stunt artie's poor slayer reports when former american president george bush visited israel his trip with clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bomb has turned. the visit down she could be alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than clever spin there are policy differences. issue on the i think the words the rise of islamist forces in countries like egypt where you see from jerusalem nearby not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter obama obama came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in

artie is the same way. he'll call if he's -- going to bakersfield, san jose, saying, hey, i need a place to crash tonight. >> yeah, those values, being totally committed to the supporters and having the supporters be committed to the movement and to the employees of ufw is still living strong. i get calls all the time from artie saying, you know, we're doing a campaign, we need a couple of people. can you find me a place? i'll say, yeah, let me call damian. or, actually, call a cousin. or i'll call somebody who i think has space and is willing to do it. and i haven't failed yet. there's always that continued support. there's always that desire. because, you know, back in the day, farm workers only got -- the staff only got $5 a week. >> right. >> room and board. and then it went up to a whopping $15 when i was working there. so i think there might be 20, 25. but $25 a week in today's standards is not very much money. so you need to understand sacrifice the same way that farm workers live. and that was cesar

as human shields and will hold them until syrian government forces pull back from a nearby village artie's middle east correspondent policia has the latest. all twenty one knew in personnel well armed they're all from the philippines and we've heard from the philippines foreign office who has demanded their immediate release the philippines government says that they are being treated well that negotiations are underway to try and secure the release of the militants are admitting that they took these u. n. personnel to try and prevent an attack by assad's loyalists in other words what we're seeing is that the rebel forces are using this you emptying as human shields now the un has of course condemned this act this action we've heard criticism particularly from moscow at the united nations there is no reason at all under any circumstances any kind of a sick imagination to try to harm harm those people so clearly gross disrespect for united nations gross disrespect of international norms of behavior now the united nations is currently also involved in negotiating their immediate release accor

fourteenth and will determine whether his revolutionary vision will live on there's a feeling from artie's video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so. take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who. is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in as. hugo chavez personally appointed. the man but he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way the russian f.m. has said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia and venezuela and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and actions and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that bad many outside powers he would like to see and. among many condolences coming from inside and outside venezuela there was a very good statement coming from chavez's last election opponent and. he said he was mourning this loss and that he had never been his enemy but his rival i think is a very respectful

hold them until syria's government forces pull back from a nearby village let's get the latest from artie's middle east correspondent paula sli or so paula so paula tell us what do we know about the status of the hostages have they come to any harm at this point. well we don't have any information in terms of how they're being treated but what we do know is that all twenty one you and personnel were on armed they're all from the philippines and we've heard from the philippines foreign office who has demanded their immediate release the philippines government says that they are being treated well that negotiations are underway to try and secure their release now the rebel group responsible for taking these hostages says that it won't release them until the captives loyal to the syrian president bashar assad withdraw from a nearby village at the same time the militants are admitting that they took these u. n. personnel to try and prevent an attack by assad's loyalists in other words what we're seeing is that the rebel forces are using this you and team as human shields now the u.n. has of cou

over their clients' conditions camp officials claim the allegations are just a gross exaggeration artie'smarina portnoy it takes a look. u.s. president barack obama began his first term announcing his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now just two months into his second term the prison enters its twelfth year of operation with one hundred sixty six detainees still languishing behind bars and a reported one hundred thirty life threatening hunger strike and their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hope of a release without any real charges this story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media outlets lawyers for the good no prisoners say the men began the hunger strike on feb sixth to protest against the alleged confiscation of personal items such as photographs and mail and the sacrilegious handling of their qur'an during cell searches the center for constitutional rights says they've received reports of detainees coughing up blood losing consciousness dropping more than t

systematic racism artie's marine important. relations between tens of thousands of new yorkers and the city's police department may have hit an all time low this coming after a sixteen year old was shot and killed by two plainclothes officers saturday evening according to reports come on a gray was standing outside of a home in flatbush brooklyn with a group of men when the two officers approached the boy ended up being shot a levin times and was brought to the hospital where he later died now. say that the teenager mr grey pulled out a handgun and pointed it at authorities and that's what caused them to shoot and fire at the teenager subsequently killing him but according to mr gray's friends family and even some witnesses they say that no gun was ever pointed at the plainclothes police officers his family and friends say that the n.y.p.d. is just trying to paint a bad picture of a teenager this of course has angered a lot of residents in the community on monday evening approximately one hundred people were holding a vigil for

media as artie's marina port i reports.in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war probably we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to america i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the american public no i did not notice i had no idea. really according to the center for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan of our prisoners began a life threatening hunger strike nearly seven weeks ago to protest treatment and conditions at the island prison a prison america's president promised would be closed at the start of twenty ten do you think that that's a topic that should be reported by u.s. media yeah i think so. because they ar

and as artie's news editor i the quote explains some believe the e.u. is hardline stance stems from german chancellor merkel's desire to gain all she can politically from the situation. this starts at a russia e.u. summit last year when the euro krotz told russia that cyprus would be their problem to solve cyprus had been racked by the greek economic collapse the russians didn't take kindly to that said it's a euro zone problem and it's not like russians are the only ones availing of time cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop two and a half billion to help try and keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of a resolution most notably russia e.u. summit last december but it crucially brought the timing of any deal into the german election cycle and this is why merkel is playing hardball merkel's in search of votes she's under pressure at home and explains the euro group's decision to back a raid on privately held posits in cyprus germany's taking a very very hard line on this issue merkel's uncompromis

stunt artie's poor slayer reports. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip with guys pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white now it's a bar mr. visit bansuri good more moments it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than clever spin he can talk as much as he can the bottom line. barack obama's hands are tied because far from being assured of washington's and shakable support critics warn that if obama doesn't confront the twin yahoo on settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say we knew all of violence in the middle east but it won't be easy we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have alw

and later today artie's night skies will give his own unique take on the cyprus crisis. they just keep blowing this this this this chunks of vomit in people's face the people in cyprus are being knocked down with projectile vomit coming out of the mouth of of the e.c.b. and the i.m.f. christine lagarde is projectile vomiting into the face of the people of cyprus and saying if that showed up and they're saying you are not it environment and america proper just either kristie and then the new york times all right what's the big deal oh mary ross sorkin i don't see anything wrong here meanwhile he's sucking kristi's down as fast as he can. syria's government and rebels are both demanding an international probe into a deadly attack that both sides claim was with the use of chemical weapons they've traded accusations as to who. was behind this so near the northern city of aleppo that killed up to thirty one people and wounded dozens of others well arty's is following the story and joins me now in the studio do you need to be having any indication as to who might have been beh

of port say the army stepped in to break up clashes leaving more than four hundred people wounded artie'sbell true joins us now live from cairo with the details so tell us more about what happened in the city there. well it looks like that the clashes have been continuing overnight in this restive total coastal city of port so i eat with the death toll rising and the injuries are topping over four hundred one hundred thirty nine defendants in this point saeed football massacre that occurred last february where moved by security forces angering families who gathered at the security directorate to protest and then clashed with the police force the army were asked to come into the streets to calm the situation down there were a confusing reports yesterday that the army were actually attacking the police something that the military actually said didn't happen however we expect this to continue as we look ahead to saturday a verdict on the remaining defendants in this. football massacre we've also seen violence in months or of the nile delta city after a young man was run over by a police vehi

military officials claim no one is in danger artie's also tried to contact one taught him over thirty s but has no response so far or he's got a young has before. guantanamo detainees have been on a hunger strike for more than a month now the facility which is now on strike holds most of the inmates there one hundred thirty people out of one hundred sixty six the total number of prisoners at guantanamo the detainees through their lawyers say most of them are taking part in this we cannot verify exactly how many will left a message with robert deal ran the media person from guantanamo very much hope he will get back to us the attorneys for the detainees are saying their health is deteriorating we spoke with. her client there says he lost twenty pounds is the beginning of the strike at the beginning of february said she and a number of other attorneys had sent a letter with their questions to the authorities at guantanamo copying the justice department she said they hadn't responded yet. just point the strike is more than thirty days old and by day forty by we understand from medical ex

serious it is and this is how serious is being considered by the authorities worldwide all right artie'salexy on top of the story for us thanks very much for that update. well cyber attacks again proving the perils of the internet but don't fear you can surf safely on our website r.t. dot com where there's plenty more stories lined up for you from across the world wide web including this google successfully pushes the swedish government to remove the term google from its dictionary the phrase means something a user can't find using the giant search engine plus. saving snow for next winter well certainly we've had our share of it here in moscow possible though in russia the government trying to stockpile all these thousands of tons of snow for next year's sochi olympic games using a breakthrough technique that you can find only about an hour to dot com. the world's biggest emerging economies have agreed in principle to set up a new development bank that could rival established financial institutions brics nations brazil russia india china south africa calling for reforms to the world bank

losses amid speculation the country's banks won't reopen after being paralyzed for a week and as artie's test said in the reports people are preparing for the worst. all of this panic this negativity started of course on the announcement over the weekend from brussels that in order to get a ten billion euro bailout package cyprus will have to cough up about five point eight billion in the suggestion to impose. on the causes now ninety one percent of cypriots according to a poll have been against. we've seen protests on the streets of people angry really at the e.u. . and specifically a germany they feel of the country has been cornered into a position where they really have no choice but to take a very hard decision now here's what some of the cypriots feel right now towards europe. well the mood here in nicosia cyprus remains rather negative it seems of the people feel that they're receiving one bad news after another the latest being that the european central bank will only continue to provide liquidity to the country until monday and after that it will only continue to do so if there

tool artie's policy or investigates offensive and damaging fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a stone posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit should it don't diminish just as the government uses social media for explaining full complaining for propaganda spinning it also has to do with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this will go to the next in a military prison. after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this infant was brought to book full of talent and misuse of army whip and we. these soldiers turned a patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of the army than any spin doctor ever courage under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which is that in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would before really potentially at least expose you to criminal liability could actually find yourself

korea isn't exactly the first country think of when we're talking about social media but our own artie's aleksei or she joined me earlier to help me straighten this bizarre story out to take a look. started with a tweet by the bureau chief of the associated press in korea ms jane leavy who on february twenty fifth tweeted that this is my first tweet using career links new mobile internet service hello world from comm center in pyongyang this tweet has gone to like millions of retreat but definitely open the floodgates in some way that after that we've seen instagram pictures facebook tags check ins all coming from one of the world's most closed countries and definitely this is a breakthrough and nothing we have experienced before well certainly exciting stuff but i mean this is actually translate to the locals the people on the ground are they running around posting instagram photos and tweets well the korea link is the only internet provider in korea you know a phrase like that would have been think about three years ago yeah it launched this service the mobile internet service but now

but certainly no comfort her for people struggling to withdraw their cash as artie's tessera cilia reports from the capital. at the heart of the seal with its international creditors to get that ten billion euro bailout it needs and what will happen to this back essentially is it will be split into pieces and people with deposits of more than one hundred thousand euros that are uninsured will have to take a huge here haircut and lost whatever money they have here the minister has for the past week or been going to motional rollercoaster wondering what is going to happen to their money to their savings i think look at this example one day it was here the next day it is it and they're wondering is the same thing going to happen to their jobs to their savings and to everything else they think they have precisely what did you choose and tonio a manager for the country's biggest bank the bank of cyprus has been thinking all through this rollercoaster week for the first time in my life for thirty years. and then last week. i was. just too. many more to. say. the bank of cyprus according to the d

troops in abu ghraib prison artie's pauli boyko reports.victims and families of victims say that british troops took a number of iraqis from the battlefield and then murdered and tortured them but the ministry of defense strenuously deny that british troops are normally killed and the iraqis in fact the evidence given by the ministry of defense is so different to the evidence provided by the victims and their families that it's resulted in this very long three year delay this inquiry was ordered back in two thousand and nine so three years later it's only just coming to fruition and i'm joined in the studio by christopher stanley of rights watch u.k. this isn't a first inquiry of its kind of already have this very embarrassing case of the killing of a back in two thousand and three is this potentially another big embarrassment for the british military it would be a big embarrassment if they allowed it to become one which i think is what they obviously do not want to know the embarrassment on the hounds because it was a damning inquiry again

army of not valuing human life and those who want to provoke a debate about american foreign policy artie's guy in a cheeky man has more. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals at the military court in february but someone did and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq and afghanistan he served as an intelligence analyst in the military and had access to all those documents the biggest leak in history let's take a listen to just one episode where bradley manning explains why he leaked the video of the apache helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including a band with children in that footage shocked the world. it was i mean that's what. you're. going to it was a very huge. for. me this is. it see

a live from moscow this is artie's weekly news review carrie johnson welcome to the program. hunger strike at guantanamo bay is continuing after forty days with more than one hundred detainees reportedly starving themselves in protest at the desecration of the qur'an by prison guards lawyers for the captives in the state of their health is close to life threatening but the u.s. military has strongly denied the crisis saying only fourteen detainees are refusing food as artie's marina point nine reports. u.s. president barack obama began his first term announcing his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now just two months into his second term the prison enters its twelfth year of operation with one hundred sixty six detainees still languishing behind bars and a reported one hundred thirty on a life threatening hunger strike and their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hope a release without any real charges this story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media ou

use artie's power of the web to check on other. always from around the globe a candlelight vigil for a brooklyn teenager shot eleven times by new york police causes community fury online we tell you what's behind the boy's killing and eyewitness accounts from the street memorial plus a dramatic development in the story of a kidnapped ukrainian journalist who's incredibly escaped from her monthlong capture by rebel groups in war torn syria all the details on the. welcome back my jimmies often being considered an example of efficient and responsible spending while countries all around flounder tanks is there might disagree after it was recently revealed that a lot of their money has gone on some raising projects takes a look at where the money's going in europe's biggest most stable economy. do you know where tax money goes tax the tea pay in this country not really precisely not really. well i know it's going in projects i would hope that they will invest money into schools and they will give it to disadvantaged families would you b

been seen at a high level with the pentagon completely ignoring the situation at its latest briefing artie's gannets as you can was they for us. not a word from defense secretary chuck hagel on the situation in guantanamo i was at a news conference with the defense secretary this thursday at the pentagon he never to my question i frankly don't know why i was right there in front of him raising my hand as everyone else as you know half of the many guantanamo has been cleared for release many of them years ago yet they're still there locked up stuck in this limbo desperate and i was going to ask when they will let these men go and whether it would make any difference if somebody died in this ongoing hunger strike again i never got the chance to ask that question the pentagon has just requested almost two hundred million dollars to renovate the guantanamo prison that kind of investment may suggest that they're not planning to shutting down anytime soon at the beginning of the year the state department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefi

who claim the numbers are much bigger are increasingly concerned the strike may soon turn deadly artie's marina port has more . lawyers who have recently met with or spoken to their client still languishing at the island prison say more than one hundred men are participating in the hunger strike and many have lost between thirty and forty pounds those are accounts are in addition to previous reports of the hunger strikers coughing up blood and losing consciousness three of whom have been hospitalized ten of the hunger strikers are reportedly shackled to chairs and being force fed through tubes and one sunday activists around the world launched a week long fast to raise awareness of the hunger strike and to protest the existence of the kuantan m o prison and america's use of indefinite detention according to the center for constitutional rights the hunger strike began on around february sixth when prisoners decided to protest the legit confiscation of their personal light arms and the allegedly sacked religious handling of their korans now u.s. military officials deny that the qur'an is o

lawyers who visited the base say they were shocked by the physical state of some of their clients artie'sworried a port my details u.s. officials and the mainstream media are used to ignoring alarming reports from good mom. when the us joined the united nations human rights council back in two thousand and nine president barack obama announced his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now as the island prison enters its twelfth year of operation one hundred sixty two you are still languishing there and over forty one hundred thirty are on a life threatening hunger strike the story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media now is r t first reported on tuesday lawyers for the get more prisoners say the men began their hunger strike on february sixth to protest the alleged confiscation of their personal items including letters personal photos bed sheets razors and also the a legit sacrilegious handling of the qur'an during cell searches now the center for constitutional rights says that they've received reports of detainees coughing blood losi

and us vehicles eggs on mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet you've got this kind of arty during out of some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of shia protesters clashed with riot police in bahrain marking two years since the saudi led crackdown on the nation's pro-democracy uprising protesters burning tires and threw stones at police responded by firing stun grenades at least thirty five people were wounded clashes were the most violent scene in the last week offering been locked in political and religious turmoil for years with a shia majority demanding a greater voice from the sunni rule. blast targeting the office of a television network in the pakistani city karachi's left three dead and five wounded their only detonated to kill obama was planted near the office gates in a poor area in the eastern part of the city no group has claimed responsibility for the attack ethnic and political tensions in pakistan running high as the country heads towards a general election in may. breaking the set coming up next stay with us. to speak your language. pr

while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington artie's done she can report on that side of it. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of which office the venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuelan people but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. chavis allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out the only guards and the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the news empire is the word a host of south american leaders and used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and heralded quote a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s. congress was not as restrained in their reaction to the death of the venezuelan leader the chairman of the house foreign

i'm going up as promised artie's exclusive interview with the president of belarus alexander lukashenko stay with us here on r.t. . there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation also or via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy. arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus line it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt by segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs and overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctio

says ninety six people have been injured in the latest outbreak of violence which erupted on friday artie's belt true has the details. chaotic caches continued into friday nights in the surrounding areas of the mission brotherhood headquarters which is right behind me here in the mccutcheon district in cairo police are fending off protesters from the main gates that is the most headquarters using excessive amounts of take us protesters responded with a moment of cocktails and rocks meanwhile a few hundred meters away protest is engaged with street battles in street battles with supporters of the mission brotherhood you turned up a few hours before and attacked those demonstrators fleeing the police come fire started friday morning when anti-government protesters decided to march on the headquarters that is a mystery protest against a president who hails from of the muslim brotherhood and also protesting against what was a legit tactic by the missed him by a next attack by mr bobbitt members last week on journalists were seen injuries coming off the front line with people with severe head in

policy decisions artie's guided she takes a look.there's no point in posting and then shatter human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed and in the states when you're here less than one percent of people participated in the war so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it's as though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction iraq is still struggling to

citizens as artie's marina porton i reports from new york. so many u.s.lawmakers have a long objected to john brennan's nomination and there's various reasons before even getting to the drone program he's considered to have played a major role in the cia's enhanced interrogation program under george w. bush and he's also known as the top cheerleader for america's controversial drone program now that program has been criticized as having a huge lack of transparency last year brought in argued for the legality the morality in the effectiveness of america's drone program and publicly had to acknowledge the cia that cia drone attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator rand paul spent nearly thirteen hours on the senate floor filibustering brett insemination in pursuit of more information about the obama administration's domestic drone policy now confirmation of brennan as cia director that vote came after the obama administration specified limits on the presidential authority to order dron

talented and skilled people from escaping the country in search of a potentially more profitable life artie's andrew farmer has the story. jesse off in search of a new life abroad that is what three and a half million britons have done over the last decade but it isn't just pensioners seeking a retirement in the sun latest figures show that actually two thirds of them are professionals age twenty two to forty four and it's feared the outflow of talent is actually hurting the nation's economy clearly a lot of these people are trained professionals who are seeking to build a life elsewhere and i think that that's something policymakers should be very concerned about so what are the reasons for the exodus chiropractic feet treats dozens of high end london kind suffering from stress every week britain's high rate of taxi says makes many consider emigrating but that's only half the story the weather is a big factor in this country it's one thing to want to get a lifestyle basically they i know from my my point of view when i was younger in south africa for example at the weekend we could go you kn

nuclear weapons but fail to offer any solutions the israeli palestinian conflict well arty's middle east correspondent paula slayer is in the west bank where president obama will head next and she joins us now paula. netanyahu haven't always seen eye to eye have they but what sort of common ground have they found so far do you think. well president obama certainly saying all the right things to the israeli public he's spoken about the importance of israel's security he's spoken about the close alliance between washington and tel aviv and he's also spoken about extending financial support to israel on wednesday night after he met with this way the prime minister benjamin netanyahu a bomber said that the goal of his visit was to talk with the israeli people no mention of the palestinians no mention of the peace process or of continuous israeli settlement expansion in fact during his first address after arriving yesterday in israel and later after he met with israeli president shimon peres he did not talk about the palestinians at all now this is in shock in sharp contrast to the address he

ambassador in benghazi last september to other terrorists assaults in the region artie's andrew blake puts the paces of the puzzle together. in these e-mails they go back to september twelfth two thousand and twelve and stretch into february sixteenth of this year and that's a couple of months in the day after the benghazi terrorist attacks and the day after those benghazi terrorist attacks happened but the americans still didn't know what was happening and it took days and weeks actually for us a government of the united nations the obama administration for everyone to get their story straight but what we see in these documents actually put together a couple pieces of the puzzle if everything proves to be correct the sources that we're reaching out to secretary clinton last year and into this year were taking insurgent groups of militant islamic groups in algeria and linking them with not just the the attack in benghazi on september eleventh but with the hostage situation that we saw back in january you know this group that would be the most are directly linked with al qaida and it's

of not valuing human life and comparing them to children torturing with a magnifying glass earlier artie's tom barton gave me some details on the case. he used emotive languages especially as he worked through this over an hour of audiophiles statement to the court describing his feelings we've taken a couple of the edited excerpts of that one of them concerns this video from the cockpit of an apache attack helicopter over iraq the two pilots very eager to engage a group of what turned out to be civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists a van men comes to try and help those shot in the first burst of firing and the helicopter then engages that van as well let's have a listen to what he said about that does that mean that. this was the only. way. i mean this is. bradley manning was shocked by what he saw in that video in two thousand and ten he took the decision to upload hundreds of thousands of documents onto the internet that were then released by wiki leaks now this is the first time we've heard him say why is that how has this happened and what di

members increasing their support for the rebels artie's paula slee are reports. the united nations says that around twenty of its peacekeepers have been detained by about thirty armed syrian rebel fighters not only the rebels released a video where they accuse the united nations of assisting the syrian president bashar assad's forces in entering rebel captured areas in the same video they also put forward their demands. we demand from the u.s. the u.n. and the security council that the troops of bashan ascends regime withdrawn from the village until then the peacekeepers will remain our hostages if our demand is not fulfilled during the next twenty four hours we will treat the hostages as prisoners now the united nations has of course condemned this incident the u.n. is currently negotiating with the rebels it demands the immediate release of its forces there is no reason at all under any circumstances in any kind of a sick imagination to try to harm harm those people so clearly gross disrespect for united nations gross disrespect of international norms of behavi

s embattled middle class but for some as artie's first reports it has all but run out. for a large part of her life liz hoggard has been touting a way of building a life for herself as a freelance journalist she's been part of britain's middle class clearing credit cards to pay their mortgages on time and they thrived during being but then came the bust and with the decline of opportunities that were for so long a middle class perk i didn't get a contract we knew because budgets were being cut and so all those little things you have in place you always live slightly on credit you know you go into interest in anticipation it will get paid quite soon that got much tougher low incomes coupled with high living costs staking fears of a shrinking middle in britain is backed up in a report by the resolution foundation think tank it looked into what the future holds the ten million adults in the low to middle income households forecast another decade of hardship well unfortunately it's a bit of a grim prospect prices have risen faster than earnings for quite some time now and w

and arjun time all this up for discussion in artie's crossed are coming up later this hour. believe the views and thoughts of the islanders are completely and absolutely irrelevant that's not true the the worship the wishes and the will of the islanders is very important here this is what it's all about it's about what do the people of the falkland islands want to live under do they want to live under the crown of the united kingdom or do they want to be part of argentina there is a debate about sovereignty two countries claim these islands and they should get together and have a discussion about what might happen and that is what the british absolutely refused to do. you believe we. are getting a decent education italy is proving to be either on affordable or fruitless the country's major money troubles have seen tuition fees pushed out of reach for many and those who do have qualifications can't get jobs as an english can now reports it's causing a slump in university applications. italy was once an abode for thinkers philosophers and artists known for its universities and