intensifies its assault of islamic militant. locals in the liberated cities. high cost to civilians. as barack obama's diplomatic team gets ready to rock n roll in the world a new report suggests that many of america's foreign service workers are paying to get the best jobs. reaching far into syria but it claims that troops would only be stationed for security purposes.

just after five pm moscow time this is r t live with me and welcome to the program french military forces have stepped up their offensive on rebel bases in northern mali with fighter jets now pounding militant hideouts near the border with algeria i mean while two senior islamic leaders have been captured fleeing the airstrikes. now reports from the frontline of the war hit country. euless knew that if their money because they know what i want to look at today in this town in mali everyone is celebrating the capture of two important islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the demon a group which retired a contin book too for months particularly violating the rights of women he was captured along with bob leader of the movement for unity and jihad in west africa toerag say he was taken north of keep close to the border with algeria the capture of these two leaders demonstrates what everyone knows the city of go and to book to

our havens of security in a dangerous wilderness we were ourselves detained by the mali an army when trying to get to the city of any movement towards the north has been strictly forbidden since last weekend when six million soldiers were killed by explosives planted by rebels on the roads leading there this risk affects the stability of the country distances in mali are so big that it is next to impossible to travel safely on the roads so now the region lacks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region in mopti there are about seven thousand refugees children suffer the most unless medication is brought into the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw in mopti would face tragedy i mean. like please tracing malnutrition is a necessity in today's critical situation negligence was the cause of malnutrition before but now and then this crisis most children are suffering tizen as it happens

in every home where children don't get enough care and could die. that alternative syrians are being tried to deliver supplies to to book to the in the share and spread them to the north from there we also saw many people come to donate blood so desperately needed in hospitals a christian community in the central region of mali has been collecting supplies in for. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first. they're hunting us those who are directly linked with religion. despite the fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical a country filled with refugees and deportivo the health and food crisis is putting eighty million people at risk of malnutrition numbers on us but what is what they monitor here gonzalo lunch or mali for r t. meanwhile mounting reports coming now from cities that have been liberating suggest that freedom has come at

a high cost french air strikes are reportedly resulted in a number of civilian casualties earlier in the program i spoke to tirana her son from human rights watch who's been looking into these allegations. we didn't get it i just finished a ten day investigation into various human rights abuses that took place in mali we confirm that there were four people that were killed by what appears to be aerial strike the french those who say that the aerial strike 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 at 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 in a 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 lawful it strikes occur on a legitimate military target and that's what needs to be established here at this stage cheated they have been civilian casualties and that raises some serious questions we also have documented disappearances by the mali an armed forces which have taken place scenes where they have taken a rested people and the families of those people have not been able to find them since and we have concerns about the prospects of reprisal killings this is been something that's been a concern for a very long time as these lambesis which are on the potential victims of that people from ethnic groups who such as the pull of such as tirades such as arabs whose houses have been ransacked whose shops have been looted and in some cases they've been targeted during security operations this is r.t.

and as a new diplomatic term begins in washington with john kerry at the helm it's been revealed that many employees of the u.s. state department were major donors to barack obama's presidential campaign and recently published report says competition among big money backers to land the top foreign service jobs was especially tight this year details not to monti's guy nature can. 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 did ministration 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 contribution six point two million dollars 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 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 cold nobody of course calls it bribery here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price. israel is reportedly intending to create a buffer zone stretching up to seventeen kilometers inside syria and the country's military sources insist the area will belong to syria and they have no intention of invading a sovereign state israel also wants a place in for each of the grades and number of tanks in that area you see on the screen the stated aim of the zone is to prevent mortar and rocket attacks from coming inside the embattled country and it's hoping that this would also stop radical groups moving closer to israeli territory if indeed assad's government is toppled a security fence is now being erected along the frontier with syria that will be situated along the south the golan heights but international relations expert dr jamal wakim things all this has very little to do with the issue of 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 eight to zero 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 and at them to threaten the massacres that so if israel expands 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 and thank them and of israel. the gulf kingdoms of bahrain and q

wait seeing fresh public outcry is against the country's unelected rulers who have been stepping up their crackdowns on dissent now for the last two years calls for more rights and democracy are increasingly met with arrests and brutal force as a conservative more knox refused to concede or the west though is accused of turning a blind eye to violations by its key arab allies catherine off filed this report. yeah how do you. 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 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 is on the street because they're 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 bahrain 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 different the it is against the regime against the. he took the ship by gainst to the situation. one thousand five hundred prison others we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding the gate is attacking the people like that in the 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.

a system of government that is unacceptable these demands called for a. minster style democracy captain head of 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 the us and then i think. 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. whether in bahrain saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming increasingly more common but nasa shows a always like this one show that the dots well wolf alone isn't enough to inflate 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 lucy caffein of r.t.e. kuwait. and still to come just a bit later in the program here on our table the battle of negative press at the u.k. considers deflecting a potential wave of eastern european immigrants with highlighting just why they'd be much better off staying at her. old. science technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. this is artsy but the u.k. is looking at ways to curb the wave of eastern european immigrants expected at its doors when remain and ball garia given unrestricted access to the e.u.

that will be in two thousand and fourteen and the government's not considering a negative advertisement campaign about the country to make it less appealing to potential movers. as the story. 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 romanians and bulgarians 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 a negative advertising campaign where the government would say britain isn't all

it's cracked up to be. that everybody in the world wants to come to england because in the new jobs of the most great country. it is to forget. the beautiful country. exciting country to live in today when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain. everybody's going to leave one. single person. 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 it's a person 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 a instead stereotype. about british food women and even the royal family come under fire danger by the british people to come to romania are going there 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 it 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 in zimbabwe 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 the understudies there so they find this very aggressive and on this is very campaign really whether or not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard neighborhood arrest is now beside the point the british government has already made the newest members feel that little bit less welcome here. r.t. london well i do remember you can always i stay updated with the latest news by just adding to our website r.t. dot com that's a look right now and see was just a click away for you at the moment for example people in australia being warned to stay clear of kind of containing highly toxic chemicals that have now washed up on pristine beaches all up and down the east coast also british intelligence reportedly concerned that the queen of crime i go to christie accidentally spilled

one of the country's biggest wartime secrets that story and more about a dork. speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of his p.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in trying. to find out more visit. i could have you with us here on out see the u.k. reportedly preparing to test fly a brand new drone which could herald a breakthrough in the world of warfare and the aircraft is that designed to be invisible to radar and can even select and attack human targets by itself this report from london and i'll see you sara. 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 drone as it's known the tranches 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 says that that the transit will pave the way for a whole new generation of these new drones and it's being 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 warfare 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 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 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 lags behind the technologies of force course the chronology moves much for. aster than the laws of war and the technology change the way in which we conduct our wars when we speaking about drone

warfare we're not really speaking about the area bomb being we're speaking about targeted attacks and especially the kind of a new type of attack that we've been seeing in the last decade that is called the extra troops juridical assassination these really are based on kill ists and they are compiled by somebody either authorized by the people with the reason or transparency and we do not know how that process is undertaken and of course this is really what your investigation singeing 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 and the 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 and taber thank you for joining us today to talk about britain and of course all the other answer questions that go along with that. and a stray into the world up there now starting with the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad he just arrived in cairo on his first visit to egypt in more than thirty years with images attending a muslim summit to move discussed security issues with the country's leader mohamed morsi and the visit is seen as an attempt to improve relations between the two regional heavyweights which fully fledged diplomatic ties there currently is signs of a thawing since egyptian islam ists replaced the ousted hosni mubarak two years ago iran also wants to get car on board with such issues as syria and tehran's nuclear program. a suicide bomber detonated

a car packed with explosives near an iraqi military checkpoint in the town of tire g killing three this is the eighth terrorist attack in iraq this month alone and it comes only a day after a blast in the same town killed at least twenty two no group at this point has claimed responsibility for either attack. one of america's top credit ratings agencies says it's preparing to face a lawsuit from the u.s. government standard and poor's is accused of handing down bogus forecasts on mortgage related investments in the run up to the credit crunch of two thousand and seven s. and p. has dismissed the allegations saying it had relied on the saying dangerous washington which failed to predict the crisis level so it would be the first such case against the ratings agency in connection with the financial crisis. the u.s. and south korea are flexing their military muscles in the east china sea that's after north korea's recent threat to conduct a nuclear test souls at the drills are part of regular military training claims

it's a plot to attack it a human rights lawyer and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war erica said what can he says washington's only pouring fuel on the fire. it's the worst thing you can do under these circumstances is to inflame volatile situation and 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. and i just a moment here we're not saying it's our special report on the corporate occupy movement which has been sweeping across america for the past two and a half years. wealthy british style sun it's time to.