protesters the army's since been deployed to try ending the clashes attackers use shotguns fire 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 more than a year ago political analyst mohamed full was in cairo accuses the military leaders of hiring thugs just ok us. the people who attacked the protests to stay 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 there were people who have to be say that the anonymous civilian no record for them no one no one will know them but they in fact they are the people who the supreme council of all the full shows run to prove to them to attack the protesters it's a peaceful peaceful protesters and what's happening now has been happening from eleven to be reduced now that i love them they want to the people to hate the

pollution and the want that they want the military cooled stays in egypt the military and state stays in egypt staying ruling the country and they don't want presidential elections so really want to put as a do some kind of a president who's some kind of demo or some kind of name to those who can who can work the country through him and rule the country through. neighboring israel beefing up its military presence along egyptian border it's also sending more troops to the frontier with restive syria our middle east correspondent paula sli or has the latest well it certainly is a massive mobilization what we're hearing from these made me is that they've given the approval for the call up of twenty c. this is battalions many of these all soldiers have 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 egypt and 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 place in cairo will be one that would be a lot more hostile to the jewish state than that of course the mubarak 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 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 has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed seven people in kabul the attack comes just after president obama wrapped up a brief unannounced visit to afghanistan he signed a strategic deal with afghan leader hamid karzai outlining the two countries ties after the end of nato mission in twenty fourteen 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 packed with cars are u.s. leader pledged to end the war but as ortiz got a chicky on reports the u.s. intends to stay for at least another decade. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly a year after bin laden's killing two signed a strict. packed with ghana's then is seen as an attempt to put the years of the

success story on the decade long war in afghanistan but success in afghanistan is very or are you able 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 reason 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 u.s. 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 qaida and go. we were able to finally bring osama bin laden just. 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 so. 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 ben laden 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 that 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 into iraq ok that created more enemies you know and the recruits for. you know jadis this kind of salafist. you know than than 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 fund 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 be reporting from washington r.t. you can always get more from r.t. online where we've lined up a host of news and analysis for you also online is boiling the surprise how twitter power means even some of barack obama's top level secrets didn't stay hidden for a long way to explain. and berlin's may day mayhem as riot police clashed with protesters watch footage from the rally at artie's you tube channel.

these are the images are seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations rule the day. in four days france chooses next president in front runners have been making their final big t.v. push to win voters nicolas sarkozy and francois hollande squared off in a marathon live television debate for almost three hours and sometimes barb exchanges sarkozy repeatedly called his challenger a liar well the socialist hollande accused the president of never taking the rap for mistakes how and is still ahead in the polls worryingly for us our cozy big t.v. debates have failed to sway voters at the last minute they're trying to scoop up supporters of a far right leader marine le pen who's refusing to endorse either of them but it's a hobson's choice for weary french voters as artie's tests are cilia explaining to you. so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas sarkozy

and the french say round one of the presidential race is about choosing the candidate you like the most round to. two is voting for the one you dislike the least 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 a. bill really is one. that yeah yeah yeah. it may be in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france's 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 in my approach that the next five. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all in this wall in this in this. especially when france is economic quagmire is

already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is doing ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt in a series of measures are likely to continue to get 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. and 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 out there if recalls that ok we're going to vote for immigrants in local elections you know what we're going to lead. and with sexual

couples a dove children's those are important measures but then the biggest losers but tough choice to make for those who don't see want to begin with and does so sylvia artillery batteries. deepening european anger in ukraine couldn't come at a worse time as the country already is toast football's prestigious euro two thousand and twelve finals e.u. members winding up to possibly boycott the event because of ukraine's treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko more from artie's alexei or chefs in kiev. 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 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 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 vivid examples of a political boy called during a sporting championship sporting event was in one thousand nine hundred eighty when

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 now days 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 keep in particular now. r r t sports presenter kate partridge says the football community wants to keep its author on the ball and is reluctant to get involved in the dispute. 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 parts of c. coaches players and also the fans the other side of politics so this situation is the 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 that 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. you know circuitry of state hillary clinton has got to work that out in china which she's visiting ostensibly for and you will trade talks but there could be a few elephants in the room ron unz publisher of the american conservative magazine who's washington is guilty of believing its own propaganda and forgets it isn't the only big world power. 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 they're a lie 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 themselves much more towards the domestic consumer development economy they're talking about building i believe 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 if america's not buying as much many chinese goods and can't afford to buy as many chinese goods that he may not matter as much to china as it does today china's greatest dependencies of his and 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's.

turned out as in other stories making headlines across the globe a rebel and motion syria's aleppo province has apparently killed fifteen government soldiers tuesday un observers reported multiple ceasefire violations from both sides during a gun battle near the turkish border and un 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 syria's conflict has claimed thousands of lives since the start of more than a year ago. sudan it is south sudan could face sanctions if they don't stop their border violence and united miss u.n. 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 a military conflict the decades long civil war killed more than one and a half million people and ended last july when the south one independence.

scenes like these won't be around in libya in the near future because the revolutionary government rolled out new laws banning public praise of the late moammar qaddafi censorship also prohibits endorsing the former leader's ideals the penalty can be as much as life in prison for what's deemed as quote damaging to the state. we're back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes first though three decades ago the british navy sank the argentine cruiser general belgrano in the first major retaliation in the falklands war up next a former spy tells us why britain's belligerence today could see the country making more mistakes in the south atlantic stay with us.

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 the historian and author of raises age 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 did the british government know about what was going on in argentina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. 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 to do is inconvenient for it to take recalled an instance of. the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station in the interests 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 did the issue of the for the islands and that ownership feature in this policy were 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 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 a 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 the facts or 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 is why do they want. these banks 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 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 shed our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again. looking the fact that people's memories go a long long way back just because you aren't any longer in 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 to make stickley how much was this planned by britain to lure argentina into a trap to save its end skin it took everybody completely by surprise you know the political level certainly there were plenty of warnings that you know one of the

things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an interview 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've done on bet 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 islands that can't recover if the on in the last now we can't get them back 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 fall . 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 as a mention 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 to 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 of 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 battles for we did not have the contact part 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 he bitch and i 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 the earth and the shadow is an approaching a whole different. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to build that'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 in 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 of why are the noises i would often doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like you can see here for the speech. since the end of

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headlines twenty protesters killed by unknown attackers during a march in cairo at a rally against a ban on some presidential hopefuls. the taliban says it carried out a suicide bombing in kabul that killed seven in retaliation for barack obama's surprise visit to commit american support to afghanistan for at least another decade. plus the red card his country's move to boycott football's prestigious euro two thousand and twelve in ukraine after the handling of its for former prime minister. i'll be back up next stay with us for the secret strategies of global u.s. military facilities our special report.