the government is accused. of. not caring whether cash. positive life. nato stars deploying troops along with syria. for help to defend itself from the ongoing conflict next door. in the palestinian authority. israel's imposed border. president putin's hailed as a protector of. the. country.

in. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in. the u.k. government's charitable enterprises abroad it could be doing nothing to help the world's poor and a center right says the billions of pounds in taxpayers' money being spent and merely part of a p.r. campaign to promote the image of the government my colleague bill dodd discussed it all with. us to where exactly this. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of british eight ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies a b.b.c.

investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help people it was used by the ethiopian government meant a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this investigation showed that in fact supporters of the opposition weren't allowed to receive food or seeds or fertilizer which is what the aid was destined for a second example is in india a three hundred eighty eight million pound project aimed at improving indian schools the government here hailed as a huge success they said more children are going to school as a result of it but the indian government says that around seventy million pounds of it was either stolen or lost much of it was allocated to schools that didn't even exist and that some of it went to by cause for dignitaries officials in india

again the u.k. government refutes that and nigeria thirdly one hundred million pound project improve again the quality of education in nigeria an independent report showed that actually the results of it had been not to improve the quality of education at all they awarded the project to nigeria their second lowest rating again the government here refutes that same report sources that only visited a handful of schools so it's a pretty damning indictment of what's happening to all this money. vall sum of money how does it exactly help the image of british politicians. well of course the conservative party here in this country has an image of sort of stingy only wanting to help the rich and it does go a long way towards getting rid of an image like that it shows that politicians are magnanimous sort of make them seem very generous and this information does suggest that the government doesn't really care where the money goes or how it's ministers or how effective it is it only has that it seems to be giving this city the study

is really quite critical isn't it does it suggest to you should stop helping communities abroad altogether i know it's not suggesting that it's just suggesting that the money is allocated and administered much more efficiently of course this is all happening against a backdrop of austerity at home and many people are saying you know forget forget giving money abroad let's keep it here at home where it's really needed at the moment so here we're seeing reduction in benefits even for very poor people we're seeing tax hikes we're seeing raids on particularly public sector pensions so a lot of people say keep this money at home don't give it give it a broad and the budget is continually increasing it's now going to be no point seven percent of gross national income and that equates to five hundred pounds a year for every household in a lot of people say you know we could do something here at home with that five hundred pounds. laura smith right there now nato has begun deploying surface to air

missiles on turkey's border with syria and the alliance approved the reinforcements last month after ankara requested support and nato claims the move is to help defend its member from the conflict in syria and germany and the netherlands are preparing to ship more patriot batteries next week the six units are to be operational by the end of january but moscow said the deployment will only serve to escalate tension in the region. jeremy salt a middle eastern history and politics professor from bill kent university says nato will have no excuse to use them. there's no possibility at all no likelihood that syria will attack turkey the only circumstances in which those missiles would be used was would be if there were a nato attack initiated from turkey into syria and then of course syria would strike back the situation has changed i mean it's quite clear that from the beginning of this crisis that this anti syrian coalition did want to attack syria

but i think that the sect this government stays in place for the last two years despite everything being thrown at us the fact the syrian army has not disintegrate the fact that we've seen every single day and use of most terrible atrocities being carried out by these armed groups the fact these armed groups have rejected the authority of the council formed in doha the fact the doha consul has no support inside syria up to a kind of very clear message to the americans in particular that they have to kind of change the course in syria and come up with something different i think that libya in particular had a very very significant effect on american thinking because the americans back these groups in libya and one of them to a panic you're going to ambassador and this caused great shock in washington and so when the americans look at the situation and we know that there are voices inside that it came from action we didn't even notice it could be general anders fogh rasmussen is one of them we know that britain and france you know talking to silly belligerent fashion but the case the situation is in washington and i don't think

the americans have any interest in taking this any further listen i know perfectly well that to actually intervene in syria would trigger a major regional crisis much much bigger than we're already seeing. you're watching are to the fact that has held a mass rally in gaza the stronghold of its palestinian political rival hamas thousands of fatah supporters flooded the streets for the first time in years and they were celebrating the forty eighth anniversary of the movement which was removed from power in gaza after the two thousand and seven elections many welcomed the rally as ever new to attempt by the rival palestinian parties to reconcile and find ways to share power israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is concerned hamas is viewed by israel as a terrorist group could take over the palestinian authority political analyst elias as an eerie says netanyahu spheres have no grounds hamas will have to look in two to fight the hand they are in fact i would have to look into the hamas in the eye

and both sides have to agree on only one thing we don't need more the consolation talks we don't need more the conciliation agreements because there were so many agreements signed between the two parties but not one of them has been honored implemented but hundreds cannot take over palestine the concerns of netanyahu are baseless and groundless he is the only israeli leader who has been giving support to hamas and not only to hamas but to every extremist group on the palestinian side simply because he's ducking the palestinian moderates is dumping the leadership of theirs in about he's dumping the put a political negotiations with the with the palestinians and he's getting on his own agenda of increasing the number of do with settlements in the west bank even though they are illegally they are illegal under international law he carries on his policies that the set up every chance of meeting a two state solution between the palestinians and israelis is the israeli withdrawal from gaza was based on an agreement with the palestinian authority we have we would have seen

a totally different middle east today. now president mahmoud abbas has officially changed the name of the palestinian administration to the state of palestine but despite this and a recent status upgrade by the u.n. the nation still remains all united that is for a slave reports thousands of families torn in two by the imposed borders by israel . this is the erez crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed left gaza in search of a better life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear. i miss

my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid a lot my father must come back here we must go and live with him but he can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind him of him are photographs and the occasional phone call oh. love me i can't live like this anymore i'm sick i'm having a nervous breakdown this happens when a man is very sad when he has a lot of pressure on his soul and heart. this family is just one of thousands torn apart by israel's separation policy that makes it almost impossible to move between the west bank and gaza it was only after mohammed had moved that he found out his family could not follow because while he and one of his children have west bank identity papers his wife and four other children don't for reasons unknown to them . it was a big surprise for me they told me there is

a possibility of changing it so i sent the papers up until now they have the file but they refused to give permission for them to come i can't give up on my kids but i also want to give them a future. israel says the west bank is a closed military zone and it has the right to prevent people from entering it even those from gaza but palestinians have extensive family ties in both areas and the policy affects just about everyone there are a number of policies that explicitly say that family separation is not a justification for being allowed to enter the west bank so even if there's no serious security claim against an individual even if there's no question that that mother is separated from her child that's not enough to justify a travel international law protects freedom of movement and israel itself has recognized guards in the west bank as a single territorial unit but that's not enough to guarantee something people in the west of the world take for granted a couple from different cities wanting to get married or

a father looking for work. but the children miss him so much they hold his pictures and cry when they speak with him on the phone this is that it's not coming back and he says i can't i want to bring it all to the west bank who want to go and live with him it will be safer for the children and they have a better life how to double it it's a choice no father should have to make to be separated from his family so he can provide for them or join them and together face a bleak future policy are to israel gaza. and i coming up just a bit later in the program here talking on eggshells examine how a wave of political correctness has turned america into a hypersensitive nation leaving many more prone to buy. and president putin is. better protector of animals than the leader of. president

brigitte bardot russian citizenship all of this in a row about animal rights in her home country that story after this. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions in the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablish that allegedly hey of and constantine should show of from fair russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get a businessman on to their party's electoral lists giving him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity

and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilization make but that's just my opinion. i. just on a quarter past the hour here in moscow this is artsy and the french president

nicolas sarkozy allegedly received over fifty million euros in illegal campaign money from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi one lebanese born businessman who is currently facing corruption charges says he will provide evidence in a french court a similar claims of previously be made by other witnesses christophe who is the chief editor of the weekly magazine express he says the allegations are proven true they could uncover a much deeper trail of corruption. it's true that libya under gadhafi must have generated lots of dirty money with a system in place that poured cash into western countries look at this alleged contribution to sarkozy's campaign fifteen million euros the maximum presidential campaign expenditure is twenty two million euros fifty million that's more than double so this left over money certainly didn't go towards the campaign but instead ended up in someone's pocket but tangible proof is needed as of now there's only

a statement by one man on trial who's trying to blame someone else to shift the attention away from himself which carries no legal weight. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today and it's spanish locksmiths who say they hold the keys to austerity it's often used to cooperate with authorities possessing holmes and demanding a change of details on that on our website. and in a fight to bring down the crime rate in mexico local authorities destroy. us.

french movie icon brigitte bardot has praised president putin for doing more to protect animals than all french presidents put together about it was a well known animal rights defender and is threatening to quit her country and ask for russian citizenship if. follow through with a plan to put down. the actress to threaten to apply for russian citizenship and french authorities euthanize a peer out stick allophones out as root in leo no explaining her decision why she thought of russia the actress said that she believes a russian president vladimir putin has done more to print top to animals than all french presidents put together and she also said that every time she asked him something as an animal rights campaigner he always helped her el dorado also called

of life you have put in the president off her heart after he banned the hunting of young seals and indeed president vladimir putin earned a reputation of a true animal lover during the years of his presidency and as well as when he was prime minister brigitte bardot is following the footsteps of another famous chef range actress out of the part of you who has already been granted russian citizenship no olva's comes off true french president francois long is trying to push forward a law that will see french citizens who earn more than one million euros pay seventy five percent of their earnings to tocs is. he watching or to coming away just a bit later in the program but of online activists keeping us society at all so. i work for the government i don't appreciate people hacking us social justice is real thing and so if something has to be done. we have the means to do it then we

should do it resident asks people of new york their feelings on a problem group of hackers who were found to be very active in two thousand and thirteen that's just ahead. or head first into a go time for the r.t. wild update now and some other global news for you in brief this hour starting with ivan as well as president chavez becoming still remain president even if he has to will to attend his own swearing in sarah. only on tuesday that's according to the country's vice president nicolas maduro said the supreme court could delay the event to a later date speculation has been growing about chavez's declining health following confirmation that he's suffered a complication following surgery in cuba for cancer and the opposition's called for new elections to be announced within thirty days if the president fails to return. there was a fresh disorder in the northern irish capital belfast overnight loyalist rioters in different parts of the city hold petrol bombs bricks and fireworks also

attempted to hijack some vehicles at least nine police officers were injured and several people arrested a number of them under the age of eighteen loyalist anger was sparked by a decision to end the century old tradition of flying the british union flag over city hall. and hundred people have been rallying in pakistan administered kashmir to mark the day of self-determination they are commemorating a nine hundred forty nine un resolution which said the people in the region should have the right for their own. protestors shouted anti india an anti un demonstration organized by a local militant group which wants the region to become part of pakistan the area has been disputed by the two countries since they gained independence back in one nine hundred forty seven. thousands of people have been left stranded in australia as numerous wildfires rage across the island of tasmania at least one

hundred homes have been destroyed and hundreds of locals have been evacuated at least thirty percent of all buildings have burned down and one community east of the tasmanian capital who bought our roads on parts of the island still remain cut off by the fires much of the country is currently dealing with scorching temperatures reaching over forty degrees celsius. our freedom of expression has been one of the pillars of america since it was founded for the modern phenomenon of political correctness means one's personal freedom of speech could be someone else's insult. in a fortnight examines how candid expression has turned into rather a touchy subject. america is a country that pioneers freedom of expression but is the rising tide of political correctness reigning in the right to say what you think white people do well to hold back to do to actually speak their mind it's almost as though you have a sort of a code to call them sometimes you want to call a spade

a spade and sometimes you want to call it trouble according to recent news and poll the majority of citizens think the u.s. is overdosing on p.c. turning the land of the free into a nation of hyper sensitive sissies. were even corn chips can cause mass controversy in this ad a priest substituted to read zero for the eucharist the body of christ. the commercial was created for a possible super bowl broadcast but after an uproar among catholics frito lay apologized and pulled the plug on the satirical spot during a commercial being pulled is a classic example of americans freaking out about something insulting to do with religion i understand why the catholic league might flip out that's their job however be able to laugh at yourself folks. the price of humor can end up costing big maybe captain owen honors intrusted with

a nuclear powered aircraft carrier worth half a billion dollars was fired over racy morale boosting videos created years ago having survived eighty five combat missions owing was shot down by for tuesday style gestures and comments but as for the man who wrote nineteenth century classics not even mark twain is protected from present day p.c. two of tweens books are being republished with the word sleeve replacing the n. word it's about laziness it's not about liberal guilt to not want to do a founder conservatives want to want to sanitize or plain vanilla is history and art it's really about laziness we don't we don't want to trust people to look and examine to look at some. and then go beyond that said what does it mean what were those times like what is the author trying to say when film critic roger ebert took to twitter to criticize the censorship he was criticized for simply writing the n word a federal jury will soon decide if a white people can use the n.

word at work this as a white t.v. reporter is suing a fox news affiliate in philadelphia after being fired for using the n. word during a staff meeting white house chief of staff rahm emanuel has apologized he's apologized and of course the r word can also make you a glorified villain as was the case when former chief of staff rahm emanuel privately called a group of liberals retards rahm emanuel and i think he has some indecent and insensitive ways of being sarah palin is a great talk at e.s.p.n. sensitivity surrounding sex has become a touchy subject announcer ron franklin was fired for allegedly calling a female reporter sweet baby menace a political correctness has neutered the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of the laughing things off a p.c. employer that a lot more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth growing up or not artsy new york.

oh it's the news which will freeze fear into companies and governments will wide the prominent hacking organization anonymous was founded in two thousand and three and it'll start things up even more than before with a wave of fresh cyber attacks on its his very own new york resident i went to find out if the underground group still actually has the support of the people that claims to be fighting for. the hacking collective anonymous issued a statement warning the world to expect them in two thousand and thirteen is that a good thing this week let's talk about that it is an all course of business that they interfere with they can write their congressman they can vote. i work for the

government i don't appreciate people hacking us we've got people's personal information that has to be protected that these people but they decided hey i want to take that. that's their information because they've decided to take the law into their own hands this is ok yes definitely keep on going why are they important in the world today well because to bring a certain information to the public. because of the activities social injustice is a real thing and so something has to be done if you like if we have the means to do it then we should do it what about the fact that they do it anonymously they don't show their face or their name do you think that they have to because what they're doing is illegal or do you think they should show their names and faces well i think showing their names and faces would just blot the list them and stamp them out so i think that's the reason why they had to be anonymous i think they're meddling kids legally should not be doing what they're doing definitely but so do

we just let governments and corporations do whatever they want unchecked no not unchecked but do it legally through the law and follow the guidelines that are set before us for example with the united states were built on the constitution and that's how we have to follow the law through that i'm against anything illegal just because i like to follow rules and i don't want to be a put in jail or i wouldn't want to be put in jail even if it does mean sticking out for other people i think it's a good thing they should continue to do what they're doing what about the people who say that just meddling kids. well i think a lot of people or ignorant to the reason that they're protesting. i think what they say makes a lot of sense and i think people need to do more research to understand exactly what the true purpose is love them or hate them anonymous has promised to put on a good show for twenty thirteen we'll just have to wait to see if they live up to that promise.

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