to al qaida the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say the bad it made it a pretext for war against terror on. international news live for most go this is aussie with me thanks for joining us fast tens of thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the fast and about three of the country's revolution which are with three dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power they are prizing was this paul coup the arab spring which rocked almost twenty countries across north africa and the middle east but even after elections in tunisia calls for change remain strong there as. has been finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public ferry over corruption and poverty which

led to the hour 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 and his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and they're going to. last for a very few things to upgrade the school to lead families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't gotten anything 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. that's unusual evolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater presentation but the voice of youth according to some has been silenced. the new government is comprised of the elderly that shows what kind of new tunisia we're talking about the main problem is the political parties which haven't given a chance to the young people who gave their lives and blood for the revolution the

western media has hailed that there is an evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country and northern africa region a year has passed and people who live here is the very few of the soldiers they have asked for have actually taken place there. everything is still as it used to be the actions have come and gone and the town hasn't seen many changes unemployment is still the same if not worse the only things that changed you can now express our opinion but the rouge main goals haven't been accomplished. the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe on a slow burn for no one but if the grievances which is parted from mean so with the people's inspiration to revolt again it goes carty city was it tunisia. egypt which followed tunisia on the road to revolution is very sad so if we get to move violence at least nine have died and over three hundred fifty have been injured since friday after the all the moved into despair as demonstrators as man

to military approaches camp on cairo's tahrir square and paint a reporter for the jerusalem post says the army's fight and at the prospect of egypt being run by in this political party. 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 the 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 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 when 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. people have been reportedly killed across syria as the arab league demands a damascus let's say an international observers the organization is threatening to turn to the u.n. security council for action if the request is refused and it comes as russia has put forward a new draft resolution to the u.n. security council on syria demanding but the assad regime and the opposition and the violence and begin dialogue whether rooting out elaborating out foreign intervention or sanctions but as you want us and its allies once the russian motion

amended seeks to put the blame for the bloodshed on the democracy authorities alone thousands of i mean defect is claiming to be fighting to bring down the assad regime. this is still to come on the program a soldier's bravery or betrayal point out as the latest on the us army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistle blowing web site we could leaks with his supporters seeing him i think he wrote a note to trade and. the russian build a rocket successfully launches from to european space french grey on a place journey to the stars of the world. because after president nursultan nazarbayev has announced a curfew in a town in the west to the asian or asian a country where riots on friday left at least eleven people dead and he also said this iteration is now under control then rest was initiated by

a group of striking oil workers during state celebrations marking twenty years of independence that is a local journalist and he told r.t. what happened. oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is true. but the reemerged in full force yesterday was that it was deliberate in its twentieth anniversary so there was a big day age 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 their guns uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike but you're uniformed you know and you are 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 rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they were joking

authorities at least until the police came in so it looked like. these are just hooligans who started and led the crowd and the crowd was sort of for hit up it looks like chris this is being led from the outside this could be external forces like the country's intelligence or this could be sort of local forces who are interested in or through changing the regime this is georgian and there is said to be very calm and stable not only that this square nobody is raging in more but the internet connection and all years and years and everything each is it falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented. in new york court has ruled that iran provided material support to al qaida over the nine eleven attacks but the hearing was settled by default because the defendants including iran's supreme leader did not appear in court professor pore sheldon from california state university says this is part of

a campaign to demonize iran and begin plans to attack the country. this is what we call a kangaroo court in america this is totally outrageous and civilized 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 spirits did nothing but a year on has no involvement in this whatsoever no the a neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and the build up to it war and unfortunately the average american voter knows so little and we knew the 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 court has opened pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning by rejecting a difference request that the presiding officer should step down they claim he's on the role investigating they found out we can makes him a biased private money and drug that an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic dated to the whistle blowing web site he's a writer been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison

or even execution of convicted brian backhaul they are. as bradley manning is a hero who exposed war crimes atrocities in iraq. i think the bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand and willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been

held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forced in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged in. russia's national interest will guide its actions on the global arena president may do that have spelled out the country's priorities in the of the recession if we have to what the u.s. and its missile defense shield in europe which most as poses a threat to state security when washington fails to give written assurances that the show is not aimed at russia moscow deployed a rating system on its western world. 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 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 election rules which have been 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 one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with a ten out of someone on how thousand supporters of the party which didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in this stadium at moscow's a lot in a square where they gathered became the focal point for protests last week when tens of thousands converged to voice their dissatisfaction of what the poll results on our website are you find for another says of holding post-election about explicit video photo galleries and much. and also online right now the latest on

the rape accusations are faced by weekly leaks founder julian assange was given permission to appeal to britain's supreme court with the decision to extradite him to sweden. they are being debated by the us congress to stop online piracy could mean this start a web censorship in america according to critics of the proposal internet activist irish so as the move could also cripple copyright protection as well now 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 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. so that freedom of speech means that in much of the mainstream media they can also be freedom in terms of accuracy were different and you know we often a president people whether that time had ever said jack. 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 know. you're going to listen to them all or make up your own why are we 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 possible for anybody to be on bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because they're professionals who journalists there's a job but they're still human. well they have a lot of stuff you either read or the news is untrue and a lot of it alot 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 whoever was biased anyway there's a lot of people that think the some channels are fair and balanced other channels aren't leaning in any direction well i mean i think we all know that's not true right we all this into the news every single day and we all hear the ridiculousness on both sides yeah but i think fox particularly will report both sides in both views and they have people of opposing views on very frequently so you don't think they're biased that i think they themselves they might be as slanted when i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good here but if they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it they do i think now i think so no they're fair and balanced basically

a hundred reporters and each person to 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 bill at least be accountable for the opinion they report. no news for you this hour massive floods triggered by and that's a tropical storm have killed of some one hundred people in the southern philippines with about two hundred missing many residents were certainly when the flood water tore through towns overnight after hours of torrential rain turns out some thousands have sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces. the soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian and injured two others on the border with gaza and the true patrol reportedly open file to hearing a large explosion aiming what they saw was an area known for terrorist activity

gaza as related by retaliated by launching of rockets into israel so no casualties are reported. the united nations has released this that as it's up to leave in binds in efforts to ease the country's financial troubles that's what allowed it even government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier this year on banks fully controlled by the ousted leader colonel muammar gadhafi believe in economies suffered significantly by the uprising that toppled get out his regime with a lucrative oil industry virtually grinding to hold. a new zealand has come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded in a plug in and talk to guys for two days the flights delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew out search to pump water which has been leaks into the hull of the ship called sparta has been hold about a one and a half meters below the water line and crew members had to ditch cargo to reduce

the ship's weight rescuers say if they succeed they wrestled could be repaired allowing the trawler to sail out of trouble. a russian built soyuz rocket has successfully blasted off from the european spaceport in french guiana it was carrying french and chilean spice satellite into orbit french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on ours that trillion eyes in the sky in the sky will many mainly be used for nothing of farmland it's only the second time a russian rocket has launched from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also from french going on or and after america's space shuttle program was shot down so use remains the only means of taking people and satellites into space. now a story had to one of russia's most restive republics and point out about the battle to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists.

so doug a star often makes headlines for the wrong reasons why the recall frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as avert causes which help feed militancy. the caucasian republic of dagestan in seoul for 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 until rays are constantly carried out in a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has also been warning to the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that

a number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also affected 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 organization created four years ago and now known across the region today's headline is having 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 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 shouldn't have been using our organization mostly helps women it doesn't. 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 to ask 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 lost valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. that 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 have done something. wrong 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 market she met very religious people that never figured out a truce i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real muslim we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only listened to her new friends who were to. 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 deadly 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 wants to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan have become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged to ensure thousand with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region. locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the four is a simply bandits from an 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 respect is again a return to a time before terror played such

a dominant part in the lives of so many might in the question are sequels up in the republic of dagestan. and there is a news this hour back with the headlines in just of him up.

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