they're calling for this massive act of civil disobedience the people who are they are there at the source of this call are the egypt service nuri alliance which is comprised of more than the fifty political groups six of them six of them are the most probably 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 strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down 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 judge 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 this site really sit well with the workers who wanted to see some real differences they are saying that things must be chasing mediately more on why it's ins are going to strike here's my colleague mary snow. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid high price to leave in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still lose launch during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule the number of people try them under moved tribunals were 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 or scaf that's no surprise surprise but. only enough those discomforted over from who'd

previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals. for. suspected killers. thought. to be simply a court system. where ordinary people there may be. medical records this is a better way and this is in the. 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 violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old son to 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 they're obviously there's something wrong with this

picture a lot of these people are tried 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. cutting the emerging 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 in this large stall and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems several. for. all days what did know her son's

whereabouts were the one 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. goal is to intimidate 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 no working on a book he wants a title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after been beaten and humiliated they'll 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 jails and dozens killed the concern here is that they may have been working too hard. riffing off knotty cairo. bell true a freelance journalist based in cairo told me earlier that human rights violations on the streets of the capital have led to concerns mubarak has been replaced by another dictatorship. people are unsure about whether i'll actually transfer in jean and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters with people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is shots and maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police as it exemplified by the football disaster

a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we seeing very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are a basically anxious that nothing will change and that will just slip into a new a new dictatorship i think most people here would post it would say they do say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. a draft resolution on syria has been circulated at the u.n. general assembly by saudi arabia it's similar to the text vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by all sides it lays blame primarily on the syrian authorities meanwhile state t.v. says government assassinated an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking military officer since protest 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 turks but later denied involvement and blamed the government syria's opposition says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this week with no u.n. mandate to intervene in the crisis the u.s. is now said to be covering a coalition of states to support the opposition with calls from washington to the rebels. from sarah hughes university based in beirut told me earlier that she thinks imposing a regime and syria would lead to an even deeper crisis. it's been very well known that united states and european allies are interested in regime change in syria and they won't stop at anything that does not deliver a different government that they hope will be more sympathetic to western interest which is quite naive really when you think about it because the people in syria are

likely not going to be more sympathetic to american and israeli aggression throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition it's conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and innocent syrians we don't know who the body counts you know what politics people have were killed i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate you know an outside exile group arming and training these people in different quote unquote democracy exercises and it's great for the think of what could be coming now. externally. force power is is suddenly implanted in syria that is not at all representative of the people and the violence is just not going to end syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing. this is not a life here in moscow with twenty four hours a day still ahead for you this hour forty tension and 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. a lot still to come but first the technocrat 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 whether he lost six ministers who resigned in protest at the deal now the plan is to be given the green light by parliament some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against the deal while conservatives according for an election the new deal includes farming fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage it's being pushed by e.u. leaders who put the next one hundred thirty billion euro bailout on hold trade unions are in the second day of their forty eight hour strike with crowds outside the parliament one on friday protesters clashed with police who used tear gas in response to stones and firebombs economic analysts believe the greece could already

be in a state of unofficial before. it looks highly likely that the parliament will get enough votes to pass this package it only needs a majority of the three hundred members of deputies it's a unicameral system here what we have at the moment is a structured default in fact almost seventy percent of the net present value of all outstanding bonds which will reduce reduce our debt burden by one hundred billion now that isn't such a terrible deal i'm not sure that all of the investors will take it up it may not get one hundred percent take up but it may get seventy or eighty percent and even that helps the european leaders face some difficulties because while ingrates there is a lot of austerity weariness over there there is a lot of buyouts that see. they can't be seen. giving away money even though most of this is in the form of loans they have to impose some strict conditionalities

for two reasons so please their local electorates and also to make sure that this money can eventually be repaid buyable sustainable brits that they have set some very rough. great politicians from very hard to stop and. there are also other issues in the sense that. you can't really pass anything and everything willy nilly and they have at the beginning of this whole process sought to make an example of greece so others don't go down the same road and if they don't disperse the money quickly which they haven't done it increases their leverage of the great politicians of the great government to pass the kind of measures they want. by the way more analysis on europe's debt woes on our website is hard. and while you're there here's what else you can find online at the moment find out how the cia website has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from the anonymous group after suffering a crash on friday night. and despite some wild rumors north korea's new

leader kim jong il is not dead it turns out that the stories about an assassination that sparked a social network frenzy was simply a joke you can read about that in full t.v. dot com. thousands of relit across europe against the international anti piracy of coordinators actor people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania have voiced their fear that the treaty would harm freedom of speech and lead to on line censorship ati's smith has more now from london. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me are demonstrating against actor the anti counterfeit sick trade agreement disagreement which would make insensitive by the sixty's but if they used pirates in the days to find these activists in the streets with no mo money it's ring of the end they're not for me i mean very nice

anonymous. here and none of this is very often where they've got banners we didn't do shut down the internet they're saying no actor culture is made of copies and stop internet censorship and one of the main objections to the at truth movement is that if we make a change and makes entirely in secret say much to the main the e.u. negotiates resign didn't originally say that the document was secretive and undemocratic says we negotiated in secret people who you know are not listening society and they have a delighted to say you know me to say that this will affect our civil liberties this will reduce freedom of speech this will stop us in being able to comment and hold people to find the results of the treaty is incredibly dangerous one of the main complaints about this document is it's unclear wording that it would be easy to make an intentional copyright infringer mentally liable and also criminalizes

what used to be a civil offense so that means we see a lot more cases potentially like the one of a minister using women who shared twenty four songs on the internet and found herself liable for one and a half million dollars worth of damages eventually sixty two thousand five hundred dollars that each song that she had to share and the threat was to bork it since the threat to society suits the threat to internet service providers your experience a few chub of facebook a flicker could become very different but it's also that even innocently connecting to copyrighted material. it actually increase with criminal sanctions it is not just about the incentives either it would also like to close electronics and also it's a message that we should make it more difficult for the poor countries to buy generic on trade marked cheap drugs making it more expensive for a picture to be that people are healthy basically what these people are saying is

that this and that have been made behind closed doors fundamentally affect the economies of privacy and the civil liberties of ordinary everyday people and the fact that it's been done in secret means that they can only assume that this is it in their best interest. or smith or london let's cross live to london discuss the protest with peter broadwell he's a campaigner for the open rights group act of states that all procedures shall be implemented in a manner that preserves freedom of expression fair process and privacy so one of the protesters worried about your protesting there today were you that's right. i think what we and the protests today in europe were concerned about is that there are some fine words about respecting fundamental principles but in practice the very broad wording wording in the agreement does create some real concerns about how and where exactly handing control and power over what happens online to mislead

private interests and that will have inevitable consequences for freedom of expression for people's privacy here in the nation many of the benefits we enjoy from internet could you explain why you would cracking down on piracy result in censorship. i don't think inherently cracking down on piracy does it's when it's done through mechanisms and and treaties that are overly broad and give too much power to unchecked to private interests if you business is the power to have content taken down and how. it's actually surveilled by the internet service providers and your. rating a system there that can be abused and when mistakes can happen and that's why it's such a dangerous and agreement but do you accept that there is a need to protect intellectual property artists producers manufactories them service providers they do need some sort of legislation that they when we read about the increasing levels of piracy. i think one of the things that the protests in the u.s.

over things like soccer and now in europe and activist shown is that there's a huge and and a coalition of voices who want to be part of the discussions about what's pushing and effective enforcement measures look like so far treaties are actually been negotiated in secret which is why they're so on balance if we really want a copper enforcement and i people who works politics you have to start listening to a broader set of forces and not for agreements to be made behind closed doors which is clearly one of the main issues here that's absolutely right i mean one of the key problems with that is that it's been negotiated in secret and that realization is coupled with the momentum from the protests in the u.s. is really see the people raising their voice and saying look actor is really an acceptable insult to democracy as much as it has really substantive problems as well if someone doesn't reach the agreement as it stands or what would be the penalties well this is really ought wording around the circle and damages that are available and how the damages are calculated which could be it way too high

potential and its concerns are whether that's based on any kind of robust evidence or not. the other concerns around the wording of the criminal sections in the definition of what counts as commercial scale which seems way too broad and which would essentially catch fire to many kinds of websites so there's a there's a real danger is that we were effectively criminalizing the wrong people here and unintentionally or intentionally we're going to be arming expression rather than than trying to stop seriously damaging counterfeiting or piracy and there really is a danger of innocent people facing massive fines or indeed imprisonment absolute. if you don't make the wording of these things tight if you don't clearly define the kind of behavior an activity that you are targeting then inevitably the wrong people are going to be caught up in this and that's going to be huge damaging to the way the internet works and as the internet becomes so important to political expression that's that's a real concern what is so really interesting to hear your thoughts here peter thank you very much indeed for joining us live there from london peter broadwell from the

open rights group in london it's. america's mighty military presence around the world is leaving many locals with a bad taste in their mouths quite literally the pentagon is accused of causing massive and sometimes deadly pollution not just in other countries but at home to parties war. 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 an 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 as 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 and just leveled or destroyed afghanistan and iraq now libya and if you look at 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 backyard i can please you north carolina where for three decades people bathed and drank contaminated water i am now only convinced the. 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 that they have these and evidence and there is a more or have years before they ever even bother to test their well and he's not alone one in ten americans live near a minute. or something some superfund site because military bases extreme approaching not only radioactive pollution also you know jet fuel how is 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. 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 their fruits to reduce water pollution well president obama recently announced his plan to boost military presence in australia a military buildup also happening 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 basses around the globe and washington was wall. talking to some news in brief for you this hour in the world of satan iran's president is to make a major announcement on the country's controversial nuclear program in the next few days and then the judge gave no details but said it would never get 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 around to mark the occasion. independent of some of the non-aggression treaty agreements changed too. relieve tensions over disputed territory on the border and the sharing of oil revenues south sudan split from the north last year ending decades of civil war in which some one of the half million people died. argentina was accused britain of selling nuclear missiles near the disputed falkland islands the country's foreign minister claimed a submarine with nuclear weapons was recently sent there as part of britain's deployment london described the claims as absurd escalation in tensions over the falklands comes in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to. as russian city of sochi gives out for the winter olympics some of the biggest stars of winter sports have gathered at the resort to try out the slopes with just two years now until the big event something that runs for the downhill

world cup before the race kicked off russian president dmitri medvedev took to the snow to showcase his ski skills. and his and he's been out to get reports tests for the twenty four teams such a games are in full swing. 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 the posts in such conditions was a challenge but the weather is of course a key factor in heavy fog and blizzard 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 and despite bad weather delays were minimal and as the mountain skies cleared domestic competitions began in earnest to both facilities to the test the venues here on the slopes and bridges across napoli on there are undergoing this

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 caught some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver and i meet up with some city basically live peace here and the compared to what i signed canada except there was ice and then covert to us 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 for people the main event in sochi two thousand and fourteen. 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

gettable the spectators and athletes a lawyer but above all this experience is priceless for the solti two thousand and fourteen organizing committee that will use this competition as a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. while more snow sporting action is coming your way in about twenty minutes from now here in r.t. but before that we've got moscow out for you with a recap of our headlines very shortly.

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good to have you with us is this is our t. here in moscow top stories now egypt streets and squares are alive with running crowd. once again exactly a year after president mubarak was forced from power testers according for the military rulers to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform. and greek lawmakers pander to brussels with more cuts in exchange for bailout cash people their frustration on the streets of athens six ministers have resigned in protest of the plan which now has to be given the green light by parliament. last europeans to mark internet freedom speaking out against the global anti piracy act

their governments want people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania a voice there fear that actor would hold freedom of speech and lead to online censorship. i'll be back with another summary of our main news stories for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime martin andrews gives advice on how to keep your mind and body active through the russian winter moscow art is next on r.t. . well some people embrace the winter and all the frost filled to tease that come with it like a heightened was staying into the dark nights and low temperatures. sleep and relaxation.