this is r t thanks for being with us tonight seven more foreign hostages are reportedly killed in algeria as the military carries out what's called the final assault to free the last remaining captives from islamic terrorists we'll bring you up to speed with the latest there. david cameron is accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seizing on extracts of his address on britain's future in the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and latest too on the bolshoi theatre is artistic director he successfully undergoes the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's being linked to his

profession. very good evening chief thanks for being with us it's kevin owen here at the new center tonight just after eight pm now moscow time and our top story eleven islamic terrorists and seven foreign civilians have reportedly been killed in algeria after the military launched a final raid to free the hostages held at that gas plant the militants said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali let's go live to paris know because there. what are the details of the operation in the algerian desert what do we know so far this afternoon. well the british defense secretary has just said that it appears that the siege is over and he called the the deaths of the civilian workers appalling and he said that he would be pressing

the algerian authorities for details on what happened now what we have heard and the reports flying about that a number of the civilian hostages were executed by the islamic militants that were holding them hostage at the gas plant it's a very remote area where the gas plant is located so that's why the details are so hard to come by but from what we've also heard that the algerian army then in turn killed a number of the islamic militants so we've got an increasing amount of it looks like a dead civilian hostage is a very tragic turn of events it's a siege that actually has been going on since thursday it's been a standoff between the algerian army and the islamic militants who are trying to occupy this plant and. among the civilian hostages we know that there were bred americans japanese citizens know french citizens from what we know so the hostage

takers have the hostage takers have said all along that this is a retaliation for the french intervention in mali now we've even heard one jihadist leader say that france is quote open the gates of hell unquote so it's a very worrying escalation to what started off as a military intervention just over a week ago the french government reportedly the french government ostensibly just responding to the mali government's request for help in driving out the islamic militants from the north of the country so it's definitely escalating. the blow bridport all the french the for what they're doing or mali going down on for a home soil tomatoes not used being greeted by politicians there of course the public to. well initially we know that two thirds of the french population supported what they thought what many probably thought was going to be

a rather brisk straightforward military intervention but from what you know on the street paris we've been talking to quite a few locals here and there's a growing sense of unease about the fact that this could actually turn into a much longer more expensive war real war than it was actually build up by the point of a build by the politicians here so that's one of the concerns the other concern that we've heard from people here on the ground is that this could make both western assets in africa as well as. actually areas of france and paris susceptible to more of these sort of tragic terrorist attacks so a sense of unease definitely growing in france and looks like public opinion could really shift in relation to the mali intervention or the balkans things to bring sort of their life in paris much preaching to.

you i know you vote for the reporter so we will listen to take a listen to that is. i mean at sure 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 complain 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 lengthy and costly and deeply unpopular wars at home now if this mission creep becomes only driving on the terrorists as some ministers and even on 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 there were. for other wars either war started by france or was started by them by the us nevertheless french president francois hollande remains committed to the french military offensive in mali making grand statements that the french intervention won't tend until legitimity or for a city in the country is restored what many french people are beginning to wonder is just how long that might take and out what cost probably boy k r t paris or others because more analysis now with our should return season author and journalist who's been following the developing crisis is live on the line from london tonight i think either option could see you these are early days this hostage crisis has escalated so much where is it going to go do you think whatever we do know is that there will be carnage in this remote area of the car on the

libyan border of algeria we've got to remember this is a perfect storm of the i.m.f. so brutal policies in june or together with president putin pfleger combined with all that supplying of al qaeda back during the soviet years of afghanistan because this was a year old was trained with u.s. taxpayers money that's the guy who's taken all these a just and we can get on to france and mali but this is a terrible story of how algeria such a rich country with so much energy resources as unemployment is seventy five percent of those under thirty and which way are they going to be drawn. or are some kind of new liberal idea of the european union blows a big question what next the islamic militants they're blaming squarely fronts for this what they're doing in mali their intervention there they say they're going to retaliate. well i'm surprised your reporter was talking about

quoting to polls of the french people supporting the intervention in mali which some a lot of people talking about its importance because of uranium resources for french weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons how did two thirds of the french public support this and the tide may be about to be turning but do they realize that the french people realize as your reporter intimated that they are increasing the threat of terrorism and militancy in paris in other major cities of france is not a easy thing to do to go and bomb mali causing as the u.n. says now seven hundred thousand up to seven hundred thousand refugees in the past few days ago what's your question just now where do you think this is going to go do you think it's going to be any immediate or near term a media spell from mali and algeria to the nearby areas i think it's very possible that we'll see. cells perhaps activated in european cities after this kind of these

kinds of interventions after all. the mali intervention showed they didn't expect there's something happening on the libya algeria border no matter how many libyan weapons from the disastrous nato intervention in libya they didn't expect this i don't think they'll be expecting other disastrous militant disasters with the e.u. operations by so-called al-qaeda elements or those sympathising with it there's a vast resource now of people in the european union who don't who see themselves as without anything because of the economic crisis and as for countries like algeria let alone mali there are masses of areas now which feel they got nothing out of all those mineral resources and all those. amazing amount of exports of these countries to western nations it's snowing here in london we get the heating from algerian oil the algerian people didn't get any money are you surprised by how swiftly. moved into mali. it's interesting that what actions showed is

how closely knit the so-called two parties three parties at the top of the french electoral system there is really very little difference and no matter how much french media bombard the french public with the importance of mali intervention or even the francois hollande is particularly was particularly different just sarkozy there's very little difference between these parties just as there are in most european countries it whether it be italy or greece when it comes to the media supporting them real change a real person in the end is a palace who would fight against these colonial colonial temptations that well where are they right now no one was covering them in the french elections last year so for the next certain let's just take a final thought over the next week or two now what do you think the response is going to be from france from other nations to what's going on now in algeria in mali where are they going to go are just folks in

a bit of the next week of the american media like saying it's nothing to do with the united states but i think these people that you're asking about will all be looking to washington for some kind of leadership and president obama has his eye on other things arguably so it depends on whether unilateral actions are going to be taken david cameron here in london didn't seem to know what was going on so i presume probability wise they're going to go strong and think that that is the way forward as these extremist groups continue to advance and spread their toxic message i should returns in london thanks very much like spiller program appreciated. prime minister david cameron is using developing hostage crisis in algeria to delay his announcement on britain's future role within the a universe according to the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage this after the pm was forced to cancel friday speech on the issue not see sarah first caught up with the ukip leader to discuss the released extracts from the would be address. gita the ongoing hostage crisis in

algeria involving a number of british nationals amongst others the prime minister had to place playing 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 you are a powerhouse in london to talk to the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage the party that says we're better off out the. some of the excerpts that reveal quite a positive thing to that he does well positive in the sense of you know he's using euro skeptic language to pursue you you're a far agenda to 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 was 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 will 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 are we dependent 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 there's a lot of concern that if a person left the this in 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 e.u. than 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 a fifth and 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 let's reengage with the rest of the world we've always see this latest postponement to take understandable reasons but i've 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 not a couple of weeks doesn't matter too much thank you very much for joining us nigel

for us clear 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 place payment making that big speech on europe no less controversial. so for the money this time it's child labor and the sex trade human trafficking is on the right spot but at the exploitation of immigrants we've got more on that right after this break. couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. three blog video for your media project free media. dot com.

science technology innovation. developments around russia. the future of coverage. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing stories for you. to find out more visit. the artistic director of the story bolshoi theater successfully on the gun on initial peroration save his site after the gruesome acid attack in central moscow

doctors say it's too early to predict whether sergei filin will fully manage to regain his vision latest on the story now from edina culch. doctors say that sarah gave burning isn't a satisfactory condition and currently he is that one of moscow's burn center he has already been questioned by the investigators after he underwent an eye surgery now the doctors say there is going to take them up to seven days to determine whether the surgery was successful the artistic director of the bolshoi theatre suffered c.v.s. third degree burns to face and his eyes top top and a late on thursday a surrogate feeling was coming back home an unidentified man wearing a mask through a bolt of a says right into his face there is also a street surveillance video that captured the exact moment all this unidentified man was quickly leaving the scene apart from the beauty of the art of done so the world of the big valley is tough and since their first down steps the law i've done

some involves our recent hours of punishing trainings and we have seen dogs in the oscar winning movie black swan how the life of the professional ballets full of infighting and intrigue disturbingly for the people of the vaal sure theater events have taking a sinister and dramatic twist though sergei filling became the artistic director all the bolshoi just in march twenty elegant still some of his colleagues say that most the average thing out the theater that was depended upon his decisions on your show are crazy hard on 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 joint surrogate feelings also known for his passion towards contemporary

performances and he introduced them on the stage of the bolshoi and now some of his . colleagues believe that perhaps the disapproval of his actions might have been one of the reasons behind this attack me and expect that we've been having a lot of contemporary performances recently which maybe somebody didn't agree with them but others really did our people receive multiple awards for the productions that nobody should be reacting to something they don't like with such inhumane cruelty so far the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack is billons professional activity. we've got on life you know from i see swimming to being given the cold shoulder as the u.k. foreign office says british veterans who serve the legendary arctic convoy not allowed to accept russian medals for bravery got a report of my online go a lot of interest not you monoculture but had to also ukraine's convicted former prime minister use of machine code could get

a sentence extended to life find out why. it's thought that up to twenty seven million people in the world today a quarter of in some form or other of slavery about eight hundred thousand are being trafficked across borders every year might surprise you is that one magnet for those exploiting others for sex or forced labor is britain what is your smith best agaves why. isn't allowed out wasn't allowed to. i was the wonder or the claim. to the children. but i was never allowed to take the kids to school i was locked inside the house when i was nowhere and open the door side it sounds like something from an eighteenth century workhouse but it's britain today sarah 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 then. 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 bar so next time you go for a manicure pedicure ask yourself who serving you and is the sell on that sell 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 rich. victims say they were just ten percent that means there are twenty thousand . trafficked into this country huge 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 setter 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 children and people because a child can be recycled a human can be recycled the drugs once they're sold they've got to 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 task of hospital 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 huge numbers of victims like sarah never want to talk about their experiences again laura smith r.t. london. for world news now government have blown up an important oil pipeline in yemen the blast from explosives reportedly planted overnight serious damage and a hole for transportation in the southern province the pipeline operated by the career national company transfers crude oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden al qaeda which the government blames for the blast as frequently attacked oil routes since the ousting of yemen's. veteran president ali abdullah saleh early last year. i did this in syria say fierce battles are being fought between rebels and government forces in the country's northeast opposition fighters are said to be trying to siege to army bases and block roads that supply them this is a u.n. delegations visiting war ravaged towns and villages to assess the need for humanitarian aid more than sixty thousand people have been killed in syria in every two years of war. venezuelan president hugo chavez is

a force of removed from the hospital in cuba where he was receiving counsel treatment to a secret location is rumored to be in a bunker that specially built for form a cuban leader fidel castro it's apparently to avoid leaks to the media about chavez's health and in preparation to return their leaders not been seen since his latest comes to surgery in mid december and later missed his own inauguration ceremony. a twenty six pm thanks for being with us up next with his unique look at the world's finances much to this 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 at 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 gods taking 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.

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser hey you know the currency war is ome bring out the body bags the first shots have been fired in the war to end all wars the currency war stacy ever oh yeah max kaiser this is been the big story of the kaiser report for the past three or four years and the f.t. front pages the financial times or reads germany to shift fifty four thousand gold bars home one of the biggest shipments of yellow metal on record which inspired

this front page on the financial times was this announcement on the deutsche a boon to spank web site deutsch a boon to spanks new storage plan for germany's gold reserves by two thousand and twenty the bundesbank intends to store half of germany's gold reserves in its own vaults in germany the other half will remain a storage at its partner central banks in new york and london while germany has no partner central banks this is every man for himself and those with the most gold are going to win the currency war as we've been warning about now for years this is why the euro has been trading relatively well against the dollar because in the euro zone there are twelve thirteen thousand tons of gold versus the u.s. which has maybe a thousand times but one of the big problem stacey of course is the central banks of lease their gold out and sold it and it's now sitting in the pockets of hundreds of millions of indians in the confident in.