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is now is just after seven pm on monday here in moscow this is with me rory sushi a life with global twenty four hour news. the family of american a web information activist aaron swartz says he may have been driven to suicide by the prosecution process against him. just twenty six the internet crusader faced decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers which cheap believed should be available to everyone. reports the federal prosecution was relentless. 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 found him 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 many of swartz's colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the are a says a program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress in 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. i 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. r.t.

. and in the aftermath of schwartz's death the massachusetts institute of technology website has been attacked and defaced hacktivist group anonymous has taken responsibility leaving a message in memory of him on the front page of mit has said it would investigate its role in the death of an m.p. from the pirate party reinhard says walsh was faced was just too harsh. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with few thousand dollars just are not into music from the internet. putting it on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j. store. where the parts came from said they wanted to put the parts on the internet anyway and just did a good job doing it this in the open this case whenever it comes to freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then all of the senators all of the people in the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is

no differences there same side as hollywood does and sometimes it's just that they're completely innocent people have to pay a lot of fine or go into into jail because they are making information public because they're just not into music. watching r.t. and belfast is on edge during a flag related riots the majority rally for. loyalists protests and weeks before the demands of all sides coming your way shortly. could fly when germany's economy minister meets with the greek opposition leader standing firm against more budget cuts. political economist about what's likely to come out of the discussion. for now though britain has sent one of its cargo warplanes to mali to back the french led military campaign against islamist rebels there in london says that more

help is to follow with washington even approaching its assistance as well the french military has been involved in combat action in the west african nation since friday trouble which some see as blowback from the allies recent interventions in the region from london. has more. well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications and logistics to that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing surveillance drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in northern mali and of course it's not just britain and the u.s. now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging mess of course for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in the operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel

strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from france who are all loans promised to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with former african colonies in fact through their differences with nicolas sarkozy he's been just as quick to jump into military military intervention in mali as nicolas sarkozy was to jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago so a lot of political experts saying that it could be a way of trying to ratchet up his political polls and his approval ratings because apparently those have been plummeting and is that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and it's an area the size of france they've imposed a rare law there so

a stance simply it's a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts are linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy of what happened in libya because . the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of. duffy's army in libya and also the very brisk military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to that native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and a lot of gadhafi military also has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and lot of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya. as a political reporter a bit earlier in the program paris says that its combat mission against islamists

in mali won't last long but political writer barry land believes there's a high chance the french army will ultimately get bogged down i think it's also part of you know france's traditions its colonial past its great past in. degree in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not forgot that i think that's very much part of it and also of course there's economic interests there and turns out that there is the largest city anywhere is on the outskirts of paris so the immigrants who live here i think the problem is is that it's totally over open and the french have given no you probably don't know exactly what you wrote your tips are what is there in how long is this going to go on you're talking about a country just north of our mouth heat which is twice the size of france you track down these rebels these different groups you know these various how do you deal with a few hundred troops in a way is. potentially

a huge involvement and very long task in the end what they're going to want to do in this i mean to negotiate with these people that's the only way i think it's going to come to an end. well it is right now it's only ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is our failure to investigate and prosecute later this hour crosstalk team looks at why some major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa are being swept under the carpet and never make it to the international criminal court. we've seen the why. only this. has 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 with 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 and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. or the right to a preemptive nuclear strike against china is now part of u.s. law thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike with a network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals video earlier in

the program i spoke to an editor of a japan based news website james corbett all about this and he suggested there could be other motives at play. i don't think that we have to look at this couple come to bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching up for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapons so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred kill entire meal that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new funders around nuclear facilities or alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric over to the asia pacific as part of this age of pacific pivot i think to a certain extent this is just to justify the existence of the u.s.

arsenal and to make sure that things like the new starts the strategic arms reduction treaty basically get scuttled before it really gets off the ground and there's a lot in this new and a that really seeks to undermine the president's ability should he ever want to to actually reduce the nuclear stockpile so i think the congress is definitely trying to get their foot in the door and stop any type of arms reductions before it can actually be implements i think at this point that we've been getting reports that there have been some broad acuity of high altitude jet for race between china and japan some japanese jets tailing chinese jets basically playing some high altitude games of cat and mouse possibly reigniting another territorial dispute they've been having disputes for quite some time now certainly about some particular islands is it possible that those two could get involved in something slightly more intense. it certainly could and of course the more bellicose that the u.s. becomes against china the more safe japan will seem will feel in either threatening or responding to chinese aggression so i think it really only serves serves to put

a match next to this this powder keg that is the asia pacific region especially now that really this is heating up. and the american attention is turning here i think we're going to see more and more of this type of these types of situations coming along that could justify even further military intervention so we have to look at these types of nuclear. that's coming out right now not necessarily is the intent to strike anytime soon but certainly it's something to keep our eyes on as this rhetoric continues to ratchet up. now it's going to be a battle over austerity when germany's finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding firm against the berlin backed program of cuts alex suppresses aiming to change wolfgang schauble xm mind about forcing the greek government to make major sacrifices political analyst and sociologist up on a geo to sorted us says there's still a chance for european leaders to put pressure on the opposition mr to press strong

point is that austerity is not working there is no end in sight and what can sense a debt crisis and we are facing a much more years of increased debt and a bailout package this debt restructuring have not been successful in the core of the problem and moreover austerity has brought us out of devastation recession. extreme unemployment all kinds of social problems this week point of mr to press in my opinion is that the position of this party is noticed there at the but yes to the euro zone as long as it has this this was this an in favor of the euro of the euro zone at all costs that is where european powers especially germany put pressure on the. this is and prioritizing military might over social

stability coming up on the program israel launches multinational force drills unprecedented in size and cost people on the streets say the government should think again about its money management. and that's the start of the olympic torch relay jewels near a brush on bales the design of the berries uniforms as well as the torch itself that's off for a short. time .

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images for world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. so joining us here on r.t. today belfast is in a state of calm after the self dubs silent majority rallied against the violent

riots of the past weeks and rest began when the catholic dominated local council limited the flying of the u.k. flag on civic buildings and sparking fears protests by pro british protestants as r.t. sarah further reports unclear goals on both sides could easily trigger yet more trouble . time for northern ireland this thing 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 the saturday. 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. in this area.

talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly should be done. by the like this speech showing no signs of the baiting at the weekend lewis returning from a protest that would pass the nationalist area both sides clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist riot is many in the nationalist community. angry young loyalists of pulling back an old sectarian narrative a worrying sign to. the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way.

willing to accept. you have is in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is damaging northern ireland's image around the world well can be done to stop this happening right now what would the people responsible alterations need if the people on the street the media listening to the civilians and. when do you think this is going to stop i don't think it's going to stop france will stop the tough to the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on in bewilderment some in what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority

yugoslavians of the sort of embarrassed majority will silent majority would do if that represents to turn to a thing is quite embarrassing when you hear the news of the countries you see in these protests some people who test you see this think of belfast we think oh yes we'll have more troops in the rasmussen. maybe you can say there are so full of good things happening that's why our culture. race is now on to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more as a pad and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full force roger. r.c. belfast. he is coming here live from moscow and some greeks are choosing pretty extreme ways of showing they're fed up with the government one man opens fire on the headquarters of the greek ruling party with an a k forty seven and no group has

claimed responsibility for the shooting comes off the back of a wave of similar attacks. right now. also online a virus invades new york the state governor has declared a health emergency over the spread of flu epidemic is already five times the size of. israel has come in for international criticism after its paramilitary forces shut down a palestinian protest camp in the west bank all of this despite the country's supreme court forbidding it but also promised to build even more settlements in the area and one of the protesters told us the prime minister is just scoring points ahead of a looming election. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with said before this is an armed resistance and that by itself is violent but even within the process of actually.

many activists many of those that suffered through till beatings for no reason they did not even exist. or less but they suffered due to the things we had at least six or seven of thought 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 settlement to do so them and they don't want anything with a legal or illegal to disturb their settlement expansion. and there's a lectures are coming up senator now has to take the. stand tough position on on this particular case. also israel has launched what's

expected to become the largest ever multinational air force exercise lasting the entire year as are his policy live reports the costly project has left many israelis wondering if the military is where the money is really needed. israel in 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 cup at the 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 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. owed to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sued 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 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 the 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. i think we need to invest more in social issues in constant bursaries he does security budget in proportion to. the security of society it's more important. than their security. but the voice on the street is drowned out by the rumble of weaponry and tell of a position in showcasing its military prowess policy r.t. television right into the arty world that we go starting with antigovernment protesters in bahrain reportedly clashing with police at the funeral of an activist it follows a series of demonstrations against the current government and the uprising started in early twentieth when the shia majority began its push for greater political freedoms. barricades have been erected by which is readying for a wave of anticorruption protesters expected today from lahore they are calling for

electoral reforms in the current administration of doing little to improve their standard of living and some experts are predicting that this movement could spark a broader arab spring style uprising. well it'll burn in wind or frost and underwater the pledge of the creators of the olympic torch for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi it's an unusually shaped design has just been unveiled in moscow so i. went to have a look. the olympic games in sochi are coming sooner than you may think and of course the integral part of in the olympic games is the torch bearers really which is due to happen to start very very soon that will go over it will cover all it is three off the subjects of russian federation the organizers of the olympic games in sochi are even thinking of taking the torch all the way to the north pole and even

into open space their point of the entire torch relay will be uniting russia that's what the organizers told us at the press conference today and what i'm wearing right now is actually the official going to form off the torch bearers this is the representing the colorful nature of russia itself a country with a very rich tradition a lot of very rich culture the we're going to have said that the the designer of the torch itself has spent a year playing and then they spent another year actually making the torch is now the torch as well way to around two kilograms that's almost i'm an entire kilo more than the lawn than the limbic torch but despite that the people who have already held in their hands are saying that it's not too heavy a burden to bear for people for participating in so noble adventure as the torch as an olympic torch relay actually the almost four thousand participants people who will be running and carrying the torch with them there is an obligation for for the position of a torch bearers they're actually thinking you're up to the. current cross talk is

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