this is r.t. this morning seven more foreign hostages are killed in algeria as the military carries out a final attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron is accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seeing as i had extracts of his address on britain's future of the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. the bolshoi theatre is artistic director successful in the growth of the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack is being linked with.

good morning chief who just joined this kevin owen here at the new set of this morning's one am moscow time now 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 she's final raid to try to free the hostages held at that gas plant the number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three than the militants said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervening intervening in neighboring mali artie's police 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 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 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. normally do you 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 only surprising thing is that. we had no. 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 will 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 the mission creep 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. many soldiers die and there are attacks in paris then 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 many french people are beginning to wonder. and just how long that might take and out what cost . paris well as can some more thoughts on the show talking to activists and journalists who can chant there is a line from london so morning to you thanks for being a nazi let's listen if we can for a second. views as well so. he's in algeria this is what he had to say about the

crisis. being ready to kill. me and. human. should make. plans and let my dog. out. and he didn't leave us. so important a line there but the message very clear the terrorist ready to cause

a bloodbath a massive arsenal of libyan weapons so as you see it how much danger do you think such is the most militant groups pose in the region now. they don't we pose a big problem the region where let's just backtrack and just zoom out and contextualize this a little bit because what happened is everyone's talking about some fallout from libya when the libya crisis happened i don't hear many most of these voices talking anything about denouncing nato operation in libya since february twentieth eleven but libya was sandwiched by the regime change in tunisia in egypt on the one hand and that created facilitator the nato operation because gadhafi was isolated with the fall of libya and let's be very clear it's all on record in the mainstream jamestown foundation sources have said that the twenty six who fled after the fall of gadhafi you fought a lot who worked for the n.p.c. french intelligence told them to go to northern mali and destabilize mali and the coup leader in mali who overthrew the civilian government it's on record again on

the jamestown foundation website that he was trained by the u.s. and french intelligence services and so not only was my money destabilized and what with terror these courts and so-called your hobbies they're not your hobby if your heart is an honorable obligation to fight against oppression these are death squads who targeted the heritage of mali and the margin people and then nato have wanted these people to actually to draw in our jewry and so this is what's happened and this is a direct consequence nato of sort of the french and the british are bombing these death squads so so to them stop them going southwards but for them to go northwards into algeria and that's what's happened with libyan worth of weapons this whole situation is crystal clear in my opinion so you can let me get this clear then we get this clear that the suggestion is that these are the same militants that the coalition helped to get to power in libya yet and if so how the vote is in france going to take that well absolutely this is this is a whole before them and as usual going on with this whole operation it's very clear that they've been fed from libya with the facilitation of egypt and particularly

tunisia into northern mali and now into algeria i'm going some other very important things to say but also there's a person called jeremy keenan at sawgrass who is absolutely can can afford to skunk's because they use their. stink for self-defense this man helps nato operation get out syria he wanted out do it of course straight after gadhafi is libya and now he's been quoted in the new international and even to the shame of patrick coburn but he's he's saying that these job hard these so called out in algeria were actually created by the end i would you're an intelligence service it's nonsense and to quote he said his only source to cite this is to quote schindler a former high ranking u.s. intelligence officer a long standing member of the us national security council and currently professor of national security affairs where at the new u.s. naval war college and this this is the type of misinformation and war propaganda that people who support the independence off algeria in the coming nato campaign

against algeria will have to expose and defeat but the financial times has also said something you say coming nato campaign you think it's going to escalate absolutely let me quote the financial times financial times is not the mass media it's not the media for the masses the financial times is the british financial elite talking to itself about its strategy and to quote this is financial times from the eighteenth just a just yesterday the eighteenth of january twenty seventh it says some believe that the effects of the crisis that's currently happening could could be even profound pushing some oil groups into quitting the north african country altogether this could be the last to be the winner there the who are the winners and losers of the not the financial times is accusing this direct quote of resource nationalism the financial times accused libya of resource nationalism only just over one year before the nato operation took place in libya so what they want to do they want to smash the only real mainstay of the algerian economy which is gas and oil financial

times is calling for impurities investment to pull out to economically strangle algeria and then to feed in their death squads mercenaries to destabilize execute to go in and already we have in white. the guardian's middle east foreign desk or. guardian desk calling algeria a despotic state all things are in place for the war propaganda operation against algeria but algerians will not be any. we've only got thirty seconds or two more things i want to ask you about france we're talking about involvement tonight why it's involved here is any of it down to the uranium deposits anything to do with that because it's so heavily relied on its nuclear industry safeguarding supplies now that they're doing lng from the asia is there anything of that or not do you think of course there is but it's not divide and rule any longer it's divide and destroy they want to knock out your is that one of the last three or four resistant and independent african nations the others being eritrea zimbabwe and bashar as a gun like i said financial times is accused resource nationalism exactly the same

thing but it's a libya just one year when you look when nato went in so all all everyone should be on red alert bridgeland in terms of what nato is planning on algeria and what is coming to algeria and they will not leave algeria alone until they are divided and destroyed and even. leaders are saying this thanks for your thoughts under their activists and journalists rather time but thank you for being on the program which preceded well ok as we heard some analysts suggesting africa's untapped natural resources could be the main reason attracting western powers to the continent's also being cited as a pretext for the intervention in mali we've been talking about this week despite the country being considered among the world's poorest nations it has plenty to offer when it comes to wealth that lies beneath let's take a look at the screen take a look at it the african nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold that we've mapped to the there's mali garnishing see south africa and you can see that it trails only south africa and garner there are some four cars which

indicated could move into first place indeed in gold exports in the near future some other facts and figures energy is another of molly's economic trouble with it she radium deposits believed to be over five. thousand terms of france are lying as was mentioning just know was entirely on your rain is fuel for its nuclear power plants it's believed maybe paris is eyeing these mali deposits now of as its main source of uranium supplies are just mentioned in asia was threatened by major work for strikes there so it's something else into the picture and another key global player let's take a look at the global map will be on the screen no china if we go china has been turning its own sights of the constant increasing investments let's take a look at those investments as best we could with the graphic there it goes beijing pouring as much as nine point three billion u.s. dollars into the region between twenty five and twenty ten but u.s. sources say that figure could actually be as high as forty four billion dollars and it's expected to grow so mali clearly

a country of vast unexplored wealth and investment opportunities which experts say foreign powers are prepared to fight for well as you'd expect we've got lots of updates on this and expert analysis on the crisis in north africa on our website as well r.t. dot com as well as here on r.t. . british prime minister david cameron used the hostage crisis in algeria to delay his announcement about his country's future with the e.u. and that is deeply damaging according to the leader of the u.k. independence party despite the pm canceling friday's speech some extracts have been released some one had some to say about that ukip leader nigel farage explain to our sara firth the dangers that lie between the lines. 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 farage the party that says we're better off out the. some of the excerpts that reveal quite a positive thing to that did that surprise you well positive in the sense of you know he's using euro skeptic language to pursue you or you're a far agenda 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 union this issue is a key constitutional issue it isn't even about economics it's about who governs

britain it's about all we've 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 say there's a lot of concern that if a person left the this is 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 you 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'll 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 and let's reengage with the rest of the world we've always see this latest postponement to take understandable reasons i don't see you seen a number of delays already what do you think about the fact that this is such a huge issue and we just. 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 clear information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered some is that it could be as early as next week and of course the latest postponement making that big speech on europe no less controversial.

heckling at the front of the audience no. this month is payback time for the fun of christmas new year. let's say. you're there existed. i can tell you one thing for me it's so good right now. it's epiphany for orthodox christians which means it's freezing cold back to our correspondent if you will for some cleansing a bit later this. technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia. for the future are covered. three.

three. three. three. three blog video for your media project a free media dog party dot com. you're on the artistic director of the historic bolshoi theatre he successfully undergone an initial operation to save his sight after that gruesome acid attack in central

moscow but doctors say it's still too early to predict whether it will fully regain his vision latest on the story to life within a culture. doctors say that sarah gave burning is in a satisfactory condition and currently he is that's one of moscow's burn center he has already been questioned why 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 get top top and late on thursday a surrogate filling 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 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 dogs in the oscar winning movie black swan how the life of the professional ballet is full of infighting and intrigue disturbingly for the people of the. events have taking a sinister and dramatic twist those who are gay filling became the artistic director all the bolshoi just in morris 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 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 through

a surrogate feelings also known for his passion towards contemporary performances and he introduced some on the stage of the bolshoi and now some of his. colleagues believe that perhaps their 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 maybe somebody didn't agree with them but others really did our people receive multiple rules 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 violence professional activity. government blown up or unimportant or pipeline in yemen the blast from explosives reportedly planted overnight cause serious damage not at all production transportation rather in southern province the pipeline operated by the national oil company transfers crude oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden al-qaeda which the government blames for the blast as frequently

a tight oil route since the ousting of yemen's better and president ali abdullah saleh early last year. to this is serious a fierce battles have been fought between rebels and soldiers in the country's northeast opposition fighters is said to be trying to lay siege to two army bases and what roads would supply them 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 end the almost two year conflict that's killed more than sixty thousand. now better to atone for the excesses of the holidays and they could plunge into ice cold water is a perfectly for orthodox christians of the day for a breathtaking dip in one way centuries old traditions we sent our correspondent peter all over to enjoy the full experience if you can bear it 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 shouldn't lose quite prange colds 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 doing it as. 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 i 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 they wish this isn't a new activity in the tradition of the russian orthodox church worshippers marked the feast of the pit 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 so when called. let's say i did

provided that the first day i put that what a road notion so the russian was uncool to your there exerts and. i could say i'm standing very exhilarated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is bloody me it could have been can he's the chairman of the russian i swimming in cold water treatment federation and insists that no a genuine medical benefits. could get the main way i swimming works for you is good with blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm my body contracts as blood vessels are going your there's less blood around the system so where does the excess blood go goes to the vital organs that is why it's good for the kidneys and liver they are constantly cleansed blood in me is also getting a thrill seekers he wants to push the abilities of the golden. to the limits. they have holds the record for time spent in one thousand yeah graham could do was

thirteen diane spent sixty minutes in there and i helped him get out of that condition when he could hardly talk your move we couldn't even say mama you must be couldn't walk his arms when you know that but thirty five minutes later he was recovered and can talk to the press. the ocean ice 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 the asphodel 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 all for spiritual reasons there's no shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of a. well let's play some of that they're all looking ok l.a. . thanks for being with me tonight kurrajong still be here with more news in around

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welcome to the kaiser report. you know their currency war is all bring out the body bags the first shots have been fired in the war to end all wars the currency war. oh yeah guys and this is been the big story of the kaiser report for the past three or four years and the f.t. from paces the financial times or eads 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 bundesbank 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.