lisa lisa. lisa . breaking news here on our coming to us from syria where dozens of people have reportedly been kidnapped by an unknown group. unemployed a frenchman sets himself on fire in front of a state job agency this is the nation's unemployment figures are at thirteen year highs. the u.s. military wants those who carry out remote killings to take center stage by giving out battle accolades to soldiers operating american drone it's.

a pleasure to have you with us here on out to you today on the recession live in moscow and a straight to our breaking news for you this hour we're getting reports here at are to you that several dozens of people have been taken hostage in syria by the group let's get more now on that from our correspondent in the region or to paula slee in our joining us live here on the program good to see you paula can you bring us up to date what is it that we know so far. well from the reports that we're receiving a group of armed men have attacked a bus in syria and that they've kidnapped someone in the region of forty five people from what we understand they mostly women and children now the reports suggest that the bus was traveling from italy to the capital city of damascus as there has as of yet been no official confirmation we do have our sister organization trying to independently verify this on the ground and according to

their sources there is confirmation that a bus has gone missing but no independent confirmation in terms of what exactly has transpired now it is important to note that this incident is happening as we're looking at the commemoration i. the second year anniversary of the arab spring now yesterday there was two notes that commemorated the second geneviève three today it has been raining tomorrow and friday it will be libya but what we are witnessing on the ground is an increase in the number of a race kidnappings and the sense of violence the growing violence in syria so we certainly haven't witnessed a lowering of the violence and of instability in these countries all remind you that back in january there was a prisoner exchange after some forty eight iranians were taken hostage in syria and they were released in january for more than two thousand prisoners and that was a hostage that was conducted by the syrian rebels so again we're witnessing the

increase in the number of hostages being taken we are missing an increase in the number of tanks that are happening on the ground and recently we've also seen an increase in the number of postings on you tube and other sources by rebel groups claiming responsibility for many of these incidents. in life until every with the latest on this breaking news story thank you. well with the unemployed french committed suicide by setting him self on fire near a job center in the city of not the forty three year old being refused unemployment benefits in a country which is suffering its highest jobless rate in thirteen years the man had reportedly threatened suicide but his cries for help word nord details not to watch these tests arounds. 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 on fire they said he had entered

through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened now the man did this after finding out that 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 front so 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 were just burgess self and also those young people who have never registered or those who are 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 the 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 expressions of dissatisfaction. right france meanwhile says it's unlikely to meet its target of reducing the public deficit to three percent which is the limit set by the e.u. social analyst upon a joke or so tutor's believes the cuts and austerity policies across europe are simply driving people towards desperation. suicides of this kind is just an expression of an acute social crisis greece has already experienced a rise in suicides in the past the nearest 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 it's it's not real i think that all over the european south. rates of unemployment are going to be the rule and so we're going to see a new wave of immigration outs from the european saddles the words other countries . in my country greece which have already witnessing. this kind of migration especially for young educated people greece for example has been going through a brain drain and i think that we're also seeing similar signs in other european south countries most people who are employed are facing

a deterioration of the situation most of the people employed in the private sector but also in the public sector have faced or are about to face severe weights cat. this is now the pentagon wants those fighting us wars from afar to be firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out to a joystick wielding drone pilots to wage their battles without even setting foot in the combat zones earlier in the program on tuesday when to explain to me what it takes to get the award. so you're sitting here you have a joystick and you point click and then get an award as a sleeve that's all it takes to get it to get a medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is you know 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 that 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 the senior squad held back numerous flanking attempts and accurate enemy grenades and large caliber fire he was hailed for unquestionably saving the lives of his marines this is a citation from his award so you 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 is superstores a bronze stars which as you say has now been running the men awarded with those they must have been praised for some very heroic deeds that the colonel but you are talking about here yes the sergeant that is in question is actually doing something on the ground right now we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about 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 get 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 basically responsible for it are going to be awarded a medal that is going to rank higher than somebody who actually lay down his life

in the line of duty. it is ridiculous to write that or there are no awards for cyber spying in america well just yet anyway but big brother is still so. only watching the largest contractor in the u.s. develop software that can predict people's behavior by using social networks we report on that in just a few minutes. from now security is tight in libya this ahead of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the regime and borders with tunisia and egypt will be closed for five days and some international airlines have even suspended flights to the country and there are growing calls for protests on the threat of possible street violence and libya expert massenet says 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. we're not to lose bone in

so there are saying to the people if you come out we would be hard with you they are taking people to their prisons airplanes are full eyeing on the you know war airplanes are flying off the air in t.v. people are mean the mercenaries are coming in from outside for the libyan government before i mean you know. the most important thing was no idea and they were had big b. controls for the time that never when to incite leave yet 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 it seems not to when to leave yeah 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 deeply to their people saying they are coming from italy they are coming to to help to support you know to. defend this new government. while clashes mog the second anniversary of the uprising in bahrain teenagers killed in protests two years after the unrest first broke out but pro-democracy the bonds are still being ignored. and desert crisis the u.n. says the situation in mali has become a humanitarian disaster is following france's intervention and we examine the issues plaguing the embattled west african nation and more after this.

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if you're away from your television. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for joining us here. a week off the shocking revelations of needless deaths in a british hospital there are still no signs of action the family and friends of hundreds of patients who died calling for criminal action be taken against those responsible and the former chief of the hospital says he was paid a million pounds not to talk about a similar situation. has been following the. but in the latest twist we've seen an n.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 was looking into the scandal that happened at mit stuff which hospital where it's thought more than a thousand patients could have died between two thousand and five and two thousand and eight as a result of inhumane and degrading treatment almost no warrant food stuff and hospital in september of two thousand and eight used to disaster people probably know stuff from very little good for him to. do because it was left. going to loose the shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast time before that so he would describe to look. in the home to see. the she had to go through what she went through 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 he was facing many of the same problems he claims that government targets but he refused to meet the fear that it would endanger patient safety meant that he then had to quit and was subject to a so-called secret gag to keep him quiet at the whistleblower he spoke it out gary walker talked of a culture of fear 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.s. a political party know your political party that's been formed 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 it 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 surprise of this wild stuff the trip was particularly bad there i've always been in the n.h.s. while most of the current been fantastic over the years in such a complicated organization and such a large organization there will be such incidents that 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 because said the chief executive of the n.h.s. david nicholson to resign have so far been resisted he says that he has nothing to be as saying dog and that during his time providing this is down to systematic

failures so of course the people who are campaigning have been calling very hard for his resignation and say by he has resisted that. reporting and of course we also keep you updated on line with many more stories and some excellent videos that dot com some of the items waiting for you right now. doesn't just mean physical pain. prisoners at guantanamo bay. was allegedly used. to protect and investigation claims some missing. girls and women were raped. by twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital. has reportedly been

killed in clashes between police and protesters in. 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 been ignored london based. says despite attempts to hold talks no real action is occurring. 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 day the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displays the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good the dialogue has come back on a gender 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 within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply 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 streets the people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won't go out and they simply will not go home until there's reform and i think the fact that they stayed out for two years clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue has to realize that. big brother may be watching every click you make online the u.s. government's using new defense software able to predict your future behavior and locations in cyberspace however with the program only using data submitted voluntarily via social networks when it comes to the whole issue of claims of privacy violations or they just don't stick out his gun age account as the story. those of you who are using social networks will find this interesting the world's

fifth largest defense contractor raytheon a multinational firm based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and even predict your moves your behavior based on the information that you provide on websites like facebook twitter or foursquare the guardian has obtained a video. where a raytheon staffer explains and shows how it works the program is called raw it someone already branded it google for spice just a few clicks and it creates diagrams charts maps showing who you've communicated with most online your associations and relationships places where you check in most you know over twenty five million people use this app called foursquare to alert friends of their whereabouts so the program uses that and also the photos that people take on smartphones often have led to today and longitude details automatically imbedded in them so this riot program at a quick or two can analyze all that data and as the gentleman in the video claims

it can roughly predict where to find you at a given time and potentially your behavior based on your interests so this firm that developed the software a major defense contractor has acknowledged that the technology was shared with the u.s. government as part of a joint research and development effort to help build a national security system capable of analyzing quote unquote trillions of entities from cyberspace that reminds me of the conversation that i had with william binney a mathematician a spy software expert who had worked for the national security agency for decades and who told us that the government is spying on people on a much larger scale and they're building social networks is part of it take a listen they were building social networks. who who's communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody of every us citizen was being compiled. over time so they're taking from one company alone

roughly three hundred twenty million records a day that's over time that probably cumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years mr binney blew the whistle on this n.s.a. program saying it is a blatant violation of the constitution but with this right software one can argue that they can see information that individuals have already chosen to make public they put it out there and most people know that privacy safeguards that for example facebook provides don't hold water really and yet people trust to share so if you don't want someone to be able to map out your entire life and to be able to potentially predict your behavior stop checking in everywhere and turn off location services on your phone or maybe you don't want that in that case no worries. he's got a nature to come and now the u.n. has declared the situation in mali a humanitarian disaster with fears the french intervention could lead to further violence and ethnic reprisal killings allegations of atrocities have emerged following the rapid advance of french led forces across the vast northern areas of

the nation a journalist gonzalo once i reports for a scene from the money and capital. to buy him money yes. united nations already describes the situation in mali as a disaster the u.n. human rights commission says the country's caught in a spiral of violence fraught with grievous consequences the situation has been made worse in the wake of ferocious fighting in and around the city of northern mali following four days of fierce resistance from insurgents complete with suicide attacks at that the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals made an extremist because of that however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists with the french army denying us passage saying it was for our own security and the u.n. high commissioner for human rights not be belayed made it plain in a recent statement that the situation in mali is only deteriorated following the

foreign military intervention you know that that the insurgency in mali's aggravated by ethnic clashes. camera crew witnessed instances of executions and brute fact operated by the mali an army and survived. the military are not the only ones and gauged in hunting down people of arab or quarry origin or believed to be part of the insurgency. the locals are going after them as well and for some time it has been difficult to find people from either of those ethnic groups anywhere in mali and this brings us back to the fact that more than three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced to flee from their homes because of the crisis the last straw for all those refugees and indeed for all of mali has been a statement by al qaida coming out of the arabian peninsula which calls upon every muslim to join the holy war against france a war that is being fought in mali against the will of its people.

and i think that in just a moment and breaking the set thank you for watching. 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 participate in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught in video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud

blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly schedule 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 what made it 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. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous. i mean.

i guess i just really miss. very so closely. at. the worst you're going to. lie down to give it to the radio guy and for a minute. i want. to give you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. shout i'm abby martin so last night was a state of the union address which i'll get to later but perhaps the most entertaining part of the night was watching c.n.n. frantically try to cover both the address and the unfolding drama of the dorner manhunt and immediately following the speech wolf blitzer had this to say. some breaking news.