you don't leave. syria pledges to retaliate while its close ally iran no one's all die of consequences after israel launches a bombing raid on a target near damascus also. i took a strong stance and a very public one and that's what got me into trouble to expose america's torture program and got thirty months for doing so coming up a decorated cia veteran who turned against the agency tells of his predicament on

our. unique footage surfaces of allege atrocities committed by mali and troops in towns freshly taken from the slum as this as from both in civilian casualties remain hard to obtain and france plans full military handover local troops. and the british prime minister david cameron defies warnings of an eminent reggie u.k. interests and travels to libya where he has pledged to help train the country's stretch security forces. it's just gone apostle one am here in the moscow you're alive with us long archie with me to bomb with say syria takes. it may take action against israel after its

fighter jets reportedly violated serious of soviet t. and bombed a military research complex close to damascus meanwhile the freezer video footage apparently showing israeli planes bombing the facility have appeared on the internet it was uploaded to the web by activists who are thought to be from a district close to the target and shows a bright flashes in the night sky loud bangs were heard at the side shortly after midnight on wednesday party's policy or has the details from television. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside their country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also stated that this

israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syria and sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two on site workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not be named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these planes were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria earlier this month

is well deployed its i am going defense missile system to its border with syria and that this of a growing concern that they could be some kind of use of chemical weapons as i mentioned earlier we have no comment yet from tel aviv there also has been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these reports are accurate that the israelis did strike inside the syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter the arab league for its side has slammed is role for these alleged strong. yes saying that they are a flagrant act of aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty. for live updates on the reported israeli bombing as well as opinions from inside the middle east policy a twitter feed in one of the latest tweets issues citing the israeli president says a syrian rebel group has actually claimed responsibility for the attack on the military research center near damascus. i spoke to professor said mohammad marandi

iranian academic and political analyst he says that israel should be concerned about iran's possible answer to the a strikes in syria and iran and say the israelis are going to face serious consequences iranians have many means to hurt the israelis and to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support. countries or bodies that could could make life for israelis more difficult of course iran will the syrian sovereignty and i think that the americans and israelis should take this seriously because the iranians through soft power and other means have made life very difficult for american americans and their allies in the region over the past decade as we saw in iraq and afghanistan and in lebanon. well

israel has made a step closer to confrontation on its border with syria and it continues to receive harsh criticism over its settlement activity that's according to a fresh new u.n. report that says it is violating palestinians human rights the un human rights council says that israel must remove all of its a half a million settlers from the occupied territories in east jerusalem and the west bank the details just ahead. a decorated cia better enter into torture whistleblower and agency outcast is not awaiting a summons to start a prison sentence john q rockery was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's waterboarding program and has been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of the undercover agent talking with r.t. he himself said his true crime was speaking out against the government. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle

on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal

business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime have not had due process which is their constitutional right what has been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. a lively and heated session in the u.s. senate says obama's secretary of defense nominee has made an apparent your turn the same that military action against iran is on the table that's still ahead. r.t. has managed to get exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army and a time liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces any information on civilian casualties in mali has been know to release gas we spoke to

a local journalist gonzalo one who told us all the regions of the disturbing tape as we continue moving north and find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of sadr not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok to be in the center of the town making the rest of the population watch rules or hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty and then i was put into prison i am no terrorist

i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking food for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs and said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants you know the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. the french after retaking the final major city of condell from the slum makes us say they will soon leave mali and in operations over to government troops new to finish international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian polman says this is a bad idea considering the lack of discipline and funding in the west african nation. but i hear now is how this surprises me i mean first of all the million army does hold

a grudge against the people who are stemmed from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and have very little armaments etc as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can you register people and examine what they do you can't you just ground in a country like that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly do it is this kind of actually judicial executions but eternally surprises me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs our mood why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves. and there's also fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the french led military campaign war in this as well as images from the conflict on country on r.t.

dot com. sorry his own government's warnings to the wind british prime minister david cameron has touched down in tripoli for a surprise visit he promised to stand by libya as it rebuilds even as his own foreign office want to britons of a growing threat to its embassies there g.'s enter former has more on what the pm hopes to achieve. did arrive initially made very tight security and then he stressed that he wanted britain to try and beef up security in libya and try and help it improve its own economy there's no doubting that things have deteriorated in this country since twenty eleven when mr cameron last made his visit here just after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources it's also struggling to its authority over militias and on top of this recently the british government admitted that there was a threat to its own embassy in tripoli and that it had advised british nationals to leave benghazi because of security concerns so mr cameron is well aware that there

are problems and no doubt he will be talking about these when he meets with the libyan prime minister and the president during the rest of his visit but there was one telling moment today because apart from all this he did make a fifteen minute walk about around martyrs square which was the center of the revolution that he did come in from algeria today in his visit to our jiri was of a similar purpose really he was trying to show that britain has support for this country and he also made reference to algeria today and also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreigners killed you mention that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home too so i suppose putting it simply he's trying to show that britain still cares about these two countries mr cameron does have his critics though there are those that claim that really what he's trying to do is protect britain's own interests after all libya and algeria are among the top five producing all countries in africa. earlier i

spoke to ben harris queeny chair of tory think tank of the bol group who insists that david cameron's visit to libya is a move to support democracy in the country. where the growth of al qaeda has been limited in countries like afghanistan it has grown in north africa and so the arrival of the sort of terrorist acts and arm rests in northern africa in northern africa is i think to be expected and that's what david cameron has said i think the reason for his visit there is is to show the support that britain and the u.k. government wants to give northern african countries that wish to tradition to democracy although not necessarily in military terms there are other ways we can give support training is one advice on on economic growth is another and i think that's the line david cameron wants to play at the moment would you say let's talk

about his interests in libya b.p. british petroleum is due to start drilling in libya soon could that have had something to do with it all full. well i mean as you'll be well aware tony blair had a very close relationship or a close relationship certainly with with colonel gadhafi and arrangements were made at that time with with british petroleum so if anything the transition to democracy and the uprising in libya has made it more difficult for western and particularly british companies to operate in libya so i think what david cameron is looking for is a return to to economic. growth and stability in north africa that we we thought we began to see just after the revolution as. it is the nation has had fractious elements exposed while david cameron splashes out abroad it's a different story at home british taxpayers fall amid their resignations of bag.

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you. you're watching r t the us senate has had a confirmation hearing for one of president obama's most controversial choices for a new defense secretary chuck hagel was criticized for his stance towards iran has made a contradictory statement by reckoning towards to iran does get a judge again explains why certain political groups are so opposed to his candidacy . chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated as president obama's

pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be also our december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between commercials of beauty products prescription drugs and what so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iran he voted against the legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran cagle says military action is not a viable simple responsible option president obama or secretary of defense chuck hagel is not responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel so what that truck a will do to deserve that as a u.s.

senator chuck hagel has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that the chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s. policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this one that he's been under attack take

a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is a special and historic. what do you need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and dangerous fault yours some saw president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating chuck hagel is his way of bringing down the tension and not not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of withdrawn their objections over chuck hagel nomination some say could be because they received assurances behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel

is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies. and in this war and t. war dot com kelly flower holds the says hey girls a reasoned words fit perfectly into the u.s. foreign policy course i think chuck hagel is more recent statements including the one hundred twelve page set of answers he gave to the committee's questions that was released yesterday. it it leaves the door open it leaves the door open to continuing tough sanctions but also the use of force so i don't think we should read too much into his selection of chuck hagel the man who did show some skeptic it skepticism about iran and using military force in iran of the past i think that that door is still open and i think we should keep that in mind everything that he said today and enroll in his answers was perfectly in line with white house policy

i did not see him deviating from that or hinting that that policy should change anytime soon. the u.n. no human rights council has released a report saying israel must move all seculars out of palestinian territories the paper says the settlements are violation of human rights are destroying palestinians property and crops and driving them off their land israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation calling the report biased and counterproductive to peace efforts human rights activists and blogger roy moll says the telling me that is eroding its own credibility israel has been complaining for many years that it's being singled out by various un organs. the human rights council one of the things that it was formed to do was to have a more equitable process which has the same level of scrutiny for all you would members and although this report what did single out israel it's boycott of the

human rights council is comprehensive it refuse to participate in a review process which every other un member attends and even israel attended four years ago and that undermines not only israel's international position but the who human rights process in general. four hundred million dollars in debt say and ukraine has had to ask the russian for more time they find out online how we'd managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out of it. and a craving for coal with energy hungry china brings almost as much carbon in play yet as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's all a line we've. britain's government has raised taxes twice as far as cutting them according to a new report putting a damper on david cameron's pledge to create

a lower tax country figures show almost three hundred u.g. heights from the ruling coalition for that complicating an already notorious system archie's party boy takes up the story. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go up they're also going to see an increase in air passenger duty which means more expensive air travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased. for hairdressers renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent hot baked goods scandal when u.k.

tax code stated that it pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex times. increases prices and it lowers wages so the time when families are struggling with the rising cost of living. so many touching increases. difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public finances which means that by trimming a little bit of tax hair and adding more tax burden there by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. r.t.

london. it's not only the brits that are unhappy with their leaders financial policy is in front of the tens of thousands of public sector workers took to the streets in a strike. imagine payment raises those three years a long lock on salary leaves almost a million servants goggling at minimum wage and in greece the workers have gone on a two day strike with the hundreds on the streets protesting against austerity measures that will make deep cuts to their pay doctors sport workers and public transport staff to ponder in a number of different demonstrations across the greek capital. egypt's top politicians have renounced widespread violence that protests across the country the green men came at a meeting attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as president morsi cut short his trip to germany over the on going on dress at home with us securing any backing

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