where. human. by the spirit. mistress of the caves on. the algerian hostage crisis and with twenty three civilian casualties while france urges more help from african nations for their own mali campaign which triggered the desert standoff. the us dropped charges against online freedom activists sharon schwartz who committed suicide last week meanwhile there are mountains claims that prosecutors played a part in these deaths. israelis had to the polls this coming tuesday was prime minister benjamin netanyahu finally is supported wiggling among more radical voters.

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news now the hostage crisis in algeria has and it with twenty three captives and thirty two militants confirmed dead following a four day military operation a total of six hundred eighty five people including one hundred seven foreigners were freed from a gas plant in the sahara desert with seven more civilians killed during the final raid only the militant group behind the unifil attack claimed their avenging french intervention in neighboring mali as artie's bully boy reports matty c. aligns military campaign in west africa as a hunt for natural resources. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west

africa but also the entire world good morning but he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops and potential set to exceed two hundred thousand the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francoise alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government since you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. these fronts. many people say huge parts 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. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of here raney and so you don't have to be

a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio land is not about power or money. secured this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending your government or business interests which government which business. will be some have their suspicions nationally supported the french energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to bali every year because to exactly this uranium is going to be dirt cheap there's a third world dirt cheap. france is playing a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reports they do spot

a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbox the beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pour out almost nobody i'm for intervention if it is to fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons you might know that it's for raw materials that are in mali oil diamonds and gold people already know when there's a girl to the north of more prothro they don't think about democracy. they have made paris a huge target and from such a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of an untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts unlimited political analysts say that francois hollande promised to stop playing the products of former colonies is it ok to be fulfilled anytime soon playboy can see paris. france is continuing to increase its military presence in mali with two thousand troops now on the ground the final total could top the originally planned twenty

five hundred according to the country's defense minister paris has meanwhile urged west african leaders to increase their commitments to fighting islam this militants in mali and they are meeting in the ivory coast foreign minister laurent fabius stressed that the current french campaign was never intended as a substitute for an african led contingent deployed under un security council resolution france has also asked for more logistical assistance from the un in the ongoing conflict former pentagon official michael maloof says france could be drawn into a lengthy afghanistan like scenario. this demonstrates how the a.q. . in the maghreb and islamic magreb basically are coordinating their activities and this is part of an over our overall. plan to basically take that northern part of africa as a. up in stone into europe itself and there's been threats in paris already by mali ns and and what's really tragic is the fact that the united states trained

a lot of these. now terrorists who basically defected from the government and and know many of our activities and know how we operate from a special forces standpoint and can use them against us these troops are very well trained they were involved not only in libya but also but also in mali and they basically turned they were toreadors and now they've joined forces with the a.q.i.m. which is al qaeda in the islamic magreb so this is a very very dicey situation and and it also represents it also represents a potential long term afghanistan like effect for france itself and and inadvertently it could suck the united states back into yet another war it's larger than mali pursued a and it could affect the entire north africa and into europe and i think that is perhaps the concern from a geo strategic and political standpoint the hostage crisis in algeria ask cause

the british prime minister to postpone a much anticipated speech on the u.k.'s membership of the european union. the old david cameron warning the u.k. may leave a lot in europe may fail why now says of this in a few minutes. the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the internet freedom activist aaron swartz who committed suicide last week he faced a decades behind bars over accusations he illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after the schwartz family said prosecutors were complicit in his death and tens of thousands of internet users expressed support for the claim. reports. the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database and the believe that they should be free. to

essentially rocking out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to download a p.d.f. to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received was punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the

judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against pollard and he knew it well but he thought he would be in the play in the law because it was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz. case has made an example of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted did back to nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated

the prison sentences need to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things he did so they said new legislation dubbed aram's law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and stasia churkin a party new york. pakistani mass protests adds to the fury over widespread corruption thousands and a sit in after it was reached to dissolve parliament for elections in a few minutes r.t. talks to the cleric behind the rallies. not tough enough israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu loses right wing support as an election looms the stories coming later in the program.

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hello ganda you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow we take a look at the top stories of the week and on friday pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold a mass protest in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of time here qadri supporters and the sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before elections in march voting can now take place within ninety days and also agree to discuss electoral reforms however carvings demanded an army to consult with the structure of the interim administration was rejected political chaos in the country and growing fewer over widespread corruption has also deepened after a government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected sultan am highly a journalist and a former officer of the pakistani air force says a change of power may not be far away. people likening it to the square and so many

other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not a single leader around whom people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the whole cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longer stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because if the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people. the feeling that they were down drug and they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining him in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make

sure that it matters if history has to change of this country. mass rallies staged by the influential cleric in pakistan of only attitude and certainty in a country which wants and barring corruption here conjuring he has called for revolution r.t. talked exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means by that . when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. we needed a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was when alkie rule of shan shah the people stood up against their. party stand cases be different there is no one else to me that monadic nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority to regain its electoral dictatorship to democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field

nor in social field nor in economic will not democracy so this is a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues there could be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this margin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. and you can see the full interview with her here qadri in thirty minutes time here in r.t. and it's also available on our website here's a little of what else is lined up for you there. kim dotcom appears on r.t.

to calm the founder of the load side has now opened a new project called simply on the anniversary of his arrest and the shutdown of his file sharing site. and also launch is there a wife outside our planet some scientists now say yes after a fossilized algae is discovered inside a sri lankan meteoroid. and of the twenty second of january election manny israelis who used to support prime minister benjamin netanyahu are changing their minds he's now viewed by manny as not being radical enough although still expected to return to office netanyahu is likely to lose votes to his former right wing allies as are falsely are now reports. he's the surprise success story which campaign one tweet may be a man who says

a palestinian state would be suicide for his room enough to the bin it used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the liquid obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing media at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen and the sopranos will never return for another season climbs a line with a marker on our pro and

a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo was still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands he could list has grown even more right when i was ready because like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would retain a part it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose internal capital is general. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back

down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self rule in the west and while that might put seem a plausible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. israel's election is only two days away and our team will be following

it closely providing you with in-depth coverage. how will tensions with to run develop will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides on arts or. the ok you can drift towards ag setting the european union that's the warning of prime minister david cameron revealed in exports and he has delayed speech on britain's status within the bloc he also claimed europe is in need of fundamental change and a main fail if it doesn't deal with people's frustration and their view stereo measures slashing their living standards and helen cameron has been urged to fulfil his pledge to bring powers back from brussels to london as calls for an in out referendum get louder he's been wavering about the idea saying it could be held after the next generation and general election in two thousand and fifteen

conservative party m.p. robert oulds says cameron can no longer delay facing a problem. he needs to set a clear course of what he's going to be doing regarding the european union have a clear distinctive workable policy to fail to do that just keeps the speculation going and keeps the infighting in the conservative party continuing so really he needs to get a grip on this policy as soon as possible and perhaps not trying to lie having a referendum until some time after the next general election that's even if he is prime minister the whole of it before that would be the best way to end the uncertainty and so we know exactly where we are going britain pays billions each year to the european union we have enormous costs put on the british economy as a result of excessive e.u. regulation and e.u. policies they just don't work for this country it's more of a hindrance than it is a help to the british economy and of course it undermines our own democracy if the

option is quite simply to either stay in the european union as it is which doesn't work for many different people or of course leave the european union and negotiate to the basis of a relationship that's purely built around trade and the sooner david cameron delivers the wishes of the british people and the turns power or exits the european union the better. now with the euro skeptic mood on the rise in britain and many other e.u. countries it is now gaining support in the blocs powerhouse germany thousands have signed a petition against the so-called european stability mechanism which would allow the blog to directly aid troubled states as artie's peed all over reports germans are becoming increasingly disappointed with brussels deciding on their money. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who will be in charge of their country. the government has taken the sovereign rights of the german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to

currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers

showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal and the single currency was created to finance isn't the only place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the memory of the country's past but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as a sovereign states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of the. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is completely anachronistic there appear to be historical cultural and economic

reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central bank twenty thirteen look set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t. belin. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world in bulgaria manis trying to shoot the leader of bulgaria's apnic turkish party during a televised conference the attacker was arrested at the scene after he climbed the podium put a gun to the head of his victim and double misfired further investigation showed that the attacker was of turkish the same and used a non-lethal gas bestowal the motives of the incident remain unknown but the assailant was a drug addict and was additionally carrying tonight's. thousands have marched through the greek capital athens parapet braving the coffin of

a pakistani immigrants who was stabbed to death earlier this week the country has seen a surge in time ago and anger and races attacks since the start of the economic crisis three years ago demonstrators accuse the right wing party gold dawn of racism and of exploiting public discontent during financial difficulties to gain popularity. thousands of people have gathered in state capitals across the u.s. to rally against a ban on assault weapons on a national gun appreciation day some of the demonstrators are carrying rifles and pistols others waved posters saying an armed society is a polite society this comes after president barack obama unveiled a package of weapon control proposals the u.s. debate over stricter gun control has flared since last month's shooting of twenty children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school. blasts hit

syria with massive attacks bringing another week of violence dozens were killed in explosions that rocked a university in aleppo with both sides accusing each other obvious salt. also here in our key we take a look at the real impact of sanctions imposed on iran over its nuclear program and all the details after this short 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.