organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean when you get thousands and thousands of people. demanding their rights. you seem to forget that there are sixty sixty five people actually died from police brutality activists in bahrain insist their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front of. this previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john is contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today is nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place

. -- bahraini shiites were dismissed from their jobs at that time. maybe half of them have been reinstated. there are some measures like this and as your segment said, the behavior of the police is a bit better now although we had that portrait goes on. what i'm talking about is the underlying political situation. >> the majority -- the fundamental issue of a minority rolling over a majority. >> correct. that and political institutions have very little power in this system. what the demonstrations are asking for is constitutional monarchy which does not exist. although the kings have been interviewed and said, we are a constitutional monarchy. there is a denial on the part of leadership that will changes are needed. >> when you put bahrain in the context of the broader arab spleen, we have seen political change, does it strike you as surprising that there has not been more of this? >> bahrain is an exception among the arab monarchies. it is the only one where there has been significant unrest and that is because of this majority, minority situation w

the first is the inequality between bahrainis [inaudible] all these issues are the major issues in bahrain. sometimes, there are wars. >> the king of bahrain commission and international report. it promised sweeping reforms. senior lawmakers and policemen have been brought in from outside. cameras have been installed and police stations -- installed in police stations. these demonstrators state some of those have still not been reinstated. the shiite majority suffered discrimination. the government has been slow to redress this. the rest of the country is growing increasingly weary with the nightly clashes an ongoing civil disorder. >> with a man in the studio is a -- with me in the studio is a bahrain spokesman. it is the first anniversary. why is the government so worried about activists turning up at parole roundabout? -- at pearl roundabout? >> the government understands the difference. the government guarantees the right of freedom of protest, but there is a line. it does not condemn acts of violence. could simply going to pearl roundabout is not simply a violent end. it is protesters

treatment and no reporting it's taking place now we have a situation where the chief advice to the bahraini police is the former chief of police in philadelphia in florida. who's recorded those two parts of the united states wasn't very good he's not giving women rights somehow crushed and brutalized to demonstrate this and he says they're doing it like should be because these demonstrators create traffic problems the problem in bahrain is sort of traffic problem it is a problem that seventy to eighty percent of the population feels it has no representation whatsoever and yet nothing happens on this front actually. as the middle east reels from revolutions and fall and regimes we're providing depth analysis for you on our website and. you can see the expert opinion the west is struggling to keep a brave face. in the region also right now. russian language. georgia voters in the baltic states reject a proposal to give official status to the language used by a third of its population. now time to update you on some of today's news making headlines around the world twenty people have been kill

isn't organize protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean you get thousands and thousands of people protestant demanding their rights and you call that vandalism if you seem to forget that there are sixty five or sixty five people actually died in france from police brutality activists in bahrain insists their protest was peaceful their aim to reach.

organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean when you get thousands and thousands of people. demanding their rights. you seem to forget that there are sixty five or sixty five people actually died from police brutality activists in bahrain insist their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front of. this previous day but it's been extended.

organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community immediately. demanding their rights. you seem to forget sixty sixty five people actually died from police brutality activists in bahrain insist their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front of. this previously but it's been extend through the toxic and use of poisoning of. mr john contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today.

treatment and no reporting that's taking place now we have a situation where the chief advisor to the bahraini police is the former chief of police in philadelphia and in florida. who's recorded those two parts of the united states wasn't very good he's not giving women rights about right and brutalized the demonstrators and he says they're doing it like should be because these demonstrators create perfect problems the problem in bahrain is sort of traffic problem it is a problem that seventy to eighty percent of the population feels it has no representation whatsoever and yet nothing happens on this front actually. our website r t dot com is the place to find all the latest news and analysis let's see what else we've got lined up for you there right now. russian language silenced a lot of fans the majority of voters in the baltic states reject a proposal to give official status to the language used by its population also. it's been a week since pop icon whitney houston passed away but some music companies have already made a fortune from the singer's death find out more on our t.v. dot com. s

in the security council the saudi army the saudi army entered the territory to actually help the bahraini police to oppress people who were calling for democratic reform and behind that was never involved and that was never discussed in the security council and that shows a clear. selective justice selective interference. in the name of democracy which actually makes it lose its meaning it makes it really clear that the americans and their western allies are not sincere when they talk about freedom and democracy they are inconsistent and they are selective where it suits their interests they push forward where it doesn't they try to hide it and and in and that is a continuous oppression. continuous problems demonstrators are just calling for dialogue with the king so that they can have a settlement that is suitable and in the lines of democracy and freedom and that is not accepted so i hope the saudis would review their position i hope that everybody will take a few steps back and try to think about the suffering of innocent civilians in syria today there are thousands of people suffering

battles you know i don't think there's any move to really kind of emphasize the struggle of the bahraini people or the suffering there and i think that really does bring out the double standard of the west let's focus on syria let's ignore bahrain and it's interesting of course when you look at the arab league it's well there are a lot of dictators you know who are part of the arab elite and now condemning syria they're queuing up to condemn assad and to call for him to leave and surpass new resolutions and actually what you see a lot of the time are these countries these dictators just trying to detract attention away from the fact that you know often they can be just as bad when they are in their treatment. all of the people of their countries but they want to cozy up to the west be seen to be doing the right thing and just hope that they can detract attention away from their own situation so they don't have similar uprisings their double struck standards in general with the situation very striking and it's amazing just how quiet the media and also the west can be about them and how th

which are dealt with in a different way and now we have a situation where the chief advisor to the bahraini police is the former chief of police in philadelphia and in florida. recording those two parts of the united states wasn't very good he's not giving them advice on how to crush and brutalized the demonstrators and he says they're doing it largely because these demonstrators create cressy problems the problem in both the radius of a traffic problem it is a problem that seventy to eighty percent of the population feels it has no representation whatsoever and yet nothing happens on this front after all right and also it's saudi arabia and qatar that are putting forward that resolution at the u.n. general assembly today but let's leave that aside and talk more about saudi arabia itself of course you mentioning that's having a very poor human rights record and it's clearly not a democracy so what kind of moral authority does it have to tell other middle eastern governments to step down it has no moral authority at all it has financial or corage in the sense that it sits on large quantities

the range of protesters is just completely ignored by the west i mean i feel very sorry for the bahraini people because you know they have suffered some hideous crackdowns over the past year and that is just ignored because it's not in their interest to bring that to the fore have to say what is the other aspect that you really see here are other kind of external agents kind of brought in like the international atomic energy agency which is built into syria which no one thinks realistically has nuclear weapons but is brought in in a way to get people on the ground and to meddle and put the pressure on and to meddle in a sovereign countries affairs now that's not something america would ever tolerate america would never tolerate another country going in and saying all of you know we want to crack down on fire you have the death penalty you know there's no respect for national sovereignty in this region a tool ok i think to that extent. neo colonialism where the west is basically saying that these countries are unable to govern their own people we need to come in and teach them how to do d

have been there for a long time they've been brutal for a long time as you mentioned the saudis the bahraini s. and other governments have been brutal for a long time china certainly commits atrocities on a daily basis in tibet and we don't see the west doing anything about that so i really do think there's a double standard and that's the way the press ought to play it and quickly last i just want to ask you how this kind of coverage in the u.s. media is affecting public perception of what is going on and syria. well you know ordinary people were very busy we don't have time we don't have the historical background the perspective to understand what all of these things mean to understand that syria is run by a minority. shiite faction in a predominately sunni country that they're aligned with iran against saudi arabia that saudi arabia faces its own poorly covered revolt by in a shiite or oil raising really region these are the big questions and these are really the things that the public doesn't hear about and they need to hear about it because otherwise what we're experiencing is a tremend