think. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. 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 but even after elections internet calls of the change remain strong as assays that in english has been finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public frie over corruption and poverty which led to the ouster of 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 visited there's

a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and they're going to. 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 they're all in the new government but the simple folk are left with nothing. if 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. but the new government is comprised of the elderly and 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 decision evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country more than africa read. a

year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the changes they have asked or have actually taken place. everything is still as it used to be the actions have come and gone and the town has changes unemployment is still the same it's not the only things that changed you can express our opinion but the rouge is mean girls 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 is good for mean so with the people's inspiration to revolt against it in those carty city was in tunisia now the arab league says it will give syria until wednesday to lessen observers or it will consider turning to the un security council for action it comes as moscow speaking up for its un resolution on syria in the face of attempts by the u.s. and its allies to see the text change but moscow insists it's drawn up about its approach to solving the crisis the draw five in the ongoing conflict calling for

the violence to stop ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions washington wants the blame for the bloodshed puts on the damascus or forces alone it also won't acknowledge that the opposition's arm despite thousands of violent effectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime asia times columnist pepe escobar thinks western countries are looking at to soften up the country before making a move. but since her state is what the u.s. and nato countries consider and accept and 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 and in jordan as well this has been already proved then about the un figures you lot of people are seriously questioning this number saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost one 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's a preemptive i would say resolution it condemns both sides and asks for a u.n. peacekeeping mission in fact to stop the drop 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 and more clashes between protesters and police have broken out in egypt and the latest violence at least eight people were killed and hundreds injured egyptians will the minute you counsel to step down and mediately despite parliamentary elections being on the way let's cross live now to cairo and talk to buy and sell a few more i mean thanks for joining us here in austin is this sunday now the situation has a familiar ring to it doesn't it how likely or how long possibly do you think

before people go to tire square again. the situation is very fluid we are having again as a war of attrition against the revolutionaries something very similar to what had happened on november nineteenth when the protesters were attacked. and then withdrawal and then another way which was really very brutal into the square on the twenty s and then back and then clashes that continued all around the clock for six days minus ninety minutes now we are having another of another war of attrition as we have here from a military intelligence person that we have managed to capture last night who had confessed that they have instructions to kill whoever that they can kill and disable most of the revolutionaries that they can reach and to clear the square . this is something that of course is not going to be accepted by the

revolutionaries we are still trying to take back the square and we are still trying to continue with the revolution against the military rule now that is intervention itself into power and let's talk about the timing of why a protest is doing this now when elections transition of power from the military are under way. we haven't chosen the time they chose the time and i believe that they have chosen this time particularly because of the widespread irregularities which happened in this particular phase of the election this particular phase of the election we have seen over three hundred judges being beaten up by military police which is very scandalous we have seen lots of other irregularities so in order to cover up for this and also to put. you know a blow to the revolution as the believe they have been using excessive force using live ammunition using. tools not the gases this time perhaps they didn't get the

big supplies of gas here. but during the battle we had forbidden chemical gases as well the situation is very tense let's look ahead to those elections islamised party seemed to be steaming ahead in the polls all people they're hoping that this will finally bring some sense of peace and stability to the country hopeful that that is a possibility. about the landslide winning of the islamists in the elections this is not a measure of anything first the people that we're led to believe that they will pay a fine of five hundred pounds if they don't go they wanted to change this terrible situation anyway so they're just trying whatever was in their power and they have had a very short time to get to know the candidates i was a candidate myself and i was drew before the elections two days before the elections because in a very short time in a normal than a week i'm supposed to cover five times the area of my constituency because it was

multiplied by five and five times the population how can i reach to a million people or so in my constituency within this very short time when the media also that we have is extremely controlled i am not a millionaire so it's possible this is the case everybody was not an islamist well who would you suggest then is as the potential winners in this election if you don't know the military or the islam that is offering an effective way for ways. who said that this is of this sort of that that is. effective way forward we have not yet achieved the goals of the revolution the revolution to. downfall of the regime to establishing a democratic state where freedom justice fairness. equality prevailing and these are goals that we have not yet achieved at all we are still fighting for this we

are still fighting to overthrow the regime which is still existence and is still making terrible crimes we are still trying to establish the democracy that we want . on the demands that we are demanding that there would have to be true revolutionary government or a government that is going to do a real so vision of this country that will create a government that the skaf must surrender their power and must handed over to a civilian presidential council so we can start with a new constitution we can start with purging the security from those criminals. trying to all the time to use every possible way for corruption and getting money. etc etc etc so we are still fighting to establish my family at basic good naturedly committee for the defense of the revolution many have speak to us. so it's come on the program a real battle for the way we look at how a new mate the u.s.

congress could tell the whole world of media and shake the fundamental principles of free speech on the games. as a russian built rocket successfully launches from the european space in french guyana we want this journey to the stars means for the. now authorities in kazakstan say they've restored peace in a western oil where riots on friday that at least eleven. people dead they all rest began during celebrations marking twenty years in the country one is independence and the soviet union local journalists a gallant has that told off what happened. 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't watch videos on you tube people can't reach each other on cell phones. now in new york court has ruled that a run did support the hijackers behind the nine eleven terror attacks the whole thing was found by some of the victims' families but the herring was settled by default because the accused including iran's supreme leader did not appear in court so i present the u.k. based our boys association says u.s. courts up their size and playing a part in

a smear campaign against iran. the usa courts if it accepts to hold a trial in the absence of the accused it would be violating all norms of justice anywhere including what the u.s. law requires the usa is trying to extricate itself from iraq and afghanistan i don't think it is in a position to go into another country and iran is three times as big as iraq well i think there are plans in into that direction but i think i don't think the usa at the present moment is capable of doing that i don't think it has the force to do that or the economy but i think the western powers at the present moment using a number of issues the policy thing so they would talk about nuclear power in iran but they wouldn't talk about the nuclear power in israel and when it comes to the war on terror war on terror depends on who is the friend of the west the country

which is friendly to the western countries it doesn't support terrorism according to them countries which opposed to western policies are always accused of supporting terrorism so it depends on which side of the fence one stands to decide how u.s. military court has a print pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning by rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer step down they claim is all the role investigating the founder of wiki leaks makes him biased private manning who served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is he's of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web site here already been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even at that sentence if found guilty for when cia officer ray mcgovern says the american people need to know about him to pieces carried out by the u.s. army. these charges are greatly overwrought.

gates this 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-mails see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and a debate and so reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed he affects so there are agreed ation 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 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 at great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions. now remember you can also keep your fingers on the pulse of the news with r.t. dot com online right now for you and number two the supreme court and the longer they stay here the wiki leaks founder is appeal against his extradition to sweden to face questioning over rape allegations. and a regular security check of the moscow airport reveals radioactive substances in a suitcase with reports suggesting it was an iranian system involved find out before details of altoona dot com. russia's a national interest will guide its actions on the global arena president medvedev spelled out the country's priorities in view of the recent rift with the u.s.

on its missile defense shield in europe which moscow says poses a threat to its security and washington failed to give written assurances that the shield is not saying that russia put a radar system on its western most border when it goes into the music we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think whatever friendly relations we have if we are not being heard we will answer go to that's what i had to do it wasn't against obama but against the policy that the us has adopted if they continue to be rude we will respond if they hear our concerns we will work together. now in the wake of protests against this month's election results which have been held across russia the president said he saw and heard the people's concerns but he's their political changes in the country should be started from within and never be a result of outside pressure one such rally wrapped up moscow on saturday with

a turnout of some one of the half thousand supporters of the gap like a party which didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the state duma moscow is square where they gathered became the focal point of protest last week when tens of thousands converged to voice their dissatisfaction with the poll results on our website. r.t. dot com you'll find full analysis of all the post-election about studio on police use of videos photo galleries and much more. going to check out some other world news in brief this hour flash floods triggered by an unexpected storm have killed over four hundred people in the southern philippines with scores more missing twelve hours of pounding rain cause rivers to burst their banks many were asleep when the floodwaters swept through towns and even night tens of thousands of sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces. israeli soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian and injured two others on the border with gaza

a minute you patrol reportedly opened fire after hearing a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity garza has retaliated by launching rockets into israel they no casualties are reported. the united nations has released the assets of two would be the banks in efforts to ease the country's financial troubles that will allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier this year on banks formally controlled by the ousted leader colonel moammar gadhafi the libyan economy suffered significant rise in the toppled gadhafi is regime with the lucrative oil industry virtually grinding to a halt. in new zealand crafters come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded in and arctic ice for two days the fly delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew thirty to pump out water which had been leaking into the hole this ship called spotter has been the hold

about one half metres below the waterline the crew members had to ditch cargo to reduce the ship's weight rescuers say if they succeed the vessel could be repaired enabling the trawler to sail out of trouble. now 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 for the bill aimed at cutting online piracy being debated by the u.s. congress instead activists aaron swartz says the moves could end up with the web falling into government towns. 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. now one of russia's soyuz rockets has successfully blasted off from less familiar soil as it carried french and chilean spy satellites into orbit from the launch pad in french guy on the french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets while the chilean eyes in the sky will mainly be used for mapping

farmland it's only the second time a russian rocket has more from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also in french guyana after american space shuttle program was shut down remains the only means of taking people and satellites into space. up next we head to toe one of russia's most restive republics and find out about the battle to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists. dr stan often that makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as root causes which help feed militancy he's busy the court has. 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 affected 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 swede 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 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 we come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who 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 the could have been used to rescue. or that they shouldn'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. when you and your. 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 and 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. at first i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real nuisance and 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 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 has become really just a resident lice 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 and to such as fight a younger generation still if anyone told me thirty years ago that 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 might in the question are to close up in the republic of dagestan. now if you have a poet who by their cash for pricey computers software all spotlight program his reform or programmer he says we should now be getting it for free fall to the headlines up next.

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