a mysterious canadian muslim cleric leads. masses against the government with. protesters demands. increasing calling for foreign aid but some critics say the nato allies themselves causing the global spread of. money.

with worldwide news live from moscow this is. it's a pleasure to have you with us today well the square it's not looking far from it at this point tear gas has been used and warning shots are again being heard outside pakistan's parliament where thousands of demanding immediate and sweeping changes are leading them as a charismatic and he. said to be a favorite of the military among his followers demands calls for a broad government reform crackdown also on corruption in an apparent effort to mollify the demonstrators has ordered the arrest of the prime minister was caught up in a bribery scandal. pakistani air force. says a change of power. it may not be that far off. people are likening it to 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 lot the whole cadre there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longer stay in the west he may have been motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because of the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people. the feeling that they were down drug and they were neglected and they were driven against all because of bad governance because of the situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and

even those trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country the cleric mohamed atta here a whole country has given the government an ultimatum to hear the whole country has given the government an ultimatum to disband parts of civil disobedience or let's discuss it further now and see if he can actually have the threat carried out i'm joined live by political analyst and journalist jeffrey thank you for coming on r.t. today so if you think you would do it do you think he would make a call for civil disobedience will. become a very complicated situation suddenly and don't a lot of is not over there is a very most of people have been movement because americans are emerging no for example the. rest of the prime minister. exactly during the speech of mr purdie the curfew. comes one day after the government in baluchistan was dissolved again. give dr lee is yes he has done his own book well he was very careful to invoke

religious sentiments from both sides of the sect in the way at a time when the way. he did so. i would see is more to. put his movement has come at it when there's been a very strange convergence of a lot of contradictory forces yes a lot of people who are fed up with the government and yes it failed to deliver yes people want change but to. do because suddenly i'm sorry to interrupt your material square of course it's a high is a watershed moment for egypt as we've known for the past year or two now with the spread of the arab spring that was a certainly a focal point of it but talking here about what is going on in pakistan the government has a job to react if indeed this cleric does make a call for civil disobedience i mean surely it's the government's job at the end of the day to ensure stability is this character happened making a bad situation even worse that's the whole point because it comes at a time when the government is under immense pressure from the outside as well go

the relations with india on the decline again. sectarian conflict is waning the insurgency is or is is again a matter of intense debate does this does this make a bad situation worse. and facts will come on the ground how much support he gets from other political parties for example in the government bodies into the road if it were to mature if it does or still force then there are a number of parties that will jump in now that are never going to have had a catheter i'm so sort of jump in here our time is so limited for the moment i must get as many question she was possible this was a cleric i missed a contrary he has made some pretty big promises to the people he's calling for an end to terrorism he's calling for a sweeping elections reforms to be fair an end to corruption more oversight on lawmakers it all sounds really good but some might call it just a big old pipe dream exactly because somewhere somebody is pulling the strings because suddenly there's a lot of funding and there's a lot of show of force but again it comes at a time when elections were just around the corner people were people did have. opportunity was some sort of discontent the main middle class what do you know is

time and again we've created governments that have more or less the same agenda and interests and react the same way you have the same way with the people that because of things they bring in because of race of people awareness would probably already start to change with these elections but to complicate things like no remains to be seen because again it comes at a time he has been seized the capital letter time when it is in the middle of a very sensitive insurgency and people have been known to take advantage of that occasions and market it took the initial it took the initial. it was about two hundred points but today it brought about by one hundred fifty because the timing of the dismissed or to put it out of the plan is tens of thousands of demonstrators showing up a political transition just around the corner here you say it is a sensitive time indeed moments ago the mention of her rear from cairo from egypt came up you said that's not a comparison that can be made however well some are saying that could it be could it be the early seeds being sewn in for some sort of arab spring but in pakistan.

but again there are similarities but the broad difference is thirty square it's. been in place what thirty forty years in there were no chance of change in pakistan election is just around the corner so the permanence of government the single party dentist does not hold in pakistan no government here with you for decades so yes there is a lot of corruption and. your own government so the discontent very popular has been other parties also. due to the system at this point would perhaps do more harm than good for them concentrate on issues like the corruption instead of personalities and. i'm so sorry mr jaffer i've just run out of time here do you forgive me it's a conversation that just require more than just a few minutes mr jaffer you know journalist and political analyst a great pleasure to have you want to r.t. today thank you. well it is a grim anniversary for the us and that of vietnam. they cannot

by the fact that they have great military supremacy and just destroy a government occupied country and we mold their country so that it becomes a proxy or a quiet for the united states well despite the huge losses from both sides suffered in the conflict almost four decades ago we explore whether washington has learned the lessons or is possibly poised to repeat it's costly mistakes. france says it will significantly boost its intervention force to mali where the total number of troops deployed to the conflict zone expected to reach two and a half thousand for another paris is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colonies though only from the air at this point but despite almost five days of intensive airstrikes aimed at helping mali's government militants have managed to grab yet more territory it does raise fears to say that the fight against islamist there will not be swift as a french authorities had initially planned at the u.s.

and britain are among those who will assist the combat mission is 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. matter of tackling tara. recently that there would be no intervention in. the old days when the french used to go in to overthrow governments overnight governments. obviously there are not teaching to go action raises memories and colonialism which are not very old ring of france really ruled entire region even after giving it into and then still ran it from behind the scenes it was called france afrique and a lot of west africans still resent this the problem is what's happening in mali now is when spread to unstable. there's no uprising going our central african

republic i recall. even to nigeria also one has to be very careful when you're this is it dangerous an operation what it's doing it's it's like dropping an explosive with fire it's spreading the fire we're putting it out now france's military mission has increased fears of revenge attacks on its own soil and mali islamist militants of 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 is actually 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 and iraq would spread the threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved sadly absolutely correct there was no al qaeda in iraq before we invaded it there is no al-qaeda had not

spread to pakistan in the way that it has now since the invasion of afghanistan the intervention in libya has led directly to the spread of al-qaeda in mali and we should at least have learnt by now but this is not the way in which to reduce the threat of terrorism which is actually a way in which you both rick in which increases attractiveness to young people in the region it is something that identify with. now in exactly one week israelis will 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 that will be watching the vote closely well don't miss our two special coverage of that does begin next tuesday. how will treat you with developed will settlement expansion isolate can there be peace with. what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff

election on january twenty second. israel decides. that special coverage starts next tuesday or not for now it is the fortieth anniversary of america's suspension of action in vietnam a war that cost both sides dear and lives on money the result is more important higher explains the foreign policy of recent years makes many doubt of any major lessons were ever learned 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. for those people every day was nine eleven 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 one 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'd learn from. 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 their country so that it becomes a proxy or a client 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 we still keep getting these awful wars or interventions and other countries. i mean it's wrong period because i'm not going to win we win in iraq. we didn't win in the. race we even there with our lives and the same thing is like we didn't win 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 gray it's become less and less economically viable and with each passing decade the 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 interventions anywhere but we continue to be an empire you know we have eight hundred plus spaces some of the very. we've created a huge infrastructure a global infrastructure where 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 he gle would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one 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 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. . and. stripping the protesters of citizenship police brutality and arrests over twitter by this time of just about everything and in the latest incident an elderly man dies off during hailing during a demonstration revealed how he hadn't felt safe for some time in his own home. and the u.s. state prosecutor was warned freedom of information activist aaron swartz could kill himself stay with us for more on the life of the twenty six year old just. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've

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in moscow e.u. leaders seeking to concentrate more power in brussels may face a setback in the union's most reliable member that of course being germany thousands signed a petition against the european stability mechanism which would allow the block to use members' funds to help other states in trouble and the germans are not exactly happy about letting someone else decide money goes. when to invest. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who will be in charge of their country the of the geelong with 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 for town to me second tie is to court this group calling themselves the civil coalition

movement want to stop journalist this school future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but it is the european central central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition is 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 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 and 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 our room states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the 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 the. 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 looks set to be an important year what they see is the fight

to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t. berlin are twenty minutes past the hour moscow time violent clashes between police and protesters have flared up again in bahrain it's an outrage crowd went to the funeral of one of the activists the elderly man died after inhaling poisonous tear gas at a previous rally now the opposition and blames the security officers for dozens of killings using harmful substances as my daughter where she was one of the activists says police tend to shoot first and ask questions later. bahrain has been using tear gas canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant and the streets and of course 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 pier gas canisters and this men stormed into the house. that exact effect of a tear gas excessive use of tear gas that is being thrown into the houses expect people i can use tens of months ago we have been stressing gone they have amount to here gas being used in visit 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 key position and toured the bahrain your delusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in . well it's online for the moment r.t. dot com crying wolf right here in russia the threat was real this time republics in siberia are authorising hunting the animals down due to their fondness for

livestock. and also online for all the dreamliner that can take you to your worst nightmares have a list of problems with boeing's brand new aircraft continues to grow with complaints of fuel leaks becoming ever more common find up more on the web site. for now the lawyer who represented aaron schwartz says he warned us authorities his client was a suicide risk the twenty six year old activist faced decades behind bars of accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use sources family who claim prosecutors were complicit in his death has received tens of thousands of online messages in support of an i.t. entrepreneur and a founder of the swedish pirate party says nearly all information should be free to those who really want to. you could easily say the military

secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because in his privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge to public 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 docket of 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 setting and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone. well let's get into it now the day let's start with syria where a double explosion has ripped the university of leftover so important state

television which reported fifteen people have been killed and many others wounded the university is in the government health section of the city and it's thought dozens of people have been killed in other attacks across the country and yet another day of violence on monday his deputy foreign minister confirmed president bashar al assad will stay in his post at least until elections next year the. africans are angry at a decision to stop flying the british flag permanently from the city hall in belfast have again clashed with police this time leaving one officer and a bus driver injured and this is the latest eruption of violence in seven weeks of demonstrations more than one hundred police have so far been hurt in that time eighty five people charged for offenses relating to the riot. a train carrying a young army recruits has direct south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring more than one hundred the number of dead is expected to rise according to authorities in

just railways have a rather poor safety record it was just last november more than fifty died when a train crashed into a school bus. now online voices in russia will be taken into account lawmakers are promising that parliament will soon start looking at internet petitions and this follows a major public dispute over a new law which includes banning americans from adopting russian children are going to his right here right now in the studio to join us and talk further about it for now you know a pleasure to see you i mean there certainly has been an increase in the political awareness across russia of late is this in some way shape or form the country's leadership trying to adjust to that do you think that finally will read started we're going to. buton during his latest electoral campaign he pledged that if an online petition gathers at least one hundred thousand signatures of life people

then the parliament will have to review this petition and there we go the recent law which bans americans from adopting russian children it caused a huge reaction in russia society and it became this sort of trigger for the first try of this idea for an online petition to be reviewed by the parliament so one of the russian newspapers nobody gets yet. it's published on its website an online petition there we go there it is this is the last name of the person who is to sign it the first name so these are real live people and not anonymous so this is basically the list of all those who supported the petition so they did gather over a hundred thousand signatures but now they've met with this obstacle that the law makers say there is no procedure for this petition to become a draft which could be reviewed properly by the problem and pretty much it's kind

of the same as if a person would draw a car and it's just the same distance from a real driving vehicle as this petition from a real draft of a war not to mention an acting law so to actually several members of parliament who are also known to be active opposition members they decided to improvise and they said that through them this petition is going to become a draft of a law which is going to be reviewed by the parliament but judging by the fact since the parliament has already supported the ban this adoption ban it's very unlikely that this petition is going to change the deputies mind but the process is started is going to take a long wave probably for it to become effective but it proceed should. more online you were to take part in these petitions to leave their signatures. to support ideas which the. like which they want the parliament to discuss and actually in the

future as soon as this spring the website of the city duma is expected to introduce a whole new section specifically designed for online petitions for any online user to post his or her personal petition and for the rest to sign it so i guess practice makes perfect that's just how it's going to work and it's definitely going to take time we go as you say as you say so this petition makes it to the parliament the officials there aren't sure at this moment in time how they can proceed with it but i think the point that really is worth making as you were suggesting that there is that this is the result of a grassroots campaign this is started among the average ordinary citizen and they get it all the way to parliament as you say is going to take some some time now to see what comes to fruition from this petition and you're on twitter what is your twitter address well. you know we underscore that's right ok well keep us posted on that where you.