it was. for intruders take control of a strategic your in a mine in leisure as questions mound over the leadership and direction of president francois on. the spanish prime minister visit germany for e.u. budget talks a brief response from the economic crisis and corruption scandal engulfing him back

home. syria's president walls of possible retribution after israel strongly hanes eight holes behind a cross border as strike close to devise get. his ass he coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program france has sent its military to ne share in the efforts to strengthen security at one of the country's biggest uranium mines new dress president says efforts are being made to avoid a similar situation to last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria the french really tricom pain has been in northern mali where she is several hundred kilometers from the on the mining site so the facility is operated by a french mining giant a major player in

a country which is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium france heavily depends on nuclear power for its domestic energy it makes up nearly seventy percent of the total nature i also saw discontent among mine workers last year who protested against working conditions and wages many believe new juries key to france's editor security and french president on land countries come to his economy because as maria finola pulls there are increase. same doubts about whether or not he can 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 lives 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 certainly is a lot of people expected to have a strong president and they understand that on 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 rectify 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 companies where 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 i should like to feel the value added tax increase. i think it's inappropriate and unjustified and unreasonable and too hasty. what happened to well that's to remind the president you remember you promised to review the european treaty you didn't do that here in germany set a three percent deficit isn't real but now only say it's possible etc etc you can't not do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise in the fringes of the great team forty four percent january

december's 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 marriage or deprive jews 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 predecessors are causing problems for long now b.c. many of the past that. can never. 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 things from paris. with another round of talks on the looming the leader of the bloc

strongest economies meeting the needs are one of the weakest and the times to lay the groundwork for a new deal the german chancellor is hosting this punish one minute step back home in madrid mariano rajoy is battling a corruption scandal and dulls over his handling of the economy his piece on a reports now from. 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 however 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 bankers 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 to find out how it is but they hang themselves before the police will write their own lonely guinea i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one he can take care him. 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 new budget something which is separated countries within the union thus far and economics professor at boston university laurence kotlikoff says to

overcome the banking crisis you need to revamp the whole system and make it more transparent and exclusive interview with r.t. selfish of nic he said that's the lesson to be learned from america's embattled financial system. 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 the 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 share what you're doing with their money and then and that's what happened in william 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 eight hundred forty five chante. all those scientists say lie detectors are unreliable in identifying national security risks more than seventy thousand of americans each year tested on them washington is promising to draw up a new national pornographic policy following allegations u.s. federal agencies are exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who can be trusted marina burke not talk to those who believe a point of wealth 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 the. 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 or a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique or 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. 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 test was wrong 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 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 not our team new york. and still ahead for you this hour raising the

stakes president assad accuses a destabilizing syria bordering the first official hint it was behind an astronaut and a mascot. and who done it the ballet director had the bolshoi sanchez says he knows who threw acid in his face severely damaging his eyesight and got the details on that and the minutes ahead. wealthy british soil it's time to play let's go. to. the. market.

find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. cars a report on our. mission. critical three. stores three. three. three. three. golds three blog video for your media project a free meal gondar t. dot com. hello again you're watching altie like a mosque president bashar al assad says syria can take on any force that confronted while accusing israel of trying to destabilize the country it was his first public

statement since an alleged is rated as trying to inside syria last week israel's defense minister has given the strongest indication yet that they i.d.f. was behind that time also his policy of reports. it does come from the israeli defense minister it would be rock 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 the syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as

a major blow to his beloved 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 is launch an attack then leave and it really its response has been a no comment which really leaves the question in observateur minds it is a culture lated moves because this simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and its collation against the jewish state of the international for now for any kind of israeli strike 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 that the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is altered against in another 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. and buried very smoothly stocks but on a risk says the mask has means to return data against any israeli time. 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. head of the supreme national security council the iranian supreme national security council is currently hidden in syria so paid more and more respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional warfare but there might be hard the means used talking for example sort of israeli officials storing the trouble for his role in general and i think that some that something would syria is an

expert of doing syria has been on the side on the water 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 uranium husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not the government. and you can go to our web site and find out how dead children have been used for spying in the u.k. for decades and new reports are fed british call somebody stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go into combat against political activists knowing that at. demonized every new class aggressor and hounded by sanctions but iran shows if he's open to negotiations and will meet major world powers to this current abjection is in kazakhstan in three weeks time find out more at r.t. dot com.

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the head of moscow's bolshoi ballet company is traveling to germany two weeks after having acid thrown in his face sergei filin will have further treatment that to help him fully regain his eyesight going to school was at the moscow hospital the west financial stake and out of that. he's doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their power to pull him out of a very difficult situation that he found himself in to did suffer third degree burns and those are very severe to his face and neck he said he's full of hope for a full recovery and he is full of willpower and he actually looked very enthusiastic and upbeat about the whole situation of course considering his circumstances actually he did appear to be quite so on his road to two full recovery at mia did speak about person who is who has been supposedly behind the

attack he did say that he knows exactly who it was but on this particular day today as if they feel they did not want to talk about the investigation at all so as not to interfere with the investigation he did however mention. he did to receive threats before but he also mentioned and this is important according to city feeling himself he didn't mention that he's continuing to work with everybody who has been left in charge of the bolshoi theater he said that nothing about the boy st peter's changing and the performances and everything about the theater will be carrying on as before. some of the store a small round a while the sala and the u.s. eight people have died after a boss collided with a pickup truck on a narrow mountain highway in southern california dozens of others were already injured and treated in this scene a passing passenger cars also a quarter of the accident they rode was reduced to one lane causing a major traffic jam. in bahrain government forces have once again

clashed with anti regime protesters and will areas tear gas was used against the crowds hurling petrol bombs bahrain has suffered almost daily violence since and uprising began two years ago and the public call for greater freedoms for their monarchy they also which is are accused of oppression under severe quieted down opposition activists allegedly illegally jailing and torturing some to keep them quiet. and the gyptian man who was beaten naked in the streets of cairo during demonstrations on friday as riot police are to blame they have previously accused opposition protesters of being behind the tide of suburbs treatment of the homes of uniformed officers was shown on state t.v. further infuriating the crowd storming the presidential palace calling for president morsi to which. under eighteen cuban leader fidel castro has voted in parliamentary elections making

a surprise public appearance after months of not being seen castro that has kept a low profile since an illness in two thousand and six and in the last three elections voted from his home speaking on state t.v. who praised the policies of venezuela's president hugo chavez who is currently recovering from cancer surgery for the first time in two decades q but will elect a new head of parliament. and right after the short break it's also his support with kate partridge half an hours for an action for russia under around the world coming up.

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sigrid laboratory jim mccurry was able to build a new age most sophisticated robot which on the big league doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to change the creation and why you should care about human to integrate this is why you should care what you're only on the r.-g. dot com. hello welcome to the r t sports show with me. and here are the stories hitting the headlines. icebreaker russia warm up for the first international match of the year a friendly against iceland in spain as coach fabio capello targets

a place at next year's world cup. last time score a prime page on regular season champions with three games to go after beating big wobbles another moscow three one in some petersburg. and making mountains the stars of alpine skiing fall to the last stage of the world cup before this week's world championships the venue was on the outs of the russian capital. but first a football where the russian national team up or caring for a friendly against iceland in the spanish city of mob a zero on the wednesday does richard van pulls a report this year will be key for coach fabio capello who's aiming to guide russia to their first world cup since two thousand and two. fabio capello has enjoyed a dream start as russia's head coach they took their world cup group with a perfect record of four wins from four games however it's two thousand and

thirteen which really counts for russia will be looking to ensure their passage to brazil the following year the friendly with iceland will give capello a good chance a look at some is pretty plain is something the italian intends to do you're going to get the most important things from this training camp which is a bit longer than usual is that the new players especially those who are young get the chance to feel at home within the squad but also so they get to understand what i want from them and also what the other players expect of them and that he does a good one with training camps are nothing new for the russian national team they were first introduced on the guus hiddink who took his side to turkey capello has decided on marbury and spain as his destination and of sixty six year old already has one eye on next month's crucial world cup qualifier with northern ireland but the italian admits the game against iceland bunch allow him to play against similar opponents their games used in the job ability level but iceland are a team that like.