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starting to leave molly wrapping up the islamist crackdown but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. as one time tomorrow's hunger strike hits day sixty forward emerges that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running . and i spied a private investigation in britain is booming is legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply anytime anywhere. i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me. now france has started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to a un approved african force the french anticipated
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a short campaign against islamic insurgents in january but now i plan on keeping one thousand troops by the end of the year the military intervention initially drove out 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 that 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 more five years had said in january. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of minutes later on comments by we have no intention of staying forever. so the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of islamised extremism against europe now clearly any plan of a complete withdrawal is off the table now. this one thousand troops that they plan
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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 includes a parallel force one that will directly deal with all kind of the linked militants and extremists according to reuters and this is likely to be french troops as well while also spoke with a former french intelligence officer who had been stationed in northern africa and the middle east for about twenty years and he says that from the very start he had been doubtful that this operation in mali was going to be short 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 with weapons jetties to come back exactly look as they did you know. when the soviets. in the one nine hundred ninety
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exactly as they were due to leave the euro when the last american so deal with detroit exactly as they did was they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back if not before because in the short run don't exist now where france will want 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 their 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 marvie. mali has become yet another front in the global
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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
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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 else 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 it's believed that many
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of the islamist can be hiding there but. well let's get more on this from michelle colony he is an investigative journalist who has written extensively about war strategies and the media coverage of military conflicts and stick on thank you very much for joining us firstly france now says it's going to keep a permanent presence in mali is this a solution. well of the war is not the solution because the problem of mali for so who's. ability is false there isn't and if molise floor it's because of the program by french companies so it's not a solution but also the real goal of the french presence is not to come about but the real goal is. so what are the options and to regain stability in the region. well if you want to have stability in the region first you have to get rid
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of french intervention shamisen u.s. intervention is but also you know you have to ask why the out of this region you have to consider that africa. hundred percent of all rule materials group will fall you're going to be groups of many countries especially china brazil india and so on. you have to consider that truly and united states very active in the region we africa and installing military bases and trying to use local armies in somalia congo in all neary out there you have to consider that friends are trying to keep the prevalence of their companies so there is actually they don't want that mali. to be antonymous. what will be done with the results as you have to consider the.
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war and also the next country in the area very important we know you are in your group and they are poor because of the kind of neo colonialism of the west and you have to compare we. grows in great history lie or leave you where. you lose small and with poverty it's all it's a fight actually against africa and against the boss ability of autonomy or something. like that let's just quickly told me why do you think front seems to be selective in what helps in africa you may have just answered the question there but for example it did it did refuse to step in to counter rebels and sent in the central african republic didn't it so you do you believe that is purely an economic reason yes because france is supporting every political reform. be used. and that's the only goal you have the stability. we. caused. transmission and he has a minute and then eventually to close to
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a country. of chaos it's. actually you cannot own the. strategy of france or you will see it without the world to control them only in countries like nigeria that they want to prevent the form of unity of africa and that they want to provoke a form of my life between the bric brazil russia india china africa and also to be african economy it's actually a war for. africa. and there also appears to be inconsistency from the west too for example they support syria's rebels but are now looking to fight similar factions in mali are you it's completely critical that you arm inspire nonsense for terrorists in libya syria are.
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awful and then you too far i have against them in mali and other countries it's completely improper to go like it wasn't. actually the drudgery of. look to use the instruments forces with a very rare russian reprogram as a weapon. of combat to relive these. russia. on the local force ok we have run out of time never thank you very much for your comments and your insight that's the investigative journalist michelle collins. now guantanamo 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. condition is still not known u.s. officials are telling whether their hunger strike inclines are being forced face
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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 shot down and shut down but it's getting reports that the pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it at. the time of each detainee on a more 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
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average salary of a public school teacher here is fifty one thousand. 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 then you're wrong to quote general john kelly who is in command of one tunnel the facility is falling apart so there he was two weeks ago asking congress for almost two hundred million dollars to renovate one tunnel that should come on top of the one hundred seventy seven million dollars that the government spends every year to keep the prison running will the investment make the detainee's lives easier most of whom are there without having the informally cues of anything maybe not none of these projects would have their lifestyle if you will but some of the projects will curity better ease of movement for them that will benefit the guard force not the detainees but on top of renovations there
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are the costs and the taxpayers bill for keeping guantanamo open is only going to go up there are 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 ministration 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 joe but it is the hotel california. you can't ever check in washington i'm going to check on your tenant colonel barry wingard represents some of the guantanamo detainees and is currently visiting his clients in the
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prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisoners there and i either have date or invalidate. i don't think really the problem it's a fairly think one time ok i think the problem originates in washington d.c. we do the cases of my clients and i can tell you that the information in the beginning to get the three report let's talk about what the so-called evidence came about it was back in the bush cheney administration to we were talking about german attacks and danger color chart in london in crop dusters an attack for attacking the united states on a mental game friday that's the same information. we're trying to say today somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find what i am sure and what shut me up i think what do you bet the human rights organization that's supposed to be you're doing something once in fact is doing very little panic that the remaining finally indicate one kind of up to the thing wholly irrelevant and you know if you're a human rights organization and you're supposed to be involved and report on what's
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happening in a minute pretty sure that's out of sight and out of mind and you fail to do that then you've made a decision not to favor one side and not the men who are in guantanamo bay. he has joined the with media waiting to get inside then the tories in prison 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 as well as videos from the facility. for charity in britain it might not just be the millions of surveillance cameras watching your every night in the program we refuse to make unlicensed unregulated private investigators flourishing in the u.s. we getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their targets and failing to escape the say lack young greeks find their shoes abroad while a government think is with lenders i will financial aid who got the details. well
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mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. hello again there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras following us in shops we walk down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain their numbers have grown and most of the registered in the us because there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes so refer investigates. to watch somebody or watch them. mail fortunately there are a lot of people who use bribery will use corruption and when. it's not difficult to make yourself invisible it's more difficult to be loyal to it because when you're.
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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 perceived as a shadowy world of with bisan secret the industry continues to grow. in fact it's moving from the shadows and onto the high street as of course the 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 a quick well she's fast learning the tricks of the trade electro. wires invest. all of that kind of stuff and it's all available quite a lot of people mainly because obviously they ration is there is
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always been there but there is just a sheen i think there is some of the data protection that there's nothing really but recently the law governing public surveillance in the caves 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 to over i could go out and do surveillance so i don't have to get in the. or thora two from any body of ordinary surveillance one two one a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who are bypassing regulation by hiring private investigators. it's why many and now calling for industry licensing i think it's absolutely
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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 the pressure on them want to find them and you've got to do your due diligence and make sure that you're not putting anybody you know in a position of danger but with 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
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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. a quick look now 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 is sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops are clashes we can wish left seven people dead egypt's court minority has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhoods mohammed morsi came to power. iran's bushehr 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
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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. 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 was the vinci cemetery on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to some land when it went down killing all on board the official report plane bad weather and pilot error potent however it's still conducting its own probe the full story you can head to r.t. dot com. 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 p.r. nyang could fire several different types of missiles from different locations north korea along with iran is frequently called a rogue state by the u.s.
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in today's cross talk people live there and this panel of guests discuss what that really means. 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 us are in outlier states. well in terms of the reform thing i think you know first of all i would argue that when it comes to hearing to international norms that probably the biggest outlier state right now is the united states' self. the us is as assume for itself already to do whatever it wants regardless of international norms and i would look at the the invasion of iraq threatened war against iran which does not pose an imminent threat to the us certainly and probably to anybody
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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 i. on the full edition of crosstalk is on evan about that time head on out. 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 reported he says that all of the facilities in service are irreparable and we need replacing also they're talking the half is israel retaliates for 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 delayed two point eight billion euro bailout installment this month the painful
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talks come as e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in meeting that's him. of the hundred thirty billion euro rescue after the drama of cyprus the lending troika is gets a call about the merger between greece's two biggest banks the country insists it can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greeks their deposits are safe and also promised they'll be no target were staring but lenders are pressing for a 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 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
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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 but here. 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 and 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 date for the c.s.l. we're working it was seen our results with some estimates of greek youth unemployment
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as high as sixty percent desperate times are giving rise to desperate suggestions it's not just the young in greece using that word slavery we don't control our fate we are slaves it is a political problem and we must become again pretty but far from rhetoric about taking to the streets and throwing off shackles many greeks i speak to are thinking just like cost us struggling through his last two years of medical school so cost us after these two years what do you think the future's going to hold for you. thinking of leaving greece so that if i don't make it yourself ok good luck with that cause to think of it right. there it goes leaving us here in the interview back to his studies but cost us could end up like many more greeks like him leaving greece altogether tom watson r.t. thessalonica greece and a couple of minutes r.t.
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