egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison he was found guilty by a current quarter of complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during last year's revolution scuffles broke out inside the courtroom after the verdict was read but outside the scenes of jubilation once the sentence was named. these are live pictures now from outside the court over the sentencing of the eighty four year old who is the first former leader to be tried by his own people the last year's arab spring. in paris said president putin has the international community to stick to peace plan for syria to prevent full scale civil war. and facing the sack for speaking out a lot here in naval professor says he's

a victim of persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics after raising their plight on r t. twenty four hours a day this is r.t. egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak will spend the rest of his life behind bars he was found guilty by a cairo court of complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during last year's revolution let's go live now to mariama shani outside the courthouse in egypt capital for the very latest on this how are people there reacting what was this sentence they've been waiting for. clearly the moment the word guilty was read it was the word people wanted to hear him obviously it was a quick quick reading of the verdict and the judge took the time to read the

defendant's names each they responded. referred to. thirty years of rule repeating himself for emphasis clearly wanting to draw attention to this to this moment in history talks about how critical it was that out of this darkness egypt find peace and as he was speaking the crowd outside the court began chanting that now infamous cry that's been heard in streets and squares across the region the people demand the end of the regime and as he was saying that the judge was almost saying in a plea to the defendants that all the people had asked for was justice all the people had asked for was freedom was democracy and he said that today was a noteworthy day that on june second two thousand and twelve a president of egypt stood before a civilian courts. when people heard the word guilty it was an immediate

celebration and fireworks unfortunately it was short lived for many who had lost so much it was just not enough i spoke to a man mohammed stefan morsi whose twenty two year old son was killed who said that he was in tears of disappointment he wanted the death penalty for his son who had been lost. people immediately wanted to know why the sons were not found both sons a male and a law found not guilty of all the charges against them six lower ranking central security individuals from the intelligence ministry were found not guilty so immediately discussion began about what the future holds will come out and simply step up and fill their father's shoes will be interior ministry continue to operate the way it always has without a penalty against them. i spoke again to that mother from alexandria who

was was very disappointed with the result but clearly a tense situation inside and outside the courtroom but the sentence comes just before the second round of the presidential election they to this month all the people who took to the office square last year happy with how their revolution is working do you think. well clearly this is going to affect the outcome of the elections it's amazing that the judge did decide to deliver his verdict bang in the middle of two rounds of elections obviously people wonder if shifty quins the presidency will he use his position to pardon president mubarak former president hosni mubarak now convicted. will mohammed morsi to stick to his promise that if he is elected he will make sure that mubarak stays in prison till the end of his days remember president former president hosni mubarak is eighty four years old and so a life sentence could be

a short one as well currently he is quite comfortable in a medical facility he has been acquitted of the charges of corruption which means his personal wealth is something that didn't face the scrutiny people thought it might he could use those funds to live quite comfortably the rest of his days he is well and isn't because he hasn't been clarified whether he will be stripped of his medals as people spoke that he would lose his military ranking and have to serve his time in a civilian facility as a civilian. ok. many of the families here expressed disappointment that that the justice they were looking for i think obviously many felt would never really be found but many of the mothers here were still with tears in their eyes carol for leave it there for now more on this as we get it haven't gotten very much shawny lot from karl thank you for that update. 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 egyptian revolution well here's

what else you can find online right now going to roadblocks between surrogate 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 agency is already trying out trading in greek drachma. president vladimir putin has urged patience and time for kofi annan speace plan to take hold in syria he made this statement one on a visit to bell and then paris nato expansion and europe's financial woes have also been among the topics artie's also 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 law 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 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 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 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 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 of 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 they were approached law in saying that more sanctions are necessary to put pressure on the assad regime or putin saying that this is ineffective citing past examples suffer example in iraq or libya while she was questioning the security level at this point today. because also there and an independent u.n. panel is to investigate last week's massacre in syria which more than a hundred people including many children were slaughtered the mask blames on the opposition fighters for orchestrating it eric says they're seeking to trigger a foreign military action but several western governments have expelled syrian diplomats often atrocity russia says that 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 risk consultant women says washington's proclaimed desire for a diplomatic solution is laden with contradiction. 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 in libya today after after the nato intervention is one huge armed camp of 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 the 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 shia 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 is i think their game. but there are 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 arguing that money could pay for other much more needed services and 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. speak to a twelve year old internet sensation to get her insights on the global economic crisis stay tuned for the full story. and a lot naval academy professor says his career has been sunk in the latest public rout of the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics the man says he's facing

the sack after voicing his grievances on a tweet a correspondent alexy irish asking 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 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 academy's ric to audit 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 but 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 aunt's if it is 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 stalk dangerous tendencies were jungle mind 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 that if we 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 running this reports for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line and 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 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 tried to storm a nato base overnight in eastern afghanistan fourteen militants were killed and coalition forces responded with no foreign or afghan troops injured russian the presidential envoy to afghanistan. he 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 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 they. fall on the force us to be stationary in their concrete and they feel the illusion that is in danger. maybe it's. but. they apart the log on society and you may call it the taleban i would call them passionate who wants to see. 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 for insurgency and violence we want them to stop that they're not gonna stand we want them all our guns come to terms on their own nation the interest basis well that's all it is 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 shouldn't see to embrace the space posts and stop moving toward peace. let's have a look now at some other news making headlines around the world this hour the u.s. defense secretary of announced that his country's navy man supermajorities warships over six carries to the asia pacific region in the coming years and that are stressed that the plan is not directed at china beijing has had repeated disagreements with the u.s. regarding chinese claims over marine areas the americans consider international waters letters comments came at the start of his weeklong visit to the region to explain the practical meaning of the new american military strategy. 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 early may produce new. coalition government formed greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving. funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling the bailout austerity program may force the country out of the eurozone we don't know global economic consequences. and an israeli soldier in the 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 exclusion zone is maintained by israel between its borders and gaza the troops regularly opening fire on palestinians approach it. the cost of keeping someone on death row in the u.s.

can run to millions of dollars some an hour complaining that the money could be better spent in other ways a move that's been resisted by those who run the prison system nazis but in the culture never has the details. well 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 death penalty case you have to have a jury that specially paul 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 and then there was 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 set 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 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 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 any state right now except for special interests we're up to the point where if we continue to keep this hunger for her just as 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 on your public pension his cycled across russia sixteen times to freewheel through europe the full story coming up in a few minutes. 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 victoria grounds to the internet by storm overnight after a video of her criticizing canada's banks went viral. what i discovered is the banks and the government have financially enslaved people of canada are going to give you a mortgage which really means our debt. or a low they don't actually give you money they click a key on our computer and carry the fake money out of those who come painfully

obvious even for me twelve year old canadian but we are being a friday by the banking system on a composite government what will you do to stop this crime. while my colleague don't want to talk to victoria granted him. about not only her 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 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 your stand 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 these ideas yourself me and my dad had them watching documentaries so i'd be taking notes and then 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. and why not indeed well from a wonder girl to a super gran 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 of a dozen times on her bike and is now back in the saddle something course for europe this time only go to school reports from western russia. she took up biking twenty

years ago right after her fiftieth birthday a physical education teacher and usually me hi luke said she had to do something after her retirement so should learn to ride a bicycle in a week and a half these days seventy one year old yulia feels 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. go every day from dusk till dawn i'm cycling i do take rest stops are 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 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 her on 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 buy you 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 by the shipper so far as the sport of. cycling in our city we're putting

a lot of effort into developing this 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 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. 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 and she has a good 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's done dozens of times before if you don't know what back you got yeah i camped out in the wild for the first three years in villages by a river or a pond one such time a man approached me and said i was observing you for a long time everyone's leaving and you're staying for the night on the beach she

said come along to our house dumbass kid 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. a recap of today's top stories shortly stay with us.

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