venezuela be to attend his own inauguration. by means of nato missiles on the. incursions by the assad government. our need to meet with president putin who granted him citizenship.

watching our taillight from moscow with may. be too ill to attend his own swearing in ceremony on three for his fourth term in office g a political analyst day can try.

to break apart that base of support and to convince people that chavez is unable to serve the the constitution in venezuela allows for wiggle room here it does not say that just because he can't be at the inauguration at that given moment that there has to be new elections where that is what the opposition is trying to elicit they're trying to make it explicit the constitution it says that it can be delayed there are alternative arrangements that can be made the swearing in can take place in a different location and also it says that the new elections can only be called if and only if the elected president is permanently unable to serve there is no indication the child has been won't recover from where he is now so to say that he's permanently incapacitated is not one hundred percent true nato has started the

deployment of patriot missiles as well as troops on the turkish border ankara asked for the battery units to shield the country from possible attacks coming from neighboring syria political analysts patrick henningsen believes there are or terria motives at work. the patriot missiles that they're deploying right now in turkey. have nothing to do with any threat from syria i believe that these missile batteries are being parked in turkish territory to prepare for the possibility of a nato air strike further down the timeline so as soon as we anyone with any military knowledge or any geopolitical. knowledge knows that syria is absolutely zero military threat to turkey and they have no motivation to attack them it's all depends on what matter of strategy the west shoes right now option one has

failed they tried to do a libyan style regime change by getting some foreign fighters and paying people then having no fly zone no fly zone is not going to happen it's sending a message to the government of syria that nato is making plans whether they push the button or not is another matter but what i think that the western states can go in on a legitimate basis to what the one of their second option is to gen up the chemical weapons situation and they've done that in the past on many continents with many invasions the other option the west has is to drag the smaller states into the conflict and use that as a justification for an airstrike by nato i'm talking about drugging and levon on or perhaps israel to the south that would give the justification to move in and claim it's a regional conflict that needs to be contained. he may have funded the election campaign of one of the night leaders that helped topple the late libyan dictator later this

hour we look at what is behind the lines nicolas sarkozy i was fifteen in your eyes from tripoli when he was running for president in two thousand and seven also later this hour we look at how being politically correct many americans can demonstrate. president mahmoud abbas has officially changed the name of the palestinian administration to the state of palestine the move follows a successful u.n. bid to raise the palestinian state is to a nonmember observer state but despite this the nation is still a long way from unity as artie's paul asli reports thousands of families are torn apart by barriers put up 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 lift 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 there's a mess 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 them of him are photographs and the occasional phone call. of love. 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 mohamed 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 i want to go and live with him it will be safer for the children and they have a better life how did. that. 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. israel gaza this is

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gerard depardieu has already been granted russian citizenship and before that he really now needs his french citizenship and move to belgium where reportedly he has some real estate now this news comes as french president francois juan is trying to push forward a law that will see french citizens who earn more than one million euro piece seventy five percent of their earnings to taxes meanwhile in another french legendary movie i can brigitte bardot is also think in following the footsteps of georgi for you however firmly is backed by simply feel good reason you know she's also a veteran anymore rights campaigner and she has threatened to apply for russian citizenship if french authorities use an a.p. or office a callous bunch at a zoo in new home now explaining why she thought of russia she said that she believed that president was in the putin has done more to protect and you most the

benefit of french president all together and she also said the average time she asked something as the animal rights to complain or he always helped her she also called fumes the president off her heart after he banned the hunting of young seals and indeed president vladimir putin has earned a reputation of a true anymore lover during the years of his presidency and when he was the prime minister. well website dot com has got some very good news for star trek fans the u.s.s. enterprise space ship may soon become a reality discover how america plans to build its own colony in space to go where no man has gone before. and a city in mexico is left complete with no one forced me to after the entire police force resigns find out why.

the u.k. government's charitable enterprises abroad are reportedly doing nothing to help the world's poor a study by a center right think tank says billions of pounds in taxpayers' money being spent i merely part of a government p.r. campaign early in my colleague bill dog talk to r.t.c. or smith about where exactly this cash is ending up. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of bush's eight ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies b.b.c. investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help people it was used by the ethiopian government cements 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 or 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 the 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 cares that it's seen to be giving this city the study is really quite critical isn't it does it suggest the u.k. 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 it's forget giving money abroad let's keep it here at home where it's really needed at the moment so here we see a 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 former french president nicolas sarkozy allegedly received over fifty million euros in illegal campaign money from late libyan leader moammar gadhafi

a lebanese ball businessman who is facing corruption charges says he will provide evidence in a french court similar claims have previously been made by other witnesses christophe barbier who is chief editor of week in magazine l'express says if these allegations are proven true they could uncover a deeper trial of corruption. it's true that libya under gadhafi must have generated lots of dirty money with a system in place and poured cash into western countries look at this image contribution to sarkozy's campaign but really a new thing for maximum presidential campaign expenditure allowed is twenty two million years i lived in million that is more than doubled over the pelvis left over from a certain degree going from zero to campaign but instead in europe in someone's pocket to tell you proof is needed as of now there is only a statement by one man on trial who's tried to remain so one else to shift the attention one from russia each karajan illegally will be quote. now some of the stories making headlines around the world this hour

a standoff between police and the gunman in colorado has left four people dead including the gunman himself the attacker held four hostages inside a heist before being killed after hours of negotiations three of the captives were shot dead before police were able to free them while one was able to escape the incident took place in the city of aurora where just six months ago another shooter killed twelve people and injured fifty eight. five suspects in the rape and murder of a female student in new delhi have been linked to the victim by d.n.a. evidence the men were charged early this week while a six will stand trial as a juvenile the twenty three year old woman was brutally assaulted on a bus and later died in hospital from her injuries the attack sparked a nationwide outrage and fuel debate about sex crimes in india. around a hundred british loyalists in the northern irish capital belfast have attacked police officers who retaliated with

a water cannon authorities are also investigating reports of shots fired during the clash the previous night so nine officers injured and several riots that broke out across the city loyalist anger was sparked by a move to end a century old tradition of flying british union flag over city hall permanently throughout the year. and guards in brazil have caught a cat trying to smuggle contraband into a prison on new year's day the animal was scorched tape with headphones a memory card mobile phone and batteries and because the feline friend refused to cooperate with police or two hundred sixty three inmates and the suspects in the investigation. of freedom of expression has always been one of the pillars of american democracy since the war of independence but now the right to speak your mind in the land of the free is now being overwhelmed by political correctness artie's marina portnoy examines how candid

expression has turned into 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 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 add a priest substitute to do 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 owen was shot down by for to be styled gestures and comments but as for the man who wrote nineteenth century classics not even mark twain as 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 friend or conservatives want to want to sanitize or plain vanilla 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 something. 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 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 laughing things off i can see employees that love more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth more in a corner artsy new york. companies and governments be where the group anonymous finds to launch a wave of new cyber attacks this year. new york resident went to find actually the underground group still has the support of the people it 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 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 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 block them out and blacklist them

and stamp them out so i think that's the reason why it 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 love them or hate them anonymous has promised to put on a good show for twenty thirteen just well. they have to wait to see if they live up to that promise.

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