the death toll from the algerian hostage crisis has reportedly risen with forty eight captives now said to have been killed the terrorists claim the attack was in retaliation for french intervention in mali. hundreds of friends and supporters commemorate internet freedom activist aaron swartz that says his family maintains the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by overzealous prosecutors and a possible thirty year jail sentence. augustana agreed to dissolve parliament in a deal to end an unprecedented anti-government sitting protest in the capital talk to them and leaving the demonstration.

thank. you and welcome to our team's weekly news with you and the very latest developments on candles. in the aftermath of the algerian gas facility hostage crisis the military has reportedly captured five islamic terrorists alive security officials now say up to forty eight hostages have been killed in the siege those behind the attack claim it was triggered by the french intervention in mali however many analysts believe france's own political ambitions are what pushed it to intervene as reports now. but there will be studied 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 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 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 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 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 learned it's not

about power or money so that. 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 extract the machinery is going to be very cheap there's a third world dirt cheap. french is going to be very very interesting and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens people out there most authors of 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 gas oil diamonds and gold already renders the ground it is not. they don't think about well we have made paris a huge target and france a target. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts in limited political analysts say that france promised to stop playing big projects of former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon buddy boy can see paris. international relations professor mark almond says it's the fallout from the intervention in libya that originally led to the crisis in mali. it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven written in france lead the

intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really looked through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tends to send recalls of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just really numbers of guards would not apply to that bay are same pipe places here on all sides what seems to be really probably is thought to be insofar as the molly ivins probably sparklies nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups from come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say

central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons it's being produced by the platters that are hutu but also a complete failure to standish any kind of real state you have essentially wards operating in different parts of libya. america bomber's now officially started his second term at the white house but the expert opinion expects from the american president over the next four years whether he will make good on his promises. hundreds of people have gathered in new york to pay their respects to on shorts and internet freedom activists who committed suicide last week the twenty six year old computer prodigies death came before his trial for allegedly hacking into mit online publication archives well this week a federal prosecutors dropped the charges against him but his family and friends say the legal pressures drove the activists to take his own life and this is richer americans. 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 the p.d.f. to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received was punished 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 it well 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 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 . even if he did all the things that 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 ok stands government has struck a deal with firebrand cleric to country to end a massive street protests in the country's capital young president and city and involving tens of thousands targeted the current leadership for widespread corruption and economic mismanagement was a part of the deal isn't about there's a great to dissolve parliament and show you new elections voting should take place

within ninety days of the parliament term was in any case due to expire in march the government also agreed to talks on electoral reforms but rejected the clerics to man the army to help set up an interim administration another sign of a deepening medical crisis came after the government standoff in the supreme court the court's order to arrest the prime minister corruption allegations was dismissed so to holly a journalist and a former pakistan air force officer says a change of power could be looming. 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 long 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 him this particular person has done his homework because 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. quadri and his supporters driven by anger over corruption and know the electoral system of course for their protests to drive until revolution right in their city where at least in egypt in an exclusive interview the protest leader himself told us exactly what he means you can catch it here on r.t.

and to the south. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries there was needed 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 the people stood up against that party stanek is big different there is no one else who neither monadic nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority in the 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 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 and old third world and developing muslim countries have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. israel is heading into the last day before its point of entry elections but as you say on tuesday mr struggles against the opposition will. have more off the break.

georgian president mikheil saakashvili is military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history great villains would even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion.

welcome back to the record. of iraq obama is officially beginning his second the presidential term i think now take an oath of office at the white house on monday he's expected to spend at the prospects for next four years and plans to deliver on some promises so far failed to keep but james lock who was the former head of america's libertarian party believes the hope for change is futile i'm not sure that we should give president obama credit or in the united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regard was what president obama. was ever stimulus and b. . in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the american with respect to the foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs all the

nomination hate all my but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be a program of using drones. our has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the beer's americans i'm not sick or sanguine about the prospects or seeing us move forward toward the united states being a country which respects international we and also respects the liberties of our own people. israel will elect a new apartment on tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu predicted to come out on top yet many israelis don't think his policies are radical enough for the one time netanyahu supporter reaping the rewards. reports now on why the israeli

leader even has to fight against his former allies. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign 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 a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a writer 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 the sopranos will never return for another season. and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have put bennett's jewish home party in third 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. 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 netanyahu says he could list has grown even more right when with ready cars like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be tane 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. 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 and 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 possible 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 the r.t. television. and that will be keeping a close eye on events unfold with in-depth up to the minute coverage. how will tension with iran develop. isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will that in younger survive his election on january twenty second. israel decides. beijing has criticised washington for its latest comments on china's territorial problems 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 when it comes off the statements made by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who assured tokyo of american support while one in china are against any unilateral action in the dispute both beijing and tokyo

with a claim to a string of uninhabited god and frank said to be rich in natural resources is it george founder of the international committee canards and believes the u.s. is stoking a conflict between the two asian. us created this mess and i think the u.s. is continuing to prolong the problem between between japan and china u.s. is again playing the city's 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 we recognize that japan has a mystery of control and therefore we would be opposed to any. action but how did your pen get the mystery until the u.s. . from the beginning to the year the u.s. was really responsible for this. mess. there's always more for you on our website

r.t. dot com including seek unusual for me to tell you about the australian gold hunter is relentless efforts funny and off with another with at least three hundred thousand dollars for. christians have been looking for a solution to global poverty as a new study claims it would be a hundred people to solve the problem worldwide it's not how i think you want to alter the dot com. syria's foreign minister has invited the opposition to lay down arms to start a national dialogue with added that president assad's removal is out of the

question further violence this week saw a bloodbath following two massive blasts in the northern city of aleppo on tuesday more than eighty people mostly students were killed more than one hundred injured after explosions devastated the city's university campus in the war in that country has been dragging on for almost two years now it's not just the government and rebels who cannot reconcile their differences are going to be critical analysts are going to trust me the syrian opposition is incapable of forging a united front. you know we'll see shunned by these americans some elements are. in table and you know you're in. there and in syria pre-election through the press and then you probably will be you're not in strongest political daily or the interior which is the. most in brotherhood i'm very lucky star a lot of the same group of not only news when you can go for mission you also how

they come up times through the rebel forces in syria like free syrian army. named you how to be a new structure on you how do you spend these moments right now there's a direct closer. we would ensure the secular bylines or corner members of your position so really we see all the while you think oh well. the opposition well there will be recounts d.c. the only thing they're hoping is that they want we learned you know last week still to come in the program lucky to be alive a month off the forward moving train and make it a bit of a freezing siberian forest on a more interest a couple minutes. or a mature language. of the federal kind of similar.

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this is r.t. now this week u.k. prime minister david cameron again postponed a crucial address on the vexed issue of britain's future within the european union but extracts from a speech where released to the public gave little away that. you must address certain challenges. the issue of whether to stay out of the. doctor's party. dependence party. was never on cameron's agenda. he's using the euro skeptic language to pursue a euro agenda this speech is happening because of the rise of ukip on the rise of ukip his lead to massive discontent on the back benches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party in the whole country that's what he's responding to

but the reality of what he says if you read the subtext is that the e.u. is very good for us and it serves our interests and i will promise i promise god to do my best over the next five years to do everything i can to keep britain a member of that you know this issue is a key constitutional. economics it's about who governs. independent nation as a democracy and determine their own future not a classic scare tactics always employed by the status quo whether they're defending slavery. or e.u. membership three million british jobs will be lost if we left the european union really europe is aging europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below a fifth and falling quite sharply it is gripped by eurozone crisis which is likely because of their fanaticism to keep it together to last for up to a decade and yeah ok europe is thirty eight percent of our overseas exports and it's an important market place but the rest of the world is even more important to

us impotent because we're stuck inside this old fashioned nineteenth century concept of a customs union we cannot make our own trade deals anywhere else in the world let's have a free trade deal with europe and let's reengage with the rest of the world. and while u.s. skepticism is on the rise in britain the e.u. is economic stronghold germany appears to be harboring concerns over its sovereignty as well as what is peter all of the discovered. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government is taking the sovereign rights of the german people and giving 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 tie used to court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central

bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal and the single currency was created 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.