algeria steps up security along mollies border to cut off insurgents escape worried as nora ports of civilian casualties from the french military intervention emerge. is oakland city is building a buffer zone stretching behind a sewer and taylor tree but denies accusations that sending in troops and tanks concentrates on and they. are a diplomat sub paying out for one postings within the obama administration according to u.s. support for examining the president's stop. russia

and the around the world this is all see with me. thanks for joining us. french dresses still pounding rebel bases in remote areas of northern mali trying to cut off supply routes for is the most militants are jury has also increased security along its border with money to prevent insurgents from crossing it so reports such as the french led campaign has caused a number of civilian casualties. takes a closer look at the facts intervention is having on the people of mana in this exclusive report. 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 the rebels enforced 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 seemed 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 mall 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 he said 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 not her she was forty my son ali was eleven when adam was ten and say no good was six they all died. as honest. people such as this farmer idris ask themselves if the victory was worth it . we also met the campo family who had suffered badly when the bombing began

everyone's got it 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 shell splinters leaving three children behind a newborn baby. the village was a complete mess it's impossible to describe i'll only discuss things i know for sure and i can say that all we had is gone. there's no hue proving some kids came running up to us and said their mum had died i brought them to our house their mother died after an hour of clinging to life the children have nobody else but us screaming as they get out there is a 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 molly for r.t. yes vice president joe biden meanwhile hailed what he called the truthfulness of french president francois hollande america's been providing logistical support for the military campaign and learned of the institute for democracy and cooperation says the nation can as about its increasing that influence like. i think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the her role on the international stage in particular piece of being a european partners and also the american strict budget 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 and have used the phrase that this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were ecstatic in a continent where as i'm sure many of your you know china has been establishing an economic presence now very successfully for a large number of years there is a ramble for africa isn't there is it just to grab the resources yes it's 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 even be the decisive factor. people are overage girl states enjoy high standards of living because the sitting on a treasure chest of natural resources and countries such as bahrain and kuwait haven't been immune to popular unrest resorting to violence against protesters who

want more of a say. and examines not the struggles plaguing the people of the prosperous came to . see. life in the gulf used to look like this. but the black gold hidden beneath the sands transformed the arabian states from inhospitable deserts came soaring structures of glass and steel physical testaments to their wealth and power in a wider region known for its tinderbox tensions the gulf monarchies have stood out for their relative stability and for an oil dependent west eager for a military stronghold to counter iran the gulf became a strategic away says petro dollars have helped to insulate the gulf against economic hardships plaguing other states but not against popular uprisings now the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the gulf

countries but the worry is that the trend could be reversed activists say that it already has been political gatherings of more than twenty people are banned as are political parties and when the last opposition dominated parliament challenge the ruling authorities it was dismissed voting rules were changed to ensure critics say a more compliant parliament speaking out against the system has landed many activists in jail as for those who took to the streets to protest we were beaten up by. the special forces team and the sound bombs and but on and after the model whoever it is on the street isn't just being detained and thrown into jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain are all too familiar with. three days after egypt's former president was ousted from power protests began in both frames like the kuwaitis they weren't demanding an end to the monarchy but more representation at a violent crackdown saw

a shift in some of those demands but there's still you got to stop it is that they need in different areas against the regime against that because of the ship i gainst that the situation out on the one thousand five hundred was enough as we have. every day we have the local. security forces surrounding day it is attacking the people at the king and houses as an other gulf states the monarchy blames the unrest on a radical minority they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government and impose on the rest of the population with bahrain a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called for. ministers style democracy captain head of style democracy in goals but critics disagree saying the protesters simply want their governments to listen i want to

comes to violent crackdowns he says westminster and capitol hill simply turn a blind eye without a victims because we live in their country which have already so the u.s. and the united states and they don't get aboard the people they don't care about the humanity they don't care about the bahraini blood they care about the though you and about whether in bahrain saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming increasingly more common but nasa shows a power which like this one show that the gulf well wolf alone isn't enough to insulate the countries from people taking to the streets and demanding a greater say in their political system and unless the monarchies show themselves willing to listen their stability may prove to be a mirage this. caffein of r t kuwait. is rose considering the creation of a buffer zone up to ten miles inside syria the aim was to prevent most under rocket attack from the water hole state and stop radical groups coming close to its

territorial security fence is being erected along the front here with syria on the golan heights israel believes fencing off another neighbor will keep it secure from illegal trade and extremist threats says the syrian army has moved away from the frontier and radical islamist elements are active in their area israeli military sources and says they are not invading a sovereign state but many see it as a ground invasion with large numbers of israeli troops and tanks on foreign soil and dr jamal wakim thinks the move has little to do with security for really two years now. at the time of the sort of concede there were no attacks against israel by the insurgents not by the regime itself so this is a mere pretext israel wants to take advantage of. weakening regime in syria to improve its strategic position especially in defense of its claim to the

golan heights imposing a buffer zone will make israel in the future to. negotiate over withdrawing from this pov of the zone rather than withdrawing from the golan this is an attempt to annex more territories and it's at the same time and at them to threaten. the massacres of. israel expands its domain by another seventeen kilometers this will make it reach close very close to damascus it's trying to destabilize the regime and it knows very well that the collapse of the regime will lead to a probable division of syria which runs in the interest of israel. panic over immigration the u.k. likes to put tolls bold guerin's. britain launches a new propaganda campaign against itself to prevent a deluge of new comers one easy restrictions are removed next year a report on that in. the show of force on the east china sea

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which on the ship leave doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans to end with. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com. live live. lag and the says see as john kerry begins his time as being a us secretary of state it's been revealed that many old ambassadors setting out to him one major does this to the president's campaign when you were poor this is competition among big money baucus to land the most sold off of the most exposed will especially tight and she's going to check the city's house. 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 and 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 live 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 valued 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 and these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price. roles are there to be broken if you're the american president barack obama has claimed the rice going to cyber attacks on whichever country he wants even if those no concrete evidence or threat . and also line the city of pakistan where osama bin laden was killed is to get

a van take over to improve its image so had darted out calm to find out the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist has in mind. it's cold and wet so you really shouldn't come there is the message the u.k. is sending to citizens in romania and bulgaria mandans looking for ways to cut back on immigration fearing eastern europeans will flood britain when given a restricted access to the e.u. in twenty four seeing but as always pointed boyko reports romania and bulgaria have found a way to get even where thinking ok we show many things going for our country the english language trash pick times brilliant history very creative people some of the best universities in the world a great place to do business we need to stand up and shout about how great britain is and get people to come and invest and visit but that's not the message that europe's newest member states will be getting come january twenty fourth team

twenty nine million rumanians i'm gary and i will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including britain but the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade what's feared it could be a flood of eastern european immigrants from coming to britain one idea and negative advertising campaign where the government would say britain isn't all it's cracked up to be the english that everybody in the world wants to come to and because in the new jobs of the most greatest country. in which people it is but they seem to forget that in the case of remaining from. it was a beautiful country loving. exciting country to live in today when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain and. everybody is going to leave and then the last one to light is going to be a single person left and then is nonsensical as one minister put it

a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are paved with gold but even considering how to push off would be migrants the british government has managed to offend not one but two whole countries and now one remaining newspaper has decided that rather than getting mad it's going to get even instead. the prime advertising campaign says that since living in the u.k. is no walk in the park brits should move to remain where instead stereotypes about british food women and even the royal family come under fire danger by the british people to come to romania are agreeing their humor half of our women look like kate and the other half like her sister so this is a funny campaign but if you can see behind it there's actually a serious message which is that romania have still valuable resources intelligence

and humor and britain should take advantage of this next wave of immigrants instead of marking their nevertheless last month the u.k. home secretary said that might gratian puts downward pressure on wages and has a bad influence on social cohesion and some ministers have suggested limiting remain in symbolic ariens access to health services and housing when they arrive as you can imagine not all the romanians living in the u.k. are cleaning the toilets some of them are highly qualified even to understudy is there so they find this very aggressive and under society campaigning really whether. not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard near bucharest is now beside the point the british government has already made the newest members feel that little bit less welcome here polly boy r.t. london. and some other stories from around the world at least two children have been

injured by a one hundred grenade in the northern kosovo city of mitrovica a boy and a girl aged three and nine suffer trouble wounds when the grenade was thrown through a window of their home buying a load a tiger her skate it was a search such a time less than twenty four hours drive it remains divided between serbians in the north and albanians in the south kosovo has suffered from often violent ethnic tensions ever since declaring independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. iranian president ahmadinejad says he's ready to be the first person sent into space by a new rainier rocket last week tehran confirmed it has already sent a monkey into orbit and successfully returned him to out was now the country's focused on month space flight however america and its allies are concerned the program could be cover for developing ballistic missiles. the u.s. government is expected to see a ratings agency standard and poor's accusing it of overvaluing this subprime

mortgage debt which caused the global financial crisis s. and p. insist it's merely underestimated the scale of the markets are to ration is the first time a government has sued the agency so ratings fans have long been accused of a vested interest because they're paid by the same companies there says. the u.k. is preparing to test a new supersonic stealth drone seen as the next generation of front line bomber so named after the celtic god the unmanned aircraft kind of aid radar and selected targets but as fast were false not x. percent nervous about the beginning of a robot alls. it can fly faster than the speed of sound it can deploy its own weapons and it can go deep into enemy territory now this is the nearly british super drain as it's known has been under development for many many years

now costing hundreds of millions of pounds already but it's thought that this where the legionary new c. project is going to be taking is maiden voyage over the next couple of weeks that's what's expected now military chief has said that the theme billed as the future of the air force but experts have warned that this could open the doors to a whole new type of warfare there's concerns about robo wolf where machines that are able to launch their own attacks could attack humans and of course a lot of control the sea that always surrounds the use of drones as well they're still there and with the here and now because the controversy surrounding drone warfare has been highlighted recently when the u.n. launched an investigation in to civilian deaths caused by the drones now assisting the u.n. in their research is a team from goldsmiths university of london and i'm joined by one of thirteen now professor. and i think you very much for joining us this new technology

a lot of talk about a lot of excitement but a huge number of unanswered questions to go along with these developments you're taking part in this investigation now we haven't even really got questions answered eight of the legality of these attacks and yet we're seeing technology sort of leapfrogging over the law at this point i think that what. we are seeing a de facto legislation by practice. of warfare actually creating the law for the problem of the law for use it always legs behind the technologies are full of course the chronology moved much faster than the laws of war and the technology changed the way in which we conduct of wars especially because of really . you type of activity we've been seeing in the last decade it is called an extra dude juridical assassination and of course this is really what your investigations hinge on is gathering that all important data is absolutely in the forensic architecture project at goldsmiths what we look at is the nature of war in an urban

area and the most strong acts are launched on inhabited areas areas with a lot of civilians with civilians and militant are in town called in the numbers are very difficult to establish because both israel and the united states would consider every man over a certain age sometimes sixteen sometimes eighteen is a militant by definition we know we can is not true the details of that investigation the results are expected towards the end of the year and taber thank you for joining us today to talk about britain's steep terrain and of course all the unanswered questions that go along with that the u.s. and south korea are flexing their military muscles in the east china sea and they've fears north korea is preparing for another nuclear test seoul said the trolls are part of regular military training while pyongyang claims it's a plot to target human rights lawyer and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war eric sea world can says washington's making an already inflammatory

situation. the worst thing you can do under these circumstances is to inflame volatile situation to conduct these military exercises that always inflame 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 that 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 non proliferation 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.

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