an unemployed frenchman set himself on far in front of a state job agency the nation's unemployment figures are at a thirteen year high. there's been no response from british police one week after a report revealed a shocking culture of neglect by hospital staff causing the deaths of hundreds of patients. the u.s. military wants those who carry out remote killings to take center stage by giving out battle accolades to soldiers operating american drones. from the news and this is r.t. with the online on the screen twenty four hours a day. another employed frenchman committed suicide by setting himself on fire

a job center in the city of nonce the forty three year old had been refused unemployment benefits in a country which is suffering its highest jobless rate for thirteen years and none of reportedly threatened suicide but his cry for help was ignored. as the details 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 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 mid year 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 him 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 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 from 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. believes the cuts and austerity policies across europe are 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 year or so we're trapped inside it's a vicious circle on was staring. and recession and there's and with the karen pollitz is 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 high 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 south forwards other countries.

in my country greece 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 but also people who are employed are facing a deterioration of the situation most of the people employed in the private sector for close in the public sector have faced or are about to face severe waits cat the pentagon wants those fighting us wars from a far firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out to joystick wielding drone pilots in wage their battles without setting foot in combat zones but in a aunties and in a goodish explain to my colleagues what it takes to get the award. so you're

sitting here 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 that award higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence that 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 the 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 in his squad held back numerous flanking attempts and accurate enemy grenades and large caliber fire he was hailed for questionably 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 what 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. the main awarded with those they must have been praised for some very heroic deeds that the colonel but 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. it's 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 view 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 which was which they have been ruined 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 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 bring higher than somebody who actually laid down his life in the line of duty. well there are no words for cyber spying in the u.s. just yet but big brother is still watching the largest defense contractor in the u.s. develop software that can predict people's behavior or using social networks we report on that for you in just a few minutes from now. but first security is tight in libya head of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the gadhafi regime borders with tunisia and egypt will be shut for five 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 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 listen. when not to lose bombing 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 full eyeing on the you know war airplanes are flying off the air in t.v. 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 al qaeda idea and they were had big big controls for archaia 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 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 the 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. clashes moat the second anniversary of the uprising in bahrain a teenager was killed in protests two years after the unrest first broke out the pro-democracy demands of still being ignored. the picture of bad

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r.t. live here in moscow we turn now to our breaking news story artie's arabic sister channel reports that forty five people earlier taken hostage by an armed group in syria have been freed the majority of those released are said to be women and children who are traveling on a bus from the rest of province to syria's capital damascus will follow developments on this and of course keep you up to date. a week after 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 due to neglect according for criminal action to be taken against those responsible and the former chief of another hospital says he was paid half a million pounds not to talk about a similar situation elsewhere on the set of furthest been following the scandal. 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 in that 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 of inhumane and degrading treatment wanted food stuff and hospital in september of two cents to treat you just a disaster people you know to be perfectly nice to their little two to one of. those that was left and you reach. the shoes on the floor we've been there to break the story before that's one way to describe the united states. in that horrible scene still. to be 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 question was subject to a so-called secret gag to keep him quiet of the whistleblower has spoken out gary hall could talk to the culture there and oppression and certainly it seems that a lot of these problems have been going on i think 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 with revealed very much the respite

from the government was that this was an exceptional case that this was if not a one of it with particularly bad i mean 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 have 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 being from thirty years ago the hospital advisory service would report and i think the same things are still going on now because so 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 the of and that during his time presiding this is down to systematic failures so of course the people who are campaigning have been calling very hard for his resignation say by he has resisted that. keep updated online with more stories and videos that are to dot com and here's what's waiting for you at the moment. real torture doesn't mean just physical pain find out on his website how arabic prisoners at guantanamo were driven out of their minds by the constant playing of heavy metal. plus canadian forces allegedly used their power against those meant to protect the investigation claims some missing and abused indigenous girls and women were raped by mounted police more on that on a website. a

teenager has reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters in bahrain libya the gulf state is marking two years since the start of its own uprising the demonstrators say the demands to end discrimination and release all political prisoners have not been met london based bahraini activists activist dominic says that despite attempts to hold talks nothing is being done. 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 displayed the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of basra and 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 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 there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the streets people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won't go out and they said do 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 and i think it 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 social networks claims of privacy violations don't stick because he's got to can reports. those of you who are using social networks will find this interesting the world's fifth largest defense contractor raytheon

a multinational for him based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and be able to 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 someone already branded it for spice it's 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 embedded 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 the 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 mass imitation of spying 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 that building social networks is part of it take a listen they were building social networks. who who is 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 a 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 riot 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 choose 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. some of the stories from around the world this hour south korean experts say they failed to detect any signs of radiation after north korea's nuclear test so far none of this is failed to find evidence that any you radiant based device was used as a stop south korea unveiling a cruise missile which it says is capable of hitting even the office of north

korea's leaders just three months ago the self which to deal with washington to extend it really stick this on. one of the world's most celebrated sportsman oscar pistorius has been charged with murder after his girlfriend was shot dead at his home the man known as the blade runner made history after becoming the first double amputee to compete in the olympic games the south african is believed to have told police that he shot reeva steenkamp by accident thinking she was an intruder. he won his declared the situation in mali a humanitarian disaster with the french intervention could lead to further violence and ethnic reprisal killings allegations of atrocities of a merge following the rapid advance of french led forces across the vast northern areas of the war torn nation journalist gonzalo want to reports now for r.t. from the morning capital. united nations already

describes the situation in mali as the disaster the un 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 the suicide attacks the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals made extremists. however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists or the french army denying us passage saying it was for our own security the un high commissioner for human rights not people late made it plain in a recent. it meant 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 exit solutions and brutality of the perpetrators by the mali an army and survive. the military are not

the only ones and gauged in hunting down people arable warrick origin are believed to be part of the insurgency and even the locals are going after them as well 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 as 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. mali. to bring us up to date for the moment i'll be back with more if you just have a home in the meantime in a couple of minutes a unique take on the world financial headlines with next kaiser and the cause report.

helicopters flying through the air day and night two 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 resident terror called nine one one and scramble for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participate in a. multi-agency training for real 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.