it was a lid on it and i think if. the mysterious canadian muslim cleric who leads pakistan's destitute masses against the government with the scandal ridden prime minister apparently the first to protest his demands. in syria at least eighty die in a double bombing at the university of aleppo the center of a battleground between government forces and rebels vying for control of the ancient city. from 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 germans prepared to stand up for their money is the e.u. central bank plans to centralize control of members' cash to send it to troubled

states. internationally using comment online on the screen around the world this is. they promised a target here square and it's not looking too far from it to gas has been used in warning shots are again being heard outside pakistan's parliament where thousands are demanding immediate and sweeping changes leading them as a charismatic and enigmatic cleric he said to be a favorite of the military among his and his followers demands a cause for broader government reform and a harsh crackdown on corruption in an apparent effort to mollify the demonstrators pakistan's supreme court has ordered the arrest of the prime minister who is caught up in a bribery scandal and he's correspondent to take more years than has more now from

islamabad. we are standing here and a very crucial point actually it's called the frame us to square or the local language where dr qadri and his. four testers 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 these also said in his speech that he will not move from this place even if the last person would leave but he was going to continue his demands and he knew his best 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 live from i think embassies are looking at 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 arshad on our corruption cases and it is supposed he supposed to be appearing before the court of law to 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. lead by

a car that he in this region's. the cleric mohammed the 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 what a cheap little. time when it is 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 out of merging know for example the supreme court's order for the rest of the prime minister. exactly during the speech of mr garbett 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 credit yes he has done his own but well he was very careful to walk religious sentiments and from both sides of the sectarian the word 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. 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 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 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. still to come but first up to eighty people have been killed by double blast in syria's northern city of aleppo that rocked a university that the building is believed to be in housing refugees of course joins me live now with details. to tell us more about the targets of this attack. well the information we have at the

moment is more than eighty people who have been killed and more than one hundred and sixty people who have been injured but that number is expected to climb and climb dramatically as many of those who've been wounded are in critical condition in hospital we know that there were two explosions at the university of illinois it happened on the first day of examinations the state television has banned of this a terrorist act saying that terrorists launched rockets at the campus so the activists on the ground say that the explosions were caused by listeners that were fired by warplanes immediately following the explosions a number of cars went up in fire there were bodies strewn across the street and tearful survivors managed to find refuge in a nearby building now we know that the campus is home to university students but also an additional thirty thousand people who have found refuge there since

fighting broke out in syria in july last year at the same time the university is in an area that is under the control of government forces and what we've witnessed in aleppo is the constant fighting between rebels and troops loyal to the syrian president bashar assad this has lift the city divided and the fighting by and large has been in a stalemate position for quite some time now russia has said that it has suspended its operations at its consulate in their pet and that if necessary it will evacuate its citizens from syria about the nature of this bombing or terrorist tactics a growing trend though in syria. we're certainly witnessing these kind of tactics as a growing trend in syria again since july last year there has been constant fighting and increasingly in aleppo which was the commercial hub of the country before this civil war and this intensive fighting broke out about a year and

a half ago aleppo also has been a major front in the conflict between government troops and rebel fighters who constantly exchange rockets as well as mortar rounds with each other in recent months we have witnessed both in the loop and also in the capital city of damascus a wave of suicide bombings a lot of it happening in terms of car bombings with dozens of people being killed the most of the bombings are targeting government buildings and more often than not responsibility is being claimed by the rebel groups what you have really is a rebellion across the country that is destabilizing these situation on the ground it is also making extremist activity more and more possible their own paula thanks very much indeed for that that's all to support of reporting there well middle east analyst. and roger i spoke to him a little earlier here in r.t. he says that terrorists are targeting civilians in syria to send

a message of horror to all those supporting assad. this is your power it's with all of our civilians in high numbers it's the purest courage we can imagine we witness today a few billion building and you will of the take i spoke today to the student performance you. would not be the one to be for yesterday they also warning. they shook. the university and they didn't do it so this was punishment there is the good war what is right now it's a very big it is a problem being to abort the civilians it shows decrease the more this is a group who obviously still support the government in its fight against her and in the fight against the insurgents. 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 documents signed by dozens of countries was submitted by switzerland on monday. reports many international organizations including the united nations confirmed that the syrian atrocities and tens of thousands of people have been killed throughout this conflict of 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 so on so is evidence about all those responsible for the deaths of civilians have to be punished but the reason why moscow does not support the idea of referring of the car flipped to the international criminal court right now is because it says doing it at this time will horman any peace efforts this is the official quote on the screen of the foreign ministry they see 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. it's 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 in exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds a snap parliamentary election with the situation in the terminal middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the vote closely so don't miss our tea special coverage next tuesday. how will change with tourism develop will settle to expand just isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will not in you know who survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides on our two. france

says it will significantly boost his intervention force in mali the number of troops deployed to the conflict zone is expected to reach two and a half thousand an hour 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 suggest the fight against islamist will not be a swift is france and italy u.s. and britain are among those who will assist the combat mission while paris is also seeking arab backing france's military mission is increased fears of revenge attacks on its own soil and london based political activist john reese believes that the rise of terrorism worldwide is 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 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 know but this is not the way in which to reduce the threat of terrorism which is actually a way in which you both stricklin which increases attractiveness to young people in the region it is something that identify with. the funeral of freedom of information activists aaron swartz has been held in chicago a talented twenty six year old was facing a long jail sentence and huge fines when he took his own life coming up in just a minute from now we've got more live from new york on health sports was viewed within the hacking community and its legacy stay with us from the.

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are old today. if you just joined us very welcome aarti life here in moscow the news continues now the funeral of freedom of information activist 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 with us to talk more about this hacker and and is an inventor mitch mitchell thanks very much indeed for joining us there from new york now you were in contact with amy's had glowing tribute since his death why was he so well regarded in the hacker community. i

actually didn't know him or in met him but i've known lots of people who have met him because he was really well regarded within the community for doing so much. to do a lot of development work which is used every day now in the world wide web we use every day of our lives he did a lot of work to try to raise consciousness around freedom issues with the internet he created ways for people to be alerted when there were threats to freedom he spent his whole life working for freedoms of other people you know just because he thought it was right and you know people really loved him for that he's also accused of being a thief and stealing huge numbers of documents is it right that the authorities should have cracked down on him in that way i mean he illegally downloaded copyrighted work didn't. yeah you know if the

elevations are correct he did break the law and someone breaks the law they have to deal with the consequences but you know the law well the punishment should fit the crime you know so if you downloaded some documents that later were given away for free anyways maybe the prosecution shouldn't be pushing for a million dollars in fines and thirty five years in jail. you know ruining his life entirely for doing something which maybe was against the law but deserving of that much punishment i think most people would agree that that's too much you're a hacker yourself that potential sentence he was facing is that actually frightens you. doesn't really frighten me and makes me incredibly sad and angry doesn't frighten me in i don't do what i do to break the law or to hurt anybody i do what i do to help other people as well this may have been intended to

frighten people i don't know we'd have to ask the individuals involved what you mean by helping out i hold it rather than you know right and so to ask you but what would you mean by helping other people by hacking in what way do you think benefiting are you better fitting people in a legal way. well you know what hacking has various definitions depending on people you ask but in my view hacking is taking what exists and improving it in and sharing it with the world and not breaking into things illegally and hurting other people i think those are criminals not hackers for me i do hardware hacking i take for instance remote controls and improve them by helping people have a tool that makes it fun to turn televisions off in public places that's what made me famous and this isn't hurting other people at all it's giving people a tool to decide on the media in their lives and a lot of people seem to really enjoy this other people hack in their own ways are

so many different i mean i don't know no one's ever counted no one has a hacker card but how many hackers are in the world and there's a thousand hacker space in the world where people get together to share and learn and teach all the projects they feel enthusiastic about and it's growing all the time this is helping the world people are exploring and doing what they love which is helping not only the individual lives of the people who are doing this but the communities surrounding it this is fantastic aaron was a really important part of this community that's growing and it's growing in big part because of him you know so many people are playing their part i love playing my part as best that i can and so many other people are to we're doing it because we want to help people explore what they love in their lives and you know give people more freedom to make more choices there's only helps the world it helps our democracy here in our country it helps the whole world mitch good to talk to you michel hacker and inventor he lies

a new york good to talk to you thank you very much indeed. 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 peter all of are 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 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 sent the press 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 and the single currency was created to 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 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 and. 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 what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t.

berlin on life at the moment at r.t. dot com crying wolf in russia the threat is real this time though republicans siberia are authorizing hunting the animals down due to their fondness for livestock. also online the dreamliner that can take you to your worst nightmares a list of problems of boeing's brand new aircraft continues to grow with complaints of fuel leaks becoming more common find out more at r.t. dot com. it's the fortieth anniversary of america's suspension of offensive action in vietnam a war that cost both sides did in lives and money result is more important our 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. navy serving in vietnam 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 one thousand nine hundred seventy three thousand nixon announced the end of offensive operations against north vietnam a military crusade that would later 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 did learn 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've tried to rule the world we've tried to do it in a novel 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 free 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 she has some of the very secret and we have 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 lee . panetta hey goal 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 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 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. . now for some brief for you protest at the decision to stop funding this fly permanently if 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 rotty. train carrying young army recruits has derailed. killing nineteen and injuring more than one hundred the number of dead is expected to rise according to authorities egypt's roadways have a poor safety record last november more than fifty people died when the train crashed into a school bus. bit torrent economics peer to peer banking in a frank discussion over water kills economies is coming up next in the college report now but with a new team with more for you in half an hour from now. do

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