and. as france celebrates military success in mali we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring. egypt's military chief says his country is on the verge of collapse but says the army will stand firm as protesters ignore curfews in another night of violent anti regime protests. and president obama looks to police chiefs of the us cities devastated by deadly mass shootings to support tougher gun control rules many there still defend their right to bear arms.

my from our studios in moscow we are watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us our top story this hour president francois hollande has held france with military intervention in mali as a success the malayan army has made big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and earlier our chief tom barton told me about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it. campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in colorado where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that the french had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys

as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islam as militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also an increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's also been talk in brussels of e.u.

troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force within other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and a new house was already involved as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easier next to mali over the possibility. all of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out islam is militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. the south of mali the details of that not really clear at the moment it is worth noting though. is very rich in natural resources

oil gold you renia a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming this is been a successful mission. the u.k. government has announced it's sending three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel to mali and west africa this only two weeks after prime minister david cameron's pledge that no british army boots would step on mollie's soil a labor m.p. jeremy corbyn says it would have been better if the prime minister had kept his

promise. david cameron is getting sucked into something i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what are termed to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups who then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long term high tech surveillance. warfare being conducted by the french and possibly with britain and others. against people that know the terrain very well

and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. well the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost a week of violent unrest between the government and opposition militias earlier the cabinet pushed through along giving the military power of arrest while the president declared a state of emergency and curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters who took to the streets on mass across the country calling for regime change in cairo crowds continued to clash with security forces leaving piles of burning debris in the streets there was no breakthrough in attempts at a compromise as the opposition ignored calls for a national dialogue by the president well for more analysis on the crisis in egypt we're now joined live from cairo by amin they keep co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt thank you for being with us i want to start

with this statement egypt's military chief saying the collapse of the egyptian state could be looming and it's promising that the army will stand firm it seems clear enough on the surface is there anything more behind this statement as you see it. well definitely. if you see the first wave of the revolution the main slogan of the people went down to the streets were peaceful demonstrations although there were skirmishes between the thugs of the barak and his party. the people who went to demonstrate peacefully. is an interesting shift in that paradigm you see young people public institutions without necessarily a justification what does that mean exist continues to be missed i was going to say what does that mean for president morsi where the people now are by

a lot of parties what does that mean for the president that people are using violence. what people on most parties and almost all the revolutionary movements from the first wave the nouns violence and all sorts of violence however there are groups that are enigmas thickly are known to anyone. and justifiably attacking public institutions this is definitely a very alarming. especially that we we've seen a whole wave of tarnishing the revolution and the revolutionists in under the military council personally i believe there are people behind instigating those events and not only that yes there are people young people who are not necessarily part of any movement that are being pushed to to escalate the situation there are

people who are more or less trained to instigate those interests who are they that's a good question there is the rise of the black bloc movement in egypt something that is not necessarily known where it's coming from and why now use violence two people have been very frustrated with the whole process in the past two years and specifically since the beginning of the morsi administration a lot of those who killed the protesters in the last two years got their way and acquitted in trials that are at least farcical the least you can say about them are farcical right now people are frustrated because they can't find their daily needs that easily things are getting more expensive and unacceptable and the situation is getting. loonier with with the fall of the egyptian pounds and in the same time continuing instability political and economic as well as security instability in

that in the country i want to go back to the statements from the commander and he was referring to protecting the suez canal when explaining that the massive army deployment that's taking place in egyptian cities are these anti-government protests really a threat to places like the can now. that's a good question. to the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically mostly and the military. on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes this. conspiracy theory has it that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that they can have so that they can tighten the grip over serious denial and intensify their presence militarily over there probably they don't want to see

it of an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would mean handover to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal or some other interpretation goes as far as that image it is behind this because didn't do not want competition in terms of mega ports in the region that would attract more commerce and trade through the suez canal rather than the emirates another is saying that the forces who do not want major investments in the series can now specifically buy a car that is. the opposition has been unwilling to sit down and talk to morsi who has proposed a national dialogue does this mean he has to look for new ways of solving this crisis. well according to the new constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and

previously had an advisory right now it has more of an executive stature and it has more military members on this board then civilians which numbers of the civilians including the commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they had the commander in chief see that he would declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas it sounds to me like a lot of the complaints are the same of those that were against hosni mubarak why then can't the opposition and the people who are so unhappy just wait for a general election and vote who they see fit to come into power. well you have to understand that the muslim brotherhood and the political islam camp is pretty huge and have

a following between eight to eleven million so they're not going to go anywhere and the same time you have all barak's people as well as the current opposition. which a lot has a bigger alliance in the national television front who also could be. ten to fifteen million so you have a gridlock here where both parties are being very stubborn they do not want to put forth any concessions either side the national salvation front puts a lot of the requisites for dialogue which makes it almost impossible for the president to accept this and vice versa now to get out of this gridlock you need to a third party or three third. movement with pressure both to sit down and thought the concept of having early presidential elections is not a far fetched one however we need to have a parliament first and after going through a parliament parliamentary elections that's six to six months to twelve months we

could have another presidential election now the only problem with that is that the law as it is for the elections and as the muslim brotherhood wants to do crafted it it's really serving their interests more than anyone and it makes it hard for the other parties to compete with. co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt thank you very much for your analysis this hour from cairo pleasure. well still to come this hour here on our team for you seeking shelter the number of homeless people in britain looks set to rise dramatically with many people people believing the new government's policies will only further aggravate the situation story and more coming up after a break. speak

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welcome back you're watching our live from moscow and a developing story coming out of syria this hour activists and rebels say that the bodies of sixty five young men have been found on a bank of a river in the northern syrian city of aleppo i must warn you that viewers may find the following footage extremely disturbing most of these bodies have their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to their heads the bodies were covered in mud and show signs of j.k. now activists say more bodies could still be in the water at the moment there's no information on who carried out the killings we'll bring you more on this story as we get it again the latest pictures of what looks to be

a serious massacre in the syrian town of aleppo. meanwhile syria's rebel coalition is in paris to plead for aid and political backing to overthrow the regime the opposition needs money to stay viable but his efforts to form a provisional government have so far failed this is france warns islamic militants could gain ground and plunge the country into further chaos if cash flow is not secured well r.t. caught up with one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him what he thinks is needed to bring peace to syria. we did some new weapons against airplanes you know because bashar assad's. airplanes to damage villages and cities and the civilians we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more than sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something

unbelievable it's a what so to help syrian people in to help and syrian crisis you need weapons and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need political support so who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are not afraid you know because of the majority of fight terror groups in syria is not extremist is not dearest only of fighting for the freedom and dignity and what a loss of a group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy is why they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway they are just a smaller part of their evolution is here. but these people are recognized

even by french president as extremists and terrorists all over the word you can find extremists but they're not very your picture only a small part of it please denies that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that. president barack obama has met with police chiefs from cities in the us where mass shootings have occurred he wants our support for a view of the country is going to. policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms aren't just going to camp reports. white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are amendment that there are a right arms it is

a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment to meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which wants to ever get constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause require and then there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if

you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about feisal no. no no i'm sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns we're pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying. bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sicker to many in the us but it seems

in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the deal is pass these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans support some regulation on guns gun is to zeerust believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the u.s. essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the

other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment arguing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to. britain which was once proud of having some of the most effective legislation in the world to fend off homelessness now has over fifty thousand people sleeping rough and with the government on suring in public sector spending constant attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is only expected to rise arches probably boyko went to meet some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to trial and no money in your pockets this street is

all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bamiyan the case capital for homelessness. remember right. in there she said drop grandma don't have what we have right now i mean you shouldn't be home really there's a lot of people you called me a short time wanted me real rock car park where people live. all over the place this is why i got. there yeah yeah and regional here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw. for.

the cold this is stupid specially this time we have to go back for four days on the phone to its twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the don't know like job already from the moment trying to get it started you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you going to do every type find some light sleep find money. help and support the scariest thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the

local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded squatting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in. people that don't have working and i suppose with it being such a one time many industrialized center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breaking the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population is expanding the housing stock isn't reached that point where it's just spilling over and can't

cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t birmingham. coming your way in just a couple of minutes aren't explorers and go ross in a remote in almost any part of the colombian jungle. fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really

bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loop it next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota the independent expert coolio hero denounces an

incestuous relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. know it through that but it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elite that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions a vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions when you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated where are we going to grow the economy in people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions if that's so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already.