the family were internet activity as prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after he praised decades behind bars for downloading academic documents for public use. you know a no suggestions just under a metre nervous law in belfast artie's thanks to both sides in the weeks old flood conflict as they struggle to explain what that demands actually are. and franz gives assurances its military operation against the minor islamists will be short and warnings the country risks being bogged down in the conflict for far longer than planned.

news from russia and around the world this is r.t. was me. hello and a very warm welcome to the program the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist arash watts have described his recent surfside schwartz faced decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to distribute them for free he has frequently interviewed transcend our own marina takes a closer look now at the man and his skates. he was a computer prodigy an online optimist co-founder of the social news website reddit

and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend fountain in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released

a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach decisions made by officials in the massachusetts u.s. attorney's office and at mit contributed to his death unquote many of sports his colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirty two years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the aura says a program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress in internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this. ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robinhood but his supporters

his friends his his family members believe that it was him being targeted by the federal government that caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own life reporting from new york marina port ny on r.t. . so triggered an avalanche of tributes online from a leading internet and like minded activist and a german and p. from the pirate party five reinhard believes the potential punishment swartz was facing his activity was way too much it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with your thousand dollars fines for just on loading some music from the internet or. files on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j. store. the where the parts came from. on the internet anyway it was just the did a good job doing it the system of the obvious case whenever it comes to freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement all the senators all the people in the

house of representatives in the united states the same side there is no. there's a shaky cam in belfast where dozens of police officers were injured in the latest spate of sectarian violence over the weekend that rest in the northern irish capital began when the catholic dominated local council voted to cut tail the buying of the british flag at the city hall the move was fiercely opposed by loyalist protestants and. reports now there's no end in sight to the violence with

the goals break on both sides of the conflict. they've been a turbulent time for northern ireland it's been six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the union flag would fly city hall sparking. out on to the streets the weekends on saturday we fool some of the worst they like writing that has taken place. we have more than twenty nine police officers that were injured at the weekend and the damage that this is doing. much much further reaching its. own business investment in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly should be. the riot sparked by the like this speech showing no signs of the baiting at the weekend lewis returning from

a protest that won't pass the nationalist area both sides clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist rioters many in the nationalist community could sleep which don't. angry young loyalists of pulling back an old sectarian narrative a worrying sign to those who remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way. willing to accept.

whatever you have isn't the right to see what's happening right now is damaging northern islands and around the world can be done to stop this happening right now . when do you think this is going to start i don't think it's going to stop at. the top of the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and he have watched on it but will demand some in fifth what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority you go to. paris majority to silent majority. it actually was it was you see these three chests so full with this you

would see this they would have they go well for us we think oh yeah that's what these marches in the rats that say they were the truth is like that's what we were going to maybe get so they're cheerful the good things up and that's where the culture of. the race is now and to come up with the solution to calm the situation . and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the hard pull or project. so artsy. still ahead for you this hour hey i'll see pushing weapons ahead a welfare with a parliamentary election a zero approaching people watching the government's priorities the country splashes the cash hosting another large scale war game but ignores demands what economic trade. in germany said to persuade the mission that austerity is what afghans needs some say berlin is making approaches towards what it believes will be the future leader of the trouble he or his own member.

france says the u.s. and britain are providing support for its military intervention in mali french troops have been fighting in the african nation since friday to how the government regain the north from rebels but political writer barry long believes western nations are dealing with the fallout of their campaign in another african nation libya and the current operation mali will be a long one. it's also part of france's tradition as its colonial past its great paskin again. in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not forgotten i think that's very much part of it and also of course the economic interest there you're talking about a country just north of the mallee which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know these areas how do you deal was up with a few hundred troops away as well so it's

a potentially huge involvement and very long task what happened was after could after you fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him who had a lot of very happy arms and took off and came south and some of them originally from northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time. having their own homeland in northern mali with wires. they were better than joined by radical more radical islamic groups and of her soirees that now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things. to stay with us as well back with moonies three up with a short break. more

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i. i. this is all he welcomed back and the u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has become the target all the latest opposition rally in moscow thousands marched into central the capital on sunday protesting against them x. our correspondent he go. the protesters are demanding that the e.u. the authorities abolish a law passed recently which bans americans from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the magnitsky act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states or for a leading human rights of the reason why russian lawmakers chose to balance from

adopting russian children is due to the meaning pieces of lobby usually sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue adoption has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of a proper legal reaction from american of gordie's including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and they do have a fair amount of supporters in society but there are also many of those who are strongly against this ban just recently why the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin we signed the bill in the end asking him to change his mind to abolish the slaughter she explained it by saying that in many

cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive the proper medical attention here in russia and we both already heard from the president's press secretary would need to be scoffed to said that i was going to put in will review this walk post even though it's not an official request it's also needed to point out that you do to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all. all those people who have already been able to find children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to why was this a process so these kids were already sort of approved to be adopted they will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. and of course you go north pictures and videos from the latest opposition rally held in russia had to ask dot com for

a closer look and most tori's waiting for you including sig but didn't find a new collection of signs to hide they were from drones and other means of attack is said to bend veiled in london as soon as i had to r.t. dot com to read how man could do big brother's watch fly. on also that are not just cheering crowds for the pope's prayer that says members of the notorious ukrainian famine group stage and naked protest the right in the heart of the vatican online we've got the details of what sparked the women's discontent this time. if. you believe.

she won the german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader has been holding firm against the berlin backed austerity strategery super is expected to demand international lenders change the terms of the international bailout for greece and political economist again it's very fact there's also a particular reason why germany is interested in this meeting. what mr alarm was in opposition from mrs michael if you talk to him and then find it much harder to establish that working relationship with him once he became president of the french republic similarly misses the person may well be in government after the next election in the future in greece so germany needs to have a mode of communicating with and not in order to have eaten by the tone of interest to go but mr cooper's to convince me so bullish about the right or wrong. thinking

but it has to be some kind of goodwill communication. under some other international news in brief this hour on two government protesters in bahrain have reportedly clashed with police at the funeral of an octave it's who died up to being overcome by tear gas it follows that series of demonstrations urging the current government to step down their prizing in the gulf monarchies started an early twenty's lover of the shia majority began its push for greater political freedoms and rights. thousands of acts of his have begun their march on the pakistani capital after their leader voiced his discontent with the current political system is law about has tightened security and wants to my street as a possible terrorist attacks some politicians claim the march was initiated by the state's military to disrupt the polls ahead of the general election this spring the cleric who sparked the movement says the government should deploy drastic reforms

and break up the corrupt regime. nigerian military forces claim to have captured a key figure from the islamist group boko herat mohammad as a near it was reportedly caught in the country's northeastern a city believed to be the heart of the insurgent group the government is trying to oust the islamist group which was responsible for thousands of deaths during that time zones. major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa the way they're handled by the international criminal court other topic of our crosstalk debates and later this hour people about his gaffes clash over whether the i.c.c. is as impartial as it's meant to be and here's a look at also ahead what you. we've seen of the i.c.t. why. only the. have been indicted and convicted and where are. our nato allies largely either not being indicted or how do we know are they really

in there which is where the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what that indicates is simply that the prosecutor failed to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing happening where gadhafi was indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi is adversary there's been no investigation into the murder in captivity of gaddafi and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. we believe. israel is increasingly under fire for its sacraments with the latest with the

latest wave of international criticism sponsored by the forceful eviction of a palestinian process camp dozens of anti settlement activities were detained after police raided the science despite and nearly a quarter would have prevented the government from such action which would have put a sting in mind who took part of the nonviolent protest and he believes that coming is really inaction is the reason behind the commotion. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with said before this is one of those that by itself is violence but even within the process of action many. many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even resist. or less what they suffered due to the beatings we had at least six or seven of those activists

treated in the hospital a lot of them are hostile to see doctors for severe problems that they suffered from the beating it's a political issue for the. the going ahead with the plan. to connect violent means for them and to do so that they don't want anything with the legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a rector's are coming. to take it off of the position on on this particular case meanwhile israel has hosted once been called the largest have been multinational air force exercise was more than a hundred fighter planes taking part in the combat training came just a couple of months after another large scale military drill conducted jointly with the u.s. and with a parliamentary election in the country just around the corner and growing number

of israelis are questioning such huge expense and war games police he explains. israel and the united states are sharing military drills bigger than any they've done in the past thousands of troops and millions of dollars but with social grievances that still need to be addressed and a prime minister looking for votes ahead of early january elections israelis are asking themselves yet again if netanyahu has his priorities straight that. he's a cup at least and under his term as we saw in the last few years of the cleavage between poor and rich with. the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves

for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire i mean what i meant to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sold my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echoed the pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us who couldn't care less he will win again i know this. is a disgrace prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address their concerns was. ok mostly i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security

budget in proportion look at i mean the security of society it's more important not less important than their security. but the voice on the street is drowned out by the bubble of weaponry and tell of obsession and showcasing its military prowess policy arty television. and as a promised opera had its cross talk with detail about. what makes life complete. and a happy family. or self-expression.

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