total reconquest the french say they won't leave mali until islamic extremism is wiped out but already there are voices suggesting ulterior motives behind what threatens to become a long war in the african colony. david cameron says he's not turning his back on europe speaking at the economic forum the prime minister rushed to calm the storm after he promised a referendum on whether the u.k. should leave the e.u. . catalonia trumpets its right to split from spain despite madrid supporters stations with a sturdy crisis and stagnation driving that to a strained sides further apart. and a world wide

a witch hunt we speak to him battled online business women freedom of information activists who claimed schuman rights are ignored in the politically motivated persecution of his colleagues around the world. around the world online on screen live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day a splinter movement has broken away from the al qaeda linked islamists the money saying it wants to fight terrorism and extremism the newly formed group has stated is ready for peace talks with the government and the french these forces are currently fighting there for us as defense minister meanwhile has said his country is prepared for a long conflict on his return ocean a look at the reasons behind the french intervention. french have died headlong into the military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to

exactly why the western nation has put boots on african soil again costing money and people's lives. official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of the war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of france's defense minister has declared total reconquest of mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they will to monopolize the access to the city to the resources that are there with english to become specifically in relation to the united states i know we sing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively where in the past gold and especially the iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by

almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african uranium. french companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets all this is neo colonialism but with a simpler role france is far from the only nation to have and defend its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official declination contact in regimes from rebels liking to booty call to central african republic or fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by his own economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different i call lies asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east britain and france have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual

interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to save them because their army is not equipped to are trained to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists mess they had that is a philosopher and the foreman to mission and bassa to unesco his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come use resources but then it's logical that locals profit as well and that those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way is wild a kind of slavery mali him on the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been in paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies their body able to minister

to french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former. french colonies are independent someone that alone no idea is all just part of history and that history may be repeating. see from paris. there are numerous reports of weapons spilling into mali after the toppling of muammar gadhafi regime in libya independent political analyst dan glazebrook believes that the western intervention in libya is the actual reason behind the. most happy mali is a direct result of the arming of of rebels and gadhafi in gadhafi libya. as well as the fall of gadhafi get out he was a key player in negotiating peace deals the last peace deal in northern mali. was negotiated in two thousand and eight of my desk so he was the linchpin of a lot of the security system in north africa plus the arming of the class the looting and get out of his own. weaponry by the rebel forces that's was created

this instability again this is not completely just this is not unforeseen consequences maybe stupid the imperialist but they're not completely blind to the results of their actions. you are a democrat john kerry is set to replace hillary clinton as america's next secretary of state first he's got questions from the senate in his confirmation hearing that's taking place as we speak stay with us for the details on that we'll get some live reaction from the states on this is well plus. not once but twice i'll give you the story of a one year old girl who survived this. but first the health of the global economy and debt wobbles in europe both have come into the spotlight the world's business and political elite converge on the swiss ski resort of davos for the annual financial for minorities kitty pilgrim is following the second day of the glitzy gathering. this is politics that is the focus of policy mike is german

chancellor angela merkel and the team is the sleaze mario monti of the e.c.b. president said ok all here discussing a strategy to pull europe out of the long running economic crisis is now the most anticipated speech of the day they had to come from british prime minister david cameron of the he announced a referendum on membership of the e.u. and his desire to win a new settlement for europe anybody demanded concessions from brussels as well but today when he came face to face with the leaders interestingly if you think blacks tracks like he was softer and his approach and he said he was no way turning his back on europe although he was right as did the audience away from the topic because his speech was actually focused on tax transparency to clamp down on avoidance was what he wanted to talk about but the rest of the financial ministers here in davos they just wanted to talk about the referendum.

catalonia has adopted a declaration of sovereignty a proclamation that gives it the right to hold a referendum on breaking away from spain the madrid is on the sway discharging like illegality and maintaining it's not up to catalans alone to decide if they want to leave but a matter for all the spaniards because their course she's a sociologist at the pump of public university says that's little more than an excuse. well it's definitely unlawful i mean it's awful against the constitution the question is also you know how many people in spain right now. are really behind this constitution and when when does this constitution actually mean anything the constitution also guaranteed a right for instance to decent housing and yet we find that you know hundreds of people are being are being kicked out of their homes day and being left out in the street all over spain and in catalonia so you know the constitution

a lot of the times serves to i guess is about to validate an argument or to legitimize an argument whenever it's convenient for whoever is governing at the time. both career is going nuclear over sanctions pyongyang and the slew of major league in atomic weapons tests targeted against the u.s. which it sees as being behind u.n. impose penalties. a cover mission hearing which is expected to see john kerry becoming the head of the u.s. state department has begun in washington the democrat senator was nominated by president obama to replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat well to talk more on the potential challenges kerry may face some joined live now by jason ditz to use that as the war dot com well john kerry is actually the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee the very one which will decide whether he should become secretary of state so it's a foregone conclusion

a manatee isn't it. i'm pretty much i am and i think kerry's. history as as not a very controversial figure foreign policy wise for. for the administration is probably going to ensure that the this is a pretty short confirmation hearing i think some things that he's going to have a lot on his plate tell me there clinton she seemed washington engaging in the bombing of libya we've seen the rise of anti-american sentiment around the world and the unresolved anti missile defense issue of course between russia and the u.s. do you think he's going to be handling all of these issues with with aplomb we'll be able to do it. depends what you mean by handling i don't think he's going to be a very proactive secretary of state i see him more as a speech maker somebody that hits all of the key buzzwords and when he makes a couple of comments world it probably isn't you're interested in getting much done

so what you're saying is we're not going to see much then in the changing of u.s. foreign policy any different direction at all as certainly not from senator kerry i think he's he's very much the nominee of the status quo and i think that's a lot of why there's been virtually no resistance to him in the senate and so you're saying the republicans will be no resistance and then that is going to be easy ride him for this confirmation yeah i think i think so and what about the talk about republican senator john mccain he's known for his anti kremlin sentiment he's good friends with kerry isn't he do you think kerry could build relations with russia or could we perhaps expect the reset all of that reset which we saw hillary clinton supposedly achieve and well i think i think they're going to try. again. senator kerry's primary strength is his ability to give speeches that hit

all of the key points and whether he's going to be able to negotiate actual deals behind the scenes and get anything done i think that very much remains to be seen. well it remains to be seen but in what way the sort of support he's going to get with is team will the way that he handles these clearly very challenging times ahead for the u.s. he's a good speechmaker obviously diplomacy is pretty important isn't it but it is and i think that's the unknown with tam he's he's done some. diplomatic visits for the obama administration in the past few years particularly in pakistan but his ability to actually negotiate serious deals is is very much on proven and other than his ability to make speeches i don't think we know an awful lot about what ill what he'll bring to the table as the secretary just finally will second choice wasn't because susan rice was actually the perfect candidate for a bomber and then of course the controversy in libya that obviously scuppered her

chances so the fact that he's second choice that's not particularly good is it well well i think he's second choice precisely because he's now uncontroversial for the ones you the sort of status quo candidate is that the senator tends to like to push through the fact that he's the foreign relations committee had. game only makes his confirmation all the easier the obama administration wasn't up for a big battle over susan rice and they're not going to get one with kerry so i think he's. for them the ideal second choice because of his sheer on interesting ness jason thanks a lot for that jess and it's news that is sort of antiwar dot com join me live there in the states. in the dead of winter it pays to be careful on russia's icy roads and shocking footage has gone viral of what can happen if you're not artie's the ban what takes us through the drama. the road is clear he decides to overtake

his lips on the road the truck coming back she's on to him they go something falls out there you see why don't your left corner is the baby who's just literally floated out of the moving car into oncoming traffic now what's more surprising about this is that the father comes out luckily this driver is quietly you know is pretty much aware of what's going on around him he picks up the kid goes back into the car his wife comes out picks up what what's left of everything in the now this video has gone literally viral people are going crazy over it and it's only natural that they would because so many questions are being asked on why was this baby not properly settled in this car there was no baby seat obviously seen that the baby fell out of the car and it's unacceptable that they just nonchalantly just went about their business but now the question that everybody should be asking is rather

who was filming the video where all of this was happening so russia motorists thought that they'll put cameras on the actual car so that if anything happens in terms of insurance they have something to actually show the police and say this is what happened on the road the person who was filming this decided to continue for me even as he saw that there's a child who just fell out of this car he continued filmy didn't stop to help didn't say anything and he just went about for me maybe because he thought it was going to be on you tube you know i'm not involved who cares but something that got everybody even talking more is the actual parents they just nonchalantly pick up whatever's left of their belongings and just move on i think the lesson of the day here is that not only are you not you know supposed to be driving recklessly on roads as we have right now it's winter it's slippery it's no we you need to be a bit more vigilant and baby seats are there for a reason to protect us and to protect our kids. fresh that the violence flares up

in jordan as the election results emerge one person killed in the clashes this program kind of its dominate the new parliament amid claims the king the election that's ahead for you here this hour naughty plus. event where the security services uncover assassination plots against senior officials amid a guessing game over the cancer battle of president hugo chavez that coming your way after a short break. if

. he continues here on our t.v. at least one person has been killed in jordan as fewer supporters of the islamist opposition clashed with those loyal to the king after partial parliamentary

election results were made public they showed the pro-government candidates will occupy ninety percent of the seats on he or she has more on the first parliamentary vote in jordan since the arab spring kicked off two years ago. despite a boycott by the muslim brotherhood and other opposition groups and jordan's first parliamentary election since the start of the arab spring turnout was quite high according to election officials more than fifty six percent of the country's two point three million registered voters came out to cast their ballots this is higher than in the last parliamentary elections in this country the muslim brotherhood and opposition activists meanwhile dismissed the results as illegitimate saying that voter turnout was actually much lower than officials describe now jordanian officials want credit for what they claim are successful if cautious democratic reforms this is the first time that outside election observers were invited to watch over the polls and the new parliament for the first time will be able to elect the country's new prime minister the parliament will also have more of

a say over day to day affairs but the king will continue to retain authority over the security services and foreign policy moreover the new parliament can still be dismissed at any moment by a royal decree which has cost some jordanians to say that the new reforms are simply too little and too late now the opposition groups also claim that the new parliament is illegitimate because of the country's new election law which they say is tilted towards favoring candidates from rural tribal organizations that are largely seen as being supportive of the monarchy in fact of the one hundred fifty seats in the new parliament only twenty seven went to national candidates of which the muslim brotherhood is the strongest most powerful and most popular political party they will continue to dismiss the result as illegitimate and are likely to fire for meant more street protests to boycott continue their boycott of the new poll now at the end of the day jordan stability may not be dissolved by politics

and may in fact depend on the economic situation jordan faces high levels of unemployment and has twenty two billion dollars of national debt now jordan's new parliament will have to push through even more abiding austerity or. forms which could severely undermined stability here in jordan the future of the arab spring me in the and depends on the economic situation and not politics you see catherine of r t amman jordan. kim dot com the web entrepreneur and internet activist known for his now banned for sharing service says he's at the center of a political witch hunt until last year here's a mega load upside was one of the most popular sites on the world wide web it allows millions of users to exchange content freely well here's what comes up if you go to mega upload now it's banned by u.s. authorities become a landmark case in the persecution of internet activists but kim dotcom has already

started a new service and is determined to keep free file sharing alive and he spoke exclusively to our tease andrew blake about why he's been hounded across the globe. here's a guy who grew up on the internet was a guy who made millions off the internet and here's a guy who designed mega upload at one site one of the most popular websites in the entire world with over one hundred million users is in the top five most trafficked websites and you know that's kind of why the f.b.i. wanted to shut it down i'm not. this my hero he was selfless he is completely the opposite of me but i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that big raid on the mega mansion the dot com mansion happened january twentieth two thousand and twelve it was the middle of the night ken was at his guest house on this house the mansion all of a sudden the authorities the local police showed up on helicopters came into his

house with guns drawn arrested him arrested his colleagues hauled him off to prison froze his assets shut down his website essentially they put his entire life on hold and caused him to kind of take this new stance in terms of what he thinks of the internet particularly what he thinks about the current state of privacy and surveillance of the government is quite exposed here because they really went in was completely be prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying and i mean the whole picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that is still waiting a eventual extradition hearing to the u.s. at this point though it seems like every single passing day the justice

department's case against him just crumbles more and more and more so sooner or later the u.s. government is going to have to prove that kim dotcom is worthy of the extra us and at that point if he's convicted he spent decades. in prison but the opinion that i got from him and from his legal team is that that's not going to happen anytime soon. and you can see the full interview with kim dotcom on friday here on. north korea is what it's prepared to carry out a plethora of rocket launches and nuclear tests to allow it to compete militarily should words turn to warfare the message comes a day after the u.n. approved more sanctions against pyongyang over satellite launch in december but political analyst says that despite some speculation there's little chance of an attack on america. all of their own so long as you're still technology has each of the recent years the capability to directly attack the states from where they are i think the danger is much greater for the people in south korea and i think we have

to do or guess the situation if it will work for you it was during the korean war of the united states. and given that the first issue was passed yesterday for example it's easy to see this to be the international community saying that you cannot have a right to defend yourself so. this is the core of the reason why you behave strictly literally you know i was in cuba last month so i'm probably going to get barack at least going up to you even giving me a completely different teaching. here bitching. that we were basically good for the country in the sixty's certainly exists. fun in the closest secrets about anyone in the world at all if you don't call me out about to read up about how intelligence agencies and governments are becoming google's favorite clients the number of requests for private data rockets also money remember the

great british brain drain and lack of opportunity forces many of the u.k. brightest and best to look elsewhere for more money and better jobs report about that at all to the comp. security forces in venezuela have uncovered an assassination plot against the vice president nicolas maduro and the head of the national assembly it claims came directly from the daughter amid growing concern over the health of president hugo chavez he's recovering from cancer surgery in cuba and hasn't been seen in public for six weeks a lot easier gotten just spoke to the vice president who says there's no cause for concern concerning the condition of chavez. during the interview with vice president nicolas maduro the vice president of venezuela he informed us that president chavez is right now in his best moment. since his operation that took place at the beginning of december that there's a lot of expectation regarding his return to venezuela that he's definitely been improving complications have been overcome that arise during his surgery and in the

post operative phase at the same time he did want to speculate about when president chavez what exactly return to the country that that's definitely the cards definitely the near future. this is a very good post-operative condition and he's recovering with very well will make an official announcement to the public soon we're able to visit him all the time. right after this interview he would be leaving on a plane to have an excuse to meet with president chavez to visit him informing us also that president chavez is conscious is awake he's aware of what's going on he's actively involved in his government wants to know what's happening and that he's still at the head of government that he's the one giving the orders and. decisions he's still making the decisions about the different paths that the government's taking. the president and more than fifty six percent of the people who voted for his continuing to fulfill his obligations everyone in venezuela and the rest of the

world know that the government is continuing to develop social and economic reforms and is waiting for the president to recover and fulfill constitutional obligations . overall there's a lot of expectation regarding the return of president chavez and the people of venezuela are very anxious awaiting his arrival the full version of all to see exclusive interview with the vice president of venezuela is coming away off the eight hundred thirty g.m.t. ahead it's the cause report stay with us for that. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent

from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their old things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but back may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and you horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i know rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord back no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for crying on camera doesn't suit me but if you were a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but

that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report. i maximizer what exactly is in a british beef burger apparently a whole lot of horse meat and boy oh boy are there british shot how horrified what about the british banks what exactly is the taxpayer own british banks r.b.s. and lloyds toxic derivatives for.