technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak began serving life for his pardoned killing hundreds of protesters last year but there's a mixed angry reaction outside court. president putin pushes the u.n. envoy for peace plan for syria insisting that both sides need to stop the violence as the russian leader travels to berlin and paris. and how talking to r t could get you fired in lafayette and of stony as people land on blacklist after demanding equal rights for ethnic russians. oh it's midnight in moscow this is archie coming to you live from you so now with

our top story egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has begun a life sentence and reportedly suffered serious health problems on his way to prison he's been convicted for the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising who works for more interior minister has also been given life but several former security officials were acquitted the verdicts triggered anger among many egyptians crowds gathered in tahrir square your yes the court they believe was too lenient the muslim brotherhood candidate could become egypt's next president after an election runoff in a fortnight is demanding mubarak's retrial and calls want to just chose to continue the revolution revolutionary groups say justice has not been served and that mubarak's former prime minister shouldn't be running for the presidency gyptian journalist marian assignee is gauging reaction in cairo. and michelle leave the reaction was obviously one of. relief at the sound of the word guilty but.

that verdict was read i think to realize they showed 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 are shown you where e was was corruption and mismanagement of the nation for the crew of the new crewmen of personal wealth. couple broke out in the court room almost immediately and those couples definitely were mimicked out here many pro mubarak protesters angry about the g.o.p. outcome as well as many here and feel that he's a little of the corruption and accepting bribes accumulating personal wealth to corruption 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 that's angered many people in those thermoses receive rock right putting it because of the tax levy the police line there also clashes in kashmir as well attack here somewhere in the city many people wonder i think at this point whether it be the delivery of this verdict at this that 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 that this could hurt the campaign that much speak those who are angry about the lack of justice around here might want to take that out again are this representative of the old guard there are those that believe the fact that the melania law will be going home while the it without their father. will simply just remain as the bang guard of the old regime able to return able to use their that family's wealth to

face the real sadness themselves. patrick henson associated associate i should say editor of the website info war stock com says when bart's trial and the choice of candidates in the coming election runoff proves that the old regime is still in control if you look at the charges that starforce is the acquittals you know if protesters who are were killed in trial here square it's likely the shoot to kill orders were not given by the president and you look at who stayed in power after the fall of mubarak you know the real power in egypt is those who are more in the military and security services and they were all found not guilty there is a scramble for power there between the old guard show and the muslim brotherhood north sea the only day the real story here is that how can you have free and fair elections in a country that is still under military dictatorship so according to election

officials in the first round of elections the majority of votes and numbers were not cast for either show feet or morsi so what we have here i believe it looks like a staged a kind of a staged election that we're looking at when the real problem in egypt is the cycle of privilege and this is the problem that the if you gyptian really want democracy then we're going to have to face the same problem that we have in the united states and european countries who just the same people who are involved with the security services as embedded politicians who are privileged tramways and wealthy families of the same cycle of privilege to get out of that cycle i don't see it happening in the near future. still ahead for you this hour on our team watching california's deaths by stopping state killing or report of a million spent keeping inmates on death row and all that cash could be better spent elsewhere also. on our government has been borrowing money from private

banks and putting us into debt and they're not doing anything about this twelve year old canadian girl whose economic i command is taking the lead by storm she talks started and gives us her solution. but first president vladimir putin has called for patience to that kofi annan plan of work in syria resisting pressure to assume a tougher stance against the regime concerns over nato missile shield on the euro zone's debt woes also came into focus as the russian leader met his german and french counterparts in berlin and paris. is following 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 investment coming from this continent to russia is definitely significant and they also touched upon issues that concern them both such as that of

a nuclear nonproliferation and again stressing the fact that the two countries are indeed partners but in terms of that partnership there is of course still a tension especially when it comes to the anti missile defense 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 nato wouldn't expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military hardware near russia but we've seen it expand and its bases spread now we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue now syria of course is high on the agenda before of the ultimate 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 stirred 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 francois hollande and putin are concerned they both a stress that they are looking at a diplomatic solution that this is still the ideal and to solving the crisis in. however it has to be pointed out that there are differences in their approach law and saying that more sanctions are necessary to put pressure on the assad regime will putin saying that this is ineffective citing past examples for example in iraq or libya question he was questioning the security level at this point today.

syria's opposition group says it would welcome military action in the country by gulf states the arab league have been meet meeting and to discuss a serious crisis in last week's massacre in the town of houla the scouts are in saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels damascus blames armed gangs for the attacks saying they're seeking to trigger foreign intervention u.s. which backs the opposition and favors regime change and myths there are plans for military action but if the president also wants to be removed was to be removed there are fears syria's large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction because of global threat if they fell into the wrong hands american policy analyst charles blair warns that these concerns must be uppermost in the minds of foreign states. if you only 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 of 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 or 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. well more stories online at r.t. dot com for your here's a taste of what's lined up this hour not in my backyard or on my rooftop opposition grows among one to nurse who when told they'll have missed styles live on top of their homes as part of stringent security measures at the summer's olympic games.

and fall began the return of massive financial pyramid scheme in russia promises to dash the hopes of people hoping to get rich quick details that are to dot com. they have got to be brave to speak your mind in the baltics especially if you come out in russia's defense several people who commented on last year and estonia is anti russian policies here on r.t. have found themselves blacklist it. has the story. door i cannot accept this policy of treachery to my friends from the russian minority we stood shoulder to shoulder to make dependent 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 like. 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 our future students and he made it look as if i made an act of aggression against the i told. we don't have a good solution right to due to my colleagues told me they were going to. find a reason to sack me after the summer exams. a top level politician from another baltic country stonier also made comments on one of our stories and also found himself targeted by the authorities the vice mayor of you'll kill but it was surprised to see himself on and. the report put together by a stone your 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 violence 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 about clearing my name but just talking tendencies mind democracy and in my country or so on 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 a letter to a stone lance prime minister demanding answers she believes such actions are illegal when you know what a society of state you are not at war with russia or anyone else that's why we have no grounds to blacklist any organizations or channels the security police have been running this with courts for many years but this time they have crossed a certain line 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 estonia. coming up to quarter past the hour still to come keeping the web in check should it be the people or the police something good that information you get from the internet is reliable as it would be from

a book people don't proofread with your beauty as often as they probably should but you've got to do it also teaches you to be a little bit more. you know don't take everything you hear with a pinch of salt right we're in new york to ask about online restrictions and censorship. for a look now at some world news in brief for you there have been clashes in hamburg in northern germany as neo nazis and anti fascism battles about protesters tried to block a far right rally with burning barricades but it's sensitive to fighting as the two groups met head on earlier anti nazi demonstrators threw rocks at police injuring eight officers some seven hundred riders arrested elsewhere in hamburg more than ten thousand people held a peaceful rally against a far right march. a long majority of america's more ships are to be stationed in the asia pacific region defense secretary leon panetta confirmed about sixty

percent i mean the fleet will be there by twenty twenty so it's not directed at china which repeatedly accuses the u.s. of disturbing still waters by bolstering its asian presence. armed clashes have killed seven people and injured thirty others in north lebanon the violence is further proof that syria's conflict is encroaching on its neighbor the fighting between supporters and opponents of president asad gun and rocket fire for some residents to flee to safety while lebanese troops were deployed to calm the situation. california is struggling to contain its eye watering debts with welfare programs schools and universities facing billions in cuts but one massive money saving measure would be to end the death penalty which cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars per year or two's matina question of a reports on the growing calls to use that money on saving instead of ending lives . but in his twenty years as district attorney of allie county john van de camp was

involved in the conviction of a good number of people who were sentenced to death he says with the years of legal wrangling keeping people on death row doesn't come cheap and is a constant drain on resources to try 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 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 or phrase in the justice system was shattered when her sixteen year old son arthur was wrongfully convicted she now believes the money spent on capital punishment can find a better use put more cops on the street put more police officers trying to solve crimes i mean there's a lot of places where we can go to we're actually benefit the community activists claimed. dropping the death penalty puts california on track to save one billion

dollars in the next five years the money desperately needed by the state now running a sixteen billion dollars deficit however some say dropping the death penalty could provide 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 up to the point where if we continue to keep this hunger for justice what we're going to be doing is cutting those people off the off the 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 much in the question the r t reporting from los angeles california the internet is supposedly rip people wired for him but increasingly web users are left livid for one thing is growing censorship has been asking people in new york

whether they 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 that not up to 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. to take everything you hear with a printer song 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 in its infancy you don't think people are smart enough to figure out how to make money and control it. to big 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 best financial minds around the world have been scratching their heads for years now about how to break free of the economic crisis but a twelve year old canadian girl thinks she has the answers victoria grants video of her taking care of us banks to task has gone viral on the. web discovery is the banks on the government how could it financially and save the people of canada want

to give you a mortgage really means death. for a while they don't actually give you money they could key on a computer and generate the fake money out of their own to come painfully obvious even for me i'll probably ok maybe and that we're being a friday on rob by the banking system on a composite government well we do to stop this. big story or grabs in our mother marcia talked earlier tardies bill dog financial whiz kid talk to us about what's wrong with the system and outlined her ambitions. 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 to understand once you start researching world leaders they probably know what's happening it's just they're just they're not doing anything about it i think they don't care because they're benefiting from what they're doing to us did you really come up with 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 prime minister. i want to be an interior designer but i'm definitely going to keep studying monetary reform. from a wonder girl to a super grow age defying seventy one year old woman has become one of russia's most

traveled cyclists having crossed the world's biggest country over a dozen times and as arches are in a go to report she's back in the saddle with her sights set on europe. she took a biking twenty years ago right after her fiftieth birthday a physical education teacher if you really mean 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 to 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 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 yulia is riding her bike from tir to paris to commemorate the

march of the russian army in his defeat of napoleon in eight hundred twelve the only thing she had to conquer was a visa let's reset for most of us taking a mile long walk is already an accomplishment and a four and a half thousand kilometer bike ride forget about it but you only assess around ten kilometers every morning in the winter and the sort of the snow melts she's back on her bike so this trip should really be a piece of cake you could come you gave earlier i often get asked why don't i take anyone along with me you are but how can i would you come with me i'm not sure you'll be able to pull through and i'm sure i will never go to see a doctor i never get sick in the seventeen years i've been doing this i only take a firstly kid some bandages and the septic but comment here is somewhat of a celebrity local. titian's 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 we're putting a lot of effort into developing this sport here bicycle parking spaces bike routes and basically want to turn to very into the bicycle capital of the country and she says it's a great example but hughley his biggest supporter is her husband also a physical education instructor and he believes his wife is an example hard to follow in their group of people but i'm here to give a bit of a not everyone can leave this lifestyle you have to be brave and determined and possess enormous willpower she has a good but a lot of people don't. view it as to me that 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 stop work back if you can't go 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 are staying for the night on the beach he said come along to our house dumbass kid i live with the wife i told him i'm not afraid of the devil himself so if you happen to see is privately levy on a bike as you travel across europe in your car this summer do say hello but don't offer a lift she will most certainly refuse it it even goes to be a region. well sports ahead for your sort of the this hour with the latest from the french open but first we'll take a short break and i'll have a recap of the headlines.