mali insurgents issued a stark warning to france over its military campaign against them as fears grow western nations are now dealing with the fallout from their other campaigns in the region. history repeating itself a source years after the end of the u.s. military involvement in the vietnam war american veterans question that country's current foreign policy leading to similar interventions and more lives and money problems. around enough is enough germans are getting ready for a legal fight with the e.u. central bank and other plans which could see no control other buildings money flowing into troubled states.

and around the world this is our see with me your leadership of our thanks for joining us molly 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 war planes since friday to help the government it's a mess insurgents controlling the north have managed to grab more territory return and the u.s. are supporting the french operation raising fears of an african quagmire in a new front in the war on terror that seems to stem from the west's previous military involvement in the region. explains. well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications in the just text of 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 the 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. these 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 let's now talk to eric margolis an award winning columnist who's extensively covered conflicts in africa erykah margolis ever welcome to the program so do you share this idea that if there hadn't been intervention in libya the turmoil in mali could have been avoided but i wouldn't say that because we can't say absolutely did toru a good uprising the demand for a twerk state has been going on for decades the. are the nomadic people the like the kurds of africa there are very stateless people spread across

a number of nations who are causing great job unrest in the area but certainly the . u.s. led through the could not the regime in libya played a very important role in mobilizing these two are again sending shells very heavily armed. france are longs for us doctors present was to accelerate there was draw a french troops from afghanistan and now france is leading a military operation an african nation so can these be considered a deviation from his foreign policy agenda though his critics are certainly saying along the nouns just recently that there would be no intervention in africa the old days of when the french used to go in and overthrow governments overnight in african governments that didn't fall of french policy he said those days are gone well you see there not because french forces are in action and its critics six

saying well you know he's trying to distract attention from france is a growing really severe economic crisis. where understand beyond operation mali is a risky one for francaise militants have promised a long war so what's in it for paris that. not much i don't understand why the french are doing this i think having covered many wars myself that it's a serious mistake if there was any problem to be solved in mali it should have been done by a group of west african nations who proved themselves in cable who were doing anything. french intervention raises memories of colonialism which are not very old remember france really ruled this entire region even after giving it independence the french still ran it from behind the scenes it was called france africa. and west africa and still resembles the problem what's happening in mali now is going

to spread to unstable where there's no uprising going our central african republic i recall even to nigeria as we very fearful we are this is a dangerous operation what it's doing it's it's like dropping an explosive in the middle of a fire it's spreading the fire were putting it out of riots right especially as france has already acknowledged that the militants turned out to be better equipped and armed than they had initially expected just how long do you think french troops will be stuck in mali the president. has said that it's going to be. a couple of weeks but a french a think i think was going to rush through because there's nothing as permanent as the temporary. you know if afghanistan is any example the french could been back there for a long time britain and the u.s.

have ruled the placing boots on the ground in mali is well previously we heard similar assurances from france to you but if france gets bogged down in the conflict how likely are we to see a fully fledged intervention by nato powers. it is possible there are a. it's an american special forces are already operating in northern mali and some other parts in the region so nato could get drawn in and you know nato doesn't want to do this project really some of the right wing governments in nato like denmark want are very eager for this actually canada to their major is central to the mali but old rule this is the last thing that cash strapped economy economically stressed nato needs is a needless war in africa and with no apparent outcome. right journalists to eric margolis eric thank you very much indeed for your time.

it's been four decades since the u.s. was drew troops from the it's now ending its involvement in a war that cost a bus size daily both financially and physically the price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated but as artie's marina park my explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt if lessons were properly learned sixty one year old ken doll to him is a husband father and retired firefighter four decades ago he was a member of the u.s. navy serving in vietnam every year we were there every day was like a nine eleven. for those people every day was nine eleven 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 did learn 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 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 afghanistan race we even there with our allies and the same thing is like a vietnam we didn't win nothing when 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 the 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 interventions anywhere but we continue to be an empire you know 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 hazel would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one thousand 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 a say about someone needs to represent that perspective 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. . ahead for you this hour. and we'd mounting

accusations he was hounded to death a quarter in the view us drops its privacy charges against prominent internet freedom activist our shorts who took his own life on friday. the you are still really nervous about china's nuclear arsenal to surprise a potential strike or is it just trying to keep its own atomic stop in time or bring an expert opinion on that in just a human. goes for the to have humans in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been brutally despised by security forces . gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by gas at a previous demonstration bros has have been going on for almost two years now in the gulf war like a human rights acts of its claimed dozens have been killed as the regime takes cracking down on the opposition and assman doll issue as one of those activists

describes how she was personally targeted with tear gas. the hearing has been using tear gas canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant and the streets in a person an experience that happened to me and division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and just now before few hours of this interview our house was like targeted by pier gas canisters and this men stormed into the house. that exact effect of a tear gas excessive use of tear gas that is being thrown into the houses effect people i can use cans of months ago we have been stressing gone they have amount to here gas being used in visit areas and houses and against a peaceful process and do we are very disappointed at the international community

reaction especially the u.s. and key position and toured the bahrain your delusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in . and you can logon 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 a line. in washington's military aid for rebels in congo made the conflict with militants now threatening to quit a cease fire deal that's on to dot com would go x. has opinion on how and why the u.s. is expanding its war win the war torn region. the world's biggest secrets are in the science of a sophisticated new virus after a russian internet security x. does reveal details of a new cyber espionage not what paypal of snatching sensitive data from diplomatic and even governments networks from around the globe. and as

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today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations are on the day. you're watching yachties good to have you with us the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom activist our schwartz the twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he faced decades behind bars over. live it downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after a short his family accuse prosecutors of being complicit in his death and terms that sounds of internet he's expressed support for the claim under control clinch

and on t.v. on top printer and found all this swedish pirate party has 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 was and threw 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 docket 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 as e.u.

leaders move to concentrate more power in brussels i said banta their plans may come from the union's powerhouse germany thousands have signed a petition against the so-called european stability mechanism which would allow the block to directly trouble states and as one of the reports germans are getting increasingly disappointed with their government's love affair with groovy. 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 e.u.'s second tie is to 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 arabs in the whole discussion saying that germany was the one who had the biggest benefits. and there was 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 their

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. this is our room streets 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 and not going to 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 and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people these are all of a r.t. berlin. and stay tuned to the latest edition of the kaiser reporter's markson stays exposed those causing financial roller coasters on both sides of the atlantic the program is coming later this hour. the possibility of a nuclear attack against china is now part of the u.s. law according to a pentagon also signed by the american president the law orders and for a report on the underground tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals and on washington's capability to strike a balance that some experts suspect it's not the fear of china's growing military might that's behind such legislation. 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 out 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 weapons so for example the we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within 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 funders around 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 in 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 that really speaks 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 and exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds us now our parliamentary election what the situation in the tab events may be these ten really dependent on the outcome the whole world will they watching the january twenty second vote closely so don't miss elsie special coverage next tuesday how will tension with to run develop will settlement expansion isolate chad there be peace with gaza. what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what our. to some other international news and brief clashes between police and anti-government protesters have erupted near the parliament building in the pakistani capital earlier the leader of the march on islam a bad cleric country had called for the current government to step down before the

morning and that deadline has since passed tens of thousands of demonstrators have flocked to the capital demanding sweeping government reforms and in the media to quiet down on corruption. a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring more than one hundred it was carrying young army recruits from the south of the country to their place of service egypt's railways have a poor safety record last november more than fifty people were killed most of them children one a train crashed into a school bus. treasury secretary timothy geithner says the u.s. debt ceiling could be reached as early as mid february which would then lead to sovereign default raising the boreen limit could also been issued as the republican party continues to strictly oppose any additional spending just last december congress struggled to find a compromise to avoid an automatic tax increase and the implementation of cancer dubs the fiscal cliff. and later today also has abby martin zooms in

on the u.s. treasuries new balls and how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead and here's a preview. obama's chief of staff lewis moving on up. and of course the media has been all over the most controversial aspect of his record coming to a dollar bill near you this parody of a signature the treasury secretary's signature you see appears on all federal reserve notes dollar bills issued during his tenure here is jack lew's signature it really is and here is what jack lew's signature would look like on a dollar bill ha ha ha ha now according to corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is a new the signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up is that his handwriting sucks but of course this is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew. what we're about to do because you've

never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. next i'm mark sky's a star used to have a child that i'm also on the world's finances and the kaiser report.

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economies banks to scale it down to me banks there is ringing markets kill autonomy's banks there's trading fraudulent so-called derivatives kill wealth and savings baxter's shut down the entire fabric of our financial says. so there much we individual participants must operate. max we're going to go over some of these banks toure's and their markets and puppet politicians they own destroying markets because we've got a few of them in the headlines over the last few weeks and we've not had time to cover them but we're going to cover them right now j.p. morgan gets a big holiday gift from the f.c.c. so we did mention this a few times over the course of the christmas once this new copper market was given approval for j.p. morgan but this article points out in one thousand nine hundred six the world learned a japanese firm had cornered the copper my.