wrapping up the islamist crackdown but it's uncertain whether the country's ready or if the u.n. approved african force and maintain pace. as guantanamo's hunger strike hits day sixty four emerges that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials at the man being more money to keep the jail running. and spy private investigation in britain is booming is legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply walk she anytime anywhere. good to have you company watching our take a live from moscow. france's started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to a un approved african force only one thousand french troops will remain by the end

of the year january's french led intervention drove out islamised insurgents from northern mali but some are treated to desert hideouts in the vast area. has the details now the french are proposing 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 few sure you when a peacekeeping mission however this is in stark contrast to what french foreign minister a lot of five years had said in january when he was questioned on the extent at the length of this military operation in mali let's take a listen. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of later on comments barca but we have no intention of staying forever.

now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of islamised extremism advanced in europe no 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 u.n. secretary general ban ki moon in deploying about eleven thousand two hundred troops and one thousand four hundred forty police on the ground in mali after major combat now bunking with one also in a parallel force one that will directly deal with all kind of the link militants and extremists according to reuters and this is likely to be french troops as well now it appears that paris hopes to have a go ahead from the u.n. security council for these troops to be said to be in time for a scheduled presidential elections by the end of june or early july no i've also spoken with a former french intelligence officer who had been stationed in northern africa and

the middle east for about twenty years and he says the from the very start he had been doubtful that this operation in mali was going to be short exposure to the insurgents and distance from the cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do they were going to treat the people from jet has to come back exactly as they did. when the soviets. in the one nine hundred ninety exactly as they were going to study the year when the last american so deal with executives they did as they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back. before twelve because in the. world don't exist now where france were alone had first announced this military operation in mali two thirds of the french people were in support of these actions now many observers and 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 air support searching for islam as bases. the city has seen suicide bombings in clashes between joint forces and militants since february and worries about what will happen once most of the french troops leave your piece kind of examines the challenges of maintaining stability in mali. mali has become yet another front in the global war on terror but this anti terror 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 in so some

of the aviation was a leader to the capital of mali and soon 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 suicide bomber attacks in the 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 golf believe that. many of the islamists 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 has shown that such interventions don't solve crises but deepen them and generate new car flipped there are rising fears nearby 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 un is talking about some additional attack force but so far it's really an idea while the clock is ticking quantize 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 tried to kill himself last month his lawyers say the inmate was taken away by ambulance his condition is unknown 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 are planned on thursday across the u.s. in support of the guantanamo inmates and to push for the notorious facility to be shut down but it's gannett you can report the pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it open. the time of each detainee kuantan a mo cost 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 been formally accused of anything maybe not none of these projects would still 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 the 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 we're planning on keeping them there forever there's an enormous amount of expense and terms of both caring for the inmates. and then also dealing with our staff 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 they're not going to see the prison close they need time to get ministration keep saying they're committed to shutting it down but they never say when and congressman smith metaphor we've got you know the not to use the cliche a joke but it is the hotel california you check in but you can't ever check out in washington i'm going to check out while attending colonel barry when god represent some of the guantanamo detainees and is currently visiting his clients in the on in prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisons there and that either on tuesday or invalid i don't think the problem with a single day 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 it's extremely ploy let's talk about what it is 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 wonder do you tune in crop dusters and attack forces attacking the united states on them to be frighted that's the same information that they're trying to say today that somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find even what i assure you would shut me up they would do that human rights organization that's supposed to be here get something which in fact is doing very little fact that the regime finally indicate to me what kind of you to take 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 if it's out of sight out of mind and you fail to do that then you've made a decision connected to claim for one side and that's not the mission we were in guantanamo bay. he has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside in the tories prison in the meantime find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our website we've been following it since it was first revealed

hearing from detainees lawyers activists and experts as well as videos from the facility. in britain it might not just be the millions of surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program we report on the unlicensed regulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. we're getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on that target. and failing to escape the greeks. broad while their government because we've learned over financial aid details just after a quick break. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we.

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hello welcome back now there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras and shops and while walking down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain their numbers have grown most in either license or registered and that's because there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes so refer investigate. to watch somebody or watch them. fortunately there are a lot of people who use bribery will use corruption the purpose of it. is not difficult to make yourself invisible it's more difficult to be loyal to you because . 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 which bisan secret the industry continues. to grow in fact is

moving from the shadows and onto the high street as the course of covert 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 has 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. liars investors. all of that kind of stuff it's all available quite a lot of people mainly because obviously the information is there is always been there but they just a sheen i think there is something that it takes like there's nothing really but recently the law governing public surveillance in the u.k. used 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 i don't have to get in the. or thora to from any body of. surveillance want to want a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who will 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 are pressurizing 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 tell you that cameras listening devices tracking devices and much more all now available cheaply on the high street these days anyone can be a private investigator there's nothing secret anymore in this in this country i mean walking down the high street you know under surveillance surveillance the surveillance is just there 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 it any time be watching you no one is watching.

so if there r.t. london. take a quick look at other news from around the world hundreds of muslim and christian egyptians rallied in the center of cairo on tuesday night against the sectarian strife that sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops clashes at the weekend which left seven people dead egypt minority has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and the say and safety since the muslim brotherhoods 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 the country's 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 the commemorating the victims of the deadly plane crash which took the life of the polish president exactly three years ago senior

political figures are attending the memorial ceremony at the cemetery in warsaw on the tenth of april twenty ten the presidential plane came down killing all mind and six on board including members of the country's military political elite the official report into the tragedy plane bad weather and crew areas of the crash poland still conducting its own probe. a major border crossing between china and north korea has been closed to tourists as worries manned over an imminent ballistic missile test by pyongyang north korea along with iran is frequently called a rogue state by the u.s. peter bell and his panel of guests discuss what that means if you ask. they now just find these kind of states an outlier states and has a different and different implication and 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 then 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' self. the u.s. is as assume for itself the thirty 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 international norms these are the and the use of drone attacks in any country we want to attack. and the full episode of crosstalk is a seven am g.m.t.

. all of america's atomic reactors should be shut and that's from a former head of the u.s. nuclear energy commission online we report on his is that all the facilities irreparable and needs replacing also online asking. israel retaliates with a side the like of its allies in the game on the street which brought down government web sites last week. that stricken groups is struggling to satisfy its international lenders while hoping to get a delayed two point eight billion euro. installment this month the painful talks come as 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 skeptical about the mood to between greece's two biggest banks the country insists it can handle

capital recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greece their deposits are safe you also promised there'll be no tougher stereotypic 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 gems 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. nicol 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 costas struggling through his last two years of medical school so costas after these two years what do you think the future's going to hold for him. thinking of leaving grace so that i could find my future somewhere. good luck with that causes a very bright. 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. while another eurozone bailout could be on the cards in slovenia is 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 the discussed the issue

with r.t. business presenter katie pilbeam and news editor i have across. they've been told to come up with one point three billion dollars in order to sort out their banking crisis that i didn't with my plan 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 that the mind is the banking sector and the problem is that being told you need to recapitalize your banks has 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 i will what do you make of this woman sees about a billion is measured looks familiar to. me thinks the lady doth protest too much that 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 one 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 the o.e.c.d.

is basically said to be slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was no where they came to gave us as one point three billion dollars i think it is called 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 bailouts of seeing with argentina with cyprus either with with spain seen with portugal that the powers that be don't want to. but we're going to face 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 if the banking sector is it is that this day i mean well a lot of me listening is about the country never privatized the banks of the three

top banks the biggest one fake way to order this money these toxic loans and they're also to all of this is to actually just put it. 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 in april two thousand and eight so the irish banking system quote unquote was well capitalized and profitable 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 a lot of the peripheral countries in there about five percent which is dangerous and 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 they drastically

overestimated the impact of a star exactly exactly. as an economic measure as an economic drastically underestimated the impact of austerity as dangerously explosive social device. not a couple minutes and we look back at the life of the self exiled russian oligarch incoming critic that is all of his recent that got the room and running while. he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s.

he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest buton. in just a few years he rose from junior was a multi billionaire and senior politician. is decline was as rapid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. better. on r.t. . they called him the face of business in government. he was a gambler the money came second to heading the russian mafia inside the kremlin it was enough for boris just raises eyebrows to.