live from moscow this saturday night you're watching r t it's ten pm here now money kevin and first it's exactly year now 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 in the middle east with regimes falling and talk of democracy rising but even after elections in june is here calls for change still remains strong there to this day as a teaser when it as be 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 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. 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 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 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 they're going to 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 and the only things that changed you can now express our opinion but the rouge is main goals haven't been accomplished. the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe on a slow burn for 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 one of the countries to follow in chile is these footsteps was of course egypt and discontent there rumbles on too with more clashes between protesters and police indeed in the latest flare up of violence at least nine people were killed and hundreds injured gyptian one the military council to step down immediately despite

parliamentary elections being under way as what a yaakov lap and he's a reporter for the jerusalem post who told me the army is extremely reluctant to give up its power though. they're a symptom of a wider power struggle that's taking place between the military and the islamist led parliament the new parliament that's been elected that's being elected in phases i think that the military is very frightened of the prospect of an egypt that would be led by islamist political parties they're worried about security they're worried about the economy what this could do to tourism and they're very reluctant they've got used to being in power for many many years since the fifty's i think they're very reluctant to let go of that power i don't think that there actually has been a revolution yet i think that what's happened is that the figurehead of the military regime has been deposed very dramatically certainly that's a hugely significant event it's an earthquake but i thought i would define a revolution as the ousting of the elites from power and i think that the elites in

egypt which which are the military i think they're still in power and once the military is gone from power fully gone from power then i think we can describe what we're seeing in egypt as a revolution until then well i think these two sides are stuck in their current position fighting it out through a range of ways and one of these ways is street battles between the military security forces and the people so i think it's going to be unpredictable violent in some cases and it's also going to damage egypt's ability to maintain law and order on its streets the arab league says it will give syria until wednesday to let in observers or it will consider turning to the u.n. 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 of it changed but moscow insisted strong up a balanced approach to solving the crisis now the draft condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stall while ruling out foreign intervention in sanctions washington wants the blame for the bloodshed put on the

damascus authorities alone it also won't acknowledge that the opposition is armed despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime but asia times correspondent pepe escobar things western countries are looking to soften up the country before making the 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 un figures about 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 no one hundred that the effect so there is the father 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 you when peacekeeping mission in fact to sort of 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 thoughts are pepe escobar coming up in the program still some views bravery or betrayal will find out the latest about the u.s. army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistleblower web site wiki leaks but the support says singh is a hero not a traitor and. there it goes as a russian built rocket successfully launches from the european spaceport in french guy look at what this journey to the stars is going to mean for the rest of the world. authorities in kazakhstan say they've restored peace in

a western oil town where riots some friday left at least eleven people dead the unrest was started by a group of striking or workers during state celebrations marking twenty years of independence local journalist touch on me not told r.t. what happened. oh workers and generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is treasury notes but the reemerged in full force yesterday the senate was deliberating its twentieth anniversary so there was a big date and instead of a concert and a celebration there was a riot and people killed people who were on the video those people they're all dressed in clothes and the guys uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike two uniformed you know and they were you moving into organized packs but it looks like the. oil workers are there anyway whether they're demanding wages or they're being led by somebody they're taking part. since they were just

crushing things around. and there were behaving too organized and they weren't attacking authorities at least until the police came in so it looked like there's you know prosecution said this is all just hooligans who started and led the crowd and the crowd was sort of further hit out it looks like chris this is being led from down so this could be external forces like other countries intelligence or this could be. sort of local forces who are interesting or thrown in to go in and changing the regime and this is television there is said to be very calm and stable now where the square nobody is raging in more so the internet connection and all years and years and everything it is it falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented a new york or trolled around did support the hijackers behind the nine eleven terror attacks the lawsuit was filed by some of the victims' families but the

hearing was settled by default because the accused including iran's supreme leader didn't appear in court prefer support show them food from california state university told me it's part of a campaign he thinks to be minimized around. this is what we call a kangaroo court in america this is totally outrageous its allies by the american government if we want to look for blame we can start with saudi arabia where most of the hijackers came from having lived and worked in arab countries i can tell you there is no way that the arab government did not know what was going on in saudi arabia we could look to germany where many of them lived we could look at american flight schools we could look at f.b.i. agents reported disappear ears and secures did nothing but a iran has no involvement in this whatsoever know that a neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and build up to it war and unfortunately the average american voter knows so little we know

congresswoman michele bachmann a couple weeks ago was able to say that she would close the american embassy and bring home the ambassador and staff and that wasn't subjected to great ridicule every american i've talked to so far doesn't know anything wrong with that statement right after nine eleven i was shocked that the iranian leadership said they would permit american military to use their airspace to attack afghanistan that they would help any downed pilots they that they would help supply anything else they bent over backwards to help america beyond belief that iranian journalists had been murdered by the taliban there was no love lost between the taliban and the iranians. u.s. military courts open pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning by rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer should step down they claim is the role investigating the founder of wiki leaks therefore makes him biased private manning who served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad's accused of leaking

classified military and diplomatic data to the whistleblower web site he's already been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even the death sentence if guilty former cia officer read mcgovern says the american people did need to know about alleged abuses carried out by the us 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 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-mails see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and debate and sort of consideration 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 and lighten decisions a website. resource a great way to keep in touch and not need to be there tonight another chance the supreme court in london agrees to hear the wiki leaks founder is appeal against his extradition to sweden to face questioning over the rape allegations the story yesterday we want to get more of its online also a regular security check at a moscow airport revealed radioactive substances in the suitcase with

a report suggesting it was the radium citizen involved together got the lowdown of r.t. dot com. russia's own national interests will guide its actions on the global arena president medvedev spelled out the country's priorities in view of the recent rift with the united states over its missile defense shield in europe which moscow says poses a threat to its security when washington failed to give britain assurances that the shield is not aimed at russia then deployed a radar system on its western most border. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete shrink never friendly relations we have if we are not being heard we will answer 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. in the wake of protests against this month's election results which have been held across russia the president said he saw and heard people's concerns but he said political changes in the country should be started from within and never be a result of outside pressure one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with a turnout of some one and a half thousand supporters of the yabloko party which didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the duma moscow's bolotnaya square where they gathered became the focal point you may recall of the protests last week when tens of thousands converged to voice their dissatisfaction with the poll results on our web site r.t. dot com you can find full analysis if you'd like to over all the post-election events you got it covered the view an exclusive video photo galleries and much more to. ten pm moscow time it more news tonight flash floods triggered by an unexpected tropical storm and killed over four hundred people in the southern philippines with scores more missing tonight twelve hours of pounding rain caused

rivers to burst their banks many were asleep when the floodwaters swept through towns overnight tens of thousands of now have sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces. israeli soldiers are killed one palestinian civilian injured two others on the border with gaza a military pretrial reportedly opened fire after hearing a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity garza's retaliated by launching rockets into israel no casualties have been reported. the united nations has released the assets of two libyan banks in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles but will now allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier on this year on banks fully controlled by the ousted leader colonel moammar gadhafi the libyan economy suffered significantly after the uprising would topple gadhafi regime the lucrative oil industry virtually grinding to a halt. a new zealand aircraft has come to the aid of

a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded in antarctic ice for two days now the flight delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew of thirty to try to pump out water that had been leaking into the hull the ship called the spot has been hold about one and a half meters below the water line and crew members had to ditch cargo to try to reduce the ship's weight to bring that water line up rescuers say if they succeed the vessel could be repaired a neighbor would fall into say that of trouble. one of russia's so used rockets to successfully blasted off from less familiar soil as it carried french chilean spies satellites into orbit from a launch pad in french french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on earth while the chilly in the sky will be merely used for mapping farmland it's only the second time the russian rockets launched from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also from french guiana after america's space shuttle program was shut down soyuz now remains the only means of taking

people and satellites into space. it's been a bedrock of free speech throughout the world but now those principles which have helped define the internet could be under threat with a bill aimed at cutting online piracy being debated by the u.s. congress i spoke to into the activist aaron swartz who told me the move could end up 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 the find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement 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 youtube of yourself singing a 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. will freedom of speech often means that in much of the mainstream media there's a lack of fidelity to the facts laurie often a story resident in new york people there with a touch of a one sided view the. 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 you just go to pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one around one no. you're going to listen to them all and make up your own wife 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 noose a try to be on bias but unfortunately everybody brings their own slant to their reporting i don't think it's avoidable even though it's desirable obvious puzzle for anybody beyond bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because the professionals usually journalists has a job but they're still human. well they have a lot of stuff you either read or the news is untrue and a lot of it to a lot of it isn't that a shame 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 they don't think they're biased that i think they themselves they may be you know slant but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. and there's no good service. but that's ok they should just admit it and they do i think now i think some of you know what they're fair and balanced they say orders and each person keeping these experts

they come in 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. but my father wells countrymen on the streets of new york there this edition now 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. dug a star and here it is on the map often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards is sometimes blamed as root causes which help things militancy that he's going to report. 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 exalt 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 fronted piece their lives back together i had a 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 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 sitting on a 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 bubble 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 most of these women don't know their rights or who do 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 lost a 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 a good have die. something you should learn

a song 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. proust i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real new slang 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 terrorist led by dog out of whose russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists wants 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 precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising most. 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 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 marginal question archie calls up in the republic of dagestan changing times not a few minutes so you can cope with this some some more travels we head to the far north west of russia this time what more did see the learning they say with the landscape for the forest to an ancient city favorite. say the other exploration of novgorod region very shortly after reminder of our top stories here on our team

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