one minute tech the protesters the army since been deployed to try and the clashes he attacked as you shot guns far bombs and rocks with 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 political analyst mohamed fall was encouraged accuses the military leaders of hiring thugs to stoke chaos. the people who attacked the protesters today and yesterday and the day before from the beginning from the beginning of the sit in in front of the minister of defense minister of defense will people who have to be in say that they are anonymous civilian no record for them no one know them but in fact they are the people you disappear your counsel for the forces in front of the preview to them to attack the protesters it's a peaceful peaceful protesters and what's happening now has been happening from eleven so be reconciled and i love them they want to be true people to hate the

pollution and they want that they want a military court stays in egypt the military and state stays in egypt staying ruling the egyptian country and they don't want presidential elections are they want to presidential some kind of a president with some kind of demo or some kind of an empty doles who can who can work the country through him and rule the country through. followers talk to be a little early they're from car and they bring israel is beefing up its military presence on the egyptian border and it's also sending more troops to its from rest of syria 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 super 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 will now come to a place in cairo will be one that would be a lot more hostile to the jewish state then that of course the mubarak what 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 with being 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 israeli 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 president barack obama wrapped up a brief on the dance visit to the country he said to deal with president karzai cementing america's commitment to supporting afghan forces even after the nato combat mission ends in twenty four team obama also stressed the importance of peace talks with the taliban even though the latest attack was in direct retaliation for his visit and the pact with karzai the u.s. leader pledged to win the war but is going to teach cohen reports america intends to stay for at least another decade the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly a year after bin laden's killing to sign the strategic pact with ghana's that 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 agreement that the leaders have signed in vision is the us staying in afghanistan through twenty twenty four at least not in those numbers of course and the equipment 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 it made all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as a great victory because 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 ladin 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. in 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 that feeling 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 you had us some 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 a new wave of revenge extremism. 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 r.t. . and of course you get more from all t. online where we've lined up who should have news and analysis for you in addition to what you see here on screen for example spoiling the surprise twitter means even some of barack obama's top level secrets don't stay hidden for long we explain why . and also there on the web site the cure his job thanks to a new top end fashion magazine which focuses on the trademark muslim headscarves

check out the latest trends right now but 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 for all and a squaring of their own live televised debate and they've been doing this now for two hours there is live well on french t.v. as we bring you coverage of that in a moment or so of course he calls it a moment of truth and both see it as a good crucial time for them this debate socialist rival and is still ahead in the polls and we weren't which was a cause a big t.v. debates have failed to sway the voters at the last minute try to scoop up supporters of the far right leader marine le pen which is refusing to admit also either of them what is in their. hopes is the choice for weary french voters are explaining that if you. go in for the 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 round two is voting for the one you dislike. unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with but this is where it gets tricky for some especially for those who question what kind of power if there really is one. yeah yeah yeah. it may be 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 i will wait. of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. you will see on say. this in my approach to the next five. 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 themselves very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union it will always require more sacrifices for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking group. then they work on some very small things that are there if you recall that 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 artillery paris is. deepening european anger at ukraine couldn't come at a worse time as the country prepares to host football's prestigious euro twenty twelve finals e.u. members are lining up to possibly boycott the event because of ukraine's treatment of its jailed for the prime minister yulia timoshenko is an eastern europe correspondent alexian a chef. 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. 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 you put it all skoal radio 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 villa 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. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has a work cut out in china at the moment which she said visiting ostensibly for annual trade talks but there could be a few elephants in the room let's talk to ron unz he's the publisher of the american conservative magazine joining us live there in the states so lots to discuss concerning the strategics and economics let's talk about strategy first china has not held back in opposing u.s.

foreign policy recently both on north korea and syria will hillary clinton try and get the chinese to give some ground on these issues or or is that a lost cause well that certainly seems plausible and that certainly would be one of her aims it's not clear to me whether the chinese will make those sorts of concessions given their very strong economic position right now and the vast amount of dependence america has and sewing it to the chinese talking about that debt what something like one trillion dollars of u.s. public debt there in china can the u.s. really be in any way confrontational or put pressure on china bearing that aspect in mind well from a rational point of view america is obviously in a weak position for that reason but a lot of american leaders seem to not recognize those realities are still thinking that america is in the position it was ten or fifteen or twenty years ago the

enormously dominant world superpower and that just is not the case anymore and i don't know whether american leaders recognize that you're talking about a superpower and geopolitics america recently held navy drills with the philippines there's marine deployment in australia a bomb is clearly saying that. all eyes are now on asia pacific how is china going to play this certainly by what appears with washington slowly encircling chinese territory. obviously the chinese are not very happy at those developments and i think inside to some extent america's actions are much more provocative than they might be but from another perspective the chinese economy is growing in her normal space and the american economy is not so it's perfectly rational for the chinese leaders to in effect accept these. print papers on america's side and just realize that another five or ten years the chinese position will be enormously

stronger relative to america than it is today but isn't the chinese economy very reliant on the u.s. economy despite being stronger that that's not entirely clear in other words there were a line and on us to the extent that they lend us a lot of money and send us their goods in return for pieces of paper the point is the chinese are actually moving them sold so much more towards the domestic consumer development economy they're talking about building a belief thirty five million new public housing apartments in the next few years they're really doing a lot of internal development as well so in a few years down the road of america's not buying as much many chinese goods and can't afford to buy as many chinese goods that may not matter as much to china as it does today china's greatest dependancies up is in natural resources oil from the middle east a lot of other resources from australia brazil countries like that and i think those countries are probably more important to china down the road than america is

right i mentioned the elephant in the room germany's discussions particularly when it comes to human rights obviously attention is paid very much by the u.s. on human rights issues in china do you think clinton will put them on the agenda especially in the light of what we've been hearing about the blind dissident who escaped house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy. i certainly think she might take that position. partly because a lot of american leaders i don't think will recognize many of the activities that the american government has taken and you know many of what might be called the severe human rights or uses that america has taken against people over the last few years around the world and in other words i think there's hardly a case of american leaders believing their own propaganda and believing what they read in the wall street journal believing what they read in the new york times and not recognizing as much but many of their much of that reporting is very helpfully

slanted it's a little bit like the old problem of the soviet leaders used to our twenty five or thirty years ago the many times believe what they read in pravda and afterwards there are downed or get run just very briefly people describe relations quite delicate between the two how would you sum up the future prospects of china and u.s. relations just very briefly please i think the relations certainly could be very good down the road i mean in other words we produce many things that they need they produce many things that we need but we have to recognize it's a two way street and we can't certain rules on everything are so great thank you very much for tyrone arms publisher of the american conservative magazine there live in the states. well our turn to update you on more the world's main news in our world update a rebel ambush in syria's aleppo province is 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 the u.n.

warns 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 serious 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 you know most u.n. security council resolution gives both sides two weeks to return to negotiations clashes in the this. butin oil rich area have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks raising fears of a return to military conflict decades long civil war killed over one of the half million people and ended last july when the self won independence. also the world update a rare ratings chink of light for greece standard and poor's elevator the country stays out of default on the back of the world's biggest ever debt restructuring which helps greece service its members debt but means investors of lost billions greece is now rated triple c. meaning it's dependent falling to burn outs from the e.u. and the i.m.f. totaling two hundred forty billion euros. with a recap of our top stories for in about ten minutes from now well in the meantime

three decades ago the british navy sent the argentinian cruiser the general belgrano in the first major retaliation in the falklands war when next a former spy tells us why britain's belligerence today could see the country make more mistakes in the south atlantic stay with us for that exclusive interview.

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 that talk more about this i'm joined by the. a historian and author of races age the unofficial history of that war he thanks for speaking to r.t. during the period known as the war the buildup to the invasion of the falklands you were actually working in argentina as a british intelligence officer how much did the british government know about what was going on in anjan tina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. gosh i mean the dirty war you just named it 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 in the status which is why after 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 falkland islands and that ownership feature in this policy we're going to balance 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 those 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 the older 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 realize that the previous essence of smell that one and knew it was a bad one why did they want to set the island is why do they want to. lease bank the territory to argentina because of the conceit of the british public sector and don't forget we're living that was a mirror when people thought the national health service was the envy of the world and they calmly 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 more to politicians you 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 daryn period 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 and this 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. have been up to the foreign office that's exactly what would have happened the argentine invasion of the islands worked out pretty well they didn't 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 us and skin it took everybody completely by surprise. the political level certainly there were plenty of warnings that are one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an unpaid 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 is 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 island us and if we didn't keep our word to them we were worthless but hold operation could have gone either way at any stage i mean just some quite small things the times they've done better and the british would have lost what about now what would happen if attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the island that can't recover if the on the lost now we can't get them back or 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 the next attack on mount pleasant and taking it out at which point the

island's fall but are still 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 then moment i don't think so how damaging would that be full for the current government here in britain is it mention it 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 i mean political suicide for any any government after

that war was not and this is why the utter stupidity of the argentine government after that war it was politically impossible for any british government to sell out the islanders 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 but the foreign office controlled foreign intelligence that was one. the other one 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 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 battles where 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 in vain 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 for my opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements of fact will be ignored because they're too inconvenient. thank you. for sure is that so much of the experience i mean to say show me even if i live here it's a time finally when we should value measurements welby industries such as g.d.p. and other governments.

exactly how in the russian capital good to have you with us top stories now this after clashes in cairo twenty people killed and the right one hundred injured in attackers during a protest against egypt's military rulers the pre-election tensions put neighboring israel on alert it's strengthening its borders. a taliban bombing killed 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 e.u. reaches for the red card as countries move to boycott football zero twenty twelve new crane over the handling of its former prime minister. to bring us up to date that's it for me more with mattresses on the news team in half an hour from now in the meantime consider if you can measure pleasure with the happiness index.