algerian steps up security along mollies border to count off insurgents escape route as more reports of civilian casualties from the french military intervention emerge. in diplomatic stop paying out postings in the obama administration according to a us report examining the president stop. considers building a buffer zone stretching following to see or entire tree but denies accusations that sending in troops and tanks constitutes an invasion. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow and

a very warm welcome to the program french jets are still pounding the rebel bases in remote areas of northern mali trying to cut off supply routes for islamist militants are jura has also increased security along its border with mali to prevent insurgents from crossing it some reports suggest the french led campaign has caused a number of civilian casualties. and i'll bring you an account of a journalist who's seeing the realities of the war torn country finds time. 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 not her 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 . we also met the campo family who had suffered badly when the bombing began everyone scattered the campo lost two of their son and 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 let me discuss things i know for sure and i can say that all we had is gone. few poor 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. 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 a ninety and eric has been providing logistical support for the military campaign and john locke and of the institute for democracy and cooperation says or either nation cares about is increasing that influence in an imperfect i think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular piece of being a 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 the 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'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. and coming up later in the program keeping change at bay we're designing monarchies and russian oil rich gulf states a plan being down on both seeking more rights. that's later but now as john kerry begins his term as the new u.s. secretary of state it's been revealed that many basutos serving under him were major donors to the president's campaign

a new report says this year's competition among big money bankers deland the most sought after diplomatic sports was especially tight and she's going there to check on has the details. 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 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 is valued as three point one million dollars 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. israel is considering the creation of a buffer zone inside syria this is

a good stretch several kilometers into neighboring syria or the israeli military sources and says they're not invading a sovereign state the israelis plan to put a number of troops and tanks on on foreign soil the stated aim of the zone is to prevent a mortar and rocket attacks from inside the war torn country and it should also stop radical groups coming close to its territory if assad's government falls a security fence is also being erected along the frontier with syria on the golan heights but many say this as an exceptional syrian territory and dr jim are working on things it has very little to do with security. imposing a buffer zone will make israel and the future should. 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 seven hundred eight to zero create body and impose a buffer zone in south lebanon where it was the same claim that it wanted to defend

it's not the border the objective is to annex more territories and at the same time an attempt to threaten damascus itself so if israel expands its domain by another seventeen kilometers this will make it reach close very close to damascus and this is a very dangerous to the stability of the regime and with it will give the insurgents like free zone and free base a secure base to launch attacks against the syrian regime so this is a direct and thank goodness of israel and studying the pads. now panic of a migration the u.k. mix to play softball guerin's on vervain in this version considers a negative propaganda campaign against itself to prevent a deluge of new comers when easy restrictions are removed next year our report on that is on its way. on the show of force in the east china sea the u.s.

and south korea play war games something boring signals to the nervous north and on a system that's coming up after the break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

welcome bodices all at sea it's cold and wet so you really shouldn't come that's the message the u.k. is sending to fellow e.u. citizens involve mania and belgariad london is looking for ways to cut back on immigration fearing eastern europeans will fly one day when unrestricted access to the e.u. in twenty fourteen but has also he's going to boycott reports not remain here on vogue area 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 about how 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 involved areas 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 managing that everybody in the world wants to come to england

because in the new jobs of the most finest greatest country. in which people it is that they seem to forget that in the case of remaining friends and remain as 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 isn't going to be a single person left and then it really is nonsensical as one minister person at a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets a paved with gold but even considering how to push off would be migrants the british government has managed to spread 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 part 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 there are here half of our women look like kate and the other half like her sister so this is a funny campaign what if you can see behind the there's actually a serious message which is that romania had still valuable resources intelligence and humor and that 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 the and 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 dunder studies

there so they find this very aggressive and on the senate campaign 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 ease newest members feel that little bit less welcome here. r.t. london. and on our website for you right now barack obama how can tree american president can go on whichever country he wants with just push a button even if there's no concrete evidence of a threat so had to alter. and also a bad decision in pakistan where osama bin ladin was code is to get a fine make over to improve its image go online to our table of contents the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist has in mind.

people in oil rich call states enjoy high standards a bill. thing because they're sitting on a treasure chest of natural resources but countries such as a bahrain and kuwait haven't been immune to. resorting to home downs against protesters one man in kuwait received a ten good jail term for criticizing that amir on twitter following a five year sentence for another man and similar charges. and after exam is now the struggles plaguing the people of the prosperous kingdoms. you. see. my 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 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 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. the sound bombs and but on and after the model whoever is on the street is just being detained and thrown into

jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain. our 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 not a stop it is a deal even different it is against the regime against that because of the shit i get instead of the situation i don't know one thousand five hundred prison others we have. every day we have the local. 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 of

bahrain a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called for a. minster style democracy captain who will 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 a country which have already so the u.s. and the united states and the u.k. 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. whether in baja in saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming increasingly more common but nasa shows a power outage 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 you see catherine of r t kuwait. time now to check some other stories for around the world at least two children have been injured by a hungry in aid in the northern kosovo city of new trouble it's a boy and a girl aged three and night suffer trust no wounds when the grenade was thrown through a window of their home by an unknown at target who escaped it was a search such attack in less than twenty four hours the tributes remains divided between serbians in the north koreans and the cells kosovo has suffered from often violent ethnic tensions ever since declaring independence from serbia in two thousand age. israeli forces arrested twenty three hamas members adorn in the occupied west bank some were reported in the way so far israel hasn't given a reason for the raid so how must branded the move a criminal attempt to prevent a national reconciliation for palestinians hamas is considered

a terrorist organization by israel to us and the new despite winning the last palestinian parliamentary elections six years ago. the us government is expected just you ratings agency standard and poor's accusing it of overvaluing the sub sub prime mortgage that which caused the global financial crisis s. and p. insists it's merely underestimated the scale of the market deterioration and the first time a government has sued a ratings agency the firms have long been accused of vested interests because they're paid by the same companies the s.s. . and the rainy and president obama did a drought says he's ready to be the first person sent into space by new or a new rocket last week to run confirm that has already sent a monkey into orbit successfully returned him on earth so now the country is focused on man space flight how american i was allies are concerned that program could be cover for developing ballistic missiles. the u.k.

is preparing to test a new supersonic styles drone soon as the next generation of front line named after the celtic god tyrant is then manned aircraft kind of a to radar and select his own targets but is also who some of the reports now experts are nervous about the beginning of robot. 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 newly british super drone 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 revolutionary new secret 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 team 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 air 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. 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 are

seeing a de facto legislation by practice. of warfare actually creating the law for the problem of the law for use it always lags behind the technologies are full of course the chronology moved much faster than the laws of war and the technology changed the way which we conduct of wars especially because of really. new type of activity we've been seeing in the last decade that is called an extra duty juridical association and of course this is really what your investigations hinge on is gathering that all important data is that absolutely in the forensic architecture project at goldsmiths what we look at is the nature of war in an urban area now most drone 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 is 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 will taper thank you for joining us today to talk about britain's state good and of course all the i don't see questions that go along with that the u.s. and north korea are flexing their military muscles in the east china sea i made fears north korea is preparing for another nuclear test seoul said the drills are part of regular military training while pyongyang claims it's a penalty the time that human rights law and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war eric see what ken says washington's making an already inflammatory situation worse. 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 the with north korea this is inflammatory on

a lot of levels and we need to step back with 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. shoulder i would take a look at the ok by movement that a sweater they cannot have faith and also twenty.

secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said you know things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the u.s. secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chiding democracy if libya would have been.