pakistan's. government with the scandal ridden prime minister apparently. called. increasing its presence and calling for foreign aid critics say it's the nato allies causing the global spread of terrorism. for their money. to trouble.

international news and comment on the screen around the world this is. they promise to tout his square and it's not looking too far from it has been used in warning shots are again being heard outside pakistan's parliament with thousands of demanding immediate and sweeping changes in them as a charismatic and enigmatic cleric is said to be a favorite of the military among his and his followers demands a call for broader government reform and a harsh crackdown on corruption and an apparent effort to modify the demonstrators pakistan's supreme court has ordered the arrest of the prime minister who's caught up in a bribery scandal. has more now from islamabad. we are standing here in a very crucial point actually it is called the famous disk where all the chalk with the local language where dr qadri and his protesters are gathered and demanded the

government to step down. and he has added to that the seven demands which briefly says that the all parliamentarian and legislative institution should be dissolved and the government has to resign immediately and reason also said in his speech that he will not move from this place even if the last person would leave but he is going to continue his demands and continue his protest but the possibility of the possibility of continuations or a proceeding this protesters on the other side where the parliament and the president the presidential house as well as the supreme court and the original area where all the diplomatic enclave different i think embassies are located the latest and the unexpected actually developments occurred here is the supreme court i just

recently has given a verdict of the arrests once of the prime minister raja previous ashraf on to corruption cases and it is supposed he supposed to be appearing before the courts to morrow it is the development of the political development the decisions there are taking place in very quickly and very unexpectedly actually observer believe that whatever the supreme court has taken it is a political move from the government maybe they have put their prime ministers as scapegoats if this call that to save the situation or to reduce the amount of anger and the amount of the protests and the live led by a car that he in this region's. the cleric muhammad quadri has given the government an ultimatum to disband parliament or he'll order his followers to carry out acts

of civil disobedience the political analyst jeffrey says to unsettle the system now would achieve little. he has besieged the capital at a time when it is in the middle of a very sensitive insurgency and people have been known to take advantage of that occasions though to learn surveys now whether it is a very much of people have been movement because americans out of merging know for example the supreme court's order for the test of the prime minister. exactly during the speech of mr dr kobi somewhere somebody is pulling the strings because suddenly there's a lot of funding and there's a lot of show of force but do give dr lee is credit yes he has done his own but well he was very careful to invoke religious sentiments and from both sides of the sectarian the weight at a time when that the way it was waged me yes a lot of people were fed up with a government yes it failed to deliver yes people want change but again to unsettle the system at this point would perhaps do more harm than good rather than concentrate on issues like the corruption sort of personalities. it's

a grim anniversary for the u.s. and vietnam. in spite of the fact that they have great military supremacy and just destroy a government occupy a country and country so that it becomes a proxy or a client for the united states. despite 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 its costly mistakes. and also still to come. books. up to twenty people have been killed in a double blast at the university of aleppo in syria a main battleground between government forces and rebels looking to overthrow president assad more details on that for you.

it's the fortieth anniversary of america's suspension of offensive action in vietnam war that cost both sides in lives and money resulted in a porno explains the foreign policy of recent years makes many doubt if any lessons were 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. . on every every year we were there every day was like nine eleven for those people every day was going to be 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 thousand nine hundred seventy three transiting 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 of 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 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 them we still keep getting them to the. wall for wars or interventions and other countries. i mean it's wrong period with them you're not going to win. we don't win in iraq within women in afghanistan and we're grateful even when you've been there with our lives and the same the news is like a vietnam we didn't win nothing we won 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 a way in a way that's been damaging to every nation in the world but in the process the united states has become less and less 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 interventions anywhere but we can. new to be an empire you know we have eight hundred plus spaces she has some of the very. 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. 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 eighty eight the united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives but they didn't have i didn't have anything to

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 fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . and exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds

a snap parliamentary election with the situation in the middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the vote closely so don't miss our special coverage next tuesday. how will withdraw develop. isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will not in yahoo survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what our country. france says it will significantly boost its intervention force to mali with the total number of troops deployed to the conflict zone expected to reach two and a half thousand well for now paris is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colony only from the air but despite almost five days of intensive airstrikes aimed at helping mali's government militants have managed to grab more territory it raises fears the fight against islamist will not be as swift as france initially planned u.s.

and britain are among those who assist the combat mission while paris is also seeking arab backing for more on this i'm now joined live by pier he's a paris based professor of political science if france needs more troops and foreign aid does that mean that it's taking on a bigger challenge than it expected. well it's probably too early to tell but let's face it this is not libya it's not even syria it's a small it's an insurgency that could topple a very weak regime. france decided to step in when it was clear that the all african forces would not be ready to do it. but if you go back a little this crisis is in fact that there are a consequence misguided intervention in libya because many of the fighters fighting the government in mali are people who were armed in libya and they were driven out of libya by the western intervention so there's a link between the former intervention and this one and i think that is this

intervention could even promote more islamic extremism al-qaeda recruitment for example we did see that in iraq in afghanistan didn't we and now you're saying this is coming from libya. actually there could be a possibility although i was opposed to the regime in libya and on this side of the western forces where his hair is clearly the target of french and soon african forces so it's a slightly different situation there is this possibility at this same time though france is not fighting a state or state apparatus it's a very very minor in terms of military power minor force and the consequences are likely to be less than they were in libya or would be if there were an intervention in syria but it cannot be excluded that some groups would be more anti french or into western because of the intervention which most probably though will achieve

its objective of supporting the very shaky regime in bamako and is objective is not to go further than that to actually wipe out the threat of extremism not just threatening the south but also in the north if that's the case that that is a big challenge isn't it it is a big challenge and then everything depends on what african forces will do it also to burn the internal mannion situation. for example who are fighting the central government technologists aided to disassociate themselves from various islamic islamics groups in the north so the situation is very much in flux and right now are there is a kind of even russia and china proved this intervention of the security council today african states are approving it so it's somewhat different even though it is the result of a misguided intervention or the situation are is different because there's more international support and yet and yet can i just ask you the rebels are saying francis fallen into

a trap they perhaps could find themselves in another situation like libya afghanistan or iraq now we're seeing two and a half thousand troops being deployed could not the french people see some french casualties and what will that public opinion is that there. i think possibility. this could be. well what american military special is called collateral damage it is a distinct possibility the same time though we're not dealing with very strong groups so. collateral damage and terrorist attacks for sure you cannot be excluded there's also the danger of mission creep but. it all depends on the pair meters so far limited intervention with a lot of support from the un and also african nations dealing with the problem which was created by the western intervention in libya in march and just briefly of the african forces do take over are they really capable of taking this mission over from france and its allies just briefly. i would guess that you do not beat african

forces it would be african forces and french forces there's some doubt about the manhunt forces but then there might be forces from other african countries that could be effective from nigeria for example this all remains to be seen very much in a particular thanks so much good to hear from you professor of political science at paris west university and on to work the phones good to hear from you thank you. stripping protest to citizenship police brutality and arrests over twitter posts seen it all and in the latest incidents and. tear gas during a demonstration we reveal how he had to fill site for some time even in his own home. the u.s. state prosecutor was warned freedom of information activist aaron swartz could kill himself stay with us for more on the life and legacy of the twenty six year old in

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more news today. and these are the images from seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations or the day. news continues here in r.t. up to twenty people been killed by a double blog in syria's northern city of aleppo the rocked a university that the building is believed to be in housing refugees of course one of. the details unconfirmed reports suggest that twenty people have been killed and dozens more wounded syrian state television is calling it a terrorist bombing although from activists there on the ground they say that at this point because it is unclear we are hearing from some sources that there were two explosions near the university's adorns but it is not immediately clear whether

the blasts were the result of shells obama is now several vehicles are also on fire the university is located in an area that is under the control of government forces fighting between rebels and government forces in the lipper has reached a stalemate and has left the city divided so it may be witnessing an increased in terrorist activity if we just look at a letter a letter was the commercial hub of syria before fighting erupted last july it's been a major front in the country's ongoing fighting between government troops and rebels frequently exchanging rockets and mortar rounds in the city over recent months aleppo also the country's capital damascus has been hit by a wave of explosions that have killed scores of people many of the bombings which have largely targeted government buildings and government institutions have been claimed by groups fighting to overthrow the syrian president bashar assad now elsewhere in syria on tuesday troops and rebels fought in the embattled suburbs of

damascus and certainly before the billion is only the stabilizing the situation in the country making extremist activity that possible. russia has criticized a petition to the un security council which calls for the international criminal court to look into alleged war crimes in syria the document signed by dozens of countries was sent on monday wolf a law i'm joined live in the studio by eagle so you know what what is the russian foreign ministry's objection to this well international organizations including the united nations confirm that the syrian atrocities and really tens of thousands of people lost their lives throughout this conflict these atrocities are being committed by both sides both the government which often uses excessive force and the rebels which often take to the most radical methods like terrorism kidnapping and so on and the need for all those responsible for the deaths of civilians is

evident but the reason why moscow is does not support the idea of referring the syrian crisis to the international criminal court is moscow says doing it at this point will hourman any peace efforts because for both sides of this conflict knowing that they'll be prosecuted as soon as they put their weapons down is not the sort of motivation you want to be looking for secondly most western states have clearly taking the sides of the rebels which threatens how objective a court case in the international criminal court would be at this point and the court was criticized on this before let's look at how it dealt with yugoslavia when around ten times more serbs than their opponents were punished by the court all right thank you very much sorry i thought you were going to something else so thanks very much let's go to his can of them. e.u.

leaders seeking to concentrate more power in brussels may face a setback from the union's most reliable member germany there are 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 exactly happy about letting someone else decide where their money goes as peter oliver found out. 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 the eurozone countries and set the pressure to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central 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 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 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 about 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 thirty looks set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t.

berlin violent clashes between police and protesters have flared up in bahrain once again as an outraged crowd went to the funeral of one of the activists the elderly man died after inhaling poisonous tear gas at a previous rally the opposition blamed security officers for dozens of killings using harmful substances has been darwish is one of the activists says that the police tend to shoot first and 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 and the streets in a personal 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 has been thrown into the houses effect people i can use tens of months ago we have been servicing gone they have amount of kyrgios being used in visit areas and houses and against a 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 dilution. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. on life in the moment crying wolf in russia the threat is real this time though republican siberia authorizing hunting the animals down due to their fondness for livestock. on one of the member dreamliner that can take you to your worst nightmares the list of problems with boeing's brand new aircraft continues to grow with complaints of

fuel leaks becoming more common you find out more at r.t. dot com. the funeral of freedom of information activists aaron swartz is being held now in chicago the twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he faced decades behind bars over accusations he illegally downloaded academic documents for public use it was family who claim prosecutors were complicit in his death have received tens of thousands of online messages in support of fogging up an i.t. entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party says almost all information should be free to never once and. you could easily say that military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it violates privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge in public so the public documents and records and source certainly committed not no crime and

that even goes with the law so what the federal prosecution did was asserted through the book 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 public documents so they were throwing the book at him to make an example out of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do sharing and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone. now for some world news in brief for you this hour protesters angry added this is stop flying to british imminently from the city hall in belfast and again clashed with police leaving an officer and a bus driver injured 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 and eighty five people charged for offenses related to the monte. train carrying young army recruits south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring more than

one hundred the number of dead is expected to rise according to authorities egypt's railways have a poor safety record last november more than fifty people died when a train crashed into a school bus. there's been another crash on the railways this time in sweden a cleaner actually stole the train before tearing into a residential building in an upmarket suburb of stockholm the woman who was the only person on board was badly injured 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. well that brings up today for the moment for me and the news team will be back with more for you in about half an hour from now in the meantime as well special report on the little people making it through big city life stay with us for that after this break.

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