france pledges to station a permanent force in mali now despite earlier claims that anti insurgency mission will be over in a matter of weeks. the twenty on anger striker illegibly tries to take his own life is in mates with breaking point but the protest now in its third month. russia's foreign minister once again warns america not to escalate the standoff between north and south korea as he meets with u.s. secretary of state john kerry. all over again evening should live from the new center tonight nine pm moscow time it's kevin owen here with you and first of all the pentagon is sounding the alarm over the french troops withdrawal from mali saying local forces are unfit to take over paris pulled the first contingent out of the volatile state on tuesday they

plan to withdraw three quarters of their force by the end of the year but keep a thousand strong deployment to france intervened in mali in january to drive his limits rebels out of the country his tests are still reports a lot changed for paris since the start of the mission 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 fields they say will be part of a future you when a peacekeeping mission however this is in stark contrast to what french foreign minister not more five years had said in january. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on we can comment marco but we have no intention of staying forever. now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of as long as the extremism advanced in europe now clearly any plan of a complete withdrawal is off the table now this one thousand troops that they plan to keep on the ground falls under a call made by u.n.

secretary general of ban ki moon in 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 when he was a parallel force 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 cities ok it was not so complicated. and so what they would do 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 going to study 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 was back if not before well you could include killing sometimes the shortbread don't exist now where france well on 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. but just as the first foreign troops were leaving mali france and gauged a major offensive to wipe out militant hideouts in a previously liberated area of the country opus can often examines the challenges throughout a campaign that stretched the military from the very beginning. 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. 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 chat 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 islamists to the north of the country securing key cities but with fighting still going on in the mountains and a string of suicide bomber attacks in the several cities it's clear that the islamists are not exactly all out nor are they defeated which raises the comparison with another country afghanistan where the terrorists live in the midst of peaceful civilians the also use so-called hit and run guerrilla tactics so the french have been combing through have valley north of golf believe that. many of the islamists can be hiding there but the question is what comes next if we look at the neighboring countries well their borders are porous and experts say the islamists

could travel through them without any serious problems they also warn the past decades has shown that such interventions don't solve crises but deepen them and generate new conflicts there are rising fears nearby western sahara could turn into a new terror hub and right now it's really unclear who is going to turn who's going to take care of that problem and how if most of french troops to leave it's going to be a completely different game for the remaining thousand the un is talking about some additional attack force but so far it's merely an idea while the clock is ticking author and journalist caroline those covered french policy in africa says paris underestimated the scale of the problem from the start. they probably didn't realize what they were getting into remember call and powell warned your bush on the eve of the invasion of iraq you break it you own it and that's what the french and. that's what they're confronting now they're going into

a situation that was much more complex and much more me and dangerous probably than they thought it was going to be i think what the situation right now is that a lawyer who has tremendous political problems back home in france would love to be able to do molly as much as possible kind of like george bush you know wanted to leave iraq. you kind of a mission accomplished speech and say ok we're leaving and the french in a way are trying to do that by pushing for the elections by most observers say there's absolutely no way that you're going to august well organized elections take place in three or four months time in july in mali huge country totally devastated they don't have borders with us they don't have the money really to organize an election they don't have people to patrol or guard for polling places and they don't have the politicians that's the most important thing the politicians that are all politicians in the past the politicians who brought the country to the the

bismo situation at its end today. as the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay continues for a third month the lawyer for one of the protesters has just been told that his clients tried to commit suicide no calling to this letter from another inmate the instant took place last month it's still not clear though whether the man did succeed in taking his own life the u.s. military strongly denied the claim anyway saying there have been no recent suicide attempts and that no lives are in danger in guantanamo bay but lawyers are painting a different picture that some one hundred thirty detainees are trying to starve themselves to death in protest at mistreatment and indefinite detention legal appeals out of mounting public outcry and putting more pressure on the white house to deliver on its promises to close the facility but it's got to check out reports next the pentagon is committed to public more cash into keeping it open. the time of each detainee kuantan a mo 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 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 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 are the costs and the taxpayers the 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 plan 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 so the administration keeps saying they're committed to shutting it down but they never say when in congressman smith's metaphor we've got you know not to use the cliche joke but it's the hotel california check in but you can't ever check in washington i'm going to check out the u.s. air force lieutenant colonel berlingo represents some of those detainees he spoke to spoil your phone from guantanamo last night he told me the prisoners are being held without trial because no charges could be brought against them. i don't think the problem with the thing really is the guantanamo bay 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 the extremely ploy let's talk about witness the so-called evidence came about it was back in the bush in kenya administration we were talking about imminent attacks and danger color charts and look at the use of in crop dusters an

attack forces attacking the united states on wednesday friday 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 up they would do that human rights organization that's supposed to be here good something which in fact is doing very little fact that the remaining silent indicate that it can go in kind of a value that they've been wholly irrelevant and that you know if you're a human rights organization and you're supposed to be involved in 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 the mission we were in guantanamo bay. for as a bus he spent several years ago in town a motu of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge he took part in the previous mass and just like the city and shed some of the details of his experience with this. i was taken in and forced into that thunder forcing intravenous from the fluids into you. and do something silly like put you don't

know how many pouches when you only need maybe want to an inopportune six or something other there was one guy who was like doing a trainee medical course i don't know whether was online or not and he decided he was he was joking about which he needed to use or the to use a big one and so forth so they were using me as a guinea pig full of full of for that for the training so. the person who was putting a needle into me and it took a long time and i mean i don't know how many stubs they took him home but you know they missed in the midst of a and until they actually found it so odd you know the medical press to these people. you know is limited you know they're protesting and this is the last right in terms of all the rights have been taken away from them they don't have the right to remain silent in interrogations or other invited right to life in some cases so this is the last rights of people who don't have rights and they're protesting against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused.

and moscow is also pushing for access to the granting of abode detention center to to ensure the safety of a russian being held there this is for a. little earlier i spoke to artie's bully boy her about that meeting we've just heard off the back of that me saying that russia has all asked for access to guantanamo bay in order to check on this russian detainee has been held there in order to ascertain what his health is like a mixed reports of this ongoing hunger strike now for several weeks at guantanamo bay. career also talked about of course the role of the big stories at the moment what was sort of brought out i wonder that was really the topic of the day in these discussions today kevin and we've heard. from saying today that there is no disagreement between russia and the usa on the topic of north korea he was keen to

warn that military maneuvers only serve to escalate the tension so putting a stop to these military maneuvers these intimidating tactics on either side are welcome step but he warned at the same time in advance of the visit about this rhetoric that's taking place on both sides and how dangerous that really is for the escalation of tensions because he said that actually it's just as dangerous as flexing military muscles because. you said that counter threats and counter blame could lead to a very dangerous situation where one side backs itself into a corner to such a degree where they have to act in order not to lose face with that public and of course it's not the first time that russia has been calling for calm this week over the north korean peninsula very notably on monday vladimir putin issued

a stark warning the russians. as the dead have said that if military conflict takes place in korea well then the nuclear disaster of two noble will seem like a children's fairy tale so i reiteration of a call for calm here in london from the russian side today and of course we'll be following the g eight meetings as they take place. absolutely police there we have got no day for you as well staying with the careers south korea the north could test the law and should miss any moment as they put it as part of celebrations for may national holiday the communist state is preparing to mark certainly the birthday of its founder kim il sung on the fifteenth of april most creatively uses the celebration as opportunity to display its military strength washington seoul and japan therefore all have raised military alert levels now in the pacific we're keeping a close eye on that story for you. coming up in a couple of minutes an hour to a lost generation. through. red sleeves we

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello again human rights activists in bahrain are up in arms over a court ruling last week that saw two teenagers sentenced to ten years in prison under an antiterrorism law the boys aged fifteen and sixteen were allegedly tortured by interrogators before they confessed to attacking police during anti-government riots bahrain's authority has been cracking down on pro-democracy protests for the past two years arresting thousands of activists have died from the

european by radio going to zation for human rights told me both sides still deadlocked. the room of a case and the government used use of such laws to crack down on activists and and for all the citizens that go out in street sex and asking for democratic works you don't see any any improvement in the situation in bahrain or the ongoing crackdown that is increasingly the just these few days a crackdown has started against the activists and protesters disputed the economy the one that's going to happen this month. that we documented fifty years and others say we have it's a six between kidnaps and their assets to the activists and protesters and dealing with them the dialogue as well you can say that there is not a platform for such a dialogue where human rights violations being committed every day i mean kids as an interest of the allies of of the government of bahrain such as the united states

especially that we hold the fifth fleet at the moment and the united states has no actual. but they want us to do if we can but i mean and their security in the region but they're not hearing any and your eye on the human rights violations committed them but i ain't never had any going to be decked out by the they are lies they are backed up by the international double double standard that did you would have been royally should. check out our web site r t dog call they're now costly cures find out how us pharmaceutical giants of made over seven hundred billion dollars over the past decade by over charging senior citizens people. and mega upload founder kim dotcom is demanding an apology from the new zealand government find out what subset the hackers billionaire on our website as well. greece is struggling to meet the tough conditions set by international lenders the cash strapped countries hoping to get a long delayed tranche of

a crucial bailout package this month e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors and i was sensing athens progress in meeting the terms of the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue the greek finance ministers promise they'll be no more austerity cuts but lenders are pressing for severe job reductions of the country's bloated public sector they're demanding that twenty five thousand workers are laid off this year and a total of one hundred fifty thousand by twenty sixteen in the meantime fiscal belt tightening and rising unemployment a driving young greeks away from their country as artist tom barton found out for us. 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 making too 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 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. nicol 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 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 dental beds for the c.s.l. we are working and we seen our results with some estimates of greek youth unemployment as high as sixty percent desperate times are giving rise to desperate suggestions it's not just the young in greece using that word slavery we don't control faith

we are slaves it is a political problem and we must become again pretty but far from rhetoric about taking to the streets and throwing off 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 for leaving greece so that if they make it yours ok good luck with that cause to sink a 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. where the world news poland marks three years since the air crash that killed the country's president senior figures gathered for a memorial service at warsaw's pavone ski cemetery on wednesday morning the plane

was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to the russian city of smolensk when it went down killing all on board an official report blamed bad weather and pilot error poland is still conducting its own probe. in syria intense clashes have broken out on the outskirts of damascus as government troops launch a powerful counter offensive to prevent rebel forces from seizing the capital it comes amid reports that president bashar assad's troops have intercepted some of the opposition fighters main arms supply routes rebels are said to currently control some parts of northern syria as well as several districts of the country's largest city aleppo. thousands of private investigators are now operating in britain and their ranks continue to grow with high tech surveillance equipment readily available installs anyone it seems could become a p.r. and legal loopholes or allowing them to work unlicensed and registered so first got the story. to watch somebody watch them.

fortunately there are a lot of people bribery will use corruption and the and. it's not difficult to make yourself visible it's more difficult to be relaxed for you because when you first start you're always thinking oh my goodness they they know i just know they know that. they did and 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 streets 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 live is worked it says 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 electoral rolls lars 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 it was nothing really but. the law governing public surveillance in the hague changed the protection of freedoms that 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 so if i could go out and do surveillance i don't have to get any or thorough too from anybody of his ordinary surveillance want to want a recent reports by big brother watch documented local authorities who will

bypassing regulation by hiring private investigators. that's why many and now calling the 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 like having spent thirty years in the police force former detective inspector james harrison gryphus plays 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 danger but with tell you that cameras listening devices tracking

devices and much more you know 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 if it's the way of life that was. but the lack of regulation means that in the u.k. right now anyone can it any time be watching you no one is watching that so if. there's something about the web site those stories there you can have your comments to know shortly people about these crosstalk gets to be discussing if the likes of a rat in north korea really pose a bigger threat to the world than their western antagonist good question we'll try to get some answers and shortly.