french troops are starting to leave mali reffing of islam is cracked down but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. as guantanamo's hunger strike hits a day sixty four it 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 proving legal loopholes need a growing number of people to be watching any time anywhere. it's two pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t a live a with me to bomb with a front's has started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over

operations to un approved the african force the french anticipated a short campaign against islamist insurgents in general but now plan on keeping one thousand troops by the end of the the military intervention initially drove out the militants from northern mali but some retreated to deserted hideouts in the vast area artie's tessa syria has the details they say though that they still plan on continuing double adoption of the four thousand strong military personnel who are at least 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 first foreign minister a lot of five years had said in here in your week. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on comments barca but we have no intention of staying forever. now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of islamised extremism advanced 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 three least on the ground in mali after major combat now bunking was planned also when he was a parallel force from 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 spoke with a group of former french intelligence officer who have been stationed in northern africa and the middle east for about twenty years and he says the from the very start he had been doubtful that this operation in mali was going to be short exposure to the insurgents and distance from the city is ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would they were going to treat the people

just 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 doing afghanistan the year when the last american so deal with it right exactly as they did as they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back. before twelve because in. twelve don't exist now we're friends one 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. france has been carrying out a major operation in mali with ground troops and tanks and support searching for islam as a bases and near the city has been since suicide bombings and clashes between joint forces and militants

a sense very. 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 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 so-called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have

been combing through her valley north of gold it's believed that many of the islamist can be hiding there but the question is what comes next. the u.s. meanwhile say that the west african led force will be unable to maintain stability in a region by itself investigative journalist michel khan and billy said keeping africa and stable is in america and france is best interests with loss resources to be exploited if you want to establish it in your region first you have to get rid of friendship there are chilies you have to ask why this region you have to consider that africa. twenty percent of all rule material it's crucial for the economy grows up many countries especially china india and so on. we have to consider that truly united states very active

in the region we africa and selling military bases and trying to use armies in somalia i. mean all the area out there you have to consider that for trying to keep the privileges of the companies so there is actually in the doldrums that mostly. be antonymous. decide about what we do with the results as you have to consider the. war and also the next country very important we know you are in your group and they are poor because of the kind of neocolonialism of the west and you got to go there we. grows great history and i will leave you where. you lose. it's a fight i truly against africa and against the possibility of autonomy. went on a mose hunger strike has passed

a two month mark and it's got psychologists and lawyers deeply worried one prisoner of eleven years who's refusing to even try to kill himself last month his lawyer says the inmate was taken away by ambulance to his conditions unknown u.s. officials are telling attorneys whether their hunger striking clients are being force fed officially forty two inmates are protesting their lawyers are saying if so 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 but as a gay marriage as you can report the pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it open. the time of each detainee in guantanamo 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 of a luxurious life there you're wrong to quote general john kelly who is in command of one tunnel the facility is falling apart so there he was two weeks ago asking congress for almost two hundred million dollars to renovate one tunnel that should come on top of the one hundred seventy seven million dollars that the government spends every year to keep the prison running will the investment make the detainee's lives easier most of whom are there without having been formally accused

of anything maybe not that none of these projects would have their lifestyle if you will but some of the projects will cure the. 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 are 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 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 to keep saying they're committed to shutting it down but they never say when in congressman smith's metaphor we've got. to use the cliche

a joke but it's the hotel california. you can't ever check in washington i'm going to check on lieutenant colonel barry wing represents us some of the guantanamo detainees and is currently in visiting his clients in the island prison he believes the accusations the government has against prisoners they either out of date or invalid. i don't think the problem is a single it's a good automobile i think the problem originates in washington d.c. i've reviewed the cases of my clients and i can tell you that the information in those cases is extremely pluri let's talk about what this that so-called evidence came about it was back in the bush cheney administration we were talking about imminent attacks and danger color charts and when you do you can in crop dusters and attack forces attacking the united states on the integrated frighted that's the same information that are trying to say today that it's somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find it you can what are you sure you can do what should

they would do that the human rights organization that's supposed to be here gets something which in fact is doing very little and it that the regime finally indicated to the committee what kind of ok that they didn't wholly irrelevant and that you know if you're a human rights organization and you're supposed to be involved in a report on what's happening in a minute there is an option or that's out of sight out of mind and you fail to do that then you've made a decision to next season is to claim for one side and that's not the mission we were in one town i'm ok our day has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside that in torrance prison means i'm find out how the one ton of the hunger strike has been unfolding on the web side we've been following it since it was as are revealed to hearing from detained long as activists than x. birds as well as videos a form of the facility. right watch out in britain the it might not just be the millions of aliens cameras watching your every move later in the program reports on

the unlicensed unregulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. we're getting in the hands of sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their profit and. failing to escape with a bailout a young greek they'll find those huge is abroad love a government vehicle with lenders over financial aid the details are sent to this place. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

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a report on are. you watching our team as little as from big brother watching us with security cameras following us and shops and while walking down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over his shoulder and gretchen a number. i have grown and most are neither licensed all registered that's because there's a there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes southworth investigates .

bribery values corruption and of it. is not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be relaxed lawyers 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 fulls 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 i'm just 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

a quick 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 obviously they've ration is there is always been there but they just a sheen. i think. that there is nothing we simply the law governing public surveillance in the u.k. was 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 the minor matters such as littering the private investigators though no such law exists i could go out and do surveillance so i don't have to go. or thora to from any body of his ordinary surveillance want to want a recent report by big brother watch documented local authorities who will

bypassing regulation by hiring private investigators. it's why many and now calling for industry licensing i think it's absolutely essential that we have some kind of regulation over private investigators a licensing system that means that we know who exactly is license and means of surveillance that. having spent thirty years in the police force former detective inspector james harrison 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. london. but you know around the world to add some more over this hour's headlines the hundreds of muslim and christian egyptians relit in the center of cairo on tuesday night against it's a terrorist strike that's sweeping the country and the murder of four christian cards as well clashes at the weekend which left seven people dead egypt's top my royalty has been growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety since the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi came to power.

at least eighty aftershocks have hit iran's provinces since it shews days quicker the region is home to the country's only nuclear power plant the six point three magnitude shock killed at least thirty seven people and injured hundreds more officials say the nuclear plant itself is not damaged about dozens of villages near the quake epicenter have been left in ruins. 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 at warsaw's above instead cemetery on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to smolensko 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 at r.t. . north korea could launch

a ballistic missiles at any moment that's the warri coming from south korea the u.s. and japan south korean media is citing government sources are saying that gang could fire several different types of missiles from different locations north korea along with iran is a frequently called a rogue of a stage by the u.s. in today's crosstalk peter lavelle and his panel of guests discuss what really me. 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 itself. 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 to the us certainly and probably to anybody and the use of a place like the want on a mode that defies all international norms these are the and the use of drone attacks in any country we want to attack. the full edition of cross talk as the un and about and on. now all of america's atomic reactors a should be shot and that's all from a former head of the us nuclear energy commission online report on his fears that all those facilities and service are repairable and urgently need replacing.

also where hacking the hack israel retaliates with so i will strike of its own against the anonymous group which brought down government website last week. did strike in greece is struggling to set is why is international lenders hoping to get a delay to two point eight billion euro bailout installment this month the painful talks come as each u.n. i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in a meeting at the meeting the terms of one hundred thirty billion euro area 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 it will be no tough austerity 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 and fifty thousand by twenty sixteen unemployment has already been driving young greeks away from their country as tom gotten 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 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.

yeah 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 mr ity greece's situation is certainly more bleak than most but the only retirement or working your first shifts in the system in greece sometimes they don't even get paid dental bait for the see so 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 greece using that word slavery we don't control fate we have 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 you. thinking of leaving greece so that if i don't make it yourself ok good luck with that cause just 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. thessaloniki greece. in a couple of minutes our daily looks back at the life of self the exiled russian oligarch and kremlin critic bar is a bear scheme was a recent death of the rebel running wild.

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