well a very warm welcome to this is r t twenty four hour news and much more our top story now russia is defending its draft u.n. resolution on syria by the u.s. and its allies want the text changed but moscow is confident its join up a balanced approach to solving the crisis the draft condemns all sides in ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while rooting out foreign intervention and sanctions the u.s. once the blame for the bloodshed put on the mask but also went to knowledge that the opposition is armed despite a legion of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime and five thousand civilians of course have been killed in syria since march asia times columnist thinks the west is looking to soften up the country before making its move. what's interesting is what the u.s. and nato countries consider and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government

cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they are 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 u.n. figures lot of people are seriously questioned this number saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost the one hundred that the that so there is the fog of three war is already there so the russian move is an intelligent move because it is a preemptive i would say resolution it condemns both sides in asked for a u.n. peacekeeping mission in fact to sort of draw what nato wants is simmering civil war let's put it this way as a friend you for something much tougher probably after the american election in one year. syrian opposition self titled political leaders holding their first congress

in tunisia but the arab spring revolutions began a year ago is being seen as an attempt to rally support among arab countries to this is newly elected president was at a conference in the country doesn't recognize the syrian national council which is sympathetic with the first anniversary to resist protests which saw the regime topple the elections held but for some there's little to show for the effort is going to the scripts. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public frie over corruption and poverty which led to the 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. 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 gotten anything those who came from broad and reaped all the benefits they're all in the new government but the simple folk are left with nothing. but the tunisian revolution 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 that 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 decision evolution as the beginning of a new democratic in the years throughout the country northern africa region a year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the soldiers they have asked. how absolutely can place they're going to leave everything as simple as

it used to be their actions have come and gone and the tone hasn't changed us unemployment is still the same if not worse with the only things that changed you can now express our opinion but there were lucian's main goals haven't been accomplished that were the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe only a slow burn for no one but if the grievances which inspired it remain so were the people's inspiration to vote again it even goes courting city was it. coming up military vengeance against a soldier's virtues we can excite suspect bradley manning gets to a military hearing supporters saying that deadly day to be eventually revealed should see him decorated instead of discipline. fall into unrest in kazakhstan is left at least ten people dead in a western oil town clashes broke out when independence day celebrations turned violent with police reportedly firing live rounds at the crowd there conflicting reports about how events are developing the interior ministry claims the situation

has calmed down but activists say crowds are gathering again one campaigner in the country told me that it's difficult to establish exactly what's happening because communications with the city all down. to local authorities your nose when we're trying to organize a concert to go. independent in a square where workers already have been demanding the reinstatement was there what month. one didn't like in the early stage the. local authorities believe there's informational blockade so i'm going to. internet. law. but we'll be keeping across how the situation unfolds in kazakhstan and bring

you the latest as we get it. well coming up we focus on that turning teens away from trouble in the restive caucuses. discover what's being done to help young people turn their backs on militant 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 also. by default because the accused which included radio were not in court iran has been ordered to pay damages for how they're going to be collected in some clips tehran has always denied any connection to al qaida iranian american activist thinks the case is part of a smear campaign in the build up 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 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 top raud 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. and more news for you now and. it has boiled over in the egyptian capital clashes between the military and civilian demonstrators of the second day the violence began on friday killing at least seven people more than two hundred wounded troops in the specific three weeks sitting in a test. tamale an urgent end to bit true despite stage two of the phased election being underway. floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern philippines have now killed nearly two hundred people overnight about two thirds of the victims died in. the city worst hit by the disaster officials say the number killed by the floods is likely to rise. machine gun fire on the gaza israel border has left one man dead and two other

people wounded the israeli military said troops opened fire after hearing a loud explosion but it has not been confirmed but if a man was killed by military bullets becomes just a week after israel carried out air strikes on gaza killing five and injuring dozens more. and sanctions have been lifted against libya's banks to try and lessen the country's cash crisis the u.n. security council move was followed by america moving most of its restrictions against tripoli they were imposed on the market of his regime in february at the start of the uprising that killed more than thirty thousand people there was a blow to the there's a colony and it's a battle for the industry. but libya's civil war ended almost two months ago but the aftershocks to resonate nationwide as r.t. reports online the hague wants to let the market off its killing was a war crime into speculation about who could be held accountable. on the website of the world trade organization welcomes russia into the fold to explore

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might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. down the official ante application. from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. question. dot com. the military herring of the wiki leaks suspect has opened with bradley manning's lawyers demanding the officer overseeing his case steps aside they claim his other role investigating whistle blowing web sites found makes him biased but manning is

accused of releasing secret military and diplomatic data to weaken thanks and made his first public appearance since being detained for you know half of it the army private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually passed to wiki leaks and the aiding the enemy could face life in prison if convicted antiwar activist brownback says manning will be considered a hero for his sacrifices in reading the truth. i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand and is obviously willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but

by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged and. next we head to one of russia's most unstable regions in the battle to stop the young falling prey to terrorists. doug stanhope is in russia's headlines almost every day with reports of exchanges

of foreign explosions eighty percent of the terror operations in russia carried out in the troubled of public spending the question of 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 qaida look to draw the 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 warned of the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also affected piece their lives back together i had it turns to spend the 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 today's headline is heading to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives that her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children will 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 your brother should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who can help three years ago said lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and most valuable time that could have

been used to rescue. or that they shouldn't if i 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. 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 boast this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial or social prospects and see going into the forest 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 honeymoon remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very

religious people that never figured out a truce i said there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real new slang were going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends. 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 tarus lead 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 pakistan has become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of russia's 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 turn. into 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 am dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago their life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many i do not question articles up in the republic of dagestan. there's been an insurgent attack against a police station in the afghan capital no one was hurt but it's the latest in

a string of assaults which 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 military contributor thinks they need a reality check. the pentagon chief addressing the u.s. forces at the forward operating base sharon our impact your province afghanistan made a very unusual statement he opened up claiming there is winning in afghanistan and here wrapped up he's sure to address by admitting that we have not won in this conflict panetta has managed to make a very big do service to the u.s. commander in chief effectively distracting and postponing their realistic risk assessment of the situation on the ground in afghanistan and across its border until the white house take your reality check despite a no due to the false assessment coming from the former cia and current pentagon

chief their white house after going team will be doomed to do more of the same expecting some dramatic on realistic results to the detriment of the u.s. image being paid by the us military and the u.s. taxpayers money. and new zealand aircraft has delivered aid to a russian fishing vessel that's been stuck in ice in antarctica for two days the flight delivered fuel and a pump to help the crew of thirty to get rid of the water which is leaking in a ship called spotter has a hole about one and a half meters below the waterline and crew members have been ditching cargo to decrease the ship's weight that's going to say they manage that vessel pead and they bring the trainer to send out of trouble. the internets was built on a backbone of freedom for all who use it but a lot aimed at having online piracy being debated by the u.s.

congress is being seen as a smokescreen to stifle free speech internet activist and swartz says it has little 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 to 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 that 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. but freedom of speech often means having to be more savvy when it comes to filtering the facts in mainstream yes but how often this is from people in new york about whether the time being could bulletins. 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 the discredit pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one around one know. you're going to listen to them all or make up your own when do you case a political party is it government is in power but i can't. see things on the media i absolutely do think it's important for the new sutra 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 possible for anybody to be on bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because they're professionals who journalists this is 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 a television 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 have to channel that bother you no not at all just the way the world. 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 whoever was biased anyway there's 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 they might be yes client but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good service they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it or they do i think now i think some of you know if they're fair and balanced they say orders a nice person keeping these experts a comedian every 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 bad at least be accountable for the opinion they report . a

russian built rocket has successfully from the european spaceport in french guiana taking with it a payload of mostly spy satellites for france but one of the civilian uses though is that the satellites will provide high resolution three d. color images of the earth also on board as a chilean in the sky which will be used for mapping farmlands it's only the second time a russian rocket has blasted off from outside former soviet countries putting a similar successful mission last month also in french guiana earlier this year an unmanned russian cargo ship fell to work just five minutes after takeoff. but i'll be bringing you a recap of today's headlines in just a few minutes. thank you.

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trying. to leave. it at that time for the the main stories we're covering today herit out a piece draft under fire bosco holds back a western push to amend its un roadmap on solving the syrian crisis which calls on all sides of the conflict and they don't know mr washington why. to blame the bloodshed on damascus while ignoring the armed opposition. oil town anger kills ten in kazakhstan the army moves in striking workers disrupt independence day celebrations still troops fired night grounds and.