it was. the second anniversary of egypt's revolution as monks by a struggle not celebration with mass brush as planned by those unaware with the crumbling economy and lack of trying to. tensions on the korean peninsula spoke further by the north's threat to get physical with the south until it gets nuclear missiles at america. on the ground launches an investigation into the use of drone strikes mainly by the united states that result in scores of civilian deaths in what could be deemed a woo crime. international

news live from moscow this is r.t. was me you know of all of a hello and welcome to the program. on the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution people are back on the iconic square but not to celebrate various groups are calling for fresh anti-government rallies were demands very similar to those that led to regime change two years ago they evolve the anniversary was marked with fierce clashes between us activists and police which left dozens injured tear gas and rubber bullets were used to despise the protesters who try to tear down a wall preventing them from reaching parliament and kyra based reporter boettcher explains now what's driving those who fought for change two years ago back onto the streets. just off egypt's tahrir square surrounded by murals of slain protesters law graduates tarik talks about his brother who was killed during the two thousand and eleven revolution two years on tarek says the country has yet to see the

changes that his brother died fighting for instead in a deepening economic crisis many ordinary egyptians are barely able to get by. stuff or was killed there close to the course are all i need street in parliament he was shot dead of three bullets on the twenty eighth of january so far there has been no justice i'm twenty seven years old and i don't have any work now there are a lot of people like me who are unemployed there are some people reach the point where they don't have food to eat. right now youth unemployment levels in egypt have reached a staggering seventy seven percent which means that young people like tarek will be unable to pay for even their most basic needs even though they fought in a january twenty five revolution which demanded bread freedom and social justice two thousand and thirteen is expected to be an even harder year for egypt the people who live in these impoverished areas in cairo will be the hardest hit. while a senior economics commentator at the egyptian shrewd newspaper says the economy

has significantly suffered after two years of political turmoil the problem is that the government is using the same. policies to deal with this situation now especially after the i.m.f. loan with deep austerity measures taxes mainly on the poor not dealing with the corruption real corruption and deep corruption. that was something chronic with the mubarak regime till now with the economy at a standstill and vital subsidies being cut in twenty thirteen families living on a few dollars a day will be on able to put food on the table or roof over their heads this is despite president mohamed morsi promising to tackle key issues like bread and fuel shortages but it is not just daily economic hardship weighing on people's minds many say important goals of the twenty eleven eighteen they are praising have yet to be realized that evolution started on january twenty fifth which marks. there

have been no serious efforts to reform the police no serious effort to cleanse or deal with the legal structure and the traditional structure that we inherited from mubarak and that continues to make abuses possible and to prevent any efforts holding abusers accountable for crimes of the past january twenty third team has already seen mass protests across the country as egyptians continue to put pressure on the new president to make their demands a reality the second anniversary of the revolution is for many not so much a celebration but a continuation of the struggle for basic rights. for r.t. cairo. catalonia has unilaterally declared its right to an independence referendum as the region's government six a break away from spain divided may take place next year however madrid rejected the idea saying an independence poll is a game is this punished constitution and

a spokesperson from the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving could benefit both sides. declare a ship what he has is just a full month is something that democrats are running now and that these tax cuts only had to suffer a nation we just declared that was money. we all know that's the case but for the money that don't we i have and the little sucker inception it's no way to progress when you have latched to be something that you are not and it was from the three young cats and the only other nations by the old we are not the spanish so it's a would be progress and it would be tonight have when we are a separate set good terms. but if the optimism is not shared by everyone in spain and colonel closer so soldiers that be pumping father university says catalonia is government is pursuing dangerous policies which man did mind their returns chances to survive as. carnivals come really cheap and for the moment

it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know. when you're you know under the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auction them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. so catalans have been doing all they can to love big

government how the few opposed sometime and over one million of them flooded into barcelona last year to stake a claim for independence so do go to r.t. dot com for the images from that. it's. now france is reportedly expanding its military presence in north africa in mentation to military campaign in mali it's now also to be sending special forces to neighboring new dress to protect your am sites overrun by a state owned company the french say the science in new jersey could become the

target for african islamist militants who threatened revenge and peretz for the mali intervention and both you can see it on the map here right now where is the map here today so mali and. neighbors and for french colonies of resources that the french energy sector is heavily dependent upon and as aussies and maria for a notion explains that's already raising questions about french and term trends in the region thank you french have died had loaning to the military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has people 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 become quest 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 access to the city to the resources this is the there we're seeing the complete specifically in relations view of the states i know we're seeing 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 rare in the past the 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 reigning and. 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 neocolonialism but with a simpler old france is far from the only nation to have and defended its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty

years since official declination protecting regimes from rebels like into beauty of the central african republic or fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by its own economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different radical de carlo is 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 force 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. because their army is not equipped to train to oppose these militants it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live on the islamists missy had that is the philosopher in the form in tunisia ambassador to united 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 those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this was wild a kind of slavery mali him on the richest national resources in africa 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 the body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former french colonies are independent but someone got along no idea it's all just part of history and that history may be repeating. from paris. and this is all still ahead for you this hour an eco on trial of a veteran who is facing jail for blowing the whistle on the agency's interrogation

tactics and exposing torture as a policy says he's being prosecuted right. on the brits as traveling to dig themselves out of debt as payday loans new accounts trap families with promises of instant money this and other stories are coming up after a short break.

a watching aussie live from moscow north korea has threatened its southern neighbor with physical countermeasures if a draw is the latest round of your sanctions this talk of warning came just a day after north korea announced it would conduct

a said nuclear test saying its atomic and missile programs are targeting the u. was brian becker from the walls a coalition says the situation on the korean peninsula is extremely volatile but pyongyang's recent actions could actually be keeping the balance of the. korea is the most heavily militarized part of the planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem every time any country says that they are going to defend themselves from the united states the united states so see you are an aggressor and thus we have the new excuse the new pretext to up the ante but i think when you look at the whole picture you could see that north korea's sort of tenacious militancy even if it appears to be bombastic in the west in the way it's presented in the western media it's had the effect of preventing what would have been otherwise i think a war between the united states and its allies south korea in north korea that was

a danger that existed in one thousand nine hundred four a very real danger it started again when bush came into office scratching scotching the normalization process that was under way during clinton so i don't think north korea's sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations still thinking cloud computing is the future of data storage then had to go home and i will tell you how d.n.a. could soon make that all still eat out as scientists discovered nature's a hard drive and store everything from sun its p.v. have finally. found all their bond file sharing service mega exclusively tells us how he's getting around the law with his new start up the full interview at ten thirty am g.m.t. on our find it on our website.

in the you are says cia veteran and a former chief counterterrorist operations in pakistan is facing thirty months in prison after being found guilty of leaking classified information to a reporter john kerry cow first became known to the public in two thousand and seven when he was the first government official to admit waterboarding was torture and this week here a cow explained why he's driven to act i've never gained anything for what i've said publicly that i've lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer who said george was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and

counterterrorism agree is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know the debasing another person and serializing human rights abuses under legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never torture anybody but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers are papered over it and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. u.s. senator john kerry is widely expected to win easy confirmation from the senate as the next secretary of state after a hearing before lawmakers on thursday president obama's nominee will replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat although some analysts believe he'll do little to change the old face of u.s.

foreign policy. well the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state department john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well as well as of course south asia so every virtually every important issue that he's going to deal with. you know in those parts of the world will be. issues which have been essentially preempted already the policy set by the military and by the cia and i think that there is very little chance that

john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s. policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan i mean this controversial decent drones to target terrorists that has become the focus of a major you want investigation heman rights activists are highly critical of they saying it often results in wider civilian deaths than official acknowledged and aside from the lack of transparency the holy galatea of the tactics is now being questioned as if the situation in other parts. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years they're going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen again to stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas

they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report as finally revealed in the months to come what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american

sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. now let's check some other stories from around the globe this hour according to chicago sentenced a u.s. citizen thirty five years in jail for his role in the two thousand days attacks in mumbai india that killed one hundred sixty four people including six americans don't you know you change his name to david headley in two thousand and six has admitted conducting a vast surveillance for their sold prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty

in exchange for his agreement to cooperate with the us authorities. at least seventeen people were killed and thirty four injured when two buses collided and believe police say the crash happened when one of the vehicles crossed into the wrong lane this is the third such incident in the country this week believe it or has the highest mortality rate from road accidents in south america. cash in advance any time you needed payday loans have become a burden for the u.k. government as a tries to keep people away from buying softening an easy but expensive bug off he's our first look so hard why it's so hard to break the bad money habit. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families are looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to

thirty one days. people can actually just turn on. wine access online ask for two with one group specially up to four hundred pounds it can be in the bank within fifteen minutes to find out pay later culture the plan to britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of the payday loans there are popping up on the high street here in this part of the sunderland you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. to show you then there's no such thing as easy money but the people with financial options and these offers can appear to be like. the working

providing advice stage what takes just moments to appraise can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course the rest will continue on and then we're going. to try and pay off the period first. saw the most try one go first go onto quick witted want to. and it's just a never ending cycle and people are getting stuck in this trial. this practice of rolling over a loan has become increasingly common and with some companies not carrying out proper credit checks people he simply don't have the means to pay back the money and end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went to meet one of the representatives the leading payday loan providers why the industry seems to be lending so irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't

afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability on the front end of the process we don't want to mentor somebody who can't pay back and we don't want to get people into financial difficulty but these are areas of the united kingdom that some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the situation has changed from when we used to be able to be flooded with all sorts of offers a credit to the fact that we unless we've got. an exemplary credit history we can't going to access to credit the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out

a payday loan nor. a new or avoid the white. r.t. reporting from sunderland. and after a short break here it's going clips of interview with. choose your language. call it a killer though if they're going to kill some of the. treatments that the consensus can come. to the opinions that invigorating to. choose the

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kind of give and take relationship between washington and hollywood although you say it is or are you just the exception does this really exist well i mean you have to look at the players behind this case ok the driving force of course is chris dodd the chairman of a and he was a senator for a long time and he is according to joe biden joe biden's best friend and the state attorney that is in charge of this case has been joe biden's personal counsel while he was a senator right and also worked as an anti-piracy you know manager for the b.s.a. business office or situation which is basically like the m.p.a. but for software companies so and also the timing is very interesting you know. the election time. fundraisers in hollywood set for february march

april and you know they had to be some kind of plan b. and turn it in for sopa and you know hollywood is a very important contributor to bomb us campaign not just with money but also was the media support you know they control a lot of media celebrity endorsements and all that so you know i'm sure the election plays an important role the relationships of the people that are in charge of this case play a important rule and of course we have facts that we want to present at our extradition hearing that will short some more detail about this and that this is not just some comfort conspiracy theory but this actually happened but the u.s. justice department wants to extradite you a german citizen living in new zealand operating a business in hot.