france expands its military presence in africa to cameroon stoking fears that paris is seeking to revive its influence and yet another former colony. broken trust a recent poll shows people in the u.k. don't believe the country's journalism anymore than its politicians. and the adopted mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the u.s. a month ago claimed she had nothing to do with his death this investigation into the case continues to drag all. day watching r.t. live from moscow with me andrey pharma now our top story amid the ongoing french intervention in mali paris has now sent

a team of special forces to cameroon to help track down a kidnapped french family seven civilians were seized by militants on choose day and reportedly taken across the border into nigeria paris paris believes in the tourist nigerian islamists is responsible the french foreign minister says that if confirmed it justifies the ongoing fight against terrorist groups in africa like mali cameroon is a former french colony on nigeria is now the top oil producer on the continent some observers say france and its allies are responsible for the rise of extremism in the region and cookies as a pretext to go after african resources former new york colonial powers are once again flexing their muscles and they're starting to reach back into into yugoslavia into iraq. afghanistan into libya and now into west africa if the main product mali for example were mushrooms. there would be no french troops there

are in niger but the main export is your aim and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies so tragic that there is a further problem that the west has introduced in a successful overthrow of the look of the go dark government that introduced. al-qaeda types terrorists into africa where there weren't them where they didn't exist in any significance before so that has created a can of worms the main point is that the western powers. and europe the neo colonial powers and the united states nato these countries have no right to act as the police of the world now the u.k.'s media is traditionally known for its high standards but a recent ipsos mori poll has put journalists in the top three least trustworthy professions in britain so let's have a quick look at the actual numbers even members of parliament they're polled better

than journalists with almost a quarter of the british public trusting them to tell the truth with the u.k. under the threat of a triple dip recession three quarters say they don't trust bank is politicians in general came out worst trusted only by eighteen percent of those who were surveyed and sadly for journalist over seventy percent of brits no longer trust them well earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to investigative journalist tony go sling who believes it is all down to the media bosses. the first thing i'll say is this probably expect me to say this is not the fault of journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy bosses volcano is the senior staff well it is actually and it's the owners as well i mean it's been one of the byproducts of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the become much much easier to hire and fire journalists and so what's happening is the media

is concentrating in the fewer and fewer hands and these owners are basically using their outlets to push peddle their own political line the idea being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole and you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just standing vote for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them starting as you see it in britain is that a fair assessment or is it overblown. well i think it's overblown to say they're lying it's just that we're not told the entire truth i mean for example in denmark about ten years ago one of the news presenters was actually sacked for being on the news and saying at the end of the news that is what we decided to tell you tonight as a bit of a joke but you know there is a lot that isn't being said in our media i mean the b.b.c. is losing its credibility slowly ever since really the nine hundred ninety s. because of the way it's been being managed not through the fall of the journalist but i mean for example the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c.'s chris

patten he's a former senior conservative cabinet minister you know he's coming from a very specific point of view i mean i don't really think you should have people without political persuasion or any x. you know senior politicians running the b.b.c. and of course the results being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked from that. the tops of mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the us exactly a month ago says maxine because means death was an accident russia has demanded justice the toddler was abused however local police are claiming it is too early for conclusions artes and the city talk and is in texas. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much steam could mean known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was just a kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old mark sam and his younger

brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to come back the boy had severe bruises on his legs head and internal organs can get into that because it would be speculative i'm not a doctor. for the results russian authorities didn't hear about the case for almost a month. even unfortunately it's usually months after a russian child has done to in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it and one case it was five years after a boy died russian officials say it was the boy's mother who beat him as well as continually fed the child drugs intended to treat schizophrenia and adults meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little corp has been shown until it was demanded political. or well when one

along with two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids i have always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure weeks after my death texan officials have little to say while they wait for autopsy results the results of the investigation with russia heavily involved and asking for punishment of those responsible could take weeks to be announced no arrests have yet been made while the investigation of floor paste and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it take a rigid push from abroad for the us to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on its soil. r.t.e.

act or county texas. means who give a nice spokes person for a pound pup legacy which promotes the safety and wellbeing of children in care believes this incident puts the u.s. adoption system firmly in the spotlight. in general we can say that the adoption system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over who actually happens you know the options you need to have a proper system in place checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has post docs and monitoring all that is not really in place there is screaming but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy. coming up raising the standard that crisis and financial woes

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welcome back greece has been brought to a twenty four hour standstill after workers across the debt stricken nation went on a general strike halting transport shutting schools and leaving hospitals understaffed in the capital walkouts were accompanied by huge marches over fifty thousand people converged on downtown athens riot police fired tear gas at the cranks as some of the demos turned violent protesters demanding an end to the government's austerity policies the country in recession for a sixth year and unemployment at a record twenty seven percent documentary filmmaker addys had the fun i says the birthplace of democracy is now becoming

a talk or say. when you have humans dead leg one greece and other countries of the european very very are facing you start losing levels of democracy and i'm afraid the sun don't forget that one year ago we had a non-lethal frankie's there and i asked if the election we have a government that brought us to renegotiate but never did something beyond lean first in riot police and in unconstitutional. and we always morris theory of the country i'm afraid that we are. becoming a third world country not only as far as the economy is harsher but also as far as democracy is which or europe was one of the major players that destroyed the greek economy by forcing business through the measures all you can. but we not follow

the orders of the i.m.f. or the big financial institutions miners to survive. this crisis and i don't mean our countries like argentina or iceland. or know any of the proposals of the big financial institutions or the you or the governments. used to be the main exchange currency in europe but soon after world war one governments ditched it now i made turbulent financial times and economic woes gold is fashionable once more as artie's peter oliver explains sometimes all that glitters is gold those who deal in the mess all say its importance today can't be overstated in crisis when you have consumed prizes some monetary prizes gold and silver every time as a security for people for bad times and with europe still far from out of the financial woods buying up gold is no longer just the reserve of the

super rich the reason we sell small pieces is because we get customers a lot of people say buying gold is something only the rich can do we get customers who i reach poor and i mean everywhere in between just people wanting to secure the value of their cash. well if you're feeling the gold rush when you're in something of a hurry there's a.t.m.'s that can dispense it whenever you need it. here's why greed and fear is a very powerful combination of fear of her demise of all paper money. but your alone. paper money is globally and if that actually happens that will trigger pretty three where everybody has to go into gold because they will feel. that their paper monies will be rough worth while reason behind swapping currency for carrots could be more stock than this gold silver is a real monetary well it is

a paper it's printed it's like monopoly and it's not feeling that the way you would you are with the longer hitting the right notes. that sending europeans on the hunt for metal that matters peter all of the r.t. germany russia says it's ready to host talks between the syrian rebels and the government with indications that the stalemate could be ending russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is g. to meet his syrian counterpart on monday the opposition leader is also expected to visit the russian capital next month r.t. as you go pieces of as this report. earlier the leader of the syrian opposition for the first time has said that they're ready to negotiate with the government but only on condition that they release one hundred sixty thousand prisoners will be claimed have been jailed because of their political views would be the government on its and said that it's ready to talk without any preconditions or clearly there are still major sticking points including the fate of president assad but russia's

foreign minister says that there is room for potential progress now moscow has been saying that it's not taking sides in this conflict but is calling on the international community to require you apply equal pressure on them in order to begin a political process in syria don't you knew they didn't until recently there were those who discouraged the opposition from participating in dialogue with the regime which is that this far as i understand now the situation is changing and so it's important that this readiness of the syrian opposition leadership will be met with the government's response so that they are willing to do the same in the meantime and the situation in syria continues to deteriorate and on tuesday russian emergencies ministry plane evacuated around one hundred russian and c.i.s. citizens and there's also speculation that several russian navy ships have been sent to the mediterranean to assist possible further evacuations. staying with syria and despite optimism over talks the conflict could spill beyond the country's

borders after a warning from the opposition free syrian army a rebel commander has threatened to shell the positions of hezbollah in lebanon unless it holds its alleged attacks on villages held by insurgents a little follows an earlier forty eight hour ultimatum from the f.s.a. which expires on thursday lebanese sharp sharply divided over the syrian civil war with the nation's cities and she is supporting opposite sides. protests against the government have continued in vogue area even after the country's prime minister announced the entire cabinet had resigned the move was in reaction to mass demonstrations in gold from the poorest nation since sunday some of the rallies ended up in violence as police responded to the public outrage is fueled by exorbitant energy costs hysterically measures and a steady decline in living standards. and golden by the rise of their islamist allies across the arab world the muslim brotherhood's branch in jordan is now

looking to expand its influence the movement has long been tolerated by them on a cable allowing it to gradually win hearts and minds among the population but some locals and i fear the brotherhood changing priorities could spell trouble this is the caffeine off reports. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's going concerned about the muslim brotherhood's rise to power in the region a force says his students don't want to lose the freedoms they now enjoy and often worry about how their lives could change if jordan came under islamist rule. but. maybe. brothers. we are afraid.

but not all share in that fear for decades the muslim brotherhood enjoyed a safe haven in jordan even as it was outlawed elsewhere in the middle east the monarchy is tolerance has helped the group to become the country's most influential islamist organization. so. that system was on a full display at this islamic hospital in downtown amman the muslim brotherhood has gained support throughout the arab world with its model of combining political activism with charity work here in jordan the brotherhood is responsible for building schools clinics and hospitals like this one a critical lifeline for the nation's poor. emboldened by the arab spring rise of their counterparts jordan's brotherhood is seeking more power it rallied behind

calls for democratic reform of the country's political system trying to cast itself as the face of the opposition the group has vowed to refrain from violence but its leader promised jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it. victory is. this logic state will be created on this subject can prevail. in january the brotherhood made its move leading a boycott of the parliamentary elections but instead of being a nonevent high voter turnout evidence perhaps that jordan's brotherhood isn't ready for prime time just yet. and. i have a lot of concerns and must be resolved before i can support the muslim brothers we've seen the recent rise in egypt and tunisia but so far they haven't proven to be a good solution in either of those two countries the power grab has also turned off some longtime brotherhood supporters like this patient who is recovering in the islamic hospital. the muslim brotherhood the street from its traditional role in

helping communities now it's too focused on getting. despite such sentiments and fears about its true intentions the brotherhood still remains the only organized political opposition in town for now the group will have to bide its time helping perhaps that regional instability could tip the balance in their favor they think. if their evolution. we have. it's a game of political chess and chance for now the students could only wonder whether their futures will be shaped by the islamists or by their own hands you see coughing up r t amman jordan. now or don't forget to check out our new look website if you get a minute and these are some of the stories that will be waiting for you there at r.t. dot com hatred anger and fury on the rise

a recent report shows shocking statistics on violence against jews in france last year the number of anti-semitic attacks more than doubled there you can find out more online also there a squadron of anonymous hackers may have fought shoulder to shoulder with washington's cyber security experts to china on the cyber battlefield find out about that and the surprise alliances are dot com. and next we journey through the niger delta where its inhabitants are fighting for survival against government corruption and oil companies. if you have a business than you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of

capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge mark c. of a relative junior from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty eight years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted up to five thousand youths some of whom were just ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need to think about is the fact that the us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that may be this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion.

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