people have been killed and up to one hundred injured one unknown gunmen attacked the protesters the army since been deployed to try and end the clashes the attackers you shot comes far bombs and rocks for demonstrators retaliating and beating some of the assailants the violence comes three weeks before egypt votes for a new president protesters have been camping outside the defense ministry for days demanding an end to the military rule that replaced hosni mubarak over a year ago well political analyst mohammed four was in cairo told me earlier that he's accusing the military leaders of hiring thugs to start chaos. the people who attacked the protesters day and yesterday and the day before from the beginning from the beginning of the sit in in front of the minister of defense the minister of defense will people who have to be say that they are anonymous civilian no record for them no one no them but they in fact they are the people you disappear you counsel for the forces on the ground to build for you to them to attack the

protesters it's a peaceful peaceful protesters and what's happening now has been happening from eleven so be we could tell that i love them they wanted the egyptian people to pay but pollution and what they want that they want a military court stays in egypt the military and state stays in egypt staying the fiction country and they don't want a presidential elections or they want to put a some kind of a president with some kind of demo or some kind of an empty those who can who can work the country through him and rule the country through. neighboring israel is beefing up its military presence on the egyptian border and it's also sending more troops to its front here with rest of syria a middle east correspondent paula has the latest. well it certainly is a massive mobilization what we're hearing from the israeli army is that they've given the approval for the call up of twenty reserve battalions many of these are soldiers who've already completed their annual reserve duty what commanders are

saying is that these troops are needed to deal with security threats that are coming from israel's borders with egypt and syria and also because of the growing instability in those countries now we're hearing from sources today wednesday also that the situation in the sinai desert which of borders israel is becoming a manageable television is fearing that the regime that will now come to a place in cairo will be one that will be a lot more hostile to the jewish state there metaphors mubarak is seeing is this week israel beginning to build a seventy so high concrete wall along its border with lebanon and this according to israeli sources is to stop firing from lebanon into northern israel we've been told that the war will take several weeks to finish until now there has been an electrified fence along the israeli lebanese border but it comes on the back of a nother security barrier war that israel is building in the south of the country along its border with egypt's sinai now here to israel the sources are saying that

this is to stop security alerts and also to prevent smuggling into israel so certainly we are seeing a lot of activity happening on the ground israel taking security threats very seriously and fearing that they will be more attacks but at the same time this is having the effect of isolating israel from its neighbors and from the international community. the taliban says it carried out a suicide car bombing that killed seven people in the afghan capital the new president barack obama wrapped up a brief unannounced visit to the country he signed a deal with president karzai cementing america's commitment to supporting afghan forces even after the nato combat mission ends in twenty four teams but over also stressed the importance of peace talks with the taliban even though the latest a turn was in direct retaliation for his visit on the part with karzai the u.s. leader pledged in the wall boxes going to reports america intends to stay for at least another decade. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly

year after bin laden's killing to sign the strategic pact with ghana's then is seen as an attempt to put the new years of a success story on the decade long war in afghanistan but success in afghanistan is very arguable to say the least the afghans want american troops out we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night raids and other actions by u.s. troops the american people want their troops out so both governments are anxious to tell their people that this is over but the women that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. staying in afghanistan through twenty twenty four at least not in those numbers of course and the agreement by the way does not address specific troop levels or the size or location of u.s. bases and this is something that many afghans are worried about and that is that the uighurs warrants a permanent basis in afghanistan so amid all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as a great victory here's my report on how bin laden's killing could serve as

a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to decimate the ranks of al qaeda and go. we're able to finally bring osama bin laden justice. by now nobody doubts that bin laden's killing is going to be the highlight of obama's presidential campaign it's already featured in his ads. the harder. than the more honorable. and the one that produced in my opinion the best from joe. as hyped as bin laden's killing is some ask whether it's being used to mask the feeler of u.s. policies abroad during the last ten years the bed log thing i think makes things easier it sells well but again i don't think you can put that good

a face on ten years of combat in afghanistan and the afghan and the iraq invasion i think is to me question still yet to be asked about what the justification was no matter how much killing bin laden means you can't take away ten years of failure it was going into afghanistan and especially intro rock ok that created more enemies you know and the recruits for. you know jadis this kind of salafist. you know than that then weakening them the pentagon's new strategy is to move away from ground wars bin laden's killing has become the face of the new war on terror obama style through targeted assassinations in different countries with the use of drones and special ops experts say that policy can also backfire the attacks end up killing many civilians and they steer and new wave of revenge extremism you know how many people are we going to have to kill before we can finally say ok that's it

objective achieved war over we can call this thing off and i look at the israeli experience with targeted assassination and that suggests to me that when you engage in that kind of a policy really what you're going to do is end up having an endless list of targets . and i fear that's the past we have gone down bin laden's death was a success on the war on terror front no doubt about that but there is an attempt to sell it as the success story of the whole war on terror and many fear that bin laden's killing could serve as a convenient cover for bad policies of the past as well as the future i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. by the way get more from our online where we've lined up a host of news and analysis for you for example spoiling the surprise how twitter power means even some of barack obama's top level secrets don't stay hidden from long we explain why. also online the hood got your job thanks to a new top ten fashion magazine which focuses on the trademark muslim headscarves

check the latest trends at r.t. dot com. in four days france chooses its next leader and the front runners are making their final big t.v. push to win voters right now in paris nicolas sarkozy and foster all on the squaring up in a televised debate and we'll bring you a picture of that right now as that debate takes place and they have been debating for what over an hour and l. on live television there in france and sarkozy calls it a moment of truth and both see it as a crucial socialist rival and who we can see there now is still ahead in the polls and worryingly force of course he. really needs to sway voters at the last minute trying to scoop up supporters of far right leader marine le pen is refusing to endorse either of them but its options choice for french voters is just as silly explains. so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas

sarkozy and the french say around one of the presidential race is about choosing the candidate you like the most around to is voting for the one you dislike the least unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with and this is where it gets tricky for some especially for those who question what kind of power or if there really is one. maybe in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france is economic woes have left citizens skeptical from the onset. of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. you will see on say. this the most protests the next five years. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all those in this wall in this in this. especially when france's economic quagmire

is already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is during ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt and a series of measures are likely to continue both candidates are in favor of euro bonds more intervention from the european central bank and to varying degrees both have put on a confrontational tone towards brussels and germany but there's doubt that there will be much room for maneuver at all. whoever the elected president is sarkozy or he will subject himself very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union and it will always require more sacrifices for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking globalists. then they work very small things that are periphery calls that are ok we're going to vote for immigrants in local elections. you know what we're going to lead and what sexual

couples adopt children those are important measures but they're not the biggest measure of the tough choice to make for those who don't see want to begin with the . tests are still the artillerie paris is. deeply european ukraine couldn't come at a worse time as the country prepares to host football's prestigious euro two thousand and twelve finals members are lining up to possibly boycott the event because of ukraine's treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko his own eastern correspondent eastern europe correspondent in a shift. it certainly is getting darker and darker for key of in relation to the euro twenty two a football championship which starts in less than forty days from now and now the dutch government is the latest all of the european officials to express their wish to boy call it the tournament here in ukraine the list which already consists of the german and the czech republic presidents at the head of the euro commission and

the german chancellor angela merkel who even said that the german national football side should boycott their participation in the upcoming summer storm here in ukraine and poland mangler merkel says that unless tymoshenko is released she would not come to ukraine for the euro twenty two well football championship the dutch government and the czech presidents are a bit softer in their statement saying that they just want to see and prove in the treatment of political prisoners in ukraine but all in all definitely this creates a very great deal of pressure on key of last friday's terrorist attacks and to put it off already created serious concerns about the security during the summer storm in but now the euro twenty two off to become a victim of political pressure from the european union on ukraine the ukrainian leadership reacted to all these statements coming from the european union but saying that this kind of rhetoric puts the countries back in the cold war and in fact there may be right in some sense because the one of the vivid examples of a political boy called during a sporting championship sporting event was in one thousand nine hundred eighty one

sixty countries refused to come to moscow for the olympic games there and then the soviet union four years later replied by not sending fourteen countries fourteen republics of the soviet union to the olympic games in los angeles but you know the political boycotts during the sporting events happen even nowadays four years ago during the beijing olympics some countries also wanted to abstain from coming to china for the olympic games but then they managed to negotiate it somehow with the us authorities in china but certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and for keven particular now. and all team sports present a k. partridge says the football community wants to keep its own the bowl and is reluctant to get involved in the role. i think here in the situation there is a divide between the political side and the football side the football side is very much to do with the seams taking part of c. coaches players and also the fans the other side of politics so this situation is a reason with you have these teams coming in but in terms of the fans themselves

there isn't really a great deal of reaction from the fans as there is that hasn't been any sort of blogging or responses on the political sense the fans are much more concerned with the logistics of getting a hotel getting flights getting tickets but sporting football in particular it's not it's not never been their place to be politically involved it's more a case of taking the game taking the game to the wider world to the wide to the fans to the wider global football community and by helping regeneration and by definition just by being there helping to highlight some of these issues. may day marchers were out in force across europe with thousands getting the chance to vent their anger either in during the violence most of the demonstrations in some cities in italy police protesters with cheer in seeing the this is clashes turned into angry over the punitive cuts speak carried out while the country's three main neediness developes reforms being pushed through by the neck to technocrat prime minister mario monti rallies also turned violent in germany as left wing

demonstrators clashed with police in berlin and hamburg the reporters on both sides an estimated four hundred thousand walked across the country to demand a growth strategy rather than counts and in spain which is battling a double dip recession trade unionists focused only recall the euro zone unemployment rate of twenty five percent of young people who are out of work what message was clear throughout the economy the future meets centering around citizens' lot bailing out banks. in italy as. the violence come from. establishment with political territory when you have a cut in your wage quarter of your wage when you cut social security when you have a cut of employment then you see that. people are confronted with a very violent process in their life they lose their middle to survive and

that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population we have to have an economy with the with the people first the people and not the profit and we have an economy with solidarity and corporation and not always fighting and competition between countries and people and so on so we have to remain you'd come on me in total basis that's one one thing but directly for the moment we are to take measures that the rich people are paying for the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people. more of the world's main news now for your world updates a rebel ambush in syria's aleppo province apparently killed fifteen government soldiers on tuesday u.n. observers reported multiple cease fire violations from both sides during

a gun battle near the turkish border un mourns the attacks threaten the peace plan it helped broker and wants to significantly increase the number of monitors in the country by the end of may syria's conflict has taken thousands of lives since it began over a year ago. sudan and south sudan could face sanctions if they don't stop the border violence a unanimous un security council resolution gives both sides two weeks to return to negotiations clashes in the disputed oil rich area have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks raising fears of a return to military conflict the decades long civil war killed over one and a half million people amended last july when the self won independence. a rare ratings chink of light for greece standard and poor's is elevated the country's state is out of default it's on the back of the world's biggest ever debt restructuring which helps greece service its members debt that means investors have lost billions greece is now rated triple c. meaning it's vulnerable and dependent falling to bailouts from the e.u.

and the i.m.f. total two hundred forty billion euros. well i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in about ten minutes from now well in the meantime three decades ago the british navy sent the argentinian cruiser general in the first major retaliation in the falklands war where next a former spy tells us why britain's belligerence today could see the country make more mistakes in the south atlantic stay with r.t. for that special.

it's now thirty years since the war between britain and argentina over the falkland islands but like the islands themselves the accounts about war and the reasons for it are still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh a historian and author of razors edge the unofficial history of that war he thanks for speaking to r.t. during the period known as the dirty war the buildup to the invasion of the falklands you were actually working in argentina as a british intelligence officer how much to the british government know about what was going on in argentina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. ghoshal the dirty war and why they choose to ignore it is that the british government. is not very good at anything much except ignoring what would be inconvenient for it to record an instance of. the short answer is the

foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station and when the sadness which is why off to the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence after that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much to the issue of the full pull in the islands and that ownership feature in this policy we're going to balance that certainly the british government was more concerned about human rights than it was about the fulcrums but that's the political level. prime minister callaghan in the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island as he said not handing over two thousand britons to a bunch of bleeping fascists and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop them and so when the new government came in they rushed in to sell the new ministers the policies of the old and more experienced ministers told to stuff it

and that's what they did with a fractured government and they revived old plans to sell out the islands with a bunch of inexperienced ministers who didn't realise that the previous essence of smell that woman knew it was a bad one why did they want to set out the and why did they want. these bank the territory to argentina because of the conceit of the british public sector. and don't forget we're living that was an era when people thought the national health service was the envy of the world and they commonly thought of the british civil service as being a rolls royce service and the foreign office was by far the most conceited of them all. and they said well to politicians we know better why was that when they see costly you know how trendy this country is and ever and charges off in one direction at that time the big thing was oh well we must share our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again. looking the fact that people's

memories go a long long long way back just because you aren't any longer in fear of us doesn't mean people don't remember what you did when you were in times invaded because they were more or less told by british officials that all that britain would do would be to yap to the un they were dumbfounded totally unprepared for that they're totally convinced that the brits are indeed if it had been up to the foreign office that's exactly what would have happened the argentine invasion of the islands worked out pretty well though didn't it for the british government given that it was in such trouble domestically how much was this planned by britain to lure argentina into a trap to save its end skin it took everybody completely by surprise the political level certainly there were plenty of warnings that were one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an and failure failure of the intellect but that's permanent in british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies they campaign itself the way it was

conducted was it done well was a good idea in itself i think they had to do it we had a legal and moral obligation to those islanders and if we didn't keep our word to them we were worthless that whole operation could have gone either way at any stage i mean just some quite small things that. they'd done better and the british sort of lost what about now what would happen if attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the islands there can't recover if the on in the last now we can't get them back are genuinely do not have the capability military are way more professional now than they were then. and they have some pretty competent special forces and i can't see anything actually stopping them coming in. during a night attack on mount pleasant and taking it out at which point the island's full

. use a q ship come in send in your special forces dressed as tourists on a cruise ship and take stanley that two and a half of the thousand of the three thousand people in the falklands you hold that just exactly what is britain going to do that moment i don't think so how damaging would that be full for the current government here in britain as an engine would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does. war was actually a serious operation by a serious country i don't think this country is serious anymore why does the british government then so. desperately want to keep hold of these the british government desperately wants to get rid of it they just can't get rid of it or not because of the war so what every political society any any government to that war

was not and this is why the utter stupidity of the argument on government after that war it was politically impossible for any british government to sell out the island however much the foreign office and the ministry of defense want to do it your current do it people remember people would say what the hell is this how much the recent conflicts like afghanistan and iraq tell us what's been learned if anything from the falklands war well they did learn one about the foreign office control foreign intelligence that was one. the other one they briefly learned was that if you're going to operate overseas british very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything the politicians if they can will draw the wrong conclusions from everything i'm glad got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities we were put into whole bad so we did not have the combat power to do that we were put into hell memory did not have the combat power to do that one

rages inveighing against this. not because of any censorship not because of any oppression or the fact that i will walk out of here and get beaten over the head for my opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements of fact will be ignored because they're too inconvenient. thank you. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is i'm approaching a whole different. in the early twenty first century

military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms the empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases of america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases a lot of the noise is our noise of those bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the

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here in central moscow this is a story about half the clashes in cairo see twenty people killed in the right one hundred injured. during a protest against egypt's military rulers the pre-election tensions put neighboring . it's strengthening its borders. a taliban bombing kills seven in kabul in retaliation to barack obama's surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another decade. plus the red card his country's move to boycott football zero twenty twelve in ukraine over the handling of its jailed former prime minister. to bring up to date this i'll be back with a news team about thirty minutes from now with more on those stories in the meantime the hidden purposes in secret strategies of global.