the algerian hostage crisis reportedly rise to twenty five while it is suggested that france's mali intervention which provoked the terrorist attack is actually a resource grabbing operation. hundreds of friends and supporters of internet freedom activist aaron swartz gathered for his memorial with his family maintaining the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by prosecutors trial against him. and as a pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in the face of protests over corruption allegations in the capital r.t. talks to the man behind the anti-government uproar.

live from our studios in moscow this is r.t.m. sean thomas glad to have you with us. the algerian military has reportedly taken five islamic terrorists alive in the aftermath of the gas facility hostage sees within the clear up operation is still ongoing the civilian death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are discovered several foreign civilians were among dozens killed when a jury in forces stormed the site taken by militants in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali and there are increasing claims that they did out of self-interest. to reports. 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. 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 to slimmest insurgents before the francoise alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as and the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. 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 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 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 money says mr learned is not about power or money so that you know security 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. 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 every year because 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 light bulbs are 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 not of it's for raw materials that are in mali oil diamonds and gold already when there is a ground 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 eliminated political analysts say that france promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon polyploid can see paris. hundreds of people gathered in a 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 and his family and friends still blame the government for his death. reports . the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database and 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 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 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 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 or 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 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 party new york pakistan's government and a muslim cleric to hear condrey agreed on friday to bring an end to the mass protests in islam about tens of thousands of his supporters ended

a sit in against widespread corruption and unemployment after all qadri convinced authorities to dissolve parliament in march now voting should take place within ninety days the government also agreed to discussions on electoral reforms but the country's demanded 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 its order to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations was dismissed medic or a share of the practice to back nationalists forum 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 lead immediately to change or the 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. countries anti-government slogans are driven by the discontent over corruption and a flawed electoral system included calls for a revolution he spoke exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what it means. when i see evolution 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 eric here rule of shan shah the people stood up against their. party stanek is bit different there is no one else who neither monera killed nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority did twenty guineas electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in dissociate neither in political field nor in social feed nor 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 a single country in 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. and old third world and developing muslim countries have to get to the end of corruption and corrupt leaders. brock obama has now officially begun his second presidential term having now taken the oath of office at the white house on monday he is expected to paint the prospects for the next four years and pledge to deliver on some promises he has so far failed to keep for more let's now talk to antiwar activist place who joins me live from washington mr glaser thank you very much for being with us. now barack obama won his first term on promises to put aside partisan differences save the planet from global warming restore hope and jobs to americans how do you sense assess his achievements so far well as is typical with politicians what they say is very different from what they do in the foreign policy realm.

obama has unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's. excesses and recklessness and some plays he's changed it so for example in the first four years we saw a focus on drones and special operations forces and utilizing allied forces as opposed to straight up invasions you know like his predecessor did with iraq the one exception to that is the afghan surge. and that has had been an utter a bold failure has failed on every observable metric so i don't think we're going to see much more that in the second term i think obama himself considered that a mistake but we will see a continuation of. you know a foreign policy of extreme interventionism getting involved in every corner of the planet regardless of the consequences it's just won't be the ground in beijing

forces it'll be more or propping up dictatorships and bombing the countries now at home we've seen significant pushback from congress and with republicans maintaining a majority in the house of representatives how tough will it be for barack obama to push any of his policies forward in the coming term. not difficult especially on issues of national security i mean there's a broad bipartisan consensus on some of the most terrible. security issues that affect us on the domestic front i mean for example warrantless wiretapping this is a policy that was why it had lee criticized when the bush administration was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it even though the government has acknowledged that the secretive program has exceeded its legal limits violating americans force the fourth amendment constitutional rights

the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans have been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope now switching to foreign policy u.s. relations with china could flare up with washington continuing to zoom in on the asia pacific region and in the south china sea has this asian pivot worked. well know it's actually caused a bit of a harsh reaction from china it's bolstering the hardline nationalists from china which argue for a more aggressive foreign policy in this we you know we should be surprised at this i mean the asia pivot consists essential. a military surge throughout the asia pacific bolstering all our allies especially the ones that have difficult real issues with china. you know increasing the naval presence increasing the military

presence and you know building up new military bases basically surrounding china and then issuing you know threatening rhetoric from washington into this this is a recipe for disaster it's a pure sort of great game politics there's no reason that we need to try and contain china's rise we should mind their own business and not be surging in the asia pacific chasing after threats that don't exist and i appreciate the thoughts anti-war activist john glaser thank you very much it's going to be interesting to see how this next four years plays out. and still to come in the program support this as it really is prepared ahead on tuesday we'll look into why the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is losing many of his former voters.

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the week's top stories and today's top news this is r.t. glad to have you with us israel will elect its parliament in two days time and prime minister benjamin netanyahu is predicted to come out on top yet many israelis today don't think he's being radical enough policy lir reports why many of netanyahu is right wing allies are changing their minds. he's the surprise success story of a change election campaign and one twin 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. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously women with is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a way to 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 one never happen in the sopranos will never return for another season 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 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 ready calls like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews paternal 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 will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters speaker 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. 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 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 a limited so through 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 natanya who is acutely aware of. the r.t. television. 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 and develop will settle those experiences isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survived his snuff election on january twenty second

. israel decides. beijing has slammed washington for its latest comments on china's territorial brawl with japan in the south china sea saying the u.s. should be more careful with its words and stay away from the region's matters it is a reaction to statements made by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who reassured tokyo of american support and a warm to china against any unilateral action in the dispute beijing in tokyo both lay claims to a string of uninhabited islands that are said to be rich in natural resources for more on this we're joined now by george coo for founder and former managing director of international strategic alliances mr coo thank you very much for being with us. on its very basic level hillary clinton was simply supporting an ally why are they making such a big deal out of this. well historically there's no tenuous basis

for japan and lay claim to the ownership of these islands and the us played a huge complicit part in creating this debacle to begin with. after the war two terms unconditional surrender specifically excluded any of the i'll show islands as being part of japan as somehow the terms of surrender were changed during the peace treaty written by san francisco in san francisco the chinese had no part in the forming of that treaty and then for whatever reason in the seventy one seventy two timeframe the us turnover caught uncle amid a strait of control of the island to japan and that was without any consent from from china or taiwan or the other parties concerned so us created this mess

and i think the us is continuing to prolong the problem that between because japan and china now does the u.s. even have a right to say anything i mean this is surely a regional matter. now to what extent can the u.s. try to pressure beijing and what kind of reaction do they want. well i think the u.s. is again playing the city easy ambiguity game by on the one hand saying we're neutral about this and we're not taking sides between china and japan but on the other hand they're saying but we we recognize that japan has a ministry of control and therefore we would be opposed to any. unilateral action so how did your pain get the mystery until the u.s. turn it over to them how do you as originally get them is

a ministry of control it was because. after the war were issued us that they can control the nala as well as the chain of islands and including the. same kakul islands so from the beginning to the end the u.s. is really responsible for this particular mess now the u.s. as you say is responsible and president obama has made it a clear objective to boost america's influence in the asia pacific region which is right under his doorstep how does he have the resources to compete with china and even india for that matter yeah well i think the u.s. has this role of being the policeman around the world and spreading the military forces all around the world now can they afford it well that's a different question because it seems i in order to to to meet their military budget which is ever increasing they're probably going to have to borrow that money

and most likely they'll be borrowing the money from the chinese now washington is already deeply involved in several conflicts abroad you just mentioned this but here there are squaring up against a nuclear power could get really nasty even possibly another cold war. well that's not the i don't believe that china is in tension i think china has. been. asking japan to recognize and negotiate rather than rushing ratcheting up the tension of course japan and inviting electing is not going to help because he's very well known ha och in this particular situation i think the saddest part is that the jat japanese people most of the japanese people truly do not understand and understand that they were be. the perpetrators of all atrocious acts of war two and these are the reasons you know instead the japanese government

has been very successful in portraying japan as the victim of war two rather than the perpetrator of all of the aggressor being the aggressor and the u.s. for its own strategic reason you view japan as to prefer an ally and that's what's called contin agree this friction but i'm not sure that i think cooler heads will will come and not go to war over these little specks of violence certainly china has never been. the aggressor in terms of in terms of these disputes perceval from subject george through founder and former managing director of international strategic alliances very complicated situation thanks for sharing with. thank you. now after a short break a look at the pressures of juggling a job and raising a family when you're a single father.

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