the second. revolution is evolved by struggle not celebration with blonde by those angry with the crumbling economy on lack of trying. conscience on the korean peninsula stroke for the by the north the threat to get physical with targets nuclear missiles at america. launches an investigation into the drone strikes mainly by the united states that resulted in scores of civilian deaths in what could be a new crime. this

is me. thanks for joining us. on the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution people are back on the iconic to have square but not to celebrate virus groups are calling for fresh anti-government rallies with demands very similar to those that led to regime change two years ago they've of their anniversary was marked with fierce clashes between here police dozens injured tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the protesters who tried to tear down a wall preventing them from reaching poland and cairo based reporter belcher explains now what's driving those who fought for change two years ago back on to the streets. just off egypt's tahrir square surrounded by murals of slain protestors graduates tarik else how to 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 hold off for him that stuff was killed there close to the costs are all i need street in parliament he was shot down 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 but there are some people reach the point where they don't have 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 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 this. 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 a 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 toward reform the police no serious effort to cleanse or deal with the legal structure and the traditional structure that we inherited from a bike and that continues to make abuses possible and to prevent any effort 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. france is reportedly extending its military presence in north africa in addition to the military campaign in mali it's now thought to be sending special forces to neighboring new share to protect you rain inside run by a state owned company the french say the science in new sure i could become the

target for african islamist militants who threatened actually a revenge on paris for mali intervention. against insurgents oppose a new and former french colonies so they're neighboring neighboring countries as well and so they have resources that the french energy sector is heavily dependent upon and there's also his maria for notion now explains that's already raising questions about french intentions in the region. the 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 want to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is there we think this is the complete specifically i mean relations do it to states i know we 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 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 neocolonialism but with a simpler road 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 fifteen years since official declination protecting regimes from rebels like in djibouti the central african republic all fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by economic or geopolitical interests this time is going to i call lies asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance to this part of africa open its roots to the red sea and the middle east britain france half a century or so british forces like a remake but with many others involved but the 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 train 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 mysie had that is a philosopher in the former tunisian ambassador to us co 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 you resources but then it's logical that locals who profit as well those riches go to improve their lives after but that's not the case this way is wild all the kind of slavery in mali among 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 the body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and forward. french colonies are independent but someone died alone new ideas are just part of history and that history may be repeating. an hour t.v. from paris. a skyscraper being constructed in the heart of moscow's business district is on fire one person has been injured and hundreds evacuated from the

building after a blaze started around the twenty third floor so had to live for more pictures and reaction. plus they found of band file sharing service mega upload tells us how he's getting around the law with his new start up and here are some of the highlights of the full interview you can see here at eleven thirty am on our website. it's this man 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 the government is quite exposed here because they really went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rides spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying i mean the whole war picture when you look at it shoulder that this was an urge mission done in

a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that. the eurozone is playing to will be the subject to close receiving is in the plush surroundings of davos it comes amid a wider tension in the europe as the u.k. prime minister tries to smooth ties with his e.u. partners they have been angered by his promise to lead to britain hold a referendum on whether to leave the union and artie's case a feel there is following the world economic forum for that. aside from too much champagne i would suspect we've got e.c.b. president mario draghi he is going to be speaking today he would take to the stage and address the current issues in europe particularly to do with stagnate growth this comes a day after prime minister david cameron from britain he was talking about how to deal with tax avoiders and also we had german chancellor angela merkel she was

saying there can be no leeway and no letup in the spending cuts despite european union's warning that there is social unrest in the likes of greece and also her homeland as well germany where people to have been protesting against wages now the spain's unemployment rate for the u.s. will sixty percent that's really sent shivers down the spines here in davos yesterday and that was another issue and today we're also going to be talking about dressed in the arab world as well particularly syria what can be done to really improve the future for this part of the world so i'm going to be providing we have live coverage here in davos the rue the day and i'll be back later with the business president at six thirty and eight thirty g.m.t. . north korea has threatened its southern neighbor with physical countermeasures if adjoins the latest round of u.n.

sanctions a stark warning came just a day after north korea announced it would conduct a said nuclear test saying it's atomic and missile programs are targeting the two us brian becker from the anti will once a coalition says the situation on the korean peninsula is extremely volatile but pyongyang as of recent actions could actually be keeping the balance of putin's. 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 you're 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 is sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations. you know inching l.t. and some ahead for you they found on a leak on trial a veteran who faces blowing the whistle on the a drink his interrogation toxic and exposing torch as a policy that he's being prosecuted for doing right. on the bridges trying to dig themselves out of debt has a very low those. families the poll this is an instant money the stories right after this break.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big show. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

this is a lie from moscow welcome back catalonia has you know actually declared its right on independence referendum as the region's government seeks a breakaway from spain the vote may take place next year however madrid rejected the idea saying an independent school is a game is this punish constitution and an arc spokes person from the european partnership point abandons that's got to learn your leaving could benefit both sides. in these declarations what he has done is just to formalize

something that democrats already know and that is that catalonia is a sobering nation we just declared that was. already we all know that's the case but formally don't we have pleaded god and the legal sovereign subject that's no way to progress when you have a latch to be something that draw a nod and just from the three young kids and the young nations by doing that we are not the spanish so it would be in progress and it would be united when we are separate. or right the optimism is not shared by everyone in spain though colace doubt there is a sociologist at the pump proof auburn university says catalonia is government is pursuing dangerous policies which may undermine the region's chances to survive on its. 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 know i'm 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 of the institutions that you build with sovereignty there 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 that have been doing all they can to let the government know how they feel for some time one million of them flooded into barcelona last year to stake a claim to independence so you can go to dot com for the images from that event.

in the u.s. a cia veteran and a former chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan are speccing thirteen months in prison after being found guilty of leaking classified information to reporter john i can recount. in public in two thousand and seven he was the first thousand official to admit waterboarding was torture and earlier this week he recount explained why his. i've never. lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer. who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and counterterrorism a very is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that debasing another person and

serializing human rights abuses under a 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 tortured anybody but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers and paper over it and the people who deceived it and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. so the controversial use of drones to target terrorists has become be focus of a major investigation human rights activist the highly critical of the eighty's saying it often results in why the civilian deaths and officially acknowledged and aside from the lack of transparency the whole egalitarian the tactics is now being questioned as a necessary churkin our ports. 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 there are going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen again a 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 finally revealed in the months to come what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and 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 civilians 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 some other stories making headlines around the globe media has been angered by the foreign office warning

that u.k. citizens should leave this is have been gone missing officials say there was no evidence to suggest any specific or imminent threat to westerners other countries including germany canada and the netherlands followed the move with their own warnings last year an attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi so it's invited and three other americans killed. at least seventeen people were killed and thirty four injured one two buses collided in believe here 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 of alternative rate from road accidents in south america. cash advance any time you needed payday loans have become a burden for the u.k. government as a tries to keep people away from banks offering and easy but expensive but. looks now at why it's so hard to break the bad money habit. payday loans tools have

become common sights in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over the more and more cash strapped families 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. go online access online ask for true with one group or three or four hundred pounds it can be in the bank within fifteen minutes that by now pay later culture has landed britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase recently in the number of payday loans that are popping up on the high street here in those parts you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but see 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. it goes to show you then that there's no such thing as easy money but the people with heath financial options and these authors can appear to be lifelines the working providing death advice stage what takes just moments to approve 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 it then of course the rest re it will continue on and then we're going to look pretty and want to try and pay off the period norman borlaug worked with saw the most try one go first go on two quick witted want to pity you career 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

can end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went to meet one of the representatives of leading payday loan providers and 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 and the front end of the process we don't want an end to 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

get 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 the payday loan nor . for new or avoid the why. so r.t. reporting from sunderland. and coming up in just a human i think is breaking. 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 own 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 beck 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 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 clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i and rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord beck 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're

a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean. i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. and we're all very slow motion leopold's the. worst you are going through the white house or the. radio guy for minestrone. what clothes were about to produce never seen anything like that i'm told.

anyhow everyone going to break in at the sets all israel's elections with us to weaken the vote was narrowly split between incumbent bibi netanyahu and the centrist parties yeah you know upbeat and looks like netanyahu will continue in the driver's seat as israel's prime minister still the political coalitions that have yet to form could very well mean a change in direction for how israel deals with palestine egypt and iran but as long as peace talks continue to be cast aside all the break in that that's that that set to join me. just yesterday in jordan held its first election since the arab spring now proponents say this parliamentary vote is a step toward greater democracy in the region while opponents are saying that it's nothing more than an empty pageant as long as the outcome.