very warm welcome to you this is our 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 spark 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 in tunisia a call for change remain strong there was artie's and 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 hour syria's 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 the people haven't got money thing those who came from abroad and reaped all the benefits their role in the new government because simple folk are left with nothing. in the new genre 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 but. the western media has hailed the decision evolution as the beginning of

a new democratic chapter in the history of the country and northern africa 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 their actions have come and gone and the town hasn't changed 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 with the people's inspiration to revolt again it goes carty city was it tunisia. well 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 underway what it said do a little bit further into all this now cause live to jerusalem and talk to

journalists many of those 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 highest square. yes i think so i think it's very likely will see more demonstrations to come because. the causes that triggered the demonstrations have sort of been resolved and you know we're very likely can friday to to see more demonstrations and in the weeks to come and probably in the 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 to nation and they've shown every sign of clinging desperately on to power so they may well find new ruses to to remain in ultimate control of the country. and as for the immediate step there 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 of 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 what you mention is the mis policies that let's talk about them now

they are 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 forerunner at the moment in elections is the freedom and justice party or the freedom just parties coalition which is. the same suggests it's. a democratic coalition and it's not just made up of islamists 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 in that coalition too 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. at the moment it looks unlikely that so-called extremist islamist government will take control in egypt and i can have

a journalist so many that speak to us live from jerusalem. now 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 of already low it also a way to knowledge that the opposition is despite thousands of army defectors claimed to be five deplane down the regime a few times columnist pepe escobar things western countries are looking to soften up the country before making a move. but since your 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 i mean jordan as well this has been already proved then about the un figures about a lot of people are seriously question this number saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost all of the hundred that the 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 though this way as a friend you for something much tougher had probably after the american elections in one year tops calm has a real battle for the web 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. as a russian rocket successfully launches from the european space post here guyana we look at want this space to the while. authorities in catholic stand say they've restored peace in a western oil town where riots on friday left at least ten people that. began during fan abrasions marking twenty the counting one is dependence from the something union local genocide gallon cast that told. 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 the 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 also szell 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 hijackers behind the nine eleven terror attack in the north with all by some of the victims' families but the hearing was 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 and action 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 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. a u.s. military court has opened pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower 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 for private manning ease served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistleblower website he has already been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even a death sentence if found guilty former cia officer ray mcgovern says the american people did need to know about the alleged abuses carried out by the u.s. army. 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 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 are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effect so there are agreed ation of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others signed before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endanger the national security with 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. but you can also keep your fingers on the pulse of the news with doc home on line right now you know that sean's the supreme court in long agrees to hear the with news founders appeal against the traditions of sweden to face questioning over the rate allegations. under regular security check at a moscow airport reveals radioactive substances in a suitcase with reports suggesting it was on a rainy in citizen involved find out the full details of some 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 other equipment to help the crew of thirty to pump out water

which have been leaking into the hole the ship called sponsor has been the hold with one in the hole meters below the waterline and crewmembers had to ditch congo to decrease the ship's weight rescuers say if they succeed the vessel could be repaired in a day in the tula to sail out troubled. time out seconds while the world news this hour flash floods triggered by an onyx 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 a military patrol reportedly opened fire off the head of a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist

activity gaza has retaliated by launching rockets into israel though no casualties are reported. 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 looking government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier this year on balance coolly controlled by the ousted leader little more than the libyan economy suffered significantly after the uprising that toppled down. with the lucrative oil industry the virtual grinder to hold. a rally against this month's parliamentary election has wrapped up in moscow with the turnout of so one of the home office files and people. have had to gather about ten thousand almost gave a lot nicer where their supporters of the applique a party would didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the duma the square became the focal point for protests last week when tens of

thousands of birds to release their dissatisfaction with the poll results on our web site r.t. dot com you can find full analysis of the pace and action and then. for exclusive videos that go to galleries and much more. it's been a bedrock of free speech throughout the world but now those principles which have helped to find the internet could be under threat with the bill ended causing online piracy being debated by the u.s. congress internet activists aaron 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 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 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 people

that whether they're tied to one sided view 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 around one know. you're going to listen to them all or make up your own why do you k.'s very political party is the government is in power but 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 to be on 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 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 there might be

a slant 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 all they do i think and i think some know what they're fair and balanced they say borders and each person to 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 opinion they report. now one of russia's rockets how successful that all for less than a million soil is it carried french and chilean spy satellites into orbit from a launch pad in french guy on the front observation stations will be gathering in the train telegin so providing three d. images of targets on the wall the chilian on the sky will mainly be used for math.

it's only the second time a russian rocket has launched from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also profile off the america's space shuttle program was shot down soyuz remains the only means of take people 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 after makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards the sometimes blamed as root causes which help feeds militancy do the courts or has. the caucasian republic of dagestan insulted 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 until 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 pointing for victims' rights and helping those affected piece 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 called mr winter morning in march gone straight 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 organisation created four years ago and now known across the region

today cyclone is heading 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 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 trouble should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation the. erin if they were in need we come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who do to help three years ago so atlanta 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. 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. 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 her normal 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 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 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 dudley's skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region the terrorist led by dog out of who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of. because most wanted terrorists want to establish upon caucasian islam a state. in the last decade parts of dagestan 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 and sure thousand 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 four 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 it. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respect is again a return to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many might in the question r.t. close up in the republic of dagestan. and will be serving up a special course the adventurous foodies before that i'll bring your recap of the top stories this hour in just a moment stay with us. now

i hear it all saying aides say yeah and it's miserable but the president gave the arab spring a false move for her in the middle east but people complained that even after elections will change in their own country. because it says its western oil town is back on the console all to riots left at least ten feet from the on rest began adjourned celebrations marking twenty is the central asian country one in japan.