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tonight seven more foreign hostages are killed in algeria as the military carries out the final botched attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron is accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rivals seizing on extracts of his address britain's future in the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and the bolshoi theatre is artistic director successfully undergoes the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's being linked to his profession.
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good morning she is covering the inherently arty new center this morning just after midnight moscow time and our top story the hostage crisis in algeria has ended after four days but with further loss of life seven foreign civilians and eleven islamic terrorists were killed when the military launched an all day shoots final raid to free the hostages held it a gas plant the number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three the militants said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali. reports from paris. 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
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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 bread americans japanese citizens no 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
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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 pledge to help the mali government once he's really here but 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 move 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
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a media blackout and accuse the government of making it intentional that journalists are bracing for thing is that. we have no. recourse or information from . the day after this really started for most of all that when you see what's happening 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 usa is 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 themselves seem to be saying. that it's going to be
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a failure because you cannot drive out all the terrorists. and 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 won't tens until 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. r.t. paris. who's in algeria says the terrorist who originally taken hundreds of people hostage were ready to cause a bloodbath armed with a massive arsenal of libyan weapons. been ready to kill.
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me and. it took. no human. should make. and destroy. and that's my job. and what. happens. if you have. just been seething i spoke to adam alan cooper who says he there's a ceasefire magazine he suggested france could have a vested interest in expanding its intervention in north africa. i think the response that sponsors we hope for probably be something along the lines of number
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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 thing 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 there's approaches the question front is harry heavily reliant on nuclear for its energy is it trying to protect its maybe future reserves is highly likely you ease france's or you. 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 other parts where the two are people reside. do you see it on top of well does we just heard them some analysts suggest africa's untapped natural resources could be the main reason attracting western powers to the
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continent is also being cited as a pretext for the intervention in mali to despite the country being considered among the world's poorest nations the catch is it's got plenty to offer when it comes to wealth that lies beneath let's take a look to another african nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold as you can see here it trails only so that africa and garner. there's the graph you can see it for yourself and there are some forecasts which indicate it could move into first place in gold exports in the near future to energy is another of mali's economic trump card this is another. back story here another bit of it anyway uranium deposits believed to number over five thousand tons france relies almost entirely of course on your a new nuclear power fuel for its nuclear power plants it's believed paris could now be eyeing the mali deposits after its main source of uranium supply in egypt air was threatened by a major work for strikes there something else that's going into the equation as well meantime of course let's look at that map here it comes another key global
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player china it's been turning its own sights the continent with increasing investments there they are beijing claims it's poured as much as nine point three billion u.s. dollars into the region between two thousand and five and twenty ten but u.s. sources say that figure could actually be as high as forty four billion dollars and indeed it is expected to grow as well somali clearly a country of vast unexplored wealth and investment opportunities which experts are saying foreign powers are prepared to fight for. but of course you can catch up with all the latest updates and expert analysis on the crisis by staying to do us here at our international also on our website as well r.t. dot com. some of britain's prime minister david cameron used the hostage crisis in algeria to delay his announcement of his country's future with the e.u. and that's deeply damaging according to the leader of u.k. independence party despite the pm canceling friday's speech some extracts were released you completed nigel farage explain to our sara further dangers that lie
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between the lines. 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 were outside the house 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 nigel and 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 far agenda 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 backbenches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party in the country and that's what he's responding to so that's why he talked tough and says he was renegotiate but the reality of what he says if you
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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 union 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 promise ok i want to ask you there's a lot of concern that if a person left the 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 for 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.
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that we sell to them would mislead is stop selling cars. we have the e.u. what is it we're all about. and you think britain should be looking to trade outside well you know what i'm saying is this europe is aging europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below are quite sharply it is gripped by eurozone crisis which is likely because of their fanaticism to keep it together the last rock 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 a. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech not
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a couple of weeks doesn't matter too much thank you very much for joining us nigel for us and the clear information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered there some 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. in. the front of the audience there now this month payback time for the fun and frolic said christmas and new year. i can tell you. right now yes pretty does one word for it it's a for all for dogs christians which means the freezing cold waters on join our coast want to put some soul cleansing and. also to brittany's yeah flourishing slave trade human trafficking is on the rise in the u.k. despite government efforts to stamp out the exploitation of immigrants party
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news today. these are the images from seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation. against. the artistic director of the story bolshoi theater successfully on the gun with an issue operation to try to save his sight after that gruesome acid attack in central moscow but doctors say it's still too early to predict whether they will fully manage to regain his vision they just almost or them from a culture of. doctors say the surrogate burning is in 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
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now the doctors say that it's 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 and on identifying to 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 how 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 they're first down steps the law i've done so 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 full of infighting and intrigue disturbingly for the people of the bol surely theater
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events have taking a sinister and dramatic twist though sergei filling became the artistic director all the ball surely just in march twenty eleven 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 to 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 to 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 his actions might have been one of the reasons behind this attack in the book that we've been having a lot of contemporary performances recently maybe somebody didn't agree with them
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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 at the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack is villains professional activity. in a country over it's thought that up to twenty seven million people in the world today a quarter of in some form of slavery about eight hundred thousand of being trafficked across borders every year one might surprise you those one for those exploiting others for sex or forced labor is great britain on his or a smith breast it's why. i wasn't allowed out i wasn't allowed to do anything i was the one doing all the cleaning. up to 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 side it sounds like something from an eighteenth century workhouse but it's britain today so it was trafficked to this country aged twelve now
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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 right and i targeted 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 a pact 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
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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 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 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 . world africa europe and the far east. police estimate more than two thousand people over two thousand victims there's over two thousand victims say they were just ten percent or twenty thousand. trafficked into this country each year it is huge business. first for organized criminal gangs is the second most profitable
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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 smuggle children and people because a child can be recycled he will can be recycled the drugs once they are sold. they have a one off crime so there's a number of ways that the control and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the traffic and 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
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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. will do stories of bringing up to date on this government of blown up an important role pipeline in yemen the blast explosives reportedly planted overnight core serious damage and halted all transport in the southern suburbs province the pipelines operated by the career national oil company transfers crude oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden al qaeda which the government blames the blast as frequently attacked oil routes since the ousting of yemen's veteran president ali abdullah last year. other headlines activists in syria say fierce battles have been fought between rebels and soldiers in the country's northeast opposition fighters
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are said to be trying to lay siege to army bases and block roads that supply the this is a u.n. delegation visit war ravaged towns and villages to assess the need for humanitarian aid diplomatic efforts to create a unity government of so far failed to win the almost two year long conflict this killed almost sixty thousand people that date for you but venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly been moved from a hospital in cuba where he was receiving cancer treatment to a secret location that is rumored to be in a bunker especially that was built for the former cuban leader fidel castro apparently to avoid leagues to the media about chavez's health and in preparation the two for its return home game leader hasn't been seen since his latest cancer surgery in mid december and later then mr in all directions. the less serious matter is peter all of a must be involved i think a correspondent next yes sure he is how to atone for the excesses of the holidays while you can do it with a naked plunge into ice cold water it's
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a pity for those christie of the day for breathtaking dip in line with centuries old tradition here is peter all over enjoying the experience. 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 shouldn't lose quite prange colds all my life until i turn sixty eight when i took up iceland and i've never had any kind of a cold since then who knows i was acquitted i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now healed and they were showing the natural course part after i took i swimming i regained my flexibility i could even do a proper likes but that's how it works here and i recommended to everyone it's the only existing cure to all illnesses heat and maybe this isn't a new activity in the tradition of the russian orthodox church worshippers mark the
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feast of the fifine 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 love these woods from my own experience stove and cold yeah that's the way i did provided that the first day of the play road mission so the russian legs on girl tell you you're there exert so. i could say i'm standing very exhilarated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is blood in me a bit of dank and he's the chairman of the russian ice swimming and cold water treatment federation and insists that not genuine medical benefits. could get the main way i swimming works for us but with blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm my body contract says blood vessels are going you know there's less blood around the system so where does the excess blood go goes to the
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vital organs that is why it's good for the kidneys and liver they are constantly cleansed blood in me has also changed thrillseekers he wants to push the ability. yes of the human going to the limits. day of holds the record for time spent in ice and water yeah graham could. spend sixty minutes in there and i helped him get out of that condition when he could hardly talk your move where he couldn't even say mama you most he couldn't walk his arms wouldn't know it but thirty five minutes later he was recovered and can talk to the press pretty. nice swimming federation has sworn off million members across the country and blah to me it does his best to drum up more support with his own personal guarantee for the hospital 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 right now look at me if it is 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
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shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of a moscow. you can exclude me i'll be back with more news in just over an hour's time you're an r t thanks for being with us tonight before the next program of the martin interviews a self-confessed economic hit man break it was said after 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
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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. 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 in 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. looking.
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to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and like i've said. i mean. i know that i'm. really not. very closely. the. worst for the food the white house sick of it. for a minute. what. a good kid you never seen anything like this country . looks. might have us all going to breaking the set i'm having martin i want to start the show by reading your letter i'd like to send to congress at the post office sticks around long enough for me this.

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