say that it is merely a pretext for war against iraq. hello and welcome to aussie twenty following news live from moscow my name is you get above all a timely story now tens of thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the first anniversary of the country's revolution which i was through dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power the uprising was this park but the arab spring was shocked almost twenty countries across north africa in the middle east but even after elections in tunisia calls for change remain strong they're. going to have them 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.

the day a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown a city boy there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. are very few things to upgrade the school two hundred 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. to give the tunisian revolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater percentage 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 and blood for the revolution the western media has hailed the dinies an evolution 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 say very few of the changes they have asked for have actually taken place there. everything is still as it used to be but the actions have come and gone and the town has a generous unemployment is still the same if not more so with the only things that you can now express our opinion but the regime main goals haven't been accomplished . the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe only a slow burn for no one but if the grievances which is parted for mean so with the people's inspiration to vote again in those carty city was it tunisia. and egypt which followed tunisia on the road to revolution is bracing itself for yet nor violence and at least nine have died and over three hundred fifty have been injured since friday after the army moved in to discuss demonstrators at an on to military protests camp on cairo's tahrir square and pain

a reporter for the jerusalem post says the army's firing turned at the prospect of egypt being run by islamist political policies 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 that 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 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. so as usual people have reportedly been killed across syria as they are of the demands of damascus let's say an international observer is now going to say should this threatening to turn to the u.n. security council for action if they request has refused it comes as russia has put forward a new draft resolution to the u.n. security. council in syria mostly is demanding regime and the opposition end the violence and begin dialogue. for intervention and sanctions but the u.s. and its allies want the russian motion amended and seeks to put the blame for the blood should only damascus also refuse only that's despite thousands of army

defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down their assad regime. you're watching r.t. and still to come on the program a soldier's bravery or betrayal delete the u.s. on a private accused of passing were true secrets to the whistle blowing web sites we could leagues with his supporters seeing him as a hero a traitor and. so as a russian bedrock it successfully launches from the european spaceport in french guiana but look at what this journey to the stars means for the war. because our president nursultan nazarbayev has announced a three week state of emergency in a town in the west of the central asian country where riots on friday left at least eleven people dead and he also said this is your asian is now under control the rest was initiated by a group of striking oil workers during the state celebrations marking twenty years

of independence. as 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 they reemerged in full force yesterday and was deliberate in 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 they were you moving into organized bags but it looks like the. oil workers are there anyway 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 they weren't behaving too organized and they were talking authorities and. the police came in so it looked like.

this is all just started and led the crowd and the crowd was sort of for hit up it looks like chris this is being let down this could be external forces like other countries intelligence or this could be sort of local forces who are interested in overthrowing the government changing the regime and this is george and there is said to be very calm and stable nobody that this square nobody is writing or the internet connection and or years and years and everything it is it falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented. a new york court has rules that iran provided material support to our kind of 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 paul sheldon from california state university as this is part of their campaign to demonize abroad and begin plans to at times that

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 was 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 disappears in spurious did nothing but a iran has no involved but in this whatsoever no the neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and build up to a war and unfortunately the average american voter knows so little we 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 would 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. the u.s. military court has opened pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning jackson a defense request that they presiding officer step down they claim his other role investigating the found a we can make space him by product mounting has served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web signs on cell phones are being held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even execution of convicted kevin scenes from a money support network says the social will hardly ever see the facts. president

obama has stated that he is guilty. 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 to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security in fact probably should not have been declassified documents at all were also worried that 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 a command structure in the military sorry body who's involved in the judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line there is no choice but to say manning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president already said he's guilty a soldier who is in that situation is a choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes if manning is guilty of what he's accused what does he get what he's guilty of is telling the truth telling the truth so the american

public can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing this trial is embarrassment to the u.s. military and he 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 present that its priorities in the recent arrest what the u.s. on its missile defense shield in europe which most poses a threat seriously when washington failed to get written assurances that the show is not aimed at russia and moscow deployed a radar system on us westernmost order. when you goes into that what you've been means that 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 u.s. has adopted if they continue to be rude we will respond if they. here are our

concerns we will work together. and in the wake of protests against this month's election rules here in russia which have been held across this country the president said that he saw and heard the people's concerns but he said political political changes in the country should be started from within and never be a result of outside pressure so one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with its own out 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 state duma moscow's lot now square where they gathered became the focal point for protests last week when tens of thousands of commercial voiced their dissatisfaction with the poll results and on our website which is also your call me you'll find a full analysis of all the post-election about mobile experience videos photo galleries and much more. and new zealand aircraft has come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded on toxic ice for two days they flies

to limit fuel and they quit to help the crew of thirty to pump water which has been leaking into the power so the ship colder sparta has been hold about one and a half meters below the water line and crewmembers had to ditch congo to reduce the ship's weight rescuers save they succeed they could be repaired along the troll it to say a lot of trouble. a russian build so used rocket has successfully blasted off from the european spaceport unfriend 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 while the each event eye in the sky will mainly be used for mopping farmland and 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 guiana and after america's space shuttle program was shut down so use remains the only means of taking people satellites into space. at least fifty occupy wall street protesters have been

arrested after they blow into a private park in manhattan as the movement marks its said month anniversary so the demonstrators who were evicted from their zuccotti park headquarters last month attempted to set up a new camp in this if she's do archery park activist groups holes in the fence around the private grounds and have used ladders to climb inside the li's disperse protesters claiming that the occupies could not got permission to enter the bar or turning violent. and for more information go to our twitter page policy underscore calm and our correspondent and the situation there who was witnessing their arrest in new york has the latest. on a bill being debated by the u.s. congress to stop online piracy it could mean that start a websense ship in america according to critics of the proposal into its activists are in short says the move could also cripple corporate 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 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's 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 freedom of speech often means that in much of the mainstream media they can also be a freedom in terms of accuracy read the fonts and no way off and if. you ask people that whether that time had of a subjective yield things. 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 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 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 is a lot of it isn't that a shame that the news would be untrue. it is 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 to whoever was bias anyway there's a lot of people that think that 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 in my b.s. slant but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good. they are they are but in bed ok they should just admit it they do i think now i think some know what their parents. orders and each person to be these experts make a mean every individual has his own personal bias you can get away from it maybe instead of demanding our media be less biased we just start demanding the admin their bias and maybe bad bill at least be accountable for the opinion they report. or news in brief for you this hour massive floods triggered by an unexpected

tropical storm have killed of a hundred people in the southern philippines with around two hundred missing many residents were asleep when that's not water tools through towns overnight after hours of torrential rain tirzah thousands have sought refuge in the documentation centers across several provinces. a ship carrying more than three hundred illegal migrants from the middle east has sunk of indonesia's jobber island only seventy six people have been rescued so far and hundreds are still missing as search teams continue working on the sport and emergency officials say the wooden ship was wrecked by strong waves meanwhile local media reports the boat was carrying more than twice its capacity which they blame for that accident. 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 has retaliated by launching of rockets into israel so no casualties

are reported. the united nations has released the assets of two lieberman banks and efforts to ease the country's financial troubles that would allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from import sanctions were imposed earlier this year on banks formerly controlled by the ousted leader kind of more about gadhafi believe in economy suffered significantly after the uprising that toppled gadhafi regime with the new pretty of all industry virtually grinding to what. next we had to one of russia's most restive republics and find out about the battle to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists. so doug astound often makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are

sometimes blamed as the root courses which feel militancy and he's already in a question on how small. 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 look to draw people in when they're young and to tell rays are constantly carried out in an attempt to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism often go into the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that and number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping those affected to piece their lives back together i had a chance 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 cooled mr winter morning and. as always is first in the office the child from

stance. during 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 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 in sudan that 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 or gravel should not be rolled our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need we come to help with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago said lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and 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 going to have done something good with society 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 because 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 norm remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that. it's proust i thought there was nothing bad in that but then

my little girl started to change she talked a lot. being a real new swimmer going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends but they were. her new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these dudley's skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region literacy 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 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 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 forest a simply bandits from and to such as fight a younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that 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. and that was the news the sound of our quote the headlines in just a few. wealthy

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back this is all see the headline is. today's amal's the first anniversary of its revolution with the monuments of the modern has set himself a light and has defamation to protest movement that gave back to the arab spring but many people in the country are frustrated as a lot of china says they are flying out so hard for real reform. kazakhstan's authorities impose a three week state of the majesty and oil town in the west of the country saying it's back under control after friday's riots.