yet again. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has really changed in the years since the barak has been ousted does matter of fact there is saying if things have gotten worse because now the they are they have to deal with the military council the scouts which is and head of the country's government right now food for refusing to step down for saying that they're going forth with democratic reforms but most people here believe that is not the case and that is why they're calling for this massive act of civil disobedience the people who are at the at the at the source of this call are the egypt's revolution neary alliance which is comprised of more than the fifty political groups six of the six of them are the most from the revolutionary groups in the country a lot of them are university students for whom it is the first day of the semester and they're staging sit ins and walk outs they're not going to lectures they're not going to classes they're boycotting exams they're saying that they do want to see

some real changes towards democracy in the country which they haven't seen yet they're also calling on workers for a massive strike to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down so that will mean that a lot of people who will heed the who will follow the calls for the strike will stop working so effectively bring by the transportation all sorts of what basically all sorts of communications all sorts of social work in the city and maybe even country wide to a standstill and that is why a lot of the parties that have made it into the parliament. during the recent elections are actually not supporting the strike primarily or we should note that the muslim brotherhood who are saying that these are the does these calls for a massive strike are actually destructive to the country because that will only kludge egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the country are not supporting the strike as well but students the young people who work behind it deserve really should along with the workers who want. to see some

real differences there are saying that things must be chasing me here has passed and nothing has changed why are you going to strike here is my call it very much. i around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid high price to live in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still looms 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 miles 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 or scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discovered took over from who'd previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals. for.

suspected killers. to be simply a court system. the ordinary people there may be. military courts this is a symbol and this is in the. hasty new proof we investigate usually with no lawyer and behind closed doors and with no right of appeal for human rights activists complain military trials provide no justice and violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old send your centers because he had a box of molotov 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 there obviously there's something wrong with this picture a lot of these people are trying for absolutes. you know reason i mean some or 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 at the time for today's rally embassy in cairo the place. beyond screenplay writer was present at clashes between the army and demonstrators and began helping the injured 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 terrorism he says the military dishes out a very rough justice. gotten the better of them emerge in a seventy year old he's been in the army for at least thirty years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this lifestyle and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days what i did know her son's whereabouts who were there on business 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 and. a month after ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. go is to intuiting people the message is clear if you go to to really you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand that 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 harold. the citadel in cairo egypt a 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 jail. and dozens killed the concern here is that they may have been

working too hard to. refinish nazi. art from egypt to syria where a draft resolution on syria has been circulated to the un general assembly by saudi arabia and similar to the text vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by old sides it lays most of the blame primarily on the syrian authorities say t.v. says that the government of assassinated an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high military officer since protests began amid reports of ongoing fighting in the country the city of aleppo suffered twin blasts on friday that killed twenty eight the free syrian army initially claimed responsibility for the attacks but later denied involvement and claimed that the government meanwhile syria's opposition says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this weekend but with no u.n. mandate to intervene in the crisis the u.s.

has now said to be gathering a coalition of states willing to support the opposition with calls from washington to the rebels because his deborah an international human rights lawyer says 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 in digitas 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 seen the pitfalls of foreign

intervention and as a u.n. charter makes it very clear that the use of force should only be the last possible means of trying to deal with the conflict. just now turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. still ahead for you this hour according tension and the pollution find out about the claims that american military bases around the world are costing lives through their environmental impact and wrecking the area around them. also a dog from ukraine becomes a worldwide park or legend we meet tressa in just a few minutes. technocratic prime minister of greece has cleared one major hurdle on the way towards more e.u. rescue cash as his cabinet approved the deep cuts needed to secure it however he did lose six ministers in the process he resigned and now the plan has to be given

the green light by parliament a small right wing party has withdrawn from the coalition conservatives are calling for an early election the new deal includes firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage it's being pushed by e.u. leaders who have put their next one hundred thirty billion euro bailout on hold on friday thousands of people marched in athens some clashing with police say responded with tear gas that was after being bombarded by stones and firebombs are now while trade unions are in the second day of their forty eight hour strike financial journalist dmitri coffey and us believes the greek leadership is not acting in the people's best interests. the governments are doing what's in the people's best interests it's just doing what's in 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 and will go to default and 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 of

greece to scare them to say well if you don't accept these measures that are going to default i'm going to plunge the chaos i'm on the drachma hyperinflation disaster and you know these are scare tactics the only way that they're bailing out greece with more debt so more debt exacts more interest payments exacts more debt exec's more interest payments and the end result of that is neal feudalism you get to a point where you have no there's no capital and everything you have is credits that you get from your overlords who are the banks or who are the the political elite who own you basically so of course the only solution is. default bankruptcy it's to write off the debt let someone else deal with it let the banks do with the losses they extended the loans they had a great time making profit making fees with their with their buddies in the greek government and the greek politicians made a lot of money and now the greeks have to pay because everyone someone has to pay down the line but now then they instead of making the people that made all the money in the past pay they had a really great time you know it should be greek families and people on pensions and

seven year olds and couples they can't afford to get in make money and they have to lose their living standards and not die very gracefully because people before them are kleptocrats and still are so it's actually quite outrageous. let's go straight to live pictures now live pictures from central athens a very familiar pictures for you here is hundreds and expected to be thousands of protest so once again gathering outside the greek parliament. being debated as we speak of the politicians are inside the building a somewhat imagine seeking perhaps a bit of a safe haven from the crowds we are streaming the events for you live on our website dot com of course apos fourteen my. i've just been hectic for greece with the how many bailouts now. cause i would say being force fed upon the greeks with the buying spring bailed out but all of the expense of the people with cuts to their pensions again a lowering of the minimum wage ongoing problems for this year

a member live pictures here from both of us for you want to. call america's a mighty military presence around the world is leaving many locals with a bad taste in their belts the pentagon is accused of causing massive and sometimes deadly pollution not just in other countries but also at home as liz wahl reports. the united states department of defense the planet's biggest polluter with hundreds of military bases around the world the department is responsible for more ways than any other company or country this is a consistent pattern of a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of the imperial mindset the problem has persisted throughout history from nuclear testing in the pacific in the fifty's fire. to nato attacks dropping depleted uranium in libya it gets into the water table and it does damage to the kidneys and the liver is very very highly dangerous some

countries say they've had enough like japan which is pushing for the ouster of u.s. troops stationed in okinawa what looks like ninety thousand people in okinawa and thousands others across japan seems to represent people saying if they have been for quite some time that they have just had enough others suffer in silence it tends to be connected at least conceptually to environmental racism countries are being occupied in just leveled or destroyed afghanistan and iraq now libya if you look at the history in the late twentieth century i mentioned vietnam earlier. is another place where you're going to see the sad thing this was going on a vehicle with naval bombing in puerto rico and it happens in our own. and backyard like campuses you north carolina where for three decades people bathed and drank contaminated water. only. through. veteran gerry adams mayor believes he lost his nine year old daughter to cancer

causing radioactive toxins he and his family were exposed to while base there they were told. and there is a war or i know years before they ever even bother their well and he's not alone one in ten americans live near a military site or something some superfund site because military bases that extreme approaching in not only radioactive pollution also you know jet fuel was how was this able to happen the entire politics is controlled by fossil fuel interests wall street interests and military interests and though the contamination is costing lives the cost to clean up the mast may be too big for the pentagon an estimated three hundred twenty billion dollars that's almost half the pentagon's budget instead the money is being spent here on wars in afghanistan and iraq and

military operations elsewhere. and in today's climate in congress the environment is not at the top of the agenda this is the most environmental house of representatives in history so far this congress the house of representatives has voted again and again to block action to address climate change to hold efforts to reduce air and water pollution well president obama recently announced his plan to boost military presence in australia a military buildup also happening and why and a province in south korea with the pentagon splurging on expanding their military reach there seems to be a little funding left. to clean up existing masses around the globe and washington was wall r.t. and now with the race for the white house well under way and a wrong poll taking second place in the latest caucus season resident in new york asks people if they think he has any chance of winning the white house.

according to some polls ron paul is now back in in the us republican presidential candidacy raised does he really have a chance this week let's talk about that do you think grandpa has a chance i personally don't right now looks weak just physically don't know just looks like an old man and said to say it may be his values agree on 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. prager that obama not a chance why not he's 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 changes 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 i mean i think. those effects of the public the novelty of his candidacy world for the twelve months of his arrival and ron paul certainly would be a novelty in office he's been over to. his base of the moment i think he'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 than both then all three candidate of the candidates so why does the media not pay attention to him because he's against the establishment he's against everything is going to stand for you against the 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 of years of the team necessary to put together

a serious campaign. 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 it when they're not even 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. and you can read more about the u.s. elections that are dot com why is there though here are some of the other items you can find online our web site for example of find out how the cia web site has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from anonymous after suffering a crash on friday night. and here this could help delay any military strike on terror on israeli activists are urging their government against an

offensive just ahead of the queen of pop's massive gig in tel aviv in may but a much much more of our to dot com. our let's get to some other world news for you in brief. the bad news is that a five policemen have been killed by a roadside blast in southern afghanistan the officers were on patrol when their vehicle hit a bomb near the capital of the gun province once a brilliant also injured in the explosion. u.n. chief buying ki moon has called on argentina and the u.k. to avoid an escalation in tensions over the disputed folk and islands it comes in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to war argentina's foreign minister accused britain of militarization in the south atlantic saying it threatens all of south america you also accuse the u.k. of sending nuclear missiles to the falklands which london described as quote absurd . sudan and a newly independent south sudan have signed

a non-aggression treaty that agreement to relieve tensions over all oil fees for territory on the border officials had warned could escalate into a military conflict south sudan split from the north last year ending decades of civil war in which some one point five million people died. iran's president is to make a major announcement on the country's controversial nuclear program in the next few days with a judge gave no details but said it would never hold its program to enrich uranium which he says is for peaceful purposes he was speaking on the thirty third anniversary of the country's islamic revolution tens of thousands of pro-government demonstrators gathered across iran to mark the occasion. for militants have been killed during a counter terror operation in the republic of dagestan that's in russia's north caucuses one security officer was also killed and one injured during the shootout

police blocked the gunmen in the house and evacuated all the residents security forces then opened fire after the militants refused to surrender officials say all four were members of a wanted terrorist group two of the bodies have now been identified. you're watching r t live from moscow and russia's city of sochi gears up for the winter olympics some of the biggest stars of winter sports have gathered at the resort to test out of the. latest powder with just two years now to go until the big event. reports on the latest dry run of the facilities. 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 for downhill skiing you want good visibility and less snow that's already on the ground and not still falling preparing that this in such conditions was a challenge but will be weather is of course a key factor in blizzard's 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 this sternest examination yet 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 i knew it wasn't going to be lit piece here can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice and then covert too which made it even more difficult but the overall conditions here are good. alexandra procopio 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. and it's a chance to train more and we'll have the advantage in comparison to other skiers who will 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 gettable for 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 is a dry run to give the limbic preparations a boost. sochi. the latest sporting news coming your way in about twenty minutes time now though let's talk about some a rather different sporting action that of a park or it appeals to many adrenaline junkies and it seems to some four legged ones as well as a dog in a western ukraine quickly becoming an internet sensation with a story as artie's alexy ownerships came. with two thousand one french movie to get

my car she launched a new world wide graced the park or thousands of print pusey worldwide took to the six treatment activity performing breathtaking stunts on the walls and rooftops this 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 is impossible to tread a stuffer cheer a terrier from western ukraine you may see mean looking but in fact that is extremely kind hearted and he's one of only two dogs known to the world yes you are not so lucky yes no go on what there is a dog like that and why it might have appeared before to it you know 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 his unfulfilled dreams suddenly reincarnated in a six month old puppy for more than four years trad has been doing some amazing stuff both in urban landscapes and historic landmarks the short ball goodall and. when he was only six months old he jumped to a cheer and from there he jumped on top of that's all he. thought he had talent greed is very energetic and sometimes they're used in dog fighters before the five years we've been doing parkway or true it has never been aggressive to anyone he hasn't fought you even aborted him. it looks like a case of serious animal training just like in a circus but you get 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 individuals it looks like he is enjoying what

he does i only coordinate on him and very often he improvises some say that i field and park or myself and i will make the dog do what i was unable to do you can see for yourself nobody makes you do it so when you go through the. credits breathtaking videos have garnered millions of you tube views and earned him global recognition in their hometown you've gainey 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 threat is not a threat. reporting from chad enough i want you crane. it's a recap of the headlines with me coming your way in about ninety seconds. but

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four thirty pm here in moscow this is artsy stuff you have. egypt's streets and squares are alive with the rallying crowds and once again exactly a year after president mubarak was forced from power protesters are calling for the military rulers to step down immediately thank you accusing them of or hindering reform. more pressure is piled on the syrian regime as violence escalates in a new resolution blaming it lands of the u.n. general assembly state t.v. says an army general was assassinated in the capital damascus the first killing of

a high ranking military officer since protests began. in the greek lawmakers pander to brussels with more cuts in exchange for a bailout cash while people vent their frustration on the streets of athens six ministers have resigned in protest at the plan which now has to be given the green light by parliament. and it's getting silly in the snow here on our team is next on how to keep yourself busy and occupied when dealing with a rather frigid russian winter moscow out is now. well some people embrace the winter and all the frost filled days for teams that come with it others like to hide in tools.