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it is a pleasure to have you with us here on this monday. 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 aaron swartz have described his recent suicide. decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to distribute them for free but we frequently interviewed schwartz and. takes a bit of a closer look at the man and his case. he was a computer prodigy an online optimist co-founder of the social news website read it 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 j. and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the ora says program that he helped write the ora says program that alerts you founded demand progress an internet group that campaigns against web censorship and 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 arcade. and triggered an avalanche of tributes online from leading internet and like minded activists one german m.p. from the pirate party that of a reinhard he believes the potential punishment schwartz was facing for his activity was far too harsh. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fine but just are not into music from the internet or into art was putting fires on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. where the fires came from and said they wanted to put the fire on the internet anyway and aaron swartz just did a good job doing it this isn't the problem this case whenever it comes to internet freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then other senators other people in the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is

no differences. there they are same side of hollywood they're actually fighting for hollywood and making the last of them carrying a very heavy legacy that will be difficult to phillis footsteps but there are a lot of people that fight for the same goals that were tried to. to go into what he was fighting for and i think there's a political movement that is fighting for a free internet is the strongest now watching on t.v. there's a shaky common belfast where dozens of police officers were injured in the latest spate of sectarian violence over the weekend and the unrest in the northern irish capital began when the catholic dominated local council voted to cut tail the flying of the british flag at city hall the move was fiercely opposed by loyalist protestants as anti cerified reports there as well there's just no end in sight to the violence with the goals rather vague on both sides of the conflict. they've

been a turbulent time for northern ireland it's being six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the flight city hall sparking. out on to the streets the weekends on saturday we saw some of the worst thing 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 and investment in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly. the riot sparked by the like this speech showing no signs of abating at the weekend loyalists returning from the protest that won't pass the nationalist area both

sides clashing police thing came under attack from loyalist rioters many in the nationalist community. 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.

and you have as in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is damaging northern islands and around the world can be done to stop this happening right now what would these people respond so called haitians need to the people on the street they need to listen to just. when do you think this is going to stop i don't think it's going to stop. the tough to the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday many here have watched on in bewilderment some in what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority hugo's all beings of the sort of embarrassed majority will silent majority would do if that represents to turn to a thing is quite embarrassing here but actually the countries you see in these protests some people who test you see this you know think of belfast we think oh yes we'll have those mortars in the grass and it's not. like us can i mean you can

say they're so full of good things happen this way oh it's a culture of. the races now and to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full. peace. artsy. i had for you this hour here on our putting weapons ahead of welfare with a parliamentary election looming in israel people question the government's priorities as the country splash the cash hosting a very large scale war game. change. and germany swayed the greek opposition that austerity is what athens needs some say making approaches towards what have believed to be the future leader of the troubled of the eurozone member i will talk to a political analyst from greece just

a bit later in the program. but for now 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 help the government regain the north from rebels but political writer barren land believes that western nations are dealing with the fallout of their campaign in another african nation of libya and the current operation in mali will certainly not be a short. it's also part of you know francis for his shares its colonial past its great past in. the in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not for that 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 heat which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know he's there is how do you deal

with up with a few hundred troops away. intentionally a huge involvement a very long task what happened was after he fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him and who had a lot of very very arms and took off and came south and some of them originally from northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim if they wanted to do for a long time to having their own homeland in northern mali. they were going to run joined by radical more radical islamic groups and apparently we have now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things and there's plenty more waiting for you online including seek but don't find and you collection of clothes designed to hide the wearer from drones and other means of detection is said to be unveiled in london soon those details at all to dot com

on how man could ultimately dupe the eyes of big brother. also not just cheering crowds for the pope's prayer that says members of the notorious ukrainian femen group stage a naked protest what. details on that online what exactly spot their women's discontent this time around. what i hear and see they will bring you more news in just a few moments hoping you can stay with us. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

of. the world including. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered. from moscow business arts here with me rule research i thank you for joining us today it is it going to be

a battle over austerity when the german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding firm against the berlin backed austerity strategy. is expected tomorrow international lenders to change the terms of the international bailout for greece that's got some more insight now on what might actually come out of the meeting i'm joined by a political analyst and sociologist of silent justice the tutor so from the university of the aegean a great pleasure to have you want to see today frankfurt spending your time here first of all let's get right to it why would the e.u. powerhouse germany be interested in having dialogue with the greek opposition well it is normal to expect that they would like to talk we will persist in this mess and it's still a problem that. listen of the radical left in the midst of us is leading might be the next greek government or might participate in the next greek government whenever an election is going to be here and so it is not well for

a. minister to speak with. the opposition will you say it's normal but certainly it's not exactly a vote of confidence from. the greek government is it. you know until now the german government has refused to have such kind of a direct talks with mr to press the question is who is going to pressure on whom it is going to be mr sadler putting the press sort of mr to press who won't turn down his opposition to austerity or it going to be mr to press actually press ringing mr sort of low and demanding a change in the care and well who do you sort of jump into who's you know who do you think your money is on who's as you say we are expecting a bit of a sense of purpose thirty little with it's a little bit complex there mr to present strong point is that austerity is not working. there is no end in sight and what concerns the debt crisis

and we are facing much more years of increased dead and bailout packages and debt restructuring have not been successful in the core of the problem and moreover austerity has brought the source of the devastation recession. extreme unemployment all kinds of social problems that's a strong point mr to press and you can also point to the fact that the greek crisis now it's now common knowledge that it's not a greek exception it is a manifestation of the broader europe euro zone crisis and this weak point of mr to press in my opinion is that the position of his party is no to us directly but yes to the euro zone as long as it has this is this was this an in favor of the euro the euro zone at all costs that is where european powers especially germany begin to you try it out at all costs you talk about all costs yes to austerity see if we

know it was scary but yes to the eurozone at all costs the course we've been seeing for over a year if not two years now as you said a manifestation perhaps being shown of the entire eurozone problem but so. being set in the example in greece how much longer can the people there continue under those conditions and i think we're beyond the limit. of how a society can handle this and stare it which and beyond the compared to the consequences of prolonged were for or like the great depression of the 1930's to be certain mr to press he has never said that and serious i wanted to be europe or costs but he has strongly supported that there might be a solution without the sterett it but within the euro zone i think that is the contradiction of his policy i think that if you had a position that would include at least as an option. the exit from the euro zone then as you would with much more pressure on european union to change course and

reverse this policies of destructiveness there are many that could make it a question that those in the european union those at the top are simply lining their pockets that the vast expanse of the people around the world in particular on the euro zone that is that basically the people of the sheeple or some people call them happily have no representation in the government we talk about a manifestation of eurozone problems we talk about a boiling up of the frustration there have been a number of attacks on the ruling party's offices in recent days in fact just today unknown gunmen fired at their headquarters i mean do you think do you link these attacks possibly to the government's economic failure. there in the socialist days and brings all kinds of conflict including violence in this particular case there isn't lies the. government's choice. very authoritarian police crackdown on occupied building mainly by anarchist

groups. this has a lot of discussion and debate and rights of protests in greece in what has been seen as a very authoritarian. in the sense that the greek government who cannot offer nor one of the most of these and for the few returns to very conservative order tactics but insincerity scared little authoritarian there is this always the danger of spyglass and having world silence. as i was about list and socialist put your face a terrorist i'm so sorry we need more time for this conversation we just don't have it here on r t i from the university of the g. and thanks for sharing your time with us today. let's get into some other global news for you in brief it's time for the r.t. wild update starting with anti-government protesters in bahrain are reportedly clashing with police at the funeral of an activist who died after becoming overcome with tear gas follows a series of demonstrations urging the current government to step down the uprising

in the gulf war like he started in early two thousand and eleven as the shia majority began its push for greater political reforms freedoms and rights. thousands of activists have begun their march on the pakistani capital after their leader voiced his discontent with the current political system islam about has tightened security and warned demonstrators of possible terrorist attacks some politicians claim the march was initiated by the state's military to disrupt the polls ahead of the general election in the spring and the cleric who sparked the movement says the government should deploy drastic reforms and break up the corrupt regime. and nigerian military forces claim to have captured a key figure from the islamist group. mohamed atta's and gina was reportedly caught in the country's northeast and 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 attacks on civilians. now major crimes committed in different

parts of the world including africa and the way they're being handled by the international criminal court all of that the topic of cross talk debate today just a bit later than his guests clash over whether the i.c.c. is as impartial as it's meant to be is a preview. i see why that only those who have been indicted and convicted and where is the. nato allies. either not being indicted or how we already know it is well 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 fail to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing happening where gaddafi was

indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi 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. i do stay with us for cross talk a bit later in the day we're not safer now though israel's increasingly under fire for its settlements plan the latest wave of international crisis and criticism a response by the forceful a vixen of a palestinian protest camp dozens of settlement activists were detained after police raided the site despite an earlier court order preventing the government from such action we talked to a palestinian man who took part in the nonviolent protest he believes the upcoming

israeli election is the reason behind the conversion. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with said before this is an arm this is this and that by itself is violence but even within the process of action many. many days they suffered through till beatings for no reason they did not even exist. or less but they suffered due to the beatings we had at least six or seven of those resentful activists treated in the hospital and 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 their settlement plan. to connect violent means sentiment to do so them and they don't want anything with the

legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a lectures are coming up senator now has to take. the stand tough position on on this particular case. i mean while israel is hosting what's being called the largest multinational air force exercise with well over one hundred fighter planes taking part in a 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 a growing number of israelis are questioning such huge expense on war games when it comes to the ignored economic conditions are to fall asleep investor. is one of the united states 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. he's a couple terrorists 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 is 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. to me by this nothing more nothing less i sued my country as

a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not food that i saw in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echo 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 the concerns of the most and i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget in proportion because i'm a few security of society it's more important not less important than the security . of his or her but the voice on the street is drowned out by the rumble of weaponry and tell of obsession in showcasing its military prowess policy r.t.

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