if anything it was a lid on it clink because. great great cities we don't show great britain. online video footage showing muslims enforcing their own sharia law those in london threaten to escalate see the ethnic tension. to the question how when and why the government can track its citizens the f.b.i. responded with it's a us civil liberties group demanding to know exactly how americans are being monitored receive a blank reply leaving them ever more in the dark. and netanyahu is narrow when the israeli prime minister claims victory in a snob general election but his party's poor performance means tough political

course trading days ahead to form a cabinet. and around the world this is she was me you know thanks for joining us. tomorrow and i have been arrested in the u.k. for being part of a vigilante group calling themselves muslim patrol for it it shows you is harassing people telling them they have entered an islamic area and should obey shari'a law and as our first reports now even though muslim leaders in london condemn the group it's still causing a lot of anger. and islamic vigilante groups that's what they call themselves a small number of people who were going up to members of the public in areas of london fronting them saying that they were implementing shari'a law and that this was a muslim area and they were demanding people throw away their alcohol they were insulting

to women telling them to cover up this loaded on to tens of thousands of people saw it the original video got removals the police investigator. to the once again you know that goes around so it's still on you tube right now and again tens of thousands of hits so a lot of concern here i think because obviously it's gone viral save speak a lot of people are saying this very threatening behavior from a small group of the certainly causing a lot of concern here that that's going to stir up tension one of the people in the video said that this is the it's not a miss america as a shari'a law but obviously we've seen that this is a debate the really does inflaming tensions and causes a lot of controversy and i think the muslim community core c.-k. really have come out to condemn what this small groups done and to try to distance themselves from of the east london mosque saying that it was designed to stoke up tensions so that there's very much an emphasis on distancing themselves from that

type of behavior because certainly this is part of a why did debate in the area of london where the police think that this video was filmed in east london is an area that see this argument come up a number of times over the past couple of years with fundamentalist leaks in these areas making a lot of noise about wanting to relaunch implemented in the end it is a very touchy subject for a lot of people as we said very threatening behavior in those videos and as the muslim community here in the case being. very very trying to highlight is that this is a very small group but of course as it has gone around the internet a lot of people seeing us and say this small great taking the threat threatening actions obviously having a much wider impact. and on r.t. dot com we're asking you what the actions of the so-called muslim patrol will lead to and here are the options for you to choose a rise in religious tensions in the u.k.

also you can choose i think reason muslim fundamentalism also ever prize all in vigilantism from groups like the national front and the last one growing growing discord and mixed london communities and let's now take a look at how you have voted so far and right now around a third of you believe there will either be a rise in religious tension or more discord in a mixed communities and mixed communities and around a fifth say an increase in muslim fundamentalism is inevitable with the same amount fearing nationalist vigilantes so do go to our to dot com to have your say.

the u.s. has begun airlifting the french troops to mali extending support for the internet intervention and by its nato ally it comes as a leader on base to islam a star are accused of helping those responsible for a deadly hostage siege in algeria an attack which was in response to the french operation and morgan an expert in west africa says paris has underestimated the size of the fallout from its venture into mali. this is a very strange and very diverse and very kind of collide skopec coalition of people you have the hard core of the al-qaeda in the islamic magreb fighters now they are very very hard and fighters been out there for almost a decade they know the region very very well you know the desert is that absolute home you also have the rebels who basically decided to put their fate in

a yeah garley who's this islamist leader this strongman who's basically juice a lot of to are into joining his islamist cause now they'll also be at home they know the desert that's their territory their super desert fighters they specialize in this kind of hit and run guerrilla tactics so strike very fast and then they'll disappear into the desert possibly even over the borders and we know that the attack on javelin this town about four hundred kilometers northeast of bamako was launched from across the border remarks that will be a huge problem for the for the for the kind of france and its allies. and later this hour. his guess that whether intervention in mali is part of a bigger campaign against islam and what lessons could be learned from previous attempts to fight terror all that and more in cross talk on r.t. . gives the west military intervention in mali still another example of the west's overall war against islam has ever been one instance where an outside intervention

in the name of fighting terrorism has ever produced peace stability and democracy and with the lessons of blowback ever be learnt. there was a lot of talk about democracy and individual freedoms and president obama's inaugural speech this week but it's the privacy of millions of americans that maybe most threat a civil liberties group in the u.s. has demanded to know exactly what to me the f.b.i. uses to track its own citizens but it can now explains they reply raised more questions than ours. everybody knows that the f.b.i. uses all sorts of tracking devices on cars cell phones and whatnot everything that can carry g.p.s. the american civil liberties union filed the request under the freedom of information act asking for the justice department to review the f.b.i.'s guidelines

their internal memos as to how and under what circumstances they track people as of now there is no clear understanding among americans of when they will be subjected to tracking possibly for months at a time or whether the government will first get a warrant this is the justice department's response more than one hundred pages of completely redacted material except for the title so to the question how when and why the government can track its citizens the f.b.i. responded with this takes a lot of ink to print out something like this some artistic souls may think of the painting black swear by live each we're certainly not sure of the artistic intentions of the u.s. justice department or the meanings they put into these black pages but for civil liberties advocates here this is what government secrecy looks like actually it was last month when president obama signed a bill that essentially allows the government to spy on anyone they want under some kind of a general warrant as opposed to an individual word in other words it allows the

national security agency to vacuum up as much private communication as possible with something like a promise on the authorities part to be really careful about when and how they look at it but civil liberties advocates argue that the bill of rights is not about the government's promises of good intentions but about legal guarantees so president obama may be very convincing when he talks about individual freedoms we heard the words in his inaugural speech this monday but here is the f.b.i. version of their freedom. the high profile internet freedom to his live earlier this month after he was prosecutors for alleged could have had close links to we kill the whistle blowing group came forward surprised revelations on aren't shorts and on its twitter feed has published several statements suggesting the late activists actually assisted. and one of the tweets says that our shorts communicated with the we can exert founder julian our son and they believe that he

used to be a source of their information so the investigation into his activities saw him threatened with up to thirty five years behind bars and for more on the case of our short r.t. spoke exclusively to internet entrepreneur came dot com now fighting extradition to the u.s. piracy charges so the count of the founder of the mega upload and mega services and a bike over internet freedom told us the case and the chase for sure was nothing but politics aaron schwartz i mean he's stopped. with his fords he stops when he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reason a bore. course behind going after young like that in the fashion that it's political. and you can see the full interview with cayman dot com here on r.t.

this thursday in a bit martin's breaking the set. russian foreign ministry is holding a major news conference right now looking back at the most important international events and diplomatic ups and downs of the past year and a session is expected to last for several hours and cover a wide range of issues from developments in syria and mali to moscow's relations with the west and these are live pictures right now as for you streaming from the ministry of foreign affairs in central moscow let's listen in for a few minutes to for surveillance of it is saying right now. that our key tasks is to accomplish their objective said by the president to contribute to wealthy and prosperous russia to provide favorable external conditions for a long term sustainable development of our country for shifting its economy to integration direct supported by its unique resource base and huge human potential and a return ching its position. in global markets and in global affairs overall we

were consistent. to make in terms of what unity is all we can make and science and technology called the ration with our foreign partners to solve our national tasks . we. can because it says i see quickly if we do shifts in tips you can see strengthening positions of our country as one of the leading centers of power and influence in a polar centric system meeting the demands of realities and turks of the twenty first century probably a new force in the. new provision of the very important trade was the strengthening of integration process in c.i.s. countries it is our natural for europe to host to secure a well deserved place for the serious members increasingly complex and highly competitive world school pushing for this course it was truth into practice in a ration of further development. cooperation approved at the meeting of serious

leaders council international but on december fifteenth says if we. don't win the world will be dipping into. a big news conference over the next few hours and still expect russia's foreign minister to address these some of the most challenging to issues the wildest facing now in creating the ongoing civil conflict and see where and west africa and you can watch the conference as streaming live on our website so you can log on to r.t. dot com to listen to the whole thing right now. more news for you after this short break.

speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here. in the world talks specifically ip interview intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit our big i don't know it's called. a bad name in that time yas claimed victory in election but he's posting has still

suffered a major some bank winning fuel states than expected and now netanyahu they don't think tasco dissuading political forces to join them in a coalition she's pulled to explain the election results. these have again positioned as was expected the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the first position that is with his could be a tame new party but as was not expected it seems as if this party has received forty fewer voters than was originally anticipated not on yahoo now needs to start building a coalition he will need to secure a minimum of sixty one seats out of one hundred and twenty seated parliament if indeed he manages to get on board all the why when parties then he will be able to reach this number there was a surprise showing in these initial exit polls and that was the position of the second party that is caught there is a future it is headed by

a former journalist who has become a politician it wasn't expected to do as well as it did do and it certainly is a party that has a centrist position yael appeared at the name of this journalist this former journalist now he has indicated that he would be interested in joining a mitten yahoo coalition but he has said that his first condition is that the religious need to join the army and the workforce and this is something that the religious parties are not going to agree to he also says that another condition for him joining is for resumption of peace talks with the palestinians and again this is going to be something that you're far right parties are certainly not going to agree to so netanyahu is going to have a difficult time trying to combine them with your more formal white religious orthodox parties and this might ultimately see him just relying on for white support and if indeed he goes this route or any is it to create possibly the most aware when government in israel's history. hundreds to make peace with the

palestinians as what the international community will be hoping for from the new israeli government but ramsey baroud. chronicle dot com says it's the mentality and the political well that are really blocking talks. there is no peace process there hasn't been any peace process for years and most likely there would not be peace process under an attorney or under the mentality by which israel is governed in fact i think there is too much emphasis on netanyahu while in reality netanyahu is a reflection or an expression of a growing tendency of israel this is a that is either oblivious to the peace process as in the centralists or the lift just and of course the ultra nationalists and the and the ultra orthodox that are fundamentally and essentially opposed to any compromises or any discussion with palestinians that will concede an inch of what they consider the rightful home or the historic home of the jewish people. another contentious a shelf acting by

a peace process and contributing to israel's international isolation is the expansion of jewish settlements but the one man claims it wrong to think they march eighth purely political and reached out to their fellow community to prove his point filmmaker nimrod camera known for his prime documentary that is an orthodox view without. my name is no more than israeli citizen living here among. you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also live among ourselves and i think i can get there much better deal with the wise over the. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up with one flat is one million shekels his father's flat and they're building that this

whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the us almost only political parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talk location he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a biggie one investor understand is the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills mall. and no one except. two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man living i want to cash in on my jewishness and i be in touch with my roots . so it's all jewish yeah yeah and the non jewish part because. not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how

many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future of israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scum and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. ok. you see. there's history into there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. this scene is the most disputed area you never met notice it just because people told us but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll build in this area like because my friends want to

build some like to buy something before we even constructed it. is coming up. he says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy capital of his well i pay so much money for rent in london anyone in london and here anyone in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so he would have all of us is ours bloody brilliant view you can look down at palestinians this is the new area being built opposite you one i just called this real estate it's called hideout three they sell all the flats in this part of town and they say no to seek peace of a settlement and it will never be evacuated today selling more and more how come all the cleaners of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish labor. should be. mean to him and he's going to see it going to the state agent to get

to the for the legalities. of not look at me that's going. to complete. you selling your. tony jones. like i also. spoke to the man behind the film and find out what happened behind the scenes and whether he actually invested in this settlement property himself by watching our

interview with new comer at r.t. dot com. and some other world news are brief now almost russians who fled the water on syria have arrived in moscow from lebanon two planes were sent to pick up the groups of mainly women and children the foreign ministry and says the move is not part of a full scale evacuation and russia is not planning to conduct one they say were in conflict have lasted for two years and are claiming at least six different thousand lives according to u.n. estimates. a twenty two year old man has been charged following a shooting at a community college in the to us an argument between two men are being led to one pulling a gun and shooting a student at least three people were injured and taken to hospital the incident comes amid gun control no dispute sparked by an elementary school shooting in connecticut which claimed twenty six lives. the u.n.

security council has passed a resolution condemning north korea's missile launch in december the council accused pyongyang of conducting a long range rocket test new sanctions are to be imposed on targeting individuals companies and government agencies the u.n. has already imposed sanctions after the communist state conducted a nuclear test. and let's now go back to sergei lavrov has a new conference a news conference and listen to what he has to say right now syrian pardew's involved and our policy has remained the same all the time in our contacts with all the parties who are trying to convince them in the need of complying with the geneva communiqué to all the parties have subscribed to the five permanent members the league of arab countries turkey union united nations all have subscribed to that communique but unfortunately the other participants in the group that

was formed in geneva are sending. the wrong signals at least so ties with the opposition they have no contacts with a government that. takes advantage of their support for their position which is. to be conducted with the government and the coalition that was established in the. the coalition of syrian opposition in the problematic statement stated that their goal is a dismantling of the regime dismantling of structures runs counter to the geneva accords where we underscored the need to maintain the public structures and. the mistakes that have been made in the region in other countries of the issues and the opposition represented by that national coalition

has refused to conduct talks in our western partners and some countries of the region welcomed the coalition when we asked them why our partners welcomed. proles approach for refusing dialogue when they answered that the main thing was to unite them the position forces and after that there wasn't countries and other participants in the process. of first syrian settlement afterwards we will convince their position to take more constructive approach nothing like that is happening now regrettably the opposition forces categorically reject a near term to maintain dialogue and they continue to be antagonistic and our parties unfortunately are encouraging them and provide them with everything necessary to continue the struggle so they have been no attempts to bring the

parties to the negotiating table as we have tried to do as all chinese colleagues have tried to do. and boy the united nations and arab league centrist kofi annan and the house brahimi also tried to do that but so far i repeat everything is lost by the fanatical for their position forces and their fellow. intention to dismantle the regime six. there reconcilable but. as long as it continues to. do nothing will happen for us. our priority is not to pursue some job political objective such as dismantle the regime our priority is to stabilize the situation or to bring our soon as possible the situation. in and save the lives of citizens but apparently.

different priorities we are engaged with. they say they understand there are things they are were all of these tours of the disintegration of the state but. publicly in. all the different ideas and toward something that is quite different from what they would like to see. france presidency a question. the microsoft the microsoft. and of course we'll be dipping into. iraq through hours and we still expect to russia's foreign minister to address some of the most challenging issues the world is facing now including the ongoing civil conflict in syria and west africa and you can watch the conference this conference treme live on our web site so can log on to our to accomplish the whole thing right now and as i promised up ahead it's bit about with crosstalk.

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