well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. france's military is guarding one of the biggest iranian mines on its own is so they want a better deal with paris and could be looking for other countries. locals from recently liberated parts of mali claimed to be france led offensive against islamic militants has come at a high cost to civilian lives. as america's new top diplomat we hear of revelations that many in the foreign service of the nine hundred four more than just time to the country. the opposition val's to keep protesting against the country's unelected rulers after another activist is thrown behind bars for criticizing the moniker.

from the new center here in moscow this is with the twenty four hours a day the president has confirmed that french troops have been guarding one of his country's biggest uranium mines that's in a bid to avoid a repetition of last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria and iran. the mine in question is the location in which the french company a river has a large stake it's important to know that this is the second mission in africa completely separate from france's mission in mali which has been going on for nearly a month as neighbors mali and the situation very continues to remain unstable the french government is making it clear that they are ready and willing to protect their assets in the region and on the african continent as a whole protecting assets. the region many know that france gets most of its energy

from nuclear power hence the uranium is very very important indeed so massive economic concerns are indeed but as you also mentioned we've got the french led multinational intervention going in mali now boots on the ground in nigeria it's certainly getting a lot of reaction from critics around the world at the moment certainly has been if you ask france they've pointed to the incident that happened last month in eastern algeria when islam ists took over a gas plant in their adventure leading to forty eight people being killed thirty seven of those foreign workers france is predicting that more islamist retaliation to french presence in africa is likely and they say they want to prevent a tragic situation like this from happening again but then again there is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium a product that is vital to the french economy in fact it's estimated that nearly all or at least seventy five percent of france's electric infrastructure is dependent on nuclear power given this it makes sense that france would want to protect that resource at all cost the president has welcomed the french presence in

the country and recognizes the need for the added security but has also stated that they want to better deal when it comes to uranium exports measures economy is also largely dependent on your radio as well critics have already been wary of french involvement in mali claiming that the real motivation is a return to imperialism economic policy and a stronger control of a region that used to be french territory now with france's expansion into neighboring countries compiled with president expressing his concerns those critics now have a bit more that they can chew on. john laughlin who's the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris believe securing natural resources is not the only goal france has in the region and the two main characters in this france isn't just to strengthen the role of the international stage in particular piece of being a european. and also the americans future plans for africa. it's important

to know that america which strongly supports france in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used the phrase but this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were its dirty work in a continent where as i'm sure many of your you viewers know china has been establishing an economic presence now very successfully for a large number of years so there is a ground ball for africa isn't there is it just to grab three sources yes it is obvious that the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may be the decisive factor. meanwhile in northeastern mali french jets

have carried out a series of air strikes on the bases and feel depo is of islamic terrorists with intervention now heading towards the desert and away from the cities are to report what's left on the ground after the liberating troops move on. francoise hollande victorious trip to timbuktu marked the declaration that three major cities in northern mali have been declared liberated from rebels although the sharia law and islamic extremism of the rebels and forced will not soon be forgotten nevertheless this victory is a partial one the militants have merely retreated and fled and the suffering in this war has seems disproportionate to the gains made we're learning what happened in battle day by day in the town of kona we heard stories from the fog of war this is small settlement in the mopti region was seized by the more yo tribe they fled to the north when french troops showed up but it's reported that the cost of that

victory was high while french planes killed only two rebels the number of civilian casualties was an estimated fourteen. i wasn't home when the bombing began i started praying when i learned my house was under attack they ruined everything i had my family and my livelihood my wife's name was i mean she was forty my son ali was eleven when adam was ten and so you know who was six they all died as honest. people such as this farmer idris ask themselves if the victory was worth it i mean we also met the campo family who had suffered badly when the bombing began everyone scatter it in the campo lost two of their saunas unable to swim they drowned in the river while fleeing the fighting. we also heard the story of a young mother who died from shelters leaving three children behind a newborn baby. the village was a complete mess it's impossible to describe any discuss things i know for sure but

i can say that all we had is god. there's no few people the kids came running up to us and said their mum had date i brought them to our house their mother died after an hour of clinging to life the children have nobody else but us. disaster visited every house in the town people reject anything the military claims about victory and say war crimes must be prosecuted under the geneva convention towns like qana want more than just compassion people who suffered at the hands of terrorist groups and drug traffickers are now facing the misery inflicted by warfare. already without gonzalo one. for our tea. present and maybe hailing the ongoing french military campaign in west africa as a success that small that can be said about his politics back home. reports from paris. 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 and 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 or

competence to improve things is 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 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 bows none of which they say came true. look 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 a present with 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 a great team to four percent january to december is forty percent the lowest since we launched in 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 are deprived 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 causey rather the mind now of the scene of the

past of the team that actions in the. months of a long presidency have been anything but sunny and even his once strong supporters predict even harder times lie ahead for the leader 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 john kerry being sworn in as the new us secretary of state last week the white house may have been hoping for some favorable coverage of its diplomatic efforts the revelations that you have to pay to play a role in the foreign service have brought clouds over capitol hill that is going to count has more. as you can imagine the competition for diplomatic post is tough especially in safe and wealthy countries somewhere in western europe and asia a recent study by two professors of international relations at pennsylvania state university looked at available information on president obama's donors direct

political contributions and the positions that they received and they concluded that those whose political connections to president obama were measured in dollars for the administration service had an increased chance of representing the united states in western europe and a smaller chance of serving in say central asia or sub-saharan africa donors and advisers involved in the diplomatic selection process say the competition this year has been so tight that those who have raised less than a million dollars are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this study friends and monaco topped the list with a level of personal contributions at six point two million dollars the price was quote unquote the price for a position in the u.k. the authors find appears to lie between six hundred fifty thousand dollars and two point three million dollars a posting in luxembourg that tiny but very wealthy european country for example is

the l. used as three point one million dollars dollars in direct contributions and appointment to portugal was predicted to have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic posts while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco nobody of course calls it bribery here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price. you're watching on t.v. because you live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day coming up later in the program the dissolving the ministry the artistic. heads to germany for special treatment after saying he knows who is behind a violent acid attack on him two weeks ago that story just ahead.

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he continues the artistic director of. his traveling to germany for specialist treatment. acid attack against him just over two weeks ago doctors there will be trying to help. reports now from the moscow hospital where he was taken immediately after the attack. he's doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their power to have a very difficult situation that he found himself in. third degree burns and those are very severe space and he said he's full of hope for 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 quieter on his road to. speak about person who has been supposedly behind the attack 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. he did to receive threats before but he also mentioned and this is important according to the gate feeling himself he didn't mention that he's continuing to work with everybody who has been left in charge of the theater he said that nothing about the boy changing . performances and everything about the theater will be carrying on before. position activists has reportedly been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the country's. twitter it's the third time

a person has been convicted on such charges in the country in the last two months speaking out against the emir of kuwait who's considered a state security challenge. to recently hit a key for increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly protests have been raging against the government and its crackdown on dissent since two thousand and eleven tension flared more often december's parliamentary poll which was boycotted by the opposition m.p. claims the country's democracy has been disfigured. we refute claims that the national assembly represents the people of kuwait around seventy percent of the people boycotted the election and the assembly itself was elected thanks to an unconstitutional decree by the government which wanted a parliament it could control its lawmakers have failed to address widespread allegations of corruption democracy has taken a twisted for it is the only democracy which has seen an increase of corruption we

will continue to hold peaceful marches peaceful rallies and we will continue to gather and protest. and not another monarchy that has its own problems with the opposition bahrain. is there of once again with police in various parts of the country used to gas against the crowds which were hurling fire bombs the gulf kingdom has been cracking down on pro-reform demonstrators for two years arresting thousands including prominent activists the government claims it's taken steps to address the brutality of the security forces and opposition campaigners say daily assaults continue unabated. the number said from a suicide bomb attack on a group of al qaeda fighters has risen to nineteen more than forty others wounded incident took place as men gather to collect their salaries outside an office in a town north of baghdad the blast comes a day after several suicide attackers targeted a provincial police headquarters in clay cook killing at least fifteen and wounding

dozens. it's going to sit in front of a car park in the city of leicester in the u.k. has been confirmed as that of king richard the third the moloch was the last english king to be killed in battle back in fourteen eighty five but his grave was lost in the sixteenth century after the demolition of the church she was buried next to the remains will be reinterred unless to cathedral with the details of the rivera ceremony yet to be released. to south korea and the u.s. have kicked off a three day joint naval training exercise it comes after north korea's recent threat to conduct its third nuclear test erik surat can i spoke to me a little earlier he's an international human rights lawyer and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war but the saber rattling is not exactly going to help ease the tension the worst thing you can do under these circumstances is to inflame the situation to conduct these military exercises that are always inflamed that use live ammunition up and down the border with north korea this is

inflammatory on a lot of levels and we need to step back these naval exercises it's like a race to the bottom if you will when are we going to get more creative in the way we resolve conflict in this world this conflict gives us such an opportunity with a new secretary of state new leader in south korea we should be pushing for peace suspend these naval exercises and go from there yes there should be nonproliferation of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula but we don't even recognize north korea as a nation have a peace treaty or formal relations to deal with these matters what do we expect an investigation by the guardian newspaper has revealed britain's largest police force stole the identities of dozens of dead children for use by undercover officers the scheme went ahead without informing or consulting any of the parents of bristol based investigative journalist tony guzzling feels that the metropolitan police's methods are completely unacceptable. it's just the latest chapter isn't it of

police corruption here in britain i mean i'm pinching myself today wondering if i live in a democracy or not we're talking about the identities of eighty dead children stolen by the police i mean you do want to tell you where else these infiltrations have been taking place as well do they have police agents within our political parties where are the lines being drawn because it doesn't seem like there are any laws being drawn are absolutely behind the former director of public prosecutions mcdonald who is now saying there must be a public inquiry into these kinds of police practices let's not forget these are crown servants does her majesty know that they're up to this does she approve and i mean there has to be really deep inquiry here the guardian have done up a real can of worms and there's absolutely no accountability it seems why these things that have been authorized through through scotland yard the idea that people haven't complained about it therefore it's ok well of course i'm not going to complain about it if they don't know about it it's almost like the scotland yard is

being run like some kind of secret cult we've got to break that cult if we're going to have justice. thousands of people in america are forced to undergo polygraph testing every year in the name of national security that's amid experts ringing the alarm of the us federal agencies exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who can be trusted to port nine or more. 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 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 to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an

interrogation tool 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 that the test was right you know 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 are coming 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 party new york. well that's it for me build up my trouser will be here in about half an hour from now with a news team as the news continues in the meantime partridge will be bringing us the latest sports news from around the world stay with us for that.

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with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g. hello welcome to the r.t.e. sports show with me thought rage 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 page all regular season champions with forty games to go after beating think waddles another moscow squeeze one in some petersburg. and making mountains the stars of alpine skiing full 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 are preparing for a friendly against iceland in the spanish city of ma they are on a wednesday does way to vancouver where ports this year will be key the coach fabio capello was aiming to guide russia to their first world cup since two thousand and . five year 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 van passage to brazil befalling in the friendly with iceland will give capello

a good chance look at some of these pretty players something italian intends to do you're going to go 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 if you believe that the good thing with the training camps are nothing new for the russian national team it was first introduced on the guus hiddink who took his side to turkey capello has decided on marbury and spain is his destination and of sixty six year old already has one eye on next month's crucial world cup qualifier with northern ireland but italia to mates 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 to keep possession and their playing system is completely different they don't like to play long ball football up to a target man like northern ireland do.