president hosni mubarak's been sentenced to life in prison he's been found guilty by a cairo court of complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during last year's revolution it's our top story this hour also in paris president putin's urge the international community to stick to kofi annan and peace plan for syria to prevent full scale civil war. and facing the sack for speaking out a lot of naval professor says he's being punished for speaking out against the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics after raising their plight here on our t.v. . hello

this is our team from moscow is coming over here with you this hour with our top story and egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak will spend the rest of his life behind bars the eighty four year olds the first former leader to be tried in person by his own people after last year's are spreading let's get the latest on this. two opposition outside the court ishani is there in the egyptian capital for the very latest three good afternoon to you how are people there reacting we've seen scuffles over the past hour or two was this sentence what they've been waiting for . well initially the reaction was obviously one of. relief at the sound of the word guilty but. that verdict was read i think they realized they showed the public stands out the outcome of the verdict had begun to think and i think you probably thought couple broke out in the courtroom almost immediately and those couples definitely were mimicked out here i

don't know if you can see the police the security cordon behind me. several times in the last hour chasing pockets of protesters out how actually on the grounds of the police court. many crowbar protesters angry about the outcome the guilty outcome as well as many here and feel that the outcome of the lesser charges is the put all of his a little of the corruption and accepting bribes accumulating personal wealth of corruption really surprised many remember we're talking about a personal wealth about captivity between seventy to eighty five billion accumulated over his three decades of rule and that's angered many people in those their mission to see out here over the last hour rock right that individuals attacked the the police line. they've dissipated since they were heroes but we're also hearing reports of clashes in fact rare well an attack here somewhere in the

city. so it's very tense that what we're watching and waiting to see how this all but it definitely been a roller coaster have the trial been a roller coaster the initial hours also the reaction has been a bit of a roller coaster relief that the word guilty but again the realisation that the lesser charges might might be thinking if we get them there out of the acquittal of those that's a charge you most of the looking ahead to sometimes of course coming just before the second round of the presidential elections later this month for the people who took to tahrir square last year possibly with how the revolutions worked out is there for them with lisa a sense of closure here and they think. well i think many people expect as many people wonder i think at this point whether it be the delivery of this verdict that this wasn't planned or timed actually to. be almost part of the election outcome it's happening right in the middle of two rounds of

elections many believe that hit them and there are those who believe that it's going to. it's a campaign that makes those who are angry about black justice down here might want to take that out again on this representative of the old guard there are those that believe the fact that mel and i will be going home i'll be it without their father . will simply just remain in the bank guard of the old regime able to return able to use their that family's wealth to face the previous stablished so. again common morpheus promised that if he is president president former president hosni mubarak will serve his days out in prison and he we now know that he had been transferred and will be transferred to tora prison in central cairo for the time being is still the actual period of his incarceration is determined that the terms of the first three will be determined ok thanks bruce of the very rich show me my

votes most of the court has imposed preferred. to from bell true freelance journalist breaks to me saying the ruling military council that took over of mubarak's removal will give away power easily. there's a big divide at the moment in the revolutionaries between boycotting the elections because the. undesirable between voting strategically against either the former regime which is feet or against them is i'm all for it's in for. the should speak against the brotherhood. mohamed morsi at the moment it's very hard to see where the revolution is i mean people are extremely depressed these election results is one off is really the worst case scenario for any liberal or any revolutionary and with this mubarak trial is it's in a very strange. position right now and the ruling military council have quite a lot of power against civilians and also for the president i can see them really giving over power completely specifically in authority as it's not in their interests who they have already given up document. which includes basically them

retaining a certain amount of power and also keeping things like the military budget secret from the public which all gives the impression that perhaps they want to maintain power as much as possible i think it's unrealistic to think that they will just authority on the thirtieth of june and step by. freelance journalist bell drew their wall to charge before it wasn't a bar you can log onto our website r t dot com if you get a minute get all the background on last year's egyptian revolution also while you're there too but we're reporting this afternoon about the fight over roadblocks between serbian activists and nato forces in kosovo it's left six injured as the conflict in the disputed area continues also at r.t. dot com economic heavyweights who seem to know something no one else does as one agency is already trying to try and trading in greek drachma song like.

this is r.t. president vladimir putin's urge patience and time for kofi annan peace plan to take hold in syria he made that statement while on a visit to berlin and paris no nato expansion and europe's financial woes a bit among the topics discussed starting today reports for you. 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's 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 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. is to engage in dialogue now syria of course is high on the agenda before of the two might put in 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 into views the situation. with 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's 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 possible laundered 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 different says they were approached in saying that more sanctions are necessary to put pressure on the assad regime or putin saying that this is ineffective citing our past examples for example in iraq or libya why she was questioning at the security level at this point today for a center a correspondent in europe they were independent un panels to investigate last week's houla massacre in syria in which more than a hundred people died including many children to mask planes armed opposition

fighters for orchestrating the attack and says this seeking to trigger a foreign military action but several western governments of expelled syrian diplomats after the atrocity russia for its part says the horror in houla 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 told us washington's proclaimed desire for a diplomatic solution to the crisis 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 it 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 this is one. tribe battling tribe in the streets of tripoli. because you know where so it's just total chaos. and that wouldn't

be at all amenable to the european stability and security 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 i think their game. still to come on r t this is a death row complaints in the u.s. about the money spent on keeping prisoners on death row with power as a capital punishment arguing the cost involved could be better spent elsewhere we've got more on that also this to. our government has been borrowing money from private banks. not doing anything about that so

just standing by and watching the private. chats speaks to a twelve year old internet sensation to get inside of a global economic crisis we've got the story. but next naval academy professor says his career has been sunk in the latest public row over the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics the man says he's facing the cirque of the voice of his grievances here on r.t. correspondent. 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 in four months on the europe is looking for a job it was made clear to him by the academy's management that his appearance on our team meant he had no future there. my boss coolly and said

this interview is harmful for our future students and he made it look as if i made an act of aggression against the i told. you i have a gun solution right to do play to my colleagues told me the. board at the 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 pill 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 glad because of my sympathies to protect preserve russian schools here the

security police believe this could violate as soon as. i have a different that's why i filed a lawsuit against the organization for me it's not clear my name but just talk tendencies or mind democracy in my country. 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 stoniest parliament. also one of the names on the blacklist wrote a letter to estonia prime minister demanding answers she believes such actions are illegal when you know what to say i say if they 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 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 bost 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 on the 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 this stone here. 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 presidential envoy to afghanistan as america pull off who 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. movement not all of them. is what they rated by ideology are they. fighting these believe they're fighting for their costs over the nation the liberation falls they don't like fall on the force will still be stationed in their country and they feel relieved in the use of danger. maybe. but. they are part of all gun society and 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 try to achieve their goal for political means not for us not for insurgency and royalist we want them to

stop blood sugar gonna stand we want them all our guns come to terms on their own the nation will interest basis let's zero in that sense where ready. to support for the expense of our potential a certain principle in trying by security console for nation workers solution organist we strongly support these principles and we wish shouldn't see to embrace the space bulls and start moving toward peace. around the world in brief this afternoon the u.s. defense secretary announced that his country's navy will believe the majority of his bill ships along with exact raf carries for the asia pacific region in the coming years the empanada stress the plan isn't directed to china and it was aging said repeated disagreements there with the u.s. regarding chinese claims of marine areas that the americans consider international

waters and at his 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 the seventeenth after elections in early may produce no no coalition government formed greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving emergency eve funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling the bailout a sturdy program may force the country out of the euro zone with unknown global economic consequences. and israeli soldier a palestinian militant had been killed during a board a gun battle in garza an army officers say the man cut through the fence and opened fire on troops before you shot dead in a separate incident an israeli airstrike on garza killed one person and seriously injured two suspected militants and exclusion zones maintained by israel between its borders with troops regularly opening fire on palestinians who approach it.

the cost of keeping someone on death row in the united states can run to millions of dollars and some are now saying dropping the death penalty would allow money to be better spent in other ways a move is being resisted by those though run the prison system that is really the culture of reports. i mean he's 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 to. qualify. to trial and that we want to go to jerusalem to have to go through the jury process. to have 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 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 today 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 an end to 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 we would go to we're showing that the community activists cleaned. 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 i was for 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 sorry anything right now except for special interest we're up to the point now where if we continue to keep this her do her justice well 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 compact is being guided by the drop cash not after watching the bush marty reporting from los angeles california. coming up on your bike a punch in a cycle to cross russia sixty times now aims to free wheel through europe we've got a story coming up for you just a couple of minutes. before that economists around the world are struggling to find solutions to crack the financial crisis but a canadian think she's got the sort of the age of just twelve years old victoria ground to the internet by storm overnight after a video of her criticizing kind of his banks went viral. this is the banks and the government how could it financially and save the people of canada well the bank gives you a mortgage which literally means i guess. for a while oh they don't actually give you money they could key on our computer and

carry the fake money out of fame they are those who come painfully obvious even for me i'll probably ok maybe but we are being a friday on rob by the banking system on a composite government what will you do to stop this. a flawless well more coldly brutal dog told to victoria ground at a mother mostly a bit earlier about not only the take on kind of his banking system but her own ambitions in life to let's take a listen 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 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 to understand once you start researching world leaders they probably know what's happening it's just there 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 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 a prime minister. i want to be an interior designer but i'm definitely going to keep studying monetary reform. victoria grower saying it is ok for one the girl to a super ground a seventy one year woman who defies the rage is one of russia's most traveled cyclists she's crossed the world's biggest country over a dozen times and i know she's back in the saddle setting course for europe parties

are integral to reports 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 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 triple year 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 now will too and now that only half know what a rest while i eat and then get back on the wheels again. this here she's heading in a different direction yulia 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 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 she runs ten kilometers 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 you take anyone along with me you are but how can i but if you do 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 to see the seventeen years i've been doing this i only take a first aid kit some bandages and i'm just septicaemia but coming to. 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 we're putting a lot of effort into developing this sport here bicycle parking spaces bike routes and basically i want to turn into that 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 premier not everyone can lead this lifestyle you have to be brave and determined and possess enormous willpower and she has it but a lot of people don't. do it as to means 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 know what back you can go yeah i can talk to the wild for the first three years in villages by a river porn up 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 leave with the wife i told him i'm not afraid of the devil himself so if you happen to see his brightly 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 be a region well you know that a couple minutes a special report about a volunteer organization that helps search for missing people across russia they're doing a great job we've got their story here on our team from moscow offer an update of the headlines coming up next.

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