maalik insurgency show a stark warning for france for its military campaign against them as fears grow western nations are getting bogged down in a conflict which resulted from previous military involvement in the region. history repeating itself six years after the end of the two us military involvement in the get no war american veterans question the country's current foreign policy leading to a similar interventions and more lives and money lost. off as an object getting ready for a legal fight with the e.u. central bank on good over having to constantly dig out topple states from that debt

holds. and this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the. mali islamist militants have issued a warning to france saying it has opened the gates of hell by intervening in the country despite being bombarded by french warplanes since friday to help the government islamist insurgents controlling the north have managed to grab more territory very soon on the u.s. are supporting the french operation raising fears of an african quarter mile and a new front in the war on terror that seems to stem from the west previous military involvement in the region also his point boy can i explain. well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications in the just texted

that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing surveillance 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 mess aport 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 alarms 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 even purse there were a lot of that so a stance of the 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 gadhafi as 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 and france has pledged that the military campaign in mali will be a short one but journalist and contributor to the british guardian newspaper neil klein believes there's a high chance western powers will be trapped in their african country. back to the first world war that is going to be over by christmas we have the vietnam war was only going to last a few months even that lasted for many years and of course the afghanistan where you which the war they're still ongoing after twelve years or so so i think there is a real danger that this is

a search of the cross over into what they say that will be over a few days or weeks and i think we could be talking more about months actually intervening in mali you've already heard the civilian casualties are taking place obviously this is going to speak with certain groups there and there is a great danger that terrorist campaigns will come back to france so i think this is a very mistaken policy by hollande he is extremely unpopular he's been a power left me here and i think that the contradictions are here again because al-qaeda groups are equal the islamic rebels in syria to get france well known he's taking a very aggressive line in trying to topple the syrian government and it doesn't seem to mind that he's back economic militants in syria and yet he's making out this is the biggest disaster face of the islamic militants come to power in march. and london based political activist john rees blames the volatile situations in nations like mali on the military efforts of nato countries. in the middle east the constant attentions of the imperial power generation after generation worsened the

problem not made it better i'm surprised that they don't bore themselves by repeating this line we heard it over afghanistan we heard it over iraq we heard it over libya and we should recall that right at the beginning of this process more than a decade ago the head of the security services in britain warned the then prime minister tony blair that the intervention in afghanistan and iraq would spread the threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved sadly absolutely correct there was no al qaeda in iraq before we invaded there it's now had not spread to pakistan in the way that it has now since the invasion of afghanistan and the intervention in libya has led directly to the spread of al-qaeda in mali and we should at least have learnt by now but this is not the way in which you reduce the threat of terrorism which is actually a way in which you both straight in which you increase attractiveness to young

people in the region it is something that identify with perhaps if they want to better relations with the muslim world they can start by bettering the relations with the muslim community in france itself that would be a far more significant step forward then bombing yet another muslim country has been for decades as the last was drew from vietnam ending its involvement in a war that cost both sides did both financially and physically the price paid to high for similar mistakes to be repeated but is also in a fortnight explains washington's foreign policy in recent years as making many doubt its lessons were promptly. sixty one year old ken doll tin is a husband father and retired firefighter four decades ago he was a member of the u.s. navy serving in vietnam every every year we were there every day was like nine eleven. for those people every day was nine eleven for to be the work killed an estimated three million vietnamese and more than fifty eight thousand americans the

u.s. stepped in on the side of south vietnam in its fight against the communist back north which was seeking to unify the country on january fifteenth one nine hundred seventy three president nixon announced the end of offensive operations against north vietnam a military crusade that would lead or become a foreign policy benchmark for washington to never repeat the primary lesson that the us foreign policy establishment should have learned from vietnam and i don't think they'd learned from vietnam is that they cannot in spite of the fact that they have great military supremacy go in and just destroy a government occupy a country and remold their country so that it becomes a proxy or a client of the united states forty years and six presidents later critics say washington has done a better job at repeating mistakes rather than learning from them we still keep getting these awful wars or interventions and other countries. i mean it's

well imperialism you're not going to win we didn't win in iraq. we didn't win in the. race. and the same thing is like we didn't win the one absolutely nothing and you know and they just don't get it we've tried to rule the world we've tried to do it in not only in a way that's been damaging devery nation the world but in the process the united states has become less and less gray it's become less and less economically viable and with each passing decade war has generated more and more profit for the u.s. military industry i topic r.t. discussed with filmmaker and vietnam war vet oliver stone we have not done well with innovations anywhere but we continue to be an empire we have eight hundred plus spaces some of the very. we've created a huge infrastructure a global infrastructure we're trying to be the world's policeman when it comes to

america's security republican senator chuck hagel has been nominated to replace leon panetta higgle would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives that they didn't have i didn't having the say about someone needs to represent that perspective is in our government as well the people in washington make the policy. but it's the little guys who come back in the body but since two thousand and one an estimated sixty six hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning

from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . you're watching on c.n.n. still ahead for you this hour amid mounting accusations he was home a close in the u.s. drops its piracy charges against prominent internet freedom activists are installed he took his own life on friday. and is the u.s. really that nervous about china's nuclear arsenal to over one is a potential strike or is it just trying to keep its own atomic stalled in talks we'll bring you an expert opinion on that interested in. those further tabulations in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been virtually despised by security forces. gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by

a previous demonstration russia's have been going on for almost two years in the gulf more like a human rights activists claim dozens have been killed as the regime keeps cracking down on the opposition and assman darwish is one of them and she describes how she was personally targeted with tear gas. a hernia has been using and tear gas canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant in the streets in a personal experience that happened to me and division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and just now before your hours of this interview our house was like targeted by pure gas canisters and the smell stormed into the house. that that effect of it here gets excessive use of tear gas that is being thrown into the houses expect people i can use cans of months ago we have been

stressing god they have amount to hear gas being used in the central areas and houses and against the peaceful process and so we are very disappointed at the international community reaction specie the us and the king position and toured the behavior of illusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. you can log on to all to dot com to get more eyewitness accounts from the streets of bahrain as what's been dubbed a forgotten revolution continues to unravel that and also the online motion to use military aid for rebels and got made because the conflict with militants now threatening to quote a cease fire deal that's all see it off color go to expert opinion on how and why the us is expanding its role in the world whole region. the world famous violinist about s.

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this is darcy welcome back the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against delays internet freedom access our swartz the twenty six year old committed suicide on friday the phrase decades behind bars over accusations he illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after shorter's family accused prosecutors of being complicit or his death and turns out thousands of internet users expressed support for the claim under rick for grinch and i.t. anti printer and founder of the swedish pirate party says almost all information should be free to whoever wants it you could easily say that for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it violates

privacy by the national security but in terms of access to knowledge in public so the public documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law so what the federal prosecution did wasn't throw the book at him in the way this had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university mit in the united states and set up a laptop to download these public document public documents so they were throwing the book at him to make an example of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do sharing and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone and journalists and also kevan gosper believes the u.s. wrongly focuses on accidents like shorts when there are real criminals or clueless . short says some buddy who had this inclination that

information is power and that you shouldn't be able to treat it just as a commodity or that copyright hawks shouldn't just be able to keep this information guarded if if it's available to the world then everyone could be a lot smarter in the united states we've seen a focus on internet activists as of late and not just necessarily unique to the united states but what is remarkable is that there are criminals in the united states that could be prosecuted like bankers are people who have engaged in real crimes like torture but it seems like the justice department in the united states has more interested it has more interest in going after people or people like schwartz there's a you need do is move to concentrate more pollen brussels ones may come from the unions powerhouse germany thousands have signed a petition against the so-called european stability mechanism which would allow the

block to directly aid to trouble states and to own her pools germans are getting increasingly disappointed with their governments love the fabric. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government has taken the sovereign rights of the german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make

a policy but is the european central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone and this is one of the biggest heiress and in the whole discussion saying that germany was the one who had the biggest bank. and there was no no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal when the single currency was created finance isn't the only place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the

memory of the country's past we have problems with. those germans to sometimes be sovereign enough sometimes we shy back from our responsibility. as a sovereign states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of the cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is completely an acronym stick there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirteen look set to be an important year what they see is the fight

to return german rule to the german people are all over r.t. berlin stay tuned for the latest edition of the kinds of reporters marx and stacy expose does causing financial roller coasters on buzz sides of that line take the program is coming up at seven thirty and. the possibility of a nuclear attack against china is not part of the u.s. law according to a pentagon also signed by the american president the new orders as our report on the underground tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals and on washington's capability to strike at them but some experts suspect it's not the fear of china's growing military might behind. 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 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 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 with the four hundred kill entire meal 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 for underground nuclear facilities or 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 and 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 types of arms reductions before it can actually be implemented. and to some other international news in brief this hour clashes between police and government protesters have erupted near the parliament building in the pakistani capital earlier the lead old in march on as a cleric kountry called for the current government to step down before the morning tens of thousands of demonstrators have flocked to the capital demanding sweeping government reforms and an immediate quieted down on corruption. a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen injuring more than a hundred and it was carrying young all the recruits from the south of the country to that place of sabbaths railways have a pole say she recalled last november more than fifty people were killed most of them children when a train crashed into a school bus. at least have made several arrests and fired rubber bullets in response to demonstrations by farm workers in the west of south africa protesters

are demanding a doubling of their wages which are currently around nine u.s. dollars a day unrest has been reported in several areas of the western cape province where similar demonstrations last year claimed two lives in exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds us not parliamentary elections with the situation in the tub humans made least a heavily dependent on the outcome the world will be watching the jerry twenty second vote closely so don't miss elsie special coverage next tuesday. how will tension with to run develop will settlement expansion isolate child there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second israel to saw its own heart. and when you see enter all sides have made it sound also a short break it sounds special report on the little people making it big so it's

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