mollies surgeons are you sure a stark warning to france over its military campaign against them as fears grow western nations are now dealing with the fallout from that other campaigns in the region. protesters clashed with police in the pakistani capital what terms of signs led by a muslim cleric and mass to demand regime change and promised a revolution if the government doesn't step down. enough is enough germans are getting ready for a legal fight with the e.u. central bank angered over plans which could see no control over billions money flowing into troubled states.

ossie live from moscow hello and welcome to the program mali islamist militants have issued a warning to france saying it's open the gates of hell by aid to venting in the country despite being bombarded by french warplanes since friday to hold the government isn't this insurgence controlling the north managed to grab more territory ration and the us are supporting the french operation raising fears of an african court my in a new front of the war on terror that seems to stem from the west's previous military involvement in the region his point of boycott explains. britain the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications and logistics however we've also heard the u.s. is providing surveillance drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in

northern mali so it is growing quite quickly and officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical point however. a number of casualties children dead. and this is what is a purchase from francois alarms 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 to jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago as well 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 imposed a rare law there 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 torah people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of moammar 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 the what happened in libya. and eric margolis an award winning clone is has extensively covered conflicts in africa believes president or london sensitive to france's role as a former colonial power in mali or longer announced 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. because governments didn't follow the french policy is that those days are gone well you see they're not because french forces are in action and it forces are in action and it's great engine from france is a growing really severe economic crisis the 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 chad 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 and it's spreading the fire where it rivaled putting it out. it's been forty years since the u.s. ended its military involvement in the vietnam war but history seems to be repeating itself in a few minutes we'll hear from american friends who question the truth current foreign policy and claim it's leading to similar interventions and more lives and money being lost. thousands of pakistanis are demonstrating in the capital islamabad despite earlier clashes with police who used warning shots and tear gas to disperse the crowds protestors led by muslim cleric want and then to corruption and vowed to remain near the parliament building until the government steps down and let's now get more insight into this we're joined live from islamabad by holly the senior retired

officer of the pakistani air force and a journalist mr mr. wright. the protesters say that march has that model and the revolution has begun do you see this as the beginning of something that big. yes i think the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were down drugged and they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the terror situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs so therefore there are people who are sitting on the french friends watching this man and some are even saying that he has been launched by the us all by the vest whatever the case people have flocked in millions and i spend the night here also part of the morning here and i've seen that these people who have come here now they may not be at the million which he promised but they are close to that but the important thing

is that the baby's own men women and children who are all extremely motivated to bring the government down and see a change when now that the notch is led by the hated country and muslim cleric had lived in canada for he cares and returned to pakistan just recently do you think he's an independent figure who are there any grounds today speculation that he's a stage of the military. well there have been actually two or three different carries about the background of this man some said that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longest stay in the west he may have been motivated as well as funded by the vest there is another theory which you just put it pointed out that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched him this particular person has done his homework because he has built more than six hundred schools in the country which are unlike the traditional mother assad where they have vested

cation along with religious education so what he is churning out are people who have a moderate thinking and then he has held their promise yes he has pointed out that the military and the judiciary have made efforts to curb terrorism in the country but world government has put an end to it so that would give the tendency to think that maybe the military is behind it but so far the military is standing neutral but the people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country if the arab spring uprisings have indeed reached pakistan how do you think this all is going to pan out like egypt oh tunisia oma likely they will see red. well frankly speaking yes people are likening it to the hairy square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader round whom people could rally but over here they have in the

shape of a llama the head of the car that he who is perceived by the vest as well as by the moderates in this country as a person who is not a firebrand cleric but who has got thinking of moderation and not extremism so that way i personally think that he has a big chance of success because more and more people are joining in and it gets a law and order situation is brought about the military may be forced to make sure that the government steps down and gives the chance to the moderate pakistan is a nuclear power is that a danger of itself not falling into the wrong hands and there's a revolutionary time well that. that is a very potent question but just to put your mind at ease and the mind of the people who are watching us internationally because nuclear power is something which is extremely sensitive but the fact is that the pakistani military is the actual

custodian of the nuclear arsenal of pakistan and it would not let it fall into the hands of extremists all people who can misuse it. right downtown and holly a senior retired officer of the pakistani air force and a journalist line from islamabad thank you very much indeed. this from a tabula and so far the turbulence in the in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been brutally despised by security offices and us after crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by tear gas at a previous demonstration protests 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 cape's cracking down on the opposition dollis one of the opposition activists describes how she was personally targeted with tear gas. has been using and tear gas

canisters or as i like to call it talks again just against citizens even in their houses not even protestant in the streets in a personal experience that happened to me in division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and just now before you hours of this interview our house was like targeted by gas canisters and this many stormed into the house. that exact effect of excessive keurig as that is being thrown into the heart. and the key position and toured the behavior of illusion. being being an

ally and applying jagger's when it comes to dealing with this situation in. you know go into auntie dot com to get more eyewitness accounts from the streets of bahrain as well it's been dubbed a forgotten revolution continues to unravel that. is still ahead for you this on. i made monica's actions he was hounded to death a court in the u.s. troops it's piracy charges against prominent internet freedom schwartz who took his own life on friday. and is the last radio got nervous about china's new plan also to also lies a potential strike always there's just it's trying to keep its own atomic stopped in time we'll bring you an expert opinion on that in just a moment. we'll

look. for its technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've gone through a few jerks covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so or like 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 trying hard welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

this is a welcome bach it's been four decades since the u.s. was drew from vietnam ending its involvement in a rule that calls to both sides daily both the national and physically the price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated but as part of my explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt its 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. 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 thousand nine hundred seventy three threaten nixon announce 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 had 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. getting into the. war for wars or interventions another country's. i mean it's wrong period was and

you're not going to win when women in iraq. we didn't win in the afghanistan and we're grateful even when even you're with are going to live and the same thing is like a vietnam we didn't win nothing who won 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 the novel way in a way that's been damaging to every nation in 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 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 since some of the very secret we believe 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 hey goal 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 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 and 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 arena r.t. . more stories for you online including. with washington's move the trade to rebels in congo looking likely to extend the conflict you can read a personal opinion saying america's only focusing on the mineral rich african continent to come to china's growing economic. and russian internet security experts revealed details of a new global scale of a virus capable of snatching top secret data from diplomatic and even government networks around the globe we have the full story all fully.

the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom acts his irish was there twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he faces decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after shorter's family accused prosecutors of being complicit in his death and turns up thousands of internet he's expressed support for the claim and for winter and i t. and opera now and found of this wish pirate party has almost all information should be free to whoever wants it you could easily say the for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it is privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge to public so public

documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes the federal prosecution did wasn't through the book 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 dock 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 and said want to their 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 age troubles state as r.t. spoke to all of the reports now germans are getting increasingly disappointed with

their government's love affair with. 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 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 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 unlike christic 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 report as marx and stacy exposed those causing financial roller coasters on both sides of the atlantic their program is coming up at twelve says g. and. the possibility of a nuclear attack against china is now part of the u.s.

you know according to a pentagon authorization act signed by the american president the law orders a thout 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 that's behind such registration . 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 out 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 weapons so for example we have the b. sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that are live with the four hundred killed ten year old 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 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 yea 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 start 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 a parliamentary election with a situation they tell you and me at least have a dependent on the outcome the whole world will they won't change the january twenty second vote closely so don't miss elsie special coverage next tuesday. i will treat you with a round developed will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with. what's next in relations with america will that you know who survive this novel

that should not judge every twenty second. israel decides. and let's not have some other international news in brief a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring more than two hundred it was carrying young on the 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 when i train crashed into a school bus. bullies have made several arrests and fired rubber bullets in response to demonstrations by farm workers in the west of south africa demanding a doubling of their wages which are currently around nine u.s. dollars a day and rice has been reported in several areas of the west cape town province where similar demonstrations last check claimed to lives. and treasure said haiti with a guide says the u.s.

debt ceiling could be reached as early as mid february which could then lead to a sovereign default 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 and the implementation of cuts to the fiscal cliff. and later today are they martin zooms in on the u.s. treasuries new boss and how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead and he's a pretty. 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 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 real.

haha now according to corporate media the biggest signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up is it. but of course is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew i want to quote for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm cold. more news around so two minutes with my colleagues all research but some social break it spotlights with all the you know.

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