high hopes in paris for a swift military campaign with american and british combat supplies being sent to help amid criticism of french. points the. u.s. prosecutors were driving the activists to suicide. and. underground tunnels leading the pentagon and. the u.s. warning itself the right to strike atomic.

international. on screen around the world this is. britain has sent one of its cargo warplanes to money to back the french led military campaign against islamist rebels there in london says that more help is to follow with washington also pledging its assistance the french military has been involved in combat action in the west african nation since friday in trouble which some see is blowback from the recent interventions in the region. well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications and logistics to that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing some very limits drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in northern mali and of course it's not just britain and the u.s.

now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging their support for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in the operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from francois loans promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with former african colonies in fact through their differences with nicolas sarkozy he's been just as quick to jump into military military intervention in mali as nicolas sarkozy was jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago so a lot of political experts saying that it could be

a way of trying to ratchet up his political polls and his approval ratings because apparently those have been plummeting and is that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and it's an area the size of france they've imposed a rare law there so a stance simply it's a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts are linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy of what happened in libya because . the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of. duffy's army in libya and after the very brisk military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to their native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and

a lot of gadhafi military arsenal has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and lots of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya or he's probably in london we need to investigate and prosecute later to doing auntie's cross-talk looks of one major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa being swept under the carpet never making it to the international criminal court. the i.c.t. why that only the serbs have been indicted and convicted and where are. our nato allies. either not been indicted or how we don't know are they really in there with us well the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what that indicates is simply that the prosecutor fail to

make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing happening where gaddafi was indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi is adversary there's been no investigation into the murder in captivity of gaddafi and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. which. is of. course talk coming your way a little later here on r.t. well for more on france's military intervention in mali i'm joined live by u.k. based journalist and cost and neil clark do you expect more british and american support for france near after the knowledge that the the militias in mali are better trained and armed than expected i do but i think that david cameron should

have talked to shall we talk one on this one because today he's come out and said he should be got mark he said. that the country does not want the. rebels and so having done all of that he can't sort of background a few days time and say well molly's actually going to sort of back out of it so i think you talk you talk into a corner on this one but it is important isn't it marty and what's happening there well i think the contradictions are sort of glaring u.k. foreign policy. no because we're told by david cameron that we must allow islamist to take power in mali getting to the same david cameron who supported islam is rebels in syria so you've got to make his mind up why is it so terrible it is a mistake market wise to just the world whereas in syria the chinese ok if that happens and they overthrew a secular government there so i think this sort of policy of cameron sort of highlights the double standards behind u.k. pop policy really well the action is in its fourth day now we're already witnessing

collateral damage to the rebels claim the france is falling into a trap worse than iraq or afghanistan could they be right there what it could be the case i think if we look back at all the major conflicts of the last hundred years still a country that's not always sort of reassure people back home it's only going to last a few days if we're back in the first world war going to be over by christmas we had the vietnam war was only going to last a few months even and that lasted for many years and of course the afghanistan invasion which the war they're still ongoing after twelve years or so so i think there is a real danger that this is a sort of warning to and they say that it'll be over in days or weeks and i think we could be talking more about months actually well some suggest that all land may well be pursuing this to score political points again cause it did the same over libya didn't get that didn't exactly help his ratings because it depended all the political. agenda behind this. i think so and the economy the trouble staking front

the biggest problem facing france is jobs the lack of jobs i don't see how so they're getting involved in the invasion of mali or fighting rebels that mark is going to help the situation and i think hollande does believe that his popularity ratings show incredibly low are going to be boosted by. so i think this is a very mistaken policy by hollande he is extremely unpopular he's only been in power less than a year and he thinks that the way out of the top popularity is to sort of wrap himself over the lag and start going back we passed that he's made a huge mistake he should be tackling the economic problems and focusing purely on

those i think but nevertheless there are those who saying that al qaeda is definitely trying to take over northern mali and indeed the south as well i spoke to a man of the siesta say he's saying that the french should be negotiating rather than trying to bomb but can you actually bomb away ideology in this way i don't think you can go and i think that if the french think there's a military solution to this they're mistaken because i think that these are strong in mali control. national council taking a very aggressive line in trying to topple the syrian government and it doesn't seem to mind that he's backing islamic militants in syria and yet he's making out that this is the biggest disaster facing the islamic militants come to power in

mali so he preached be grabby ground of the world would look at this and say their proxies absolutely glaring even though briefly french interests are at stake people are their lives are threatened they're french nationals just briefly they have a right. to the french national i think the whole of quality is all over the place you know if you saying islamic militants are the biggest threat that regional around the world then he should have a consistent policy should be backing islamic groups in syria and that's the problem ok thanks very much of the journalism broadcast and neil clark in money and. the family of american the web a wizard and information act as aaron swartz says he may have been driven to suicide by the ferocious prosecution process against him age twenty six the internet crusader face decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers which he believes should be available to everyone but what is more important now reports the federal prosecution was relentless. he was a computer prodigy an on line activist co-founder of the social news website read

it and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month. well never com because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no know behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released

a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system right with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach many of swartz's colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the aura says a program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress in internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robinhood but his supporters his friends his his family members believe that it was him being targeted by the federal government that caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own

life reporting from new york marina port arcade. and the off to my office which is the massachusetts institute of technology website has been attacked and defaced to this group anonymous to responsibility leaving a message in memory of him on the front page while many said it would investigate its role in the death german m.p. from the pirate party says that swartz faced what he's faced was too harsh. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fines for just are not into music from the internet. putting it on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. the where the pirates came from said they wanted to put the parts on the internet anyway and was just did a good job doing it the system of this case whenever it comes to whenever it comes to copyright infringement then the senators are the people in the house of

representatives in the united states the same side there is no differences there same side as hollywood does and sometimes it's just that they're completely innocent people have to pay a lot of fine or go into jail because they are making information public because they are just downloading for music belfast's is on edge during a lull in the flag related riots is the self in the majority of the common nationalists a lot of these protests are to expose the demands of all sides that's coming up very shortly the last. sparks could fly when germany's economy minister meets with the greek opposition leader who is standing firm it gets more budget cuts and if we speak to a political economist about what's likely to come out of the. well that's still to come but first the right to a preemptive nuclear strike against china is now part of u.s. law thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered

a thorough review of when and how and there could could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of japan based news website james corbett however suggests all teary motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current context bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching up for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapon this is so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred kilogram ilda that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new underground nuclear facilities are alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric over to the asia pacific as part of this age of pacific pivot i think to a certain extent this is just to justify the existence of the u.s.

arsenal and to make sure that things like the new starts the strategic arms reduction treaty basically get scuttled before it really gets off the ground and there's a lot in this new n.d.a. that really seeks to undermine the president's ability should he ever want to to actually reduce the nuclear stockpile so i think the congress is definitely trying to get their foot in the door and stop any type of arms reductions before it can actually be implemented. prioritizing military might over social stability coming up after a short break is remember which is multi national if false trails unprecedented in sunny's and cost people in the street say the government should think again about its money management. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you

knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. of the world including. science technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the news continues here on r.t. belfast is in a state of shaky calm after the silent majority rather get get routed against the violent riots of past weeks unrest began when the catholic dominated local council limited the flying of the u.k. flag on civic buildings sparking fears protests by pro british protestants and all the sort of first reports unclear goals on both sides could easily trigger more trouble. time for northern ireland six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the. city hall sparking. out on to the streets the weekend today we saw some of the worst thing that has taken place. we have more than twenty nine

police officers that were injured at the weekend in the damage that this is doing. much much further reaching. in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly. the riot spock's by the like this speech showing no signs of abating at the weekend lewis returning from the protest that will pass the nationalist area that both sides clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist prices many in the nationalist community.

angry young loyalists of pulling back old sectarian narrative a worrying sign to remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way. you have is in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is northern islands and around the world can be done to stop this happening right now what would these people respond . to the people on the street. when do you think this is going to stop. the tough to the still some

calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on in bewilderment some in what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority. barrus majority will silent majority. thing is quite embarrassing here but. you see in these protests. you see this. more. cheerful good things happening. the race is now on to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full. peace so.

it's going to be a battle of austerity when germany's finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who has been holding firm against the burden backed program of cuts and it's simple says aim to change of mind about forcing the greek government to make major sacrifices political analyst and sociologist. says that there's still a chance for european leaders to put pressure on the opposition. mr to press strong point is that austerity is not working there is no end in sight and what concerns the debt crisis and we are facing much more years of increased dead and bailout packages and debt restructuring have not been successful in the core of the problem and moreover austerity has brought the source of the devastation recession. extreme and employ them and all kinds of social problems this weak point of mr to press in my opinion is that the position of this budget is no to us

directly but yes to the euro zone as long as it has this is this was this an in favor of the euro the euro zone at all costs that is were european powers especially germany presser and. some greeks are choosing pretty extreme ways of showing they're fed up with the government and then opens fire on the headquarters of the greek ruling party with an a k forty seven no group has claimed responsibility but the shooting comes off the back of a wave of similar attacks by alec it's. dot com for you. also none of them with a virus invades new york the state governor has declared a health emergency over the spread of flu this year's epidemic is already five times the size of last year's. israel is coming for international criticism after its paramilitary forces shut down a palestinian protest camp in the west bank despite the country's supreme court

forbidding it and even you know who also promised to build even more settlements in the area one of the protesters told us that the prime minister was just scoring points ahead of the election. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with this officer and. that by itself is violence but even within the process of action many. many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even exist. or less but they suffered due to the things we had at least six or seven of thought or activists treated in the hospital and a lot of them are hostile to the doctors for severe problems that they suffered from the beating support for the. the going ahead with the plan.

to connect violent means that meant to do so and they don't want anything with a legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a rector's are coming up senator now has to take tough tough stand tough position on on this particular case also israel has launched what's expected become the largest ever multinational force exercise most in the entire year of policy or reports the costly project has left many israelis wondering if the military is where the money is needed it's all in the united states achieving military tools because in any they've done in the past thousands of troops and millions of dollars but with social grievances that still need to be addressed and a point minister looking for votes ahead of early january elections israelis are asking themselves yet again if netanyahu has his priorities straight nathaniel he's

a capitalist and under his term as we saw in the last few years of the cleavage between poor and rich weak or. the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu the chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire i mean what i want what is owed to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sued my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echo the

pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us netanyahu couldn't care less he will win again i know this but it will be the same it's a disgrace the prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address their concerns so i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget in proportion of the. security of society it's more important not less important than their security. officer but the voice on the street is drowned out by the rumble of weaponry and tell of obsession in showcasing its military prowess policy r.t. television. now some international news in brief this anti-government protest is in

bahrain a before the national police funeral of an activist who died after being poisoned by tear gas if it is a series of demonstrations urging the current government to step down the uprising in the gulf war he started in early two thousand and eleven when the sheer majority began its push for greater political freedoms and rights. are being erected in islamabad which is readying for a wave of anti corruption protest is expected to arrive today from the city of the home calling for electoral reforms accusing the current administration of doing little to improve the standard of living and its five years in power some experts are predicting that this movement led by a little known cleric who's just returned from canada could spark a broader arab spring the start uprising. let's bring you up to date for the moment here on the news team with more news for in thirty minutes from now in meantime a report on big city life or not so big people is here after the break stay with us for all.

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