to find out more visit our big i don't know it's called. the. islamic militants threatened to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali accusing paris of a crusade. a german coalition government fails an important task months ahead of the national parliamentary vote until a merkel's christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. and as israel prepares for its own parliamentary paul on tuesday we report on why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party that is set to win the vote.

is seven pm here in moscow four pm in paris and he said no way and this is archie our top story this hour of the islamic terrorist cell allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region almost sixty hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali where the islamists claimed they wanted to negotiate their release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have now been promised in less france and its campaign in west africa some of the hostage takers were militants from libya where paris helped islamists topple colonel gadhafi who had warned of an impending kind

of surge in the region that's probably boy now reports. was that very very. you wanted peace you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people are. but a regional crisis probably wasn't what mr sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al-qa'ida will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan the terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later markets after his words could well be ringing in the is of need what i saw was the successor francois

hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every action has a reaction. secu so not only did the french intervention in libya not help the democratic process which is what they said they were after but if actively opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go solve a lot of this new more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups 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 a lot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all talk rating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour

a situation where people have argued as we've been considered cents so bribery and corruption. is commonplace gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it was ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide the basis the fast effects for immediate hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's iraq or sarkozy. i'm french i was born here and live here my culture is french my origins are there and i was there like another country telling me do. you know we're scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical

insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that france can remedy the knock on effects from its libyan intervention polyploid r.t. paris. now earlier i spoke with former u.k. ambassador to algeria graham hammond who says the killing of several british hostages isn't that enough to dissuade london from helping the french intervention the united kingdom will continue to support the french intervention i imagine that the british government will also want to support our friends in algeria in any way that they might ask us to. david cameron has said that the fight against islamic terrorists in north africa could take decades can britain really afford to get involved like they did in afghanistan which i should mention of course started out with george bush saying that we would be in and out. well politicians

tend always to say we'll be in and then we'll be seeing mr cameron knows that this will take time i don't imagine that he is thinking of committing british ground troops to north africa but there's a lot we can do in terms of intelligence technology logistics i think it does have to be done the question really is how can we afford not to. there was the thought that france went in because of possible uranium resources there what is britain's interests than. well i think britain's interest is in having stability on the on the if you like the southern florida flank of no two just across the mediterranean from from western europe. i don't accept these conspiracy theories about minerals i think it's really about knowing that we have we have stable neighbors stable neighbors but at the same time britain openly backs rebels who are known to

have sort of attachments to al qaeda and other is islamist groups there so where then is the consistency. sort of what rebel groups of those in syria. yes yes well if i say reading anything it was more of a geo political in terms of security and not resources so where then why yes in syria no in syria and mali well i think it's a different story this is not. an al-qaeda linked islam a stop arising in syria it's ordinary people who want a different life they want to be rid of a tyrant. in charge of them and this will solve itself apparently without any intervention from the outside i think the story in mali is completely different this is foreign intervention by the al-qaeda linked terrorists

themselves this is not on just mali i'm striving to change the government. the political analyst john laughlin says western countries support is the most when it's in their geo political interests to do so. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's . discomfiture when you put him that question i mean he doesn't have an answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crushes in the midst rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why did we support last year the secession of south sudan but we suddenly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political decision we are taking political decisions on the basis of our political vision and our friends and enemies and that's the reason why

we do one thing in syria and the other thing in mali and as for encouraging stability i mean that really does take the cookie to say that you know we have practically the whole of the middle east including north africa in turmoil we have supported we the west have supported the great uprisings of the arab spring only to find that they the regimes they have produced have an important islamic element. and of course all this comes against the background as you know of the repression in algeria which has been going on for fifteen or twenty years we all remember that in the early ninety's the islamists there won the election and the situation was averted only by having a millet tree or effectively military rule in algeria these are conundrums which the west has not solved than is not solving it is on the contrary making matters worse. german chancellor angela merkel's coalition has suffered

a blow ahead of the parliamentary election later this year they've been defeated in a key regional vote losing by one seat in lower saxony the disappointing result potentially puts merkel in a vulnerable position ahead of september's general election in which he seeks to win a third term in office parties peter all over reports on the fragile support for the german leader both at home and abroad. it's the thirteenth setback in local elections that angle merkel's christian democrat party and their coalition partners the free democrats have suffered it's also more importantly the fifth the fifth state government which they've lost to the social democrats since two thousand and nine this vote in lower saxony which is the fourth most populous state in germany it seemed very much as a bellwether of opinion and it was incredibly tight well it was by one seat and what it does mean though even by the smallest of margins the social democrats well

they smell blood heading into the general election their candidate for the chancellorship steinbrück said this well this shows that a change of government and power is possible this year what's interesting when you look at this particular particular local election is the euro zone crisis really didn't come into it this was a local election where people were voting on local issues now it's in that area where mrs merkel is starting to show some weaknesses as it were and her christian democratic party and their coalition partners but she still has this personal appeal as the leader because of what she's done for the eurozone crisis but of course that isn't mirrored when you look around the rest of europe particularly in countries like greece where we've seen burned in effigy and even compared to adult hitler because the greek people they see angela merkel as the main person behind the austerity that they're having to live through so her popularity abroad

personally isn't particularly great when it comes to the eurozone crisis however germans are happy with the way that she's managed this crisis and managed germany's economy throughout it as i say it's going to come down to whether she can convince the german people that she's the right person to manage german interests at home as well as those abroad whether she can win not third term towards the end of this year. now across the atlantic another leader is getting ready to set out his second term stall. a bomb effect to deliver a speech on the next four years of his presidency and look at whether he can live up to his promises.

she good laboratory kirby was able to build a clue most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans in the world this is why you should care what you only. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not be in. the news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too much of angle is stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit actuality.

welcome back you're with our t.v. live from moscow with a general election looming in israel polls predict they'll be little change to make up to the makeup of the country's parliament forecasts are promising the return of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is right wing the coup party and are leaving many voters apathetic and disillusioned parties paula flee are reports. the countdown has begun but instead of scanning the papers to brush up on who's saying what in the final hours before his weight his head to the polls. is searching for an apartment the twenty eight year old is desperate to move out of his parents' home but times are tough and he blames the government right i'm not going to vote i see who are the candidates and there is no one standing who represents me or who can change the general mood in the country with the recent political justing that's all

candidates need from one party to another induced even more pessimism in people like musharraf who have lost trust in israeli politicians the union between bibi netanyahu and his foreign minister avigdor lieberman be them in government the return of c.p. leave me for my opposition leader back into the fray just a few months after announcing her time and only frustrated and already election where we public many israelis don't believe that the present politician the parties . have any really new solutions to the big problems facing israel security peace spirit economic issues. but among all the uncertainty one thing is certain for the disenchanted voters and it can work and i also feel like the outcome is pre-determined everyone knows not and you know who is going to win for them or the apathy based on the belief that netanyahu will almost certainly when has led experts to worry about the state of his way to democracy. there are some populations designing the israeli society if you take this over the ultra orthodox

presenters that turns out to vote is very high it's above eighty on the other hand when you look at the middle class the youth and the arabs the percentage is around sixty. and those figures only help netanyahu and his allies of course there are parties who are ready to oppose the government's policies one of their merits boasts that a vote for them is a secure vote against netanyahu and a leadership that will destroy israel first of all are is aleisha in the war will continue. there will be no solution to the palestinian problem in the konami can social gaps between rich and poor will get to march wider and deeper but minutes is expected to win only around five percent of the votes in a record field of fifty four parties that are running in these elections netanyahu is party is expected to get only about a quarter of the seats in the parliament but with other political forces being

shattered into rival factions this is still going to be enough for him to continue in power the coalition effort on yahoo is expected to build would have a very slim majority but it would still give him the mandate he needs to map out this country's next four years but the paradox of this election is that the candidate say to win is not particularly liked by most of the country policia r.t. tel aviv's. well as i get more on tuesday's israeli election from how her as executive director of the one voice movement joining us on the line from tel aviv i believe are calling for a two state solution i'm sure that what do you think is behind this dwindling support of netanyahu is party. well i think that the current elections are an interesting. present an interesting development in the way the two blocks of the right wing and the left wing in israel

are shaped i think that the right wing has become much more right wing and the left wing has clearly more more clearly become a left wing in the. sense that we all expected to be. there two poles running now against each other and. netanyahu finds himself leading a party that's offering a vague platform actually no platform at all they have not presented a program of party programs to address a lot of the issues that are concerning israeli citizens from the left and the right and are dividing them according to those pacs and one of the policies that netanyahu has not been vague on and very frank gardner is of course about building more settlements. and kind of taking this hard line how much real security in this promise to keep israel safe no matter what can be given to the country through this platform. so i think that you that's

a very important question that a lot of his early voters are not really facing and that the contradiction between a promise a vague promise that was made three years ago or almost four years ago in barellan university for a two state solution adopted allegedly at least by benjamin netanyahu the prime minister visited and an increasing build up of the settlements which make. a two state solution increasingly harder i think that there's also another side to it and we see this in a recent study published by daniel abramson in the united states in washington where we see an increasing number of people also among the right wing constituency among the voters for the right wing parties who would accept a two state solution based on the one hundred sixty seven borders and when you

think about the prospects for this government leading policy of more settlement expansion and indeed even annexation of the occupied territories in the west bank i think that it would lead not only to a growing pressure and friction with the united states and president obama with the european union and with the palestinian population but it will also lead to a growing disappointment in the israeli public that. is still supporting and i believe will still support. it and uphold its rights of peace and security which can only be manifested and realized through the two state solution. i want to talk more in depth about that pressure since two thousand and ten of course peace talks have been frozen on the palestinian issue and then you have relations which are relatively tense between netanyahu and obama how much pressure do you think we could actually see in the future on the global stage i mean the

past has really been a lesson that sometimes as much pressure is put on it it might not you know create a solution how do you see a way out of this. well you have noted several factors that will definitely be in the mindset of the israeli voter when he or she approached the ballot in less than twenty four hours and it is dangers such as international isolation dangers such as the third intifada or violent clash nonviolent uprisings on the palestinian front i think that the biggest pressure would come from the israeli public who as i said is primarily. seeking for the good life seeking for a sort of status quo and the status quo will not be realized will not be

will not be possible without some progress on the israeli palestinian front so while netanyahu has been appeasing for very long the hardline settler lobby there is also a growing lobby of moderates in. we've grown tired of the mishmash policies and trying to appease both the settlers and the international community at the same time and we see even now in the months leading up to the election when we go in campuses around the country are activists. opening a mock ballot and urging people to vote on whatever issue that is can of concern to them be it social justice. or security or whatever other issue is on their agenda they know. clear relation to a solution with the palestinians to their everyday concerns this connection is

becoming ever more clear crystal clear to people's minds will it be manifested in the polls tomorrow maybe it's too early for. and maybe it still needs to to. to write a bit more in that respect that tension. between what israelis want the good life that they want the security the social justice the well for that they expect to see and the solution to the palestinian israeli conflict may be that connection and tension between those two aspirations maybe it's not fully understood yet by the entire israeli electorate and we will end up with a right wing coalition. but i believe that in the next four years the greatest change would be the voice of those two hundred fifty thousand people who have clicked and shared. the video that one voice released recently and have attended

our town hall meetings in the months leading up to this. election and have increasingly. engaged with the call for the upcoming leadership be it as it may from the right or the left to what we will certainly be watching very closely like you said to see if there is any shift in the status quo israeli elections of course tuesday tell harris activist executive director of the one voice movement live with us on the line from tel aviv thank you for that. like i say will be watching closely the election all day on tuesday here in our team bringing you sorrow coverage as well as an in-depth exploration of the issue of israel settlements with a little bit of a twist. i'm here with some investors from england ok i'm here to show new blood work to buy property in this area and in those jewish. no

exception to the state solution. so little. rock obama is officially at the helm of the u.s. government for another four years after being sworn in at the white house all eyes are now on the american president who will shortly outline his second term plans in his inaugural speech let's now get the thoughts of political and security analysts patricia de janeiro who's in washington and now and joins us live thanks for being with us what do you think is is. a bar and obama's foreign policies and the challenges he's facing there were clearly outlined in his first term the debate still going on how successful he is what he was what do you think he's done to make the world a safer place in the past four years. yes and done anything much different than the

past administration unfortunately i mean i think and from an american and perspective our u.s. perspective at least he has withdrawn most of the troops from iraq and he's on the track to do the same thing in afghanistan which in my view is long overdue however there are there are tens of drone attacks that are still going on that i think put it our national americans in international different international environment in great danger because you know this is a very on and. it is absolutely it's the whole international law and in addition to that you don't want on a mo is still open and things he promised that i think you know how do we we work through this process. we would be in a much better place internationally but i do i just say with one caveat it's not

having much much cooperation with the u.s. congress and i think that's hurt him tremendously on anything he's been able to get done although the president does decide international policy from the white house. we're watching some live pictures as we speak in fact of this inauguration taking place in washington certainly a day of celebrations but i think it's fair to say that there's a lot of critics that would say there's not really much to celebrate like you said there are a lot of challenges ahead the killing of osama bin ladin in pakistan was of course a big deal for obama his approval ratings went up some might say it helped him win the election do you feel that it the event brought a sense of closure to an open pandora's box on more troubles ahead. well you know we have the propensity of focusing on one particular individual instead of a larger scale problem so i'm i mean you know you hit the leader but you still have

the whole organization that's still in place and you still have the founding sons of the problems within the contents of the middle east and the u.s. relationship with the middle east that have not been worked out have not been dealt with have not been focused on and i think that in addition with the demographics and issues that are happening in the context of the middle east and the u.s. really not supporting democracy kind of standing back and saying well you know in certain cases you know well we'll stand back and support in other cases we still want to keep certain people in our will that are questionable this all has to do with this in the larger contacts of how change is going to be made you know internationally not just you know from this face. you said earlier that you don't see very much different from the predict friends from the previous administration and one of the criticisms of is of course this this idea that obama is continuing

policies of the bush administration through drones yes we're going to possibly have less boots on the ground. but this is something that a lot of people are expecting to continue in his second term what do you think. it will continue in a second term i don't see any chance of letting up i mean just this morning there are reports that some insurgents were killed in yemen and you know i mean this is a continuation and this goes back to the previous question you know we have to look at this more broadly more you know it comprehensively of the issues on the problems are going on in the world it's you know we're not going to solve anything and this goes for ever very good leadership a friend government throughout the globe basically you're not going to solve your problems through this kind of crash and this kind of direct violence you really have to work harder and i mean you know.