markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. seven more foreign hostages were 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. europe as extracts his delayed address on britain's future in the e.u. are released to the public. the bolshoi's artistic director successfully on the go the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack being linked to his work at the world famous theatre.

live from our new center here in moscow this is our team killing. 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 in the military. 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 pledge to help the mali government once he's really here by the norm or do. they maybe taking on in mali. there may be a lot of questions then asked about his judgment and a lot of people who are supposedly supporting him now or may very quickly turn around and criticize it's already beginning to happen we've spoken to provisions here who lament the fact that they weren't told in advance that the military offensive was set to take place meanwhile voices in the french media complain of

a war with no pictures they say that there's a media blackout and accuse the government of making it intentional journalist surprising thing is that. we had no. 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 a lengthy and costly and deeply unpopular wars at home now if this 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 then 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 will intends 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 probably boyko r.t. paris. well activists and journalists who can't stand says the current crisis in mali is a direct consequence of intervention in libya. who fled after the fall of gadhafi who 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 while you overthrew the civilian government he was trained by the u.s. and french intelligence services so not only was my money destabilized and what with terror these are death squads who targeted the heritage of mali and the mining people and then nato have wanted these people to actually to draw in our jewry 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 stop them going southwards but for them to go northwards into algeria and that's what's happened with libyan work or weapons this whole situation is crystal clear in my opinion or adam elliot cooper the associate editor of a ceasefire 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 colonies far more than britain and i think the second thing would be favorable terms of trade. 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 francisco you many people 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 neighboring parts where the two are people reside do you see it 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 despite the country being considered among the world's poorest nations and 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 there as you can see here it trails only behind south africa and garner and there are some forecasts which indicate it could move into first place in gold exports in the near future energy is another of his economic trump cards with its

uranium deposits believed to number over five thousand tons or france relies almost entirely on uranium as fuel for its nuclear power plants and it's believed the french government is now eyeing the market deposits after its main source of uranium supply in this area was threatened by major work for strikes there. when one another key global player china has been turning its own sights of 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 five billion dollars going across and it's 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 and expert analysis solve the crisis in north africa on our web site that's r.t.

dot com. the hostage crisis in algeria has forced a david cameron to further today 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 nigel farage told r.t. sarah firth despite the prime minister cozying up to euro skeptics in parliament privately the pm wants 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 we're outside your 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 nigel and

some of the excerpts are revealed 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 you get on the rise of ukip 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 are we dependent nation as a democracy and determines our 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 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 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 unit we sell to them would mislead is stop selling cars. think we're all about. to 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. 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 the. exact. market place but

the rest of the world. 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 but i've seen a number of delays already what do you think about that the fact that this is such a huge i mean. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech not a couple weeks. thank you very much for joining us now for us clear information about when exactly that big speech in europe will be delivered summering is that it could be as early as next week and of course the latest place payment making that big speech on your. time it's child labor in the sex trade after the break we'll take a look at. the

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streets of canada. shank operation to rule the day. welcome back here without the bolshoi theatre artistic director finn has successfully undergone an initial operation to save his sight a softer gruesome acid attack by a masked man outside his home in moscow on thursday night surgeons say it's too early to predict whether he'll regain his vision but in the culture never has more on the story. doctors say terri gave burning isn't a satisfactory condition and currently he is that one of moscow's burn center he has already been questioned by the investigators after he underwent an eye surgery now the doctors say 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. degree burns to face and his eyes get 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 all this on a down to fight 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 if we don't stop involves our 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 show a 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 was dependent upon his decisions on your show hard on people promoted and 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 also movie. colics believes that perhaps the disapproval of he is actions might have been one of the reasons behind this attack we've been having a lot of contemporary performances recently which maybe somebody didn't approve of 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 at the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack is for lens professional activity. moving on now some canadian the bankers may need to go back to school for a lesson on the basics of the national heritage i saw after some large bottomless blemish on the new twenty dollar banknote we explain the currency controversy on our website or to dot com plus. one fish has reawakened fears that contamination in the devastated schuman nuclear plant is still a present danger. by some estimates up to twenty seven million people are currently enslaved and many farming themselves forced into prostitution each year about eight hundred thousand people are trafficked across borders into countries not usually associated with

slavery or london correspondent nor smith looks at how the trade in the u.k. continues to flourish despite the government's best efforts. i wasn't allowed to do anything i was the one doing all the claimed all 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 tonight and 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 is clean i still have to keep playing and 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 pat an international group campaigning against child trafficking it's a story that all too common and it's not just about domestic slavery according to experts many people are trafficked to work on cannabis farms in the u.k. and they're often kept in a perpetual cycle of debt or through fear of repercussions for their families but another sector that 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 that sells

figures from the into departmental ministerial group on 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. police estimate 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. for. criminal gangs this is the second most profitable thing to drugs and a lot less chance of getting caught that rise could be because more cases of being reported but chloe setter who works with trafficking victims including sarah 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. children and people because a child can be recycled a human can be recycled the trucks that they have a. number of ways of controlling and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the traffic 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 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. now for some more international stories making headlines this hour

thousands of marched through the greek athens to protest against a rise in racist attacks including the recent murder of a pakistani immigrant hundred fifty pakistanis and a small number of greeks gathered outside city hall to pay their respects the country's senior surgeon anti immigrant attack since the start of economic crisis three years ago we golden dawn party has been accused of orchestrating the bonds. a 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 the government suspects local tribesmen or al qaida may have been responsible for such attacks have increased since president don't assign it was toppled last year. to bog area where a man has been arrested after apparently trying to shoot the leader of the movement

for rights and freedoms the track took place at a meeting of the turkish parliament capitals of. government who was of turkish descent trying to fire a pistol that point blank range before he was overpowered by security forces believe the weapon may have misfired. the northern ireland three men have been arrested following the latest in a series of protests in the belfast city hall hundreds of loyalists attended a demonstration outside the building was a strong police presence and several roads were blocked by the event passed without any further violence protests to say they'll continue their demonstrations into the council versus its decision. now how better to atone for the excesses of the holidays than a naked plunge into ice cold water yes it's really for orthodox christians and a day for taking dip in line with a centuries old tradition

a correspondent peter all about has been enjoying the full experience let's take a look. winter temperatures are 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 eight when i took up i swimming and i've never had any kind of a cold since then who knows. i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i'm healed there were sure a natural part 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 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 it's not even close. i don't say i did provided that the first day i pulled out how to play road mission so the russian legs on 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 bloody me a bit of dank and he's the chairman of the russian i swimming in cold water treatment federation and insists that no on genuine medical benefits. the main way i swimming works for you is good blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm your body contracts his blood vessels and so 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 taking a thrill seekers who want to push the bill. tease of the human golden 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 when he couldn't even say mama he couldn't walk his arms wouldn't go but thirty five minutes later he was recovered and can talk to the press pretty. nice 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 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

shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of a. cause a reporter will keep you company until the next news around. this time next kaiser and stacy her but take us to the front line of world currency was who's doing the fighting stay with. wealthy british style. time.

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to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know the 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 stays here 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 deutsche a boon to spanks new storage plan.