the algerian hostage crisis handles twenty three civilian casualties while france urges more help from african nations for their of mali campaign which triggered the desert standoff. u.s. drop charges against online freedom activists are in swartz who committed suicide last week meanwhile there are mounting claims that prosecutors played a part in his death. israelis had to the polls this coming tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu finally is a poor dwindling among more radical voters. it

is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me maureen and joshua welcome to the program the hostage crisis in algeria as and it was 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 this a hard desert with seven more civilians killed during the file raid the libyan militant group behind the initial attack claimed they were evangel french intervention in neighboring mali and as are fully boyko reports many ceylonese military campaign in west africa as a hunts for natural resources. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm this friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. 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 to slimmest insurgents before the francoise lands talk of freedom and democracy for six a the french government says you see as end of the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of 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 pure 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 money says mr i learned is no it's about power or money so that you know secured this has nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business it will be some have their suspicions nationally or to approach energy companies. is to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year the cars to exactly this year is going to be very cheap as a very cheap. predators play a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens if you pull out almost

a fourth of the body time for intervention if it is to fight terrorists but it's got to be for good reasons you know that it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold already when there is a growing to more give more prefer they don't think about the well the difficult they have made paris a huge target and from such a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts unlimited political analysts say that francois hollande promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon party boy k c paris france is continuing to increase its military presence in mali with two thousand troops now on the ground the final toll could top the originally planned twenty five hundred according to the country's the fans minister harris has meanwhile urged west african leaders to increase their commitment to fighting as long as militants in

mali and they're meeting in the ivory coast foreign minister all around favia 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 sas france could be drawn into a lengthy afghanistan like scenario. this demonstrates how the. in the maghreb in the islamic magreb basically are coordinating their activities and this is part of an overall our overall. qaida plan to basically take that northern part of africa as a stepping 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 and they basically turned they were tory eggs 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 some 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 pursue 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 has caused the british prime minister to postpone a much anticipated speech on the u.k.'s membership of the european union about

a week revealed david cameron's warning that the u.k. may leave the blog and europe may fail more analysis of this in just a few minutes. the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against internet freedom activist aaron swartz who committed suicide last week he faces 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 our businesses here children in our 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 less 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 robinhood 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 new stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it but but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he 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 needed 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 just as party new york. pakistani mass protests and adds to the fury over a widespread corruption down and a sit in after he was reached to dissolve parliament before elections if you minutes are to talk to the clerics behind the rallies. and not tough enough israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu loses right wing support as an election looms those stories i mean later in the program statements. free. education free storage free. range three.

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dan and you're watching r t live from moscow is going to have you with us allan friday pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold mass protest in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of dire condrey supporters and a decided after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before elections in march voting can now take place within ninety days and they've also agreed to discuss electoral reforms however countries demand that the army be consulted on the structure of the interim administration was rejected political chaos in the country and growing fury over widespread corruption is also deepening after the government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected sultan am holly 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 square and so many

other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around home 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 but he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people. the feeling that they were down drugged and they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril 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 only attitude uncertainty in a country seeking electoral reform sand bar and corruption here economy has called for revolution and he talked exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means by that. when i say a 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. in the people stood up against that in iran there was one alkie rule of shan shah that people stood up against that. are dystonic is big different there is no one else to me that monadic elul nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority did it when he gave his electoral dictatorship to democracy does not exist in this society neither in

political field nor in social field nor in economic field not democracy so this is a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw this is the single nation single country in whole muslim world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole turd world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. and you can see the full interview with tired hungry at twelve g.m.t. here on r.t. it's also available on our website there's

a lot of what else is lined up for you there. kim dotcom appears on r.t. dot com the founder of the mag out 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 in. his early life outside our planet some scientists now say yes after a fossilized algae is discovered inside a sri lankan meteorite. half of the twenty second of january election many israelis who used to support prime minister benjamin netanyahu are changing their minds he is now viewed by many 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 archie's fall asleep or now before it's. he's the surprise success story. from page one tweeting millionaire uses a palestinian state would be suicide for his room enough to be bennett 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 likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a one to media at home he's losing face among prosecutors for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one of the sopranos never returning to our season. when i throw in a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen how this is like this has

been a jewish home party food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his record i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the u.n. says he will build in jerusalem because it's all right not on your hands he could last has grown even more white when i was ready because like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be hard it is a party where the state of israel is a state of the jews prison eternal capital. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after while netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or would he back down and

risk losing face among his supporters speakership fact 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 and. 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 when 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 be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited so flew in the wrist and while that might not 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. tel aviv. well is or is it actually is only two days away and our team will be

following it closely providing it was in-depth coverage. how will tension with to run develop full settlement 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 r.t. . now the u.k. could drift towards exiting the european union and that's the warning of prime minister david cameron revealed an extract of he's delayed speech on britain's status within the bloc he also claimed europe is a need of fundamental change and may fail if it doesn't deal with people's frustration amid the measures slashing their own living standards at home cameron's been urged to fulfil his pledge to bring powers back from brussels to london however some e.u. leaders have already warned out britain should make unreasonable demands and that individual negotiation is out of the question conservative party m.p.

steve baker says brussels is bluffing government support for you know the consequences are worse for the you than they are for the united kingdom if we leave because i think we're you would become even more inward looking and really what's required is a change of heart within the nations of europe to be more out with looking and to believe more in dispersed political power quite likely that the european union will say you know our way or exit i think all sorts of horror stories will be told to try and keep us in but in the end the british public have got to have confidence in ourselves the european union's a relatively new innovation we were a great outward looking trading nation and hugely prosperous long before the european union we don't need to do this petty forty four being regulation we certainly don't need to surrender the sovereignty of the people so i think people need to just be considered and think carefully about what kind of future they want why will 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 which would allow the blog to directly aids troubled states and such as be all over now 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 were really 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 pressure 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 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 our room 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. 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 intact protesting 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 plank 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 take a look at some other stories from around the world and in bulgaria man has tried to shoot the leader of vogue areas ethnic 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 descent and used a non-lethal gas pistol the most of the incident remain unknown but the assailant was a drug addict and was additionally carrying two nice. thousands of march through the greek capital athens parading the coffin of a pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week the country as seen a surgeon and a immigrant anger and races attacks since the start of the economic crisis three years ago that was traitors accuse the right wing party golden dawn of racism out 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. well there are some streets in america where residents fear to walk and have to short break r.t. has the story of two of the country's most violent criminal gangs stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so playfully you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. i don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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