french troops are starting to leave mali wrapping up the crackdown but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. as one time the most hunger strike hits day sixty ford emerges that was the inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running. dyce by private investigation in britain is booming is legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply anytime anywhere. international news in common watching are taken with make. france has started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to be u.n. approved african force the french anticipated

a short campaign against his armisen surgeons in january but now plan on keeping one thousand troops by the end of the year the military intervention initially drive at the militants from northern mali but retreated to the desert hideouts in the vast area. has the details they say though that they still plan on continuing battle adoption 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 that peacekeeping mission however this is in stark contrast to what french foreign minister now for five years had said in sharing a week. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on we can comment marco 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 cargo linked militants and extremists according to reuters and this is likely to be french troops as well while 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 the this operation in mali was going to be short exposure to the insurgents and from the cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do they were going to treat the people from just exactly as

they did you know against the wind the soviets. in the one nine hundred ninety exactly as they were up against in the year when the last american so deal with troy exactly as they did as they did an iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back if not before because i'm going to see shortbread don't exist now where francois long 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. well france has been carrying out a major operation in mali with ground troops tanks and air support searching for islamic bases near gav the city has seen suicide bombings in clashes between joint forces and militants since february your piece cannot examines the challenges of

maintaining stability in mali. miley 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 working 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 the islamist 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 or called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have been combing through her valley north of believe that many of the islamist can be

hiding there but the question is what comes next. guantanamo's hunger strike has passed the two month mark and it's got psychologists and lawyers deeply worried one prisoner of eleven years who is refusing food even trying to kill himself last month is lawyers says the inmate was taken away by ambulance but his condition is unknown u.s. officials are telling attorneys whether the hunger strike inclines. officially forty two inmates are protesting but their lawyers say 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. as the pentagon's only pumping cash more cash into keeping. the time off each detainee in guantanamo 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 look live fairly 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 guantanamo 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 detainees lives. here most of whom are there without having the informally queues of anything maybe not none of these projects would have their lifestyle if you will but some of the projects will add security in 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 certain 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 in terms of both caring for the inmates and then also dealing with our 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 waiting in congressman smith's matter for we've got you know 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 when you're telling colonel barry when god represents some of the guantanamo detainees and is currently visiting his clients in the island prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisoners that have date or invalidate. i don't think the problem with the thing really is the guantanamo bay i think the problem originates in washington d.c. i'd review the cases of my clients and i can tell you that the information in those cases could be extremely ploy let's talk about witness the so-called evidence came about it was back in the bush cheney administration we were talking about imminent attacks and danger color charts and one of these we can crop dusters and attack

forces attacking the united states on wednesday friday that's the same information that there are trying to say today that somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find even what i am sure you would shut me up they would do that human rights organization that's supposed to be here doing something which in fact is doing very little fact that the regime finally indicate to them in guantanamo bay that they've been wholly irrelevant and that you know if you're a human rights organization and you're supposed to be involved in 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 but i'll tell you has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside the new tories prison meantime find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our web site we've been following it since it was first revealed hearing from detainees lawyers activists and experts as well as videos from the facility. watch out in britain it might not just be the millions of

surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program we report on the long arm regulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their targets . and. the young greeks find their future is a broad wall government because with the financial aid details just off the bright . technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered.

internationally in the very heart of moscow. again there's little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras

following us in 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 and most need a license or registered and that's because there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes so refer investigates. to watch somebody or watch them. mail fortunately though a lot of people over the years bribery were used corruption goes with the back of it. is not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be a lawyer. because when you're always thinking oh my goodness they they know i just know they know that. they there are now an estimated ten thousand private investigators operating in britain despite being pissy. it is a shadowy world of whispers and secret the industry continues to grow in fact it's

moving from the shadows and on to the high streets as the course of covert devices falls 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 like a verse equipment well she's fast learning the tricks of the trade electro. mars invest. all of that kind of stuff is all available quite a lot of people mainly because obviously they ration is there is always been there but they just a sheen i think there is something that it takes 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 were 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 in the. or thora to from any body of its ordinary surveillance one to one a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who were 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 gryphus 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 pressurized in 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 kill you that camera is 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 at any time be watching you no one is watching them so if a. quick look now at other news from around the world. hundreds

of muslim and christian kitchens rallied in the center of cairo and choose their night against the sectarian strife that is sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops sparked clashes that weekend which left seven people dead egypt's quote minority has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhood's mohamed 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 bush was 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. other than this commemorate the victims of the crash which killed the country's president exactly three years ago senior think is there attending the

memorial at the cemetery was still present plane was taking a delegation of the country's military and political elite to remember since and then when it came down killing all on board the official report blame bad weather and pilot error and he still has. the full story to. a major border crossing between china and north korea has been closed to tourists as worries an imminent ballistic missile test by pyongyang north korea along with iran is frequently called a red state by the u.s. panel of guests discuss what that means and if u.s. . they know 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. or the 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 liar state right now is the united states self. the u.s. is as for itself the thirty to do whatever it wants regardless of international norms and i would look at the invasion of iraq threatened war against iran 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 the country we want to attack i. thought addition of crosstalk is here in about an hour from now. 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 fears that all the facilities in service are irreparable and urgently need replacing. also they're asking the israel retaliates to cyber strike of its own against the anonymous group which brought down 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 is e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in meeting the terms of the hundred thirty billion euro billion euro rescue after the drama of cyprus the lending troika is skeptical about the merger between greece's two biggest banks the country insists it can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greeks their

deposits are safe and also promised they'll be no stereotype but lenders are pressing for severe job cuts in the bloated public sector they want a massive twenty five thousand workers laid off ish year 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 now 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. nichol 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 minister to greece is situation is certainly more bleak than most but the only retirement or working your first shifts in the city or 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 greece so that if i don't make it yourself ok good luck with that cause to think of it or. and. 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 been 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 bang not say 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 didn't with my plan that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already i contracted by two percent last year so it just gives you an idea of what the economy the situation is that my name 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 reports they will only see these basically said to.

be slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was the number they came to gave us is one point three billion dollars i think it is. no 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 have seen with argentina with cyprus either with with spain seen with portugal that the powers that be don't want to. go in the face and they'll say 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 is an on president a very 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 i look me listening is about the country never privatized by severe three top banks the biggest one take way to order this money these toxic loans and they're also to

all of this is to actually just put it in. 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 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 a slew of the peripheral countries in there about five percent which is dangerous and the i bet 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. dangerously explosive social device. coming up next terror not say how we look back at the life of self exiled russian oligarch and kremlin critic boris but his old school his recent death got the rumor mill running wild.

about international airport in the very heart of moscow. they called him the face of business and government he was a gambler the money came second heading the russian method inside the kremlin it was enough for boris just raises eyebrows to make gangsters appear. he was a great cardinal of russian politics at the well he was a big time political adventurer some even told him

a lot today arrest putin the embodiment of evil and boris. presidential court am i supposed to put on a grieving face and talk about people across the country mourning his demise on the contrary i moderates that his death has attracted so much attention. i learned mud figure in russian business exemplified nine hundred ninety s. russia he made millions while his country starved he was the subject of several books and the basis for many crime movie villains and i picked out some qualities of people i knew personally or was influenced by. them it's quite difficult to create entirely new persona you always come up with the characters the somewhat. reminding you of someone and yes it was part of that image that have created but he certainly wasn't on the.