egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak will spend the rest of his life in prison for his part in killing hundreds of protesters last year reports say the eighty four year old suffered a heart attack on route to jail this afternoon. president putin called for more times like kofi annan peace plan to take effect in syria resisting blaming one side of the conflict as russia's leader visits paris. and speaking a mind of r t could cost a good job in latvia and estonia several people have landed on the blacklist so after calling for equal rights for ethnic russians. hello there this is r.t.

from moscow is kevin owen here with you this hour with our top story in egypt's topos president hosni mubarak's been jailed for life itself to new and he's reportedly suffered a heart attack while on his way to prison he's been convicted over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising his former interior minister is also be given life but six former security officials have been acquitted egyptian journalist miriam ashanti reports 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 they realized they should the full extent of the outcome of the verdict had begun to sink in the realized ation 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 the few crewmen of personal wealth.

couples broke out in the courtroom almost immediately and those couples definitely were mimicked out here many pro bar protesters angry about that you'll see out as well as many here and feel that is it up little of the corruption and accepting bribes accumulating personal wealth to corruption really surprised many remember we're talking about personal wealth about half of a day between seventy to eighty five billion accumulated over his three decades of rule and that's angered many people in those thermoses receive rock right that if you look back at the police line. they've dissipated since the war hero but we're also hearing reports of clashes in that rear as 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 is going to hurt the campaign that much because you are angry about the lack of justice around here might want to take that out again or are this representative of the old guard there are those that believe the fact that mel and i will be going cold feet without their father. in the backyard of the old regime people returned. to their families while the fate of the family fell. to the muslim brotherhood his candidate could become egypt's next president after the election runoff in a fortnight is demanding mubarak's retrial now saying a life sentence is too lenient international law expert dr ayman salami told me he believes the verdict could determine the outcome of the poll there will be a very i mean overwhelming actually impact and influence upon the second

round of the presidential election if we analyze the judgment in june the move. by the un the other was this was the result in favor of mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's presidential candidate if we just only focus rational upon the verdict the girl to of mubarak and how the this actually ward ironically result in favor of. the being a remnant of the with g.m. . well i will bring you these latest live pictures we've got coming through of what's happening in tahrir square right now on the day that egypt's ex-president has it been telling you hosni mubarak's been jailed for life of the killing of demonstrators in last year's arab spring the eighty four year old is the first formulated to be tried in person since the start of the arab spring in early

twentieth levon he was transferred prisoner on suffered a health crisis we hear on the way use refusing to get out of the helicopter near the prison we hear that he was treated on that helicopter also former interior minister. has received a life sentence as well but four senior security officials have been cleared person scuffles earlier on. and this is the latest that we're seeing there in tahrir square were of course all this started. at the beginning of the arab spring you saw so much action there's so many people out on the streets as you can see. in comparison a lot quieter now but the pictures are going back very close and of in case things do kick off the record for a bit later on. president vladimir putin's call for patients to let kofi annan peace plan work in syria resisting pressure to assume a tougher stance against the regime concerns of a nato missile shield and the eurozone debt was also came into focus as the russian

leader met his german and french counterparts in berlin in paris. follows the talks . 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 vestment 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 first of all and had stressed the a position of france it accordance with its other international partners saying that b.m.d. 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. partners to engage in dialogue and syria of course is high on the agenda before of the tumor 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 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 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 that this is still the ideal and to solving the crisis in a. however it has to be pointed out that there are differences 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 suffer example in iraq or libya while she was questioning the security level at this point today syria's opposition group says it would welcome military action in the country but gulf states the arab league's meeting indo to discuss a 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 gangs for the attack saying the 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 serious large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that they could pose a global threat if they fell into the wrong hands american policy on this charles

war is that these concerns must be uppermost in the minds of foreign states. if your all me wish as 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 safe is 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 on the program with me kevin owen slashing california's debt by stopping state get a report of a look you'd spent keeping in mates on death row and how that could be better spent elsewhere also. our government has been borrowing money from private banks am printing us into doubt and they're not doing anything about bass meet the twelve year old canadian girl whose economic activity is taking the web but stalled right now if you talk to all the well if you solution. you've got to be brave to speak your mind in the baltics these days especially if you come out in russia's defense several people have commented on latvia in the study is anti russian policies lately here on r.t. have found themselves blacklisted a luxury jet ski reports. 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 but. in february this teacher at the leader's novel academy spoke to our team for months on 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 erector 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 mchale killed 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 activities 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 stop dangerous tendencies where 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 stony 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 if society if they 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 writing this reports for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line and read the rules and they say the civilization is all 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. we got more stories a lot of course starting dot com if you lined up here right now at this hour not in my backyard or on my rooftop maybe more importantly opposition growing up on london this is being told their missiles fired on top of their homes as part of stringent security measures some of them reporting about that today. i am told again the return of a massive financial pyramid scheme in russia promises to dash the hopes of people like to get rich quick it's a dirty joke. used to 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 is encroaching into its neighborhood with fighting between supporters and opponents of president assad gun and rocket fire for some residents to flee this. safety while lebanese troops were deployed to caen the situation. they were charge of america's warships and to be stationed in the asia pacific

region defense secretary leon panetta confirmed about sixty percent of the fleet will be there by twenty twenty he insists is not directed to china which repeatedly accuses the us of disturbing still waters by bolstering its asia presence. in eastern afghanistan taliban insurgents try to storm a nato military base of the night a vehicle packed with explosives was rammed into the alliance's building fourteen militants were killed when coalition forces responded there are no casualties among the foreign or afghan troops. coming up here this is still keeping the web in check should it be the people doing it although. 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 go it also teaches you to be a little bit more. to dog take everything you're with a preacher songwriter where in new york to ask about online restrictions and censorship. so in the states next to california struggling to contain its i water

in debts with welfare programs schools and universities all facing billions in cuts one massive money saving measure that would be to end the death penalty which cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year out is when a coach never reports on the growing calls to use that money on saving instead of ending lives. well in his twenty years as district attorney off 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 death penalty case you have to have a jury that specially paula 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's 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 accused 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 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 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 say 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 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 we're at the point where if we continue to keep this hunger for do her justice what we're going to be doing is cutting those people off the honorable law enforcement people from their pensions with the state of

california facing bankruptcy it seems its moral compass is being guided by the draw of cash not affix my to the question the r t reporting from los angeles california . the internet is supposedly the people's platform but increasingly web users are left livid over what seems growing censorship to that has been asking people in new york with a vague see it as protection or restriction. 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 it not up to government though 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 they have for us to stop and 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 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 you 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 for. 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 for you don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it . no. no it's too big big now you know whether or not you think the internet should remain free an anonymous forever the bottom line is that's probably on realistic so you might want to practice responsible googling now.

the best financial minds around the world was scratching their heads for years now about how to best break free of the economic crisis but a twelve year old canadian girl thinks she's got says victoria graham's video of her taking colored his banks to task on viral on the web. well discovery is the basis on the government. to financially and save the people of camelot. gives you a mortgage which really means death. for a while they don't actually give you money no quick a key on our computer and carry the fake money out of thin air doesn't come painfully obvious even for me i'll probably go home a.t.m. but we're being a friday on rob by the banking system on the campus of government well we do to stop this. victoria ground mother massy had talked earlier on to bill dog the financial whiz could talk to a spot what's wrong with the system or their 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 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 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 all these ideas yourself and me and my dad had them watching documentaries so i'd be taking notes in there 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. should go far well from a want a girl into a super grown legs to the age defying seventy one year old woman to become one of russia's most troubled cyclists haven't crossed the world's biggest country over a dozen times and there's a really good reports know she's back in the saddle with this set on. she took a biking twenty years ago right after her fiftieth birthday a physical education teacher of ulemas high look said she had to do something after her retirement so she learned to ride a bicycle in a week and a half these days seventy one year old yulia feels comfortable enough on the bike to ride right across russia i think she's accomplished no less than sixteen times

averaging almost a trooper year traverse in the world's biggest country. go every day from dusk till dawn i'm cycling i do take rest stops are the used to last novel too and now there are only half an hour a rest while i eat and then get back on the wheels again. this here she's heading in a different direction who is riding her bike from tyranny 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 you only assess around temple hours 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 because i'm your girl and 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 prove it and i'm sure i will never go to see a doctor i never get sick in the seventeen years i've been doing it because i only take a first aid kit some bandages and i'm just septicaemia but comment here is somewhat of a celebrity local additions 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 but it's. safer as the sport of. cycling in our city putting a lot of effort into developing this sport here by sickle parking spaces bike routes and basically i want to turn into the bicycle capital of the country and she sets a great example but julie is biggest supporter is her husband also a physical education instructor and he believes his wife is an example hard to follow and you do more for the premier get whether or not everyone can leave this

lifestyle you have to be brave and determined and possess enormous willpower she has it but a lot of people don't. you it has 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 and you don't stop with back if you go yeah i can talk to the wild for the first three years in villages by a river or upon one such time a man approached me and said i was observing you for a long time everyone is leaving and you're staying for the night on the beach he said come along to our house dumbass kid i leave with the wife i told him i'm not afraid of the devil himself so if you happen to see a sprightly levy 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 plucky lady more movers and shakers on the way too much and stacy

exposing more dodgy bankers behavior shortly the kaiser report on the air offer of a play to the headlines next on our team from moscow. gold.

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