market. why not what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. see where and iran that's threatening to retaliate against israel for read as strike on syria in terror training. the french military operation in mali successful bring you some chilling stories from a three week long battle against islam that's. under former cia officer who blew the whistle on america's torture program on does not waiting to hold views in

prison talk about what he believes is behind his sentence. international news live from moscow this is all she was me about hello and welcome to the program series threatening to retaliate one is rated as trike inside its territory while its ally iran says there will be a reference. syria claims israeli warplanes hit a military research center near damascus killing two while the u.s. says the chance dog has a military convoy housing for neighboring lebanon point to ca's mourners showing developments for us from tel aviv. the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you it 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 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 friends were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria but we have no comment yet from television also has been no comment from washington moscow hosted if indeed these raids did strike inside syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter. that's. an economic and political analyst mohammed miranda says is a row that should take seriously iran's warning all for conscience. but it important is that the united states knew about their strike before they did nothing about it the european union as usual so silent about it there was no condemnation for killing syrians two for bombing the country and of course iran world the syrian sovereignty iran and many means to her israeli to punish the israelis it doesn't

necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support. countries or could could make life for israelis more difficult so while a zero moves a step closer to a confrontation on its border with syria it continues to receive harsh criticism over its settlement activity a full human rights report the growing settlement russia could be seen as a war crime and demands israel all of its settlers out of palestine we've got that story alive for you at r.t. dot com. france is hailing it's really true mission against islamist rebels in mali as a success but the three week long intervention has also created more havoc in the conflict torn country and some chilling stories are also emerging as a local reporter gonzalo told us. the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the se goo region it was one

of the first places bombed by french planes would you have used to write sweeping south towards the capital marker the french intervention left a pile of debris in ashes masters the visible traces of the war they left it's a billions who were left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. one brother was a target by a group of militant. the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but minutes and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets yes and we made his body in the house so we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside us afaik trust me this is just one example of the terror that the conflict put in mali and civilians through plague and weakest

the most no one was surprised when india volley once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. a former cia officer turned whistleblower was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars as waiting to start his jail time john kiriakou was the first official to publicly can fund the agency's use of waterboarding and condemn it as torture however he also becomes the first official to go to prison i with a torture program so under a plea bargain deal he was convicted for revealing a covert officers identity and talking to us he says he is his true crime and 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 and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have 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. and john kiriakou was also a guest on the march as breaking the said so don't miss the exclusive interview details of the case and its implications later this hour. do you think the real people who oversaw codified torture john you are bergen's dollars donald rumsfeld shouldn't they be the ones sitting in prison should be the ones and there are others even if you just put aside the people who actually did the day to day torture what about the people who conceived of the policy and who implemented the policy were the attorneys that papered over it with with crazed legal analysis or the man who who destroyed evidence of the torture in the tapes.

us president barack obama's pick for the country's next defense secretary has gone out of his way to persuade the senate has the right man for the job one at a time for his previous statements at the confirmation hearing chuck hagel made it clear he will act in accordance with white house policies if his candidacy is approved and. listened to the session which brought some haze of discussion but little hope of change. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge

washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on israel and iran there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible by the way here's what chuck hagel repeating throughout the hearing get the united nations behind you get the international sanctions behind you keep military options on the table if the military option is the only option it's the only option one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel recently told him that he thought sanctions didn't work and previously chuck hagel voted against sanctions but today's chuck

hagel as we found out during this hearing is for sanctions to those who believe mr haye go was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was he offered a correction a very big one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engaging in gauge mint is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not sure under so no direct negotiations with iran here's another example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of his prayed. statements at one time he said and this is become a famous quote 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 is world and of quote here's chuck hagel during this confirmation hearing noted that i. that i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret it i mean do your use of intimidation. i

should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand appreciate there are different views in these things it was like torture watching the hearing because it seemed as if the senators were not there to question chuck hagel but they were there to break him because they kept going back to his previous statements and pushing and pushing until he said what they wanted to hear and he did it so whoever thought chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s. foreign policy after this hearing would seriously doubt that. the founder of the wide awake news dot com website charlie mcgrath's things that the he was as far from done with its foreign ministry campaign no matter who's in charge at the pentagon. when president obama was elected in two thousand and eight we you know

the same kind of hope to ms and was there with shutting down get mo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when they you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out. the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people the fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that whoever a secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocket book to spend to keep spinning us into having. and of course we're always interested in your view on the topics we cover so had to alter

dot com and vote in our online poll to let us know why you think hegel stance on iran has become more hawkish so let's now have a look at how they are pinion is divided so far so almost half of the voters saying that hey goals prove that no one in washington will stand up to the israeli lobby has said if you believe his opinion doesn't make any difference anyway then let's say it's just a ploy to counter criticism that he isn't significantly and officially a pro israeli and to get the job and only a tiny minority of things that he has genuinely changed his position so tarted up calm and cast your vote. the u.k. prime minister is promising to stand by libya and improve its economy pledges of support come despite britain's own economy going through a tough time david cameron has made a surprise visit to the north african country defying security warnings from his own foreign office oxys and reform reports now on what's at stake in libya to years

after that revolution did arrive initially amid 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 the new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources is 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 it had advised british nationals to leave benghazi because of security concerns that he did coming from algeria he was trying to show that britain has to pull for this country and he also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreigners killed imagine that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects. at home to you 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. learned my colleague to bungle say discuss the u.k. oil interests in libya was banned how it's queenie from a conservative think tank. 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 libya algeria in the top five of africa's oil producers together pumping out eighty five percent of the continent's black gold do you maintain that britain's interest in them has nothing to do with that i mean we are rich in this facing some economic tough times right now so are we moving back to north africa for that no certainly not british petroleum and other oil companies had interests

in libya before. the colonel gadhafi but now that they own genes that hasn't changed it seems to be easier for your government to go back and say well we've helped in the region changes so now we can come in and start talking about how we can work together again. it's more difficult to do business in libya after the revolt but the i think the important point is that whilst tony blair felt that he could deal with colonel gadhafi david cameron didn't feel that the united kingdom could acceptably go on dealing with a sponsor of terrorism terrorism very ambiguous term these days isn't it some syrian rebels are terrorists yet the west backs the cause where do we draw the line well al qaeda is clearly a terrorist organization that is and the rev i think it's even if i remade those comments he was he was referring specifically to. or made those comments in light of what happened in algeria and that makes the point very clearly that

british lives were lost in algeria. so there's not only threats to lives abroad but there's also a threat to lives at home because where al-qaeda training centers have been subdued in afghanistan they've now moved to northern africa. this is so bad for you this hour the catholic church in germany is losing washer because that's off the noise alleged cases of child abuse by priests hid behind lines. sort of falls on the risk of genetically modified food and why its main producers might not have anything to worry about. is eve's.

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attendees falling rapidly at the saved lack of action all the claims of child abuse is just one reason. investigation to the sexual abuse cases committed by priests and you might find some of the details of his report stabbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in nine hundred seventy nine and i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a record then the priest made me perform oral sex on. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners

stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this. which where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christian vi for had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse after

ten years also the twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with a senior clergy over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. is causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back into the flock. a woman. really knew and when we do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste that something is being covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust and. for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot to the church

a good he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.t. germany. international news this hour at least people have been killed more than one hundred injured after a blast hit the mexico city headquarters of the mix which is the state owned oil company some reportedly remain trapped inside the building local media say a gas leak may have caused the blast. an explosion at the company's natural gas facility in northern mexico left social people dead. egypt's top politicians have renounced the widespread violence in that protest across the country their government came to me saying attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of the liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as president morsi cut short his trip to germany because of their own growing and west at home without securing any financial backing from berlin.

after thirty vehicles have been involved in a massive car crash in america at least three people have been killed and about twenty injured in detroit two children were among the dead police say the pileup happened due to white out conditions on slippery roads caused by heavy snow fall zero visibility caused the first collision at the train a reaction followed. there were deep divisions over the safety of genetically modified foods was many saying they should be classified as dangerous to humans in one of america's. giant is under fire from environmentalists and who say such products may threaten our health but and and and eight again as shareholder in them all science have believes as long as companies at the national support politicians and the risk could be brushed under the carpet. these chemicals may be what's causing higher rates of cancer and thus far as an asian nations across the globe we

note that it causes tumors in rats that were fed in long term food studies last year i was it will speak during the meeting and this meeting is closed to the public and we one of the things are asking for is in the future the speed live streamed people around the world care about what's going into the food they may not want to own monsanto star i only buy the stock so i could speak at the shareholder meeting the company knows already about their genetically modified crops which many say food activists believe make us more reliant on herbicides and chemicals that they can't but he also sells the companies give huge massive donations to politicians on an annual basis they are very active in the political system so they spending tens of millions of dollars even hundreds of millions of dollars on elections. the it's not the politicians are not going to prioritize rejecting crops. and of course there's always more news for your own line including gulf bats

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