these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations. seven more foreign hostages are reportedly killed in algeria bringing the death toll to at least twenty three as the military's final attempt to free the remaining captives ends in tragedy. david cameron is under fire for his ambiguous stance on europe as extracts of his delayed address on britain's future are released to the public. and the both choice to stick direct successfully undergo the first operation to save his eyesight after the acid attack that's been linked to his work at the world famous theater.

you're watching with me and. 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 don't you know final raid to free the hostages held at a gas plant a number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three militants said they took the captives in revenge for french intervention in neighboring mali. reports 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 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 pledged to help the mali government once he's really here by the 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 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 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 foremost. and 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 on 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 and public opinion will shift the way 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 ali boy k r t paris. but activists and journalists who can turn down the says the current crisis in mali is a direct consequence of the intervention in libya acquire excuse lead author the fall of gadhafi who fought a lot for the n.p.c.

french intelligence told them to go to northern mali in peace stabilize mali and the coup leader in while you overthrew the civilian government he was trained by the u.s. and french intelligence services so not only was my money destabilize and what with terror these are death squads who targeted the heritage of mali undermining people and then nato have wanted these people to actually to drop in our jury or so this is what happened and this is a direct consequence in french and the british are bombing these death squads so so to them to stop them going southwards for them to go northwards into algeria and that's what's happened with libyan work or weapons this all situation is crystal clear in my opinion well adam cooper the associate editor of cease fire magazine suggests that france may have a vested interest in expanding its intervention in north africa france has like 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 oil and natural resources

they're attempting to militarize huge ships of africa so they want to monopolize access to this to the resources that you radiate is france is also many people say it's a huge part of it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the tourist people reside do you see it's on top of. that as we've just heard some analysts suggest africa's untapped natural resources could be the main reason attracting western powers to the continent it's also being cited as a pretext for the intervention in mali well smart the country being considered among the world's poorest nations it has plenty to offer when it comes to the wealth that lies beneath. the african nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold and as you can see here it trails well in excess of africa and garner and some forecasts which indicate it could move into first place in gold

exports in the near future meanwhile energy is another of mali's economic trump cards with its you rainy and deposits are believed to number over five thousand tons of france relies almost entirely on uranium as fuel for its nuclear power plants and it's believed the french government is now eyeing the mali deposits after its main source of uranium supply in the jail was threatened by a major work for strikes there well meanwhile another key global player china has been turning its own sights the continent with increasing investments beijing claims its 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 the figure could actually be as high as forty four billion dollars going across and is expected to grow so mali is clearly a country of vast unexplored wealth and investment opportunities which experts say

foreign powers are prepared to fight for we have more updates an expert analysis solve the crisis in north africa on our website that's r.t. dot com. well the hostage crisis in algeria has forced a david cameron to further delay his long anticipated address on britain's future with the e.u. however some extracts of the speech have been released the leader of the you came dependence party national ferrars told sarah firth that despite the prime minister cozying up to us skeptics in parliament privately he wants a britain in the union. due to the ongoing hostage crisis in algeria involving a number of british nationals amongst others the prime minister had to postpone that long awaited fourth 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 for 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 far agenda she exactly what harold wilson did forty years ago this speech is happening because of the rise of you get on the rise of you could has led to massive discontent on the back benches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party in the whole country that's what he's responding to so that's why he talked tough and says we must renegotiate but the reality of what he says if you read the subtext is that the e.u. is very good for us but it serves our interests and i promise i promise god to do my best over the next five years to do everything i can to keep britain a member of that unions this issue is a key constitutional issue it isn't even about economics it's about who governs britain it's about our wheat independent nation as a democracy and determine their own future or not and i want to referendum now. ok

i want to say there's a lot of concern that if a person left the that 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 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 you than we sell to them is stop selling cars. i think we all know. when you'll be looking to trade outside well you know what i'm saying is this europe is aging europe is a percentage of the world economy is now. 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 can't 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 seen this latest postponement to take understandable reasons seen a number of delays already what do you think about that the fact that this is such a huge and we just. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech not a couple weeks. thank you very much for joining us nigel for us clear information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered this summer mean is that it could be as early as next week and of course the latest place payment making that big speech on your controversial. more news from britain to come only this time it's child labor and sex trade the break with. the world of human

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more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all. welcome back here with. the bolshoi theatre artistic director so they feel that it has successfully on the go on an initial operation to save his sight a softer gruesome acid attack by masked men outside his home in moscow on thursday night surgeons say it's too early to predict whether he will regain his vision. has more on the story now. doctors say sarah gate building is in a satisfactory condition and currently he is that 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 out the bolshoi theatre suffered c.v.s. degree burns to face and his eyes top top and a late on thursday feeling was coming back home and on identifying to 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. recent hours of punishing trainings and we have seen dogs in the oscar winning movie black swan on holiday life all the professional ballets full of

infighting and intrigue disturbingly for the people of the bol shorey theater events have taking a sinister and dramatic twist though sergei filling became the artistic director all the bolshoi just in march twenty eleven still some of his colleagues say that most the average thing out the theater out 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 joint surrogate feelings also known for his passion towards contemporary performances and he introduced 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 expect that we've been having

a lot of contemporary performances recently which maybe somebody didn't agree with them but others really did people receive multiple awards for the productions but nobody should be reacting to something they don't like with such inhumane cruelty so far the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack yes villains professional activity. some of canadian bankers may need to go back to school for a lesson on the basics of not to talk to some eagle eyed botanist spotted a blemish on a new twenty dollars bank note to explain the currency controversy on our website to dotcom bust. how one fish has really waken fears that contamination from the devastated because shimon nuclear power is still at present danger that his own daughter r.t. dot com. by some estimates up to twenty seven million people are currently enslaved many finding themselves forced into prostitution each

year about eight hundred thousand people are trafficked across borders into countries usually associated with slavery or london correspondent laura smith looks at how the trade in the u.k. continues to flourish despite the government's best efforts. it wasn't allowed to do anything i was the one doing the claim cooking looking after the children. but i wasn't even allowed to take the kids to school i was locked inside the house when i was nowhere in 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 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. 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 was clean i still had to keep cleaning 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 skull on that figures from the into departmental ministerial group or human trafficking show it's risen by thirty three percent compared to last year and victim. come from all over the world africa europe and the far east. more than two thousand people or two thousand victims there's over two thousand victims say they were just ten percent. twenty thousand. trafficked into this country. first for organized criminal gangs this is the second most profitable thing to drugs and a lot less chance of getting caught that rice 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 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 trucks that they have a crime so there's a number of ways of controlling and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the traffickers for 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. more stories making headlines around the world this hour thousands have marched through the greek capital athens rest against the right racist attacks in the recent murder of a pakistani immigrant hundred fifty pakistanis on a small number of greeks gathered outside city hall to pay their respects the country has seen a surge in anti immigrant attacks since the start of the economic crisis three years ago the right wing at golden dawn party has been accused of orchestrating this. major oil pipeline has been blown up by unidentified gunmen in the south of yemen the blast halted the transportation of oil to export terminals in the gulf of aden government suspects local tribesmen or al qaeda may have been responsible such attacks have increased since president ali abdullah saleh was toppled last year. in vogue area man has been

arrested after apparently trying to shoot the leader of the movement for rights and freedoms attack took place at a meeting of the ethnic turkish party in the capital sophia the gunman who was of turkish descent tried to fire a pistol range before he was overpowered by security authorities believe the weapon may have misfired. and in northern ireland three men have been arrested following the latest in a series of protests over buying the union flag. hundreds of loyalists attended the demonstration outside the building was a strong police presence and several roads were blocked by the event passed without any further violence but testers say they will continue their protest to the council reverses its decision over the fact. and how better to atone for the excesses of the holidays than a naked plunge into ice cold water it's a pity for orthodox christians on the day for

a breathtaking dip in line with centuries old traditions but our correspondent peter has been enjoying the full experience take a look. winter temperatures calmly 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 goes quite prange khaled's all my life until i turned sixty eight when i took up i swimming and i've never had any kind of a cold since then who knows how does it i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i'm healed and they 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 stove and cold. that somebody provided that the first day they put their heart when a road mission so the russian legs aren't girl tell you you're there exerts so. i could say i'm standing very exonerated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is blood in you going to be nk and he's the chairman of the russian i swimming and 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 your body contracts its 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 changed the thrill seekers he wants to push the abilities of the human. building to the limits . day of holds the record for time spent in the water graham 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 pretty. nice swimming federation one and a half million members across the country and led 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 all for spiritual reasons there's no shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of a moscow. more news is coming your way a little over half an hour's time coming up a tough journey for a russian left to care for his children the death of his wife leave it to dad who's off the break him without. congress' approval rating has hit an all time low never has american record history been so disappointed with the law making body 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 getting reelected or being punished in any way for their bad behavior so you know congress i have to say to keep up the good work go for one percent popularity and maybe someone will actually do something about you but that's just my opinion.

there's a lot of family stuff with. no matter what the type of yeah or whether. they want to let you stay here. in the morning to walk in the winter a start of so we can go and scrub ourselves with snow. they haven't been ill in the ages i can't remember the last time they were sick. you know that was a cute little. very cheerful kids put makes them do.