egypt's deposed dictator hosni mubarak could face execution or decades in jail if found guilty by car of course 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 a full scale civil war. and facing the sack for speaking out a lot in naval professor says he's a victim of persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics after raising their plight amati. you're watching r.t. welcome to the program

a current 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 foreign protesters demonstrating against israel during last year's revolution eight hundred people were killed in the crackdown mubarak refused the charges which could see him in prison for decades even executed pending on what degree the court deems him culpable if he's found guilty judgement day comes the stars of egyptians rally against ongoing military rule and the barracks last prime minister ahmed shafik who's running for the presidency he faces muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi in the second round but later this month neither is perceived as a champion of the revolution by many who took part in it some observers predicting further revolt. the verdict will be mostly political as opposed to adhere to any sort of justice. related 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 took by us and we supposedly ousted mubarak and his regime 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 comes july first the egyptian people are becoming weary and fatigued by all of this they haven't even thought that the revolution has as delivered on its promises the military council might come at the end of the day and say we we've given you the chance and now we just have to got to put 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 chart the form of hosni mubarak you can log on to r.t. dot com and get all the background on last year's egyptian revolution and here's what else you can find online right now the fight over roadblocks between serbian activists and nato forces in kosovo six injured as a conflict in the disputed area continues. also online economic heavyweights who seem to know something no one else does as one agency's already trying out trading in the greek drachma. president vladimir putin has urged patience and time for kofi annan says peace plan to take hold in syria he made the statement one on the visit to berlin and paris

nato expansion and europe's financial woes have also been among the topics also the 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 b.m.d. 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 they 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 now 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 of the tumor 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 it is or putin of use the situation. where no discussing the tragedy in 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 have 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. this is still the ideal and to solving the crisis in syria however it has to be pointed out that there are differences say they're approach a law in 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 question he was questioning the security level at this point today . and an independent un panel is to conduct an investigation into the massacre in syria which came in the lives of more than one hundred people last week damascus and blames armed opposition fighters for orchestrating attack and says they're seeking to trigger foreign military action in several governments have expelled syrian diplomats often atrocity russia says the horror. dangers of backing rebels and instruments the u.s. continue to support the syrian opposition is proposing regime change. from the

institute of democracy in cooperation says the western public is not getting the full picture of what's going on in the country. at 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. still to come this hour around over death row complaints in the u.s. about the cost of keeping alive people went to execution some taxpayers are getting their money to pay for a much needed service that. speaks to a twelve year old internet sensation to get her insight and we can all make crisis the full story. a lot of in the naval academy professor says his career has been sunk in the latest public of the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics the man says he's facing the sack after voicing his grievances on the

t.v. our correspondent. 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 leader's novel academy spoke to our team for months on the europe 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 called me 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 academies 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 glad because of my aunt's if it is to protect and preserve russian schools here the security police believe this could violate assuming the 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 stalk dangerous tendencies were jungle mind democracy in my country. that list also contained almost all russian t.v. stations including r.t. foreign minister sergei lavrov an anti-fascist activist 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 list any organizations or channels the security police have been running this reports for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line and read the rules and they say it is asian is all 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 which 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 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 detonated a car bomb and tried to storm a nato base overnight in eastern afghanistan fourteen militants were killed when coalition forces responded with no foreign or afghan troops injured russian a presidential envoy to afghanistan. who spent many years in the country says the taliban wants to oust nato forces to achieve peace the group must reject violence. but the column looks like law nation a lot more money 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 and shuttles. forward on the force will still be stationed in their concrete and they feel a little very very relieved and in danger. maybe it's eggs or the ration but. they are possible while guns are sight and you may call it. i would call them passionately who wants to see their contrary their homeland can be for the shape they knew and they have legitimate right but we wanted them to the right to choose their gold for political means not for use with no proof of c m rylan we want them to spill blood sugar i'm gonna stun we've won them all our guns come to terms on their all in the nation the interest basis that's all there is i in that sense we're ready. to support all the extents of our potential

a certain principle enshrined by secure the console for nation work a solution are gonna stand we strongly support some of these principles and we wish shouldn't see to embrace the space goals and stop moving toward peace. let's have a look now at some other news making headlines around the world the south. islands have said yes by a margin of sixty to forty to the e.u. fiscal treaty which critics say will impose long term austerity and loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels of economic affairs the pact in response to the european economic crisis was already signed by new members except the czech republic and britain who aren't the only country to put it to a public vote the plan forces member states to coordinate their budget policies within strict limits imposed as tough penalties on those breaking rules in twenty ten island received an e.u. i.m.f. bailout with eighty five billion euros of the huge private banking debts were

transferred to the public. gives me while in contrast to ireland the 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 seventeenth after elections in may he produced no outright winner with the coalition government form greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving emergency e.u. funds to avoid going bankrupt or canceling the bailed out austerity program may also the country out of the euro zone unknown global economic consequences. and israeli soldier and a palestinian militant have been killed during a border gun battle in gaza army officers say the palestinian cut through the fence and opened fire on troops before he was shot dead in a separate incident and israeli airstrike on gaza killed one person and seriously injured two suspected militants israeli army maintains an exclusion zone between

gaza and israel but the troops regularly opening fire on palestinians who approach it. now the cost of keeping someone on death row in the u.s. can run the millions of dollars some are now complaining that the money could be better spent in other ways a move that's been resisted by those who run the prison system ati's many a caution ever 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 the jury specially paul so you basically have to trial and that takes a very long time to get a jury sort through them to go through the jury process you also have to have

a special counsel appointed another is 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 a-q. 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 said 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 our execution and focusing instead on the cost effectiveness of the state's death penalty program ronnie sound deval is among those californians who stand for in

atlanta the death penalty her faith 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 go to we're actually benefit 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 anything right now except for special interests we're up to the point where if we continue to keep this hunger for do her 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 calm past is being guided by the draw of cash not affix might in the question marty reporting from los angeles california. this is r.t. and just ahead for you on your bike and sure who's who of course russia sixteen lives. three wheeled through europe full story coming up in a few. now economists around the world are struggling to find solutions to the financial crisis but a canadian think she's got the answer at the age of just twelve the tory grants to the internet by storm overnight after a video criticizing canada's banks from people went viral. what i discovered is the banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave people of canada are going to give you

a mortgage which really means death. or a lot they don't actually give you money they click a key on a computer and generate the fake money out of their cars become painfully obvious even for me twelve year old canadian but we are being tried it by the banking system and accomplice it government what will you do to stop this crime. my colleague bill door to talk to victoria grant and her mother must see and hear about and take on kind of the banking system but her own ambitions in life. 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 were 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 your stand once you start researching 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 no it's. 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 a prime minister. i want every i need interior designer but i'm definitely going to keep studying monetary reform. good for her well for one the go to a super grad a seventy one year old woman who defies her age is one of russia's most troubled

cyclists she's crossed the world's biggest country if it doesn't times i have bike it's now back in the saddle set in course for europe nazis are nicholas cover ports from western russia. she took up biking twenty years ago right after her fiftieth birthday a physical education teacher and 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 fuel's comfortable enough on a bike to ride right across russia i think she's accomplished no less than sixteen times averaging almost a trooper year to traverse in the world's biggest country but i go every day from dusk till dawn i'm cycling i do take rest stops but they 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 healy is riding her bike from tir 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 around temple hours every morning in the winter and some of the snow melt she's back on her bike so this trip should really be a piece of cake. i often get asked why don't i take anyone along with me you are 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 i 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 but it's. only for the sport of. cycling in our city we're putting a lot of effort into developing this bridge here bicycle parking spaces bike routes and basically want to turn to a very into the bicycle capital of the country and she says a great example but you'll be his biggest supporter is her husband also a physical education instructor and he believes his wife is an example hard to follow the group of premier group of another 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. do 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 back 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 privately levy on a bike as you travel across europe in your car this summer do say hello but don't offer a lift she will most certainly refuse it it even goes to be a region. the next with moves towards new north seeking to limit internet freedom worldwide others are demanding the right to web without restrictions or censorship online journalist laurie halfassed also known as the resident has been finding out what people think on the streets of the big apple.

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 to them what about children in porn or think that's of the parents to control it not of the government so you are in control of what you access on the internet not anyone else always will pick up whatever book i want to pick up and assign concert 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 the efforts to stop it 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 but 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 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 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 you know to take everything you hear with a pinch of song 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 too i guess and you think it'll remain that way forever yes even though it's just an infant for you

don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it . and you know it's too big right 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. i back to the headlines in a few minutes stay with this. wealthy

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