starting to leave molly wrapping up the islamist crackdown but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. as one town of hunger strike hits day sixty four emerges that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running. and only by a private investigation in britain is grooming is legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply watching any time anywhere. international news and comment watching party coming to life from. france has started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to the u.n. approved african force the french anticipated a short campaign against islam this insurgency in january but now i plan on keeping

one thousand troops by the end of the year the military intervention and the militants from northern mali some retreated to desert hideouts in the vast area. has the details they say though that they still plan on continuing that would option 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 not for five years had said in january. 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. now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of as long as the extreme islam 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 and 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 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 that from the very start he had been doubtful that this operation in mali was going to be short exposure to the insurgents and the from the cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do to treat the problem jeff is to come back exactly as they did you have got to stand against this when the soviets. in the one nine hundred

ninety exactly as they were at princeton in the year when the last american so deal that's right exactly as they did as they did an iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back. before twelve because in the. world 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. well france has been carrying out a major operation in mali with ground troops tanks and air support searching for islamic spaces near gav the city has seen suicide bombings and clashes between joint forces and militants since february you can offer now 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 and 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 so-called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have been combing through her valley north of it's believed that many of the islamists can be hiding there but the question is what comes next. artie's your piece going

off their guantanamo's 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 but his condition is still not known u.s. officials are telling attorneys whether their hunger strike and clients are being force fed officially forty two inmates are protesting but their lawyers say it's many more demonstrations 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. reports the pentagon is only pumping walk ash 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 be a life style 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 invade. it's 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 and space and 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 second well the tenant colonel barry when god represents some of the kuantan and i detainees and is currently visiting his clients in the autumn prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisons that and i me that i have date all invalid i don't think the problem that's a really it's a one time ok 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 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 do in crop dusters an attack forces attacking or not it's to kill 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 out 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 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 to mention the war in guantanamo bay. he has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside the notorious 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. as well as video from the facility. in britain it might not just be millions of surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program we

report on the regulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment. and failing to escape. abroad. with lenders financial aid to details just off the quick. science technology innovation all the developments around russia. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

choose your language. make it with zero in. some of the. tunes that use the consensus here to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that imply the life choose the access to your. so again there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras following us in shops walking down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain numbers have grown and neither license nor registered and that's because there's no proper regulation for people

working as private eyes or first investigates. to watch somebody or watch them. you know fortunately there are a lot of people who use bribery will use corruption and and. it's not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be relaxed lawyer. because when you first start you're always thinking oh my goodness they they know i just know they know that. they don't 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 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 just not suspected as who just twenty

one years old live years worked it answers investigations for a year now she knows her way around the cavers equipment well she's fast learning the tricks of the trade electoral rolls lars invest. all of that kind of stuff and it's all available it does show quite a lot of people mainly because obviously they've ration is there is always been there but they just a sheen. i think there is. 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 on and so i don't have to get the. or for a two for many body of very surveillance one to one 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 their means of surveillance that they're using 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 cameras listening devices tracking devices and much more well 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 right now anyone can it any time be watching you no one is watching. so if there are london. a quick look now at other news from around the world hundreds of muslim and christian kitchens rallied in the center of cairo on tuesday night against the sectarian strife that is sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops

sparked clashes at the weekend which left seven people dead egypt caught minority has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhoods mohammed morsi came to power. around a province home to the country's only nuclear power plant was hit by a strong earthquake on wednesday morning the six point three magnitude shock killed at least thirty seven people and injured hundreds more officials say the plant itself is not damaged but dozens of villages near the quake at the center have been left in ruins tremors were felt across the gulf and cats are bahrain and dubai. north korea could launch ballistic missiles at any moment that is the worry coming from south korea the u.s. and japan south korean media is citing government sources saying that pyongyang could fire several different types of missiles from different locations pyongyang earlier showed a major border crossing with china to tourist access after warning foreign

nationals in south korea to evacuate evacuate in case war breaks out japan has patriot missile interceptors deployed our south korea is on increased military alert. poland is remembering the victims of an air crash that killed the country's president exactly three years ago senior figures gathered for a memorial warsaw's prevents the cemetery on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to cement when it went down killing all on board the official report blamed bad weather and pilot error. poland is still conducting its own probe the full story in head to r.t. dot com. 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 inside this are reparable and urgently need replacing also they're cracking the hackers israel retaliates of the 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 deal a two point eight billion euro bailout installment this month the painful talks come as e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress a meeting that 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 says it can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greeks their deposits are safe he also promised they'll be no tougher stereotype 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 youth seeing opportunities to better themselves snatched away these students are protesting against plans to change university departments across groups they don't want to be left behind amazing to as they say slaves of the twenty first century monogamous and satiric are two students also opposed to the so-called athena plan the government aim is to close dozens of unit. city 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 part of. the 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 in austerity greece's

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 beg 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 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 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 i can and my features. 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 it's been strongly urge and so what are his banking crisis to avoid being the next cyprus by europe's interstate economic one it is the only thing day by slovenia insists it can cope without foreign help willie and not say discuss the issue with r.t. business presenter katie cobain and yes 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 with my man that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already are 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 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 you have said size 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 it might apply here i think you know what i'm seeing is the same old same old from the troika from brussels the same 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. the o.e.c.d. has basically said that the slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was no way they came to get his 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. 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'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 it was 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 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 it actually how efficient these guys card so i can tell

you that the bones 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 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 they drastically overestimated the impact of a star exactly. as an economic measure as an economic drastically underestimated the impact of a sturdy. dangerously explosive social device. you're watching r.t. coming up next abby martin on why coverage on lady margaret that she is that in the media should not whitewash history.

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if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean. i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. worse for the little thing the white house or for the. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone. what

a closure of a good review never seen anything like this i'm told. it's going on i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set folks the american economy is barely climbing out of the great recession unemployment remains high the latest job numbers are low and on top of all that it's tax season for millions of american families is a very discouraging time in fact near as moose and paul was just revealed that fifty four percent of americans no longer believe it's possible for a person to work hard and get rich in this country. you know why they called the american dream because like george carlin said you have to be asleep to believe it on that note to break the set.

of the total number of users you cover seem anything like the trouble. just yesterday former british prime minister margaret thatcher passed away for those of you who are avid corporate media watchers your impression of her legacy might look something like this. i think she's the probably the greatest prime minister of britain since churchill regardless of the ideological things we could always fight about you never had to wonder where moderate stood on the issues i will not change just a core popularity she was known to be uncompromising is specially when it came to her principles of economic and individual freedom she was called the iron lady unbending and driven respected and feared whether it was ideology or economics trade unions are terrorists.