thank you. live from moscow you're watching r.t. you're most welcome it's midnight here now one am is cover now in our top story it is exactly 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 the middle east with regimes falling and talk of democracy rising but even after elections in choosing a cause for change remain strong there is ever. been falling out more. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself to protest against the authorities in tunisia alyson public story over corruption and poverty which led to the syrian 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 there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia in there with them about we've asked for a very few things to upgrade the school to need families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't gotten anything and those who came from abroad and reaped all the benefits they're all in the new government but with the simple folk are left with nothing. in the tunisian revolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater presentation but the voice of news according to sound has been silenced. chocolate the new government is comprised of the elderly and 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 it was in a village. as the beginning of

a new democratic chapter in the history of the country and the entire northern africa region a year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the things is they have asked for help absolutely can place they're going to everything is still as it used to be but the actions have come and gone and the town has an. unemployment is still the same if not worse the only things that changed you can now express our opinion but the rouge is mean girls have been accomplished. the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe only a slow burn for no one but if the grievances which inspired it will mean so will the peoples inspiration of all together in those courting city was it tunisia one of the countries to follow in chin is your footsteps of course egypt and there's content rumbles on too with more clashes between protesters and police did in the latest flare up of violence at least nine people were killed and hundreds injured gyptian is what the military council to step down immediately despite parliamentary

elections being under way of larkin's a reporter from the jerusalem post to talk with the army's extremely reluctant to give up its power. 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 for we've 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 will consider turning to the un security council for action this 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 changed but moscow insists is jump a balanced approach to solving the crisis the draft condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while ruling out foreign interventions and sanctions washington wants the blame for the bloodshed put on the damascus authority to load it also would acknowledge that the opposition is armed

despite thousands of army defectors claiming now to be fighting to bring down the regime asia times columnist pepe escobar things western countries are looking to soften up the country before making their 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 through the borders in turkey any in 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 the one hundred to be effect so there is defo go for three war is already there so the russian move is an intelligent move because it's a preemptive i would say risen lucia it condemns both sides and asks for

a you went peacekeeping mission in fact to solve the problem what nato wants is simmering civil war let's put it this way as a prelude for something much tougher probably after the american election in one year pepe escobar still to come in the program a soldier's bravery or is it betrayal fun of the latest on the u.s. army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks but the supporters seeing him as a hero not a traitor. a russian built rocket successfully launches from the european spaceport in french guiana we look at what they still need the stars is going to mean for the world. authorities in kazakhstan say they've restored peace now in a western oil town where riots on friday left at least eleven dead the unrest was started by a group of striking oil workers jaring state celebrations marking twenty years of

independence to china because mina is a local journalist and she told r.t. what happened. oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months if this race were even out 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 the old dressed in clothes and the guys uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike but your uniform you know and you're moving into organized packs but it looks like that's all workers are doing in your way whether they're demanding wages while they're being led by somebody that they're taking part. but. since they were just rushing 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

persecution so this is all just really grassroots trying to get and lead the crowd and the crowd was sort of first hit it out it looks like chris this is been let down so this could be external forces like other countries intelligence or this could be. sort of local forces who are interested in or through him to go in and changing the regime and this is usually there is said to be very calm and stable nobody that this square nobody is raging or the internet connection and all years and years and everything it is it falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented. and your court ruled that iran did support the hijackers behind the nine eleven terror attacks the lawsuit was filed by some of the victims' families indeed but the hearing was settled by default because the accused including iran's supreme leader didn't appear in court professor paul sheldon ford from california state university told me that this is part of

a campaign to demonize russia you think demonize a ram rather he thinks. this is what we call a kangaroo court in america this is totally outrageous it's advised 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 live we could look at american flight schools we could look at f.b.i. agents reported disappear ears and secures did nothing. and has no involvement in this whatsoever no the neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and build up that war and unfortunately the average american voter knows so little how he knew 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 taleban 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 his other role investigating the founder of wiki leaks therefore makes him biased problem out of serving as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military 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 found guilty but a former cia officer a mcgovern who says the american people did need to know about 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 by his own e-mails see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and debate and so reconsideration 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 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 a great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions. remember you can also keep it in a web site r.t. dot com there now 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 rape allegations. at a regular security check in a moscow airport revealed radioactive substances in a suit case with reports suggesting it was a rainy and citizen that was involved got more about that too online tonight. russia's own national interest will guided sanctions of the global arena president

medvedev spelled out the country's priorities in view of the recent rift with the u.s. over its missile defense shield in europe which moscow says poses a threat to its security when washington failed to give written assurances that the shield is not aimed at russia moscow deployed a radar system on its western most border. many of those who knew there were to be music we must not going ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think over 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 the here or concerns we will work together. in the wake of protests because this month's election results which were held across russia the president said he saw and heard the people's concerns but he said political changes in the country should be started from within and never be

a result of outside pressure. and one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with a turnout of some one and a half thousand supporters of the party which didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the state duma moscow's bloodline or square where they gathered became the focal point for protests last week to when tens of thousands converged to voice their dissatisfaction with the poll results on our web site r.t. dot com we've got full analysis of all the post-election events also exclusive videos photo galleries and much more for you to. get more news flash floods triggered by an unexpected tropical storm or killed over four hundred people in the southern philippines with scores more missing 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 sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces. israeli soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian injured two others on the border with gaza

a military patrol 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 of no casualties so far reportage. united nations has released the assets of two libyan banks now in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles that said to allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad so actions were imposed earlier this year on banks formally controlled by the ousted leader colonel moammar gadhafi the libyan economy suffered significantly after the uprising that toppled gadhafi regime with the lucrative oil industry virtually grinding to a halt. a new zealand aircraft has come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that stranded in antarctic ice for the last two days the flight delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew of thirty to try to pump out water that's been leaking into the hole the ship called the spotter has been holed about one of the half meters below the water line now the crew members of

a ditch cargo to reduce the ship's weight to try and bring that water line up rescuers say if they succeed the vessel could be repaired trawler to sail out of trouble. for boats two rockets one of russia's soyuz rockets has successfully blasted off less familiar soil as it carried french and chilean spies satellites into orbit from a launch pad in french guyana french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on earth while the chilean technology the eye in the sky will mainly be used they say for mapping farmland it's of the second time the russian rockets launched from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also from french guyana after america's space shuttle program a shut down soyuz 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 help

define the internet could be under threat with a bill aimed at cutting online piracy being debated by the us congress internet activity started schwartz told me the move could end with the web falling into government. 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 but turn out to be licensed in one way or another part of this is a larger crackdown on freedom of speech is 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 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 well freedom of speech means that in much of the mainstream media there's a lack of fidelity to the facts. resident in new york us people there whether that tired of a one sided view of the news. are you sick of the media being biased this week let's talk about that do you feel like the media's biased sure they are the discredit pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one around one 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 new sitra 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 as a lot of the television 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 have to channel that bother you know not at all it's 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 as slant but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no conservative fox truth they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it all they do i think and i think someone else will they're fair and balanced they say reporters and each person people these experts make a me and 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 that they'll at least be accountable for the opinion

they report. more for the rest of the next week next that we had so one of russia's most restive republics to find out about the buckle to stop young people they're falling prey to terrorists. again illustrating where we're going. often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency against on the stability the high unemployment and low living standards or sometimes going to the root causes which help militancy there with the lakers reporters are too smooth in a culture that. the caucasian republic of dagestan in south and 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 or 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 it's 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 called mr winter morning in the swede line a silent as always is first in the office the telephone starts 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's headline is heading to the outskirts of the capital

a single mother of four lives that her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children will sit on the brings food clothes and talks to her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten you're probably should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago so. i 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. that he would 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. good long a 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 markets 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 moose when we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never 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 dug least kerr mischa's 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 wants to establish a panic occasion islamist state. in the last decade parts of the. this time how become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of russia's islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in a 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 fore is a simply bandits from an 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. 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 r.t. close up in the republic of dagestan. just a little after twenty seven minutes past midnight moscow time to meet truce here in about twenty minutes from the latest sport for you the latest from the biathlon world cup in austria where russia claimed gold yet again warmer surely than the weekend edition of moscow out as well as dining out if you think it turned out great i'll be back in a couple of minutes before that though before that with our latest look at the latest headlines on our team moscow. all.

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