happy family. or self-expression. seems so true. for you too late. seven more foreign hostages have reportedly been killed in algeria as the military carries out what's being called the final assault for the last many captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron's accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rivals seizing on extracts of his address on britain's future in the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and the bolshoi theatres artistic director successfully undergoes the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's been linked to his profession.

it's seven pm here in moscow this is archie coming to live with me and he said no way and news just in eleven islamic terrorist and seven foreign civilians have reportedly been killed in algeria after the military launched a final raid to free hostages held at a gas plant and it's believed the captives were executed when the raid got under way among the victims were british american and japanese nationals the islamists say they took the hostages and retribution for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali paris is standing by its campaign and claims the algerian crisis justifies it further but some say the stance could backfire on the french government as polly boy now reports. it's all calm on the streets of paris but with

an escalating military intervention in mali and an algerian hostage crisis in response to it french public opinion is predicted to turn against francois hollande pledged to help the mali government once he's really hit by the the enormity of what they may be taking on in mali there may be a lot of questions then asked about his judgment and a lot of people who are supposedly supporting him now or may very quickly turn around and criticize it's already beginning to happen we've spoken to provisions here who lament the fact that they weren't told in advance that the military offensive was set to take place meanwhile voices in the french media complained of a war with no pictures they say that there's a media blackout and accuse the government of making it intentional journalist surprising thing is that. we had no. recourse or information from. the day after this really started inform us about that and when you see what's

happening with what has happened in iraq or in afghanistan surely if you well if you read to the region and if he lasts long it's going to be a problem comparisons already being made to the usas experience in iraq and afghanistan conflicts that were initially supported at home out of a sense of patriotism and support for the troops but it turned into a lengthy and costly and deeply unpopular wars at home now is this mission creep and it becomes only driving out the terrorists some ministers and even themselves seem to be saying. that it's going to be a failure because you cannot drive out all the terrorists. and many soldiers die and there are attacks in paris then public opinion will shift the way it has done for other. it was either war started by france or was started by them by the us but

nevertheless french president francois hollande remains committed to the french military offensive in mali making grand statements that the french intervention won't tens until marriage until it all forty in the country is restored but what many french people are beginning to wonder is just how long that might take and at what cost playboy k t paris mini's researcher dr yunus are you but i should say from columbia university told us the french intervention in mali has materialistic and geo political motives the konami crisis has shown that the western developed countries have. lost the economic competition against the new. players china russia south africa the great countries basically and now that tending to militarize this competition trying to expel the chinese from the region the natural resource is very important

especially rhenium because it's a very necessary element and resourceful france this is basically a new fight and competition over the resources of the african countries this is going most probably to spread in the region and there's also this new cold war that it's taken place one of its battles being fought in syria and as we speak and it's now also in africa we've seen what happened in libya and now the french are coming back again and they're all former colonies to basically play the role of the master especially to deal west now is more focused on now on asia so it's a big political game and geopolitical game in the region r.t. central farmer has been looking into the possible pretext for an international struggle over mali and the rest of africa. marly potentially has a wealth of minerals that can be exploited as far as all is concerned there is zero proven reserves however it is believed major oil fields have been discovered in the

north of the country although that still has to be mapped on top of that mali is africa's third largest exporter of gold braid namely why south africa and ghana and there are also some five thousand tons of uranium deposits the french have two major mines in the country already and extract extensive amount from neighboring niger and would not want that jeopardized in any ways they rely almost entirely on uranium for their nuclear energy all this is led some analysts to think that big economic incentives are also fueling the u.s. backed french intervention here's what the author eth william angle had to say the critical strategical goal of u.s. foreign policy so you need all of us here rosen is to prevent the core he's expanding your region from russia or china to iran to northern africa and the rest of africa that could leave the united states as a houseman's who are just. so according to him the u.s.

is fearful of china's increasing economic presence in africa in the figures seem to back up that argument china has increased its investment in africa exponentially over the last decade and they are catching america up fast despite the u.s. investing over one hundred billion dollars over the last two years mali it can't be denied does have significant geo political importance. we have more updates and expert analysis of the crisis in north africa for you on our web site r t dot com. prime minister david cameron is using developing hostage crisis in algeria to delay his announcement on britain's future role within the e.u. that's according to the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel for raj this after the pm was forced to cancel friday's speech only issue are to sarah furthur caught up with the u.k.i.p. leader to discuss the release released extracts from that would be address. gita

the ongoing hostage crisis in algeria involving a number of british nationals amongst others the prime minister had to postpone that long awaited for speech on europe but nonetheless some extracts of what he was expected to say in that speech have been revealed to us more about that we're outside the house in london to talk to the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel for us the party that says we're better off out the nigel and some of the excerpts are revealed quite a positive thing to that does well positive in the sense of you know he's using euro skeptic language to pursue a year of agenda she exactly what harold wilson did forty years ago this speech is happening because of the rise of you get on the rise of you could has led to massive discontent on the back benches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party in the whole country that's what he's responding to so that's why he talked tough and says we must renegotiate but the reality of what he says if you read the subtext is that the e.u.

is very good for us but it serves our interests and i promise i promise god to do my best over the next five years to do everything i can to keep britain a member of that unions this issue is a key constitutional issue it isn't even about economics it's about who governs britain it's about always independent nation as a democracy and determine their own future or not and i want to referendum now more of a promise ok i want to ask either way there's a lot of concern that if a person left the that this would massively affect our relationships our trade relationships certainly have a hit on the economy as a result of that what do you say to those concerns a classic scare tactics always employed by the status quo whether they're defending slavery all the called laws or e.u. membership you know transparently body with a whole series of shocks you know three million british jobs would be lost if we left the european union really really we import massively more from the unit we sell to them would mislead is stop selling cars. we have the e.u.

well i think we all know the answer and you think the person should be looking to trade outside the well you know what i'm saying is this that europe is aging europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below us with the falling quite sharply it is gripped by eurozone crisis which is likely because of their fanaticism to keep it together to last for up to a decade and yeah ok europe is thirty percent of our overseas exports and it's an important market place but the rest of the world is more important to us. because we're stuck inside this old fashioned nineteenth century concept of a customs union we cannot make our own trade deals anywhere else in the world let's have a free trade deal with europe like the swiss do and that's reengage with the rest of the world we've always see this latest postponement to take understandable reasons they don't see seen a number of delays already what do you think about that the fact that this is such a huge issue and we just had. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech another couple weeks doesn't matter too much thank you very much for joining us

nigel for us information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered there some mean is that it could be as early as next week and of course the latest piece payment making that big speech on europe no less controversial. well this month is payback time for the fun and frolics of christmas and new here. good clothes. let's say ready for the bush with his own clothes right there exists and. i can tell you it's been very exhilarated right now it's a pity for orthodox christians which means of freezing dip into ice cold waters and masts join our correspondent for some soul cleansing later this hour. and britain's flourishing slave trade human trafficking is on the rise despite efforts to stamp out the exploitation of immigrants our two reports for you just ahead.

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download free blogging videos for your media projects free media done to r t dot com. has just gone thirty minutes past the hour here in moscow and it's thought that up to twenty seven million people in the world today are caught in some form of slavery about eight hundred thousand are being trafficked across borders each year and what might surprise you is that one magnet for those exploiting others for sex or forced labor is britain laura smith investigates why. it wasn't allowed to do or anything i was the one doing with the claim cooking looking after the children. but i wasn't even allowed to take the kids to school i was locked inside the house when i was nowhere and open the door. it sounds like

something from an eighteenth century workhouse but it's britain today so it was trafficked to this country aged twelve now nineteen she's still too afraid to talk about her experience but the fact that she's played here by an actor doesn't make her horrific story any less real i was getting beaten by them and i was slapped and right i kept getting the right. things i was like a slave never a time i kept playing i kept trying to clean myself up and i kept getting called and she was shouting asking me to keep playing even the house was clean i still have to keep playing. eventually sarah's female employer threw her out of the house aged just fourteen with no way of contacting relatives at home she lived on the street for nine months begging until she eventually found help through pat an international group campaigning against child trafficking it's

a story that all too common and it's not just about domestic slavery according to experts many people are trafficked to work on cannabis farms in the u.k. and they're often kept in a perpetual cycle of debt or through fear of repercussions for their families but another sector that says is rife with trafficking victims particularly from asia is high street nail bars so next time you go for a manicure pedicure ask yourself who serving you and is the seller on their cell figures from the into departmental ministerial group on human trafficking show it's risen by thirty three percent compared to last year and victims come from all over the world africa europe and the far east. more than two thousand. victims there's a retreat. victims say they were just ten percent. twenty. trafficked

into this country. business. first for organized criminal gangs this is the second most profitable thing to drugs and a lot less chance of getting caught that rise could be because more cases of being reported but chloe seta who works with trafficking victims including sara says it's partly down to a lack of police awareness only eight cases of trafficking were successfully prosecuted last year trafficking is seen not just in the u.k. but worldwide as a low risk high profit crime those criminals who might have previously been smuggling drugs arms. may now be looking to also work with children and people because a child can be recycled a human can be recycled the drugs that they have a one off crime so there's a number of ways that the controller and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the traffic hospital on time unless the authorities do something to intervene antony steen founder of the parliamentary group on trafficking is leading

the biggest ever conference on the subject held in britain slavery. a modern day slavery is alive and well and ten times the size of what it was when it was abolished two hundred years ago but prosecution relies heavily on hearsay evidence and testimony and she huge numbers of victims like sarah never want to talk about their experiences again laura smith r.t. london. there is a stick director of the historic bolshoi theater has successfully undergone an initial operation to save his sight following a gruesome acid attack in central moscow over doctors say it's too early to predict whether surrogate sheening will fully manage to regain his vision the latest on the story from with no question about turkey's filin is and knowing the satisfactory condition that's what the doctors say is the currency it's one of moscow's burn

centers and he's not intensive here in new york and he has already been questioned by in the investigators should he underwent ita surgery and has the deal first known say it is going to take up to seven days to to determine whether the surgery was the final choice here artistic director suffering see we are very deep prefer inches to the space in our eyes and now there is also a big chance that you will need classic surgery and the attack happens late on thursday surrogates feeling was coming back on and as he stepped out of his heart and unidentified man wearing a mask called him so he turned around and at times the monster ate waldo but they said right into his face many believe or at least are talking about the fact that this could be due to his profession to some rivalry what are investigators saying apart from the beauty of the world the art of the world off the big valley can be tough and since taking their first down stops with the law if it doesn't suffer in

folds i'll worsen our ship trainings and we have seen that in the also her winning movie black swan how did life be rational bally's lookin fighting in aintree disturbing the full the people off the ball showing theatre nonstop taking a sinister and dramatic twist some of the colleagues that have been working with sergei filin shoulder to shoulder for so many years south of those surrogate bill and the t.v. on. existing director of the but should it be it or just in march twentieth levon still mostly out free thing at the bolshoi was the plan to put his decisions on your show he hired people promoted them he distributes the roles decides who gets to go on tours abroad compiles the rehearsal schedules and so forth he's the head of the collective who influences every decision within the company and his opinion carries a lot of weight shirky feel and also known for his passion to which contemporary

performances and he introduced some on the stage of the bolshoi is notice of opinion that's because we've been having a lot of contemporary performances recently maybe somebody didn't approve of them but others really did people receive multiple awards for the productions but nobody should be reacting to something they don't like with such inhumane cruelty so so far investigators believe that the primary cause behind this attack is still and professional like to that city. well now to some other world news for you this hour gunmen have blown up and oil important oil pipeline i should say in yemen blocks from explosive or to be planted over night caused serious damage and halted oil transportation in the south shall bois province the pipeline operated by the korean national oil company transfers crude oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden which the government blamed for the blast has frequently attacked oil routes since

the ousting of yemen's veteran president ali abdullah saleh early last year. more afghan taliban fighters being held in custody in pakistan are to be released that's according to pakistani officials islamabad hopes the move will bolster cobbles efforts to bring the militants closer to the negotiating table ahead of the looming nato troops withdrawal from afghanistan over the number of detainees to be freed and where they'll be released remains unclear. activists in syria say fears battles are being fought between rebels and government forces in the country's northeast opposition fighters are said to be trying to seize two army bases and block roads that supply them this as a u.n. delegation is visiting war ravaged towns and villages to assess the need for humanitarian aid more than sixty thousand people have been killed in syria in nearly two years. and venezuelan president hugo

chavez has reportedly been moved from a hospital in cuba where he was receiving cancer treatment to secret location is rumored to now be in a bunker specially built for former cuban leader fidel castro is apparently to avoid leaks to the media about child with his house and in preparation for him to return home the island leader has not been seen since was latest cancer surgery in mid december and later missed his own inauguration ceremony. well how better to a tower not for the excesses of the holidays then take a naked plunge into ice cold water it's a perfectly for orthodox christians and a day for breathtaking for a breathtaking depth in line with centuries old tradition our correspondent peter oliver has been enjoying before experience let's have a look. winter temperatures commonly fall below minus fifteen celsius in the russian capital perfect conditions for a swim say this lot they are part of

a group who refer to themselves as a walrus club and they believe in the health benefits of taking a few subzero laps yet i'm sure it was quite prange cold all my life until i turned sixty when i took up i swimming and i've never had any kind of a cold since then and yet i was. used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i am healed there were sure a natural cause but after i took up my swimming i regain my flexibility i could even do a proper like split and that's how it works i recommended to everyone it's the only existing cure to all illnesses and maybe this isn't a new activity in the tradition of the russian orthodox church worshippers marked the feast of the with a late night submergence into the icy waters symbolizing the baptism of jesus to anyone thinking that they would like to give it a go i do have these words from my own experience statement called. let's say i did

read that the first day i put that when i rode mission so the russian legs aren't girl tell you you're there exerting well i could say i'm feeling very exhilarated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is bloody near going to be nk and he's the chairman of the russian ice swimming and cold water treatment federation and insists that there are genuine medical benefits. the main way i swimming works for you is crude blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm your body contracts its blood vessels so there's less blood pumped around the system so where does the excess blood go to the vital organs that is why it's good for the kidneys and liver they are constantly cleansed blood in me has also changed thrill seekers who push the abilities of the human golden to the limits. day of holds the record for time spent in icy water. spend sixty minutes in there and i

helped him get out of that condition when he could hardly talk he couldn't even say mama he couldn't walk his arms wouldn't move but thirty five minutes later he was recovered and could talk to the press. a swimming federation has one and a half million members across the country and lot of me it does his best to drum up more support with his own personal guarantee for years for the little i jumped into a nice hole for the first time thirty four years ago i saw that people who did it are never sick and so i decided to give it a try now look at me fit as a butcher's dog. well it might not be everybody's idea of a good time but be it for health reasons or for spiritual reasons there's no shortage of people willing to take the plunge all of a moscow. well for my is the swimming to being given the cold shoulder as the u.k.

foreign office says british veterans who served in the legendary arctic convoy are not allowed to accept russian medals for grave or e. we report online. plus ukraine's convicted former prime minister yulia timoshenko could get her sentence extended to life find out why at r t v dot com. well that does it for me here at r.t. i'll be back tomorrow afternoon for you must count time after the break abby martin deals with the blows to mainstream journalism and breaking with that.

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