latest news in the week's top stories the brutal death of a soldier in london by alleged muslim extremists leaves the u.k. reeling and made a sharp rise in anti muslim hate crimes as security forces come under scrutiny. sweden shaken by eight straight nights of unprecedented rioting sparked by the police killing of an elderly immigrant. millions take to the streets across the world to protest against biotech giant monsanto is the company's accuser promoting hazardous products and monopolizing the food market.

five am in moscow i match reza bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t britons were shocked on wednesday by the savage killing of a soldier in broad daylight by suspected islam is in london the country's security services have come in for particular criticism after it emerged that both suspects had been tracked by m i five for years some reports suggest security services even tried to recruit one of the attackers six months ago nine people arrested in connection to the case attackers say they were motivated by revenge for british military actions abroad r.t. sara firth reports. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this police a max seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of will in a poignant interview r.t.

spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces to remain anonymous anger of the moment. not scared maybe scared you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the priests attack details the men chanting is the best slogans as the body of soldier drama leverage be a second battalion the royal regiment is they on the ground pleading they ask people to d.d.a. then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london this speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures trying to distance this latest act of violence in the case of recent aid to seize exploits this is not

a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what british troops do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy to cite tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster has been just announced not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they will come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit so close to home you feel less secure i think that's one

ace. he think if we went out there then perhaps a bit more space scope for al-qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be afraid mold within the u.k. because when we're out there with strict and spice and all our freedom and now then that means bicycle bryson's i think it was we can both say the arguments because we're out there where we spawn the motivates in the presence of the resource most of it in the cells that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues a deep sense of guilt and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at the brutal attack and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. oxy london former i my favorite in any major and says there is growing frustration among muslims over

deadly western interventions around the globe. individualistic lone wolf style attacks which don't require great planning to require from for specialist equipment or anything will become perhaps one of the main ways that people make protests and it's a horrific attack there is no doubt about it my heart goes out to the family of the victim but what we're looking at is also an angry voice yelling out from north africa hand in the middle east from central asia from all the people who've been victimized by the interventionist policies of the u.s. of the u.k. of nato or france i mean not just iraq and afghanistan but libya in mali and in yemen and of course what we're looking at is a whole country that's been decimated now by the cia which are a presidential proved in the u.s. every week and also trying strikes which are not targeted they take out home villages and communities and wedding party so of course it's going to be and you

seen a surge an anti muslim sentiment following the attack far right activists rally in several cities clashing at times with police and a number of people have been arrested for racially motivated assaults more than one hundred fifty such incidents reported in the u.k. since wednesday's killing earlier my colleague bill discussed the reasons behind the violence with politics start cold at newquay forest korto you're from the british national party. what the immigration he was also immigration of course to do is get course you have. the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you hard to integrate. all right if i want to ask you the fact that the example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this it really says is that that's . going to answer of course the major. major problem with what he's saying is

that there's acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you're. very generously described the b.n.p. as a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're a fascist party and the acts of violence that they trade against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are rule acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors political means well i got to learn from and i thought it was something to do with with my father i help like i'll go around so that i say sure is done by right wing fellows and i have to get us all to. the other person who's talking he said noting completely fucked the somali have an open dialogue with muslim communities that recently i had the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. will be on the order. of these racists you should read about her you know

proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't go home no we don't know we don't i have. people from east. from we all from from they think it's lebanese let me let me join the members it also implies meeting our website and some other lunatics who are so agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is their mission actually was he is the us or are you not yet if you just look just for it is that it does not just cost you shorted the british people died there a pull by what's happened they would stroll response from government they don't want a reaction that could be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's got to be some strong reaction surely political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by

intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible out news that you take to prevent violence. we have a social problem combined with out these us first foreign policy uncomplete disregard for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are leaving in isolation cut more links with the outside world than with britain and when british governments go on the rampage off course they are on greed and that shows oversaw a failure of integration. metropolitan police say three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of the soldier in london they have been released on bail meanwhile a large manhunt underway after an apparent copycat attack in paris saturday where

a soldier was stabbed in the neck the suspect reportedly of north african origin and counter-terror officers are involved the investigation the french president stopped short of linking the attack to the london murder activists you can chant in those as violence will be used to demonize muslims and draw attention from government policies. and these type of attacks plays into the strength of the g.o.p. the state to promote a full sense of islam so that is the people of the masses around the world can see wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then they use these groups in asia to conduct the stabilization so the french can go in pretending to be the new to arbitrate is bringing peace and stability this is a big game or three it's a smoke and mirrors that really has to be distinctive from from a position that is opposing listen to germany it's part of the state strategy is to make sure that everyone is pointing fingers at everyone but the actual of the trade

off the economic crisis of police corruption or unjust an immoral foreign policy i.e. those in power in france. in sweden the peace of the normally triangle a scandinavian country was shattered by riots as they range in the capital before hitting other cities for eight nights in a row now youths from disadvantaged neighborhoods set fire to cars police stations even schools under turn by heavy police presence riots triggered after an elderly man was shot dead by police in a part of stockholm mostly populated by immigrants artie's peter all over investigates. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. speak on the outskirts of stockholm the epicenter of sweden's issue with race and that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's

a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become a political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events to make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being proofs. for the past week stone throwing in burning become the norm in this part of town known for its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a barrage of emotions it's the state that creates this type of gets. so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below the average of almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying

a lack of control by government has led them to the situation the police can put the ride down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that it's government policy that must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden here's the syrian conflict could spread over the borders once again being stoked this is the border area of syria lebanon israel is. strewn with rocket fire just a day after the hezbollah leader backed assad in the fight against rebels more later in the program. but first a wave of protest against food giant monsanto rolling across the globe saturday with as many as two million people voicing their anger at the corporation people marched in dozens of countries with activists accusing the biotech titan of suffocating small farmers out of business and pushing a house where this kinetically modified crops to the market while many are angry

the legal protection the firm gets in a number of nations thanks to its extensive lobbying efforts monsanto itself maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources artie's out of stock as more from new york. throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the united states weekend of action against monsanto takes place were in the heart of the protests in the big apple where hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its actions the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial its existence for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces and also immense lobbying powers that it has in washington d.c. for one piece of sleeping in the same bed really with politicians blocking any kind

of legislation that would make life for money how months santillan more difficult and up promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own advantage for monetary gain there's a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better than that there may be no way to fully tackle the senate even votes which monsanto might say it's all when the government or one we have. a supreme court justice who was a lawyer for the month sent a corporation how much independence do we have really in our government all of these people that have come out onto the streets according to our estimates throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend in local marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g.m. most and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered

engine medically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to understand what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators. artsy new york. o'doherty dot com for an extensive report on how the day of action against monsanto played out across the globe and this later this hour a chilling feature on how even the most traditional foods are being genetically modified take a look. some of these traditional chili lines they've been grid and developed and that's down from generation to. this is a total destruction of the culture of new mexico and i tell you what i mean this this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here we're going to

have to hope world now we're even at the about in the in the you know in the eighty's you know all the organs that were. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. on thursday president obama order or ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of the associated press and fox news the government says it sees journalist records over concern over the leaking of classified security data this comes amid what seems washington's ins intensified persecution of whistleblowers artie's marine important i reports. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed in obtaining the telephone

records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice i think about the harm done to the a.p. here you know object is to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on national security issues government officials secretly a teenage reporters' phone logs and personal e-mails trying to find out who leaked classified information to the press. if you side with this president over those of us in the media who challenge him and his administration it is important to remember the president these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house the guy currently residing in the white house has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all other administrations combined

and now experts say u.s. news outlets are being persecuted just like wiki leaks has been and the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been committed aiding the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs but leakers will pay the price i believe we must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field. to do so we must enforce consequences for those who break the law and breach their commitment to protect classified information however some think the lines are becoming increasingly blurred this is the first time. you know national security has been used to get reporters i mean that really is frightening trying

because it's usually used to get leakers so if the bomb and ministration releases justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across and all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public

and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects press freedom but all one has to do is look at recent events to know that doesn't always happen reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. . fear is in the gut fears the conflict in syria could be spilling into neighboring countries have again been stoked as reports of merged of another incident in the latest cross border violence or rockets apparently been fired from lebanon toward israel hours after two shells apparently launched from syria landed in the hezbollah controlled part of beirut that attack wounded at least five people in the lebanese capital and comes just a day after the militant group reiterated its support for the assad regime is fight the free syrian army denying involvement middle east expert alley risk thinks rebels public statements can't be trusted because they're too divided some members of the free syrian army deny that however there was one official who said that hezbollah you know its activity will lead to repercussions that would target but

you were in the northern city of tripoli and beirut's international airport that night perhaps is that in the case of that some of these opposition groups some of these syrian armed opposition groups are indeed involved in what happened today you have to remember that the free syrian army isn't the one bloc so if one spokesman denies that it might very well be that another opposition group which also use of the title the free syrian army could have been involved in one of the rockets even landed near a church and its laws on the border between the southern beirut and the christian district so obviously this is not an attack on a husband lobbyists or a husband law institution it's a clearly an act of terrorism against the innocent civilians on it and habited area and so i think it just goes to show you the nature of these groups who we are dealing with. reports emerge in the u.k. claiming russia is playing it safe when it comes to defense sales to syria moscow

halting a deal to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to damascus worth up to a billion dollars out of fear they could fall into the wrong hands head to our website for more on the aborted deal plus. injured ten people rally outside a south korean newspaper his office is angry at comments it made about the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki i know what infuriated them so much at r.t. dot com. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seen from the streets of canada as. a giant corporations rule the day. u.s. president barack obama delivered a major speech on the future of u.s. terror counter-terror operations this week he pressed for more transparency in

drone strikes but defended the program calling it just and necessary is after washington said for american citizens have been killed in targeted attacks since two thousand and nine author and activist david swanson thinks the drone program leaves too many unanswered questions. he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other than afghanistan and yet he's not provided publicly any documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if if he would rather have captured ardmore a lockie why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then

what of the conduct of this program here too for is it not as criminal and abusive as it appears i president obama also renewed his pledge to close guantanamo bay detention center promising to lift his own freeze on transferring detainees to yemen this is the hunger strike in the facility reaches its one hundred eleventh day more than one hundred prisoners they're currently protesting against indefinite detention and alleged inhumane treatment as many have still not been formally charged one former guard at the prison says it wanted to most perience was deeply unsettling. some of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar kotter and a number of other detainees they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program or even essentially moved them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big move the idea of

a set every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation the only reason the detainees are being force fed is that the the us military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the us look bad in the global perspective as it stands right now they have so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close up one where the. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe police used tear gas to disperse a hundred fifty thousand protesters at an anti-gay marriage rally in the french capital demonstrators angry at the country's new same sex marriage ended option act

that came into force a week ago a flame president along his prioritizing the issue over the economy france is now the ninth country in europe to legalize gay marriage. more than sixty people were arrested after a violent clashes at a techno music protest parade in the swiss capital burned more than twenty police were injured while officers used water cannons and tear gas on an anti-capitalist group known as the black bloc clashes broke out when the protesters tried to tear down temporary barricades walking the part of the. u.s. secretary of state john kerry's put his weight behind a four billion dollars plan to develop the palestinian economy he claim investment program would also benefit israel and jordan as i didn't specify where the money would come from according to his report the plan will cut unemployment and raise the average wage by up to forty percent kerry's been trying to revive the peace process but hasn't made any tangible progress so far. still to come a look at the possible dangers of genetically modified crops our special report on

so-called frankenfood is coming up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it. i realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.