the only. issue 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. protesters clashed with police in the pakistani capital. led by a muslim cleric a mass to demand regime change at the same time as the supreme court reporter orders the arrest of the country's prime minister. is germans are getting ready for a legal fight. over plans which could see no control of a money continuing to flow into troubled states.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at moscow. mali islamist militants have issued a warning to france saying it's open the gates of hell by intervening in the country despite being bombarded by french warplanes since friday to help the government is the most insurgents controlling the north have now managed to grab more territory and britain and the u.s. are supporting the french operation raising fears and african a quagmire could be on the new front in the war against terror and that seems to stem from the west's previous military involvement in the region. britain the us 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 points however . a number of civilian casualties with children is dead. and this is what is apart from front to our alarms promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that front's 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 encouraged the rear 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. 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 a lot of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya. it is a part of what you're reporting there from london to eric margolis an award winning columnist whose extensively covered conflicts in africa he believes that president

hollande is sensitive to francaise 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 overnight in africa governments that didn't fall the french policy is in those days are gone well obviously they're not because french forces are in action and his critics say well you know he's trying to distract attention from france's a growing really severe economic crisis 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 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 on a central african republic i recall. even to nigeria so one has to be very careful here this is a dangerous operation and 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 rivaled putting it out. it's good to have you with us on our t.v. it has been forty years now since the u.s. ended its military involvement in vietnam but history seems to be possibly repeating in just a few minutes we hear from american veterans who question that country's current foreign policy claim is leading to similar interventions with yet more lives and more money being lost. for now thousands of pakistanis are demonstrating in the capital islamabad despite earlier clashes with police who did use warning shots and tear gas to disperse the crowds of protesters led by a muslim cleric are demanding that the government steps down and adding to the

political crisis the supreme court has reportedly ordered the arrest of prime minister of alleged corruption. harley who's a former officer of the pakistani air force and a journalist says that a change of power could be right around the corner. people. and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama. but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longer stay in the west he may have been motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of

a people. the feeling that they were down drugged in there and neglected and driven against all because of the bad governance because of the situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs 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 or not just pakistan but in bahrain there's also been for the turbulence there where another peaceful rally has been brutally dispersed by security forces itself the crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by tear gas at a previous demonstration the protests have been going on for now almost two years in the gulf monarchies and human rights activists that claim dozens have been killed as the regime keeps cracking down on them darwish one of the opposition 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 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 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 the u.k. position and toured the behavior of illusion. being being an ally and applying

double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. to get more eyewitness accounts from the streets of. revolution continues. on the program a bit. nervous about china. on the program we bring you. what it has for decades now since the u.s. withdrew from vietnam ending its involvement in a war that cost both sides dealy both financially and physically and the price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated but is artie's marine important or

explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt if any of the lessons back then. sixty one year old ken dolls and 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 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 they'd learn from. 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 with a win win in iraq within one in afghanistan were racially. well and the same thing is like of 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 and we're 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 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 but they didn't have i didn't having the 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. and we will be back with much more news after a short break. well

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operations. thanks for joining us so the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom activist aaron swartz the twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he was facing decades behind bars of accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use and that of almost a. family accused prosecutors of being complicit in his death and tens of thousands of internet users have expressed support for him. and entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party says almost all information should be free for whoever happens to to want. you could easily say that for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because an invalid's privacy by

those national security but in terms of access to knowledge access to public so the public documents and records out and swartz certainly committed no crime and that even goes with the law or so warped 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 download these public docket public documents so they were throwing the book at him to make an example out of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do sharing and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone i know a journalist and author kevan gosper stoller believes the u.s. wrongly focuses on activists like schwartz when the end of the day there are real criminals on the loose shorts is 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 hocks 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 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 the united states has more interested it has more interest in going after people are people like schwarz. more stories for you online. for example.

internet security experts reveal details of a. secret. as e.u. leaders move to concentrate more power in brussels. of course. thousands of signed a petition. which would allow the. states.

disappointed. 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 it is the european sample 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 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 in akron istic 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 thirty look set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t. berlin if you can't do so tune in for the latest edition of the kaiser report is max and stacey expose those causing financial rollercoasters on both sides of the atlantic or the program coming up at twelve thirty g.m.t.

. for now the possibility of a nuclear attack against china is now part of a u.s. law that's according to a pentagon authorization act signed by the american president and the law orders a thorough report on the underground tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals and on washington's ability to strike them but 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 content bridgeport in the context of there are 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 weapons so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred killing time yield 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 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 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 a snap parliamentary election the situation in the middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world that will be watching the january twenty second vote closely a special coverage starts on tuesday. how will you with develop. isolate

can there be peace with. the relations with america will netanyahu survive his action on january twenty second. israel decides. or at a world update time here on r t starting with a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring over one hundred it was carrying a young army recruits from the south to their place of service agents were always have a poor safety record last november more than fifty were killed when a train smashed into a school bus. and police have made several arrests and fired rubber bullets in response to demonstrations by farm workers in south africa the protesters are demanding a doubling of their wages which currently sits at about nine dollars a day. has been reported in several areas of the western cape province where similar demonstrations claimed the lives last year. treasury secretary timothy

geithner says that the us debt ceiling could arrive in mid february which would then lead to a sovereign default and raising the bar and limit could also be an issue with the republican party continues to strictly oppose any additional spending but just last december congress struggled to find a compromise to avoid an automatic tax hike and the implementation of cuts called the fiscal cliff. are just a couple of minutes on the abby martin zooming in on the u.s. treasuries new boss and how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead. 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 really is and here is what jack lew's signature would look like on

a dollar bill ha ha ha ha yes according to corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is a u b 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 like what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. all right i was moderate our emotions program excuse me coming up in just a sec. do

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if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i sent try it because you know how badly with bad luck i don't get any i mean. i know that i'm supposedly really messed up. in the theory so i personally apologize and say. worse if you're going to pay. my doubts to have a day at the radio guy and pull out a bale of minutes from a kick off if i want to watch closely or about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm cold. i mean martin this is breaking the set so in light of the recent epidemic of rape going on in india and the absolute disregard for women from the police force there

the people of india decided to take a stand recently over six hundred guitarist in darjeeling gathered together to play john lennon's imagine a memorial tribute to the twenty three year old gang rape victim the concept behind this was to imagine in india where women didn't have to live in fear or be subject to ridicule for something that they're the victim of this is just another gesture to go along with a countrywide protest calling for better safety and legal protections for women look we all know that playing guitar won't prevent rape but the point of this is that this is the kind of act that brings awareness that starts the conversation and that starts to change so let's keep moving forward let's break the set. so last week obama made some big announcements about changes to his cabinet.