an unemployed of french. and front of a state agency and the nation's unemployment figures are a year high. the u.s. military. remote killing to take center stage by giving accolades to soldiers operating the american. border security and.

to have you with us here. live in moscow with your worldwide news an unemployed french man committed suicide by setting himself on fire. in the city of not the forty three year old had been refused unemployment benefits in a country which is suffering his highest jobless rate for thirteen years the man had reportedly threatened suicide but his cries for help were ignored. it said it reports that he had actually set a letter to some journalists saying that he was going to do this this week so the police had said that they had set of surveillance outside that employment agency but they didn't manage to see him he was already and far they said he had entered through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened of the man did this after

finding out that he he is no longer eligible for those unemployment benefits and this is not the first time it has happened in france in august we know that a fifty year old jobless man had done the same and this is a worrying sign for france for a country that has seen its unemployment rising for the past twenty months and this after a president had been elected on a campaign of jobs and growth so we haven't seen any improvements on this monster a lot has declared twenty thirteen as a battle for jobs he said that by the end of the year there would be he would be creating jobs for the french people however statistics show that by midyear the number is set to rise and let's not forget that more than three million french people this number does not include people who have quit the unemployment program because they simply have exhausted all their benefits similar to the case of the man who had just burned himself and also those young people who had never registered or those who were in part time jobs if we look at the trend we've seen a lot of suicides and attempted suicides in countries like greece one of the

hardest hit euro zone countries because of this eurozone crisis there's a general feeling of a still be in the country a lot of people going out in protest we've also heard of stories of suicides in italy another hard hit country so if we're looking at the trend that's happening in europe we hope it does not continue but we could see a lot more of expressions of dissatisfaction. artie's tests are silly reporting there from brussels at the pentagon and once those fighting us wars from a far to be firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out of joystick wielding drone pilots who ultimately wage their battles without setting foot in any combat zones a bit earlier our teaser in english go explain to me what it takes to get the award . so your signature you have a joystick and you point click and they get an award essentially that's all it takes to get it to get

a medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is given out to people who actually perform combat duty but according to the pentagon criteria i'm going to cite it here it will be recognizing a single act that directly affects the combat operation does not involve an act of valor and warrants it award higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence there you can just sit in your recliner with a joystick and maybe a couple for example and just wage war from about a thousand miles away. perhaps there is a there perhaps there's a basic knowledge of the territory somewhere in the border between afghanistan and pakistan that's involved but let's compare it just sitting around basically just sitting at a base to doing something like something that was done by sergeant william stacey in two thousand and eleven he received a bronze medal a bronze a bronze star which is considered to rank below this medal that we're talking about now what he did was receiving fire along with his squad from ten or twelve and we

fighters from five separate fighting positions though outnumbered three senior squad held back numerous flanking attempts and accurate enemy grenades and large caliber fire. was hailed for unquestionably saving the lives of his marines this is a citation from his award citation and he actually died in combat in january of two thousand and eleven so again this man apparently did a lot less than was a person sitting at an army base and pointing a mouse and clicking on their territory somewhere in the middle east superstores a bronze stars which as you say have now been. the main awarded with. praise for some very heroic deeds. you're talking about here yes the sergeant that was in question was actually doing something on the ground right now we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about a very. questionable by a lot of institutions specially human rights organizations that practice of protecting the united states and the world from terrorism as the pentagon the you

know you don't own drone strikes. strikes where they target someone via satellite and via this brilliant camera on the drone they never hit civilians they only hit militants right that is the official version but they even had they had to change that one which was which they have been rigged by them i mean the american officials the pentagon officials they stuck by that rhetoric for years until i think roughly two thousand and six when they had to acknowledge that yes indeed at least at the best half of the people who are being killed by the drone strikes are actually innocent bystanders in fact there has been a research done by various universities there was a study from from the new york university school of law as well as stanford university law school and they have said that roughly all out of those killed only two percent are actually high importance targets that is those are the only two percent of people who are being killed are known terrorists ninety eight percent

happen to be whoever it is very very disturbing numbers numbers are disturbing and i'm like to go back and remind you that now people who are doing this and who are bracing responsible for it are going to be awarded a medal that is going to rank higher than somebody who actually laid down his life on in the line of duty. he's a ridiculous good there i spoke to him just a bit earlier in the program well there are no awards for cyber spying in the u.s. just yet big brother certainly still watching the largest the fence contractor in the west develop software that can predict people's behavior by using social networks report on that in just a few minutes. from now security is tight in libya head of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the khadafi regime the borders with two newseum egypt will be shut for fall. have days and some international airlines have suspended flights to the country there are growing calls for protests and the threat of possible street violence blogger and libya

expert leonor maisonette says that authorities are scared and are involving western forces to defend themselves they're afraid of a big big demonstrations like they did with not to with you know. where not to lose bone the so there are saying to the people if you come out we would be hard with you they are taking people to the prisons airplanes are eyeing on the you know war airplanes are flying all the air into the pulley people are mean mercenaries are coming from outside so i put the libyan government before i mean you know. the most important thing was no idea and they were had big big controls for that never went inside libya and any time they have the idea there was one kind of people inside yes they were throwing them away they were very hard with the al-qaeda people in libya before and now seems not to went in libya i that came in sight and

they are controlling every thing france italy britain all this countries are in libya now and they are controlling their. oil and they are and they are still courting the new regime now there is a lot of italian coming inside and they say for a few days ago there are many many boats big trucks army trucks going inside sleepily to their people saying they are coming from italy they are coming to to help to support you know to. defend this new government. watching r.t. live from moscow not a discuss the issue of the e.u. the eurozone stuttering economies and people ultimately taking their lives when it all becomes a bit too much to bear we were reporting earlier on r.t. about a frenchman who set himself on fire outside a job center in the town of north let's get some more on this now for most

sociology and philosophy lecturer at the university of the panagiotis sorted us now joining us live here on our duty as you were hearing me say just a moment ago so thanks for coming on but i was talking about this poor frenchman who set himself on fire now we understand that the unemployment rates in france are currently a thirteen year high is it is the man's actions symbolic of the frustration the people there are feeling what it is symbolic of the situation all over the euro zone and things that people in europe are realizing that what has been happening in the european south and especially greece in the past two or three years has not been an exception it is going to be the route all over europe. greek's a trick social situation karen flu is very close to a social disaster for example our unemployment rate in greece guarantee is twenty seven percent this rates of unemployment that europe has not seen since the nine

hundred thirty s. and i think that more congress are also growing controller in this and suicides of this kind is just an expression of an acute social crisis risk has already experienced a rise in suicides in the past four years into about three minutes so i mean it certainly was maybe a year year and a half ago i remember the story of a man shooting himself on the steps of parliament in athens showing his grief with the ongoing financial situation you mention in greece my numbers here more than sixty percent of the country's youth are unemployed how can greece turn it around what do you think what you think of the prospects even because as we know they've been dealing with severe austerity for quite some time now well if we continue along that chosen until now the european union and the international monetary fund namely the us will stare at it and even more wage cuts budget cuts

we're just going to see more deterioration of the social situation in greece we are trapped inside it's a vicious circle on was staring. and recession and there's and with the care and policies there's no way out and i think that this image of stability projected by the european union or of the i.m.f. in the sense that ok greece is doing well it's just not real young we heard you talk about i'm sort of jump in but you talk about this because as you say there are some e.u. leaders that are suggesting that the entire continent is emerging from the euro crisis i mean could you just explain for us what exactly are these claims based upon. i well i think that they have to explain what they are based upon because in reality the euro zone has is it's officially in a recession. that the debt crisis is not going to be result through austerity

measures i mean greece they're projecting that we we will reach in two thousand and twelve or two thousand and thirteen their levels of debt that we had when they announced that we were not very serious and dramatic debt situation so what's there's nothing positive no positive signs unless of course they they manage to starve or a society to impose a lemons or parity and unseen before of course if greece somehow the greek people manage to let's say survive on average wages of two hundred or three hundred euro's for months then yes maybe there might be some sort of balance in budget in the economy but this this social situation is going to be a complete catastrophe so i don't think there is any actual exit from the crisis of

the eurozone unless there is. a serious chains in polish his heart also finalist in philosophy lecture at the university of the interior in a panic at a psychiatrist thank you very much for coming on on t.v. today. well we are coming to you live from moscow and the second anniversary of the uprising in. the u.s. killed in protests two years after an uprising began but pro-democracy still being ignored. and desert crisis the u.n. says the situation in mali has become a humanitarian disaster following france's intervention we examine the issues plaguing the embattled west african nation after this break.

we speak your language. or music program some documentaries in spanish matters to you. a little tune in to bangalore stories. here. the spanish. visit. more news today. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today.

thanks for joining us here in. moscow let's get straight to our breaking news for you this hour what we're hearing reports here about forty five people have been taken hostage in syria by an armed group and local t.v. channel suggests that most of those captured are women and children they were traveling on a bus from the rest of the province to syria's capital damascus and i will bring you more on this breaking news story as soon as we get it here on r.t. . for now the family and friends of hundreds of patients who died to do neglect in an english hospital according to

a criminal action to be taken against those responsible an official report last week found that many people had died needlessly let's talk more about this scandal over the state of the british health care. standing by live for us now in london sara it's good to see you thanks for coming on can you can you bring us up to date here what what is the latest the edge to this scandal then. ok well in the latest twist we see that h.s. whistleblower come out and say that he was forced to quit after he'd raise concerns about issues that he said endangered patient safety but this latest revelation comes on the back of the francis report that we saw last week now that we're looking into the scandal that happened at mit stuff which hospital where it's thought more than a thousand patients kids have died between two thousand and five and two thousand and eight as a result inhumane and degrading treatment now is an absolutely shocking story

r.t. we're covering this very very closely and we can hear now from one of the relatives that we've spoken to other patients that have died in that stuff to. warrant food stuff and hospital in september of two cents to take you to disaster people you know to be cruel you know stuff from very little to four hundred. bills that was left. on the floor. to breakfast time before that so you would describe. in the home. to be she had to go through what she went through. well of course incredibly disturbing and i think a lot of the. relatives of the patients who died a lot of the people who were campaigning very very hard for what had been happening

at that stuff to church to be revealed and to be investigated if not breathe a sigh of relief were perhaps. were perhaps relieved when the francis report came out that at least now something was being done and that something would be looked in t. but of course the nazi shots just seem to keep on coming and as we said this latest twist is the n.h.s. whistleblower he says that he was confronted with many of the same decisions and concerns that were raised at mit started to hospital now he was the head of one of the hospitals a united lincolnshire hospital and now this is one of nine hospitals that are now being investigated on the back of the revelations of mid staffordshire so that's obviously deeply concerning that he was facing many of the same problems he claims that government targets that he refused to meet for fear that it would endanger patient safety meant that he then had to question was subject to a so-called secret gag to keep him quiet and to keep these revelations from coming

out of the health authority to know this but of course it's just the latest in a series of revelations about failing to do in the n.h.s. and again causing huge concern. these allegations as far as i understand some of these allegations in these federal consequences are going back four years at least two why is it only now that all these things are starting to come to light. absolutely we're i mean i think this is a real concern as we said the relatives of people he died was the n.h.s. care have been campaigning very very hard to have some of these scandals made public but it does seem that this is been going on for a long long time the whistle blower has spoken out gary walker talked of a culture there and oppression and certainly it seems that a lot of these problems have been going on for many many years now i'm joined by the head one of the members of the n.h. a political party know your political party that's been formed of people within the

health care profession and they're all very concerned about what's happening in the n.h.s. right now when the mid staffordshire scandal was revealed very much the rhetoric from the government was that this was an exceptional case that this was if not a one of it was particularly bad and yet we're seeing one of the hospitals being investigated and it seems that nothing shocks just keep on coming east surprised at this no not surprised that this wild stuff the trip was particularly bad there i've always been in the n.h.s. while most of the care has been fantastic over the years in such a complicated organization and such a large organization there will be such incidents and there have been for many years the real problem is that the n.h.s. and the government do not seem to be able to learn from the old inquiries that have been from thirty years ago the hospital advisory service would report and i think the same things are still going on now ok when it comes to the francis report i

mean how much can we expect from this then because it's come out you know perhaps some relief for the families but yet it seems that there's all this other stuff this you know now being exposed how much more do we not know about well i don't think that i think that there will be other cases but it's going to be expected i don't think they'll be used stuff for it but the problem is as as i say go to. we don't know yet how to avoid these in the future and the government doesn't know and that's got to be one of the main focuses of all the. people who work in the n.h.s. and all of us in the community to find out how to prevent these sorts of things going on the pressures of only n.h.s. have always been there and i think that over the last twenty years some got more got worse and therefore you have the situation with the chief executive having to choose a totally unacceptable make an unacceptable choice yet and that's really the focus

here right now at the moment as well rowing is that a lot of people certainly relatives of people who died people who've been campaigning have been a very much calling for the head of the n.h.s. he presided over the n.h.s. whilst this is going on here if the in his job they've been calling for him to resign but as yet he has resisted those calls right ortiz are sorry for their life in london and thanks to both thank you. if i were coming to you live from moscow and a teenager has reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters in bahrain like libya the gulf state is marking two years since the start of its own uprising the demonstrators say their demands to end discrimination and release all political prisoners have just been ignored let's get more on this now from london based bahraini activist dominic a kavakeb joining us live a. good to see you today so on the second anniversary of your uprising any any highlights any positive achievements so far. well realistically we're looking at

two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same date the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed today and this really shows and displays the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of basra and that we've certainly seen a violent crackdowns against political activists the opposition is currently holding a reconciliation talks with the sunni rulers any chance you think of a peaceful resolution or i think certainly what we hope for i mean it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy you know as i say we hope that these talks

can lead to a peaceful solution because the only way that bahrain can move on from this into words a democratic outcome is through a peaceful solution but at the moment it's hard to judge with what we've seen happening today but do you think the ruling family itself really has genuine intentions going into these negotiations or is it just a part of trying to appease the violence and protest what i think the ruling family there's been one more than one idea it within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply. i want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the street in the same time i think there are those who understand the need that the country will only move forward with with a real meaningful dialogue i mean people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won they simply will not go until there's reform and i think the fact that they've stayed out for two years clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue and i think the regime has to realize that do you think they'll also realize that the human rights groups continue to have been

calling now for the past couple of years only bukharin your thorough days to to release all prisoners of conscience that you think they'll get the thing is into that muddy water or not. again it's another area that we don't know exactly what the regime is thinking and i and you know it was deeply concerning on the seventh of january that they are held to life sentences against these opposition figures you know a lot of people thought that perhaps they they were going to be released and in fact. by year and a half ago said that there can only be a meaningful dialogue if these political prisoners are released he said how can you have a dialogue what's opposition figures that are in jail so you know this is another thing that you know really needs to happen you got people seven life sentences simply food freely expressing their opinion whilst torturers and human rights violates is walking free on the streets of course i mean we all know very well about the prominent human rights activist in the build rajab he was jailed for three years basically for inciting anti-government protests with his online speeches what about the western nations there dominick i mean that the western

nations have been taking a strong stance against human rights violations in other countries or have they done the same do you think in bahrain no of course they haven't to the same to the same level to the same degree and it is deeply worrying you know that they continue to so not necessarily remain silent but to not use this or pressure the they can use i mean this is going on for two years and every single time. major violation happens the international community or actually governments might come out and say this is a bad thing but what are they really doing how they really applying pressure on the battery of government to begin the process of reform that's not clear and there really isn't enough public statements and it's not a lot they're not public pressure being put on right and they feel like they're in and they can and they can essentially do what they want without any real backlash from the international community all right a london based of activists to dominate kavakeb thanks for coming on our team today i don't know just a moment here on the program it's gun control the ongoing debate in america do stay

with us for that. helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak

a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or world made a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror trainings but that's just my opinion.