we're. good. we. believe. it was. serious president warns of possible retribution after israel strongly hanes it was behind a cross border strike close to damascus. this spanish prime minister visits germany for e.u. budget talks a brief risk right from the economic crisis and corruption scandal engulfing him

back home. and france carries out a series of as strikes in northwestern mali amid questions over the leadership on directional french president francois or long term. russia and iran the while this is all see with me little hello and welcome to the program president bashar assad says syria can take on any force that confronts it while accusing israel of trying to destabilize his country it was assad's first public statement since and that israeli airstrike inside syria last week israel's defense minister has given the strongest indication get that the i.d.f. was behind that time policy and how reports. it does come from the israeli defense

minister it would be rogue and he has said that it is proof that when israel says something it means that he did stop short of actually a third being israel's involvement now u.s. officials have said that the strike targeted an arms convoy that was carrying anti aircraft weapons from syria to lebanon according to the israeli defense minister ehud barak he said that we do not think and i'm quoting that syria should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into live unarmed it is important to make the point that his comments does not constitute acknowledgement of israel's involvement in the strike but it certainly does suggest the possibility that it took place and it was responsible for it but also said that these syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as a major blow to his villa and iran need to look at this israeli strategy and it's a strategy that israel has employed in the past and that is namely a strategy of silence it is strategic it doesn't give any kind of confirmation or any kind of denial of what israel has done in the past as launch an attack then

leave and it really its response has been a no comment which really leaves the question in observations minds it is a culture lated moves because this silence allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and it's collation against the jewish state of the international for now for any kind of israeli strife in syria would create immense arguments in the international community we've heard for example from moscow who says that if indeed israel did carry out the strike it was an attack on a sovereign state and as such it breached international law with the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is true for two against a nother sovereign state so israel of course will not want to come out publicly and acknowledge that it carried out such a strike because it would not want to have the kind of diplomatic complications and diplomatic fallout that would follow from such an admission of. middle east expert

earlier risk assess the masters has covered means to retaliate against any israeli . for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that. law is one of syria's allies iran is also one of syria's allies and it's important to note here that the the head of the supreme national security council the iranian supreme national security council side really is currently in syria so paid more not respond directly with the direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be harder means used targeting for example sort of israeli officials storing the trouble for israel in general and i think that some that something would syria is an expert at doing syria has been on the side underwater on the his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of his role once before because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest

threat to the not a year old government. with another round of troops on the e.u. budget looming billie's all the blocks strongest economies meeting the lido the weakest and attempt to lay the groundwork for a new deal the german chancellor is hosting the spanish prime minister back home in madrid rhianna rai is battling a corruption scandal and dials over his handling of the economy and she speaks only of reports now from berlin. it could very well be called a meeting between the euro zone's haves and well quite frankly the have nots as german chancellor angela merkel sits down for talks with the spanish prime minister mariano what are quite germany still widely regarded as the euro zone's the only real success economically while as many fear that spain could go the way of greece now the spanish prime minister will receive the full welcome of germany including

full military honors how are they if he was to turn up at the doorstep of many in his own country he may face severe criticism that's because many spanish citizens still think he hasn't done enough to deal with bank has the same basically the bearings are a huge incredible fiefs run only by greed the government's not helping the people the topping the banks it has been at least thirty or fifty times the issue but in the last month there was three people they were going to be if you have the rundown houses but they hang themselves before the police were right there of only any i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one he can seek care. this meeting between the leaders of germany and spain comes ahead of a very important summit taking place this week where european leaders will try and decide on the budget something which is separated countries within the union

thus far. and economics professor at boston university laurence kotlikoff says the whole banking system needs to make china and become more transparent to heal their financial woes and he was sharing his opinion an exclusive interview to a selfish of our nazi. occupy wall street was concerned about inequality and they were concerned about what wall street is actually doing and i think we need to radically change our financial system because we have two big problems and this is true in every country including russia. the traditional banking system the model is one of very high leverage banks borrow a lot of money promised to repay and then there's opacity they they take their money and they do something with it but they don't tell you what they're doing with it so it's a very unstable situation when you promise people things and then you don't

show what you're doing with their money and then and that's what happened in lehman brothers and bear stearns and. merrill lynch and all these companies that one on one under one after the other everybody started worrying because they couldn't see the assets so what we need to do is. get rid of this faith based banking we need to have. no leverage and we have to have transparency. and you can catch the full interview with economist laurence kotlikoff at a scene forty five jan t. one outing still ahead for you this. coming for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent tens of thousands of americans are forced to undergo polygraph tests aimed at identifying national security risks i made allegations that beyond the norm. and also was done at

stade ballet director of the bolshoi it says he says he knows who threw acid in his face severely damaging his eyesight got the details on that and then minutes. for in trying to jets have launched as try to islamist militant targets in northeast mali as they took to secure the final rebel stronghold of doubt it comes as a leading human rights groups call in paris to investigate allegations of torture extrajudicial killings and ethnic reprisal attacks during the three week campaign and also he takes a look at the reality is they modern people are facing in one area of the battle ravaged country and the six closer report. easily amused in this mob the area we discovered the allegations of the war crimes the information about them is under the control of mali's military government really meant becoming i think it's

getting more and more the she called to talk to people lots of. human rights activists who are trying to identify weaknesses all saying that people. are feeling the heat they are scared to speak a lot of people here. are very sure fool the malian army seems to be doing whatever it can to prevent people from speaking to openly when i was there because this government took advantage of the media's interest in a lawn and for the first time visited the city's worst affected by hostilities in the town of qana we were surprised by the arrival of mom i do see the. the minister for humanitarian action of solidarity this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to the people who regard the capital as remote for them with this visit in this event staged by politicians coincided with the publication of reports by international organizations such as amnesty international and human rights watch alleging atrocities crimes in violence on both sides for instance in

qana several civilians were reportedly killed in french air force shelling we tried to interview the injured however were unable to obtain evidence in a community that has until now been strictly regulated by the military authorities . the ministry says an investigation is underway so far no evidence has been provided so let the judicial system do its job to list all of these government its people and military are well aware of current events and we know that we cannot play this game. of the government has been attempting to assort political power despite very poor infrastructure today we spoke to an army private on his way back from he told us he hadn't been paid or even properly for fifteen years you know if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and

demonstrations of. french special forces have made while taking control of one of nisha as biggest iranian minds security is being tightened and there it following a hostage crisis in neighboring algeria new phrase the world's fifth largest growing in producer and among france's major supplier has several french hostages are also believed to be held by militants in the north of mali the french troops are continuing their offensive against al qaeda linked insurgents. the president of france to made a triumphant visits in mali to claim his victory and any political points it's made . bring needs all the help they can get because back in france they call them inspired and getting wise and marie it finished a reporter from paris many doubt one day as the leader to turn it around the. world president on land is welcomed as a liberator in mali after france's military operation against the islamists

occupation back at home crowds are also gathered but with a starkly different mood where people are fired up over the continued decline of europe's second largest economy despite the president's promises to create at least one hundred thousand new jobs the nation is shedding them at an alarming rate last november about a thousand every day the worst figures in years the country's unemployment is approaching a shocking eleven percent with more than three million jobless the french daily look back on claims that the exact situation could be even worse if official statistics included youngsters never registered for the unemployment program or those who left it and those stuck with part time work the paper says the rate would then triple but there are certainly. people expected to have a strong president and now they understand that a line doesn't have enough experience for competence to improve things the last two weeks as we see problems like you. know believes the strategic mistake was to

ratify the e.u. so-called three percent treaty force in france to reduce its budget deficit down from four point five percent by hiking taxes and cutting spending. but while harsh criticism expected from the opposition disapprovals also been growing from like minded left wingers or complains when i think the president especially of a country like france one of six e.u. founders should be strong enough to say stop to others and say hey i have my nation behind me and they elected me to make changes instead he surrendered because he's more worried about the country's debt and the ratings agencies make. in a short video french communists put together some of our lawns major presidential campaign vows none of which they say came true. look what that's going to be on the value added tax increase. i think it's an appropriate and unjustified and unreasonable and too hasty. what happened to

well that's to remind the president do you remember you promised to review the european treaty you didn't do that your german bring said a three percent deficit isn't real but now only say it's possible etc etc you can't do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise of the fringes of the great teams into four percent january to december first forty percent the lawyer says he wants to office in may. every week that is a new subject to discuss in the french media and to draw people's attention from the real problems like gay monitor deployed you are now molly this strategy may work but not for long. after all land won the french election last year some analysts described his victory as a victory against his predecessor. rather than the long now be seen many in the past that. had never been. months of

a lens presidency have been anything but sunny opponents and even his one staunch supporters predict even harder times lie ahead for the leader of the country's municipal elections in two thousand and fourteen have historically held great significance and will show whether the voters can forget and forgive. me for our team from paris. some shocking stories on our website for you including how dead children have been used for spying in the u.k. for a decade that's according for saying that british courts have been stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go undercover against political activists that have to up to the top. also that for you ron is preparing to upgrade its nuclear plant in the process giving a political headache to israel's prime minister has had a chance to build a new governing coalition find out more analysis that all. wealthy british style.

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this is i'll say coming to you live from moscow welcome back although scientists say lie detection is on a reliable in identifying national security risks more than seventy thousand of americans a chair up tested on them washington is promising to draw up a new national put a growth policy following allegations u.s. federal agencies are exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who can be trusted oh she's very important i talk to those who believe at point a graph is a tool used to incriminate the innocent. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and i and there's no there's no accountability for that.

last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue and tara gating are a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to

prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool. there's a question that the trip that leads to. the drilling down. question that they get asked may well be quite true over the past ten years. at least fifteen federal agencies including the n.s.a. and f.b.i. have reportedly continued or expanded their polygraph screenings with nearly five million people having access to classified information or washington maintains that polygraph testing is the most effective way from preventing secrets from being leaked lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety

eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is what are they willing to discuss what are they not willing to discuss however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing a polygraph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind the the test was right it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for sullivan his book detailing america's polygraph system subs

a come in for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent and i think that's a. corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or nine fourteen new york. time now for some other stories from around the globe this hour in bahrain government forces have once again clashed with anti regime protesters in rural areas tear gas was used against the crowds hurling petrol bombs bahrain has suffered almost daily violence since an uprising began two years ago in a public call for greater freedoms from their monarchy authorities are accused of oppression under severe quieted down opposition activists allegedly illegally

jailing and torturing some to keep them quiet. and egyptian man who was beaten naked in the streets of cairo during demonstrations on friday says riot police are to blame he had previously accused opposition protesters of being behind the target footage of her large suburbs treatment at the hands of uniformed officers are shown on state t.v. further in curating the crowds storming the presidential palace hauling to doesn't matter to which the. u.s. and south korean military forces have started war games in the east china sea they will last three days with salt deploying turned water it's and antisubmarine aircraft able to intercept the north call but vessels exercises come amid rising tension in the region and are seen as a warning to be young young which is planning a third nuclear test in protest of international sanctions imposed after the last one. the health of venezuela's president hugo chavez is considerably

improving as he recovers from cancer surgery in cuba that's according to the national assembly speaker who recently visited him in hospital travers has not been seen publicly since mid december when he suffered a risky rhetorical good cations following the operation in havana and he should have been a recent warning as president last month but missed the inauguration ceremony promising and prompting the opposition to demand new elections which. the artistic director of moscow's world renowned bolshoi ballet's says he knows exactly who was behind the acid that's hot which badly damaged his face sergei filin will be flown out to germany in a few hours' time as doctors try to save his eyesight or he's sure thomas has more . it certainly is a strange and bizarre story under exposing the deep and dark underbelly of the world of ballet if you believe it or not a feeling has the artistic director says he doesn't know exactly who did it he says

he's certain he knows but he won't say anything until the police have released their statement regarding the situation and have made an official announcement a little bit about the attack that actually happened about two weeks ago sergei filin was coming from his car to his home here in moscow where an unknown assailant splashed acid in his face. then suffered from third degree burns in his eyes has undergone the multiple surgeries in fact he will be going to germany for further treatment but about the investigation itself while he won't say exactly who did it even though he says he knows he says he is certain that it is to ruin his reputation and of the reputation of the soit theatre in an interview listen to what he had to say about the investigation itself. so all i can say is that i'm amazed by the amount of effort they've put into the investigation i think in the future get the answers we're looking for. but do your own suspicions match the facts that will by the police. afraid to come back to the bolshoi.

for one main reason i still don't feel that i have ever left now ballet believe it or not is notorious for having this jealous dark side to it dancers and artistic directors thinking that they should have their way of the artistic direction of the community in fact the ball show a theater just reopening after a six year long multimillion dollar renovation. being the artistic director ever since that renovation took place a lot of people who are not happy with the direction it has taken in fact actually an entire movie was made about this side if you recall the black swan about dancers not liking. the parts that they're getting are doing anything that they could take to go and get the parts that they need so one thing about the bolshoi itself though still a lot of good to know who is one of the prima ballerina is all of this a great stage she has fled to canada and they are saying that she has received

threats also not sure that they're connected but it's talks about what's going on behind the scenes at the bolshoi. other back with the news in about half an hour for you up next it's basically about and is a gas song about same sex marriages in crosstalk. well. science technology innovation all the news developments from the around russia we've got this huge earth covered.