this is r t tonight seven more foreign hostages are reportedly killed in algeria as the military carries out that final botched attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron's accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seizing an extract of his address on britain's future of the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and the bolshoi theater as artistic director successfully undergoes the first operation to try to save his eyesight acid attack this big link but.

for very good even kevin owen here the new center tonight at ten pm moscow time our top story than the crisis in algeria as we've been reporting in the last a couple of hours has apparently ended after four days but with sadly further loss of life seven foreign civilians and eleven islamic terrorists were reportedly killed when the military launched an audacious final raid to free the hostages held at a gas plant some are still unaccounted for the militants said the took the captives in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali. reports them from paris . what we have heard in 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 were trying to occupy this plant and. among the civilian hostages we know that there were brits 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 a sense of unease definitely growing in france and looks like public opinion could really shift in relation to the mali intervention it's all come 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 here but the norm or do 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 that journalists are bracing thing is that. we had no. recourse or information from. the day after this really started for most of all to when you see what's happening with what has happened in iraq or in afghanistan surely if you will if you spread to the region and if he lasts long it's going to be a problem comparisons already being made to the usa as 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. many soldiers die and there are attacks in paris and public opinion will shift the way it has done for other wars either was 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 were intense and to legitimate authority in the country is restored but what many french people are beginning to wonder is just how long that might take and out what cost probably boyko r t paris. just a bit earlier tonight i spoke to out of the associate editor of ceasefire magazine and he suggested france could have a vested interest in expanding its intervention in north africa i think the

response. that we hoped for probably be something along the lines of number one. increase military presence in the region france has likes to have a lot of military presence in its former colonies far more than britain and i think the second would be favorable terms of trade and natural resources why is france getting involved in mali why is it so interested in mali is there any connection here with the uranium we've got big uranium reserves france is obviously it just begs the question does approaches the question france is very heavily reliant on nuclear for its energy is it trying to protect its maybe future reserves it's highly likely you really it's france's. i mean you could say it's a huge part of it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mildly but specifically niger and that part where the people reside. do you see it on top of that we've got more updates an expert analysis of the crisis in north africa on a website as well r.t. dot com. from mr david cameron used the hostage crisis in algeria to delay his

announcement on britain's future role within the e.u. also calling the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage it's after the pm was forced to cancel for his speech on the issue now to sort of caught up with the you could lead to discuss the released extracts from the would be address. key to 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 you are a powerhouse 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. 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 a euro agenda she exactly what harold wilson did forty years ago this speech is

happening because of the rise of years ago and 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 are we dependent nation as a democracy and determine their own future or not and i want to referendum now more of a promise because i want to ask 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 or 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. would have the e.u. what if it were all about the us about the new thing a 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 eight percent of our overseas exports and it's an important market place but the rest of the world is more important to us impotent because we're stuck inside this old fashioned nineteenth century concept of a customs union we can't 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 seen this latest postponement to take understandable reasons but i've seen you 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 a. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech another couple of weeks doesn't matter too much thank you very much for joining us nice job for us and the clear information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered there something is that it could be as early as next week and of course the latest face payment making that big speech on europe no less controversial. sort of furthur of course what happens will be across the britain the come as well the end of this time it's child labor and the sex trade human trafficking is on the rise in the u.k. despite government efforts to try to stamp out the exploitation of immigrants because right after this break.

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the spanish find out more visit. the artistic director of the historic bolshoi theatre successfully undergone an initial operation to try to save his sight after that gruesome acid attack in central moscow however doctors say it's still too early to predict whether surrogate filling will fully manage to regain his vision the story now from within a caution of. doctors say the surrogate burning is in a satisfactory condition and currently he is that's 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 on the bolshoi theatre suffered c.v.s. degree burns to face and his eyes top top and a late on thursday a story

a feeling was coming back home an unidentified man wearing a mask through a bolt of 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 off the big valley is tough and since they're first down steps the law i've done some involves our recent hours of punishing trainings and we have seen that in the oscar winning movie black swan how the life of the professional ballets to a lot of infighting and intrigue disturbingly for the people of the vaal shorey 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 was dependent upon his decisions on your show the hard 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 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 . colics believes that perhaps the disapproval of he is 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 maybe somebody didn't agree with them but others really did our people receive multiple awards for the productions but nobody should be reacting to something they don't like with such inhumane cruelty so far at the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack is

felons professional activity. twenty seven million people in the world today are caught in some form or other of slavery but eight hundred thousand of being trafficked across borders each year what might surprise you is that one magnet for those exploiting others for sex or forced labor is britain or a smith investigates why i wasn't allowed out wasn't allowed. i was the one or the claim. of 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 the.

actor 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 and the house is 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 streets for nine months begging until she eventually found help through ecpat 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 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 retreat. victims say they were just ten percent. twenty thousand. 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 the 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 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 of controlling and and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the traffickers and hospital time unless the authorities do something to intervene antony steen founder of a parliamentary group on trafficking is leading the biggest ever conference on the subject held in britain slavery is. 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. gunmen have blown up an important oil pipeline in yemen at the blast an explosives form planted overnight cause serious damage and halted all transportation in the southern suburb province the pipelines operated by the career national oil company and it transfers crude oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden al-qaeda which the government blamed for the blast has frequently attacked oil routes since the opening of yemen's veteran president earlier bill or sell a early last year. activists in syria say fierce battles are being fought between rebels and soldiers in the country's northeast opposition fighters are said to be trying to lay siege to two army bases and block roads that supply them this is a u.n. delegate this rather as a u. integration visit so rubbish towns villages to assess the need for humanitarian aid diplomatic efforts to create a unity government of so far failed when the almost two year long conflict was killed more than sixty thousand. venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly

been moved from a hospital in cuba with his receiving cancer treatment to a secret location is rumored to now be in a bunker has been specially built for the former cuban leader fidel castro so apparently to avoid leaks to the media about chavez's health and in preparation for in two term home yelling leader has been seen since his latest cancer surgery in mid december and later misters own inauguration ceremony. a post called the leader of all gary's ethnic turkish party look at that he escaped assassination when a man jumped on the stage and pointed a gun of the politicians head no shots were fired in the twenty five year old attacker was immediately wrestled to the ground by guards and party members members also armed with two knives a party chairman afterwards duggan later resigned to the conference. now better to atone for the excesses of the holidays than a naked plunge into ice cold water it's a perfectly for orthodox christians and

a day for the breathtaking dip in line with centuries old tradition our fearless correspondent peter oliver went to enjoy the full experience if you can bear it take 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 here to show them but i was quite prange khaled's 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 you know as i was acquitted i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i'm healed and you were showing the natural course 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 pitch 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 woods from my own experience stove and cold. let's say i did provided that the first day i put the article on what i read moshe so the russian went his own girl tell you you're there exerts so. i could say i'm feeling very exhilarated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is blood in you going to be in can he's the chairman of the russian ice swimming and cold water treatment federation and insists that there are genuine medical benefits if you're the main way i swimming works for you is through blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm your body contracts his blood vessels so there's less blood pumped around the system so where does the excess blood go it goes to the vital

organs that is why it's good for the kidneys and liver they are constantly cleansed . blood in me has also trained thrill seekers who want to push the abilities of the human body to the limits. day of holds the record for time spent in icy water could. 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 blah to 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 peter all of a r.t. moscow. going to give the cold shoulder as the u.k. foreign office says british veterans who served in the legendary convoy not allowed to accept russian medals for bravery we report about online and kind of the currency controversy as new notes sporting the country's national symbol discovered boston is showing the wrong kind of maple leaf. or by that too then. coming up here we explore the challenges of being a single father living in russia that story coming up after the break.

congress's 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 us keep up the good work go for one percent popularity and maybe someone. actually do something about you but that's just my opinion.

there's a family start with an exercise no matter what the type of yeah or whether. you think you. know i. was. out in the morning to walk in the winter a start of so we can go and scrub ourselves with snow. they haven't been. i can't remember the last time they were sick so you know little. kids makes them different from their peers is the fact that they live with only one parent father. single mothers are no longer an unusual phenomenon while a father devoting himself to his children is

a rare occurrence for many. however in russia there are thousands of single fathers just like romans are off. me. more the things that they could with. us. so that the table now boys. no breakfast in this family can start without saying grace roman became a believer after a serious illness that left him has brett from death in tries to instill his faith in his children. you've got to do when i took the kids to my place i simply did not know what to do i was running around like a madman i couldn't work twenty four hours at the parking lot. so i quit my job and started looking for other means of income i took up all kinds of jobs that i came

across. the court to strip the mother of parental rights concerning these boys some time ago. she's always drinking. she's not my mother anymore. and she abandoned us when i took the kids she didn't do anything at all for six months she didn't call or ask after us. i spoke to her relatives about her reaction they told me she felt ok as she had more time to go out. there are i am love her grand. children don't miss their mother but they want to have one in other words they don't miss a specific person in the mob want a mother figure on talk of not the one who gave birth to them and abandoned them they just want to.