seven 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 starts on europe as extracts of his delayed address on britain's future in the you are released to the public. on the bolshoi's artistic director successfully undergoes a first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's being linked to his work at the world famous that.

live from our new center in moscow this is our carriage. 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 on a fun way to free the hostages held at a gas plant number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three the militants said they took the captives in revenge for french intervention in neighboring mali pretty boy who reports now 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 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 but 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 journalists are bracing for 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 well if you spread 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 it has done for other wars either was started by france or was started by them by the u.s. but nevertheless french president francois hollande remains committed to the french military offensive in mali making grand statements that the french intervention was 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. r.t. paris. well activists and journalists who can't stand down says the current crisis in mali is the wrecked consequence of the intervention in libya the choir excuse 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 in destabilize mali and the coup leader in mali you overthrew the civilian government he was trained by the u.s. and french intelligence services so not only was my money be stabilized and what with terror these are death squads who targeted the heritage of morally undermining 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 of bombing these death squads so so to them 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. now i don't know any at 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 want 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 tourist people reside do you see it's on top of. well 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 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 as you can see here it trails only south africa and garner in that respect and there are some forecasts which indicate it could move into first place in gold exports in the near future where energy is another of mali's economic trump cards

with its you rainy emerging posits believed to number over five thousand tons of france relies almost entirely on uranium 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 the jet was threatened by major work for strikes there well meanwhile another key global player china has been turning its own sights the constant 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 the figure could actually be as high as forty billion dollars being pushed through 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 and expert

analysis solve the crisis in north africa on our website as r.t. dot com. the hostage crisis in algeria has forced david cameron to further delay his long anticipated address on britain's future with the e.u. however some extracts of a speech have been released and the victor of the u.k. independence party that's national faraj told r.t. sarah first that this sparked 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 for speech on europe but nonetheless some extracts of what he was expected to say in that speech have been revealed to us more about that were outside the house in london to talk to the leader of the u.k. independence party nigel for the party that says we're better off out the. some of

the excerpts that reveal quite a positive thing to that does well positive in the sense of you know he's using euro skeptic language to pursue a europe agenda she exactly what harold wilson did forty years ago this speech is happening because of the rise of using it 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 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 or 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 can we sell to them would mislead is stop selling cars. i think we all know. when you think the person should 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 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 like the swiss do 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 the fact that this is such a huge issue and we just. you know i've been waiting for years for this speech not a 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. so there are more news from britain to come only this time it's child labor and the said right after the break take an in-depth look at the sinister well the human

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eat. welcome back you're watching. the bolshoi theatre artistic director get a feeling has successfully undergone an initial operation to save his sight it's off to a gruesome acid attack by a mosque met outside his home in moscow on thursday night so don't say it's too early to predict whether he'll regain his vision what he's in a question about has more on the story. doctors say sarah gave billing isn't a satisfactory condition and currently he is that's 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 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 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 college in 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 that was depended 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 surrogate feelings also known for his passion towards contemporary performances and he introduced them 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 me and expect 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 the investigators believe the primary reason behind this attack is billons professional activity. or some canadian bankers may need to go back to school for a lesson on the basics of the national heritage that's after some botanists spotted a blemish on the new twenty dollars bank explain the currency controversy on our website or to be dot com. bust how one fish has reawakened fears that contamination from the devastated fukushima nuclear plant is still a present danger and that online. by some estimates up to twenty seven million people are currently enslaved with many finding 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. it wasn't allowed to. i was the one of the claim. to the children. the kids to school i was locked inside the house when i was nowhere in the door. 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. and right i kept getting the right. things i was like a slave never a time i kept. i kept trying to clean myself up and i kept getting called and she

was shouting asking. if the house is clean i still have to keep playing. eventually sarah's female employer threw her out of the house aged just fourteen with no way of contacting relatives at home she lived on the 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 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 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 victims come from all over the world africa europe and the far east. more than two thousand people live with two thousand victims there's a retreat. just ten percent. twenty thousand. trafficked into this country. for. criminal. profit to drugs and a lot less chance of getting caught that 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 previously been smuggling drugs

arms. into also children and people because a child can be recycled a human can be recycled the drugs 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 tracker for possibly a long 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 stories are making headlines around the world. have marched

through but who are finns to protest against a rise in racist attacks including the recent murder of a pakistani immigrant one hundred fifty pakistanis and a small number of greeks gathered outside athens city home 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 box. 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 qaeda may have been responsible for such attacks have increased since president ali abdullah saleh was toppled last year. in vogue area a man has been arrested after apparently trying to shoot the beat of the movement for rights and freedoms attack took place at

a meeting of the ethnic turkish party in the capital sofia the gunman who was of turkish descent tried to fire a pistol that point blank range before he was overpowered by security parties believe the weapon may have misfired. in northern ireland three men have been arrested following the latest in a series of protests over flying the british flag of a city hall hundreds of loyalists attended a demonstration outside the building was a strong police presence and several roads were blocked the event passed without any further violence protests to say they'll continue their demonstrations to the council versus its decision over the fact. now how better to atone for the excesses of the holidays and the naked plunge into ice cold water yes it's a perfectly for those christians and a day for breathtaking dip in line with centuries old traditions with our correspondent peter all of it has been enjoying the full experience the secular.

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 laps here and shouldn't lose quite prayed 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 looking at us as if i used to have terrible back pain but it's gone now i'm healed and there were surely a natural copartner after i took up my swimming i regained 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 each and maybe this isn't a new activity in the tradition of the russian orthodox church worshippers marked the feast of the with a late night submergence into the icy waters symbolizing the baptism of jesus to

anyone thinking that they would like to give it a go i do love these woods but from my own experience it's not even close. yet so how did provided that the first day put that what a road mission so the russian one does 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 again can he's the chairman of the russian ice swimming and cold water treatment federation and insists that no a genuine medical benefits. the main way i swimming works for you is good with blood circulation driven by cold and struggling to stay warm your body contracts his blood vessels there's less blood around the system so where does the excess blood go to the vital organs that is why it's good for the kidneys and liver they are constantly cleansed blood in me is also training thrill seekers who want to

push the bill. to the limit. holds the record for time spent in. spent sixty minutes in there and i helped him get out of that condition when he could hardly talk or move he 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 if i swimming federation house one and a half million members across the country and blood to me it does his best to drum up more support with his own personal guarantee for years for a 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. there's no shortage of people willing to take the plunge peter all of

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