french troops are starting to leave mali wrapping up the islam is cracked down but a thousand soldiers will stay permanently. at one time of hunger strike it's a day sixty four it emerges that one inmate that attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding wall money to keep the jail running. and ice by private investigation in britain is remaining as legal loopholes mean a growing number of people can simply walk you anytime anywhere. they're watching r t a live or for moscow with me to say front has started pulling its troops from the first step in handing over operations to a un approved african force the french interest a paid at

a shot campaign against islamist insurgents in general but now plan on keeping one thousand troops by the end of the yeah the military intervention initially drove out the militants from northern mali but some retreated to desert hideouts in the last area artes to 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 french foreign minister now for five years had said in sharing everything. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on 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 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 and one thousand four hundred forty three least on the ground in mali after major combat now bunking was one 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 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 this time is 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 afghanistan against the wind the

soviets. in the one nine hundred ninety exactly as they were going to study the year when the last american so deal that's right exactly as they did as they didn't iraq when the u.s. troops. didn't so france is back if not before because i'm going to see short don't exist now where france 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 of 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 from the air support searching for islam as bases of the girl the city has seen suicide bombings and clashes between joint forces and militants and since february peace cannot examines the challenges of maintaining stability in mali. miley has become yet another front in

the global war on terror but this anti terror operation just may be too difficult to scale down so quickly first let's review what's already been done and more importantly how efficient is what this operation started with and support of ground troops from the skies has always been one of its foundation stones the first planes to battle the islamists came from here a french military base in chad helicopter support came from another base in 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 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 golf believe that many of the islamist can

be hiding there but the question is what comes next. the u.s. meanwhile said that the west african led force or be unable to maintain stability in the region by itself investigative journalist michelle colombian said keeping africa unstable is in america and france is best interest but the vast resources to be exploited if you want to establish it in your region first you have to get rid of friendship there are chiles and you have to ask why this region you have to consider that africa. twenty percent of all raw materials crude good for the economy grows up many countries especially china brazil india and so on. would have to go sooner that truly united states very active in the region we africa and styling military bases and

trying fuels armies in somalia i. mean all the area out there you have to consider that for trying to keep the prevalence of the companies so there is actually they don't want that mali. be antonymous. with the results as you have to consider the. 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 go there we. grow seen great history i believe where. this argues. it's applied actually against africa and against the possibility of autonomy. one time of hunger strike has parts of the two month mark and it's got psychologists and lawyers deeply worried one prisoner of eleven years who's

refusing food even trying to kill himself last month his lawyers are say the inmate was taken away by ambulance his condition is still unknown you as a officials are telling attorneys whether they are hunger striking 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 one ton of the inmates and to push for the notorious facility to be shut down but as granted. 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 been formally accused of anything maybe not none of these projects would still 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 into that the authorities they're not going to see the prison close they need time ministration keep saying they're committed to shutting it down but they never say when and congressman smith metaphor we've got you know do you not use the

cliche joe but is the hotel california you checked in but you can't ever check it in washington i'm going to second lieutenant colonel barry wain go ahead there representing some of the guantanamo detainees and as kind of the recruiting of lines in the iranian prison he believes the accusations the government has like in prisons they are now either out of date or invalid i don't think the problem is a single it's a one thousand 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 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 imminent attacks and danger color charts and wonder do you can in crop dusters an attack forces attacking them like it's going to be friday that's the same information they're trying to say today that somehow relevant or valid when in fact if they could find what i am sure you would shut me up 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 in 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 prison officer or if it's out of sight out of mind and you fail to do that then you've made a decision connected to favor one side and that's not the mission we were in one town i'm ok. argy has joined the queue of media waiting to get inside the notorious prison meantime we'll find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our website we've been following it as since it was first revealed hearing from detainees lawyers activists and experts as well as videos from the facility. tried to watch out in britain they might not just be the millions of surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program but what on the unlicensed on regulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k.

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bribery values corruption and of it. is not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be really spoiled 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 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 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 equipment well she's fast learning the tricks of the trade electro. mars invest. all of that kind of stuff is all available quite a lot of people mainly because obviously they ration is there is always been there but they just. 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 were using surveillance for minor matters such as littering the private investigators though no such law exists. so i don't have to get. or thora two from anybody of his ordinary surveillance one

to one a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities 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 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 don't go but with kill you that cameras listening devices tracking

devices and much more 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 the. london. looking around the world of some more of this hour's headlines hundreds of muslims and christians egyptians really in the center of cairo and choose day night against the sectarian strife that's sweeping the country the murder of four christian cops us sparked clashes at the weekend that seven people did egypt's accompt minority has been a growing increasingly worried about its religious freedom and safety says the

muslim brotherhoods and mohamed morsi came to power. at least eighty aftershocks have hit iran's provinces since tuesday's earthquake 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 but dozens of villages near the quake epicenter have been left in ruins. poland is remembering the victims of an ape rancher that killed the country's president exactly three years ago senior figures gathered for a memorial at warsaw's of in ski 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 to blamed bad weather and pilot error poland is conducting its own little story head to our team doctor.

north korea could launch a ballistic missiles at any moment and that's the worry coming from south korea the u.s. and japan south korean media citing government sources saying that pyongyang could fly at several different types of missiles from different locations north korea along with iran is frequently called a rogue state by the u.s. interest crosstalk peter lavelle and his panel of guests discuss that and what that really me. they now just find these kind of states as 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 sense and efforts have been aimed at the us 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 it the u.s. 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 u.s. certainly and probably to anybody and the use of a place like the one that defies all the international norms these are the and the use of drone attacks in any country we want to attack. and you can watch the full edition of crosstalk in about ten minutes. right all of america's atomic reactors assured to be shut and that's from a for my head of the us a nuclear energy commission on law you know we report on

his fear that all the facilities and service parable and urgently needs replacing. also had king the hackers and israel retaliates with us i was right of it's own against the anonymous group was brought down government website last week. dead stricken that greece is struggling to satisfy its international lenders while hoping to get a delayed two point eight billion euro bailout installment of this month the painful talks come as e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in meeting the terms of the hundred and 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 they can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greeks their deposits are safe he also promised they'll be no tough fall sturdy but lenders are pressing for

severe job cuts in the bloated public sector they want a mess of twenty five thousand workers laid off this year and a total of one hundred and fifty thousand by twenty sixteen soaring unemployment has already been driving young greeks away from their country as tom botton reports . we refuse to work for free we demand our right to education messages of protest by youth seen opportunities to better themselves snatched away these students are protesting against promised occasionally those departments across greece they don't want to be left behind. as they search. my notice and satiric or to students opposed to the so-called athena plan the government aim is to close dozens of university department. it's 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 it 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 minister to reach this situation is certainly more bleak than most but the only retirement or working your first shifts the says here in greece sometimes they don't even get paid then to bed for the c.s.l. we are working every scene of 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 fate we are slaves it is a political problem and we must become again pretty but far from rhetoric about taking to the streets and throwing off shackles many greeks i speak to are thinking

just like costas struggling through his last two years of medical school so costas after these two years what do you think the future's going to hold for him. thinking of leaving greece so that if i don't make it yourself ok good luck with that cause to think of it 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. next as promised or the atomic tensions on the korean peninsula come up. peter lavelle.

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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on see any time anyway. please see. below and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle targeting the so-called rogue states north korea and iran are very much in the spotlight are these countries really a threat to the international community we are told both north korea and iran are impossible to negotiate with both deemed to be irrational states they ask for

comprehensive security guarantees but face the very real threat of utter annihilation. to cross up north korea iran and much more i'm joined by richard white's in washington he's a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute also in watched and we have zachary an assistant editor for the diplomat and in philadelphia we cross to dave lindorff he is an investigative reporter author of the book the case for impeachment and the founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening dot net all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but richard if i can go to you what is a rogue state we hear the term all the time what is it define it. it's an out of fashion charm under the bush administration they used the term rogue state to describe states which behavior was so. so it redeemed.