egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak will spend the rest of his life in prison as a court finds him guilty for his part in killing hundreds of protesters while. president putin calls for more time to let kofi annan peace plan take effect in syria resisting blaming one side of the conflict as russia's leader visits berlin and paris. and speaking your mind here about t. could cost you your job in latvia and estonia several people have landed on blacklists after calling for equal rights for ethnic russians. there this is r.t. live from moscow is kevin owen here with me with our top story he ruled egypt for

nearly three decades and now deposed president hosni mubarak is set to serve life in prison over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising his former interior minister will also spend the rest of his life behind bars too but four of his senior aides have been acquitted egypt's state t.v. is reported mubarak has suffered a serious health problem upon arrival of prison egyptian journalist miriam a shiny is the latest from outside the courthouse in cairo. but initially the reaction was obviously one of. relief at the sound of the word guilty but when. that verdict was read i think the realize they showed the full extent of the outcome of the verdict had begun to sink in to realize ation that the majority of the defendants would be returning home free men and not be held responsible for their role and 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 the acumen of personal wealth. a couple broke out in the courtroom almost immediately and those couples definitely were mimicked out here many pro mubarak protesters angry about the queue the outcome as well as many here feel that he's a little of the corruption and accepting bribes accumulating personal wealth to corruption and really surprised many remember we're talking about personal wealth about estimated 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 rob i think if the taxes leave the police line. they've dissipated since they were heroes but we're also hearing reports of clashes and rare and well attack here somewhere in the city 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 the round of elections many believe that hit them and there are those who believe it's going to hurt the campaign that much because you are angry about the lack of justice out here might want to take that out again or are this representative of the old guard there are those that believe the fact that melania law will be going to call it without their father. well to be discriminated against the old regime able to return evil you can damn well maybe we can do this now. we've got a lot more common reaction lined up throughout the course of the afternoon about events earlier on today in cairo now let's take a look at some other news this afternoon president vladimir putin's call for patients to lead kofi annan peace plan work in syria resisting pressure to assume a tougher stance against the regime concerns over nato as missile shield and the

euro zone's debt woes also came into focus as the russian leader met his german and french counterparts in berlin and paris. followed the talks for us. 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 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 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

it 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 team are 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 russia maintaining that it is not siding with assad and 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. the tragedy of a syrian town where fourteen or fifteen people were killed some of them were actually tortured as well this is 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 approach and saying that more sanctions are necessary to put pressure on the assad regime or putin saying that this is ineffective citing past examples for example in iraq or libya while she was questioning the security level at this point today. our european correspondent there will be times syria's opposition group says it would welcome military action in the country bug gulf states the arab league's meeting and to discuss serious crisis and last week's massacre in the town of houla with qatar and saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels damascus blames armed rebel gangs for the attack meantime saying they're seeking to trigger foreign intervention the u.s. which backs the opposition and favors regime change admits there are plans for

military action but if president assad was to be removed there are also fears for the security of syria's large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction which could pose a global threat if they fall into the wrong hands american policy analyst charles blair warns that these concerns must be uppermost in the minds of foreign powers. if you're all me where she has a state is to prevent the use of chemical weapons outside of that state or against civilians then you have two strategies the first would be to quickly try to support the syrian free army to get it organized so that when they did eventually take over control of syria they could quickly account for the chemical weapons the other way that you can look at it is that if you're playing the long game which i think the russians and the chinese are doing it may be safest just to let things play out hoping that the assad regime will stay in power and if that is the case then the chemical weapons most likely are going to be kept in safe hands syria is not

a part of the chemical weapons convention meaning that there is no u.n. inspectors there's no way of knowing what they have so it really is a general global threat that we're looking at coming up live from moscow on the slushing california's debts by stopping state killing little portable things from the bill but keeping it makes on death row and how that could be better spent elsewhere also. our government has been borrowing money from private banks and putting us into doubt and they're not doing anything about me the twelve year old canadian girl whose economic i.q. and taking the web by storm she talks to a seed gives this solution. next though you've got to be brave to speak your mind of the baltics these days especially if you come out in russia's defense several people have commented on that fear the study is anti russian policies lately here

on out to you found themselves blacklisted. he's got the story. 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 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 coolly 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 him i only spoke my mind which i have a constitutional right to do later my colleagues told me the academies richter ordered the h.r. department to find a reason to sack me after the summer exams. a top level politician from another

baltic country estonia also made comments on one of our stories and also found himself targeted by the authorities the vice mayor of dialin it was surprised to see himself on an annual report put together by estonia security police outlining actual and potential threats to national security he decided to take action. i was glad because of my if it is to protect and preserve russian schools here the security police believe this could violate assuming the sovereignty i have a different opinion and that's why i filed a lawsuit against the organization for me it's not only are both clearing my name but to stalk tendencies were jungle mind democracy in my country. that list also contained almost all russian t.v. stations including r.t. foreign minister sergei lavrov 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 stony and spry minister demanding answers she believes such actions are illegal when you know what if society if they were 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 the civilization 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. ok sixty minutes past for the afternoon moscow time thanks for being with this top story if you just did as you called said the next president hosni mubarak to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising approaches and comment on it let's get it cross live to dr ayman salaam a visiting professor of international law recur university hi there thanks for being with well here's a significant day in the formation of a new egypt what are your thoughts about the outcome of the trial and how it's played out the last few. it's actually we here in egypt i mean the lawyers and even the public we separated and they expected the the verdict for

mubarak the former interior minister i mean the life imprisonment because all of us actually even with no concrete evidence as offered to ground it to the tribunal we know that at least did not actually intervene with his broad powers and privileges to stop a massacre as the mass murder in the square in cairo and some other governorates and provinces in egypt however we all here in egypt extremely overwhelmingly shocked by the absolving or acquittal of the other two sons and even the other six former generals in the t.v. or in the police actually chain of command we were totally shocked by the acquittal of those actually. to the upper hands of how

the president was actually guilty and those who were his tools and a part of this. and the police that's the question how come how has this happened why as you see it as justice not. tell now actually the cool i mean judge the presiding did not reveal disclose the main why did he say this verdict tell now probably tomorrow or probably today in ny everything will be detailed and we will have another for further elaborative demonstrative judgment of the day sue we were shocked and wondering how come the head of his state is guilty and his upper hand i mean his to move and official

a part of it is in particular the police the blues who are actually killing divert . you were acquitted if mubarak was actually responsible for. responsible for not actually until very evening and prevent the massacres the massacres where i mean executive and carried out by a pirate as. the defendants i mean the six defendants. probably just look at the knock on a favorite sort of party it will show for time with all these questions you're talking about ringing loudly in the. second round of egypt's presidential election is only two weeks hence how's it going to affect already influenced the poll. side totally agree with you there will be a very i mean overwhelming actually empathy for once upon the the second

round of the presidential elections if we take if we analyze the judgment in general. by the and the other was if we generalize this this would result in favor of. of mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood presidential candidate if we just only focus upon and we have an exclusive view on one alliance is rational upon the verdict the girl t. of mubarak and having the this actually ward ironically resulting in the in the sake of in favor of general sheer fee being a remnant of the with g c i mean the analysts will do further to i mean criticize the rationale of the judgment whether it was

biased it was partial this would result in favor of the muslim brothers the dr mohamed morsi under save some others actually judged that the judgment was empowered chilled and fair and unbiased this would likely result in favor of. sheffield one of the remnants of a presidential election talk so we really appreciate your thoughts thanks for going out. there from cairo university. and we've a lot more on line few of course in our home is taste of what we've got for you in fact this is not in my backyard all on my rooftop this is the story opposition growing among the london is to be told they'll have missile sites at the top of their homes as part of stringent security measures for this summer's olympics it's

online also fooled again the return of a massive financial pyramid scheme here in russia promises to dash the hopes of people hoping to get rich quick as it all happened find out whether the dot com our web site. california struggling to contain its i watering debts with welfare programs schools and universities facing billions in cuts one massive money saving measure could be the end of the death penalty which cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year and in a conscionable reports now than on the growing calls to use that money on saving instead of ending lives. i mean he's twenty years as district attorney off alley county john van de camp was involved in the conviction of a good number of people who were sentenced to death he says with the years of legal wrangling keeping people on death row doesn't come cheap and is a constant drain on resources to try to death penalty case you have 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 go through the jury process you also have to have special counsel appointed and then 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 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

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 in atlanta the death penalty her faith in the justice system was shattered when her sixteen year old son arthur was wrongfully convicted she now believes the money spent on capital punishment can find a better use put more cops on the street put more police officers trying to solve crimes i mean there's a lot of places where the money would go to were 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 prove difficult because of the special interests involved in what's being dubbed

the prison industrial complex that's an industry that is not serving anything right now except for special interests. were if we continue to keep this hunger for justice what we're going to be doing is cutting those people off the honorable law enforcement people from their pensions with the state of california facing bankruptcy it seems its moral can pass is being guided by the draw of cash not affix my to the question marty reporting from los angeles california. still to come for this keeping the web in check should it be the people all the police doing. something so the information you get from the internet isn't as reliable as it would be from a book people don't proofread with your peers often as they probably should but you go do it also teaches you to be a little bit more. dog take everything you hear with a preacher song where in new york to ask about online restrictions and censorship.

in brief now overnight clashes have killed one civilian and injured ten other people in north lebanon the violence is further evidence that syria's conflict encroaching into its neighbor with fighting between supporters and opponents of president assad gun and rocket fire for some residents to flee to safety while lebanese troops were deployed to calm the situation. majority of america's warships are to be deployed in the asia pacific region defense secretary leon panetta confirmed about sixty percent of the fleet said to be there by twenty twenty he insists it's not directed at china vo which repeatedly accuses the us of disturbing still waters. by bolstering its age of presence. in eastern afghanistan taliban insurgents tried to storm a nato military base overnight a vehicle packed with explosives was rammed into the alliance's building fourteen militants were killed when coalition forces responded there were no casualties among the foreign or afghan troops. the internet is supposedly the people's

platform but increasingly web users are left livid over what's seen as growing censorship artie's been asking when people in new york whether they see it as protection or structure. the internet has only been around for a couple of decades now is it our right as human beings to be able to access it freely anytime we want this week let's talk about that absolutely the internet is for everyone it was constructed to be an information and we should all be able to draw on it and what about children and porn and i think that's of the parents to control the government so you are in control of what you access on the internet not anyone else. pick up whatever book i want to pick up and assign concert yes anything they want but maybe not at work so there should be restrictions of where you view what you're viewing so i think the efforts to stop it bring in the

government and everybody else to try to regulate i don't know that you can be done right they're just going to muck it up even more probably that's what i'm thinking 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 you're going to see a lot that you may not want to see so that is a type of regulation it is ok so maybe a warning just to let people know what they might be in for right but other than that i think people should be able to post whatever they want to be should be able to access misinformation and porn as you watch absolutely and be the judge of it yourself you know let people make their own decisions you know some people are idiots but most of us aren't. here do you think 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 you know to take everything you hear with a pinch of songwriting 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 fee don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it . and you know it's too big right a big no you know whether or not you think the internet should remain free and anonymous forever the bottom line is that's probably unrealistic so you might want to practice responsible googling now. best financial minds around the world of his scratching their heads for years now about how to break free of the economic crisis but a twelve year old canadian girl thinks she's got the arm says a victoria grants video taken colors banks to task has gone viral on the web.

plan to stop the banks on the government. financially and save the people of cornwall when the bank gives you a mortgage which literally means watch for a while they don't actually give you money no cookie on our computer and generate the fake money on the phone are going to come painfully obvious even for me i'll probably have homemade warm but we're being fried it on raw by the banking system on a composite government well we do to stop this. well victoria grab of it mother must see it talked earlier on to ati's bill dogs the financial whiz kids talk to us about what's wrong with the system a she sees it and she outlined her ambitions 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 like world leaders they probably know what's happening is just they're just they're not doing anything about it i think they don't care because they're benefiting from what they're doing to us did you really come up with ideas yourself and 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.

i thought she said she wanted to show you on our t.v. my skies are you never know how sports ahead for you this hour the latest in the french open and juice news taking on the war on truth in the u.s. in just a few minutes to all of that following the headlines next on our team from moscow with me kevin.

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