the issue of the act of civil disobedience and a strike which they're calling on everybody in the country to join has been seized by by their going to this which comprises which is comprised of fifty most active revolutionary movements in the country including six of the most of the most prominent revolutionary movements they include anybody from not just the political groups but pretty much everybody from from from workers to students university students university professors as a matter of fact a lot of the people who are involved in this out of civil disobedience are mostly young people they're the driving force behind who were the driving force behind the . toppling of the barak last year they are not satisfied with what they've seen over the past year we can talk about the elections which took place not too long ago so they did have a chance to make their voices heard they didn't have a chance to cast a vote but again a lot of people are saying that still not everything has been achieved

a lot of their evolutionary goals the jobs the economy education and also doing away with massive corruption which was left over from the mubarak era a lot of that still has not been done it's better a fact my colleague looks at the finer points of what exactly people are trying to achieve by continuing to staged protests. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have. to leave in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still lose large during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule the number of people try them under military tribunals where one to two thousand now you know within about ten months or eleven months we have twelve thousand which is of course a humongous number for a country ruled by the military the supreme council of the armed forces. that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who grew. islam run

the country are not themselves before military tribunals nor for. suspected killer. thought. to be simply a court system. or ordinary people there may be. medical records this is. and this is illegal hasty with no proper investigation usually with no lawyer and behind closed doors and with no right of appeal human rights activists complain military trials provide no justice and to violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old center near centers because he either bloxham out of cocktails and people who are found guilty of killing somebody by brutally beating him up and torturing him until he died these are getting seven years in jail so i mean it they're obviously there's something wrong with this picture

a lot of these people i try for absolutely no reason i mean someone just just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough to get you in trouble that's exactly what matters is his case september the time these really embassy in cairo the place . the young screenplay writer was present and clashes between the army and demonstrators and began helping lean jered arrested he was brought to military barracks after summary trial which lasted just twenty minutes he was taken straight to prison to serve almost four months for terrorists and he says the military dishes out a very rough justice on the model caught in the emerging a seventy two year old who's been in the army for at least two years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this large stall and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days what did know her son's whereabouts. the man who says when his sister came to me and said i have to talk to

you i knew it was about him hoping for the best i prepared myself for the worst. a month after ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. go is to intimidate people the message is clear if you go to tory you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand the matter is now working on a book he wants to title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after being beaten and humiliated they will never give up until their voices are heard. the citadel in cairo egypt and medieval symbol of power and strength it was fortified centuries ago to protect the region from his enemies at that time crusades and crusaders today egypt's rulers are doing the same striving to defend

themselves and to keep power with thousands in jails and dozens killed the concern here is that they may have been working too hard. and written off now t. cairo. and meantime over in syria violence continues to escalate according to reports just in from damascus and army general has been assassinated in the city center it's the first time a senior officer has been killed in the capital since the uprising began now a nearly one year ago and while heavy fighting continues for holmes another major city of aleppo suffers twin car bombings that killed at least twenty five responsibility was initially claimed by a senior member of the opposition that was later denied by the free syrian army chief and with no un mandate to intervene in the crisis the united states is now said to be gathering a coalition of willing countries to prop up the opposition and palm oil pressure on damascus but some activists say intervention would be a costly mistake. in syria i think it is

a matter of there are some very legitimate interest in the country of people who would like to be able to participate more in their government and i think the government has made some effort to respond they think it needs to make more of an effort but i don't think that comes through foreign intervention it comes through indigenous processes of the people in the country if you look at any foreign intervention over the last several years you see that after the foreign intervention many more people died then could have possibly died through any type of indigenous process even one involving violence and i think that moscow and some of its allies on this matter are very wise in which seen the pitfalls of foreign intervention and as a un charter makes it very clear the use of force should only be the last possible means of trying to deal with the conflict. activist in international human rights

he spoke was a bit earlier from. the right so as we carry on here at odds he still to come on the program testing the slopes russia's major ski resorts begins its first rehearsal for the winter olympic games by staging the competition for some of the world's leading winter i think it's. also extremely canine agility friendly excels in the art of extreme sport he's become an online celebrity because of his gravity defying stunts. crowds gather on the streets of greece the second day now of a national strike in response to imminent new and harsh for natural cuts so you're looking at live pictures right here on our it's a day after the government unanimously approved a new set of desperate austerity measures a part of the package was crucial to satisfy the i.m.f. to get a second much needed one hundred thirty billion euro package to bolster the country's

crippled economy of a draft bill now has to go through the greek parliament and european finance ministers agreement came off of fierce and prolonged cabinet debate which ended with six ministers quitting their jobs meanwhile on friday over the planned spilled out onto the streets of athens where police did use tear gas on protesters who responded with rocks financial journalist says the action taken by greece's leadership has nothing to do with the people's well. the government's not doing what the people's best interests it's just doing what its own interests and the people don't trust the government the government had an option they could have just said no we're not going to accept these measures are going to default by the way there's no reason that a default has to equal an exit from the euro zone i don't see that that connection other people have made that point and that's used to intimidate the population say well if you don't. we're going to default and going to be one of the chaos among

the drachma hyperinflation disaster and you know these are scare tactics because the people that are in power a bent benefit from a system where they can cooperate with the euro kratz in brussels i don't believe anyone within their right mind would think that they'd be able to to to pay those debts back clearly there's an interest for the banks that are on the hook the european central bank is obviously bought a lot of that debt so they stand to lose but at the same time if they just keep rolling it over they're going to lose anyway i think part of this is just a function of the of the system and people just trying to you hear that expression all the time kick the can count down the road but that's something that people do all the time in their daily lives and they certainly do it in politics they just they don't want to deal with the problem now and they just would rather progress made and push it along and i think in many in many cases that explains a lot of what you see here and in just over two hours here and see it's going to be a financial expert mike skies and giving us his a rather unique take on the latest business scandals. we just where we want to

go. well max this first headline is the theme of the show ok it's bar all lou gold bar we're all terrorists now believe in a return to the gold standard you are now officially an extremist according to the f.b.i. yeah we've got i'm just where we want to you know they're trying to keep the gold price cheap because it makes a mockery of the u.s. dollar so the f.b.i. is saying if you buy gold you're a terrorist thus increasing the panic buying of gold around the world this is just like the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke trying to talk his way into some kind of economic nirvana which is failed miserably now the f.b.i. believe that they're hot the top the economists are going to talk gold down yeah right that's going to happen you idiots you know you would cause more panic buying i.

you're watching r t it's good to have your company on this saturday in america the obesity epidemic is growing now about seventy five percent of the entire population is considered overweight and as waistlines across the country continue to so do the pockets of the big corporations who make millions from unhealthy living the first lady michelle obama warns that obesity could be the country's next national security threat with just one in four adults able rather to join the military because of their size now she's leading by example keeping yourself physically fit and teaching children the importance of healthy living obesity costs the u.s. one hundred sixty eight billion dollars a year and that looks unlikely to improve as because promotions continue to choose profit over health lives while. we're broke. we need to stop the out of control spending spree destroying our abortion didn't

d.c. as the debate over cutting government spending rages on billions of taxpayer dollars wasted each year on junk food between one nine hundred ninety five and two thousand and ten over two hundred fifty billion dollars was spent on subsidizing foods that are making americans fat seventy four percent of all the subsidies go to just ten percent of the agribusinesses these are not the small farms public funds go to agra giants like monsanto the company produces genetically modified seeds and claims more than ninety three percent of soybean and eighty percent of the corn market in the u.s. but this is not what americans are consuming the crops are turned into products like high fructose corn syrup which end up in most processed foods the effect on american health is devastating seventy five percent of americans are now overweight and advertisers today target can't see the most important part of the mcdonald's happy there is even a superman this is kryptonite for us this is the result of one in five kids in

america are obese they like sweets and they like all the additives that are added to fast foods and sodas and snacks meanwhile corporations are profiting from the fattening of america they spend millions each year lobbying congress to up hold policies that keep the big businesses profitable david rosin calls the system the obesity and duster complex that this system is essentially it's you know it's a pay to play system and if you can pay. to support your local congressman or senator you have a stronger opportunity to both not only influence the laws that are passed but actually draft the was like congress recently declaring pizza a vegetable agribusiness is spend a lot of money on capitol hill and making sure that the funding is going towards things that are going to drive down the products of the most profitable products also cashing in on the. of america pharmaceutical companies the u.s.

spends one hundred forty seven billion dollars each year treating obesity related illnesses countries from china to hungary require labeling of g.m.o. foods but the power of corporations and lobbyists to englewood's politics no such laws exist in the u.s. today and washington was wall art seem. to remember that oh you can always access all of our news and much more by looking website called let's have a look at some of the stories standing by for you there right now for example staying on the safe side germany delays the sawing of controversial new piracy loans off the protests erupt across europe also online striking farmer named brussels give the local police a cold shower the main entrance of the prime minister's office find out why. cold.

watching our team the home of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics russia as a result city of sochi is welcoming to some of the world's finest skiing athletes this saturday that testing out the slopes for the downhill world cup but just before the race kicked off the russian president took to the snow and slipped along the track in some pretty good style preparations for the big games in two years' time are in full swing with various tracks and facilities being tested to the limit here he goes again some slick maneuvers there from the president. reports for our team. so she's been known to have warm february's in the past but not this year blizzards and temperatures well below zero may be great for some winter sports but downhill skiing you want good visibility and less snow that's already on the ground and not

still falling preparing the first since such conditions was a challenge but the weather is of course a key factor heavy fog and blizzards can hold us up and cause delays but it hasn't affected overall preparations in the resort it is now ready to host the world ski cup. despite bad weather delays were minimal and as the mountain skies cleared domestic competitions began in earnest to put facilities to the test the venues here on the slopes and bridges across napoli are undergoing the sternest examination yet the head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games for both the organizers and the athletes it's a perfect chance to fly in tune their routines ladies were the first to compete on the slopes for russia's downhill ski cup some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver and. peace here can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice in then coover too which made it even more difficult but the overall conditions here are good. alexandra burke

came out on the top of the competition she says smaller events like this one offer an important rehearsal before the main event in sochi in two thousand and fourteen years it's a chance to train more and will have the advantage in comparison to other skiers who only come here for the olympics with thirty kilometers of new posts and world class accommodation the organizers hope to make the test competition something together both spectators and athletes a lawyer but above all this experience is priceless for the sochi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee that will use this competition as a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. and if you are looking for the great outdoors but a bit closer to the city then do join on that'll be next hour delving into the winter fun and getting a bit of trouble really around the outskirts of the city certainly some spectacular camera footage are coming your way here's

a preview of what's coming ahead next next hour here on nazi. way of traveling in the woods is great fun. and anyone can. try the one thousand rubles. for twenty minutes right.

now at twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital four militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan but the gunman was surrounded by special forces in a residential hideout and opened fire after refusing to surrender one police officer was killed and another injured in the shootout officials say all four were members of a terrorist group and one could both already has two of the bodies have now been identified. well our spotlight is not far off here in the program but for now the artsy world update some of the global news in brief the u.n. buying ki-moon has called on argentina and the u.k. to avoid an escalation in tensions over the disputed focalin islands it comes in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to war argentina's foreign minister. has made an official complaint about the u.k.'s

so-called militarization of the south atlantic saying it threatens all of south america is also accused britain of deploying nuclear weapons near the fulton are something which london describes as a. nigerian authorities rearrested an alleged member of the radical islamist sect in the east of the country he escaped from police custody last month after being accused of masterminding the violent christmas day bombings that killed at least forty four the militants whose aim is to establish shari'a law in nigeria killed over one hundred eighty people in a series of attacks in the city of kano last month. tens of thousands of pro-government demonstrators have gathered across iran to mark the anniversary of the islamic revolution and it comes as pressure grows on the country the sanctions being piled on the republic by western countries over its controversial nuclear program the uprising in one hundred seventy nine toppled iran's pro western

monarchy bringing hardline islamic clerics to par. and now with the race for the white house well underway and ron paul taking second place in the latest caucus aussie's resident rosen in new york without his aloha finished now ask the people in the big apple if they think he has any chance in winning it. according to some polls ron paul is now that good in the u.s. republican presidential candidacy way does he really have a chance this week let's talk about that do you think ron paul has a chance i personally don't buy an ad looks weak just physically don't know just looks like an old man and said to say it maybe his values are great and everything but. that's interesting so do you think the battle affect the way people vote that's affecting the way i have a aluminite is going to have whatever they want so do you think they're going to choose them. to pry given that not

a chance why now it is just too much on the fringe for the rest of america but he has such a strong contingent among the you. for now well i'll tell you that any change he'll bring forward will be on obama's good work that's what i'll tell you that he's laying down a foundation for the next president whoever he is exactly that's my belief you know and i and i mean the strain here i think he's got his good chance and i think. of those effects of the public the novelty of his candidacy world within about twelve months of his arrival and ron paul certainly would be a novelty in office he's been o.t. but that's what. politics is based on at the moment i think it's interesting he's a nonpolitician speaks very honestly but i don't agree with his policies and so if i were living here i wouldn't vote for him no he gets more independents then both then all three candidate of the candidates so why does the media not pay attention

to him well basically because he's against the establishment he's against everything isn't a stance for you against. military national complex here against the federal reserve do you think he has a chance here oh he is there are ten zero why he doesn't have the finances so he doesn't have the team necessary to put together a serious camp. so you're just talking about how he's running not actually his policies or whether or not he'd be good for the country well if he doesn't have the team in the money to get his message out nobody's going to hear whether or not you think ron paul actually has a chance to become the next u.s. president the bottom line is if elected he certainly would shake things up and that seems to be something everyone is looking for. now twenty five past the hour here in moscow park or is the extreme sport that seems to defy gravity it appeals not just to to get adrenaline junkies but now

a four legged one as well in ukraine one of man's best friend has become an internet sensation because of his passion for active antics. he has the story. the two thousand and one french movie that came across she launched a new worldwide craze the park or thousands of print using asked worldwide took to the six treatment activity performing breathtaking stunts on walls and rooftops the skill of running and jumping from one surface to another is not so hard to master. after a few slip ups and bruises you will eventually get it right but imagine if you were doing that standing on four legs and not being as a gyle as a human being. but this ranji fellow proves nothing's impossible me to tread stuffer cierra terrier from western ukraine you may see mean looking but in fact that is extremely kind hearted and he is one of only two dogs known to the world

yes. there is a dog like that in hawaii it might have appeared before to it but honestly i knew nothing about it when we started training besides that dog is much later in the tricks are not a spectacular. owner you've guinea had been doing park or until a knee injury ruined his career he's unfulfilled dreams suddenly reincarnated in a six month old puppy for more than four years tried has been doing some amazing stuff both in urban landscapes and historic landmarks. when he was only six months old he jumped to a cheer and from there he jumped on top of the fridge that's where we thought he had talent this reed is very energetic and sometimes they're used in dogfights before the five years will be doing parkway were true it has never been aggressive to anyone he hasn't fought to even aborted anyone. it looks like

a case of serious animal training just like in a circus but you forget he says he has only invented a few tricks for trad believe it or not the dog makes almost all of the moves. he finds it interesting you can see in the video it looks like he's enjoying what he does i only coordinate him and very often he improvises some see that i field and park or myself and i will make the dog could do what i was unable to you can see for yourself nobody makes you do it with. breathtaking videos have garnered millions of you tube views and earned him global recognition in their hometown you've given me and he spat have not become offline celebrities just yet at least until a movie starring the unique dog hits the big screen in the summer but everyone in the neighborhood can rest assured fred is not a threat. reporting from chairman of the ukraine.

just ahead for you here on the program is going to be spotlight this time looking into that of russian democracy first i'll be back with a recap of the top stories to stay with us if you can.

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