and realized. i'm. stepping up the crackdown. to disperse the rallies all the while the. human rights. israel gives the green light to plans to build fifteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem. israeli isolation. and the way the mass shootings that have swept the u.s. on the connecticut massacre of twenty children brings the gun control debate back to the forefront of american politics.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. now again it moved to crush after activists said police arrested twenty five protesters at monday's rally in and around the capital. bullets on the crowd. and detained a well known campaigner from the bahrain center for human rights and a street marches that were calling for more freedoms from the sunni rulers and the release of all political prisoners including leading rights advocate job his sentence was reduced last week at court but an appeal for his release was rejected now around eighty people have been killed by security forces in nearly two years of continual. pro-reform demonstrations and bahrain is under pressure from rights

groups for not following up on violence to modernize its key state institutions political scientist colin campbell says the main reason the gulf monarchies is still in power is due to vital backing from abroad. they are trying to crack down hard on the opposition to the international community that they have lifted the ban on protests but at the same time they are immersed they are beating protesters they are jail in three quarters of the population or oppose them and the population is no longer scared of them the population wants to leave pulls you am beginning to leave the country they want democracy they are tired of two hundred thirty years of dictatorship why as a side silence of the united states when the violations of human rights are so gross i just mean are generally quiet it is completely parker see and of course you

and everyone else no matter the reason and that's because the fifth fleet is based in bahrain and from the bahrain the us uses that as a pivot point to try to intervene in control middle east the idea of a few monarchy is completely outdated it is a joke in the modern world and the only ones who don't get it on the upper lip. we are turning our attention out of out of israel which says it will go ahead with plans to build fifteen hundred new settler homes in east jerusalem that's the part of the city considered palestinian land and the project was given into media green light by israeli officials on monday this comes less than a month after the u.n. granted palestine member observer status palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of a future palestinian state and promising to raise the issue at the security council author and historian gerald horne says that with palestine's recent upgrade

israel's playing a risky game. israel is making a very dangerous wager that its chief ally and washington can be protected from the reach of international law but i think that's a misjudgment on israel's part the enhanced status of the palestinian authority raises the possibility that the israeli beater ship can be dragged before the international criminal court in the hague for various transgressions not only that but the neighborhood of israel is changing with the rise of the south and the rise of the islamicist so i think israel is playing a very dangerous game in the short term and in the long term the problem is mr netanyahu does not want a settlement of this question he feels that his regime can continue in a grab the palestinian land and settling palestinian land which jewish settlers ad infinitum into the future however it's well known that israel's main protector in

washington is declining in international significance because really authorities would be wise to change their ill advised policy before it's too late. and as israel feels increasingly isolated at the u.n. over its expansion policy the arab spring means it's increasingly isolated in its own neighborhood as well that's how much oil has seen it become the target of more attacks militant rockets and even stray shells from across the border with syria and this report goes to watch he's told us that. there's a storm brewing in the middle east and it's leaving a chill in the hearts of most israelis say what you might about the arab spring it poses an obvious problem for tel aviv zaman and so we've seen just a few weeks ago. plenty of missiles falling on his land form and how they can. and we see. the beginning of may be and three she warns

of going on heights we. plenty of the angels in the mediterranean sea israel's backyard has become a lot more dangerous in the last two years weapons from libya leaking across borders and landing in the hands of unknown militant groups the trouble ahead is symbolized by the muslim brotherhood sweep to power in egypt from this rally in june an ominous promise by the movement to make sure resulin and not kind of the capital at a minimum what we'll see is the free flow of weapons money and supplies from egypt into the gaza strip we will see egyptian volunteers going into the gaza strip to fight that's the minimum moving up from there the possibility of egypt israel war is by no means impossible but it was democracy that brought the muslim brotherhood to power and our deal both israel and the west came to espouse but both are now waking up to the reality that things might in fact have been better under the

previous dictatorships at least for them we had a difficult situation but at least we had the contact you know with the leadership secondly president was committed to the peace process this is a washington day is that we are confronting a new president who belongs to a certain institution a certain movement which do not believe in the right of israel for existence. israeli leaders know all too well that whatever friendships however useful they have with arab leaders it doesn't alter the basic freight posed by an arab awakening that in most countries is empowering militant islamic groups we will expect that these governments when when they will will but pressure not only on the friends of we feel also this. the new changes in the border democracy is that is emerging in the arab world will have

a tremendous challenges and. in order to maintain. law and order to establish a real democracy the need need some time but elevate fears that in the time it takes for that democracy to really take root and for the arab public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing to speed many israelis feel over the growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood near r.t. tel aviv. we are coming to you live from moscow this of course is our thousands of demonstrators in madrid against austerity policies which much of the anti-government anger based on a broken promise to raise pensions in line with inflation pensioners on the other only make up a large section of the crowd in the rally organized by spanish labor unions the

protester comes a day after medical workers marshal right through the capital enraged by the government's plans to prioritize health care spain's current debt stands at least eight hundred billion euros however madrid has gone out of its way to avoid requesting a sovereign bailout economist yanis varoufakis says the mistakes made by the country's government could ultimately cost a part of its territory. this is a government like the one we can give greece like the one island which is put all its eggs in the basket or consolidating its agreement with germany and move either feel something back it will take a little more than one or two demonstrations it will take seen you serious losing an election to change the course of the spanish government and i very much afraid or or let me do this it would take the possibility of losing the lonia if all

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three. three. three. live from moscow this is with me rover sushi it's good to have you with us today it is a long running debate with a tragic context as the relatives of the twenty six victims of the sandy hook

elementary school shooting their loss and the argument over gun control laws in america is back in the spotlight and i see a chalk and i reports from a nation and a small connecticut town struggling to deal with their grief. to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the sad words in the dictionary and combine them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the heartbreak really the grief the sadness the tears. we saw on the ground this town is really at the head of me of grief during this holiday season in this country more last half of the population supports gun control and of the country is split and half believes that it's a civil right and it's a right that americans are entitled to so whether or not any legislation good strong legislation can be passed to prevent these kinds of things is a question we're going to have to wait and see exactly what kind of steps lawmakers

take and what the u.s. president takes but certainly i'm sure people are going to be demanding this kind of something to happen so that these situations are so they don't happen in the future over and over and over again parents holding their kids a little tighter and the little boy. oh gosh i'm so glad that i have so many opportunities to. i love you i'm so glad you're mine i'm so glad you're in our family i'm so glad. you're you're here i'm still so glad that i'm having breakfast with you this morning candles. flowers toys and grief filled newtown i keep hearing on the news over and over about the parents. or you pull to get their kids. to be told. their kids from school. and i can't imagine. if i was in their shoes as

a parent that my daughter wouldn't pick up home with me twenty first graders none of them older than seven were killed in a mass shooting at school twenty year old adam lanza lived with his mother nancy in a well off residential neighborhood on friday morning he shot and killed her with her own gun got into a car drove about ten minutes to sandy hook elementary quoting two witnesses he didn't say a word during the rampage eight year old zachary was saved by his teachers my youngest son since and he had school and. he was in a classroom right near where the shooting took place and he was with a reading teacher just him in the reading teacher and she closed the door and took him into the bathroom they sat in the bathroom floor until police came and said prayers and just stayed very quiet until the police came six school employees were also killed in the shooting including the favorite one of them devon in the midst of palestinian land which would like to encourage. the six and nine year olds held

a garage sale with their family after surviving the shooting with proceeds going to their school they did tell them to close their eyes my my daughter. course you never listens so she she didn't and she's pretty she's been talking about that a lot she said she said mommy i can't get that body out of my head i keep seeing people's emotions are stretched to the limit make an end here like make it worth something we could meet. because you can't you could create change change that hard program locals are now demanding. strict severe gun control. but it's really a look in the second amendment to bear arms but. then when it was written three hundred years ago two hundred fifty years ago the forefathers never thought that it would come to this while politicians don't have the power to bring back the twenty little children who used to play on the streets they do have the power to decide

what happens next in a country where two hundred seventy million firearms almost one per person aren't private possession. is the. newtown connecticut. time for the day now starting with egypt's public prosecutor who has resigned less than a month after being appointed by president morsi the opposition is celebrating the move as a victory for the independence of the judiciary and most of the country's judges that critical of morsi is recent policies many refused to oversee the referendum on egypt's new draft constitution which forced the government to split into two stages this weekend's first round ended in favor of the president back document that's according to unconfirmed all it's the vote is however strongly contested by the opposition which is about to take protesters to the streets for a nationwide demonstrations later today. there are reports coming out of syria of ongoing skirmishes between pro and anti government groups at

a refugee camp for palestinians in the south of damascus and follows claims that free syrian army rebels had seized full control of the compound attitudes towards the syrian government are split inside the camp fighting has raged on for several days and most of the refugees had to be moved to lebanon because of the escalating violence. now one russian an american and a canadian will blast off tomorrow from kazakhstan to join three other astronauts on the international space station a roman the roman think tom marshburn and chris hadfield will take their places in the soyuz t.m.a. rocket it's already been moved out of its hangar and put on a launch pad other stories spacecraft is now the only vehicle able to carry astronauts to the space station nasa has been actively engaging private companies in space exploration lately with none so far able to out run government backed programs. the reputation of britain's prison system is taking

a tumble with reports showing jails have become a revolving door for re offenders and the government has promised to turn the trend around by improving its systems on work and training in areas of confinement but as artie's sarah firth reports it seems there is far more being said than done. person locks up more people than anywhere else in europe yet where we do we get a glimpse of what life on the inside is really like and i would describe it as a sea of boredom. peppered with small of extreme violence and disruption stretched to breaking point you case prison systems are once again in the spotlight following a series of critical reports by the country's prisons inspectorate this government promised the rehabilitation revolution the trouble is the revolution things taking its time to get. i don't see any rehabilitation revolution i mean the last

government passed hundreds of new laws which were sweeping people back into the prison system and this government is going down the same line you know working people up that's the it's getting people out the difficulty getting them out so much that they they don't come back but despite all the rhetoric say far the government's promise is improved regimes on work and training in prisons have failed to materialize well as a bit of a cliché but prisons of education colleges of course you can go to prison. and know not only have to hope warmup work become a vast amounts of knowledge that's what prisoners do criminals and it's not only mixing with other criminals that's a problem it's become an ape in secret that the u.k.'s prisons are all washed with drugs. oh i would estimate probably when cheaper than these we have.

it's a troubling accusation given that today the inmate population stands at more than eighty thousand people right now in a person's release from prison they given forty six pounds with very little of the support released back into the same communities with all the same problems as before so it should be no surprise that also often it's not long before those people and up back inside the figures show a startling rise over the past years in the number who leave prison to go on to commit further crimes britain's prisons it seems have become a revolving door every offenders and with all the government cuts it's hard to see just how the situation's going to improve it's obviously it's much more challenging if what you're doing the population is increasing resources are reducing and you're asking prisons to do those taping to stay out of prison within number of published books he's focusing on his writing career giving talks to schools orning children

of the realities of a life behind bars but with tens of thousands of people released from prison every year until person comes to grips with what's happening on the inside prisons will continue to risk the safety of all of us on the outside surface r.t. london. all right i'll be bringing you more news in about half an hour's time for now though if you stay with us it is abby martin and breaking news.

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something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

worst chipotle. white house tip of the day radio guy and for lauderdale minutes from a quick profit i want to watch quite a good because you've never seen anything like this on trial. going on i mean martin this is breaking this thread so today is army private whistleblower bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday.

the government's most horrific war crimes even more so the reaction to those revelations has revealed the u.s. military's utter impunity from said crimes many people including myself see bradley manning as a hero who put his life on the line to provide the truth to the american public the u.s. government however sees manning as a traitor and is charging him with aiding the enemy something that could land him the death penalty by the time he's scheduled to be court martialled spent over a thousand days in confinement much of which in solitary might be a lonely one happy birthday bradley stay strong we haven't forgotten about you buddy so. let's look at more of your never seen anything like that.

on this show i've talked about israel and palestine as it relates to war peace and human rights and because i've covered the issue in a way that rivals the mainstream media i've been viscerally attacked for it by the israeli lobby the media and by netanyahu his very own spokesperson all of this for simply providing the other side of the story something that my next guest has now committed his life to and it's extremely significant considering his the son of a decorated general from the israeli defense forces he was drawn to peace activism in one thousand nine hundred seven primarily in the aftermath of a suicide bombing which tragically took the life of his knees so to talk about his personal journey and help me break through some of the biggest misconceptions about the conflict i spoke with nico the lead peace activist and author of the general's son journey of an israeli and palestine i first asked him about the myths perpetuated regarding the formation of the.