algeria steps up security along mollies border to cut off the surgeons escape route as no reports of civilian casualties from the french military intervention in. israel considers building a buffer zone stretching far into syrian territory but deny this accuser actions that sending in troops on times constitutes an invasion. under sparring diplomats sepang out the plum postings within the obama administration according to u.s. reports examining the president stop. international news live from moscow this is all see with me. thanks for joining it's.

french jets are still pounding rebel bases in remote areas of northern mali trying to cut off supply worries for isn't this militants algeria has also increased security along its border with mali to prevent insurgents from crossing it some reports suggest the french led campaign has cost an ember of civilian casualties as he takes a look at the facts the intervention is having on the people of florida and 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 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 higher 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 turned and so you know who was six they all died but. 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 son of unable to swim they drowned in the river in 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 a lonely 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 mom 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. it's 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. for our tea.

u.s. vice president joe biden has meanwhile hailed what he called the decisiveness of french president francois hollande and america's been providing logistical support for the metric and and john north end of the institute for democracy and cooperation says all eyes in a shock has about is increasing that influence in africa i think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular because of you know european partners and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts 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 that 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 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 the resources 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. people that oil rich gulf states enjoy high standards of living because those sitting on a treasure chest of natural resources but countries such as bahrain and kuwait haven't been immune to popular unrest resulting to a violent against protesters who want more of a say oh he's this a catheter for examines now the struggles plaguing the people of the cross for. how . soon. life in the gulf used to look

like this. but the black gold hidden beneath the sands transforms the arabian states from inhospitable deserts came storing 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 has 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 march whoever it is on the street is it just being detained and thrown into jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain are all too familiar with the. 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 not a stop it is a daily in many different it is against the regime against that because of the ship by gains that the situation not on the one thousand five hundred dozen others we

have. every day we have a lot of hope for. the security forces surrounding day it is attacking the people at the king and houses as in 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 a. minster style democracy captain hill style democracy in golf 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 a 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 baja in 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. the caffein of r t kuwait. is various considering the creation of a buffer zone up to ten miles inside syria it says it's a ways to prevent mosul and rocket attacks from the water all state on stop frantically groups coming closer tastes have a tree a security fence is also being erected along the frontier with syria when they go to heights israel believes fencing off another neighbor will keep it secure from illegal infiltration and extremist threats it says the syrian army has moved away

from the frontier and radical islamist elements are active in their area israeli military sources assist and 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 things the move has little to do with security imposing a buffer zone will make israel in the future to. negotiate over withdrawing from this buffer zone rather than withdrawing from the golan heights this is very similar to the attempt of israel in one thousand seventy two ok body and impose a buffer zone in south lebanon where it was the same claim that it wanted to defend its modem border derrida objective is to annex more territories under at the same time and at them to threaten the muskets so. israel expands its domain by another seven kilometers this will make it reach close

very close to damascus this is very dangerous for the stability of the region and will it will give the insurgents like three years on three base a secure base to launch attacks against the syrian regime so this is a direct and banga meant of israel. panic over immigration in the u.k. look stupid tall poll gerunds on for mania in britain considers a negative propaganda campaign against itself to prevent a deluge of new comers when easy restrictions are removed next year i'll report a matter. under show force in the east china sea sounds korea play war games sending warning signals to the nervous nerves and on the sun on not the sun that is an.

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you're watching all see a line from all sky welcome back as john kerry regains his time as the new u.s. secretary of state has been revealed that many of them boss of his serving and to him one major adonis to the president's campaign and you were paul says this year's competition among big money back is to land the most sought after diplomatic sports was especially tight he's going to check out the city's hell's. 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 rather than the ministration 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 will 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 these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price. the rules are there to be broken if you are as president barack obama has claimed there right along side the times on which other country ones even if there's no concrete evidence of a threat so had to. kill someone lie in the seas here in pakistan where osama bin laden was killed as to gas have fun make over to improve its image had to r.t. dot com to find out all the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist has in mind. it's cold and wet so you really shouldn't count that's the message the u.k. is sending to fellow e.u. citizens in iran mania and well gary and london's looking for ways to cut back on

immigration and fearing eastern europeans will flood britain when given and restricted access to the twenty eight forty s. askings point of boyko reports romania and bulgaria has found a way to get even with the u.k. we show many things going for our country the english language testing 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 that great britain is and get people to come and invest in business but that's not the message that europe's newest member states will be getting come january twenty fourth team twenty nine million rumanians involve gary and 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 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. merging that everybody in the world wants to come to and because in the new jobs of the most quietest greatest country. in which people it is that these and forget that in. remaining from a beautiful country loving warm exciting country to live in today when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain. everybody's going to leave and then the last one to light is going to be a single person left and then it really 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 rumania 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 again 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 migration 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 understudies there so they find this very aggressive and under serious. being really whether or 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 archie london. to some other stories from around the globe this hour at least two children have been injured were made in the northern cos of a city on the traits or a boy and a girl aged three and nine suffered shrapnel wounds on the grenade was thrown through a window of their home and learn a tiger or skate it was a third such attack in less than twenty four hours a trade so remains divided between sevens in the north and albanians of the south

also has suffered from often violent ethnic tensions ever since decorating independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. israeli forces arrested twenty three how massive numbers of dawn in the occupied was by some were reported in the wake is so far israel hasn't given a reason for the raid hamas branded the move a criminal attempts to prevent a national reconciliation for police fenians hamas is considered a terrorist organization by israel the us and the new despite winning the last palestinian parliamentary elections six years ago. iranian president ahmadinejad says he's ready to be the first passer sent into space by new ring a rocket last week to run confirmed it has already sent a monkey into orbit and successfully returned him to earth now the country is focused on months spaceflight however america and its allies are concerned the program could be covered for developing ballistic missiles. the u.s.

government is expected to see ratings agency standard and poor's accusing it of overvaluing this sub prime mortgage that which calls the global financial crisis as a pay insist it's merely underestimated the scale of the market is a terrorist is the first time the government has sued of ratings agency. the farms have long been accused of vested interest because they're paid by the same companies their set. in the u.k. is preparing to test a new supersonic stealth drone soon as the next generation of front line bomber named after the celtic god tyrolese then manned aircraft and a raid raider and select its own targets but as arty south first reports now experts are nervous about the beginning of robot wars. 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 ne british super drain as it's known has been under

development in many many years now costing hundreds of millions of pounds already but it's thought that this weather legionary niecy 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 thing 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 it's a team from goldsmiths university of london and i'm joined by one of thirteen now professor. and i thank 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 that 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 aver the law at this point i think that what. we're seeing a de facto legislation by practice. of warfare actually creating the law for the problem of the law of war because it always lags behind the technologies are full of course technology moves much faster than the laws of war and the technology change the way in which we conduct of wars especially become a free. you type of act that we've been seeing in the last decade that is called an extra jude juridical assassination and of course this is really what your investigations hinge on is gathering that all important data is there 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 attacks 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 as a militant by definition we know we can is not true the details of that investigation the results expected towards the end of the year at tabor thank you for joining us today to talk about britain's steep terrain and of course all the other answer questions that go along with that. the u.s. and south korea flexing their military muscles in the east china sea and they'd fears north korea's apparent for another nuclear test seoul said that trails a lot of regular military training while pyongyang claims it's a propped up target so he will rise still and co-founder of the national campaign

to answer the call rain will ever accept yes as washington is making el writing inflammatory situation what's it's 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 with north korea this is inflammatory on a lot of levels and we need to step back from 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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