darting to leave mali wrapping up the islamist crackdown but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. as one town of most hunger strike hits day sixty ford emerges that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running. and spy of private investigation in britain is booming is legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply watch you anytime anywhere. i welcome you watching our take with me. now frances started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to a u.n. approved african force the french anticipated a short campaign against his alarmist insurgents in january but now i plan on

keeping one thousand troops by the end of the year the military intervention initially drive out the militants from northern mali but some are treated to desert hideouts in a vast area. has the details they say though that they still plan on that continuing battle adoption of the 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 more five years had said in january. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on comments barco but we have no intention of staying forever. now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of as long as the 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 u.n.

secretary general ban ki moon in deploying about eleven thousand two hundred troops every one thousand four hundred forty police on the ground in mali after major combat now bunking with one also when he was a parallel force one that will directly deal with all cargo willing to militants and extremists and according to reuters and this is likely to be french troops as well while also spoke with a group of 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 from the cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do they were going to treat the people just come back exactly as they did you know against the wind the soviets.

in the one nine hundred ninety exactly as they were doing in afghanistan the year when the rest of my concern deal with exactly as they did was they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't social issues but if you look before you could include going sometimes the shortbread don't exist now where friends well i 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 islamism bases the gav the city has seen suicide bombings and clashes between joint forces and militants since february you can of now 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 some other bases were engaged as well like the ones in ivory coast and 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 islamists to the north of the country securing key cities but 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 used so-called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have been combing through her valley north of golf believe that many of the islamist can

be hiding there but the question is what comes next. artesia your piece going off their. 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 lawyer says the inmate was taken away by ambulance although his condition is not 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 its 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 is now reports the pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it open. the time of each detainee kuantan m o costs us 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 means formally accused of anything maybe not none of these projects would change 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 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 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 it in washington i'm going to check out a bar when god represents some of the guantanamo detainee this tony visiting his clients in the island prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisons that and i'll either and his day invalid i don't think the problem that's a really it's a blood on him ok i think the problem originates in washington d.c. i've read you the cases of my clients and i can tell you that the information in those cases is 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 in one of these in in crop dusters an attack forces attacking not to speak on wednesday 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 would shut me up they would do that human rights organization that's supposed to be here good something which in fact is doing very little fact that the regime finally indicate to. you that they didn't 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 to net decision to favor one side and that's not to mention the war in guantanamo bay. a latte 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 into 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 unregulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. who are getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their targets. and failing to escape the young greeks find their futures abroad while their government because with lend is over financial aid details just after this quick break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered.

international at the very heart of moscow. welcome back now there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras following us 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 most and neither license nor registered and that's because there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes or further investigates. to watch somebody all watch the. mail fortunately there are a lot of people who use bribery will use corruption and those at the back of it. is not difficult to make yourself invisible it's more difficult to be relaxed lawyer doing it because when you're 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 placed. 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 is 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 it's all available quite a lot of people mainly because of this. they've ration is there is always been there but they just a sheen i think there is something that is 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 to over i could go on and so i don't have to go. or for it is from anybody here if it's ordinary surveillance one to one a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who were bypassing regulation by hiring private investigators. 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 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 kill 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 at any time be watching you no one is watching them so if a. now to other news from around the world hundreds of muslim and christian

rallied in the center of cairo on tuesday night against the sectarian strife is sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops sparked clashes that weekend which left seven people dead egypt caught one already has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi came to power. 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 in half the city without electricity for several hours. poland is commemorating the victims of the air crash which killed the country's president exactly three years ago senior figures are attending the memorial at the cemetery in warsaw the president's plane was taking

a delegation of the country's military political elite to remember and service instruments when it came down killing all on board the fisher report blame bad weather and pilot error poland is still concluding its own pro the full story you can head to dot com. a major border crossing between china and north korea has been closed to tourists as worries mind over an imminent ballistic missile test by playing young north korea along with iran is frequently called a rogue state by the u.s. in today's cross talk piece lavelle and his panel of guests discuss what that means . they know 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

us 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 us 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 us 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. on the phone edition of crosstalk ten minutes on. 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 the belief is still it isn't reparable and urgently need replacing. also online hacking the half israel retaliates with a 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 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 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 he also promised they'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 this 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 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 my knowledge 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. new call

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 reach this 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 don't get paid for the c.s.l. we are working and we see no results 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 faith 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 the 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 you. thinking of leaving greece so that if i make it yours ok good luck with that cause to think very bright. very 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 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 well earlier bang most say discuss the issue with r.t. business presenter katie pill bain 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 a contract to buy 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 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. was this reports say well the o.e.c.d. is basically said to be slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was never the case to give 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 were seen 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 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 what a lot of people are saying is about the country never privatized that binds to the three top banks the biggest ones there quite a lot of this money these toxic loans and their own answer 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 guys 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 a slew 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 deal 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 stir exactly. as an economic measure as an economic drastically underestimated the impact of austerity. dangerously explosive social device going to have eleven

here in moscow coming up next as promised the atomic tensions on the korean peninsula come up in cross talk with people about.

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