pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based are totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. i. was. more violence in mali as a militant group launches guerilla attacks on the previously liberated city of town amid claims by the french military that the operation is almost complete. elite's congressional report leaves a u.s. missile shield in europe defenseless with claims the system may fail to protect america and its nato allies could be aimed against russia. and egypt braces for yet another string of antigovernment drag on the two year

anniversary of former dictator hosni mubarak's ousting. it's ten am here in moscow you're watching r t you with me to mom would say. and this mama's rebel group is claiming responsibility for ongoing violence in manas mossman city of god that's after gunmen launched a surprise grill attack every weekend to the city was rocked by two suicide bombings however france maintains the military campaign in mali to force out islamists is almost complete local correspondent reports. the situation in mali is obviously going to have a gruesome ending there are more than enough indications of that last friday the country was shaken by the very first terrorist attack in its history according to

the witness report of what was carried out by a fifteen year old suicide bomber of arab descent the bomber was the only one killed after the detonation a few hours later responsibility for the attack was claimed by the mosher wod jihadists one thing to remember here is that this is a bass desert territory and therefore it is very difficult to control this attack is just another example confirming that despite the news reports of the french army having taken over gal timbuktu into doubt there is still a long way to go before jihadists are ousted from the country in severe artie's crew was given access to the civil defense camps and were volunteers and civilians are preparing to fight against the jihadists the f.l. and they and uganda core a local pro-government militia movements that account for a total of two thousand eight hundred operatives but do not support the strategy chosen by the french in mali and joined forces in fighting the terrorists completely love we share the same goals but what they did was

a really bad service to us there was not really about the army itself al-qaeda had been operating on mali and territory for a number of years now they have all those and they keep getting more by kidnapping white people for ransom insurance pays them to have their citizens returned and then the terrorists have cash to buy weapons if we talk about al qaeda there's no way the army can fight it because that she it's terrorism in action going to find out is that those paramilitary who know the terrain well say fighting a war they cannot take part in is meaningless one thing all these paramilitary groups have in common is their patriotism and zeal to protect their country and drive away the narco terrorists but this is a losing fight given the financial resources and ammunition stock they have. put it . but i'm ready to go it all lengths i'm ready to give my life right now to save my family up there in the north because we're all here have families i believe france will still these attacks for a while when the french troops leave they will start all over again because the

criminals are still out there hides in him on the civilians not all of them have been caught really need to be given the mandate to complete this mission our own we're ready for it on the we can do it because we grew up in the north we know the terrain and the people so we're the only ones who can stop them and find them in the villages and the desert where we know every corner and every part of land. overall while the jihadists forces are taking over their land kidnapping people and using suicide bombers to fight for their cause the civilian population remains the country's most vulnerable at root. really aren't can and should you can speak to russia isn't best suited to the un vitale tootin about the possible reasons for the ongoing conflict in the four interviews on air at six forty five pm g.m.t. all you can watch it on our website at r.t. dot com but here's a quick sneak peek. at a question of spring was the dramatic events and libya. in the course of the

crisis of course lots of weapons were brought into libya and there was a lot of there were lots of weapons as it is but still many more weapons were brought into libya during the recent hearings which then secretary of state clinton had in the house of representatives one of the congressman said that they had information. with a wink and nod as he put it from the united states brought in twenty thousand tons of weapons into libya and you know twenty thousand tons you can arm is small terrorist army and of course this is exactly what has happened in mali definitely we see the spillover from ability and crisis to neighboring countries. most likely spillover has affected other. as well for instance it may well be very many indications to that effect that the terrorist attack. in syria had something to do i mean close to the libyan border also have some sort of libyan

connection in terms of people maybe weapons terrorists emanating from libya participating about a dark. the u.s. missile defense shield in europe is under further scrutiny after a lead congressional report revealed the system may be unfit with purpose the study it claims of the shield may not be able to protect america and its nato allies from a potential iranian missile strike the report also acknowledges moscow's concerns that the u.s. is demanding minds are russia's a nuclear deterrent they're all over the missile shield has strained relations between the two countries as washington refuses to give moscow a legally binding guarantees that the system is not aimed against russia president obama had promised to be quote more flexible and quote on the subject after his reelection but some of the u.s.

will give up on his geo political ambitions. i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles something in fact that do not even exist iran has no nuclear weapons nor do they have capability to launch a missile all the way to the united states clearly this missile defense system has always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system fact as nato is expanding in its encircled moment of russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato countries looking at how this all of our runs our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to

support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is a strong ally of this system. in egypt more than a dozen political parties are promising to bring their supporters to the streets on the day marking two years since the ousting of of former president hosni mubarak monday's rallies which will include a march on the presidential palace i intended to increase the pressure on the country's new leader mohamed morsi is islamist led government is accused after present measures after last week's decision to shut down the video sharing web site you tube and the regime protests have led to bloodshed in the capital and elsewhere in egypt spokesman for the opposition aftermath how a recess people are so disillusioned with the government or they no longer need to be called to protest. people are going to go into the streets they are going on the

streets willingly they don't really need any opposition calls for due process because the whole country is in a standstill there's nothing moving forward because there is no real administration addressing the people's needs and the people demand the actual anger in the streets so the only solution that i can see and any sane person can see that the opposition leader mr brotherhood and all the all the different political factions to be in a quality of government that would be the only solution and the only way out because at that moment this government will take responsibility for any reform that's going to be as one of the happening of the country but the idea of just excluding everybody out of the government post revolution country in a country that's acting call it for democracy where there is no real parliament in session that can hold the president or the government accountable to the failures of administering the country and then refusing to have

a quality of government that's just a call for chaos. still to come enough bullets and battling to save lives amid economic troubles i expect u.k. blame government lags in mental health services a suicide rates need a significant a plus. guessing a game in a few minutes we explain why your many colleges and ukraine i'll play by the authorities decision to go ahead with multi-billion dollar i guess deals with the west these stories in detail and more just say hey it. is leading you to. believe.

thank you. this is our team suicides rates in the u.k. with experts and naming a combination of issues including personal debt and cutbacks to the mental health budget a problem that is pumping calls for greater government action. reports. for

the last year and a half thorn has been coming to terms with the tragic death of a son aged just twenty three toby took his own life writing his final words on the back of a bank statement after racking up a three thousand pound overdraft and a five thousand pounds student debt it was just the shock this wasn't from one that had a history of depression or mental illness or even had come across as being down or depressed. in the last few weeks months of his life if anything he came across the someone that you know didn't have a care in the world following his death and became a trustee for the charity piracy which aims to prevent suicide among young people from a home in cornwall she even runs her own blog giving advice but it's a battle her charity and similar ones around the u.k. are struggling to win suicide is on the increase according to latest figures accounting for six thousand deaths between twenty ten and twenty eleven

a rise of seven percent so why being increase while an inquest ruled that toby's financial problems working for britain back to his suicide experts now say that an ailing u.k. economy is partly to blame for the recent deaths nationwide areas of high unemployment such as camden here in london are among those worst affected and it's a problem compounded by cutbacks in mental health services the double whammy effect of the recession is that the people are becoming more distressed more anxious and therefore more at risk of wanting to take their own lives at the same time whether sterrett in cuts means that we have fewer psychiatric beds that the crisis care isn't there and if that isn't enough the growth of same day loan companies and intimidating debt collectors are adding to the pressures people are feeling according to researchers brighton university we have some very very good regulations that. protect people like it's problematic let thinks that it debt

collection however hears that big particularly well it's because these practices do it in response the u.k. government has announced plans to crack down on aggressive bailiff's from next year late night visits will not be allowed and restrictions will be put on what property can be seized they are also spending over a million pounds on research as part of a suicide strategy plan but that is only one very small step on the right direction for someone like him there's no easy answer i mean one thing i've learned more about thirty five than i ever wanted to know but i've done a lot of reading and rethought and i think strangely complex hopefully entirely the trend will go down with what we need to be doing more andrew farmer for r.t. london. right there's more news on our website at archie dot com let's check out what other stories await for you they write you can also find

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the ukrainian economy continues to struggle with moscow slapping a new multibillion dollar i guess bill on the country's last month as a result of orgies and working on enlisting western companies to explore its shale gas reserves to help boost their coffers however that isn't going down well with the country's environmentalist as. reports. it was described as the day of the cranes and the independents what in november last year he have signed a one billion dollar agreement with a spanish utility to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the black sea coast delight quickly turned into dismay when it emerged that the man signing the deal had nothing to do with the company three months later ukraine's leaders were shaking hands again this time with boiled dutch shell having signed a real deal to explore and develop the country potentially he would shale gas

reserves reportedly the third largest. for. the expectation is about eight to ten billion cubic meters of gas production per year and the highest is up to about twenty two twenty five once it's operational we will strive to fully meet our domestic energy needs and to even become an exporter. this is definitely sweet music to keep for years ukraine has been striving to reduce its reliance on us imports from russia especially now when gas. was seven billion dollars for violating gas agreements this project is definitely good we would pay between one hundred fifty to one hundred eighty dollars per cubic meter of gas instead of the four hundred fifty dollars we're now paying to gas problem but if everything is so promising why are people out in force against the shale gas initiative for the second sure know if not worse for years ukraine has often been

divided on many different issues from perception of history to the official number of state languages and then you shale gas initiatives are no exception even sworn political enemies hardline nationalists and communists have put their differences aside and spoken out against. the opposition even proposed a bill prohibiting the exploration and extraction of shale gas the matter of. information on how the gases. between shell chevron and ukrainian companies this class it is still not clear if it's going to be profitable plus the companies don't keer most harmful it will be to the environment but political battles of size ecologists are the most concerned with a potential threat from the shale gas program they insist it could lead to a full blown feat but whenever they speak out the pro-government media labels them as agents of gas. is a usually at different camels that extract more gas from the rocks and so the

underground system which provides fresh drinking water is completely destroyed this water is a strategic ecological resource and when one spoil it the area becomes practically non-viable. but even in the most optimistic scenario ukraine may see its own shale gas filling its pipes only in a decade from now the colleges insist they're not against shale gas and green support just that the potential environmental impact from which extraction needs to be researched and the service before drilling begins they have already sent a letter to the president the question is whether those at the top will be willing to listen let's see russia. reporting from q ukraine. morning national news now and the head of the syrian opposition in exile has renewed calls for peace talks with the assad government in the rebel held north of syria but at the offer comes with a certain demands including the release of one hundred sixty thousand prisoners

damascus says it would agree to sit down for talks but without any preconditions the opposition wants to negotiate the departure of president assad which in battled leader has so far refused to consider him it's also unclear if the al-qaeda linked armed rebel groups in syria would support a ceasefire this comes as the top u.s. military officer says he supports arming the insurgents to bring the hostage and to the conflict. the authorities have held there for as a reconciliatory talks with the opposition in the train both sides are saying they're ready to continue dialogue to stop entry regime protests which are losses for two years and claimed up to eighty lives pro-reform campaigners are calling on the government to deal with police brutality and perceived discrimination the city monarchy claims it's implemented some of the reforms yet activists say it's too much call concentrated in the hands of the scene. a

stampede at an overcrowded railway station in northern india has left at least thirty six people dead with local media warning the death toll could rise the accident reportedly occurred on. the railway officials announced a last minute change in the platform tens of millions gathered on the banks of the gandhi's river for the religious festival the most significant hindu pilgrimage that takes place every of yes. in the latest development of the political crisis in tunisia the presidents a secular party has threatened to leave the islamist led coalition government the moves expected to be confirmed late on monday it comes after days of violent protest in response to the assassination of a prominent opposition figure which some of blaming on the country's islamist rulers bria for national is in the capital tunis with more forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating

a religious state internees here and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not to music. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chaunce really a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of a comrade becomes the last rule. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the sugar related to some crime because believe it was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country to see that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over the political short people can lose yet the interior ministry said that one million and they have joined the ceremony that turned into a political and if the station people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. is here attend the

funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the ceremony try to make their way to the city's main haven't yet to continue and see government protests but they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately was such a central city is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did approve the people support and believe our party needs all of our revenue and they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de

facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and cruz and anxiety over possible for the plate and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it's maybe only now that this plane that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook

the country living many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. nation ocean our t. g.'s e a hey so it see on our t.v. peter lavelle and his guests discuss the ongoing strife in africa and foreign interests the us and crosstalk coming away just a couple of minutes. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the

world's largest supply of trucker dural sort of look. exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at

a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here are. reporting for the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing story. the. arabic. because it arabic.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered on peter lavelle a new scramble for africa cloaked under the guise of fighting terrorism and in support of noble western values africa is again in play is this continent at the center of a vast natural resource grab why is the u.s. deploying troops in thirty four african countries and how does the new after china add to this mix. to cross the rio neill colonialization of africa i'm joined by michael amoa in london he is an expert on africa at the london school of economics also in london we have adel darwish he is the political.