egypt's deposed dictator hosni mubarak could face execution or decades in jail if found guilty of our current quarter of involvement in the death of hundreds during last year's revolution. in paris president putin has the international community to stick to kofi annan peace plan for syria to prevent full scale civil war. and sacked for speaking out baltic states persecute yet another official for standing up against the oppression of russians that. this is r.t. live from moscow on carrie johnston a car

a court is set to announce whether egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is guilty of complicity in mass murder he's accused of ordering security forces to fire on protesters demonstrating against his rule during last year's revolution more than eight hundred people were killed in the crackdown in the barrack refutes the charges which could see him in prison for decades or even executed when you know what to breathe it seems comparable if he's guilty judgement day comes as thousands of egyptians are rallying against ongoing military rule barracks last prime minister and shafique who's running for the presidency in faces as the brotherhood candidate hunted you see a second round vote later this month well neither is perceived as a champion of the revolution many took part in it some observers predicting the revolt. the verdict will be mostly political as opposed to adhere to any sort of justice related. it matters however on the other hand if

mubarak is off the hook the chances are their evolution might find another way of violent expression the stime this is what many egyptians find very bothersome we've went out in the streets and we revolted and the whole world's two by us and we supposedly ousted mubarak and his regev yet somehow the region is back shafiq right now is one of the major one of the two major contenders for the presidential elections he could possibly be the president come july first the egyptian people are becoming weary and fatigued by all of this they haven't even thought that their pollution has as delivered on its promises the military council might come at the end of the day and say we've we've given you the chance and now we just have to got the word the country back together the imminence of the regime going to spoil the party so that the egyptians don't actually since any real change and at the end of the day they are going to prefer security over evolutionary changes that haven't

materialized in any way. well to were chart the fall of hosni mubarak you can log on to r.t. dot com and get all the background on last year's egyptian revolution well here's what else you can find online right now the fight over roadblocks between serbian activists and nato forces in the course of a six injured conflict in the disputed area continues. also online economic heavyweights who seem to know something no one else does as one agency was already trying out the trading in greek drachma. president vladimir putin has urged patience and time for kofi annan peace plan to take hold in syria he made the statement why don't the visit to bird in paris nato

expansion in europe's financial woes have also been among the topics parties it reports. they have talked about energy issues also in terms of increasing trade between the two countries let's not forget that the e.u. is the trading partner of russia the e.u. as a whole and that investment coming from this continent to russia is definitely significant and they also touched upon issues that concern them both such as that of a nuclear nonproliferation and again stressing the fact that the two countries are indeed partners but in terms of that partnership there is of course still a tension especially when it comes to the anti missile defense first of all and had stressed the a position of france it accordance with its other international partners saying that the a.m.t. is not aimed at russia however russia said that in the past they had had a god verbal promises but that is not enough. in the past we've often been promised that we wouldn't expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military

hardware near russia but we've seen it expand and its bases spread we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue now syria of course is high on the agenda before a bloody mary putin went to berlin and to france at the paris there had been statements from the two countries saying that they will try to get moscow on board with the rest of the a members of the u.n. security council or russia maintaining that it is not siding with assad nor is it siding with the opposition now this has come under fire from the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who said that by not taking sides that in fact will contribute to escalating the violence in the country well certainly this is not how up mr putin of views the situation. where no discussing the tragedy of a syrian town where fourteen or fifteen people were killed some of them were actually tortured as well this is stirred up the world's media but how many civilians of actually been killed at the hands of the so-called militants have you

looked at that body count now as far as francois hollande and putin are concerned they both a stress that they are looking at a diplomatic solution. but this is still the ideal and to solve the crisis in syria however it has to be pointed out that there are differences they were approach saying that more sanctions are necessary to put pressure on the assad regime will putin saying that this is ineffective citing past examples for example in iraq or libya he was questioning security level at this point today. well an independent un panel is to conduct an investigation into a massacre in syria which claimed the lives of more than a hundred people last week damascus blames armed opposition fighters for orchestrating it back and says they're seeking to trigger foreign military action but several western governments have expelled syrian diplomats on the atrocity russia says the horror and highlights the dangers of backing rebels in extremist elements while the west us continues to support the syrian opposition and is

proposing a regime change. from the institute of democracy incorporation says the western public is not getting a full picture of what's going on in syria. the ceasefire obviously has to involve both sides what could be more sensible than what could be more reckless than to try and weighed in with a military intervention which effectively and indeed explicitly is supporting only one side namely the rebels there's a concerted push by western powers led by america followed by britain and france to overthrow the assad regime but because the goal is regime change the propaganda focuses on the personality of the president it allows people to feel that the people watching television reports or hearing these arguments it allows them to feel a sense of moral superiority that allows them to hate and people quite enjoy the sense of of hating they enjoy the sense that they can condemn somebody else because it makes them feel morally superior and that's why i think that even after all we

know about yugoslavia iraq even about libya about all the lies which were told to justify these various wars this message works again and again and again because it feeds on very simple psychological needs and on psychological weaknesses on the part of the television watching public. and still to come this hour around over death row plates in the u.s. about the cost of keeping alive people waiting in exit. some taxpayers are going to run a much needed services. and r.t.s. speaks to a twelve year old internet sensation to get their insights on global economic crisis teaching the full story. now media coverage of discrimination against ethnic russians in the baltic republics is fueling a fresh route that final thought is have sucked a professor of he voiced his grievances almost to me correspondent alexia share ski

met up with him. i can accept this policy of treachery to my friends from the russian minority we stood shoulder to shoulder to make independent now they're being treated like garbage but. in february this teacher at the leaders novel academy spoke to our team for months on the york is looking for a new job it was made clear to him by the academy's management that his appearance on r.t. meant he had no future there. my boss coolly and said this interview is harmful for our future students he made it look as if i made an act of aggression against latvia i told them i only spoke my mind which i have a constitutional right to do later my colleagues told me the academy's rector ordered the h.r. department to find a reason to sack me after the summer exams. a top level politician from another

baltic country estonia also made comments on one of our stories and also found himself targeted by the authorities the vice mayor of dialin it was surprised to see himself on an annual report put together by estonia security police outlining actual and potential threats to national security he decided to take action. i was blacklisted because of my activities to protect and preserve russian schools here the security police believe this could violate as soon as sovereignty i have a different opinion and that's why i filed a lawsuit against the organization for me it's not only are both clearing my name but to stop dangerous tendencies which undermine democracy in my country so that list also contained almost all russian t.v. stations including r.t. foreign minister sergei lavrov and anti-fascist activists from finland and

a dozen n.g.o.s member of a stoney a spy. also one of the names on the blacklist wrote a letter to a stone prime minister demanding answers she believes such actions are illegal when you know what it says i see if you are not at war with russia or anyone else that's why we have no grounds to blacklist any organizations or channels the security police have been writing this reports for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line i read their rules and they say this organization is only responsible for gathering information and into not publishing it to influence the public opinion in the two decades since independence the baltic states have been trying hard to bury their communist past ironically putting people on blacklists was one of the methods used by the soviet special services so with more people being scrutinized for speaking their minds the wish of the baltic countries to follow a democratic path may come into question those who have found themselves under

pressure from the authorities for speaking to the media find it especially surprising that things like that happen in morden day europe they say they never wanted to harm their homeland but they want the democracy to prevail after all. the r.t. reporting from latvia and estonia. taliban insurgents have a detonated a car bomb and tried to storm a nato base overnight in eastern afghanistan fourteen militants were killed and coalition forces responded with no foreign oil afghan troops killed russian presidential envoy to afghanistan as i mean. spent many years in the country so the taliban wants to expel foreign forces from the country. but the column looks like law nation the law. not all of them. is what they rated by ideology. they are fighting these believe they're fighting

for their cause so the nation a little bit in shondells they. form the force was to be stationed in their concrete and they feel a little very very relieved when the real danger. maybe it's eggs or the ration but . they apart a while guns aside and you may call it the taleban i would call them passionate who wants to see their contrary their homeland in beaverton shape they have legitimate right but we want them to drive to achieve their goal for political means not for agents and not pro insurgency and violence we want them to stop that they're not gonna stand we want them all are going to come to terms on their own nation the interest basis well that's so there's i in that sense we're ready. to support all the extents of our potential

a certain principle enshrined by security console for nation work a solution are gonna stand we strongly support some of these principles and we wish the surgeon see to embrace the space posts and stop moving toward peace. let's have a look at some other news making headlines around the world this hour. in ireland have said yes sixty forty the e.u. fiscal treaty which critics say winning pose long term austerity and loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels the economic effect the pact in response to. this is already signed by this czech republic britain garland the only country to get it but the plan forces member states to coordinate their budget policies within strict limits this is home to breaking news to tell a simple. thing they are part. of the huge profit bank that.

gives the law in contrast to ireland as leader of greece's reserve party says he'll cancel the country's bailout deal if his radical left wing movement wins the election greek voters will go to the polls on june the seventeenth after elections in early may produced no outright winner with a coalition government formed greece is under strict terms to cut spending or to continue receiving emergency funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling austerity program may force the country out of the year is an unknown global economic consequences. an israeli soldier and a palestinian militant have been killed during a border gun battle in gaza israeli army claims the palestinian cut through the fence and opened fire on israeli troops and the shot dead in response in

a separate incident in israeli airstrike on gaza killed one person and seriously injured two suspected militants israeli army maintains an exclusion zone between gaza and israel troops regularly opening fire on palestinians who preach it. the cost of keeping someone on death row in the u.s. can run to millions of dollars some are now complaining that the money could be better spent in other ways a claim resisted by prisoners' rights campaigners auntie's within a culture never has details. but in his twenty years as district attorney off allie county john van de camp was involved in the conviction of a good number of people who were sentenced to death he says with the years of legal wrangling keeping people on death row doesn't come cheap and is a constant drain on resources to try to death penalty case you have to jury that

specially paul so you basically have to trial and that takes a very long time to go to jerusalem to go through the jury process you also have to have a special counsel appointed and then there's an automatic appeal there's a cost of appeal all of these procedures make the death penalty a big and expensive business for the state since nine hundred seventy eight taxpayers have spent more than four billion dollars in capital punishment in california alone or about three hundred eight million dollars for each of the thirteen acts accused sions carried out since then and with the average costs of keeping a person in prison at around twenty to fifty thousand dollars a year this coming november california is sent to vote on whether to scrap capital punishment in favor of life without parole to day in times of deep economic recession the debate is shifting from traditional arguments about the morality of

x. a kill shot and focusing instead on the cost effectiveness of the state's death penalty program ronnie sound of all is among those californians who stand for in atlanta the death penalty her phrase in the justice system was shattered when her sixteen year old son arthur was wrongfully convicted she now believes the money spent on capital punishment can find a better use put more cops on the street put more police officers trying to solve crimes i mean there's a lot of places where the money would say can go to we're actually broke for the community activists claimed. dropping the death penalty puts california on track to save one billion dollars in the next five years the money desperately needed by the state now running a sixteen billion dollars deficit however some say dropping the death penalty could prove difficult because of the special interests involved in what's being dubbed the prison industrial complex that's an industry that is not serving any state

right now except for special interests we're at the point where if we continue to keep this. justice what we're going to be doing is cutting those people off the honorable law enforcement people from their pensions with the state of california facing bankruptcy it seems its moral com past is being guided by the draw of cash not affix my to the question marty reporting from los angeles california. this is r.t. and just ahead for you. sometimes the information you get from the internet isn't as reliable as it would be from a book people don't proofread would appear as often as they probably should but you've got to do it also teaches you to be a little bit more. to take everything you're with a printer songwriter. fight censorship and protect free speech online. reporter in new york in a few minutes to find out more. on your bike pensioner who

cycled across russia sixteen times to freewheel through europe all story people. economists around the world are struggling to find solutions to the financial crisis but twelve year old canadian thinks she knows what needs to be done before a grant to the internet by storm overnight after a video of her criticizing canada's banks from robbing people went viral. what i discovered is the banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave the people of canada are going to give you a mortgage which really means our debt. or a lot they don't actually give you money make like a key on our computer and generate the fake money out of those who come painfully obvious even for me twelve year old canadian but we are being

a friday and robbed by the banking system on a composite government what will you do to stop this crime. i call the bill dog day talk to the toilet granton and other see and hear about turn not only take on kind of this banking system but around them bishan is not what's been bothering me is that our government has been borrowing money from private banks and putting us into debt and they're not doing anything about this so they're just standing by and watching the private banks make us pay compound interest you are just twelve years old what do you think you understand what's wrong with the economy that you have the answer and world leaders don't well i've been researching and watching documentaries and like reading books and it's not that hard time you're stand once you start researching like world leaders they probably know what's happening is just they're just they're not doing anything about it i think they don't care

because they're benefiting from what they're doing to us did you really come up with all these ideas yourself me and my dad had them watching documentaries so i'd be taking notes and then you know like we'd write it down and then we put it into my speech what are your ambitions do you want to be an economist you want to be prime minister. i want to be an interior designer but i'm definitely going to keep studying monetary reform. why not and the from wonder girl to a super grad a seventy one year old woman who defies her age is one of russia's most traveled cyclists she's crossed the world's biggest country more than a dozen times on her bike is now sitting course for europe artie's nicholas school reports from western russia. she took up biking twenty years ago right after her fiftieth birthday

a physical education teacher you let me high look said she had to do something after her retirement so she learned to ride a bicycle in a week and a half these days seventy one year old yulia feels comfortable enough on the bike to ride right across russia i think she's accomplished no less than sixteen times averaging almost a trooper year traverse in the world's biggest country there i go every day from dusk till dawn i'm cycling i do take rest stops but the used to last an hour or two and now there are only half an hour a rest while i eat and then get back on the wheels again. this here she's heading in a different direction he is riding her bike from tear to paris to commemorate the march of the russian army in his defeat of napoleon in eight hundred twelve the only thing she had to conquer was a visa let's reset for most of us taking a mile long walk is already an accomplishment and a four and

a half thousand kilometer bike ride forget about it but you only assess runs temple hours every morning in the winter and some of the snow melt she's back on her bike for this trip should really be a piece of cake. i often get asked why don't i take anyone along with me but how can i would you come with me i'm not sure you'll be able to pull through and i'm sure i will never go to see a doctor i never get sick in the seventeen years i've been doing this i only take a first aid kit some bandages and antiseptic but comment here is somewhat of a celebrity local politicians believe her exceptional physical shape and enthusiasm are just what people of all ages need in this day and age of a drive through fast food traffic jams and to be marathons out of. sight for as the sport of. cycling in our city we're putting a lot of effort into developing the sport here bicycle parking spaces bike routes

and basically want to turn to very into the bicycle capital of the country and she says it's a great example but hughley is biggest supporter is her husband also a physical education instructor and he believes his wife is an example hard to follow her photo but i'm here to give a bit of a not everyone can lead this lifestyle you have to be brave and determined and possess enormous willpower she has a good but a lot of people don't. view it as timmy's it will take her around two months to get all the way to paris across europe she intends to sleep in a tent on the roadside just as she has done dozens of times before if you don't stop with doc if you go i can talk to the wild for the first three years in villages by a river or pond one such time a man approached me and said i was observing you for a long time everyone is leaving and you're staying for the night on the beach he said come along to our house don't be scared i leave with the wife i told him i'm

not afraid of the devil himself so if you happen to see is right they leave you on a bike as you travel across europe in your car this summer to say hello but don't offer a lift she will most certainly refuse it it even goes to the air region. and next with moves towards new noise seeking to limit internet freedom worldwide should be right to demand the web without restrictions on our journalist laura hoff missed also as a resident in the streets of the big apple. well. the internet has only been around for a couple of decades now is it our right as human beings to be able to access it freely anytime we want this week let's talk about that absolutely the internet is for everyone it was constructed to be an information and we should all be able to draw on it and what about children and porn and i think that's of the parents to

control not of the government so you are in control of what you access on the internet not anyone else. pick up whatever book i want to pick up and assign concepts yes anything they want but maybe not at work so there should be restrictions of where you view what you're viewing so i think they have for us to stop and bring in the government and everybody else to try to regulate i don't know that you can be done right they're just going to muck it up even more probably that's what i'm thinking i'm thinking you're thinking right now that maybe there should be warnings you know like that video came out about syria recently and before i watched it on you tube they said you know be careful if it's you're going to see a lot that you may not want to see so that is a type of regulation it is ok so maybe a warning just to let people know what they might be in for right but other than that i think people should be able to post whatever they want to be should be able to access misinformation and porn as you watch absolutely and be the judge of it yourself you know let people make their own decisions you know some people are

idiots but most of us aren't. here do you think the internet makes more idiots out of us the name if the internet weren't around. that's a good question because you know sometimes though the information you get from the internet isn't as reliable as it would be from a book people don't proofread which appears often as they probably should but you've got to it also teaches you to be a little bit more skilled to take everything you hear with a pinch of songwriting it's or it all comes together i guess if it is very free then that's going to be you know free speech and all that good stuff do i guess and you think it'll remain that way forever yes even though it's just an infant that you don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it. no. no it's too big right you big now you know whether or not you think the internet should remain free and anonymous forever the bottom line is that's probably unrealistic so you might want to practice responsible googling now.

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