peace draft under fire moscow holds back a western push to amend its un roadmap on solving the syrian crisis which calls on all sides of the conflict to lay down arms. oil. fields tenant. troops move in a striking workers disrupt independence day celebrations. across the us court to move around played a role in the nine eleven attacks bring to fears of a mounting campaign against the islamic state and the possible pretext to war. international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t.

well sure is defending its draft u.n. resolution on syria while the u.s. and its allies want the text changed but moscow is confident it's drawn up a balanced approach to solving the crisis the draft condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while grilling out foreign intervention and sanctions the u.s. once the blame for the bloodshed on damascus but also notice that your position is that despite a legion of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime in five thousand civilians are thought to have been killed in syria since march but asia times columnist thinks the west is looking to soften up the country before making its move. what saves or stay is what the u.s. and nato countries go sit there and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they're getting weapons smuggled from the middle east to the borders in turkey

any in jordan as well this has been already proved then about the un figures a lot of people are seriously questioned this number saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost zero in a hundred that the effect so there is the fog of three war is already dead so the russian move is an intelligent move because it's a preemptive i would say resolution it condemns both sides in asks for a u.n. peacekeeping mission in fact to solve the problem what nato wants is simmering civil war let's put it this way as a friend you for something much tougher had probably after the american elections in one year. syrian opposition self titled political leaders are holding their first congress in tunisia where the arab spring revolutions began a year ago is being seen as an attempt to rally support among arab countries to

muse's president was at the conference ailing the country doesn't recognize the syrian national council but is sympathetic with the first anniversary of his street protests which saw the regime toppled and elections held but the some there is little to show for the effort to bring political reports. a year ago mohamed bouazizi said himself will try to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public ferry over corruption and poverty which led to the syrian president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. today a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. are vast very few things to upgrade the school to lead families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't got many things those who

came from broad and reaped all the benefits they're all in the new government the simple folk are left with nothing. but the litany genere evolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater presentation but the voice of news according to some has been silenced. the new government is comprised of the elderly that shows what kind of new tunisia we're talking about the main problem is the political parties which haven't given a chance to the young people who gave their lives in blood for the revolution and the western media has hailed the good news in evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country more than the african region a year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the soldiers they have asked who are. how absolutely can place. everything you see as it used to be you have come and gone and the town. unemployment is still the same if not worse

the only things that changed you can now express your opinion but the rouge and main goals have been accomplished. the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe on a slow burn for now on but if the grievances which inspired it for me so will the people's inspiration of all together it goes carty city was it tunisia. we're coming out the military vengeance against soldiers virtues which i suspect bradley manning gets to a military hearing that supports his deadly data he allegedly field should see him decorated to have disappeared. deadly unrest in kazakhstan has left at least ten people dead in a western oil town clashes broke out on independence day celebrations turned violent with police reportedly firing live rounds at the crowd tom barton has the latest. the trouble seemed to start ahead of preparations for the country's independence day celebrations kazakhstan left the soviet union twenty years ago to

the day a crowd had gathered in the central square where a stage of being set up but this crowd contained a lot of people who'd been there for a long time since the summer in fact a crowd of oil workers striking and protesting when hundreds of their number were fired from a an oil company then for demanding higher wages police moved in to try and clear the central square and then what happened has been debated eyewitnesses and protesters say that the police opened fire on the crowd the police say that the crowd attacked them and that they were forced to respond by opening fire buildings were set on fire including the mayor's office and a hotel in the central square the prosecutor general of the country says that the trouble was caused by criminal actions as he puts it that there will be an

investigation launched to find those responsible. well coming up we focus on turning teens away from deadly trouble in the rest of the congress is going to start to discover what's being done to help young people turn their backs on but it isn't brainwashing. a new york court has ruled that iran provided material support to the plotters and hijackers in the nine eleven terror attacks the charges were brought by some of the victims' families but it also was settled by default because the accused which included a rainy leaders were not in court has been ordered to pay damages with quite what i'm going to be collecting is unclear tehran has always denied any connection to al qaeda training an american activist. thinks the case is a smear campaign in the buildup to war. i don't see any evidence that is. particularly compelling that iran had a direct role in nine eleven i know that we have seen in washington there's been

a campaign in new york to link iran very publicly to nine eleven on the anniversary of those attacks earlier this year there was a billboard campaign in times square with the athlete is god's face and something along the lines of you know the silent partner of al qaeda. there's clearly a campaign right now to try to ratchet up the pressure for yet another u.s. attack on a middle eastern country and i just think this is so dangerous if you go back to when those attacks happened immediately afterward iran condemned the attacks there were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of temper awed in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. and cooperating with the united states in helping topple the taliban who. is the enemy of iran as was osama bin laden

what we're seeing now is this strange self-fulfilling prophecy process and i'm worried that this is exactly what we saw with iraq this is this is a campaign to go to war. well more news for you now in the regime anger has boiled over in the gyptian capital clashes between the military and civilian demonstrators have left at least three people dead more than two hundred wounded so the troops are going to disperse a three week sit in protest a monument to. the spot the second stage of the phased election process being on the way. when it was removed police had savagely beaten speak campaign. machine gun fire on the gaza israel has left one person dead and two others wounded israeli military said troops opened fire after hearing a loud explosion but it has not been confirmed whether the man was killed by military bullets this comes just one week after israel carried out air strikes on gaza killing five and injuring dozens more.

sanctions have been lifted against libya's banks to try and lessen the country's cash crisis u.n. security council move was followed by america removing most of its restrictions against tripoli they were imposed on his regime in february at the start of the uprising that killed more than thirty thousand people dealt a blow to libya's economy and its oil industry. where libya's civil war ended almost two months ago but the aftershocks still resonate nationwide as r.t. reports on live aid wants to weather this killing was a war crime the speculation of who could be held accountable. also on our website the world trade organization welcomes russia into the fold to explore what that might mean at home and abroad you can find out more at r.t. dot com.

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that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster. had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spread of. more than hundred thousand people. in the sea. five hundred dollars. unpunished.

with bradley manning's annoyance demanding the office seeing his case step aside they claim his other role investigating the whistle blowing web sites found makes him biased running is accused of releasing secret military and diplomatic data to wiki leaks and made his first public appearance since being detained for a year and a home forget the army private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which he eventually pasta with either and of aiding the enemy could face life in prison if convicted former cia officer ray mcgovern says that if bradley manning did anything it was to reveal abuses the american people needed to know about. these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s.

personnel or those who cooperate with the united states what's the damages is the revelation of things that the merkin people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mails he indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and a debate and some reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the attack so there are gradations of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others assigned before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endangered the national security but the supreme value there is what ethicists call a supervening value and that's what bradley manning saw he saw the torture he saw the other abuses he saw the feckless war and he said i can go back and keep my mouth shut like my superiors say or i can follow my conscience at great peril to

myself and this is very clear in his e-mails a great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions. when next we head to one of russia's most unstable regions and the battle to stop the young forming prey to terrorists. the bad news. rushes headlines almost every day with reports of exchanges of foreign explosions eighty percent of war and terror operations in russia curried out in the troubled republic. reports efforts are also being made to wipe out radicalism at its roots. the caucasian republic of dagestan in russia is one of the most volatile areas in the country groups of militants operating in this part of the caucasus are reported to have strong links with al

look to draw people in when they're young and to tell rays are constantly carried out in a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has often ruined of the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also fought to piece their lives back together i had it turns to spend a day with. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a called mr winter morning in the speed line a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts to ring right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organization created four years ago and now known across the region to d.c. to the outskirts of the capital

a single mother of four lives her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children sit on the brings food clothes and talks to her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten. should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in is there a need to come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago i was in the same. in position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and lost valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. with that he won't even knew then what i know today my rights the right people i could have saved him i could have found out where he was have done something. to plan a son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still doesn't know these accusations are common in this region young and

immature people often become the victims of terrorist brainwashing high unemployment also boasts this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial or social prospects and see going into the forest at use them as one for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mariam and it cost her her life she had a difficult childhood was raised without a father and her mother couldn't provide for the family her mother her normal remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that order a truce i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real new so when we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends who were. her new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several

months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these doubly skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region the terrorist led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan how big. really just the rez you can lies this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is

a simply bandits from an dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. locals want the rule of law enforced and restocked is again a return to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question r.c. close up in the republic of dagestan. now there's been an insurgent attack against a police station in the afghan capital where one's been hurts but it's the latest in a string of assaults with the taliban has been mounting across the country in recent months nato says it's confident it's making progress in the war but artie's manager contributor thinks they need a reality check. the pentagon chief addressing the u.s. forces at the forward operating base sharon impacted her province afghanistan made a very unusual statement he opened up claiming you ass is winning in afghanistan

and here repped out he is sure to address by admitting that we have not won in this conflict the only panetta has managed to make a very big time disservice to the u.s. commander in chief effectively distracting and postponing their realistic risk assessment of the situation only ground in afghanistan and across the border until the white house we'll take your reality check despite a no due to their false assessment coming from their former cia and current pentagon chief their white house after going to him we'll be doomed to do more of the same expecting some dramatic and realistic results to the detriment of the us image being paid by the us military blood and the us taxpayers money. now the internet was built on

a backbone no open freedom for all the use it but annoy and coping online piracy being debated by us congress is being seen as a smokescreen to stifle free speech weapons program that aaron swartz says it has nothing to do with copyright protection. the government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial the find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement but turn out to be licensed in one way or another part of this is a larger crackdown on freedom of speech there's pretty much no other law that would give the government the power to censor the internet that wouldn't be laughed out of congress you know if you said the government needed to censor the internet to protect national security it would be widely seen in america is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale but by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with a whole range of other things one of the interesting provisions in this law is it

doesn't just shut down websites it also increases the penalties for people caught in gauging and copyright infringement so for example if you make a video on you tube of yourself singing and copyrighted song this bill would increase the penalty to that to ten years in jail so there's all sorts of people who do these things that would just be considered part of natural life as a teenager that now are facing huge felony charges as a result of this law. freedom of speech often means having to be more savvy when it comes to filtering the facts seen mainstream news and we often a snow case from people in new york about whether they're tired of being could put it since. are you sick of the media being biased this week let's talk about that do you feel like the media's biased sure they are just going to pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one around one no. you're going to listen to them

all and make up your own mark when do you case very politically is pol pot government is in power i can't. see things on the media i absolutely do think it's important for the noose a try to be on bias but unfortunately everybody brings their own slant to their reporting i don't think it's avoidable even though it's desirable obvious puzzle for anybody so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because the professionals usually journalists with a job but they're still human well they have a lot of stuff you either read or the news is untrue and a lot of it isn't that a shame that the news would be untrue. but the thing is it sells papers and it sells news and people watch it people watch the channels that bother you no not at all just the way they were. believe what you want to believe do you think it would help people be more informed if news organizations admitted their bias.

i think sober people wouldn't believe them and then they'd turn to whoever was biased anyway because a lot of people that think the some channels are fair and balanced other channels aren't leaning in any direction well i mean i think we all know that's not true right we all this into the news every single day and we all hear the ridiculousness on both sides yeah but i think fox particularly will report both sides in both views and they have people of opposing views on very frequently so you don't think they're biased that i think they themselves in my b.s. when i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good service to fox news they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it all they do i think and i think some know what they're fair and balanced they say orders and each person could be these experts a community individual has his own personal bias you can't get away from that maybe instead of demanding our media be less biased we just start demanding they admit

their bias and maybe that will at least be accountable for the opinion they report . coming up the russian boxing heavyweight will soon get the balance he's been waiting for the punch. that can he's ready to unleash his power against. an epic battle sports has more about that in about twenty minutes. before than moscow out serves up a special course for adventurous foodies that's just it.

twenty years ago this country. where did it take them.

in two thousand and ten especially economic zone for industrial production was established in russia's somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property land and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of employees some are region as he said is currently witnessing a sewage infrastructure construction the somalia region special economic zone promises exceptional opportunity.