please. please please. please . foreign action looming in africa as the un greenlights foreign military intervention in mali to tackle islamicists amid criticism that the un's actions in libya created the crisis. calls for more anti-american protests and a holy war against the u.s. and egypt one of washington's longtime allies in the region sees signs of growing islamization. tear gas and stun grenades are again directed at bahrain's peaceful protesters in the

latest crackdown which is drawing little attention in most international media. and the family of a journalist working with the russian media in syria tells or t.v. she was kidnapped in an area of intense clashes between the government and the rebels. thank you for joining our team this saturday with me karen taraji molly in west africa might soon see foreign troops on the ground now that a u.n. security council resolution paves the way for international intervention mali which is basically split into wants help to deal with islam is to extremists who have taken over the north a small nation plunged into chaos in march after a coup topple the president to war a gravels and as long as groups took advantage of the instability seizing control

of the north proclaiming independence historian gerald horne explains why it might be too late for the world community to clean up of mass traces back to their interference in one of mali's neighbors there is little question. what is happening in mali which is a humanitarian crisis and disaster is the director. of the north atlantic countries intervention in libya in two thousand and eleven in order to dislodge colonel gadhafi the north atlantic countries had to dump tons of weapons into libya which inevitably leaked into neighboring mali which there to for had been relatively stable with the leaking of these weapons into mali you saw the eruption of civil unrest and then military unrest in northern mali and now what we have is that an al qaida white formation has taken hold of a region of northern mali that is more bitter than the state of france what is following what has happened in the wake of the overthrow of the authorities and

bomb a cope has been the flogging of suspected criminals the taishan and suspected the persecution of single mothers tens of thousands have fled into neighboring algeria mauritania nice share it's also fair to say that this event in northern mali has given a jolt of success to so-called is enormous mr el northern northwestern africa well influence on profile in the region has been boosted by recent events the terror group has called for a jihad against the u.s. over an american made film mocking the prophet muhammad as leader urged more protest outside u.s. embassies in the middle east while praising last month's assaults on the consulate in libya that killed four diplomats meanwhile egypt where the group's current leader comes from has seen large protests against the growing islamization of the country

a young liberals rally turned ugly when muslim brotherhood supporters also descended on tucker square and clashed with anti-government demonstrators over one hundred were injured in egypt's most violent protest since mohamed morsi came into office james just who's a former u.s. senate foreign policy analyst says the threat of radicalization ija. it's very real . but we were seeing a very rapid islamisation of the political structure in egypt and nobody should be surprised at this. if there was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between morsi and the military and it seems that morsi and the brotherhood have triumphed much quicker than anybody expected and nobody should doubt what their ultimate intentions are in terms of strict enforcement of sharia and they recreate the caliphate the khilafat so i think this statement about jihad to recapture jerusalem should not come as any surprise to anyone i don't think the peace treaty with israel ultimately will be

altered but we will see what form that takes and what it will take it i think the most important thing that strikes me is it shows the utter incoherence of american policy in the arab world by promoting the islamization of egypt to the removal of our long time satrap in egypt hosni mubarak and then we seem surprised that democracy in egypt has taken this direction there's further trouble in the region and what's being labeled the forgotten revolution coming up brain security forces once again lash out at peaceful protesters demanding political reforms as the monarchy reinforce its ties with its powerful military backer of great britain. the family of a journalist who's been helping russian news outlets in syria has told r t that she's been kept napped near the city of holmes the area is a scene of intense fighting between government forces and the opposition our

correspondent in the region is following the story. the husband. question of a has come to r t and saying that she was abducted on hard courts who i was working in syria she has been there for almost a year and now she has been to me all major hotspots in this country torn by the civil war her reports have largely been known for being very critical of the rebels as well as the russian consulates russian diplomats in syria are working on establishing a what exactly has happened to car and where her whereabouts would be now of course syria remains a highly unstable ground for work for journalists. well known are going to zation reporters without borders have come out with an open letter directed at the free syrian army they have said and i'm quoting that while the organization has been drawing attention to the regime's tight grip on the news and information in syria for the past two decades and while they have been condemning the attacks on foreign

and local journalists by the assad regime they have also unfortunately witnessed. and have received reports from journalists foreign as well as local who are saying that they have been increasingly becoming targets of opposition groups in the country and again a quote from the reporters be our borders the news of syria's pro-government media are becoming the targets of abduction and murder with increasing frequency while foreign journalists are also reporting that they are being targets of death threats from opposition groups of course he will be keeping a close eye on the situation in regards to the journalist missing in syria. an opposition is being increasingly helped by al qaida related jihad ists the rubble say fighters from the islamist al nusra front help them to attack and seize an air defense base in the outside major city of aleppo jeff steinberg from executive intelligence review magazine says rebels growing links with terrorist groups should

ring alarm bell for their foreign. supporters the syrian opposition is increasingly being dominated by the same al qaeda linked jihadi networks that just recently is fascinated an american ambassador and three other american diplomats in benghazi libya the opposition has clearly rather grand serves of any military capacity to overthrow the assad regime so the opposition is resorting to suicide bombings car bombings the standard techniques of all qaida that they're continuing to use against the united states in afghanistan and in iraq it's a terrible embarrassment that the united states is back in bed with al qaida and one is osama bin ladin tensions are heating up between syria and its neighbor turkey with al qaida holding on to cargo confiscated from

a syrian plane turkey says the shipment contained russian made weapons claims strongly denied by russia you'll find more about the diplomatic standoff at party dot com there's also exclusive first hand reports from the passengers and the crew of the plane intercepted by turkey they describe how badly they were treated airport. and october of discontent continues and the debt stricken u.s. tens of thousands of angry students marched across italy they're outraged by cuts to education spending which have already been imposed by the government headed by prime minister mario monti tile sturdy sentiment is also expected in the spanish capital later today also in spain there have been fresh clashes in barcelona between those supporting and opposing catalonians and dependents and the rest comes as the e.u. was awarded this year's nobel peace prize for selling peace across the continent researcher baracoa mcconnell says the award comes in to contrast with what the

union is doing. when it comes to. this attribution of a nobel prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with boasts what the erupting union is doing on the european level and what do your opinion is doing in the rest of the world so i think that i mean the same way that we've seen of the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel peace prize i think that that's what is going on is that we can see that the nobel peace prize is much more a symbolical stance a symbolical process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors you know order to push them to do better than what they are doing when it comes to spain's problems we can see that this really reveals a kind of a kind of real crisis either in spain or in a lot of sort of european countries and obviously we can disconnect the catalonia issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union since

got that in your fields with the crisis it's been losing a lot of money and it feels that the deal that you've had with the central government in spain isn't worth it anymore while the e.u. is praised for keeping me continental peace those who defended it at a time of war discover there is an expiration date on their sacrifice they just are of gratitude to british world war two veterans who served in the russian arctic meet a bureaucratic break while also. we realize all the religions would assume you would give each different book every book has a similar story is religion on the slide in the us parties resident laurie harmfulness puts the question to new yorkers all this some more after a short break.

was. was. in the glow of russia's north through way from civilization in a three hour helicopter tree from the nearest village. so they stole one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. lodging runs in a signal and then it's they also grew up in the to draw but left it at the age of six and never returned they now live in the seat in apartment building but still room and their regions.

want to do is a dancing teacher. was. to his dance is he tells the stories about his motherland. lives in europe to now has a one thousand strong rangy heard when the enemy only saw the light can and most around leaders gather the turns and move to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter we men and children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different schools even though there's sometimes a similar. welcome

back to our tionne karen tara what's been dubbed the invisible arab spring continues to on ravel and police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters. at least ten people have been arrested demonstrations have continued almost announced. since last february and are often met by a heavy response from the country's security forces meanwhile britain has signed a military treaty with the state seen as a sign of support for the under fire regime dominic care but from the nation's justice and development movement at least western nations have too much to lose from reforms in the rain. will be asleep it doesn't send

a particularly fantastic message when you're sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep an eye seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship what these governments don't realize that they are too few to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince about rain or to pressure them into reform perhaps they missed on. the strength they have all perhaps you know that they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were democratic change but the reality is that the people of bahrain of calling for democracy they're calling for a change i didn't have to be against the western interests to achieve i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world how democratic and stable country we've got our witness accounts online from someone

who took part in the latest protests to turn violent also on our website we have photos from brains capital manama where at that's happened spiraling over the past months. claims that a group of russian citizens arrested in the u.s. earlier this month were forced to admit they were involved in illegally exporting high tech electronics to russia diplomats say the suspects are being put under psychological pressure more on that from archies peter all of our. all we've seen is the statement being issued by the russian foreign ministry regarding the four russian citizens currently still in custody who have been charged with the illegal export of military technology the foreign ministry suggesting that these four russians are being put under extreme psychological and moral pressure in order to get them to sign confessions the foreign ministry is also wanting a review of the decision to deny these for russian citizens bail it has taken the media by storm a little bit it has been all over the media that this is some kind of spy scandal

that is dismissed by the foreign ministry they say all you have to do is look at the charges that have been leveled against these four russian citizens that their criminal charges the families of the russian citizens have been expressing concern over the way that they are being treated while lowering custody has been suggestions that they're being forced to sleep on the floor that they're in very crowded cells these four russian citizens were picked up on the third of october as part of a group of eleven people that the f.b.i. wanted to speak to in connection with the export of high tech technology from the united states to russia it's believed that technology has the potential military use they were picked up in houston in texas over the next few days they're going to be moved to new york where the first hearings on this case will be heard next week time now for other international news in brief or in this hour a suicide bomber has killed at least sixteen people after blowing himself up in a market in pakistan's northwest he was supposedly targeting pro-government militia

as well as local tribal leaders now groups admitted the attack but the pakistani taliban militants have carried out similar attacks against elders to help the government flush out insurgents. a joint american and afghan military air base has been hit by rockets in eastern afghanistan sixteen missiles reach their target striking different areas and the compound it's not yet known who is behind the assault similar insurgent attacks have become more frequent have made the ongoing american airstrikes in the region. iran is considering limiting your a medium enrichment if it's allowed fuel for a scientific reactor from abroad the foreign ministry says if other nations respect its right to peaceful nuclear energy it could keep in richmond below twenty percent iran is suffering from western backed economic sanctions aimed at halting its nuclear program over suspicions its making atomic weapons which talk rhonda nods.

britain is preventing its heroic veterans from receiving all nerves for saving countless lives during the second world war they had risked themselves on perilous journeys to help their brothers in arms sarah for the explains what's stopping their valor from being properly rewarded. i think the worst journey in the world winston churchill's description of the grim ordeal that faced the british soldiers who were part of the arctic convoys during world war two getting supplies to russian forces the convoys face danger from above and below you will not see your base and aircraft it was going into the spray and the. fell overboard and there i mean the temperature. below zero i mean i was i can years of age eighteen years of age going up to russia and then do an order. but we done it were

a good hour because the chopper to be done john stories and memories are among the most harrowing of the war for the russians it was more than just supplies it was psychological support contributing hugely to the war effort that's why in april the russian president awarded the issue of medal to the allies he taken part in the convoy missions but incredibly the push governments blocking russia from rewarding british veterans for their valor. of the arctic convoys in recognition of your outstanding contribution inter allied cooperation due to world war two the description of the attack. apparently. unless the british government. is a non starter what i think. forgivable war the foreign office third it's against the rules in order for permission to be given for an award to be exerted

there has to be a specific service to the country concerned and that service should have taken place within the previous five years john's wife says that's ridiculous they're all late eighty's early ninety's some of them what on earth are they supposed to do over the last five years they still pray at maine of what they were during the war it never leaves them so why are they being painted lowest and not being given this . i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful angry not just from a hole while the ship might those here and those opacity on across the bars beside to me this disgusting. john says it's time the current prime minister says that to be the decent thing and i. was there yes we were together. the russians the americans for the belgium yes we were all in it together

then but currently we've been left there because you believe we can lift this medal everybody is guilty. but the foreign countries we're not the campaign is in both britain and russia are refusing to back down in pushing the government to get these men properly rewarded for their bravery. mission. really extraordinary service and be. important people during the war pursue that. dream keep if it's all wartime he found friendship in real adversity is straighted by john's pictures and stories of his time working with the russians down saying.

these are the medals that john with the for his heroic deeds tour in world war two he was hoping along with the other veterans involved in the arctic convoys to add the issue called medal to their collection but as long as the british government continues to refuse to allow them to be awarded they won't be adding that medal that they say does serve r.t. london europe's cash strapped countries are scratching around for any cash they can right now italy's planning to dip its hand into the trash collection ten with plans to strip the catholic church of its tax exempt status in order to trolls in the country's financial. class a degree of drilling america's hunger for energy means plowing up. knowledge campuses to get the gas on journey.

sunday worship used to be routine for millions of americans today the congregations are looking a little sparse in new york to see whether it's time for a faithful lift. a new pew poll indicated one in five americans has no religion and more and more americans are becoming atheists is america losing its religion and if so why this week let's talk about that i think as we get smarter we realize all the religions are the same you look at each different book every book has a similar story. it's all the same we're on one planet there should be one war doesn't matter if you're in pakistan or new jersey well i think i see more people that maybe keep to themselves i mean you could be religious without going to

a sanctuary or something along those lines so i think the perception is probably changed a little bit i just got baptized last year everybody has their own way of coming to their beliefs but for us it was just you know we're getting older and you know we're getting closer to those they say the pearly gates but what we are grows was the insurance you got baptized for insurance purposes that was probably what you want to believe but don't force it on other people or use it for you know things that hurt other people is that what it is is that people see organized religion as something detrimental to other people well i'm speaking i guess for mostly myself here but yeah that's what makes sense to me yeah when you see wars being waged in the name of religion it makes you think yes the bottom line is american seems to be losing their faith in organized religion which might be less of a sign of their waning spirituality and more of an indication that it might be time to reorganize.

coming up in just a few minutes are to follow as a photographer who has documented in the resilient nature of russia senior citizens . looking at some dorks you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here probably a stray and now a stray as come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not

surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago mother press camera built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly update their websites and they're in touch with the busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my only interests

not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky was huskies win the race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but actually just the taking part that counts. i. believe there thank you so much for the dance i've had

a great time together with you. you're going to suppose i look around and realize that there are many more some of them we think we don't fit any stereotypes they're not spend hours sitting on the bench or watching. point of people tend. to find the secret thing staying. a chicken at the soonest but. thank you i'm taking pictures of. people wonderful.