i mean very rarely. 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. the u.s. justice department says it spied on journalists to protect americans but the seizure of phone records from one hundred associated press employees is causing huge on french. fourteen countries try their luck by seeking permanent observer status at the arctic council this in order to gain access to the region's vast untapped energy resources.

twenty four hour worldwide news live from the heart of moscow with me will receive welcome to the program 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 front sent troops to intervene and to help rebuild a country still plagued by islamists and rebel instructions. from the summit ongoing 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 lavrov fabulous' had 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 a 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 and says in 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 of 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 t.v. 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. any military intervention creates is that you chose that sarawak place and they move they withdraw or they

consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to retire here is the state of chaos sort of they said ok action based on are you a place you want to go but it is. it's they followed the station and the whites would know that sooner or later the intervention. from mali where it is not guys are sitting right there the occupiers the french foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country or whatever critics do question the extent of the 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 the regional security however there is that question of how sustainable and how effective the efforts have been so. so far there are also plans

of having elections in the country in july if and when that does happen what kind of 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 meet today here in brussels. by let's discuss it a bit further here are two with danielle deploy a spokesperson for subway an organization the campaigns against colonialism and french actions in africa joining us live now in power so good to see you today let's talk about the security situation in mali some saying it's not exactly secure is the summit aimed at funding reconstruction is it is it good timing do you think . about the timing it's it's only the next stage of the operation it was planned to

be because. at the beginning they found the government told that it was just aim to be a military operation the short material gratian but. after a few days did the they said they did they will have to stay for a long time to rebuild the country so now that's their goal the goal is to rebuild the country so they have to find money any way to do that but you you know i'm sure you used the word we used the phrase a long time and that certainly seems to be a bit of a question of concern to ultimately from what i understand molly is seeking two billion euros in compensation did you think poor in money like that in somali will help to bring stability and democracy as promised or perhaps are we looking at another afghanistan no i don't know i don't know about the comparison with afghanistan because it's far away but bringing crowing so much money a country never had brought any results. in terms of development if you look fifty

years before we have done this kind of credit this is since fifty years in in countries like matty so it's all in the conception of development policies that they have to change and bring money in a system that is greatly corrupted and where the money never goes to the people that reading needs it and bring in it in the results you have to do it have a strong strong political institution you have to have strong polices. aim to improve the conditions the west conditions of the people you have results in death case we are making that we are putting the stages one bit before another but in the in the wrong in the wrong since in my case i think that the other fair amount of concern when it comes to if you're funneling hundreds of millions of euros or even a billion euros into mali indeed does it go into the right hands i think there are many. skeptics out there let's go let's turn to the ongoing french operation in

mali i do ask i do apologize because i've seen conflicting reports some reports saying that paris is planning to keep a thousand troops in the country even after u.n. peacekeepers take over later this year also reports that some numbers of troops are going to be doubled so what exactly is going on that i've already had some people messaging me on twitter saying are we looking at an occupation here. it depends on the side you're looking at if you're looking at on the side of the french people is a kind of traditions we have since the one nine hundred sixty s. formally. and informally decolonization. time we kept thousands of soldiers in african soil we still have permanently for grazes and five thousand people five thousand soldiers. imminently on african soil and so now the. question is whether they will permanently stay in maybe

like this in one thousand problems soldier for an undefined time that's what they say they don't they didn't say they go to the government didn't say they will stay . base in madly because this is it will stay there as long as they need so we're going to have some sort of jumping i'm sort of jumping but i'm running so low on time here i just wanted to ask you though what are the true intentions of paris in this ongoing conflict here we're talking about sowing the seeds of democracy or are we talking more simply about protecting natural resources in the best economic interest of france. to restore our french position in africa our sense because this is part of that world as being directly. targeted by a lot of. powerful countries. who are looking for the natural resources and friends who has

a traditional very strong position in this continent and they are looking not to lose disposition so they are showing their muscles if you are showing the world everywhere that they are the strong political already and i mean already many people saying well here we have again people heralding democracy but actually just protecting financial and economic interests i don't your the boy a spokesman for the survey association live from paris i'm so sorry we're out of time but thank you you're welcome. the u.s. justice department has defended its spying on associated press saying it was necessary to find leaks that could in danger of american people the phone records of about one hundred journalists including their private numbers were seized sparking outrage in the media worldwide at the white house has distanced itself from the probe saying it knew nothing about it or reporting on the scandal now artie's lives while. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the

associated press and its reporters. the a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since nine hundred seventy six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that

never see it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced today that he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation that prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder yesterday associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a road map to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone records without notifying them the worry now is the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt in . you have sources that are being shut down doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn

off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is not leaked because it can endanger our national security interests there's a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington was wall r.t. . and r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says that no whistleblower will now risk giving associated press any valuable information they weren't 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 we've seen how can they be just as well if torturing on the strikers in cuba and as for eric holder himself well what exactly 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 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. . i could have you with us here in just a few minutes from now the arrest of a cia agent right here in moscow a look at how the latest spy scandal could affect relations between russia and

america plus. we're not talking about submarine that's the scripts in this being given to britain's new hunter killer and this is a pool so the submarines have run into trouble we've come here to. the submarines designed and built find out what's going on but more on that story coming up. for now though china and india are among six lucky nations awarded permanent observer status to the arctic council it's currently having a big meeting in sweden and they're hoping that will give them access to the vast energy reserves that lay beneath the ice details on this. question of explaining the rush for the grab. here in the north this week the future not the politic is at stake so while it is never one certainly self-interest says and this ice covered region while the reason is on the tip of the iceberg it's vast resources given the

harsh environment there resources are difficult to extract but underneath as snow and ice is around twenty two percent of all remaining well and gas deposits the world's eight north and most countries are the ones who fell asleep clean to the region there is still uncertainty however over the life should be divided among them but now i'm certain 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 beijing aims to get a foothold in the arctic and other fast developing global player is indiana also

seeking to be heard about the arctic council scheme 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 a place cap. interest kicks in maybe other nations are rushing to the region and it's up to the council's opponents members to decide whether the unfriendly north insurers should suddenly become a big project place that we're all to be in a culture of are right there i've got an update on the arctic council story there that now the council welk welcomes china italy india japan as permanent observer members of the e.u. they're kept in suspension no more details on this is we get it here or not so you have more news in just a sec. well

for the. science technology innovation called a list of elements from around russia we've. 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. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere.

thank you very much for joining us here on our coming to you live from moscow and the detention of a cia spy here in the russian capital is costa media but so far has not resulted in any diplomatic up he evil and the man who worked in the u.s. embassy was caught trying to recruit a russian federal security service agent. he has the latest developments. in the morning the u.s. ambassador. to the russian foreign ministry probably with some explanations to the incident but it's hard to say what actually came out of these talks in the foreign ministry because there have been no comments coming from either side we have indeed received a comment from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who is meeting his american counterpart john kerry in sweden at the moment he said that during his talks with kerry they didn't even discuss this latest incident because. every side

here knows exactly what happened. in fact lack of them makes. to believe that. russia and the united states have been involved in a spy scandal but this latest incident is unlikely to cause any diplomatic rift between the two countries of course the relations between washington and moscow have not been easy but this is the time when they are finally meeting some consensus on a diplomatic level in particular about the syrian conflict so another diplomatic route. definitely not both sides at this moment i'd like to remind you of you was that the cia agent working undercover as a third secretary of the u.s. embassy. tuesday in moscow reportedly in an attempt to recruit. who works closely with terrorist cells in the north caucasus and he was reportedly trying to bribe him with one hundred thousand dollars. initially definitely so far

it seems that this story has caused most small store in the media that at the diplomatic level. the reporting right now on the website. human rights lawyer reveals that the hunger strike is in guantanamo bay have to undergo humiliating body searches before they are allowed any contact with the legal realm and that's and if we prevent any leak of information about the real condition of the inmates the protest there enters day one hundred with a full story online for you. asylum in the u.k. after two years on the run but lashes out at london for crackdown on the opposition and more on that story on the web. on monday a deadly car blast in libya's second largest city of benghazi left several people dead but many more wounded the attack came amid a frantic pullout of u.s. and u.k.

embassy staff due to the recent spike in violence by lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine he thinks the west could be leaving behind the mess that it helped to create. well 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 cameron and starr cozy filed in that in the overthrow of gadhafi and orcus two thousand and eleven created this condition which was understandable and he wanted a new you know was going to happen we worked directly with the al-qaeda militia is all throughout in gaza you know other parts of libya and now libya has become fund government of the so even the people who initiated the mess have to leave to protect themselves because nobody loves the check down and the situation is completely out of control. are you straight to nigeria now for the r.t.

world update where the nigerian president has declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast of the country the decision was prompted by a surge of guerrilla times with at least twenty three people killed in the latest round of violence on the reinforcements to be dispatched to the troubled region with an order to demolish all islamist hideouts. mexican authorities have restricted access to the area around the capital volcano and are now preparing evacuation routes for the volcano has been increasingly active over the past few days the latest eruption sending smoke as you can see about four kilometers into the sky covering nearby towns with ash and no evacuations have taken place yet but emergency officials say they are watching for rain that could wash down the ash around the crater there by flooding nearby communities. and simeon where 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 wife of a powerful cyclon in the un has called for them to be evacuated from the region because many live in ramshackle camps in vulnerable low lying areas. operations planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new military equipment a large chunk of that money will go towards a new class of nuclear submarine the project faces serious problems the sub's nuclear reactor is malfunctioning and it floods underwater. further reports on the high tech weaponry which is far from state of the art. the cutting edge in military technology. over a 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. a series of problems from ground to. corrosion this is.

the astute and. the damning description is a far cry from what persons 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 its problems could run deeper. is that. if you like. the design started in the mid ninety's. you know electronics. with all the electronics. present time to try and keep up with that then you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete problem.

simple things. in the northeast of england in barrow in thoroughness 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 catalogue of errors with the submarine program having been beset by the design 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 that the complaint part of the obviously the people be. very

protective of the stuff. you preach. about. this sort of information that. it is difficult for you come to expect an understanding and there's a distinction between the protectiveness and secretiveness of local people compared to seek to most of the conflicts 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 they are because the commercial reason that's that's the reason that they're being paid x. amount of money to build and design something the local pride here 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 in just a moment here on our two hour special report the big.

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one after the b.p. spill dr on change who can we see anywhere in bear attack which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard this table got this cloudy gritty glaze on it we could bet that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingard these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers are actually.