ali wrapping up the islamist crackdown but it's uncertain whether the country's ready if the u.n. approved african force and maintained. hunger strike hits day sixty four demerge is that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running. and by private investigation in britain is but legal loopholes main a growing number of people can simply watch you anytime anywhere. and i welcome good to have you company watching this morning with me. francis started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to

a un approved african force only if french troops will remain by the end of the year january's french led intervention drive out islamist insurgents from northern mali but some retreated to desert hide in the vast area. as the details of the french are proposed and keeping a permanent force of about one thousand french troops on the ground in mali to continue fighting against islamic extremists and militants of the country they say though that they still plan on continuing that would duction of their four thousand strong military personnel currently on the ground and keeping these a one thousand troops they say will be part of a future you win a peacekeeping mission however this is in stark contrast to what french foreign minister laurent fabius had said in january when he was questioned on the extent of the length of this military operation in mali let's take a listen. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on we can comment barca but we have no intention of staying

forever. so the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of islamised extremism advanced in europe now clearly any plan of a complete withdrawal is off the table now this one thousand troops that they plan to keep on the ground falls under a call made by un secretary general of ban ki moon in deploying about eleven thousand two hundred troops and one thousand four hundred forty who lease on the ground in mali after major combat now bunking with plan also includes a parallel force one that will directly deal with all car the linked militants and extremists and according to reuters this is likely to be french troops as well though it appears that paris hopes to have a go ahead from the u.n. security council for these troops to be set to mali in time for a scheduled presidential elect. june or early july you know i also spoke with a former french intelligence officer who had been stationed in northern africa and

the middle east for about twenty years and he says that from the very start he had been doubtful that this operation in mali was going to be short french army expel the. insurgents from the cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do they were going to treat what would happen just would come back exactly like they did in afghanistan when the soviets. you know in one nine hundred ninety exactly as they would have been stuck in the year when the last american so deal with troy exactly as they did as they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. insurgencies back. before because the seashore twelve don't exist now where france one had first announced this military operation in mali two thirds of the french people were in support of these actions

now many observers of analysts have already said that if this becomes a long drawn out war public opinion could quickly change and turn against the french president well france has been carrying out a major operation in mali with ground troops tanks and their support for islamic spaces need the city has seen suicide bombings in clashes between joint forces and militants since february striking worries about what will happen once most of the french troops leave little piece of exams the challenges of maintaining stability in mali. mali has become yet another front in the global war on terror but this operation just may be too difficult to scale down so quickly first let's review what's already been done and more importantly how efficient is what this operation started with and support of ground troops from the skies has always been one of its foundation stones the first planes to battle the islamists came from here a french military base in chad helicopter support came from another base so some of

the aviation was a leader to the capital of mali and some other bases were engaged as well like the ones in ivory coast and news year but then there's the question of refueling the mission for pilots going out of chad for instance usually takes seven to eight hours and they have to be refueled five times along the way this is where the u.s. and germany come in but if german planes have to come from sinegal an american planes have to come all the way from spain so all together this is quite a complicated combat scheme when it comes to ground troops the french got into this by themselves somalis army was and still is demoralized if four and a half thousand troops even can be called in the army and pretty much the only supporters that the french have and quite unexpectedly i might add are two thousand troops from chad and when it comes to the west well no one's skin on sending troops there directly britain is only looking at sending combat instructors to train

troops with all this effort paris has managed to push these lamaist to the north of the country securing key cities with fighting still going on in the mountains and a string of. several cities it's clear that the islamists are not exactly all out nor are they defeated which raises the comparison with another country afghanistan where the terrorists live in the midst of peaceful civilians the also use so-called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have been combing through her valley north of gold it's believed that many of the islamist can be hiding there but the question is what comes next if we look at the neighboring countries well their borders are porous and experts say the islamists could travel through them without any serious problems they also warn the past decades have shown that such interventions don't solve crises but deepen them and generate new conflicts there are rising fears near by western sahara could turn into

a new terror hub and right now it's really unclear who is going to turn who's going to take care of that problem and help if most of french troops to leave it's going to be a completely different game for the remaining thousand the u.n. is talking about some additional attack force but so far it's really an idea while the clock is ticking. now watch out in britain it might not just be the millions of surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program we report in the mind since i'm regulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. are getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their target. and failing to escape the bailout young greeks find their futures abroad while their government because with lenders over financial aid the details just ahead. of most hunger strike has passed the two month mark and it's got psychologists and lawyers deeply worried one prisoner of eleven

years he's refusing food even try to kill himself last month his lawyers say the inmate was taken away by ambulance his conditions are known u.s. officials are telling attorneys whether their hunger striking clients are being force fed officially forty two inmates are protesting but their lawyers say it's many more street protests protests are planned across the u.s. in support of the granting of the inmates and to push for the notorious facility to be shut down but it's gammage again reports the pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it open. the time of each detainee in kuantan a mo costs u.s. taxpayers eight hundred thousand dollars a year there one hundred sixty six captives on the island now half of them have been cleared for release so there's absolutely no reason to have them there but the u.s. still spends millions of dollars every year to keep them behind bars many find it even more puzzling in light of ongoing furloughs among public sector workers let's

put this number eight hundred thousand dollars in perspective not a lot of people can boast costing the government eight hundred thousand dollars a year a prisoner in the u.s. cost the taxpayers twenty seven thousand dollars thirty times less that is the average salary of a public school teacher here is fifty one thousand dollars one guantanamo detainee cost taxpayers more than the president himself he makes four hundred thousand dollars a year and if you think that the details have a luxurious life there you're wrong to quote general john kelly who is in command of one tunnel the facility is falling apart so there he was two weeks ago asking congress for almost two hundred million dollars to renovate one tunnel that should come on top of the one hundred seventy seven million dollars that the government spends every year to keep the prison running will the investment make the detainee's lives easier most of whom are there without having the informally accused of anything maybe not none of these projects would have their lifestyle if

you will but some of the projects will curity. better ease of movement for them that will benefit the guard force not the detainees but on top of renovations there are the costs and the taxpayers bill for keeping guantanamo open is only going to go up there aging as we all are and there are a certain lack of support facilities in that general area. and if you're planning on keeping them there forever there's an enormous amount of expense and terms of both caring for the unit. it's. also dealing with staff that's down there that has to do that. you know i think medical care is one of the biggest concerns this kind of investment suggests that the authorities do not plan to see the prison close they need time so the administration keeps saying they're committed to shutting it down but they never say way in congressman smith's matter for we've got you know to use the cliche a joke but it's the hotel california check in but you can't ever check in

washington i'm going to check on. lieutenant colonel barry when you represent some of the guantanamo detainees in this currently visiting visiting his clients in the island prison he believes the accusations the government has against prison is there and i either have date or invalid. i don't think the problem with the thing really is a good automobile i think the problem originates in washington d.c. i've reviewed the cases of my clients and i can tell you that the information in those cases could be extremely pluri let's talk about limits that so-called evidence came about it was back in the bush cheney administration we were talking about ten minute attacks and danger color charts and one of these we can crop dusters and attack forces attacking the united states on the interview friday that's the same information they're trying to say today that somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find even what i assure you what shut me up they would do that the human rights organization that's supposed to be your good

something which in fact is doing very little fact that the regime finally indicated to the committee what kind of mopey that they can wholly irrelevant and that you know if you're a human rights organization and you're supposed to be involved and report on what's happening in a prison officer or that's out of sight out of mind and you fail to do that then you've made a decision connected to favor one side and that's not the mission we were in guantanamo bay without a has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside in the tories prison leans on find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our website we have been following it since it was first revealed hearing from detainees lawyers activists and experts as well as videos from the facility. there's little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras and shop some while walking down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain their numbers have grown and most need

their license or registered that's because there's no proper regulations the people working is privatized that refer to investigates. bribery values corruption and and. it's not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be relaxed lawyers because when you first start you're always thinking oh my goodness they they know i just know they know that. there are now an estimated ten thousand private investigators operating in britain despite being perceived as a shadowy world of whispers in secret the industry continues to grow in fact it's moving from the shadows and on to the high street as the course of devices pulls more and more individuals are making the surveillance gadgets easily available in

stores like this one and the world of private investigation it's attracting some interesting characters and is not suspected as who just twenty one years old living is worked at answers investigations for a year now she knows her way around the cavers equipment well she's fast learning the tricks of the trade electro. mars invest. all of that kind of stuff it's all available quite a lot of people mainly because obviously they've ration is there is always been there but they just. i think there is some data protection that there's nothing really but recently the law governing public surveillance in the u.k. has changed the protection of freedoms act two thousand and twelve was introduced ensuring local authorities obtain legal authorization before they put anyone under surveillance after it was revealed that many we using surveillance for minor matters such as littering the private investigators though no such law exists so

overall i could go out and do surveillance so i don't have to get. or thora to from any body of ordinary surveillance one two one a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who look bypassing regulation by hiring private investigators. it's why many and now calling for industry licensing i think it's absolutely essential that we have some kind of regulation over private investigators a licensing system that means that we know who exactly is license and means of surveillance that. having spent thirty years in the police force former detective inspector james harrison griffis knows well the risks of private investigation in the wrong hands you know you've read about the killings and all that sort of thing that go on when people disappear and there's a lot of people disappear. under pressure from from people to do certain things

that they don't want to do and then the people who pressure on them want to find them and you've got to do your due diligence and make sure that you're not putting anybody you know in a position of danger but with cameras listening devices tracking devices and much more now available cheaply on the high street these days anyone can be a private investigator this is the secret anymore in this in this country i mean walking down the high street you know under surveillance surveillance the surveillance is just there and it's what happens. you know it's a way of life now isn't it but the lack of regulation means that in the u.k. right now anyone can at any time be watching you no one is watching them so if the. london let's have a look at other news from around the world at the moment are hundreds of muslims and christians. in the center of cairo on tuesday night against the sectarian

strife that's sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops are clashes at the weekend which left seven people dead egypt minority has been growing increase. only worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhood mohammed morsi came to power. a four day pakistani military operation to flush out the taliban near the afghan border has left one hundred ten insurgents and twenty three soldiers dead many more are said to be injured become trees army is trying to secure the city of peshawar a regular target of deadly militant attacks last week insurgents destroyed a key power station leaving seven dead and half the city without electricity for several hours. russia and poland commemorating the victims of the deadly plane crash which took the life of the polish president exactly three years ago sina senior political figures are attending the memorial ceremony cemetery in warsaw on the tenth of april twenty ten the presidential plane came down killing all ninety

six on board including members of the country's military and political elite the fisher report into the tragedy plane bad weather and crew of the crash still conducting its own probe. a major border crossing between china and north korea has been closed to tourists as worries mount over imminent ballistic missile test by pyongyang north korea along with iran is frequently called a rogue state by the u.s. people a bell and his panel of guests discuss what that means in a few hours. they now just find these kind of states as outlier states and as a different and different implication implies that they can be brought inside more easily as long as they change their behavior and i think that's what the mom and ministrations agenda and efforts have been aimed at the u.s. still sees itself as the sole superpower and countries that don't line up with the u.s. are in outlier states. well in terms of the reform thing i think you know first of

all i would argue that when it comes to hearing to international norms that probably the biggest outlier state right now is the united states sell it the u.s. is as assume for itself the already to do whatever it wants regardless of international norms and i would look at the the invasion of iraq the threatened war against iran which which does not pose an imminent threat to the u.s. certainly and probably to anybody and the use of a place like the one that defies all the international norms these are the and the use of drone attacks in any country we want to attack. and the full episode across to say at seven thirty am g.m.t. . all of america's atomic reactors should be shot a match from

a former head of the u.s. nuclear energy commission online we report on his fears that the city's in service are irreparable and we need replacing. also online banking the hackers israel retaliates with the cyber strike of its own against the anonymous group which brought down the government websites last week. that stricken greece is struggling to satisfy its international lenders while hoping to get a delayed two point eight billion euro bailout installment this month the painful talks come as the e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in meeting the terms of the hundred thirty billion euro rescue after the drama of cyprus the lending troika is gets a call about the merger between greece's two biggest banks the country insists it can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has a huge greig's their deposits are safe he also promised they'll be no tougher sterrett but lenders are pressing for severe job cuts in the bloated public sector

they want a massive twenty five thousand workers laid off the sheer and a total of one hundred fifty thousand by twenty sixteen soaring unemployment has already been driving young greeks away from their country as tom barton reports. we refuse to work for free we demand our right to education messages of protest by youth seeing opportunities to better themselves snatched away these students are protesting against plans to close university departments across greece they don't want to be left behind and made into as they say slaves of the twenty first century monologist and satiric are two students also opposed to the so-called athena plan the government aim is to close dozens of university departments outside central city campuses but it's not even that they concede it's just a small part of the malays which seems to hang over the country's young.

i believe the youth from the cities have no future so the only solution is to leave greece. maybe the president of the european parliament was right to say that an entire generation may have been lost to crisis in austerity greece's situation is certainly more bleak than most but the only retirement or working your first shifts the says here in greece sometimes they don't even get paid then to bed for the c.s.l. we are working every single result with some estimates of greek youth unemployment as high as sixty percent desperate times are giving rise to desperate suggestions it's not just the young in greece using that word slavery we don't control our fate we are slaves it is a political problem and we must become again pretty but far from rhetoric about taking to the streets and throwing off shackles many greeks i speak to are thinking

just like cost us struggling through his last two years of medical school so cost us after these two years what do you think the future's going to hold for you. thinking of leaving greece so that if i make it yourself ok good luck with that cause to think of it all right. there it goes leaving us here in the interview back to his studies but cost us could end up like many more greeks like him leaving greece altogether tom watson r.t. thessalonica greece. and another euro zone bailout could be on the cards in slovenia it's being strongly urged to sort out its banking crisis to avoid being the next cyprus by europe's organization for economic cooperation and development but slovenia insists it can cope without foreign help early for bang nazi discuss the issue with r.t. business presenter katie pilbeam and news editor i've across. they've been told to come up with one point three billion dollars in order to sort out their banking

crisis that i did in with my man that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already contracted by two percent last year so it just gives you an idea of what the economy the situation is at the moment is the banking sector and the problem is that being told you need to recapitalize your banks that's exactly what cyprus was told the thing is they don't have the money to do that they can't afford to do that let me just jump on what yes it is science here is what do you make of this woman sees about a billion is measured looks familiar to. me thinks the lady doth protest too much i think might apply here i think you know what i'm seeing is the same old same old from the troika from brussels the same old kind of mismanagement i tell you if i had a hundred thousand sitting in this living in baghdad right now i'd be pretty happy man but i'd be heading down to the cash machine with a big bag making was this report say well we only see these basically said to. be slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was

never the case he gave his one point three billion dollars i think it is quite yeah yeah yeah the o.e.c.d. has come out has basically said. this could be a whole hell of a lot more and it's this fits the bill it fits the bill of the of all of the bad as we've seen with argentina with cyprus either with with spain seen with portugal that the powers that be don't want to. get in their faces now to everything's fine everything's fine everything's fine until of course it's too late and then we enter a situation like cyprus where suddenly there's a lockdown on privately held accounts there's an unprecedented rate going on while at the same time brussels mandarins are saying no no this was a one off who's to blame is it the banking sector is it is it this day i mean well a lot of people are saying is about a country never privatized by three top banks the biggest one thing it's all of this money these toxic loans and they're also to all of this is to actually just put it. bank which they're calling state run debt consolidation agency so you take

it all out of the big banks so that they can then start lending to businesses and be completely clean and transparent and just put in the bank these are the same guy and the o.e.c.d. these are the same guys that are in april two thousand and eight so the irish banking system quote unquote was well capitalized and profitable you know so we can never be too sure about how we are actually how efficient these guys card so i can tell you that the bombs are basically saying no thank you very much and they're actually performing the same as and i suspect in a slow the peripheral countries in there about five percent which is danger zones the i.m.f. has said that if the lawmakers continue to push measures on the economic for these countries on the economic depression they're not going nowhere just putting so much pressure on the economy instead of the actual problem drastically overestimated the impact of a star exactly exactly. as an economic measure as an economic drastically underestimated the impact of a sturdy. dangerously explosive social device. well it's just coming up to help us

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