border. from the netherlands in the u.s. on their way to turkey which claims it needs protection from the war in neighboring syria. today as the british government publishes a list of its achievements. substance. choices for the top security post in the country amid claims nothing like what america really needs right now.

internationally. this is a twenty four hours a day i can assure patriot missiles has begun its journey to. improve the reinforcements last month after requested support u.s. and german missile batteries will also be deployed to turkey's southern front here along with hundreds of support troops claims the warheads are aimed at boosting defenses in the wake of the escalating standoff in syria. but. he says the majority of people from the european states taking part actually against. of course it is a high risky mission what makes a place there but this is what we saw already in the past with other international missions the governments don't seem to be so concerned about what will bring the future in this area but we see something outs we see that the population in the

european countries if i can say at all during the population is strongly against such missions so you see there is a big gap between the public opinion and the activities of the governments and this might have to do with the fact that the governments. are not being on the behalf of their own national interests or and they are on behalf of their own security interests we are right now acting on the interest of the nato what everybody knows will cease the situation right there at the border that what is taking place actually not just since yesterday but several months that each of us that are here are coming from turkey on syrian soil if you want to kill their people so turkey is right now a security danger for syria not the other way. damascus has constantly insisted that what's taking place in syria is not a genuine revolution but

a bunch of mercenaries fueling unrest parties are going to go takes a closer look at how the standoff is attracting competence from far beyond the country's borders. she keeps her son's room exactly the way he left it last spring his clothes and art supplies are the only reminders she has of twenty one year old son. sammy told his mother he was going to a conference in libya he wouldn't stay more than one week to ten days he went in for the whole week that he stayed there he called home every day he called in the twenty second of march and said he's coming back to tunisia but never arrived at the beginning of april i got a skype call telling me my son was captured on the border as he was crossing from target of syria in a group of fighters. further proof came with the syrian t.v. report in which sammy was trying to capture example fighters he talked about coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still explanation wasn't enough to please the minds of his parents if anything it made matters worse they simply can't

understand how intimidating formed into a jihadist. but they do have this. began and i was very happy because i'm a muslim and i thought it was a good thing. maybe after that he started going and heard something that made the syrian official reports claim some four hundred under the five. controlled by radical islamists who call in their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries. the exact number of tunisians fighting in syria or libya or rock is not known but the families and friends of those who went off to fight in a foreign land are saying that even one death is already one too many especially for those who are fighting a foreign leader in a different country the government says that they're watching the situation closely

but relatives of those who have died are not convinced they believe that the government's silence is as good as a green light for the impressionable youngsters. it's known that the last ten years most terrorist groups have tunisians in their midst the officials know about these things but don't say anything and these fighters went to libya then they went to syria by way of the turkey we're talking about more than one hundred tunisians already killed in fighting in syria. the statement is supported by united nations human rights investigators this report published at the end of the thousand and twelve more of an increasing number of fighters pouring into syria investigator said people from at least twenty nine different countries are fighting alongside syrian rebels most of them are sunni's hailing from neighboring countries but some have come to syria from this far away as america and europe they get called in for supposedly higher purpose but once they're on the ground the situation proves far

more mundane. it's impossible for any arab convert from fighting in syria to be treated whoever gets injured i dare them to worry me a single arab got injured and treated in the field hospital we are being treated as cannon fodder we are the grease used to syrian blood for them a city got to see despite its warnings many young men in tunisia still choose to go abroad to battle infidels in the name of allah it only goes go r.t. in tunisia. pensions go on the red list in the u.k. with predictions that the entire private savings system could collapse the young lose interest in putting a little aside for the future that's ahead for you plus. the internet giant google is visiting north korea in a few minutes we'll be hearing from an expert on whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic far wall. all that to come and plenty of other stories but first the british government marking its midterm point use the data put

itself on the back and tally up its achievements from education reforms to shutting down tax loopholes the government's list wasn't short with a promise of more to come first listen to what the prime minister had to say. prime minister david cameron and the deputy leader of the kurdish nick clegg giving one of their rare joint public appearances together to deliver this mid-term review it was an awkward appearance it was really really difficult watching there were red faces several awkward pauses there were these really embarrassing it was certainly i think rare public to into parents as somebody would say of this data form and that's probably quite a good thing now this is summing up where halfway through the coalition now of course a huge question was whether the coalition again to be breaking up whether they're going to stay together the main message from the to leaders was presenting

a united front that they're in this for the full five years of course their plan so they laid out the next steps that are going to follow already being criticized by the opposition who says this is and he promises no real substance here you know there was a lot of summing up we're going to get the details of this sort of bulk mid term or the in the coming weeks that some of the things that they thought touched upon that they feel they've achieved and among the things like the welfare reform the education reform you know you cast your mind back to what that actually entailed we saw these huge protest movements a hike in the university fees that he got reagan speech in london you know i think when you get the bulk of detail like this some he certainly seems to be brushed away the as i said a little bit awkward and it is very noticeable that people were laughing genuinely that was sort of met with a kind of any silence in some part saying you know this is no laughing matter it's a very serious point in the coalition there are big questions for the future of

this and the question still remain every time they give an appearance like this we ask about europe and people trying to clean a bit more information and you know it is quite short on substance i think a lot of people just be hating the plans that were laid out today in that time is going to be better received than the prime minister takes to take a little bit of a place to live as a detail of what the coalition has achieved or not the case may be his my colleague . well it does look like the private pension could be going think that's according to one prominent pensions expert here in. fifty they could be because it turns out that just twelve percent of young people in their twenty's and thirty's are saving for their retirement so we've got a lot of young people in the u.k. who are thinking about their pension as a tour and that certainly eating through concerns over potential pensions gap in

the future so i caught up with the all of this pension report michael johnson to see what he had to say about why he thinks that pensions are going to be in their demise by twenty fifteen you know there are several of the reasons of what's going on to be one of the most mainstream is the people's cost of living is rising as a percentage of total incomes. much more furiously than we've seen any time in the past i'm talking about cost to housing the need three page college debts and the sorts of financial pressures that generation y. the under thirty five's are experiencing that older generation simply cannot conceptualize. so it's a very very different world which we living in and then the pension problem is really from a bygone age the sad reality is that young people nowadays they have a lot of very immediate financial pressures on their plate you know with austerity measures in full swing with the financial crisis with young people on very low

wages having to live with a very high cost of living at the same time they could have debts in the form of university fees that they have to pay off if they're lucky they'll have a mortgage but the the the truth is is that a lot of young people have these very immediate precious and so they just don't have time to think about putting money away for thirty forty years down the line that's money that they might not see again and there's a double sort of irony in this because by the time that they retire the pension age is going to be at least sixty eight and there are reports saying that some people have said that well if the pension age is going to be sixty eight we might not live that long so why save for it so that's why it's a double edged sword that it is a problem in itself that people don't see the point in saving for it but of course that's going to lead to this potential point this potential pensions gap when the government is going to be confronted with people that all living to after the age of sixty and don't have savings so it's

a potential crisis many years down the line of course mcgovern is actually very concerned about this because we've seen you know cuts to the state pension that was very controversial last year so they've been trying to incentivize people to save some point that pension so they do that by providing tax breaks and they've also anything that's called also in rolling when they get large firms to enroll their workers into private savings schemes but the sad reality again is that very few people are still in the schemes or are yet to enroll in these schemes and move again when coming back to the young generation that's got these crashes these very immediate financial crashes and so the pension is falling by the wayside and that's leading to talk of the potential point this is going to come in the future so it is quite a grim picture at the moment. well to talk to me live from london there's

a medical emergency in madrid thousands of health care workers in the streets testing against plans to privatized a number of local hospitals fearing this will ruin the already slim employment opportunities that story in front of all those for you after this short break. join me on a journey to the heart of the place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real criminal insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . coming

up to fifty minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital u.s. president barack obama has put forward his current counter terrorism adviser john brennan as the new head of the cia he's also announced maverick conservative chuck hagel as his choice for defense secretary will talk more on the president's choices i'm joined now live by u.s. army colonel macgregor well as a retired u.s.

army colonel are you happy the country's security will be in safe hands if he gets his way oh absolutely no question about it particularly regarding senator hagel why. well there are a number of things first of all hago has been a very effective and strong critic of the interventions over the last several years and the mismanagement of our policies and the squandering of blood and treasure on missions that make no sense strategically for the united states asked for years that's what subset large numbers of people who have supported bad decisions the decision to intervene and then occupy iraq and then to transform the initial operation in afghanistan into a nation building mission being right those were disasters and i think that's one of the reasons that people on the hill not a lot but some are unhappy with his appointment it signals a sea change in american foreign policy where we are now going to exercise restraint with regard to the use of american military power and i think we're

seeing an end to twenty years of interventions from somalia to haiti and kosovo to iraq so does that mean that we will see a change in policy towards iran of the moment because he was very much against sanctions against iran and clearly against attacking iran but that doesn't seem to be a bomb as policy at the moment does it well no i think it's misleading to suggest that there's a great deal of daylight between secretary hagel or soon to be secretary of defense a go and president obama president obama has always been disinclined to attack iran and i think we're going to see some evidence over the months ahead for an alternative approach which will rely more heavily on the goshi ation so i don't think the the desire of the israeli lobby and the government until you are in tel aviv for an attack on iran will will ultimately occur let's talk about brennan the nominee for the cia he's a focal supporter of the controversial drone program which reported his cause of

course an enormous number of civilian deaths when he listened to criticism and and perhaps we see a change of policy on drones. well first of all i don't think that mr brennan is the man that you want to turn to to change that policy i think it's mr obama i think mr brennan is simply a long service bureaucrat in the side the cia who is demonstrated that he is an obama loyalist he will ultimately do what he's told and i think it's a matter for mr obama now that he is in his second term to review those policies and i think he will how much will change i don't know but i think the policies will be very carefully reviewed but of course he's taking over from the cia chief the former cia chief betray us of course left behind a scandalous legacy is that to be a problem could be inherited by brennan oh not at all you know the disappearance of general petraeus is is almost completely transparent to anyone

in the organization betray us wasn't very popular at the cia he had no previous intelligence experience and to be perfectly blunt i think large numbers of people were glad to see him go mr brennan on the other hand as i pointed out is someone with a lot of time and experience inside the agency so i think they're comfortable with his appointment and again i think many of the policies that he's publicly supported in the past will be reviewed by the president very positive about these two possible nominations appointees i should say but what about the republicans that analysts again all that and could that be a big problem. which republicans we have a lot of a lot of people that we call rhinos republicans in name only people like mccain and graham and others in the senate who supposedly are republicans but in truth they're not true conservatives but the truth is that senator hagel actually represents a very strong stream of consciousness in american foreign and defense policy one that we followed scrupulously for the first one hundred fifty to one hundred

seventy years of our history americans have historically not wanted much to do with anything beyond their borders and we were very unhappy about our intervention in world war one after world war one ended we tried to stay out of all future wars and had the japanese god bombed us in one nine hundred forty one we would not have fought in the second world war so i think i think senator hagel is much more aligned with this traditional view that american armed forces exist to defend the united states not to attack other countries we're going to get your perspective on this thank you very much indeed retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor joining me live from washington d.c. appreciate on. well they get sent out to serve their country in foreign battles but many you are somehow not dying in battle but taking their own lives stay with us to discover why so many are finding it so tough when they get home from war. still to come but first thousands of health workers and spain's

capital madrid have been venting their anger cuts to the health care system they were running against plans to privatized several hospitals and nearly thirty health centers for more on drugs desperate attempts to cut spending his political analysts miguel and what are the. madrid of course is in desperate need to save money and in desperate need of money so isn't this the time for private healthcare companies to step in and help. well that's supposed. companies private companies would naturally be more cost effective than the state which is far from clear the experiences we have in that respect i'm not very encouraging but apart from that it's clear that these sort of reform stems not really from the need of of cutting expenses but also from an ideological position this has been made very clear by the conservative party in government that they would do it anyway it's just that their

policy to privatized as much as they can you say that expensive health care not very encouraging but private health care has worked very well along with insurance programs in other countries so why is it really upsetting people in spain at the moment. well because in spain it hasn't worked that much we have a. short of a federal system and certain regions in particular the region of madrid has to really. has already gone for that for the private health care system that's privatized a lot of its health care and the result is not very good people is not happy and to see this program generalized the rest of us very is worrying for many people not least health care workers themselves because apart from the need to save money as you said and you're right we also have a problem with unemployment so getting all these people out of work will cause problem not just for them individually but also for spain as a collective economy wouldn't some health care workers be employed by the private

sector and therefore even more money so many of those who are campaigning and complaining at the moment could actually be better off couldn't they. well they don't seem to see the dutch way and in fact what is interesting about these protests in the healthcare sector is that is different from a sociological point of view from the protests we're see around spain we've seen of course teachers and and. public sector workers of all sorts transports are all the services are basically on strike or staging protests now what is different about the is that you have doctors which are traditionally in spain like elsewhere are traditionally more conservative they most of them they backed the government prior to its election so they seized their own people that he said happy with the way the government is going so i think it will it will make a difference it will it will cost some extra problems for the for the current

government well and those problems of course could be exacerbated bearing in mind of course that health care is really a very very important aspect of life for them for any population is it not being very dangerous here by targeting health care madrid here cutting in this particular area well yes of course and it's not just the privatization this is just part of the of the of the things that people are unhappy with that it's also all sorts of new taxes for example until now people didn't have to pay for their medicines in spain this was this was free now they have to pay this is a problem of course because pensions are not very good for many people in spain so so they can't afford these medicines but apart from that this has gone to his have been down in such a rush so just briefly that the government could be accused here of putting people's lives their health at risk. well that's what many health care workers are see in fact they are saying that that this is not just

a problem author of management it also involves people's lives of course just briefly start of a new year when you think spain and indeed other struggling economies are heading we've talked a lot about it in the last year what about this coming year just briefly your thoughts well we don't have a forecast for growth this year so if we are going to be in a recession things are going to get really tough thank you very much indeed well good to hear you here on our team political analyst bill and throughout manado. fresh loyalist coming up there a few nights. the city is plagued with rioting over decision not to fly the union flag over city whole. wealthy british so it's time to let.

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you just joined us a very warm welcome already hard pressed fighting off a belligerent taliban and a resurgent al qaida the u.s. military is now facing a new battle against suicides almost five hundred american troops and veterans killed themselves last year dwarfing the number that died in action but he's got to get reports now on the grim statistics. i thought i told tonight. another feel good moral boosting speech on afghanistan and the us president is the liberal many of those rockers trying to convince the american people that the war was worth it when you're missing a birthday or you're missing a soccer game or or what you're missing out of verse three and those of us back home are able to enjoy it because you always hear when soldiers come back home they

missed much more than that their own selves once you go into combat you know once you kill people and once you spend a year and an environment you are not the same person team kenny came back severely wounded from a tour in afghanistan two years ago having spent ten months in combat the vehicle in which he was a gunner was blown up nine times when i got crushed by p.t.s.d. i mean. i was suicidal you know i mean i'm married with four kids and i just couldn't find a way to kill myself in some kind i actually did that my family wouldn't have to suffer he was able to step back from the brink but many of his fellow servicemen were not so fortunate. more american soldiers committed suicide last year than work killed in active service in afghanistan staggering statistics that's almost want to

day when you were i think this is i can't go any more. but like i. say don't remember your. normal society. officials in washington seem to be trying to present afghanistan as a success story while for those coming home it looks anything but that they do put lipstick on a pig or cancer to speak they take real you're in. for the mainstream media in the us with their everything military their questioning of the cause of the war usually comes down to this sort of makes you the most proud about what you've done here a mind set is testily perpetuated that the ends justify the means while those ends are often identified in abstract terms like freedom and security what have we got we've got quite a bit i mean honestly the afghan people even from when i was

a ploy and i reckon all three during the invasion you could see the iraqi people and the afghan people starting to do stuff on their own having more freedoms and stuff like that stuff like that also includes almost twenty thousand afghan civilian deaths and drug production which has gone through the roof since coalition troops have been in the country towns like this never make it to mainstream airwaves everyone that we blame for nine eleven is dead or in jail. there is no justification for this war. there's no reason our brothers and sisters should die in the sand there is no reason that their children should go to sleep every night terrified of the next drone strike or the next move kicking down their door neither do major u.s. news channels dwell on the subject of the afghans overwhelming desire to see american troops out of their country instead another success story on t.v. but there was another war the war on terror continues and go somewhere else would you still go without and without a doubt yes these are paintings.