they i think at the source of this call are the egypt's revolution three alliance which is comprised of more than 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 want to see some real changes towards democracy in the country which they haven't seen yet they're also calling on workers for massive strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down but 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 know it's 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 clutch 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 really show with the workers who wanted to see some real differences they are saying that things must be chasing mediately more on why it's absence are going to strike here is my colleague mary snow. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid a high price 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 or scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd previously run the country are not themselves. for military tribunals. for.

suspected killer. thought. to be simply a court system. or very 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 mouth 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 there 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 a man says is his case september the time the israeli embassy in cairo the place. began screenplay writer was present at clashes between the army and demonstrators and began how he leaned it 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. 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 start and this was the only way they knew how to deal with problems. for several days what did know her son's whereabouts were when he says. he 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 the israeli 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 a hand in. the citadel in cairo egypt in 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. written off knotty cairo. bell truing a freelance journalist based in cairo says 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 you actually transfer power 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 were people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police and i was fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are

a basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would say or do you say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of 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 in egypt security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. bill true talking to be a little earlier here on r.t. the draft resolution on syria has been circulated to the u.n. general assembly by saudi arabia it's similar to the turks vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by all sides blamed primarily on the syrian authorities meanwhile state t.v. says government of assassination of an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking 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 blame the government meanwhile 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 u.s. is now also to be gathering a coalition of states to. support your position with calls from washington to the rebels. recuse university told me a little earlier that she thinks imposing a new regime in syria would lead to an even deeper cross. 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 some syrians we don't know who the body counts you know what politics people who are killed i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate an outside exile group arming and training these people in different quote unquote democracy exercises and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next externally forced 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 . the technocrat prime minister of greece has cleared one major hurdle on the way towards more rescue cash as his cabinet approved the deep cuts needed to secure it

however 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 are calling for an early election the new deal includes firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage rates being pushed by e.u. leaders who've 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 and on friday protesters clashed with police who used tear gas in response to stones and firebombs economic analyst nick clegg has believed greece could already be in a state of unofficial default. it looks highly likely that the parliament will get enough votes to pass this package it only maids a majority of the three hundred members of deputies it's a human camel system here what we have at the moment is a structure default in fact almost seventy percent of the net present value of all

outstanding bonds which will 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 in greece there is a lot of austerity where it goes over there there is a lot of buy out the head so they can't be seen as giving away money even though most of this is in the form of loans they have to impose some strict conditionality for two reasons so please very local electorates and also to make sure that this money can eventually be repaid by a more sustainable bridge that they have set some very rough conditions there. great politicians find very hard to stomach 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 so 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 ventures they want. more analysis on europe's debt woes on our website r t v dot com and while you're there here's what else you can find on line. about how the cia website has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from the group after suffering a crash on friday night. and despite some wild rumors north korea's new leader kim jong un is dead turns out the stories about an assassination that sparked a social network frenzy simply a joke we read about that in full. dot com. thousands of rallied across europe against the international anti piracy accord

it's known as 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 online censorship nor smith has more from london. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me are demonstrating against acts at the anti council facing trade agreement peace agreement which would make it so that serviced by the same speakers will be used to the pirates in a few days defending these activists in the streets will not moan moan and string of the him they're not making the time in very nice anonymous. here and none of this is very often where they've got van is waiting to shut down instead they're saying no actor culture is made of these and stop internet censorship and one of the main objections to the at truth movement is that if we negotiate entirely in secret they must see that the main e.u.

negotiates design didn't originally say that the document was secretive and undemocratic says we negotiated in secret people who you know are not less civil society and they have a delight to see comments and say 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 crank 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 infringement mentally liable and also criminalizes what used to be a civil offense so that means we see a lot more cases tenchi 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 damage and eventually sixty two thousand five hundred dollars to each song that she had to share and the threat was to bork and 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 conic talking to copyrighted material. it actually increase with criminal sanctions it is not just about the internet 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 trademark cheap drugs making it more expensive for a picture to be that people healthy basically what these people are saying is that this 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. and peter broadwell a campaigner for the open rights group or told me a little early here in r.t. that the treaties biggest danger is in giving too much power to uncontrolled

private interests 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 cream and does creates real concerns about how and where exactly handing control and power over what happens online far too easily to private interests and that will have inevitable consequences for freedom of expression for people's privacy or for innovation in many of the of the benefits we enjoy from the internet when it's done through mechanisms and and treaties that are overly broad and give too much power that's too unchecked to private interests if you give businesses the power to have content taken down and have the users effectively surveilled by their own internet service providers and you're creating a system there that can be abused and when mistakes can happen and that's why it's such a dangerous agreement 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. wall. 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 if you look at history in the late twentieth century i mentioned vietnam earlier. is another place where you're going to see this happening this was going on a vehicle with naval bombing in puerto rico and it happens in our own backyard i can't please you north carolina where for three decades people bathed and drank contaminated water i am only convinced of. their own. 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 haven't and they're getting more or have years. before they were there well and he's not alone one in ten americans live near a military site or something some superfund site because military bases extreme and putting in 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 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 their fruits 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 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. some world news in brief here this world update. newly independent south sudan the sort of non-aggression treaty agreements aims to relieve tensions over disputed territory on the border and the sharing of oil revenues so sudan split from the north last year and then decades of civil war in

which some one of the whole million people died. iran's president is to make a major announcement on the country's controversial nuclear program in the next few days in the village gave no details but said it would never hold his 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. at least two palestinian protesters have been wounded by israeli police firing tear gas and rubber bullets the injured were among demonstrators demanding the release of. who's been on hunger strike for fifty seven days a spokesman for the islamic jihad in the west bank but it's not known if he directly participated in attacks on israelis he was arrested in december but has not been charged. i think the south has accused britain of sending 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 and described the claims as absurd and tensions over the falklands comes in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to. the 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 try out the slopes with just two years now until the big event something that runs for the downhill world cup but just before the race kicked off russian president dmitri medvedev took to the snow to showcase his skills and as the new reports tests for the twenty fourteen sochi 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 downhill ski you want good visibility and less snow that's already on the ground and not still falling preparing the such conditions was a challenge but the weather is of course

a key factor in blizzards can hold us up and cause delays but it hasn't affected overall purpose. 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 the mess to competitions began in earnest to put facilities to the test the venues here on the slopes and ridges of crossing a pulley 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 cup some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver city basically live peace here can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice in vancouver 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 salty two thousand and fourteen organizing committee that will use this competition as a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. well that's all from me for now our special report on how los angeles firefighters had to change roles to become paramedics is coming your way very shortly before that there will be back with a recap of our top story stay with us for that's live here in moscow.

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department that's and not enough nurses to man those that take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to turn around and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire departments medical i've had a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. wealthy british style.

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the. live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day this is all to top stories now the egypt streets and squares are alive with brownian crowds once again exactly a year after president mubarak was forced from power just as according from the minute you were just a step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform. and grieco makers to brussels with more cuts in exchange for but you know cash while people vent their frustration on the streets of athens six ministers have resigned in protest of a plan which now has to be given the green light by parliament. plus european internet freedom speaking out against the global anti piracy act big governments

want people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania have voiced their fear that the act would freedom of speech and lead to online censorship. so those are our main stories at the moment here on our t.v. and that's it for me today. shop of a she'll be here in less than half an hour in the meantime though. for more of their unique financial insight into the latest edition of the kaiser report here on r.t. . i'm max keiser this is the kaiser report we got him just where we want to go. well max this first headline is the theme of the show ok it's alu akbar. gold bar we're all terrorists now believe in a return to the gold standard you are now.