france is targeting the last remaining militant strongholds in the north of mali and civilians in cities liberated by the french led military coalition reported widespread civilian casualties. a u.s. and geo claims more than fifty countries were involved in america that notorious extraordinary rendition program some going as far as hosting the cia black sites for enhanced interrogation of terror suspects r.t. asks why so many governments got involved in what activists call state sponsored kidnapping and torture. and president ahmadinejad flies into egypt in what is the first trip of its kind by an iranian leader in thirty years the visit is

seen as an attempt to improve ties between the two regional heavyweights amid rising tensions with his room. and broadcasting live twenty four hours a day with top news and commentary this is r.t. from moscow glad to have you with us now the french military assisted by local militia has taken the city of the last major city still controlled by islamist militants meanwhile warplanes have continued striking at the remaining militant hideouts in the far north of the country the french foreign minister has hinted that the operation may be over as early as march but while the advance has been swift the conflict is already taking its toll on the civilians artie's gonzalo reports from the war torn country. that is their money they know what i'm going to look at today in this town and everyone is celebrating the capture of two important

islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the. a group which retired to for months particularly violating the rights of women he was. along with bob meadows leader of the movement for unity and jihad in west africa say he was taken north of close to the border with algeria the capture of these two leaders demonstrates what everyone knows this if you go into book to buy 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 was 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. please treating 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. as 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 that is. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first thing they to announce their hunting us those who are directly linked with religion. get us out. despite the

fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical to a country filled with refugees and deport the health and food crisis is putting eighty. the million people at risk of malnutrition is the person us about what it is about them and the hero gonzalo luncher molly. jo political analyst patrick henningsen a believes the war on terror is just a pretext used by some powers to tighten its grip on africa. this is supposedly an african led mission but really if you look under the surface of it all these happenings in the last month or so go tilt perfectly into the united states africa directive agenda which has been put in place in two thousand and seven under bush and has really caught pace under the obama administration so it could be a case of this is just an entree for bigger escalation on the western powers in the

future look at the government in mali is a junior military coup that took over a democratically elected president who fell out of favor with the u.s. so again it's the king making nation building and we're going to see more and more of this enough for africa's untapped economically in the west is really racing with china to gain sort of dominance on this continent because of all the the radio and the cobalt. you know tanian the lithium all the rear earth minerals the gas the oil africa is absolutely bountiful and this is going to be a battleground in the resource wars of the twenty first century. and coming up later in the program oil money can't buy you love rich in a black hole the wealthy gulf monarchies that once took pride in being some of the most stable countries in the region are now shaking under a storm of popular uprisings. a new york based ngo

group has released a report claiming fifty four countries took part in the cia's secret detention and rendition program according to the document governments around the world aided in transportation kidnapping and torture with some even providing prisons known as black sites arties going to church you can comments. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another produce appétit in cia secret detention and extraordinary river and bishan operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing going to be using it to be jewels assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan all australia canada denmark djibouti it georgia germany syria turkey italy the united arab

emirates. united the united kingdom yemen and other countries while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges that there were more the u.s. government had only identified sixteen high value detainees italy is the only country where court has criminally convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations tenet is the only country to issue an apology to an extraordinary rendition victim. who was rendered to and tortured in syria only three countries in addition to canada and that have swayed in australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation hoops ordinary rendition victims this report is rife with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s.

government has classified everything related to its torture practices any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. journalist and historian douglas valentine feels the anti terror measures enforced by america are overzealous it's what the rise by the u.s. congress by certain very important congress people who believe that they are reflecting the will of the american people in the wake of nine eleven there was a huge outcry in america for vengeance for the united states to prove for the government to prove that it was more terrible than the people who had watched the nine eleven attack and so the congress believing it had to reflect the will of the people off the law is the cia to do this since nine eleven the government has been able to maintain this attitude that it's required for security to commit crimes and . this is never been necessary before it what it exhibits is what it

illustrates is that the government has. since nine eleven more capable of propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government's able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the planet earth and some of the person that's being bullied. the truth is exactly the opposite. and still to come in the program we have more on vice president biden's euro trip. after flying visits to paris and berlin joe biden sat down with the british prime minister and his national security chiefs for talks in london. for the first time in more than three decades an iranian leader is making an

official visit to cairo president ahmadinejad is attending a muslim summit to discuss security issues with egypt mohamed morsy earlier journalist and you clark told my colleague bill diamond that tehran needs all the friends it can get. brown strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a bro in law ally of iran all this is the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans why the saudis etc so keen to talk a sad now there's no sign at the moment the syrian government is about to fall but were it for iran would be even more isolated than it is today and the unit in a very dangerous position so they are what makes sense for iran to be trying to build bridges with cairo are there financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economy isn't bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions appearing to have a a quite an impact on the iranian economy do you do they both need each other i think they do and i think from morsi point of view i think as we see hearty people being all going to rest in egypt but people are very happy with how things have

gone legacy and carry on a look at it and ship it on iraq will be one way that she can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point and he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line towards iran and from iranian point of view course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really economy is a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get there's no reason for iran should be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which there's no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated. and i'll be back with more news after a short break right here on our team. it's. the british.

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our studios in moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us the goal kingdoms of bahrain and kuwait are seeing fresh public discontent with the country's an elected rulers crackdowns on dissent have been stepped up over the last two years when the unrest began and activist reports peaceful demonstrations are for more rights and democracy are increasingly met with arrests and brutal force that's as the west is accused of turning a blind eye to violations by its a key arab allies. reports. 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 on the gulf became a strategic away since 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 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. beaten up. the special forces. the sound bombs and but on and after the march whoever 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 want to demanding an end to the monarchy but more representation at a violent crackdown saw a shift in some of those demands but there's still you got to stop it is a daily in different areas against the regime against that because of that should i gainst the situation. one thousand five hundred residents we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding gave us i think the people like that the

houses as an other gulf states the monarchy blames the unrest on a radical minority they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government and impose on the rest of the population of bahrain a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called for. 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 we are the victims because we live in a country which have the u.s. and the united states and they don't care about 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 scenes like this one are

becoming increasingly more common but now such. always like this one show that the cult alone isn't enough to insulate the countries from people taking to the streets and demanding a greater say in their political system and then less the monarchies show themselves unwilling to listen their stability may prove to be a mirage. r t kuwait. and remember you can always stay updated with all the latest news by heading to our website or to dot com here are some of the stories that we have for you there right now. the famous to crime novelist agatha christie and managed to cause m i five a few sleepless nights when they feared she may have exposed britain's biggest wartime secret find out online how the queen of crime got under the skin of london's spies. last feeds and burglars in chicago may be getting a free pass to go about their business after police in the city said they will deal

with such calls when they have time on our to dot com we tell you why many who dial nine one one will not get a quick response. the u.s. vice president has joined prime minister david cameron for security talks in downing street it was attended by british military chiefs intelligence officials and political leaders joe biden arrived in the u.k. on monday following visits to berlin and paris for top level meetings reports. for the vice president he's known for sometimes putting his foot in his mouth almost being another gaffe but some a very quick to point out when he said that he talked of being delighted to have been invited to that meeting and of having spent half his life in security meetings in the u.s. but people are quick to point out you don't actually have a spoke for years on the u.s. national security council he can be forgiven for that possibly he was referring to

other security commitments but during his visit to downing street this is what part of what he took part in he was invited to this national security council meeting it was chaired by prime minister david cameron and it's thought that what was on the agenda and talks about there were issues such as syria afghanistan iran and north africa now it's not unheard of for foreign nationals to attend u.k. national security council meetings although it certainly is not common practice now perhaps that's a sign of as dave biden made mention to the special relationship that britain and the u.s. enjoy he spoke of the u.s. and britain as having the most open relationship that they have with any country in the world well that's all well and good but is a satisfactory relationship everyone want to talk more about that i'm doing by a member of the u.k. independence party stephen wolf thank you very much joining us to stephen a few

relationships let's go into that is it really beneficial day for everyone i'm not sure it actually is i mean it should be we are and we are two countries that actually share common values terms of our legal systems our language the way that we look at business and it should be but over the period of the years that we have this special relationship to winston churchill first quarter of the fridge we've seen lots of arguments between ourselves and those you state clearly there was a huge to. from the way that the british public did not want to get involved in afghanistan we also had a disagreement in the way that we did not want to get in vietnam and only recently we've had president obama suggesting that the british people should know exercise that democratic right and have a referendum of whether they should be in or outside of the european union so clearly the special relationship is often tested but there's lots of people here

don't even believe that relationship is special. an investigation into a suicide bombing in bulgaria that killed six last july has implicated has blocked the bomber targeted a bus carrying israeli tourists near a black sea coastal resort the findings if confirmed will put increased pressure on the e.u. to designate hezbollah and as a terrorist organization however political analysts come out was me thinks brussels is unlikely to take any action immediately. obviously even the bulgarian they're not sure that they have concrete evidence against hezbollah all they said it's well founded assumption an assumption is not short of indictment and short of complection i think is under heavy pressure from the united states from the israelis to find some sort of comes in and accusing hezbollah of committing this. act or killing israeli outside the battlefield between lebanon and israel and i

think that europe is not going to go easily with the guardian accusation of hezbollah i think they cannot take it slowly because it has if they do with a european has been put on the list will have a major implication for their forces in lebanon especially there's a large contingency of uniform from european country operate in lebanon i think probably the french and the german well sort this out before they can render any major decision. now on to some other stories from around the world for you this hour serbian older nationalists have rallied in belgrade to protest against upcoming talks with kosovo demonstrators called the president's decision to meet the head of the self-proclaimed republic treason they also slammed the e.u. for mediating the talks kosovo declared its independence from serbia in two

thousand and eight and was recognized by most of the european union. because. the british parliament has approved a bill that will allow same sex couples to marry prime minister david cameron said the vote is an important step forward that will strengthen society give his consistent support of the bill caused a split in his own conservative party which over a half against it just a few days ago france approved similar measures in favor of gay marriage. the british officials have hit the panic button over concerns about an influx of job seekers from romania and bulgaria who will soon have unrestricted access to the e.u. a negative advertising campaign has been launched to make the u.k. less appealing to potential migrants are reports bucharest has it been quick to respond. we up so 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 for everyone the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade eastern european immigrants from coming to britain come january twenty fourth team twenty nine million romanians and bulgarians will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including the u.k. one idea being considered a negative advertising campaign about broken britain while the government considers that some creative brits have been all too happy to expose their nation's flaws for all to see 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 under society campaigning as one minister purse it

a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are paved with gold but even considering how to put 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 romanian spoof campaign says that since it's so tough in the u.k. brits should come to remain the same vibe 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 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. immigrants instead of marking there but the debate over immigration in the u.k.

is growing more hostile some ministers have suggested limiting remaining in symbolic ariens access to health services and housing when they arrive but with the financial crisis getting worse britain isn't as attractive as it was to migrants a decade ago english somehow 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 but 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 that can remain is nonsensical whether or not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard near the rest is now beside the point the british government has already made us members feel that little bit less welcome here.

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