why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. three british casualties confirmed dead in the algeria hostage crisis with the total number of killed expected to rise this as friend searches for more help for their mali campaign which triggered the desert standoff. the u.s. drops charges against online freedom activists aaron swartz who committed suicide last week meanwhile there are mounting claims that prosecutors played a part in his death. and israelis head to the polls this to this coming tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu finding his support dwindling among more radical voters.

three pm here in moscow you're watching our t.v. live with me and he said now way a look back at the week's top stories and the latest from around the world we begin in algeria where three british citizens have been confirmed dead following a four day hostage rescue operation at least twenty three captives and all thirty two militants involved were killed in the standoff at a gas plant and the number of victims is expected to rise the libyan militant group behind the attack claimed they were avenging french intervention in neighboring mali as archie's polly boycott reports many see france's military campaign in west africa as a hunt 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 but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand a stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. and many people say a huge cost is a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other amazing parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power nuclear power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm 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 mr alarmed is no it's about power or money so that you know secured this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business will be some have their suspicions nationally supported approach energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali you know every year the cars to exactly this uranium is going to be very cheap there's a third world very cheap. france is playing a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked

a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbox the beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens. i'm for intervention if it is to fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons i know that it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold already. they don't think about democracy well 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 the limited political analysts say that francois promised to stop playing the products of former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime see playboy 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 well paris has meanwhile urged west african leaders to increase their commitment to fighting islamist militants in mali at their 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 a u.n. security council resolution france has also asked for more than just tickle assistance from the u.n. in the ongoing conflict former pentagon official michael maloof says france could be drawn into a lengthly afghanistan like scenario. this demonstrates how the. 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 the. 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 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 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. 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 but a preview revealed david cameron's warning that the u.k. may leave the block and europe may fail more analysis of this in a few minutes. but first the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the internet freedom activist aaron swartz who committed suicide last week he faced decades behind bars over accusations he illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after the swartz family said prosecutors were complicit in his death and tens of thousands of internet users express supports for the claim are teeth and if the theater cannot reports the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database in the belief 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 policy and he knew would but but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz's 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 that he did so they said he did new legislation dubbed aarons 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 party new york. pakistani mass protests and to the fury over widespread corruption thousands and a city after a deal is reached which is all part of the myth of four elections in a few minutes archie talks to the cleric behind the rally. and not tough enough israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu loses right wing support as an election looms those stories coming up after the break. on.

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are old today. it's twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow your with our key on friday pakistan's government reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold mass protests in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of talk here contrary supporters and it a sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before elections in march voting can now take place within ninety days they've also agreed to discuss electoral reforms whether contraries demand that the army be consulted on the structure of the interment ministration was rejected political chaos in the country and growing fury over widespread corruption is also deep into action the government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over

a corruption case has been rejected so time and holly journalists and a former officer of the pakistani air force says a change of power may not be far away. people are 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 home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama to handle qadri 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 who had 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 of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining 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. the mass rallies staged by the influential cleric in pakistan have only added to uncertainty in the country thinking electoral reforms and of our own corruption tucker contrie has found a 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 it when alkie a rule of shan shah the people stood up against that party stanek is bit different

there is no going to do neither monadic elul nor a military dictatorship here is a letter to the authorities twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social feed nor in economic field or democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world having a 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 out of this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the old third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders.

we could see the full interview with to hear contrie at twelve g.m.t. here in our city and it's also available for you on our website let's take a look at what else is lined up for you kim dot com appears on r.t. dot com the founder of the mega upload site has now opened a new project called simply mega that's on the anniversary of his arrest and the shutdown of his sharing file sharing site. and also online is there life outside our planet some scientists now say yes after a fossilized algae is discovered inside us for a long in media right. out of the twenty second january election to many israelis who used to support prime minister benjamin netanyahu are changing their minds 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 our as our tos policy clear now reports. he's the surprise success story of campaign one twin millionaire uses a palestinian state would be suicide for israel 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 you know and i think that even though i am opposed to a person's state. i would say most members of the likud obviously i mean the thorough he's for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as i want to leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being enough this is part

of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen in the supreme. well never return for another season ramiele climbs the 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 we could list has grown even more right wing with ready cars 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 you're also well.

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 right wing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters speaker shack 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 a 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-will in the wrist and

while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear. effect in a time yahoo is acutely aware of. television. well the election campaign in israel is drawing to when israelis were to cast their votes today let's take a look at how perhaps the knesset would look like we're showing the favorites here not the entire projections let's look at the main party of course the party has predicted now according to the jerusalem post to get thirty four seats so still a majority but like we heard from paulo there a little less than the previous election seventeen seats or so are expected to go to the labor party which you can see in red there at the end and the far right the jewish home party run by israel's rising political star netanyahu is in fact a former ally not thought he bennett he has surged into third place he's likely to

gain for his party now has only three seats and it's expected that he'll gain ten more seats of course our team will be closely following this election on january twenty second that's this tuesday for friday new with in-depth coverage to stay with us for that. how little attention was to run develop we'll settle to expound just isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel saw its own arcs. the u.k. could drift towards exiting the european union that's the warning prime minister david cameron revealed in extracts of his delayed speech on britain's status within the bloc well he also claimed europe is in need of fundamental change and may fail if it doesn't deal with people's frustration amid the austerity measures slashing their living standards at home cameron has been urged to fulfil his pledge to bring

powers back from brussels to london however some e.u. leaders have already warned their britain to make a reasonable demands and that individual renegotiation is out of the question conservative party m.p. steve baker says brussels is bluffing. the consequences are worse for the you than they are for the united kingdom if we leave because i think we are 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 outward looking and to believe more in dispersed political power it's 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 of got to have confidence in ourselves the european union is a relatively new innovation we were a great outward looking trading nation and hugely prosperous long before the european union we don't need all 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

. now with a euro skeptic mood on the rise in britain and many other e.u. countries it's now gaining support in the bloc powerhouse germany thousands have signed a petition against the so-called european stability mechanism which would allow a bloc to directly aid trouble state and artie's peter oliver 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 school 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 good 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 when 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 is our room streets this is the problem not to press 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 unlike christic 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 these are all over r.t.

berlin. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour involved area a man is trying to soothe the leader on bug areas ethnic turkish party during a televised conference take a look at this the attacker was arrested after this move after he climbed the podium put a gun to the head of his victim and double with fired or further investigation showed that the attacker was of turkish descent and used a non-lethal gas pistol the motives of the incident remain unknown but the assailant was a drug addict and was additionally carrying two knives. thousands have marched through the greek capital athens parading a coffin of a pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week the country has seen a surge in anti immigrant anger and racist attacks since the start of the economic crisis three years ago demonstrators accuse the right wing party golden dawn of racism and exploiting public discontent during financial difficulties to gain

popularity. broke obama is due to be sworn in for a second term as u.s. president at a private ceremony in the white house as it falls on a sunday he will repeat the inauguration on monday in a public ceremony on a much larger scale during his speech obama is expected to lay out the country's political course for the next four years gun control immigration reform and energy policy are likely to be top priorities. but here in russia at least four people have died from smoke inhalation in a coal mine accident in siberia rescuers evacuated dozens of miners trapped underground after a suspected short circuit started a fire in the mine shaft four others are still unaccounted but officials say their location has been determined the rescue operation has since been suspended due to high levels of methane gas at the scene. after

a break we continue our tour through south los angeles home to some of america's most violent street gang stay with archie. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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