was. a mysterious canadian cleric leads. the government. prime minister apparently the first of the protesters. from. a mission in mali increasing u.s. pressure calling for foreign aid but critics say it's the nato allies causing the global spread of terrorism. for their money. trolling in order to.

well there's plenty of. life in moscow thank you for joining us this hour well they promised a square and it's not looking too far from it tear gas has been used and warning shots are being heard again just outside pakistan's parliament. demanding immediate and sweeping changes leading them as a charismatic and enigmatic cleric who said to be a favorite of the military among his and his followers demands are calls for broader government reform and a harsh crackdown and corruption in apparent effort to mollify the demonstrators pakistan has ordered the arrest of the prime minister who's currently caught up in a bribery scandal and a former officer of the pakistani air force. says

a change of power may not actually be that far off. people are likening it to terry square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around whom people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the head of karzai 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 one motivated as well as funded by the vest there is another theory 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 the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who has the feeling that they were downtrodden 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 people are

joining in flux and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country quite a bit some deeper analysis on this now i'm joined by far the accused analyst and editor at the center for research and security studies in islamabad a pleasure to see today thank you spend the time with us here on r t pakistan is no stranger to protests but do you think is setting this one upon. the only the only. it's. a new leader or and or a new guy and you're already explained that. goodness analyse the game at that slam and polish it going to. ridiculous be so late to learn it is really hard. to judge his. vision of this but i'm going to point out this character very very many people know

very little about his name card today what is he been driven by he's been living in canada for the past seven years he's been clean and claiming there's a basic lack of overall needs in pakistan can you clear that up for us here yes. if you would be. there not that minister to. enjoy using the board of. the islamic religion as he was extremely welcome to fall in line and later exactly had to flee to canada but the timing invention of lying is extremely frightening because the. campaign announced on march of you a government and like it is extremely alarming for the country at a time when the government is about to come. off of it's done exactly what we've got some parliamentary transition here coming up in the very near future that

should be a positive signal for the country but now the supreme court has issued an arrest warrant for the prime minister no i understand the prime minister ask raf with the foreign minister of power and water reports possibly he was getting kickbacks but the supreme court to issue an arrest warrant that is no small feat and yes it is a coincidence but if we do only do so join the links of the events because next ambien an offense and silence you are just. a kid again it's a restaurant and he was a minister and he accused them of the kickbacks and bribery but to what end. went into. the supreme court and mr connelly because the board want a little club in the country and in the last few months the government had a dobro i think you're going to go through and the basic facilities to do this to

do the we're going to be the rights of a minority who are already going back on its feet meaning it has become all too easy for the militants and the situation is going to be going over to going to school or the intensity of this is ration is just totally growing where we're seeing not just tens of thousands of people arriving at the protest we're now hearing reports of up to one hundred thousand people expected here now talking about our original of operations the indian prime minister is already distancing himself from his pakistani counterpart outside of yourself i wish we had more time for this we don't idolize the editor at the center for research and security studies in islamabad a pleasure to have you on the program today. well this is a finale a grim anniversary for the u.s. and vietnam. 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 quiet for the united states but despite the huge losses are both sides suffered in the conflict almost four decades ago or explore whether washington has learned the lessons or is poised to repeat its costly mistakes. france says it will significantly boost its intervention force in mali with the total number of troops deployed to the conflict zone expected to reach at least two and a half thousand a finale paris is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colony but doing so only from the air but despite almost five days of intensive airstrikes aimed at helping mali's government militants have managed to grab even more territory and raises fears that the fight against islamists there will not be as swift as the french authorities are hoping that the u.s. and britain are among those who will assist the combat mission or paris is also seeking arab backing eric margolis an award winning columnist whose extensively covered conflicts in africa believes the french effort is more about its own here

real appetite rather than tackling terror. along the now it's just recently that there would be no intervention in. the old days of when the french used to go in and overthrow governments overnight after governments that didn't full of french policy isn't those days are gone well you see they're not. crazy memories of colonialism which are not very old removed france really ruled entire region even after giving it into and then still ran it from behind the scenes it was called france afrique and a lot of west africans still resent this the problem is what's happening in mali knows will spread to unstable. prizing going our central african republic. even to nigeria so one has to be very cheerful we are this is it dangerous region what it's doing it's it's like dropping an explosive in the middle of the fire it's

straddling that fire where putting it out and a london based political activist or john of reese believes the rise of terrorism worldwide is actually a result of nato's battle against it more than a decade ago the head of the security services in britain warned the then prime minister tony blair that the intervention in afghanistan and iraq would spread the threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved sadly absolutely correct there was no al qaeda in iraq before we invaded there is no al-qaeda had not spread to pakistan in the way that it has now since the invasion of afghanistan and the intervention in libya has led directly to the spread of al-qaeda in mali now we should at least have learnt by now but this is not the way in which to reduce the threat of terrorism is actually

a way in which you bolster it in which you increase its attractiveness to young people in the region it is something with identify with or at a time as possible in the afternoon here in moscow in exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds a snap parliamentary election and with the situation in the turbulent middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the vote closely don't miss r.t. special coverage begins next tuesday. how will you with developed will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with. what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides . and to stay with us for that for now though it is the fortieth anniversary of america's suspension of offensive action in vietnam war the cost both sides daily and lives and money but it's not his brain important explains the foreign policy of

recent years makes many doubt if any lessons were actually 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. 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 learned 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. we went in iraq we didn't win in the. race we can leave in there with our lives and the same thing is like a vietnam we didn't win nothing one absolutely nothing and you know and they just don't get it we've tried to rule the world we've tried to do it in not only in a way that's been damaging devery nation the world but in the process the united states has become less and less gray it's become less and less economically viable

and with each passing decade 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 innovations 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 where 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 he gle would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives that they didn't have i didn't having the say about someone needs to represent that perspective 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. and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . well stripped of citizenship issues of police brutality arrests over twitter posts as well. just about everything sensible elderly about. demonstrations reveal how we haven't felt safe for quite some time.

and the criminal charges against a freedom of information activist who killed himself on friday have been dropped by the us government to stay with us to find out why he was so determined to give people access to. a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else. and realized everything. is a big. world with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia

we. covered. more news today. these are the. corporations are. joining us here in our. e.u. leaders seeking to concentrate more power in brussels may face a setback from the union's most reliable member of course germany thousands of signed a petition against the european stability mechanism which could allow the block to

use members' funds to help other states in trouble and the germans aren't exactly happy about letting someone else decide where that money goes. all of it went to find out. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who are really in charge of their country. the government is taking the sovereign rights of the german people and giving 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 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 but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as our room states this is the 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 about christic 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 looks 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 and a big money matters on both sides of the atlantic and the shady deal is causing financial rollercoasters as usual exposed in the latest edition of the kaiser of

port coming up in about ten minutes time for an hour they were quit. three weeks ago the f.c.c. now the commodities futures trading commission but those securities and exchange commission approved they essentially it legalized according. in the form of a controversial fund designed by j.p. morgan chase that for the first time will the investors buy shares backed by physical warehouse copper to use as a form of investment according to economists in america and the obama administration saving is a good thing because if somebody one person savings is another person's loss of spending why are why is wall street interested now and hoarding vital commodities because they know that as inflation hyperinflation currency collapse rears its ugly head j.p. morgan wants to be there after having made money and totally destroying the system with the revenues they want to repeat the trick by totally destroying the economy

by horning commodities. for twenty here in moscow violent clashes between the police and protesters have flared up in bahrain once again it's an outrage crowd went to the funeral of one of the activists the elderly man died after inhaling poisonous tear gas at a previous rally by the opposition blamed security officers for dozens of killings using home full substances as my dog which is one of the activists so as police don't think of the consequences to actions might have on the people. the hearing has been using tear gas canisters or as i like to call it talks again exists 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 here 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 least tens of months ago we have been stressing gone they have amount of kyrgyz as being used in resentful areas and houses and against peaceful across the surface and we are very disappointed at the international community reaction especially the u. s. and the u.k. position and toured the bahrain your delusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. crying wolf right here in russia the threat is real. the public siberia authorizing

the hunting down of the animals with a fondness for lifestyle. and for streamlining the can take you to your worst nightmares or the list of problems with boeing's brand new aircraft continue to grow with complaints of fuel leaks becoming more common. with you tony. the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the internet freedom activist aaron swartz who committed suicide on friday but the twenty six year old faced decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use other department's decision came after schwartz his family said

prosecutors were complicit in his death and tens of thousands of internet users expressed support for the claim. and i.t. entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party says almost all information should be free to whoever wants to get it. you could easily say that for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because an invalid's privacy bo's 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 or 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 out of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do setting and spreading knowledge was never bad for anyone on a journalist and author kevan gosper stoller believes the u.s. wrongly focuses on activists like schwartz when there are much harder criminals at large. 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 the united states but what is remarkable is that there are criminals in the united states that could be prosecuted like bankers are people who have engaged in real

crimes like torture but it seems like the justice department in the united states has more interested it has more interest in going after people or people like schwartz are going to the antiwar dot there we go starting with the protesters who are still angry at the decision to stop flying the british flag permanently from the city hall them belfast of again clash with police at this time leaving an officer and a bus driver injured this is the latest eruption of violence in seven weeks of demonstrations more than one hundred police have so far been hurt in that time eighty five people charged for offenses related to the right. to train carrying young army recruits has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring over one hundred and the number of dead is expected to rise and egypt's railways have a safety record it was just last november more than fifty died in a train collided with a school bus. there's been another crash on our railways though this time in sweden

a cleaner actually stole the train before tearing into a residential building in an upmarket suburb of stockholm the woman who was the only person on board was badly injured it took a service cruiser nearly two hours to free her from the wreckage authorities say five people were in the apartment block at the time but nobody else was hurt. well let's head over to. her and stacy herbert as they always share their other unorthodox if you will the world's finances of the kaiser report after this short break. 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 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 taken 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. it.

mattes kaiser welcome to the kaiser report you know markets don't. banks. banks are drinking markets kill economies banks are trading fraudulent so-called derivatives kill wealth and savings baxter's shut down the entire fabric of our financial system there which will individual participants must operate. banks are going to go over some of these banks theories 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.