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just moments after five pm here in moscow. with news from around the world well they promised a square and it's not looking too far from it has been used on warning shots are being heard outside pakistan's parliament thousands are demanding immediate changes . charismatic cleric who said to be a favorite of the military among his and his followers demands are calls for broader government reform and a harsh crackdown on corruption. to mollify the demonstrators pakistan has ordered the arrest of the prime minister he was caught up in a bribery scandal and former officer of the pakistan. change of power may not be far off. people are likening it to fairy square and so many other things

but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around whom people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the head of the car three there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some said that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longest stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the vest there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched him this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were down drugged and their legs lectured and they were driven against of all because of bag governance because of the terror situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure

that it matters if history has to change of this country now the cleric named mohammed connery had skin from the government an ultimatum to disband the parliament or he'll order his followers to carry out acts of civil disobedience is something the photo that you suffer analyst and editor of the center for research and security studies said would ultimately lead to chaos. into would be going to the section. where the situation and i was that of the new square because the people seem to understand that in the middle east the people at least united by one ethnicity all of one's people known as the adams but another side a lot of it's going to be a lot of divisions that is really hard to expect but only solution i can not expect is mr because of the orders to be able to

stop being the rule of law in islam because it can learn a pretty chaotic scene. this is r.t. and it is a grim anniversary for the u.s. and vietnam. they cannot buy into the fact that they have great military supremacy go in and just destroy a government occupy a country and we mold their country so that it becomes a proxy or quiet for the united states or the spy the huge losses both sides suffered in the conflict almost four decades ago we explore whether washington has learned the lessons or is ready to repeat it's costing us. now france says it will significantly boost its intervention force to mali where the total number of troops deployed to the conflict zone are expected to reach at least two and a half thousand a finale the parrot is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colony but only from the air and despite almost five days of

intensive air strikes aimed at helping mali's government militants have managed to grab more territory it raises fears that the fight against islamist there will not be swift as the french authorities had been planning at the u.s. and britain are among those who will assist the combat mission of paris as also seeking arab backing eric margolies an award winning columnist whose extensively covered conflicts in africa believes the french effort is more about it's a serial that's right rather than tackling terror. the now it's just recently that there would be no intervention in. the old days of when the french used to go in and overthrow governments overnight after governments that didn't fall of french policy isn't those days are gone well you see they're not. raising memories of colonialism which are not very old ring of france really ruled entire region even after giving it in the and that still ran it from behind the scenes it was called

france afrique and a lot of west africans still resent the proud. well you know when you spread to unstick. rising going our central african republic. even to nigeria. very cheerful we're. doing it it's like dry and explosive with the fire it's spreading the fire we're putting it out now front as military mission has increased fears of revenge attacks on its own soil is the most sickening mali islamist militants they've certainly issued a warning to paris saying it's quote opened the gates of hell by intervening in the country a london based political activist john respond leaves the rise of terrorism worldwide as a result of nato's battle against it more than a decade ago the head of the security services in britain warned the then prime

minister tony blair that the intervention in afghanistan. sadly but then to far with. you watching r.t. live from moscow in exactly one week israelis head to the polls as the country holds a snap parliamentary election but the situation in the turbulent middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the vote very closely i

don't miss our special coverage and i think begins coming next tuesday. with develop settlement expansion isolate can there be peace with. what's next in relations with america. explains the foreign policy of recent years make some doubt of any lessons were ever learn. sixty one year old ken doll to him is a husband father and retired firefighter four decades ago he was a member of the u.s. navy serving in vietnam every every year we were there every day was like nine

eleven for those people every day was. the work killed an estimated three million vietnamese and more than fifty eight thousand americans the u.s. stepped in on the side of south vietnam in its fight against the communist back north which was seeking to unify the country on january fifteenth ninety five the country on january fifteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy three thousand nixon announced the end of offensive operations against north vietnam a military crusade that would lead or become a foreign policy benchmark for washington to never repeat the primary lesson that the us foreign policy establishment should have learned from vietnam and i don't think they had learned from vietnam is that they cannot in spite of the fact that they have great military supremacy go in and just destroy a government occupy a country and remold the country. clients of the united states forty years and six presidents later critics say washington has done

a better job at repeating mistakes rather than learning from them we still. want wars or interventions in other countries. i mean it's wrong period you're not going to win we don't win in iraq. we didn't win in the afghanistan race we even there with our allies and the same thing is like a vietnam we didn't win the one absolutely nothing and you know and they just don't get it we've tried to rule the world we've tried to do it in not only in a way that's been damaging devery nation the world but in the process the united states has become less and less rainy it's become less and less economically viable and with each passing decade war has generated more and more profit for the u.s. military industry i topic r.t. discussed with filmmaker and vietnam war vet oliver stone we have not done well with innovations anywhere but we continue to be an empire you know we have eight

hundred plus spaces some of the very issues. we've created a huge infrastructure a global infrastructure we're trying to be the world's policeman when it comes to america's security republican senator chuck hagel has been nominated to replace leon panetta higgle would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives that they didn't have i didn't having the say about someone needs to represent that perspective in in our government as well the people in washington make the policy. but it's the little guys who come back in the body but since two thousand and one an estimated sixty six hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s.

military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's. and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. of course coming here from the heart of moscow and stripping protesters of the citizenship police brutality. twitter posts just about everything so far and in the latest incident. during a demonstration. we haven't felt safe for some time even in. the u.s. secure there was warned freedom of information the activist aaron swartz he would kill himself stay with us for more on the life and legacy of the twenty six year old and just to.

see the story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else. and realize everything. is a big issue. with . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've. covered.

these are the. leaders seeking to concentrate more power in brussels. most reliable member of course many thousands of signed a petition against the european stability mechanism which would allow the block to use members' funds to help other states in trouble. letting somebody else decide with money. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government has taken the sovereign rights of the

german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to other eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no no other country which had so little benefits out of the

euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal when the single currency was created finance isn't the only place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the memory of the country's past but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as a sovereign states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is

completely unlike christic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirteen look set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people these are all of a r.t. berlin what are big money matters on both sides of the atlantic and the shady dealers causing financial rollercoaster is exposed in the voters' edition of the kaiser report coming up a bit later in today's program for now a quick preview. three weeks ago see see now the commodities futures trading commission but those securities and exchange commission approved they essentially it legalized hoarding. in the form of a controversial fund designed by j.p. morgan chase that for the first time will the investors buy shares backed by

physical warehouse copper to use as a form of investment according to economists in america and the obama administration saving is a bad thing because if somebody one person savings is another person's loss of spending why are why is wall street interested now hoarding vital commodities because they know that as inflation hyperinflation currency collapse rears its ugly head j.p. morgan wants to be in there after having made money and totally destroying the system with the revenue if they want to repeat the trick by totally destroying the economy by hoarding commodities. are the cause report a bit later in the program here on out so you but for now violent clashes between police and protesters have a flared up and once again as operation crowds that went to the funeral of one of the activists the elderly man died after inhaling poisonous gas at

a previous rally and the opposition blame security officers for dozens of killings using using substances assman dog wish one of the activists says police tend to shoot first ask questions later. the hearing has been using tear gas canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant in the streets in a person an experience that happened to me and division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and just now before few hours of this interview our house was like targeted by pure gas canisters and this men stormed into the house. that that effect of a tear gas excessive use of tear gas that is being thrown into the houses effect people i can use cans of months ago we have been stressing gone they have amount to

here gas being used in his areas and houses and against the peaceful process and do we are very disappointed at the international community reaction specie the u s and the u.k. position and toured the behavior of illusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. all right a waiting for you on line right now is crying wolf. real this time publix in siberia are authorizing hunting the animals. for you that can take you to your worst nightmare so the list of problems with a brand new ad continues to grow with fuel leaks becoming ever more common find out more on the web site.

we'll get to the world update shortly here on r t for now though the lawyer who represented aaron schwartz says he warned us or thora to use his client was a suicide risk the twenty six year old activist faced decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use was his family who claim prosecutors were complicit in his death they've received tens of thousands of online messages in support. an i.t. entrepreneur and founder of a swedish pirate party has almost all information should be free to whoever ends up to her for you could easily say their friends is military secrets or

medical journals should not be free to distribute because an invalid's privacy bo's national security but in terms of access to knowledge in public so public documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law or so war the federal prosecution did was and threw the book at him in the way this had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university mit in the united states and set up a laptop to download these public dock and public documents so they were throwing the book at him to make an example of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do searing and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone i'm a journalist and author kevan gosper dollar believes the u.s. wrongly focuses on activists like schwartz when there are real hard criminals at large. short says some buddy who had this inclination that information is

power and that you shouldn't be able to treat it just as a commodity that copyright hawks shouldn't just be able to keep this information guarded if if it's available to the world then everyone could be a lot smarter in the united states we've seen a focus on internet activists as of late and i shouldn't necessarily unique to united states but what is remarkable is that there are criminals in the united states that could be prosecuted like bankers are people who have engaged in real crimes like torture but it seems like the justice department in the united states has more interested it has more interest in going after people or people like schwartz are let's get into it now the aussie will of the day it will start with protesters who are angry at a decision to stop flying the british fly permanently from the city hall in belfast have again clashed with police leaving at least one officer and

a bus driver injured this is the latest eruption of violence and seven weeks of demonstrations more than one hundred police have so far been hurt in that time and eighty five people charged for offenses related to the rioting. a training young army recruits has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring more than one hundred and the number of dead is expected to rise that's according to officials there were always have a fairly poor safety record last november more than fifty people died when a train crashed into a school. and there's been another crash on the railways though this time in sweden a cleaner actually stole the train before tearing into a residential building in an upmarket suburb of stockholm and the woman who was the only person on board was badly injured and it took emergency services nearly two hours to free her from the wreckage authorities say five people were in the apartment block at the time but no one was hurt. and treasury secretary timothy

geithner says the u.s. debt ceiling could be reached as early as mid february lead to a sovereign default or raising the boring limit could also be an issue as the republican party continues to strictly oppose any additional spending just last december congress struggle to find a compromise to avoid an automatic tax increase and the implementation of cuts dubbed the fiscal cliff. all right in just a couple of hours martin zooms in on the u.s. treasuries new boss and how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead here's a preview. obama's chief of staff jack lew is moving on up. and of course the media has been all over the most controversial aspect of his record coming to a dollar bill near you this parody of a signature the treasury secretary's signature you see appears on all federal reserve notes dollar bills issued during his tenure here is jack lew's signature

it really is and here is what jack lew's signature would look like on a dollar bill hahaha yeah according to corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is new the signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up is that his handwriting sucks but of course this is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew like what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. more news in about half an hour's time here and after a short break it's spotlight. deadly

rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators a lot of. self imposed out costs from society i will attack myself am i going to tax my brother understand not on time my own immediate i am going to eventually attack the cops of my anger and my frustration. that they got. well into the tantalum. two of the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model kill or be killed

with colors matching the national flag. but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the violence they are made in america on the ati.

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