they started the avalanche but. gave life to the arab spring people say change in their own country is yet to come. because xander says its western oil town is back on the control after independence day riots left at least ten people dead in the central asian country. and guilty as charged a new poll finds that around supremely did did to help the terrorists behind the nine eleven attacks its critics saying it's part of a smear campaign paving the way for a new. very

warm welcome to you this is all live from moscow now is exactly a year since the first flashpoint and subsequent street protests which led to the overthrow of president ben ali in tunisia they provided the spog for the spread of the arab spring across north africa and the middle east with regimes falling and talk of democracy rising well even after the elections into newsy a call for change remains strong there is. now reports. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself of fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia alyson 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 and his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. we've asked for

a very few things to upgrade the school to meet families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to us the people haven't got money thing those who came from abroad 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 youth according to some has been silenced. like the new government is comprised of the elderly that shows what kind of need 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 that there is an evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country or the african region a year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the soldiers they

have asked for absolutely can place their. everything is still as it used to be the actions have come and gone and the town hasn't seen any changes unemployment is still the same if not worse the only things that changed you can now express our opinion but the relations main goals haven't been accomplished that were the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe on a slow burn from now on but if the grievances which is parted for mean so will the people's inspiration to revolt again it even goes carty city was. tunisia. public discontent in egypt has led to clashes with police in which at least eight people were killed and hundreds injured egyptians on the military council to step down immediately about this by parliamentary elections and now being under way what is so little bit further into all this now cause live to jerusalem talk to journalists many of those who are joining us here on r.t. these clashes now are continuing into a second day do you think that there will likely see mass protests like the ones

that we saw on the square. yes i think so i think it's very likely we'll see more demonstrations to come because. the causes that triggered the demonstrations have sort of been resolved and you know we're very likely come friday to to see more demonstrations and in the weeks to come and probably months to come to and people are demanding that the military rule is resign despite the ongoing elections they just don't see progress happening fast enough how likely do you think it is that the army will actually give up power in favor of the new government if they said that they will. work the army's performance to date is not that's encouraging they've shown every sign of progress the nation and they've shown every sign of clinging desperately on

to power so they may well find new ruses to to remain an ultimate control of the country. and as for the immediate step down is a lot of protesters have been demanding for the last few weeks probably highly unlikely but if more protests continue in central egypt do you think the army will listen to them. i hope they will i mean. as i've written before in a number of articles i feel that. my reading of the situation at the moment is that the army is probably the greatest obstacle to freedom democracy in egypt and i know the debate has focused a lot on islamists but i think the army is probably the biggest obstacle that we have to date where you mention is the mis policies that let's talk about them now they all leading in the poll should they win what would it actually mean for the country and well it's very very difficult to say at the

moment because it depends on numerous factors it depends on how much real power the parliament enjoys and what what the eventual final result will be and also what kind of coalitions with emerge because i think one thing that's being overlooked and ignored. in a lot of the debate about islamists is looked at as some sort monolithic force whereas islam and islam ism in egypt and the parties represented are a very very broad church even with individual parties. and how do you think that the rest of the world would react to an extremist muslim government were to come to power inside egypt. well i think it's very it's unlikely that we'll have an extremist muslim country government i mean it depends how you define extremist but the the forerunner at the moment in the elections is

the freedom and justice party or the freedom just parties coalition which is. the same suggests it's. democratic coalition and it's not just made up of islam it's the biggest party in the coalition is is the freedom and justice party which is which is set up by the muslim brotherhood but you have a whole wide range of secular liberal parties and not a coalition two and it's very unlikely that the freedom and justice party will form a coalition and even said it expressed it. openly that they will not form a coalition with the with the salafist extremist islamists they're going to stick with liberal parties so it at the moment it looks unlikely that a so-called extremist islamist government will take control in egypt and i can. many that speaking to us live from jerusalem. russia has been speaking out for its draft u.n. resolution on syria in the face of attempts by the u.s.

and its allies to see the text changed but moscow insists it's drawn up a balanced approach to solving the crisis the drama condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions washington wants the blame for the bloodshed on the damascus all the parties alone it also a weighted knowledge that the opposition is on despite thousands of ami defectors claimed to be five degree down the regime asia times columnist pepe escobar things western countries are looking to soften up the country before making a move. but sensor state 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 ending 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 the hundred that they effect 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 and 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 starts off a real battle for the way of how we deal with debates in the u.s. congress to the whole world of media and say the fundamental principles of free speech on the internet stands.

as a russian rocket successfully launches from the european space post into friends guyana we look at walk in space during the while. authorities in catholic stand say they've restored peace in a western oil town where riots on friday night after at least ten that the on rest began during senate ration marking twenty counting one is dependents from the something union local genocide gallon countenance told. well thirties were staging a concert at the central square but the oil workers on strike took it as an insult they've been on the same square for seven months waiting to be paid after almost a thousand employees were fired in may they've been expecting the authorities to solve their dispute with the company but were largely ignored so the celebrations became a boiling point in the months long wait as you can see on the video they started turning the stage upside down smashing sound monitors the police moved in to clear

the square and that's when the riots began several buildings including local administration a hotel and the oil company were set on fire the strikers were later joined by young people from local gangs and criminal groups or thirty's have imposed a curfew all social networks have been blocked including twitter and facebook you can watch videos on you tube people can reach each other on cell phone this. court has ruled that iran did support the high that is behind the nine eleven terror attack in the north with by some of the victims' families but the hearing with settled by default because the. meeting iran's supreme leader did not appear in court iranian american eyes. the case is part of a larger campaign to prepare for and in the country. 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 temper awed in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. in 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. u.s. mission who would has been pretrial hearings in the case of alleged with bradley manning by rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer step down they claim his all the role investigating the founder of wiki leaks makes him biased all private money. unless in baghdad he's of leaking classified military and diplomatic danger to the whistle blowing web site he has already have been held in detention and nine months in. prison were even at death sentence if found guilty former cia officer ray mcgovern says the american people did not know about me and those to pieces carried out by us all. these charges or 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 damage is is the revelation of things that the american people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mail see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and debate and some consideration of the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effect 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 to lighten decisions. but you can also keep your fingers on the pulse of the news who home online right now you know that sean's the supreme court in long agrees to hear the wiki leaks founders appeal against the traditions of sweden to face questioning over rate allegations. under a regular security check at a moscow airport reveals radioactive substances in a suitcase with reports suggesting it was on a radian citizen involved find out the full details of dot com. a new zealand craft is come to the gate of a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded in. the two days now the flight delivered fuel and author equipment to help the crew pump out water which have been leaking into the hole the ship. has been the holes with one and

a hole meters below the line and crew members had to ditch congo to decrease the ship's weight rescuers say if they succeed the vessel peden aiding the trawler to sail after a couple. time out seconds while the world news this hour flash floods triggered by and on it will storm have killed at least two hundred people in the southern philippines with schools more missing many were asleep when the floodwaters swept through towns during the night officials say tens of thousands of made for higher ground to escape the deluge a rescue operation is now underway. israeli soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian and injured two others on the border with gaza the military patrol reportedly opened fire off the head of a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity gulzar has retaliated by launching rockets into israel though no casualties our forces. you know i should russians has released

a united nations role that has reduced the assets of two libyan banks in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles that. will allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from a rule that sanctions were imposed earlier this year old value schoolie controlled by the ousted leader gadhafi the libyan economy suffered significantly after the uprising that toppled down. with a lucrative oil industry burchinal grinding to hope. a rally against this month's parliamentary election has wrapped up in moscow with a turn out of one of the home office files and people. have had to gather about seven thousand on call most days gotten a square there supporters of the apic a party with didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the diva the square became the focal point of the protest last season and tens of thousands of their dissatisfaction with the poll results on our website dot com and

find full analysis of the pace and action and then it's gone forward scusa videos that grew to galleries and much more. it's been a bedrock of free speech throughout the world but now those principles which of help define the internet could be under threat with a bill aimed at causing online piracy being debated by the u.s. congress instead activists hour and swartz says the move could end with the web falling into government hands. 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 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 that 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 off to means that. mainstream media there is a lack of integrity to the facts and that's all right read into in your own home that whether they're tired of. the need.

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 are wrong one know who is going to listen to them all and make up your own mark when do you case a political 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 possible for anybody beyond bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because they're professionals who journalists there's 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 the 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 watch the channels that bother you no not at all just the way they were out. 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 may be a slant but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there so conservative they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it they do i think i think some know what

they're fair and balanced they say orders and each person should be these experts they come in every individual has his own personal bias you get away from it maybe instead of demanding our media be less biased we just start demanding they admit their bias and maybe that they'll at least be accountable for the opinions they report. now one of russia's only is rockets how successful it all for less than a million soil as it carried french and chilean spies satellites into orbit from a launch pad in french guy on the french observation stations will be gathering in the tree intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on the wall the chilian on the sky will mainly be used to mount. it's only the second time a russian rocket has launched from outside the former union following a similar successful mission last month also friends off to america's space shuttle

program was shut down soyuz remains the only means of take and satellites into space. next we head to one of russia's most restive republics and find out about the battle to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists. well doug makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards sometimes blamed as root causes which helped feed. through the courts. 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 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 go into 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 fucked its peace their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day would speak. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a cold mr winter morning in march gone straight line a sign of as always is first in the office the serene 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 that 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 here probably should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation the. erin is there a need to come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who do to 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 him. 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 good have done something. to tell our 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 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 hung on 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 muslim we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only 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 deadly skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region the terrorist lead by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of ameri. because most wanted terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan how become religiously resident lies this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shoot aus 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 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 it. locals want the rule of law enforced and respect is again and returning to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question archie close up in the republic of dagestan. and he will be serving up a special course adventurous foodies before that i'll bring you a recap of the top stories this hour in just a moment stay with us.