the algerian hostage crisis fate televisa reportedly rise to twenty five while it is suggested that france's mali intervention which provoked the terrorist attack is actually a resource of grabbing operation. hundreds of friends and supporters of internet freedom activist and swartz gather for his memorial with his family maintaining the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by prosecutors and trial against him. and as pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in the face of protests over corruption allegations in the capital talks to the man behind the anti-government uproar.

from our studios in moscow this is really glad to have you with us. the algerian military has reportedly taken five islamic terrorists alive in the aftermath of the gas facility hostage siege with the clear up operation still ongoing the civilian death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are discovered several foreign civilians were among dozens killed when i'll jury and forces stormed the site taken by militants in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali and there are increasing claims that paris invaded out of self interest. paul the book of reports. but there will be studied 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 lands 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. 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 and 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 rainy 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 i learned is not about power or money into the picture and security 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. will be some have their suspicions be rationally supportive approach energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year the cars do exactly this uranium is going to be very cheap there's a third world 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 to pull out almost. 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 oil diamonds and gold already renders account of it is not. they don't think about democracy well we have made paris a huge target and france a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of an untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts in limited political analysts say that france promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon playboy can see paris. britain has stepped forward to help the french intervention by providing cargo planes to transfer supplies to the war zone but journalist and broadcaster neil clark says the european stance against islam is inconsistent. what's happened here is that david

cameron who spent most of last year cheering on islamist rebels in syria has now taken the line that islamist rebels in mali are the biggest dangers to the world and we must intervene that britain must help france regardless of the consequences to britain and i think it's a very misguided policy unfortunately the political elite in britain seem to be all behind his policy which is very disturbing but i think the public speaking for the public i think we're very concerned about what's going on basic back to twenty eleven it was david cameron and william hague people like this who were the loudest most aggressive cheerleaders for the deposing of colonel gadhafi who was the biggest who work against al-qaeda in northern africa and now the very same people cameron in the hague are the ones saying we've got to get it in involved in the mali operation to to to put down al qaeda groups there and so there's a real inconsistency here real hypocrisy you know why is fighting out here africa is is that the biggest cause why did we play such an active role in toppling the one leader in northern africa who actually was it was

a form of against al-qaeda. hundreds of people gathered in new york to pay their respects to aaron swartz an online freedom activist who hanged himself last week the twenty six year old computer prodigies suicide came ahead of his trial for cyber crimes which could have resulted in him spending decades behind bars this week federal prosecutors dropped the charges against swartz his family and friends blame the government for his death and associates rick about reports of 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 if 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 robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation and online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blogs.

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 it 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 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 that he did so they said 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 stasia churkin our party new york. pakistan's government and a muslim cleric here agreed on friday to bring an end to the mass protest in islamabad tens of thousands of his supporters and a sit in against widespread corruption and unemployment after all qadri convinced authorities to dissolve parliament in march voting should take place within ninety days of the government also agreed to discussions on electoral reforms but all countries demand that the army help set up an interim administration was rejected another sign of a deepening political crisis is the government's face off with the supreme court is ordered to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations it was dismissed. the pack nationalists for a more lobbying group says we are witnessing the unraveling of the existing political system. what we're basically seeing is that the democratic system of the

country is in the throes of the final stages of collapse collapse under it under the weight of its own corruption collapse under the weight of its own incompetence so it's a major development it's important to remember that these demonstrations may not leave immediately to change or immediate collapse the fall of the government itself but the process has a started it's a failed democratic system it's a small clique of elite politicians who are intermarried interrelated to each other through family marriages and so forth and they're divided in the using different parties to sort of divide the cake and of course indulge in massive corruption i think in the in the seventy year history of modern pakistan we've seen the most corrupt government ever in this short history of. government slogans are driven by the discontent over corruption and a flawed electoral system included calls for

a revolution arche spoke exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries there were limited a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was one eric here rule of shan shah that people stood up against that. stanek is big different there is no one else who neither monadic nor military dictatorship here is electoral authority and twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true 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 lot less and less 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 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 and hold third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. and still to come in the program support as israelis prepares to head to the polls tuesday we'll look into why the country's prime minister binyamin netanyahu is a. former voters'.

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live from moscow this is r.t. glad to have you back with us israel will elected parliament in two days time and prime minister benjamin netanyahu is predicted to come out on top yet many israelis today don't think that he is being radical enough policia reports why many of netanyahu is right wing allies are changing their minds. he's the surprise success story in campaign one tween millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali 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 left wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. yes even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously women is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing leader 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 one never happen in the sopranos will never return for another season ramiele climbs a line with a marker on our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have put bennett's jewish home party in 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 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 radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the likud retain a party is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital. 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 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 natanya who is acutely aware of policy r.t. tel aviv. and r.t. will be closely following the election on the twenty second of january giving you in-depth coverage. how will change with to run develop rule sets over the expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will letting you know who survive his snap election on january twenty second. israel

decides what arts are. still to come in the program lucky to be alive a man survives falling from a moving train half naked in the middle of a siberian forest at minus forty degrees celsius find out more in just a couple minutes right here on our team. barack obama is now officially beginning his second presidential term having just taken the oath of office at the white house within the past few minutes on monday he's expected to paint the prospects for the next four years and pledge to deliver on some promises he's so far failed to keep let's now get reaction from james lark the former head of america's libertarian party mr lark thank you very much for being with us now obama has of course made progress in the last four years he's pulled the us out of recession and ended the war in iraq among other things what do you expect for the

next four years. first of all i'm not sure that we should give president obama credit for united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic situation regardless of what president obama in terms of his efforts the stimulus indeed i suspect that in some ways the efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the american that. my guess my guess is that mr obama will continue to pursue his a program of expanding government with its domestic policies certainly we'll see how obamacare actually works minute state governments are now involved in trying to determine whether or not they will set up health care exchanges i suspect will continue to see the obama administration involvement more and more in the offing with respect to foreign policy there are a few hopeful signs of the nomination of

a goal as the i think that this has some of us because some her ego was not as much of a supporter of the united states involvement in the middle as other people so i think that there is a possibility that this is far less american involvement in the middle east but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to a program and drones the hour it has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans i'm not particularly sanguine about the prospects or move forward toward the united states being a country which basically respects international police and also its largest respects liberties of our own people now you just mentioned the continuation of the

use. of drones on foreign policy specifically obama has been expanding deadly drone strikes in several countries while standing by the policy of targeted killing of terror suspects none of these methods are legal as far as international laws are concerned but does that actually worry us politicians or even the public for that matter unfortunately it doesn't seem to worry many of the politicians in washington and there are some people who have expressed their concerns about it the nomination of mr brennan and inspections this is something of great concern to many people. unfortunately partly many of my fellow americans don't seem to care about american junction of course overseas we are still many we are in the middle of the war on terrorism and unfortunately despite the fact that many of us for example in the libertarian party are trying to make our noses and where we just don't seem to be

getting a lot of slack. now if you go back obama's recently extended the military's authority to detain terror suspects without charge or trial are americans ok with this bush era policy and that it's still in effect really. actually i don't think most americans are hate with it but generating the solar or the opposition to them to halt these programs is there a very difficult most people are simply too busy living their lives basically raising their families their jobs generating the sort of illegal opposition it's like to stop this program requires an enormous amount of effort and there are many issues about which people are concerned civil liberties in the united states again increased involvement of the american some of them so there are many issues with which libertarians would certainly take issue with the obama administration and

generating the sort of broad based office system is just very very difficult and finally washington has threatened iran has called for regime change in syria and is now rallying its forces in asia right on china's doorstep what's your assessment on whether obama's going to be making the world anything for in the next four years unfortunately i don't think he's going to be making the world safer course it's possible predicting the future is very very difficult or perhaps we will see within the united states we will see an increased statement on the american people that the president needs to sensibly quit trying to threaten replying to impose america's vision on the rest of the world again whether or not we can generate or whether it will response i don't know all right appreciate the thoughts live from the u.s. that's james lark former head of the lip libertarian party being with us here on r.t. now catching of the train took a bizarre twist in rural russia this week

a man who survived after falling out of a carriage barely dressed for a night in a freezing siberian forest in winter earlier artie's tom barton shared with me how the man managed to make it out of the woods alive. if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie malkoff a lorry driver in this train clickety clack ing its way through the forests in the a more region in russia's far east at night he decides to go for a cigarette but nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then as he stays went to open the door to go back to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life we managed to talk to him earlier he was a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing when i fell out i only had parents

slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse minitab and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes popped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me tea and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after a journalist called her i would imagine that the phone call he had with his wife after she had found help not from him but from journalists was possibly a little bit strained luckily he's ok no injuries no hypothermia he's back at work there will be an investigation into perhaps the whether the train guard had forgotten to lock the back door of the train which as we can see was a probably quite a big oversight if it turns out that that was what happened it's also possibly one factor that made him run

a bit faster was that we've recently reported on or in the far eastern siberia there's been quite a lot of problems with packs of ravenous wolves being there so i imagine he if he had that in mind if you knew about that possibly something to spur him on a bit faster. and we're just a couple minutes away from our special report the give special insight into a bloody rivalry between america's two most criminal gang stay with r.t. for that. you know sometimes you see

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gets killed at the funeral and then. sold as we live amongst each other there might be one street it might be one gas station this service to with three different gangs well when i get to the gas station i have to find out what are your intentions with me while i'm pumping gas so i cannot turn my back and allow you to shoot me or hit me in the back of it to look you in your eyes and see your intentions and when i look you in your eyes i'm looking to see if you all would feel well and i'm a wolf then we need to come to some sort of agreement so we can both get out of here peacefully. and if your porch up i'm happy to let me go and get my guestbook up i appreciate you being here but i was in the communities talking to guys in the game seeing lots of content with that so many of these particularly the younger guys had never seen the pacific ocean in a gang infested community there are situations where people will not.