french forces take control of a strategic your raney a mine in the jab which says it wants to negotiate a better mining deal with. the spanish prime minister visits germany e.u. budget talks a briefer spied on the economic crisis and corruption scandal engulfing him back at home. and syria's president warns of possible retribution after israel strongly hints that it was behind across the border as a strike close to damascus. a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today i am live in moscow with your news from around the world. now france has

sent its military to an effort to strengthen security at one of the country's biggest you're a new mines and each as president says efforts are being made to avoid a similar situation to last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria thomas now here in the studio to talk us through the entire situation sean thanks for rushing in so quickly here so french troops to secure you raney a mine what's what's your thought about certainly roy france has confirmed that they have sent troops in tunisia to one of the largest mining sites for uranium in that country in fact if you look here mali which is where france is involved that we all know about immediately next door new jersey is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium and at this are that mine right here that is where france has confirmed that they have troops now that they've had some problem with that site in the past but it is also can. that this is

a completely separate operation than what is happening in the next door mali in fact the french company. is very heavily involved with that mind there and and so france is saying that they're basically there guarding their interests because as we know france is very dependent on nuclear energy uranium very important process as well for you so you bring in the economic reasons behind why the french troops are going to need as we know as you mentioned about me to go there are already involved in mali roughly a month ago we had a hostage crisis and energy mine a power plant in algeria now going to need some raising eyebrows about this is ruffling a few feathers so it certainly is in fact if you brought up the crisis at the gas plant in algeria not too long ago and in fact the mali government has invited france to be in mali to participate in a military operation there however. the government they say that they are they have welcome to france to be there at this part but there is a problem with that in fact what they want is they are saying that they want to

prevent a situation as what happened at the gas plant where thirty seven people were killed up in algeria but there is a deeper story that we're talking about here and in fact as i mentioned before it is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium very important to the nuclear process and france very dependent on nuclear energy it's estimated that nearly completely dependent on nuclear energy so. as president they don't mind that france is here guarding their resources french company at the mine but they say that they want a better deal if you're a name is so important to france they say they want a little bit more money in the state so critics who say that france is involved in mali pretty much as a result of a return to an imperialist to economic policy those critics have a little bit more to chew on now because it now they're involved in the arlette mine in. basically to guard production for the benefit of their economy so

critics say that this could be possibly a return to the imperialistic economic principles that france used to have in the recent past century shown it doesn't take long for the critics to become outspoken about this but when you look at the look at the map behind you there on the big screen a sum of already said that france is simply finding out its troops across the region want to see how it plays out or of thomas thank you well while the french president francois hollande seeks to secure resources in other countries he needs all the help he can get back home with the french economy still going down as autism or if an ocean reports now from paris many doubt alond is the leader to turn that around . well 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've left it and those stuck with part time work the paper says the rate would then triple but if certain. people expected to have a strong president and now they understand that on doesn't have enough experience for competence to improve things too weak as we see from the fans who are so 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. 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 the lawns major presidential campaign vows none of which they say came true. but what that's. 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 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 not do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise in the fringes of leave eighteen twenty four percent january december's forty percent the more you see salons to office in maine. 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 a long and wonder french election last year some analysts described his victory as a victory against his predecessor. rather the long now of the scene of the past that. in the. months of a long presidency have been anything but sunny 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 they can forget and forgive. me for not seeing from paris. with yet another round of talks on the e.u. budget looming the leader of the bloc strongest economy is meeting the leader of one of the weakest in an attempt to lay the groundwork for a new deal the german chancellor is hosting the spanish prime minister now meantime back at home in madrid you're not a hole you're certainly battling a corruption scandal and doubts over his handling of the economy and this report alex watson is peter all of. here 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 to 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 holidays 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 of this huge incredible fiefs run only by greed the government's not helping the people the topping the banks it has been at least a fair deal fifty times the issue but in the last month it was three people they were going to be if he doesn't find out how it is but they hang themselves before the police were right there any of the lonely any i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one he can take care of 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 budget something which is separated countries within the union thus far. well let me talk economics professor at a boston university laurence kotlikoff he says or to overcome the banking crisis you need to revamp the whole system and make it more transparent in the interview with alex he's not say he said that's the lesson to be learned from america's and bottled financial system. the traditional banking system the model is one of very high leverage banks more a lot of money promised to repay and then there's opacity 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 share what you're doing with their money. and that's what happened with lehman

brothers 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 catch up the full interview with economist laurence kotlikoff eighteen forty five. scientists say that lie detectors are unreliable in identifying national security risks more than seventy thousand americans each year attested on them and washington is promising to draw up a new national policy the following allegations u.s.

federal agencies are exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who can be trusted. to talk to those who believe a polygraph was a tool simply 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 interrogating 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 scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important 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 of the past 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 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 wrong. 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 are to me or. and we. have for you in. the states a president assad accuses israel of d.c. stabilizing syria following the first official who was behind an asteroid very close to the mosque. and who done it in the direct the bolshoi theater says he knows who threw acid in his face severely damaging his eyesight details in just a few minutes.

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granting free. storage green. green. green. green. gold free brown mediocre for your media projects free media r t v dot com. pleasure to have you with us here on our today on real research aired live in moscow president bashar al assad says that syria can take on any force that confronts it or accusing israel of trying to destroy stabilize the country it was

his first public statement since an alleged israeli strike inside syria last week israel's defense minister has given the strongest indication yet that the i.d.f. was indeed behind the attack details now it was put to sleep it does come from the israeli defense minister. and he has said that it is proof that when israel says something it means that he did stop short of actually assuming 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 lebanon and it is important to make the point that his comments does not constitute acknowledgment 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 bella 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 is wrong. has done in the past is norwegian attack then leave and it really its response has been a no comment which really leaves the question in opposite of as minds it is a culture lated moves because the simons allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and its collation against the jewish state of course the international fall out from 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 the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is

true faulted against a nother sovereign state so israel of course would 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. because one of the polish nearby well a beirut based middle east expert ali risk he says damascus has covert means to retaliate against any israeli attack if necessary. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that the husband 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 who really is currently in syria are so paid more not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be other means used targeting for example certain 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 struggle has died and also 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 of your government. but i would want to dot com right now you can find out how dead children's names have been used for spying in the u.k. for decades you report says that british of have been stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go under cover against political activists are more on that on the website. plus demonized as a nuclear aggressor and hounded by sanctions but iran shows it is open to negotiations and will meet major world powers to discuss their objections in

kazakhstan in three weeks time dot com that's your source. and for now the head of moscow's bolshoi ballet company is traveling to germany almost three weeks after having acid thrown in his face sort of a feeling we'll have a treatment that a try and help him fully regain his eyesight. was at the moscow hospital where feeling was taken after the attack. he's doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their. very difficult situation that. third degree burns and those are very. sad he's full of hope. and he actually looked. of course considering his circumstances. who is who has been supposedly he did say that he knows exactly who it was on this

particular day today did not want to talk about the investigation at all so as not to interfere with the investigation he did however. before but he also mentioned this is important. he didn't mention that he's continuing to work with everybody. performances and everything in. the theater will be carrying on. some of the global headlines for you in brief with. twenty four hours off. there's been another explosion just north of baghdad a suicide bomber attack members of a. group apparently. it all killed four people and injured

over twenty. four. and also seven of such bombing in iraq in the past four days. clashed with protesters the rural areas. the crowds whole. petrol bombs suffered almost daily violence since an uprising began two years ago and a public call for greater freedoms from the monarchy your thirty's are accused of oppression and a severe crackdown on opposition activists allegedly illegally jailing him torturing some just to keep him quiet. image of a man who was beaten make it in the streets of cairo during demonstrations on friday does now say that riot police to blame he previously accused opposition protesters of being behind the attack footage of treatment at the hands of

uniformed officers was shown on state t.v. further infuriating the crowd storming the presidential palace insisting president morsy with. an ailing cuban leader fidel castro was voted in parliamentary elections making a surprise public appearance after months of not being seen castro has kept rather 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. he praised the policies of venezuela's president hugo chavez who is currently recovering from cancer surgery in havana and for the first time in two decades cuba will elect a new head of parliament. oh i don't know just a moment here on c do join us for our tease kate paltrow half an hour of sporting action from russia and all around the world.