and in the movie. come out in front of a. fifth. the mysterious canadian muslim cleric who leads pakistan's destitute masses against the government with the scandal ridden prime minister parent in the first of four protesters demands. at least eighty die in a double bombing at the university of aleppo the center of a battleground between government forces and rebels applying for control of the ancient city in syria. france builds up what it calls an anti terror mission in mali increasing its presence and calling for foreign aid critics say it's the nato allies causing the global spread of terrorism. and germany prepared to stand up for the money is the central bank plans to centralize control of members cash to send

it to troubled states. international news and comment online on 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 again being heard outside pakistan's parliament with thousands of demanding immediate and sweeping changes leading them as a charismatic and enigmatic cleric is 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 in apparent effort to mollify the demonstrators by the supreme court has ordered the arrest of the prime minister who is caught up in a bribery scandal correspondent has more now from islamabad.

we are standing here in a very crucial point actually it is called the famous disk where or 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 sais that the all parliamentarian and legislative institution should be dissolved and the government has to resign immediately and the 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 clash the possibility of continuations or a proceeding this protesters on the other side where the parliament and the president 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 just recently has given a verdict of the arrests once of the prime minister raja previous ashraf on a 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 decision is error taking place and 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. as this called it to save the situation or to reduce the amount of anger and the amount of the protests and the. in

this area. the cleric mohammad to hill 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. in the middle of a very sensitive insurgency and people have been known to take advantage of that occasions don't know whether it is a very much of people have been movement because americans are merging now for example the supreme court's order for the rest of the prime minister. exactly during the speech of mr. somewhere somebody is pulling the strings because certainly there's a lot of funding and there's a lot of show of force but do give dr good credit yes he has done his own but well he was very careful to religious sentiments from both sides of the sectarian the worried at a time when the divide was widely yes a lot of people were fed up with the government yes yes people want change but

again. the system at this point would perhaps do more harm than good concentrate on issues like the corruption instead of personalities. it's a grim anniversary for the u.s. and vietnam. they cannot by 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 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 all is ready to repeat its costly mistakes. first up to eighty people have been killed by a double blast in syria's northern city of aleppo that rocked a university there the building is believed to have been housing refugees of course has the details. syrian state television is. 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 shell's obama and 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 myth has reached a stalemate and has left the city divided and said to be witnessing an increased in terrorist activity if we just look at a left her aleppo was the commercial hub of syria before the 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 and 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 possible. russia has criticized a petition to the un security council which calls for alleged syrian war crimes to be referred to the international criminal court the documents signed by dozens of countries were submitted by switzerland on monday or did you get a position of reports. many international organizations including the united nations confirm that the syrian atrocities and tens of thousands of people have been killed throughout this conflict or these atrocities are committed by both sides with the government troops often using excessive force of rebels taking to the most extreme measures like terrorism kidnapping and saw and so it's evident

that all those responsible for the deaths of civilians have to be punished but the reason why moscow does not support the idea of preferring of the car flipped to the international criminal court right now is because it says doing it at this time will whore any peace efforts this is the official quote on the screen of the foreign ministry the sea untimely and counterproductive because their main goal right now is to get both sides of the conflict to put their weapons down immediately and simultaneously and for them knowing that they'll be prosecuted as soon as they do so is not the sort of motivation you want to be looking for secondly most western states have clearly taken the side of the rebels which are threatens how objective any court case on the issue would be and the international criminal court has been criticized before in this let's look at how it dealt with yugoslavia when the court punished around ten times more serbs than their opponents well for more perspective on this. and the critical situation in syria are now

joined by middle east analyst and journalist mental oxon writer. but first let's talk about these bombings these latest ones in aleppo they're becoming a trend in syria at the moment what does it tell us about where this conflict is going now. well good evening to moscow first of all we. say what is what is a trend this is terrorism it's all of our killing civilians in high numbers it's the purest terrorism we can imagine we witness today the civilian building and university people of the take and i spoke today to a student of. university were told me that one day before yesterday they were also warning from a terrorist groups they were saying they should condemn the university and they didn't do it so this was a punishment. for what was taking place right now it's the word being it is

being to the civilians that show. who. support the government in its fight against them and in the fight against the insurgents the western allies are supporting the rebels are they in directly then supporting these terrorists or are they actually trying to distance themselves by saying that these terrorists hijacking the true nature of the revolution. this is poor hypocrisy because if we look for example of the conflicts in libya where was happening almost the same thing that the west or speaking financing. giving supply in a pouch and material and in money for these terrorist groups the same thing is happening in syria you cannot support such groups on the one hand and when they commit these crimes to be not i or to refuse the responsibility of what is happening i as a german citizen they are ashamed that my government my government and brother also is supporting this so-called rebellion against the syrian government and i don't

know how much will it takes payers money is going directly and b. and these people who are building bombs this would be an interesting thing for example to investigate or follow but the thing is what sort to ask you but isn't it now time for the syrian government to pursue peace the time has come for it now for the violence to end and for it to pursue a negotiated settlement rather than a minute she one hasn't the time come now and is on the onus of the syrian government when we are talking about a certain problem we are talking here about negotiating i think this is what your question was about we are talking about negotiating with terrorists and that cannot be any negotiation with terrorists this is this is the problem you cannot negotiate with the people who are killing civilians to press you to negotiations this is this is a really big problem no western state no western state no western government of them who who say now it was human government should step back they should negotiate and

so on and so on and are negotiate with terrorists if the same theme in these countries what about the calls now for the international criminal court to be looking into alleged war crimes in syria should it be doing that and is it the time to even be thinking about this. course we should think of all this and of course it is so great idealistic idea to get into an international court to investigate on these crimes which have which are happening knowledge since around twenty years in this country i don't trust the market in international courts because we don't know what is then influence even for trials and so on as we see for example on the trials and off the civil war in libya and so on what i think what would be the best solution these are crimes happening on syrian soil theory are it's assumed it's fate and this should be of course prosecuted and also put in syrian trial manual great to hear thoughts manual option right middle east analyst and

journalist joining me live there from berlin here in r.t. thank you very much indeed so much. 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 that mrs arty's special coverage next tuesday. how will tensions with to run develop all settlement expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what are three. 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 where for now paris is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colonies 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 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 and spoke to him earlier he's a paris based professor of political science he says that france is reaping what it's by invading libya. let's face it this is not libya it's not even syria it's a small it's an insurgency it could topple it's 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 we go back a little this crisis is in fact that there are a consequence of the 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 that western intervention so there's

a link between that former intervention and this one france's military mission has increased fears of revenge attacks on its own soil mali islamist militants have issued a warning to parents saying it's open the gates of hell by intervening in the country london based political activist john reese believes the rise of terrorism worldwide is the 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 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 now we should at least have learnt by now but this is not the way in which to reduce the

threat of terrorism we actually a way in which you both strictly increases attractiveness to young people in the region it is something that identify with. stripping protesters of the citizenship police brutality and the rest save a twitter posts already has seen it all and in the make sense of the. inhaling tear gas during a demonstration we reveal how he hadn't felt safe for some time even in his own home. u.s. state prosecutor was one 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 just a minute along with some live analysis this is. a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture. with. science technology innovation. developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if. the.

news continues here on r.t. the funeral of freedom of information activists aaron swartz has been held in chicago the twenty six year old took his own life last friday after finding himself boxed in by federal prosecutors and facing decades in jail all this for illegally downloading academic documents well now with us to talk more about this is justin morton he's a software engineer who used to work with j. still now that an academic database that was also hacked by swartz now he stole millions of documents from a store which used to work for why do you think they dropped the charges against him when he had actually committed a crime. well it's a good question. i was a software engineer for j. store i'm going to say i certainly don't represent them. my views and opinions

around of course they had the right to pursue charges in this case store is a very unique organization everyone who works there is an academic can some why. very grown and intelligent people i've worked for several fortune one hundred companies in j. stores is it's it's it's filled with very intelligent people and they're there for a good cause. no one wants to be hacked it cause problems you know with within the network but when everything has said and done nothing in the air and downloaded was ever distributed they did not pursue any charges against aaron i think that should have told the prosecuting attorney something. and when they didn't tell him much because obviously they pursued him with very possibly a very very stiff sentence facing a crime that perhaps would you say did actually match the punishment was it fair

what he was facing do you think. salut got i mean you're looking at a crime. near. there. you're you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to downloading p.d.'s to a hard drive. no person was harmed there was no financial benefit murder received less punishment i mean i can't even imagine how scary and terrible that must be to have your government hell bent on putting you in a cage for thirty years for downloading some p.d.f. so if you're a depressed person that amounts to a death sentence. the prosecutors in two or more closely i believe with the organization involved chase toward to pursue charges that should have played a huge factor in this or that's just going to talk about how the case a few years ago another accused could jonathan james he also killed himself off to being pursued by the same prosecutors do you think these deaths could perhaps

change the way these sort of cases are handled in the future. every situation is different. you know people's talk about hackers and i personally believe that the word hackers and stereotype. there are hackers who do good or hackers who do bad. it's too bad that there aren't more aaron swartz is out there there's an inherent risk in activism depending. on what you're doing you should be aware of the consequences and be paired to face those just a note you were talking about earlier about a huge amount of talented people working for these organizations obviously posting very important academic material which they were very hard for most people would pay to get information surely copyright is a way that millions of professionals authors aussies scientists people like yourself you make a living so there have to be defended to you there's no justification for actually stealing that evil the people have actually made and deserve to be paid for it and

there's don't just because for that i mean jay store has invested a tremendous amount of money to build this archive and make it available to institutions around the world employees in generic project managers scholars mad scientists those i mean those things aren't cheap how much would it cost you to collect say twelve hundred different channels going back centuries millions and millions of pages of knowledge wants to be free i think that was aaron's cause the store is about profit organisation and if the financial model becomes broken then the service cannot be supported in a fantastic corpus of academic journals suddenly disappears so there needs to be a financial model and star has found one i think is a very fair financial model that once the software engineer so i'm not you know i can't speak to the financials but. i would certainly dissuade. people from

believing that hacking it into a website is going to be to make a. yes ok just a great to hear your thoughts on this we really appreciate your time thank you very much indeed justin where you. are joining me live there from the states. e.u. leaders seeking to concentrate more power in brussels may face a setback from the union's most reliable member germany there 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 aren't exactly happy about letting someone else decide where their money goes as usual of a found out. 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 fought out

in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's school future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the press to democracy because it's no longer a government 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 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 in 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 the 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 about christic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel their sovereignty is disappearing and for

a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirty look 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 big money matters on both sides of the atlantic and the shady dealers causing financial rollercoasters exposed in the latest edition of the kaiser report that's coming up in the next hour but here's a quick preview for you three weeks ago the f.c.c. not 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 bomb an administration saving is

a thing because of somebody one person savings is another person's loss of spending why or 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 their revenues they want to repeat the trick by totally destroying the economy by horning commodities. because report coming away that later today we'll be back with more news for in about ten minutes from now but in the meantime more business and money matches in the world of business with the tasha and the touch of cyber attacks reportedly becoming big business in the money absolutely and according to some estimates the global cyber crime markets was about twelve billion dollars and in the business bullets and i'll tell you how much the companies that dishing out to protect themselves all that and more after

a short break great. yet another tragic shooting right on the streets of the capital is again cause to open the gun debate across the nation now all the talking heads are saying that you got to take away the guns to be safe well the problem is that the shooting happened right on the streets of the capital of a country where the guns have already been taken away paris france three kurdish women one of whom was a kurdish separatist party co-founder were shot dead the scene of the crime was right outside of a cursed institute which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartels in the mafia you can make all the gun laws that you want but the bad guys will still have plenty of guns because they live outside the law al qaeda and mexican drug cartels don't go to the stores and patiently wait for their background checks to be done before they buy their guns

taken away all the guns through legal means won't matter there will still be murder and there will still be armed thugs and terrorists but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to the business program of russia is a prime minister dmitry medvedev has attended a ceremony to launch these gas field in siberia on tuesday the field discovered in one nine hundred sixty five is one of gallons problems largest it contains a whopping three trillion cubic meter.