egypt's deposed dictator hosni mubarak could face execution or decades in jail if found guilty by a cairo court of involvement in the death of hundreds during last year's revolution . these are live pictures from outside the courthouse in the egyptian capital with the verdict is due to be announced shortly security there is tight with thousands of police officers deployed crowds also gathering where there have been violent clashes during previous hearings. in paris to 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 and latvian naval professor says he's a victim of persecution of russians in the baltics after raising them right on r t

. welcome to r.t. world news twenty four hours a day. courtis 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 open fire on protesters demonstrating against his rule during last year's revolution leading to more than eight hundred deaths this latest from outside the courthouse. if convicted former egyptian president hosni mubarak faces anything from three years to the death penalty and most people large expects he will not be receiving the highest penalty in this case because of his advanced age as well as what observers believe to be a failure of the prosecution to deliver an airtight case in terms of his

responsibility in the orders to use live ammunition against protesters in the revolution last year this trial has been lengthy and a rollercoaster of drama the cost has been enormous for the state as well it is believed that justice at this point will not be mad simply because of the way that mubarak was a handled in this trial more as a patient than as a prisoner his treatment at the international medical center outside cairo as well as the sharm el sheikh facility has cost the state one hundred seventy five million egyptian pounds as well as the securing of this facility an additional six million pounds the attention of the country is squarely fixed on the events of the trial today but in recent months the focus on the trial has waned largely as egyptians focus on the results of first the parliamentary elections and then the recent presidential elections. i spoke to a mother from alexandria just a little bit earlier who was in the crowd behind me her son had had that he was killed in the uprising in alexandria last year she described to me how

a verdict that would at least put mubarak behind bars would feel would fill her heart with joy but at the same time she felt that the reason the recent presidential results that did not yield a candidate that would represent the interests of youth and the many of the marchers like her son who went out into the streets and made demands for change did not yield the candidate that would meet their interests and she said that that was a shame she described to me as well how herself and our grandmothers recent days some of them in the crowd again here today who traveled from alexandria to hear the verdict live went around alexandria and rip down posters of achmet should be good road. asked how the fact that he could have to become the next president of egypt and continue a legacy that her son but and died attempting to change. or so observers predict further revolt saying egyptians are growing more disillusioned with the results of the revolution 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 buying and expression the stime this is what many egyptians find very bothersome we have 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 now 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 the revolution has as the liver it 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 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 fall of hosni mubarak you can log on to r.t. dot com and get all the background on last year's egypt. here's what else you can find online right now the fight over roadblocks between seven activists and eight of course in concert leaves six injured as a conflict in the disputed tickets. also online today you cannot make every wait see you seem to know something else that one agency is already trying to trading in greek drama. president vladimir putin has urged patience and time for kofi annan peace plan to take hold in syria he made the statement while on

a visit to ben in paris nato expansion in europe's financial woes have also been among the topics parties there's 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 nuclear nonproliferation and against dressing 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 law and had stressed the a position of france it accords with its other international partners saying that 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 would expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military

hardware to russia but we've seen it expand and. we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to this discussion. is to engage in dialogue a 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 it is or put and i've used the situation. the tragedy of a syrian town where fourteen or fifteen people were killed some of them were actually tortured as well this is stood up the world media but how many civilians of actually being killed at the hands of the so-called militants have you looked at

that body count now as far as putin are concerned they both a stress that they are looking at a diplomatic solution. 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 saying that this is ineffective citing past examples for example in iraq or libya. security level at this point today. and an independent un panel is to investigate last week's houla massacre in syria which more than one hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus blames armed opposition fighters for orchestrating the attack says they're seeking to trigger a foreign military action but several western governments have expelled syrian diplomats after the atrocity russia says the horan who highlights the dangers of foreign backing of rebels and extremist elements the u.s. continues to support the syrian opposition and is proposing regime change political

this consultant remained says washington's proclaimed desire for a diplomatic solution is laden with contradiction. but they're talking out of two sides of their mouth when hillary clinton says we support the kofi annan plan but we want regime change which is not part of the kofi annan plan of course washington is not happy about a negotiated diplomatic settlement. i think the europeans are much more interested in a diplomatic resolution because they don't want rolling instability libya today after after the nato intervention is one huge armed camp the tribe battling tribe in the streets of tripoli and benghazi and elsewhere so it's just total chaos. and that that wouldn't be at all amenable to european stability and security as well the u.s. wants to essentially push an agenda that's been supported by saudi arabia and by qatar which is a it's turning into

a free versus. sunni conflict within the islamic world and if you set that off you're going to have rolling instability for maybe decades in that part of the world and. divide and conquer i think their game. still to come this hour around over death row complaints in the u.s. about the cost of keeping alive people awaiting execution for some taxpayers are getting them money could pay for other much needed services also. our government has been borrowing money from private banks and putting us into debt and they're not doing anything about best so they're just standing by and watching the private banks make us pay compound trast. he speaks to a twelve year old internet sensation to get her insight on the global economic crisis that story. latvian naval academy professor

says his career has been sunk the latest problem of the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics man says he's facing a psychotic voicing his grievances on t.v. correspondents let's say you know show ski met up with him. i cannot 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. in february this teacher at the leader's novel academy spoke to our team four months on the curate is looking for a new job it was made clear to him by the academy's management that his appearance on our team and he had no future there. my boss called ali and said this interview is harmful for our future students and he made it look as if i made an act of aggression against latvia i told don't i only spoke my mind if you don't have a gun solution right to do you play to my colleagues told me the economy is

a wreck to order 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 kill but it was surprised to see himself on an annual report put together by a stone your security police outlining actual and potential threats to national security he decided to take action. i was blacklisted because of my aunt's if it is to protect and preserve russian schools here the security police believe this could violate assuming its sovereignty i have a different and that's why i filed a lawsuit against the organization for me it's not only are both clearing my name but just talking tendencies or mind democracy in my country or so on that list

also contained almost all russian t.v. stations including r.t. foreign minister sergey lavrov and anti-fascist activists from finland and a dozen n.g.o.s member of a stony aspire. 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 and i say if you're 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 running this reports for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line read the 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 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 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 detonated a car bomb and try to storm a nato base overnight in eastern afghanistan fourteen militants were killed when coalition forces responded no foreign or afghan troops injured russian presidential envoy to afghanistan i mean a couple of you spent many years in the country says the taliban wants to oust nato forces but to achieve peace the group must reject violence. looks like the law. movement not all of them. is what they weighted

by ideology. they are. fighting this believe they're fighting all their costs over the nation the liberation falls they don't like fall on the forces would be stationed in their country and they feel they are legion using danger. maybe. but. they are part of all guns us i mean you may call it. i would call them passionate who wants to see their country their homeland in different shape they have legitimate right but we want them to drive to achieve their goal for political means not for us not for insurgency and violence we want them to stop blood sugar gonna stand we want them all our guns come to terms on their all in the nation the interest basis

let's zero in that sense where ready. to support to the extent of our potential certain enshrined by security console for nation workers relations are gonna start we strongly support these principles and we wish shouldn't see to embrace the spaceballs and start moving toward peace. but now to sum up unease making headlines around the well but it is in ireland have said yes by margin of sixty forty to the school treaty which critics say when imposed on time. from dublin to brussels and the economic offense the pact in response to the european economic crisis was already signed by members except the czech republic put it out and the only country to put. to a public vote the plan that forces member states to coordinate their budget policies within strict limits imposes tough penalties on those breaking the rules

in twenty ten r. and c. the i.m.f. bailout eighty five billion euros after huge private banking debts were transferred to the public. meanwhile in contrast to ireland the leader of greece's syriza 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 produce now right when a new coalition government formed greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving emergency e.u. funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling the bailout austerity program may force the country out of the euro zone with unknown global economic consequences. and israeli soldier palestinian militants have been killed during a border gun battle in gaza army officers say the man cut through the fence and opened fire on troops before he was shot dead in a separate incident an israeli airstrike on gaza killed one person and seriously

injured two suspected militants exclusions and is maintained by israel between its borders and guard troops. foreign palestinians approach it. the cost of keeping someone on death row in the us can run millions of dollars someone are 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 within the culture that has the details. well in his twenty years as district attorney of l.a. 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 death penalty. qualified so you basically have to trial and that takes a very long time to go to jerusalem to have to go through the jury process you also

have to have special counsel appointed in there 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 executions 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 an end

to 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 we say can go to work we're actually benefit the community activists claim. 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 provide 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 but 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 all the law enforcement people from their pensions with the state of california facing bankruptcy it seems is moral compass is being guided by the drop cash not affix my to the question marty reporting from los angeles california. this is r.t. and just ahead for you on your bike a pension he's cyclocross us a sixteen times thanks to free will through your story coming up in a few minutes. economists around the world are struggling to find solutions to crack the financial crisis but a canadian thinks she's got the answer to the age of just twelve victoria groans to the into that by storm of a night off to a video of her criticizing kind of those banks went viral. this is the banks on the government. financially and save the people of canada want to give

you a mortgage early means i death. or a lot they don't actually give you money they put a key on our computer and carry the fake money out of they are become painfully obvious even for me i'll probably ok maybe but we are being a friday and robbed by the banking system on a composite government what will you do to stop this. well my colleague bill dover talked to tory groan turned her mother mostly earlier about not only her take on kind of this 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 are just twelve years old what do you think you understand what's wrong with the economy that you have

the world leaders don't well i've been researching and watching documentaries and like reading books and it's not that hard to understand once you start researching world leaders they probably know what's happening it's 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 the ideas yourself and me and my dad have been 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. i know why not from a wonder girl to a super grande 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 over a dozen times on her bike is now back in the saddle setting a course for europe regular school reports from western russia. she took a biking twenty years ago right after her fiftieth birthday a physical education teacher if you really mean hi luke said she had to do something after her retirement so she learned to ride a bicycle in a week in the house 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 to traverse in the world's biggest country. every day from dusk till dawn i'm cycling i do take rest stops but they used to last novel too 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 face it 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 yulia says her own temple almost every morning in the winter and as soon as the snow melts 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 never go to see a doctor i never get sick in the seventeen years i've been doing this i only take a firstly kit some bandages and i'm just septicaemia but commenting. where you live 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 the drive through fast food traffic jams and to be marathons. is the sport of cycling in our city who are putting a lot of effort into developing this bridge here by sickle parking spaces bike routes and basically i want to turn into the bicycle capital of the country and she sets a great example but surely his biggest supporter is her husband also a physical education instructor and he believes his wife is an example hard to follow. 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 it but a lot of people don't. view it as to me as 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 you don't know

what back because i can talk to the wild for the first three years in villages by a river or upon 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 dumbass kid i live with the wife i told him i'm not afraid of the devil himself so if you happen to see his brightly 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 your region. back or the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. seems

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