this is r t thanks for being with this is what i am now we are moscow i'm kevin owen and first tens of thousands of people in trinity have been celebrating the first anniversary of the country's revolution which overthrew dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power the uprising was the spark for the arab spring which rocked almost twenty countries across north africa or the middle east but even after elections in june is here calls for change remain strong is what is really going to be finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself to protest against the authorities in tunisia and listen public ferry over corruption and poverty which led to the al 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 city boise 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 aid families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people have got money think 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. to the tunisian revolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater percentage but the use 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 and blood for the revolution the western media has hailed the day as an evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country. and the entire northern

african region a year has passed and people who live here see very few of the changes they have asked for have actually taken place they're going to leave everything as soon as it used to be a have come and gone and the town has an. unemployment to the same if not the only things that you can now express our opinion but the relations main goals haven't been accomplished. the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe only a slow burn for no one but if the grievances push inspired for mean so with the people's inspiration to call together in the. city was in tunisia or egypt was followed choosier on the road to revolution is bracing itself for yet more violence at least nine have died and over three hundred fifty been injured since friday after the army moved in to disperse demonstrators as an anti military protest camp on cairo's tahrir square pens a reporter for the jerusalem post he says the army's frightened at the prospect of

an egypt being run by islamist political parties there are 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'll be considering turning to the u.n. security council for action it comes as russia is 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 the changed but moscow insists it's drawn up 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 intervention and sanctions but washington wants the blame for the bloodshed put on the damascus authorities alone it also will acknowledge that the opposition is armed despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the

regime. coming up in the program a soldier's bravery all betrayal we'll find out the latest on the u.s. army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistleblower website wiki leaks but his supporters seeing it was a hero and not a traitor also. all goes well as a russian built rocket successfully launches from the european space port of french guyana we'll look at what this journey to the stars means now for the world. president nursultan nazarbayev has announced a curfew in a town in the west of the central asian country where riots on friday left at least eleven dead he also said the situation is known to control the unrest was initiated by a group of striking oil workers during state celebrations marking twenty years of independence . as a local journalist she told us 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. 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 are you moving into organized packs but it looks like that's all workers are in your way whether they're demanding wages or 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 and at least until the police came in so it looked like there's persecution so these are just really grassroots trying to lead the crowd and the crowd was sort of first hit it up it looks like crap 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 overthrowing to go in and changing the regime and this is rationing there is said to be very calm and stable nobody at this square nobody is writing or the internet connection and. years and years and everything it is it falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented. in new york or trolled around and provided material support to al qaeda for nine eleven attacks but the hearing was settled by default because the defendants including iran's supreme leader didn't appear in court as opposed to refer support sheldon foote from california state university he says it's part of a campaign he thinks to demonize iran and begin plans to attack the country. 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 lived we could look at american flight schools we could look at f.b.i. agents reported disappear ears and spurious did nothing. and has no involvement in this whatsoever no they are neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and build up to a 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 taliban and the iranians. u.s. military courts open pretrial hearings into the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning by rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer should step down they claim that his other role investigating the founder of wiki leaks they feel makes him biased brother manning you served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web site he's already been in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even execution of convicted kevin zeese from the bradley manning support network told me the soldier will either receive a fair trial after president obama's stated that he's guilty. but we think that manning is not someone who is a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is

accused of giving them to the media and what he gave the media were allegedly were very low level documents low security in fact probably should not have been declassified documents at all were also words i mean you can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he's the commander in chief it's the command structure in the military cerebrally who is involved in the judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line they are no choice but to say manning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president or is he's guilty soldier who's in that situation is the choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes if meaning is guilty of what he's accused what does he get what he's guilty of is telling the truth the truth so the american public can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing this trials are embarrassed into the u.s. military and the united states it shows a great deal of fear of the truth and fear of the truth is what's driving this

prosecution. 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 u.s. over the 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 a good russia moscow deployed a radar system on its western most border of those who knew there were to be we must not going ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete dream 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 the concerns we will work together. in the wake of protests against this month's election results you can have 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 there never be a result of outside pressure meantime one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with a turnover 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 block 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. they'll call you find full analysis of all the post-election avenge slogan for exclusive videos photo galleries and much more too. while you're there these stories online as well the latest on the rape or accusations faced by wiki leaks founder julian assange probably the pictures there after he was given permission to appeal to britain's supreme court over the decision to extradite him to sweden got more for you now let's take a look at some world news in brief massive floods triggered by an unexpected tropical storm and killed over four hundred people in the southern philippines

about two hundred are still missing many residents were asleep when the flood wall . tore through towns overnight after hours of tarantula rain 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 military patrol reportedly opened fire after hearing a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity gaza's retaliated by launching rockets into israel though no casualties have yet been reported. the united nations has released the assets of two libyan banks in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles that will now allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier this year on banks formerly controlled by the ost of leader colonel moammar gadhafi the libyan economy suffered significantly after the uprising that toppled gadhafi regime with the lucrative all industry virtually growing to hold. a

new zealand aircraft has come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that's got itself stranded in antarctic waters the last two days the flight delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew thirty to pump water has been leaking into the hull the ship is called the spotter has been holed apparently one and a half meters just below the water line now crew members to try and solve the problem been told to ditch cargo to reduce the ship's weight try to get that water line up rescuers say if they succeed the vessel could be repaired allowing the troll to say a lot of trouble. because it should be getting a water line in that now a russian built soyuz rocket successfully blasted off from the european spaceport in french guiana it was carrying french and chilean spy satellites into orbit french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on earth really detailed pictures he's going to send back while the chilean but it takes knology that are in the skies mainly they say to map farmall and it's only the second time

a 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 remains the only means of taking people and satellites into space. the bill being debated by the u.s. congress to stop online piracy could mean the start of web censorship in america according to critics of the proposal internet activist added schwartz told me the move could also cripple copyright protection as we know it. 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 set 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. well pretty speech often means that in much of the mainstream media there can also be a. currency of facts. to do your cost people their whether they're tired of a subjective 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 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 wife in the u.k. is that 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 they're professionals as we journalists this is 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 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 have to channel that bother you know 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 to whoever was bias 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 good service to fox through they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it all they do i

think i think someone else will they're fair and balanced they say reporters 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 that they'll at least be accountable for the opinion they report. next we had a lot of russia's most restive republics for reports to find out about the bottle there to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists. doug a start often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency instability and employment and low living standards are sometimes bogus group courses which help free militancy but is within

a caution over. 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 street 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 to the 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 gravel 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 them or most of these women don't know their rights or who do to help three years ago said lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return. home she didn't know what to do and most valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. and he wouldn'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 good

have done something good for 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 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. 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. 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 dog least kerr mischa's are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region illiteracy led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a panic ok ssion islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan 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 child hours with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region my. local saying 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 ant is such a fight the younger generation. 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 you see close up in the republic of dagestan. for sure my skies are in co stacy herbert discussed the true cost of keeping the banks afloat and the latest kaiser report from the most of a recap of the day's top stories in just a few moments live from moscow here on out to you with me kevin though in.

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