mali insurgents issue a stark warning to france over its military campaign against them as fears grow western nations are now dealing with the fallout from the other campaigns in the region. history repeating itself sushi years after the end of the u.s. military involvement in vietnam war american veterans question the country's time foreign policy leading to civil interventions and more lives and money long. enough is enough germans are getting ready for illegal flights with the e.u. central bank and get other plans which could see no control over berlin as money flowing into troubled states.

international news life from moscow this is aussie with me thanks for joining us molly islamist militants have issued a warning to france saying it's open the gate so how by into the ending in the country despite being bombarded by french warplanes since friday to help the government is the most insurgence controlling the north have managed to grab more territory. supporting the french operation raising fears of an african cooled ma in a new front in the war on terror that seems to stem from the west's previous military involvement in the region. explained. 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 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 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 as strikes are targeting. just 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 to 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 it was that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of the 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 encouraged the rear of the war there so a stance simply 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. his 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 a lot of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya and google is an award winning economist who's extensively covered conflicts in africa believes president alone does sensitive to france's rule as a former colonial power in mali. along the announce just recently that there would be no intervention in africa and that the old days of when the french used to go in and overthrow governments or overnight in africa governments that didn't follow french policy isn't those days are gone well obviously they're not because french forces are now action and its critics say well you know he's trying to distract

attention from france's growingly severe economic crisis 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 french intervention raises the 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 the west africans still resent this the problem is that what's happening in mali now is going to spread to unstable where there's no uprising going how central african republic i recall even to nigeria so one has to be very careful here 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 where it rather than putting it out has been for

decades as the u.s. was jury from vietnam ending its involvement in a war that cost both sides dealing both financially and physically the price paid it was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated but is also easier in a partner explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt if lessons are 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 every year we were there every day was like a 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 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 we even. and the same thing is like 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 free 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 bases some of them 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. 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 the say about someone needs to represent that perspective in 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.

. still ahead for you this sound made mousing accusing viewers hundreds of that's of course when they view us drops its piracy charges against a prominent internet freedom activist. it took his own life on friday. is that you are still reading this about china's nuclear also to also as a potential strike or is it just trying to keep his own atomic stalking tuck's we'll bring you an expert opinion on that interested him and. this further turbulence in bahrain where another peaceful violet has been virtually despised by security forces after crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by chagas at a previous demonstration has been going on for almost two years now in the gulf war like a human rights acts of his claim dozens have been killed as the regime keeps quieting down on the opposition and i asked him a doll wish one of the opposition activists describes how she was personally

targeted with tear gas. behind it 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 few hours of this interview our house was like targeted by pure 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 of care gas being used in these areas and houses and against the peaceful process and do we are very disappointed at the international community reaction specie the

u s and the king position and toured the barrier volution. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. and you can go into all to dot com to get more eyewitness accounts from the streets of bahrain has been dubbed as the ghost and revolution continues to unravel that but also online for you with washington's middle east the rebels are looking likely to extend the conflict so you can read the past so opinion saying america's only focusing on the mineral rich african continent to come to china's growing economic. and russian internet security to expose for a deal details of a new global sunbow virus capable of snatching top secret data from diplomatic and even government that walks around the block. more news after the short break don't

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this is our very welcome back to you as justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom access our shores a twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he phrased the decades behind bars of accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came officials his family accused prosecutors of being complicit in his death and turns out thousands of internet users expressed support for the claim and eric for cringe and ninety entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party says almost all of the formation 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 public

documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law so what the federal prosecution did was instead 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 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 author kevin gusto liberally was the last wrongly focused as an act of it's like shorts when there are real criminals a clue. 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 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 i shouldn't necessarily unique to 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 as a you need is moved to concentrate more power in brussels and have bought into that plans 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 trombones states and as also his piece in one of the reports germans are getting increasingly disappointed with the government's love affair

with. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who will be in charge of their country. you're wrong with the government is taking 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 it is the european central 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 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 and the single currency was created to 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 but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as a sovereign states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the 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. 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 about protesting there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel their sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central bank twenty thirteen looks set to be an important year what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people are all over i t berlin and stay tuned for the latest edition of the kaiser reporter's markson stays exposed those closing financial roller coasters on both sides of the atlantic the program is coming up at twelve thirty g.m.t. . the possibility of a nuclear attack against china is now part of the u.s.

law quoting to a pentagon also eyes a shunt signed by the american president the lord is a ferret report on the underground tunnels believed to hold they drained atomic arsenals and on washington's capability to strike at them but some experts suspect it's not the 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 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 weapons so for example we have the b. sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred kilogram me old but 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 funder ground 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 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 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 exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds a snap parliamentary election where this is haitian and the turbulence made least heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the january twenty second vote closely so don't miss also a special coverage next tuesday. i will treat you with to run develop we'll settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with

america will that yahoo survive it's not a lecture not january twenty second. israel decides. not to some international news and grieve this hour clashes between police and antigovernment protesters have erupted near the parliament building in the pakistani capital earlier the leader of the march on islam about cleric country had called for the current government to step down before the morning that deadline since passed tens of thousands of demonstrators have flocked to the capital demanding sweeping government reforms and in the media to crack down on corruption . a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen them injuring more than one hundred it was carrying young army recruits from the south of the country to that place of service egypt's railways have a poor safety record last november more than fifty people were killed most of them children on the train crashed into a school bus. treasury secretary timothy geithner says the

year was debt ceiling could be reached as early as mid february which could then lead to a sovereign default so rising the raising the boring limit could also be an issue 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 on the implementation of cards the fiscal cliff. and later today oh she's i've been lost his i'm saying on the u.s. treasuries new goals and how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead and here's a preview. obama's chief of staff jack lew is moving on up. and of course the media has been all over the most controversial aspect of his record company 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 a dollar bill ha ha ha ha you have a court of the corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is you the signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up is that his handwriting sucks but of course is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew. what for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm told. no news for you in iran minutes and also show a break it sounds fresh or cool down there this look people making it sort of big since her life.

yet another tragic shooting right on the streets of the capital is again cause to open the gun debate across the nation now all the talking heads are saying that you got to take away the guns to be safe well the problem is that the shooting happened right on the streets of the capital of a country where the guns have already been taken away paris france three kurdish women one of whom was a kurdish separatist party co-founder were shot dead at the scene of the crime was right outside of a cursed institute which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartels the mafia you can make all the gun laws that you want but the bad guys will still have plenty of guns because they live outside the law al qaeda and mexican drug cartels don't go to the stores and patiently wait for their background checks to be done before they buy their guns

taking away all the guns through legal means won't matter there will still be murder and there will still be armed thugs and terrorists but that's just my opinion. the streets.

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