with. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future. 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 his delayed address on britain's future release to the public. but also its artistic director successfully undergoes the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's being linked to his work at the world famous theater.

new center in moscow this is r.t. on chemicals to. 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 in or dayshift final raid to free the hostages held at a gas plant the number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three the militants said they took the captives in revenge for french intervention in neighboring mali going to reports now 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 by 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 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. recourse or information from. the day after this really started for most of all to 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 that home now 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. 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 won't tend 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 well activists and journalists account chandon says the current crisis in mali is a direct consequence of the intervention in libya. acquire excuse lead 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 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 and the mining 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 but 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 by them and it 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 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 oil and natural resources they're attempting to militarize huge ships of africa so they're able to monopolize access to the to the resources that their u.a.e. is francisco and 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 but specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the toric people reside do you see it on top of what as we've just heard some analysts suggest africa's untapped and 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 and despite the country being considered among the world's poorest nations it has plenty to offer when it comes to the wealth that lies beneath. african nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold as you can see trails only south africa and garner and there are some forecasts which indicate it could move into first place and gold exports and their

future of energy is another of mine is economic trump cards with it's raining deposits 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 supply in the chair was threatened by major work for strikes there well meanwhile another key global player china has been turning its own sights to the continent with increasing investments beijing claims its sport as much as nine point three billion u.s. dollars into the region from two thousand and five to twenty ten but u.s. sources say that figure could actually be as high as forty four billion dollars going across and it's expected to grow so molly is clearly a country of vast so unexplored wealth and investment opportunities which experts say foreign powers are prepared to fight for. well we have more updates and expert

analysis of the crisis in north africa on our website as r.t. dot com. well hostage crisis in algeria has forced david cameron to further delay his long anticipated address on the britain's future within the e.u. however some extracts of the speech i have been released the leader of the you came dependence party nigel farage told r.t. sera firth that despite the prime minister cozying up to us skeptics in parliament privately the pm 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 we're outside you are a powerhouse 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 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 you're a far agenda it's 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 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 or called laws or e.u. membership you know transparently body with a whole series of shocks you know three million british jobs would be lost if we left the european union really really we import massively more from the e.u. than we sell to them would mislead is stop selling cars. i think we all know. when you'll be looking to trade outside well you know what i'm saying is this europe is europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below are 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 but i've 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 another 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 europe no less controversial. from britain to come only this time it's child labor in the sex trade off the break taking a look at the sinister world of.

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welcome back you're watching. they have also a theater artistic director in has successfully undergone an initial operation to save his sight was off to a gruesome acid attack by a mosque outside his home in moscow on thursday night surgeons say it's too early to predict whether he will regain his vision but in the continent has more on the story. doctors say terri gave burning isn't a satisfactory condition and currently she 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 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. degree burns to face and his eyes top top and a late on thursday as thirty filling was coming back home and unidentified man wearing a mask through a bolt of right into his face there is also a street surveillance video that captured the exact moment all this 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 i've done stuff 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 bali. events have taking a sinister and dramatic twist those who are gay filling became the artistic director all the balls surely just in march twenty eleven still some of his colleagues say that most the average thing out the theater that was dependent upon his decisions on your show he hard on 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 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 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 that 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 villains professional activity. canadian bankers may need to go back to school for a lesson on the basics of the national heritage that's after some you want to mr spock to blemish you twenty dollars explain the current secret you know website to dot com. one fish has really waken fears that contamination from the devastating to the flu a nuclear plant is still a present danger. by some estimates up to twenty seven million people are currently enslaved but many finding themselves forced into prostitution each year about eight hundred thousand

people are trafficked across borders into countries not usually associated with slavery well done correspondent norsemen 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. looking after the children. but i was never 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 then 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 had to keep playing. eventually sarah's female employer threw her out of the house aged just fourteen with no way of contacting relatives at home she lived on the streets for nine months begging until she eventually found help through ecpat an international group campaigning against child trafficking it's a story that all too common and it's not just about domestic slavery according to experts many people are trafficked to work on cannabis farms in the u.k. and they're often kept in a perpetual cycle of debt or through fear of repercussions for their families but another sector that says is rife with trafficking victims particularly from asia is high street nail bar so next time you go for a manicure pedicure ask yourself who serving you and is the sell 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 victim. come from all over the world africa europe and the far east. more than two thousand people two thousand victims there's over two thousand victims say they were just ten percent. twenty thousand. trafficked into this country. for organized criminal gangs profiting thing to drugs and a lot less chance of getting caught the rise could be because more cases of being reported but chloe seta 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 children and people because a child can be recycled a human can be recycled the drugs that they have a one off crime so there's a number of ways of controlling and once that happens they are literally sort of assigned to the trafficker from 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 more stories making headlines around the world this hour thousands of marched through the greek capital offense to protest against the rising racist attacks including the recent murder of a pakistani immigrant hundred fifty pakistanis in the small number of greeks are gathered outside athens 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 rightwing golden dawn party has been accused of orchestrating the violence. major oil pipeline has been blown up by unidentified gunman 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-qaeda may have been responsible such attacks have increased since president ali abdullah saleh was toppled last year. in the bug area a man has been arrested after trying to shoot the leader of the movement for rights

and freedoms its act took place at a meeting of the ethnic turkish part of the capital so the gunman who is of turkish descent tried to fire a pistol that point blank range before he was overpowered by security authorities believe the weapon may have misfired. over nolen three men have been arrested following the latest in a series of protests over flying during flag above belfast city hundreds of loyalists attended a demonstration outside the building there was a strong police presence and several roads were blocked the event passed without any further violence just to say they'll continue their demonstrations until the council reverses its decision like. now how better to atone for the excesses of the holidays and a naked plunge into ice cold water it's officially for orthodox christians and a day for breathtaking dip in line with centuries old traditions when our

correspondent peter oliver has been enjoying the full experience let's take a look. winter temperatures you 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 lops 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 was acquitted i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i'm healed. a natural part 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 maybe this isn't a new activity in the tradition of the russian orthodox church wishes mark the

feast of the epitome 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 stone cold. that somebody provided that the first they call the heart of what i read notion that the russian legs are girls i hear their exertion. i could say i'm feeling very exhilarated right now. the head walrus at this swimming hole is blood in you going to bank and he's the chairman of the russian ice swimming and cold water treatment federation and insists that no on genuine medical benefits. the main way i swimming works for you is can with blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm your body contracts his blood vessels so there's less blood pumped around the system so where does the excess blood go 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 who want to push the bill. tease of the human body to the limits. dave holds the record for time spent in the water yeah graham could. spend sixty minutes in there and i helped him get out of that condition when he could hardly talk we couldn't even say mama he couldn't walk his arms wouldn't but thirty five minutes later he was recovered and can talk to the press pretty. nice swimming federation one and a half million members across the country and bloody 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 fit as a butcher's dog. well it might not be everybody's idea of a good time but be it for health reasons or for spiritual reasons there's no

shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of a moscow. they had it well coming up let's challenge is a single father leave it to dad after the break stay with us. 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 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 was

right outside of a cursed incident which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartel. 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.

there's a lot of families with. the type of yeah or whether. they were here. in the morning to walk and run winter a start of. the snow. they haven't been ages i can't remember the last time they were sick. little. kids makes them different from their peers is the fact that they live with only one parent their father. single mothers and no longer an unusual phenomenon while a father devoting himself to his children is a rare occurrence for many. however in russia the risk of single fathers just like reminds us out.