the french intervention in mali faces the consequences and. kidnapped in. neighboring algeria reportedly killed during a rescue mission. e.u. membership as the prime minister places to rein in brussels although business leaders warn. he speaks exclusively to the mosque the mind of the current public outrage in pakistan who promises a revolution which has nothing in common with the arab spring political shuffle.

a dream job made in china and american classified data for an easy life facebook time by outsourcing his day's work to the east and he was by chance. live from moscow. with news from all around the world. thirty five foreign hostages held captive at a gas field in algeria have reportedly been killed in the operation to free them fifteen of the captors are also thought to have died in the us the local media suggests algerian forces attacked a convoy of kidnappers and captives from the air and militants first attacked the complex on wednesday killing at least two of the staff and seizing dozens the

hostage takers were demanding an end to the french led combat action against insurgents in neighboring mali and the operation has intensified french troops are now on the ground in support of a heavy air campaign against al qaeda linked groups the army's also received logistical support from its nato allies while the e.u. is preparing to send hundreds of military personnel to train them early and. u.k. based political analyst dan glazebrook says paris is intervention is a result of failed western strategy for. the west and unfunded may quit these these death squads effectively in libya the flow of weapons and fighters red them across the region which was again playing into the program of the west to destabilize the region and they ended up in northern mali the hope was that after libya algeria would fall and that the destabilization would spread to algeria and

this hasn't happened the rebels have made that very same northern mali and now what we're seeing in recent weeks is that the insurgency is starting to spread south into southern mali so france and britain i'm thinking no no no this is not the idea at all so no bombing mali to try and bomb the rebels back in to help them back north. i mean time of the u.s. says its involvement in the mali operation is currently limited to intelligence sharing but it wasn't always like this many millions who were trained by american agents to combat militants have switched sides retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen kwiatkowski says the current turmoil is a fallout of washington's interference in the country's internal affairs we should not be intervening in countries that we don't understand and i mean i think libya and syria stand as present day examples of that iraq and afghanistan also stand as examples of that we tend to go to countries where we have an interest and that

tends to blind our judgment as to what really is going on on the ground i think if we could let countries kind of settle their problems internally yes people are going to get killed but i think it would be far quicker and far fewer damage to people's lives to property then when the great powers get involved and that includes eco us in the un i think the government our government the united states wastes a lot of money this is another example of that and you can check out on more opinions and analysis on the reasons on the possible repercussions of the war in mali though do so at odds he dot com and one of the experts we've been talking to believes that france is revealing an imperial approach to the region that the african state will suffer further consequences to let us know what you think of this and other views you've got that you can leave your feedback in the comments section of our website .

i think you. now britain's prime minister is using his nation's membership of the e.u. as bait as he looks to carve concessions out of brussels in a much hyped speech but the balancing act is hazardous euro skeptics fear david cameron won't go far enough with his demands or euro krantz say he's gone too far already as artie's there are further reports he ultimately risks up setting everybody. when the prime minister first became leader of the conservative party he said the biggest problem was that they spent far too much of their time banging on about your eye is he glad those days are over i.

take countdowns as the prime minister protests to deliver a landmark speech on europe but with warring factions in his own policy growing euro skeptic sentiment in the u.k. and his increasingly unimpressed european counterparts to appease and the pressure is on is he's struggling right now on this issue up till now i think he has he hasn't given us a clear message a clear standpoint on the e.u. and the u.k.'s relationship with it i think has been for a number of factors whether it be the world economy whether be the economy or whether it be his own backbenchers so widely expected that the prime minister will pledge a major european treaty with vision included in that would be a clawing back house to britain in key areas they need terms of british membership in the e.u. would then be put to the country's citizens in a referendum to the next general election he really painted himself into

a corner where he's got to have a referendum after an election and he will try a skillful politician and. paper over the cracks to give a bit to them. and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper requests that it will be a very. confident speech until you actually analyze it and you see that he's asking for the e.u. to behave in a way that's not a hope in hell they will do that with this speech under such scrutiny maybe david camm going to get some inspiration from the know the conservative leader he's relationship with the e.u. was stress often. to try to suppress mission and concentrate power of the center of a european kong would be hard. and would jeopardize the objectives we seek to achieve in margaret thatcher's memorable speech she felt herself against the

european superstate exercising and need dominance from brussels all your if get fixed often forget is that margaret thatcher balance those warnings with the staunch defense forces play for the hearts. the truth is though that these days and that speech will be a hard sell is growing and the sentiment it's uncertain whether he'll even be able to please those within his party rest of us sidelines we can't believe this is going on this is a fearful angry family squabble all out in the open i mean destroy the tory party with so much riding on this speech he tries to please everyone david cameron the very real risk of pleasing no one is to. say the time has come for the big speech delayed so many times already it's being nicknamed the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech it's now expected you get some more sarah.

london. and especially worried about the prime minister's speech business leaders well warning that cameron is taking britain towards an economic cliff a conservative party m.p. steve baker thinks the u.k. is better off outside the e.u. . the consequences are worse for the than they are for the united kingdom if we leave because i think the e.u. would become even more inward looking and really what's required is a change of heart within the nations of europe to be more outward looking and to believe more in dispersed political power it's quite likely that the european union will say you know our way or exit i think all sorts of horror stories will be told to try and keep us in but in the end the british public of got to have confidence in ourselves the european union's a relatively new innovation we were a great help with looking trading nation and hugely prosperous long before the european union we don't need all these petty forty four being regulation we certainly don't need to surrender the sovereignty of the people so i think people

need to just be considered and think carefully about what kind of future they want and if you can i do stay tuned to r.t. this friday we bring you our special coverage of david cameron's big speech on europe. but for now it's minutes past the hour moscow time pakistan's government has reportedly agreed to the demands of a firebrand cleric in return for ending a mass sit in of tens of thousands of his supporters around parliament a team of officials are understood to be holding talks with dr to hear cadre who is calling on the entire government to resign earlier he had issued the government with an ultimatum to start negotiating with him threatening further action but political chaos in the country is also deepened after the government clashed with a top court order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case was refused officials of accused the judiciary and the military

of an r t conspiracy we've spoken exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means by starting a revolution. when i was here we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. and we need to be dictatorship for years and years for a long time. indeed people stood up against that indeed and there was it would add a clear rule of shen shah that people stood up against their. party stanek is bit different. there is no one else rude neither monadic elude nor needed a dictatorship here is electoral authority did twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social feed nor in economic field nor democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country got more distorted

dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation a single country in order muslim world and a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues there could be a very big disaster if we come to the level of collapse. so out of this modesty and movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim. and old and developing muslim countries have to get to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. and of the pac nationalists form lobbying group i spoke to him a bit earlier he said these protests herald the true on ruffling of the existing political system what we're basically seeing is that the democratic system of the country is in the throes of the final stages of collapse collapse under it under the weight of its own corruption collapse under the weight of its own incompetence so it's a major development it's important to remember that these demonstrations may not

leave immediately to change or he made it collapse the fall of the government itself but the process has a started it's a failed democratic system it's a small clique of elite politicians who are intermarried interrelated to each other through family marriages and so forth and they're divided in the using different parties to sort of divide the cake and of course indulge in massive corruption i think in the in the seventy year history of modern pakistan we've seen the most corrupt government ever in this short history of ours. well we are still taking your feedback at r.t. dot com where you can get to our poll on whether you think we could possibly be seeing something similar to the arab spring but this time happening in pakistan i'll show you the options you can choose from right here as you can tell behind me has the arab spring made it to pakistan the world the options are well know it's just a military plot possibly to seize power or perhaps

a western conspiracy to overthrow the regime or perhaps it's pakistanis truly fed up with a government that doesn't listen or the protests will die out but when the media frenzy comes always blame the media it's a safe bet lets see how you voted with this hour from the website r.t. dot com here come the numbers right now still a massive majority saying it's western interests in pakistan are rallying the feathers there perhaps taking its nose where some might say it doesn't belong. to a position number two not high above the third one though it's true outrage at corruption that the pakistani government simply is not in touch with the average everyday citizen and they were down to a number three now the protests will die down when the media dies down with it and the bare minimum now is saying that it's a military ploy by the pakistani military trying to form a coup and dissolve the government and put its own military leaders in command of pakistan while still time for you to have your say we are continuing the polls that are tea dot com of course we will love it when you get involved and we always value

your opinion for now though more news after this short break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture.

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outsource services including call centers to places like india american companies outsource jobs all the time but some americans took out sourcing to a whole new level by getting someone in china or elsewhere do work under their name and credentials one of america's largest broadband and telecommunications companies why is it most recently caught one software developer doing exactly that someone they refer to as baldpate a software consulting firm in china less than one fifth of his six figure salary to do his job bob gave them all the codes necessary to access the critical infrastructure company's internal system so while the chinese were ransacking the internal system of as critical infrastructure company in the us bob devoted his work time to facebook read it. and cat videos seriously his browsing history revealed that's what filled bob's typical workday apparently bob had the same scam going across multiple companies earning several hundred thousand dollars

a year and only paying the chinese consulting firm about fifty thousand annually at one of the companies he reportedly received excellent performance reviews for the last several years in a row even being hailed the best software developer in the building it was a sweet deal for bob which is apparently not his real name until the rise and revealed the breach by accident when they received a request from a us company asking for help in understanding anomalistic to what he was witnessing in his private network and open an active connection from shane young china we here in the us constantly complain about chinese hackers but apparently with employees like bob who needs hackers. spinning for fitness at any age. this sixty year old chinese woman to hold the. quest for fitness. and washington has the number of signatures required for

petitions before they trigger a statement from the white house just days after he was forced to explain why. for now israel has issued two hundred ten days for a new housing in the west bank settlement watchdog group has issued a report saying the government is deliberately using construction in vital areas to ultimately undermine the creation of a palestinian state and many israeli settlers feel this isn't about giving them new homes any more. ivy fact is wary about unpacking again he's already been forced to move twice first from the israeli settlement of in the sinai peninsula and then twenty three years later from the settlement of in gaza in a move television hoped would inspire peace both times his government had encouraged him to put down roots in the settlements and both times his government

forced him out. of my government betrayed me it betrayed the people it sent to settle the land and build their lives there but that's a mistake a mistake that should be fixed. but first of even the thousands of other former gaza settlers need to fix their lives a group of them live here in central israel in small temporary structures they built with the own money some of the laws the government didn't do what it was supposed to do didn't rehabilitator swe have no roof over our heads. so when prime minister benjamin netanyahu announces the approval of thousands of new city units the settler movement well please can't help but feel suspicious that they are merely being used as chess pieces in the government's political game. it's obvious to everyone that all of a sudden there is approval of big construction plans what does that mean that i'm supposed to vote for netanyahu or someone else i'd be happy rather to have a prime minister who will approve construction in any part of israel. tamera brain

works for property development group in a neighborhood in east jerusalem that has passed the pre nine hundred sixty seven green line construction here is controversial but the waiting list of hopeful buyers is overflowing i think that the government of the now realizes that most important for them now is to give the settlers what they want because the constituency of liquid part of the party is the far right and they're playing into their hands and unfortunately not in the hands of the general public interest but could these new city units be bashed down in the future like what happened to the settlements in gaza and you meet yes there is the amount of uncertainty but you know when we created this country when we established. four years ago there was even a greater level of uncertainty but we are not cheap on the table we are probing

communities with fourth generation israelis that were born and we are here to stay and for as long as the governments on this side of the settlement abate they're staying at least for now but a showdown is inevitable israel says that settlements are an issue to be discussed during negotiations but palestinians say they won't hold peace talks while israel builds on land they want for a future state policy r.t. tel aviv well the settlements issue will certainly be one of the main decision drivers when israelis head to the polls in less than a week for a snap parliamentary election do join r.t. on voting day generate twenty second for our special coverage. how will tensions with iran develop will settlement expansion isolate can there be peace with jazz or what's next in relations with america will not in yahoo survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides.

for now russia has warned a currency world war is looming for the global economy the concerns were sparked by japan's move to lower the value of the yen in pursuit of exports and its course fears of a massive chain reaction as other nations other nations that is could follow suit the story now to r.t.c. going to is going to. an economy not so far away that actually the global economy is on the verge of a currency war allow me to paint a quick picture for you in japan where the newly elected prime minister has been pushing for a more aggressive central bank policy has been dropping the yen went down by eleven percent since december meanwhile in europe the euro is rising and that's right despite the debt and eurozone crisis austerity measures and so on the euro grew by seven percent in the last six months and experts say europe has fired the first shell e.u. financial authorities warn the rise of the euro is threatening the economy so it is

possible it will be deliberately dropped meanwhile across the atlantic the united states has been printing blocks for the last five years to support of markets but that also makes the dollars cheaper in washington has been looking over the shoulder at china which holds the majority of u.s. foreign debt and beijing is also accused of holding back the u. one the reason why they do that is the one currency is dropped the export becomes cheaper making the country more competitive obviously that's not greeted with applause by its competitors other countries which we tallied by dropping the very currencies so it's like a domino effect and the last time a major currency war happened was during the great depression in the one nine hundred thirty s. which resulted in a slowdown of international trade and all was part of the lead up to world war two but that's not all if we exported become cheaper imports become more expensive so ordinary citizens can buy less imported goods and traveling abroad traveling abroad

rather becomes more expensive that leads to public disapproval unrest and so on that's why russia which only cheers the g twenty is so worried and it's very likely you will see a major skirmish when the groups financial ministers meeting next month in moscow. are let's get some other international news for you and briefly. starting with four people who have been killed and twelve more injured after a bomb hit a bus carrying afghanis shia pilgrims in the iraqi city of karbala the blast tore through the underneath of the vehicle and more than twenty two have died in two days of attacks targeting shia muslims this week. tens of thousands of people have turned out in the turkish city of detroit for the funeral of three kurds assassinated a week ago in paris and the women whose bodies were flown back from france on wednesday were members of the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. leaders of the group have blamed turkish nationalists for the execution style

killing so. the u.s. defense secretary is in italy during his last week long tour of europe before he steps down leon panetta has been reaffirming washington's military links across the atlantic earlier in madrid he said america will double its presence in spain this year international human rights lawyer curtis doebbler believes that washington is stuck in a tedious cycle with the defense industry the american military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states being at peace in any type of permanent manner or is for the united states or a double sided sward on the one hand because the military industrial complex accounts for probably about seventy five percent of the american economy the produce an input to that economy on the other hand as we've seen in afghanistan interact we also drain the economy on one side so it's almost a endless circle

a have to continue off in these interventions to be able to bring in the resources to be able to then say we're able to have new interventions and unfortunately that's been the story of the last. thirty or forty years. so they're constantly moving troops around in part because countries very comfortable with having american troops stationed there as you've seen in the far east in japan troops have committed crimes on the civilian population and that has caused difficulties with their acceptance within the population or it in a just a few minutes here on out say it's abby martin and breaking this at.

congress' approval rating has hit an all time low never has american record history been so disappointed with the lawmaking body the united states even former arkansas governor mike huckabee said that their approval ratings are just barely above a pedophile so i guess that's good news for the disgusting pedophiles out there so you won't be the most hated group in america anymore but i don't think this statistic reflects the quality of government but so much the quality of the governed in some small country with a hard to pronounce name if the government became that unpopular the country would simply collapse but no matter how many wars congress gets involved in and no matter how many jobs are shipped overseas or no matter how much the american dream gets stamped out everyone still rallies around obama and votes democrat and republican this popularity rating doesn't show how effective the government is it shows how arrogant they are because they seem to have no fear whatsoever of getting reelected or being punished in any way for their bad behavior so you know congress i have to save you keep up the good work go for one percent popularity and maybe someone will

actually do something about you but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and. i mean. i guess i just really messed up. really so closely. worse for the. white house it was a. minute for a big stick. because if you never seen anything like that i'm selling.