the e.u. races to raise billions of dollars to reconstruct war torn mali there are concerns the country is still too insecure and the insurgency too strong for rebuilding to begin. fourteen countries try their luck by seeking public to observe a status of the arctic council in order to gain access to the region's vost untapped energy resources. in the mother's day shooting in new orleans reloads the debate on gun control in america the firearms lobby is continuing its fierce fight against change.

a very good morning to you from all of us here at the moscow i'm a rover sushi with your worldwide news live from the russian capital where it's now a just after eight. european leaders and delegates from all over the world are meeting to raise billions of dollars in aid for war torn mali it's the highest level gathering since france sent troops to intervene to help rebuild a country still plagued by islamists and rebel insurgents. has more now from a summit in brussels the leaders from the e.u. and france as well as international donors are gathering today here in brussels to drum up and get aid and support for mali a country which has been dealing with a radical islamist militants as well as a political crisis for the last couple of years now now the french foreign minister law fab you said said that the aim of today is to raise some one point nine a billion euros a to give to the country in what he calls

a quote unquote an effort to build democracy dialogue and development now we know that france has been very much involved in the country especially in the beginning of the year when it launched a military operation into the country saying that they were there to fight off islamist militants away from key cities now france is also in the middle of withdrawing some four thousand troops from the country wherever it does plan to keep about a thousand troops in sin what is seen as a long term a kind of posting in the country would this is in contrast to what has been told to the french people in the beginning who had given support to this military operation they were told that it was going to be a short a kind of operation however we have been speaking to some experts who are very familiar with counterinsurgency efforts and have had firsthand experience with them and they've told us here on our team that it's very difficult for counterinsurgency operations to be a short kind of war because as you drive out militants from key cities they do have a tendency to just keep coming back so there is a question of whether security is really in place to do that actually intervention

create. there is for. drew or. somewhere else. or are less likely true. maybe areas of the state of chaos sort of the nato intervention. place they're going to go but it is us they can say well that. the weapons their assets they. have a right because they know who would sooner or later the intervention forces whether their friends in mali or marriage that guys are sitting right. the french foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country or whatever critics do question the extent of that kind of stability the mali may be seeing at the moment there is no argument among everybody involved that a stable mali is in the interest of a secure region a regional security however there is that question of how sustainable and how

effective the efforts have been so far there are also plans of having elections in the country in july if and when that does happen what kind of a democracy and system will be put in place considering that the country is still facing some of those militant threats it's not one hundred percent out of the country also since today is largely a fund raising activity there are questions on the money now are there mechanisms that will make it should make it very transparent as to where this money is going to go and if it will actually reach its intended destination lot of questions that need to be answered as these leaders and international donors at me today here in brussels. right there we of course i will be following the conference i'm bringing you analysis of the situation in mali throughout the day here on oxy processor australia and brussels right now you can always check out our twitter feed latest updates that attests underscore ott. for now the arctic council originally formed of nations with land above the arctic circle has

a waiting list of nations keen to join up some though very far from the north pole of china and india are among fourteen nations seeking permanent observer status during the current meeting in sweden artie's marina question of explains why they're so keen. here in the north the sweden the future and all the money tickets that state and ministries from aid to northern most countries including the us canada and russia will decide whether to let fourteen other states gain observer status and they are to become self so what is that for one suddenly cill interest says and this ice covered region while their reason is on the tip of the iceberg its vast resources given the harsh environment there resources are difficult to extract but underneath as snow again ice is around twenty two percent of all remaining oil and gas deposits the world's eight north and most countries are those

who fell asleep clean to the region there is still uncertainty however over the life should be divided among them but now i'm still countries including the u.s. are calling for the scrapping of turgid moral principles to make it a free for all china and india are among those who would cherish that most these two countries have already made tentative steps north this april china signed a free entry deal with iceland as fast with a european nation chinese businessmen are also to be investing in greenland so it really seems that the asian aims to get a foothold in the arctic and other fast developing global player is indiana also seeking to be heard about the arctic cold so as to wakes up to the increased economic potential off this region so far the arctic council includes those countries who are invested in the protection and exploration of the north in place cap but now as the commercial interests kicks in maybe other nations are rushing to

the region and it's up to the council's permanent members to decide whether the unfriendly north insurance should suddenly become a crowded place or to just a few minutes here on our spying on associated press was necessary to plug a dangerous leak of a so. into the u.s. justice department or as i want to told us or at all so you could just be away just scared whistle blowers and stop them working with a p i would take a closer look at that in just a few minutes time here on the program plus. the no we're not talking about submarine that's the scripts in this thing given to britain's new hunt to kill us and this is a pool so the submarines to run into trouble we've come here to the barren furnace where the submarines designed and built find out what's been going on and more on that story coming up a. real

damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the u.s. war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step with full democracy it's a step forward

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this is an international peace conference on syria brokered by moscow and washington is likely to take place in geneva early next month on the u.s. diplomatic efforts to finally bring the syrian government and the opposition to the negotiating table now u.s. secretary of state john kerry has warned washington will give additional help to syrian rebels if the. russian's foreign minister insists the syrian government is positive about the prospect of negotiation. explain the likely format of the conference. because it's as though we're just looking for. regarding the composition of the participants at the conference should be at the level of ministers all their deputies we discussed the possible formats of the conference the general opinion is that those who were in geneva in june last year should be at the new conference as well as russia believes that a few important players should take part two including iran and saudi arabia most

importantly we need to ensure that both the government and the opposition support the initiative the government has already made a statement and that statement is generally positive the opposition still does not speak with one voice yes today we discussed with john kerry the necessity for our american colleagues to do everything possible so that the opposition appoints a delegation. now the prospects for the international conference on syria and what's in for foreign countries are certainly a topic for debate in the latest edition of cross talk a full program coming your way at seven am t.m.t. a for now though a quick preview brinson churchill said that americans can be counted upon to come to the best option not to the tried everything else but i think the united states missed an opportunity to. reinforce and support moderate. forces center collapsed we ended up with extremists from the

muslim brotherhood all the way to al-qaeda so the united states is trying to give it a shot. and that will be seven am g.m.t. for that edition of crosstalk the u.s. justice department has defended its spying on associated press saying it was necessary to find leaks that could in danger american people the phone records of about one hundred journalists including that private numbers was seized sparking outrage in the media will wind the white house though has distanced itself from the scandal saying it knew nothing about the probe of a president obama's administration is known for targeting whistleblowers and his

auntie contributor afshin rattansi reports they were now think twice before contacting a.p. . they would able to notify the head of associated press because it would undermine the security of the whole operation the idea of justice anyway in the united states around the world that we see now how can they be above the justice when their children youngest strike is in cuba and as for eric holder himself well. are they thinking when they're actually naming associated press the american taxpayer will have to be reparations to associated press because let's face it no whistleblower source is now going to call the a.p. desk in new york or washington d.c. and more generally it has to be said that given the obama administration's attitude you're not really an american journalist if you're not if your phone calls aren't being recorded or at least the phone logs are being noted down and sent to the f.b.i. . we can find out a much more about the a.p.

spy story just by logging on to r.t. dot com we've got statements from washington officials and lawmakers as well as the reaction of journalists and expert analysis. new orleans police are seeking a teen suspect over the mass shooting at a mother's day parade on sunday which left nineteen people wounded and the incident comes as president obama continues his push for a clampdown on gun owners but it's not is more important i reports the farm lobby is giving no ground. it's the national wound that never stops pleading. nineteen americans including two ten year olds were hospitalized after gunfire erupted in new orleans during a mother's day parade yet another mass shooting in the united states this time amid a national debate on gun control if you go to google to look at the stories on this particular incident you'll find that there are also advertising places to practice

your shooting out of carry weapons and all the rest of it in other words instead of waiting people from using guns this whole incident is being used to promote more guns and promote more people having licenses to carry guns so you know i we are in a situation now where bizarrely the more violence there is the more violence there probably will be in the aftermath of last year's school shooting in newtown which killed twenty children and six adults the national rifle association proposed armed security guards to be stationed in every american school. in the country's largest gun organization is five million members strong and has fought fiercely to defeat washington's recent efforts to introduce basic gun control legislation let me make this perfectly clear we will never back away from our

resolve to defend our rights and the rights of all law abiding american gun owners . these children were among the eighty six thousand gun enthusiasts who recently turned out in houston texas for the n.r.a. annual meeting and exhibit. during the three day meeting they received personal lessons on how to stand their ground. with kids as young as six practicing their aim with air guns with. if you could just irving about what's happening now in gun culture is the way the n.r.a. spirit ing is kind of integration of children into the use of things like assault weapons and military style semiautomatic weapons as opposed to the old you know bold action on the right tools that kids maybe grew up with a generation or two ago with a reported three hundred million guns already circulating in the u.s. kyle copeland founded the armed citizens project to give firearms out for free

we're going to be training in arming residents in a neighborhood in oak forest in houston it's a high crime neighborhood with a lot of home invasions and we're offering all the residents that live in our targeted neighborhood if they can pass a background check and it will take our training class will give them for free a pump action shotgun for home defense when it came to defending attendees at the new orleans parade even police officers interspersed in the crowd couldn't stop the gunman so all in all this was a pretty shameful day for washington but many argue the legislation for basic background checks that failed last month in washington could have ironically america's divisive debate on gun control has turned into a blessing for the arms industry sky rocketing sales of rifles and ammunition has been reported arguably making it even harder for the future of mass shootings to possibly be prevented from new york to bring up or not i am partly. on the website

altie dot com for you right now a human rights lawyer reveals hunger strikers in guantanamo bay have to undergo humiliating body searches before contact with legal representatives and that's all in a bid to provide any leak of information about the real condition of the inmates this is the protest and to date one hundred full story online right now. and exxon mobil assures all console residents they're safe marches large oil spill but breathing problems and burning eyes tell a different story and find out what's really high. in the affected area at r.t. dot com. it's easy to do.

so and then it's time for the r.t. world update but for now it was monday that a deadly car blast in libya's second largest city of benghazi left several people dead and many injured but the attack came amid a frantic pullout of u.s. and u.k. embassy staff this of course due to the recent spike in violence lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine he thinks the west could be leaving behind it the mess that helped to create they created a monster that they could no longer control and it's turning against them in a way there was absolutely foreseeable the fact that the tony blair policy which obama kameraden circles e-file people many in europe with gore could not see in orcus two thousand and eleven created this condition which was understandable only anyone who knew know was going to happen he worked directly with the out to the militias all throughout the big guys you know other parts of libya and now libya

has become governor of the so even the people who initiated the mess have to leave to protect themselves because nobody's of the victim in this situation is completely out of control. into the day we go now are starting with nigeria's president who has now declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast of the country and his decision was prompted by a surge of guerrilla attacks with at least twenty three people killed in the latest round of violence all the reinforcements are to be dispatched to the troubled region and with an order to demolish all islamist hideouts. mexican authorities have restricted access to the area around the public at the petrol volcano and are preparing evacuation routes for the volcano has been increasingly active over the past few days the latest eruption sending smoke three kilometers into the sky no evacuations of taken place yet but emergency officials say they are watching for

rain either could wash down the ash gathered around the crater for flooding nearby communities. and more than fifty people are feared dead after an overcrowded boat capsized off the coast of. the passengers were fleeing a township in the west of the country which is preparing for the arrival of a powerful cyclon at the un a school for them to be evacuated from the region because many live in ramshackle camps in vulnerable low lying areas. now despite deep budget cuts britain's planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new military equipment and the majority owner a new class of nuclear submarines for the multi-billion dollar ski multi-billion pound i should say project has been plagued by design folds and technical problems from the very beginning. to take a look now at why london is still committed to the controversial weapons. the cutting edge in military technology. every decade tens of billions of

pounds in the making these of britain's new class of hunter killer submarines and they've been making waves that lead to. serious problems from ground to. corrosion this is. the astute and. the damning description is a far cry from what britain's ministry of defense has hailed as one of the most technologically advanced machines in the world as impressive as she sounded on paper. launch into the public sphere it's not been an easy one the series of leaks intelligence has become clear that the problems could run deeper. is that. the design started in the mid ninety's. you know electronics.

with all the electronics. present time to try and keep up with that and you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete problem. simple things. in the northeast of england in barrow in furness is now the only site in the u.k. that designs builds and test submarines and that work forms the backbone of the economy here the current owner of the shipyard is a defense systems not without its critics it's a company that shrouds itself in secrecy and it didn't disappoint when it came to addressing the alleged catalog of. marine program having been beset by these designs for allegations. we asked the aide to give us their side of the story but

they declined to comment. is perhaps no surprise with the government order a seven astute class submarines only two are in the water with one still being built any one of the things the comply part of the obviously the people be. very protective of the stuff. you preach. about it's. on information that. it is difficult for you come to expect it understand it and there's a distinction between the protectiveness and secretiveness of local people compared to seek to the most of the conflict and that's because in terms of the local people and people there protecting them because this is their heritage stand history and from the perspective you understand. because the commercial reasons but that's the reason that they're being paid x. amount of money to build and design something the local pride in the submarines is

evident but even the ministry of defense is being forced into embarrassing admissions about what they've turned teething troubles really how. do we continue producing this. or do we get it right and then start again the problem here is this is if they stop. short of submarine attack submarine. and that means that strategy. really is quite serious with the launch of the third class submarine still some way are the next couple of years for this project. sink or swim time. so r.t. baron furness in the north of england all right on back with more news in half an hour's time but before.

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a little. real damage in complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the u.s. war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker see it's a step forward a little and he corrects it is toxic is a look a lot like spray. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p.

really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this will spill. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. lead balloon hundred days nearly one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for good no. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i've got so many i mean the town i know that i'm sitting in the seems really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize it's a little worse if you're going to be the only white house or

a radio guy and pull up a veil minestrone click cause they all want to watch closely or about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. you guys i'm happy martin walking the break in the set you know this is a very exciting time for the l g b t community states are slowly beginning to understand that gay people should have the same rights as straight people and now minnesota has become the twelfth state to pass gay marriage but just like any other activist movement causes toys for co-optation from corporations some of the biggest donors to human rights campaign one of the most prominent groups include corporations like bank of america b.p. nike and coca-cola but there's one major donor that stands above the rest in terms of financial hole drone manufacturers yep.