algeria steps up security along mollies border to cut off insurgents escape routes as more reports of civilian casualties from the french military intervention. and. paying up postings within the obama administration is according to a us reporting examining the president's. israel considers building a buffer zone stretching far in syrian territory that denies accusations that sending in troops constitutes an invasion.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at moscow. with your news from around the world. french jets still pounding rebel bases in remote areas of northern mali trying to cut off supply routes for islamist militants algeria has also increased security along its border with mali to prevent insurgents from crossing it now some reports suggest the french led campaign has caused a number of civilian casualties he cannot bring you an account of a journalist who's seeing the realities of the war torn country. francoise hollande victorious trip to timbuktu marked a 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 high twelve 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 she was forty my son ali was eleven 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 sons' 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 one a newborn baby in. the village was a complete mess it's impossible to describe how many discuss things i know for sure and i can say that all we had is gone. few proving some kids came running up to us and said their mother 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 let's get even 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 which is about that yesterday without gonzalo one. for r.t. and i just a bit earlier in the program i had a chance to speak to tirana husain from human rights watch as she visited some of the war stricken areas in mali. we didn't get it i just finished a ten day investigation into various human rights abuses that took place in mali we confirmed that there were four people that were killed by what appears to be aerial strike the french sources say that the aerial strikes launched by the french actually took place in the afternoon approximately around four o'clock but what we've heard is that there was an aerial strike by a helicopter. elina around ten o'clock in the morning on the eleventh and in that strike which took out a number of these casualties including the four members of the mica family and possibly two other civilians who was struck nearby come and this is why there needs

to be an immediate and independent investigation into these into the civilian casualties to find out. who did these drugs first of all and to find out what the targets were because during these sort of military operations it's only lawfully drags her on a legitimate military target and that's what needs to be established here and these day today have been civilian casualties and that raises some serious questions we also have documented disappearances by the mallya numb forces which have taken place since where they have taken a risk to people and the families of those people have not been able to find them since and we have concerns about the rising price of killing this has been something that's been a concern for a very long time as these families if we differ on the potential victims of that people from ethnic groups who such as the pull of such as tirades such as arabs these houses have been ransacked whose shops have been looted and in some cases

they've been targeted during security operations and this is all to still to come for you in just a bit later in the program but out of a keeping change. examine how monarchies and or the rich gulf states are clamping down on those seeking more rights. but for now as john. kerry begins his term as the new us secretary of state it's been revealed that many of the ambassadors serving under him were major donors to the president's campaign and your report says this year's competition among big money backers to land the most sought after diplomatic spots was an especially tight race he's going to canvass the town's. as you can imagine the competition for diplomatic post is tough especially in safe and wealthy country 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 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 him on a code nobody of course calls it bribery here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price. this is odd see now israel is considering creating a buffer zone inside syria now the zone could stretch several kilometers into neighboring syria although the israeli military sources insist they are not invading a sovereign state and the israelis plan to put up a number of troops and tanks though on foreign soil the stated aim of the zone is to prevent to malta and a rocket attacks coming in from the war torn country should also stop radical groups coming close to its territory if indeed president assad's government does

fail a security fence is also being a reputable along the frontier with syria on the golan heights and many see this as an annexation of syrian territory i talked to jamal wakim things this all has very little to do with security. imposing a buffer zone will make israel and 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 seven hundred eight to zero by and impose a buffer zone in south lebanon when it was the same claims that it wanted to defend it's not the border of the agreed objective is to annex more territories and it's at the same time and at times to threaten the south so if israel extends its domain by another seventeen kilometers this will make it reach close very close to damascus and this is 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 entanglement of israel and setting up as. i'll talk about the issue of a panic over immigration that the u.k. looks to put off ball gary ins and romanians britain considers a negative propaganda campaign against itself to prevent a deluge of new comers when. i removed next year i report on that it's interesting few minutes that will be after this short break. well. technology innovation all the developments

around russia. the future of coverage. these are.

joining us here on our show in moscow it's cold and wet so you really shouldn't that's not the message from the russian capital that's the message from the u.k. sending it to follow e.u. citizens in romania and bulgaria looking for ways to cut back on immigration eastern europeans will flood britain given. to the e.u. in twenty fourteen but it's reports. found a way to get even with thank you ken. 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 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 imbolc garion 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 england because in the news of the most finest greatest country for english people it is that they seem to forget that in the case of remaining friends remain as a beautiful country loving warm exciting country to live in today so 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 person at a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are

paved with gold but even considering how to first off would be migrants the british government has managed to fare 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 a mania instead stereotypes. about british food women and even the royal family come under fire danger by the british people to come to romania i mean there are here 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 has still valuable resources intelligence and schumer and britain's to 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 ians imbolc 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 is a very aggressive and under society 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 all of you right now at r.t. dot com barack obama the hacker in chief by the american president cannot launch

cyber wars on whichever country he wants with just the push of a button even if there's no evidence of a threat certainly a lot of those details that are to dot com right now. also there at the moment are the city in pakistan where osama bin laden was killed is to get a foreign make over to try and improve its image if you go onto our website you can find out what the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist has in mind. for now people in oil rich gulf states enjoy high. standards of living because they're sitting on a treasure chest of natural resources but countries such as but a known kuwait haven't been immune to popular unrest resorting to harsh crackdowns against protesters and one man in kuwait received a ten year jail term for criticizing the media on twitter that's following a five year sentence for another man on similar charges. examines the struggles plaguing the people of the prosperous kingdoms. see you.

soon. finds 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 modish whoever it is on the streets 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 because the new law to stop it is that the elite in many different it is against the regime against the. he took the ship i didn't

see the situation. one thousand five hundred prison up as we have. every day a week on the local. security forces and rounding gate is thanking the people at the king and houses as in other gulf states the monarchy blames the un rest 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 commission. a system of government that is unacceptable these demands called for. minister style democracy capitol hill style democracy in. but critics disagree saying the protesters simply want their governments to listen i want to come to violent crackdowns he says westminster and capitol hill simply turn a blind eye to victims because we live in a country which have the us 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 though you and i doubt whether in bahrain saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming increasingly more common but nothing shows a week 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 caffein of our t. kuwait. are twenty minutes past the time of same sex couples one be allowed to adopt russian children in the countries of child rights chief was responding after being asked how the legalization of gay marriage in france could influence french parents looking to adopt from russia and the campaign for and against same sex marriage. in france has been escalating the parliament voted in favor of redefining

marriage as an agreement between two people and not just a man and a woman the russian constitution does not however recognize gay married couples which prevents them from adopting russia also has a ban on adoption by american parents and says the u.s. has not done enough following a series of russian adoptive children being abused or killed. or into the are that we go starting with at least two children that have been injured by a hand grenade in the northern cause of a city of. a boy golden age three and nine suffered shrapnel wounds when the grenade was thrown through a window of the home by an unknown attacker who escaped to say such attack in less than twenty four hours. remains divided between serbians in the north and albanians in the south of overs suffered from often volatile ethnic tensions ever since declaring independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. is ready

forces arrested twenty three hamas members at dawn in the occupied west bank some were reportedly lawmaker's so far israel has not given a reason for the raid hamas brand of the move a criminal attempt to prevent national reconciliation for palestinians abbas is considered a terrorist organization by israel the us and the e.u. despite winning the last palestinian parliamentary elections six years ago. the us government is expected to sue the ratings agency standard and poor's kucing of overvaluing the subprime mortgage debt which caused the global financial crisis s.n.p. insists it merely underestimated the scale of the markets deterioration it's 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 they assess. the u.k. is preparing to test a new super. a sonic stealth drone seen as

a next generation of front line bulma named after the celtic god. the unmanned aircraft can evade radar on selected certain targets results you surf reports experts on 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 nearly british super drain as it's known has been under development and 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 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 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 as deal then 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 and 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 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 which we conduct of wars especially become a free. you type of activity we've been seeing in the last decade it is called an extra duty juridical assassination 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 it is not true the details of that investigation the results are expected towards the end of the year old tabor 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. and off to the break here at odyssey abby martin and i guest speak behind the bars of israeli prisons and investigate why there are so many palestinians being held. wealthy british science. is not on.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the left side. i mean. i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. in the original socially

apologize if the. worst you could only. find out soup of a. radio guy and call it a daily minute from a click. what what we're about to give you never seen anything like the armstrong. how it pocket i'm abby martin today i want to introduce you to some meadows saw we a palestinian activists who was detained by the israeli army in two thousand and two during israel's offensive operation dubbed operation defense to shield samaras is sentenced to thirty years in prison but under a deal brokered by egypt he was released in october two thousand and eleven along with four hundred seventy six other palestinian prisoners tragically once again samara was detained last year and for the last one hundred and ninety five days

he's been on a hunger strike in protest at his detention without charge or trial without help and pressure from the outside he will surely die and prison without a continued outcry from activists and urgent action from world leaders who are not afraid to stand up to the israeli government they will continue to cross every red line so this sort of injustice bothers you too and if you feel freedom and dignity are things worth fighting for and you come to the right place so it's great to see that. a little hard. to do their job or she might be like right. here stop to consider that every social ill might in fact be a symptom of a greater disease a disease that we have created and institutionalized ourselves capitalism it's an economic system that i.