on r.t. egypt's to posed 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. in paris president putin's urge the international community to stick to kofi annan peace plan for syria to prevent full scale civil war. and facing the sack for speaking out a latvian naval professor says he's being punished for speaking out against the persecution of ethnic russians in the baltics after raising their plight on r.t. .

hello this is r.t. from moscow it's three pm here now kevin i was with you this hour and our top story that egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak who was ousted in last year's rose revolution will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced by a car a court the eighty four year old is the first former leader to be tried in person by his own people after last year's arab spring let's get the latest live go to mary mashallah he's outside the courthouse in the egyptian capital the very latest for us miriam hi again how are people there been reacting to this news over the last few hours was this the sentence they've been waiting for all this time. well the initial jubilation as you saw was very brief as the realized that the majority of the defendants would be returning home free man and not be held responsible for their role in their involvement in the including the deaths of eight hundred fifty protesters last january as was corruption and mismanagement of the nation for the crew of three men

a personal. where even now hearing from people that the sense of the perception being that even the convictions at the high level of former president hosni mubarak is symbolic image satisfy a sort of superficial sense of justice and interestingly we now know that mubarak has been transferred to prison he's arrived and we couldn't for our sources that confirmed here that interesting that he's refusing to leave the helicopter actually the ministry of interior has reported that he. has refused to actually submit to the prison term. the not guilty verdict definitely speaks to a sense of the revolution on finished and victims' families definitely are going home with a somber sense that the justice that judge ahmed ressam spoke about his damning opening statements will not will not come to fruition and that the man i love will

be going home free when so many of their sons and daughters and loved ones did not so skeptical observers of today's events definitely see the guilty verdict as well as possibly a harbinger of a political crisis to come or overturn the previous order in the very least what to do how is this likely to affect future events so the sun comes of course coming just before the second round of the presidential election to this month so that how is the voting likely to affect the race. obviously attention now will focus on the impact that this verdict in this outcome will have on the presidential elections scheduled the runoff between the time of morsi and i'm a shift scheduled for june fifteenth. definitely it speaks to a shift in the balance of power here in egypt with the muslim brotherhood and islamic parties ascension the having captured the majority of both houses of parliament so. the impact of this could essentially the outcome of this truck

essentially remind people of the muslim brotherhood have long been victims of a lopsided justice here in egypt and could seem sympathetic possibly changing the balance of power from military rule which maintains today egypt is still under military rule that the muslim brotherhood may appear more sympathetic than ever as well if a political crisis doesn't merge. definity could stand to benefit to have able to show that egypt still requires a strong military straight or a strong hand of governance. clearly the muslim brotherhood has not yet had an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to manage political crisis and security room you mentioned just know that to the would symbolic in the sentences go to people calling it. today's sentencing is a good time to look back and reflect sixteen months on from the toppling of mubarak what is the view among those who protested in tahrir square about how the

revolution worked. obviously you're absolutely right this is this verdict is happening against a backdrop of overwhelming disappointments in the revolution of egypt having failed to produce really substantial change this verdict just another example of it that the demand that people took to the streets that people fought for for eighteen days such as the capture of the world's attention last january because it seems to fit. doubts and that those demands not seem to have been realized and there's definitely a basis of disappointment i think judge how many different had a difficult decision to make knowing that it was good definitely ignites he used his verdict could ignite a strong reaction from the streets and really inflamed a sense of disappointment just very very very briefly of maria hsia neither you mentioned just know that also mubarak refusing to just outline for us again he's

refusing to leave or helicopter these in at the moment yeah. yeah this is the this is what we heard from a source here who confirmed. you know very credible source to confirm that the minister of interior was reporting that he had been a few minutes ago refusing to depart from his helicopter ok we'll keep an eye thanks for bringing us up to date live from cairo there reema shanny. chart the fall of hosni mubarak you can log on to our web site out there about it and you get all the background as well on last year's egyptian revolution while you're wrong on that r.t. dot com are also reporting about the fights over roadblocks between serbian activists and nato forces in kosovo is that six injured most recently in the conflict in the disputed area is continuing we've got to go to that story to also economic heavyweights who seem to know something no one else appears to is what the agency's already trying o. trading in greek drug but all that jumping the gun its online.

president vladimir putin's urged patience and time for kofi annan peace plan to take hold in syria he made the statement while on a visit to paris they too expansion on europe's financial woes have been among the topics discussed. 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 pressing the fact that the two countries are indeed partners but in terms of that partnership there is of course still

a tension especially when it comes to the anti missile defense first of all and had stressed the a position of france it accordance with its other international partners saying that the a.m.t. is not aimed at russia however russia said that in the past they had had a god verbal promises but that is not enough. in the past we've often been promised that 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 we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue now syria of course is high on the agenda before of the time i put and 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 potent of use the situation. the tragedy of a syrian town where fourteen or fifteen people were killed some of them were actually tortured as well. 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 of 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've approached the law 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 was she was questioning at the security level at this point today. security officials in lebanon say woman's been killed and at least five wounded in clashes between groups who are both pro and anti the current regime in neighboring

syria this is an independent un panels to investigate last week's massacre in syria in which more than a hundred people many children were slaughtered damascus blames armed opposition fighters for orchestrating the attack and says this seeking to trigger a foreign military action but several western governments have expelled syrian diplomats after the trustee russia says the horror in houla highlights the dangers of foreign backing of rebels of extremist elements the u.s. continues to support the syrian opposition and is proposing regime change political risk consultant says washington's proclaimed desire for a diplomatic solution to the crisis is laden with contradictions. 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. tribe battling tribe in the streets of tripoli and benghazi who knows where so it's just total chaos. and 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. 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 there. so the come this hour a row over death row complaints in the u.s. about the money spent on keeping prisoners on death row with opponents of capital punishment arguing the high cost of poll could be better spent elsewhere show

you've got some views on well we've got a story coming up to. our government has been borrowing money from private banks. and not doing anything about bass so just standing by and watching the private banks make a. chance to speak to a twelve year old internet sensation to get her insight on the global economic crisis we've got the story. a lot of your 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 sack of voicing his grievances here on r t a correspondent met with. we'll sort of share in the premium or store 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. in february this teacher at the leader's novel academy spoke to our team for months on

the curate is looking for and 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 coolly and said this interview is harmful for a few just students and he made it look as if i may do that to aggression against latvia i told him i only spoke my mind we don't have a gun so unusual right to play to my colleagues told me the economy is going to order the department to find a reason to sack me after the summer exams. wallet for 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 because you'll kill 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 face to protect and preserve russian schools here the security police believe this could violate as soon as. i have a different opinion and that's why i filed a lawsuit against the organization for me it's not only oppose clearing my name but just talking tendencies were john's or mine 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. dorma also one of the names on the blacklist wrote a letter to a stone prime minister demanding answers she believes such actions are illegal when you know what it says i see if you are not at war with russia or anyone else that's why we have no grounds to blacklist any organizations or channels in 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 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 trying 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 samir kabul of who spent many years in the country says the taliban wants to oust forces but to achieve peace the group must reject violence. looks like law. movement not all of them. is what they rated by ideology. they are fighting these believe they're fighting all their costs over the nation the liberation calls they don't like fall on the force us to be stationed in their country and they feel their allegiance danger. maybe it's. but. they are part of all guns or so i think you may call it the taleban i would call them passionate who wants to see. their homeland

in different shape they have legitimate right but we want them to drive to achieve their goal for political means not for you it's not for insurgency and royals we want them to stop blood sugar we're gonna stand we want them all our guns come to terms on their own nation the interest basis let's zero in that sense where ready. to support all the expense of our potential a certain principle in trying buy security console for nation work a solution are gonna start we strongly support these principles and we wish the servants to embrace the space bulls and start moving toward peace around the world now briefly us defense secretaries announced that his country's navy blue with a majority the law ships along with six aircraft carriers to the asia pacific

region in the coming years leon panetta stress of the plan is not directed to china beijing has had repeated disagreements with the u.s. though regarding chinese claims of marine areas that the americans consider international waters panetta as comments came at the start of his weeklong visit to the region to explain the practical meaning of the new american military strategy. leader of greece's syriza party says he'll cancel the country's bailout deal if his brother call leftwing movement wins the election greek voters are set to go to the polls again on june the seventeenth after elections in early may produce no outright winner with no coalition government for greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving emergency eve funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling the bail of a sturdy program may force the country out of the euro zone with 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 man cut through the fence and

opened fire on troops before he was shot dead and in a separate incident the israeli airstrike on garza killed one person seriously injured two suspected militants and exclusion zones maintained by israel between its borders and gaza 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 some are now saying dropping the death penalty altogether would allow money to be better spent in other ways a move that's been resisted though by those who run the prison system as it is we did a question of a report. but i mean he's twenty here says 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 case you have to have a jury that specially paul so you basically have two trials and that takes

a very long time to go to a jury 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 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 deval 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 the money would say can go to 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 sorry anything right now except for special interests but we're up to the point 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 is moral compound is being guided by the draw for cash not affix might in the bush marty reporting from los angeles california. economists around the world are struggling to find solutions to crack the financial crisis but a canadian who thinks she's got the answer at the age of just twelve the tour of growth took the internet by storm overnight for a video of a criticizing others banks went viral. this is the banks and the government how could it financially and save the people of camelot well the bank gives you a mortgage which literally means i guess. or a wall oh they don't actually give you money they collect

a key on our computer and carry the fake money out of thin air come painfully obvious even for me. but we are being a friday and robbed by the banking system on a composite government what will you do to stop this crime. i bet you could talk to mr carson or will my colleague bill dog did to victoria grandmother mother must have been earlier but not only to take on kind of his banking system but her own ambitions in life to. 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 time your stand once you start researching world leaders they probably know what's happening is just third 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. a prime example of freedom of speech so what we're talking about such things with moves towards new laws seeking to limit internet freedom worldwide those are demanding the right to a web without restrictions and censorship when online journalist marie harf minister also known as the residents been finding out will people on the streets of

the big apple think about that. well. the internet has only been around for a couple of decades now is it our right as human beings to be able to access it freely anytime we want this week let's talk about that absolutely the internet is for everyone it was constructed to be an information and we should all be able to drive on it and what about children and porn and i think that's of the parents to control them not up to government though 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 content 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 i'm thinking you're thinking right now that maybe there should be

warnings you know like that video came out about syria recently and before i watched it on you tube they said you know be careful if it's you're going to see a lot that you may not want to see so that is the 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 that 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. to take everything you hear with a pinch of salt right 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 thing you don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it. and it's too big. whether or not you think the internet should remain free an anonymous forever the bottom line is that's probably unrealistic so you might want to practice responsible googling now. the president has spoken out a couple of minutes so the story of the russian boy because of recently been freed from iraqi generals really interesting thirty minutes come up for you after a recap of our headlines next on this channel r.t. from moscow.

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