s.

and south korea in a war ships and aircraft swarming to the north's coasts washington though canceled a planned intercontinental missile tests to avoid further inflaming the situation meanwhile a south korean official said pyongyang may be setting the stage for a missile test. or another provocative act after claiming to be unable to guarantee security of foreign diplomats michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization says north korea is just another country pulled into the u.s. war games every single year the united states and south korea hold these war games and the wall games this year is a nuclear attack against against north korea i've been reviewing scenarios of walking and i could tell you that the pentagon identified the so-called axis of evil as the target them both korea loss of saki 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 the stalemate america's allies the american public and people across the land in western countries come to realize the united states and nato are correct that global security and if they wish to wage a preemptive nuclear war on any country in the well that is a friend you would to a global war fare specialist on security and nuclear weapons dr jim walsh offered us his take on the risks and payoffs of america's engagement in korea. u.s. is for sending a signal to the south koreans it's treaty ally saying we've got you back it's also intended to send a message to the north koreans say we can reach out and touch you you know be careful what you wish for i do worry though that you know all these moving pieces and plus all this new leadership a new leader and new leader in north korea all this stuff going on someone could

make a mistake and that could light a match that would lead to a conflict that no one actually wants to have the north koreans are crazy. they're not going to deliberately start a war but they are they try to stay just below that level of provocation will they react the way we want them to react i just don't know we don't know what's inside the minds of north koreans it's the most closed country in the world but when we brandish arms and do that we are taking a risk that they will misunderstand that and respond in the wrong way on to the u.s. now where a toxic swamp of oil has down streets and a small arkansas town this week forcing dozens of residents to flee after an aging pipeline burst 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 of the pipe did little to address their concerns one hundred and forty residents in the town have now filed lawsuits against exxon mobil worried the value of their homes has plunged local resident

chris around 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 and i asked why he said the issue was there was no will spill 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 pack them up and get them on the road in and to 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 residents that would be much. global trends of forecaster gerald solenn taim predicts that there will be more oil spills saying the u.s. is investing more in its wars overseas than improving its eroding infrastructure back at home. one after another there's atrocity after atrocity whether it's all i

will big oil or banks too big to fail the word justice in america is being misspelled it's j u.s.t. us just us not them look what happened with the gulf of mexico it's been destroyed to how many probably you know how many hundreds and here's the stuff doesn't us evaporate look at the united states infrastructure according to the american society of civil engineers it's going to take an estimated three trillion dollars just to bring the american infrastructure system up to par that's not improving it is keeping it from breaking down further the united states has more important things to do than worry about the infrastructure worry about spilled oil it has wars to fight overseas so we're going to see more and more of this because you have to understand who regulates this it's not being regulated these are very low level

regulatory agencies that control or oil and of course there is that revolving door all things are connected and the connection is corporations are running the show. and of course we've got more news for you just a click away including venezuela's acting president nicolas maduro claims there is someone badly wanting to prevent him from taking the country's office next week in the elections next week more details head to our website. plus is tourism the best strategy for claiming disputed lands that certainly china's take as it plans to open the contested islands to travelers the full story on our two dot com. authorities at the guantanamo bay prison acknowledged this week that the hunger strike among the camps inmates is growing the official number of those who are refusing food now stands at forty one the

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 two months ago in a protest over treatments and conditions jonathan hay fits who's represented a number of the guantanamo inmates believes it will be quite some time before the extreme action achieve anything. 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 an effect 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 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 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 now take a look at some other news making headlines around the world for you this hour. the portuguese government has announced a deeper spending cuts two days after the country's constitutional court over ruled in several tax hikes as part of this year's budget cuts will be made to social security 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 the government to step down to the courts because. thousands have marched in madrid in protest against the country's rampant unemployment smaller rallies were held in barcelona and other cities across the country as well the nation's youth unemployment rate has had fifty five percent forcing many young spaniards to move abroad in search of

better work opportunities plane is struggling through a double dip recession and is one of the worst countries in the euro zone crisis. indian police have arrested nine people on suspicion of colluding to illegally construct a high rise building in a suburb of mumbai us to include two builders police officers and municipality officials who 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 with weak construction standards being blamed. still to come russia demands a more balanced approach into chemical attacks in syria. moscow has accused the un of trying to undermine the investigation and drawing parallels with the weapons of mass destruction the u.s. used as a pretext to invade iraq. plus a u.s. a student.