and then you glimpse something else and you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. tear gas and rubber bullets meet antigovernment protesters in bahrain many are taken into custody as human rights rallies refuse to die down. israel says it's going ahead with plans for fifty eight hundred new homes in east jerusalem despite them being illegal under international law. and of angry spaniards march out against mounting cuts to their pensions health care and education.

worldwide news around the clock this is r t live from moscow with me rule re sushi welcome to the program. authorities have used tear gas and rubber bullets on anti-government protesters arresting a number of them during mass rallies in and around the capital the wife of a leading human rights campaign. says that her husband was among those detained by police have expanded their presence across the capital as groups of hundreds of people commemorated protesters killed during an uprising eighteen years ago the shia majority is demanding the release of all political prisoners and a more vague political voice about grain has come under increasing pressure from rights groups for not reforming instead it has banned public gatherings jailed opposition activists and taken away their citizenship political scientist calling

cavil's says the gulf one of he can do all that because of his backing from abroad . play trying to run. the opposition. or national community that they have left in the protests but at the same time they are there the protesters they are jailing three quarters of the population or oppose them and the relation is no longer. the population wants. to abdicate to leave the country they want to mark and they're trying to do harder in thirty years. here why is a science in the united states when the violations of human rights is so gross i just mean and generally quiet it is completely partisan and of course you and everyone else no matter the reason and therefore the fifth fleet is based in

bahrain on the bahrain the us uses that as a pivot point to try to intervene in control the middle east the idea if you don't . and the only ones that don't get it on the. eyes turn our attention out of out of israel that says it will go ahead with plans to build fifteen hundred new settler homes in a jewish settlement that is. to be as it is now considered occupied palestinian land permission from. struction officials and the palestinian of ministration has called the decision illegal if the palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state and promising to raise the issue at a un security council meeting let's discuss it further now with our betty hirshman

a campaigner for equality see you today thank you for coming on r t the number of homes is actually slightly. hundred or so is it possible perhaps that israel is here. before completion of. extremely negligible modifications to the plan. from about sixty. issues the. palestinian land. again again it's a very small number they have i suppose agreed to not proceed with again we're talking about

a fifteen hundred or so israel announced that the plans to expand its settlement construction actually made the announcement after the un upgraded palestine to observer status already some are calling this a bit of a tit for tat maneuver what do you say to that. it seems very clear it was a retaliatory effort we should also talk about this in the context of the coming israeli elections there is clearly a lot of political cash aid to be gained from making these very bold and aggressive announcements to the u.n. resolution on. i mean we have been hearing at least already drawing some sort of political comparisons here we know that there are elections coming up for netanyahu i believe it's going to be in january so perhaps there is some sort of political posturing going on the building plan for this particular settlement did cause a diplomatic rift with the u.s. when it was first announced in two thousand and ten now it's revived why do you think israel is just regarding the opinion of its allies. it's

a very fine question you know clearly this is ongoing are israel's. planning to consolidate control over history. and i would think again. their political motivations in demonstrating to israeli public. he's our fortunes are greater on divided jerusalem. let's let's draw a big issue here because certainly as i'm sure as i'm sure you well know most of the world anyone watching the news in the recent. basically what many have been calling a two week war between israel and gaza we saw a lot of violence a lot of death a lot of israeli air raids as well might this move not be seen as counterproductive off after israeli officials and palestinian officials for then to have some sort of cease fire and here we have israel saying well we're going to build a whole bunch of new settlements. yeah absolutely and i think government officials

see. the resolution on the palestinian state to be sort of the diplomatic counterpart to hamas movement in gaza and thus their strong reaction those of us here on the ground fighting for an equitable and sustainable jerusalem clearly see this is antithetical to a two state solution particularly building in the area anyone if it embarrasses and also. not receiving as much attention is the consolidation of the southern perimeter or. jerusalem. today there will be hearings lie about how much has been see part of the parcel developments. include. in one in one piece alone twenty six hundred units so clearly all of this construction extremely dangerous for

a two state solution it to structure it disrupts the continuity of land between east jerusalem and the west bank on which a future palestinian state is not and as many say and as many say just for the throws fuel on the fire because as we all know israeli officials have been continuing to build all these properties for many many years now indeed if indeed this issue is discussed at the security council meeting as palestinian officials have said they will raise it is it possible do you think that the u.n. could go from words of condemnation to some sort of action. i really wouldn't want to speculate i think the international community. is very well aware of the significance of continued building particularly in places like he won their pronouncements been very strong there is. governments in europe calling. in israeli ambassadors from the get go two thousand and four one has been frozen

due to extreme international consternation and pressure even coming from the bush government so the international community is very well aware are of the consequences and i hope we will see a strong strong actions taken by the coachman a campaigner for equality in jerusalem thanks very much for coming on today thank you. and i with israel increasingly isolated by the international community over its expansion policy the arab spring means the country is becoming surrounded by potentially hostile governments the top world has seen it become the target of more attacks rockets and even stray shells from across the border with syria and this reports who want to support us leon. 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 israel form a radical. i dream and we see. already the beginning of may be attrition war in the golan heights we see 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 are 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 and ominous promised by the movement to make sure and not credible 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 at 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 ideal 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 mubarak was committed to the peace process the situation today 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 his work 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 board democracies 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 television 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 despair many israelis feel of the growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood policy r.t. tel aviv. and r.t.

is coming here live from moscow and people in spain say they dignity is at stake later in the program we report how pensioners students and doctors in their vows ins are protesting government austerity across the country. and it's time for action americans sign gun control petitions as a message to the white house after the latest tragedy in u.s. elementary school and other details after a break. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can

leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get up close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going

to act as foster parents for the next generation of wolves who come here using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. it's an hour four fifteen pm here in moscow this is r t with me rory sushi thank you for joining us today. thousands of people have hit the streets of spain it's

a protest the government's ever growing austerity people are outraged by cuts to their health care education and pensions with anger also directed at changes to labor laws protests across fifty five spanish cities were called by unions and social groups the prime minister defended the tough tough measures saying that two thousand and twelve will be remembered as the year in which the foundations for the country's recovery would lead madrid keeps insisting it doesn't need a sovereign bailout despite its ongoing recession but 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 that greece like the one i love which is with all its eggs in the basket was. some sort of a green room with germany and the european central bank it would take a little more from one of the great. they. risk of losing an

election to change the course of the spanish government very much afraid or or let me. take the possibility of losing the money or he will stay for. long enough to start thinking that perhaps better off outside times that. now protesters in spain have been getting rather creative with their posters want to read our cuts will be with the guillotine later our financial experts max kaiser and stacey hope but discuss whether the trend could pick up. but madrid is open the first store max of throughout europe where you can find this tool in solid pine with a height of two meters in the motto is cuts are necessary they encourage people to get one for their home for their living room for the bar and perhaps in the public square right well you can cut all become more cut. i told you two years ago to buy

good things if you did because the price and the market's going to be exploding and expect a gay teen manufacture to go public. and you can watch the concert report in just about fifteen minutes time right here on art's. finale tragedy in a new town elementary school that left twenty six dead has sparked the long running debate of gun control in america more than one hundred fifty thousand americans have already signed a petition asking the white house to introduce a bill limiting access to firearms. and. those in connecticut at the scene of the latest massacre what they think. 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 that 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 a little girl 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. i keep hearing on the news over and over about the parents. or evil 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 no but the 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 you have 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 them into the bathroom they said bathroom floor until police came and said prayers and just a very quiet until the police came six school employees were also killed in the shooting including the favorite one of eight in devon and that's that to them that you would like to encourage them. 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 at 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 heartbroken locals are now demanding. strict severe gun control. really the. second amendment to bear arms but. then when it was written three hundred years ago two hundred fifty years ago forefathers never thought that it 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 seventeen million firearms almost one per person possession. newtown connecticut. the number of homeless students in america hits a record high topping one million for the first time as a result of the economic recession so a number that has risen by more than a huff since two thousand and seven more of those shocking statistics on our

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thanks for joining us here in our suits and i'm real research you show gary it has invited us to permanently stationed military forces on its territory saying that it will increase security in the region and assist with the training of its soldiers well that apparently came out of a trip by paul gary's defense minister to the pentagon. now he reportedly discussed the opening of a u.s. military base in the country's east and one local newspaper says that washington has already pumped around sixty million dollars into its reconstruction and american military presence in bulgaria has been allowed since two thousand and six antiwar activist brian becker says this is just the us trying to extend its

influence in that there is a strong motive force to maintain the cold war even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there are already for. the incorporation of this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of the area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates both gary makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation. all right into the arty world up there we go and i was some more international headlines in brief for you syrian rebels say they are making advances in their battle with syrian troops but the opposition fighters that claim they've taken control of

a palestinian refugee camp south of the capital which was earlier shelled wife syrian warplanes damascus said the camp was assisting terrorists loyal to the assad forces the rebels say they've also seized the central town of hellfire and stormed an army base near the city of capturing a number of tanks. violence returned it to belfast in northern ireland overnight this time protesters wrapped in union jack flags stormed a local council meeting between the desks chanted sectarian abuse counselors and threatened members of a nonsectarian alliance party loyalist anger was sparked two weeks ago over a decision to end the century old tradition of flying britain's union flag over city hall three hundred sixty five days in. egypt's opposition is gearing up for fresh rallies following reports of widespread polling violations in the first stage of the constitutional referendum early results show the islamic leaning draft was

backed by fifty six percent of voters a slim majority after a very low turnout of the opposition has called on egyptian is to take to the streets to defend their freedoms and prevent fraud and another group of top judges is boycotting the next stage of the referendum on saturday. are in just a few minutes here on r.c. as promised the kaiser report do stay with us if you can. ducked in between the russian mainland japan and the soccer league. island is the of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until

two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit no this picture place is open to tourists plants and animals are its top attraction. to be has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali. on top of my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the

tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar and necessary attribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally. operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood. for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination.