the u.s. justice department admits it's played on the associated press news agency but obama's administration insists it remain as dedicated to protecting freedom of speech. the e.u. braces to raise billions of dollars to reconstruct war torn mali there are concerns the country is still too in secure and the insurgency too strong for a building to begin. to calm a conspiracy the detention of a cia spy in most schools falls victim to media mockery thanks to the wigs dull glasses and all school with the band found on the american agent.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all she with me thanks for joining us the u.s. justice department has defended its spying on associated press saying it was necessary to find leads that could endanger american people these phone records of about one hundred journalists including their private numbers were seized sparking outrage in the media worldwide the white house has distanced itself from the probe saying if we knew nothing about it all she is is of all reports sound scandal. 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. 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 the one 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 have ever 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 the 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 roadmap 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. . all to contribute to option return to says that no whistleblower will now risk giving associated press 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 that we see now to be a problem of justice we're told during august strike is even 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. . european leaders and delegates from all over the world are meeting to raise billions of dollars in aid for war torn mali is the highest level gathering since france sent troops to intervene and aims to help rebuild a country still plagued by islamists and rebel insurgents are see there has more now from the summit in brussels. well 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 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 in 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

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 chase the terrorists from one place they move they withdraw or they consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to create higher living areas of the state of chaos so. it's an ideal place for going to get out but it is just they can see. the weapons their assets they followed the variation. away because they know that sooner or later. the intervention forces whether the french being in mali bear it out guys will sooner or later. the french

foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country whether 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 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 a lot of questions that need to be answered as these leaders and international

donors meet today here in brussels. brought in from the un take a group of surveys are throwing money at money mali before ensuring security and stability will not help the people there. bringing money in a system that is greatly corrupted where the money never goes to the people that read it needs it and bring in the results you have to do it have a strong strong political institution you have to have a strong police. to improve the conditions there well conditions of the people you have results in death case we are putting the stages one bit before another but in the in the wrong in the wrong since this part of the world has being directly. targeted by a lot of. countries. who are looking for the natural resources on friends 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 want six countries including india and china joined the ox of council as observe is there hoping to gain access to the regions of the times energy resources and more on those later in the program plants. run the leaky we're not talking about the toll will separate that's a description the being given to britain's new hunt to kill us and this poll said the subway it's a run into trouble wolf we've come head to paris but it's one of the submarines i designed and built to find out what's going on and the more on that story coming up the field. all of that later but now the russian foreign ministry has no shot approaches with the us some boss of a cia spy was called mosco american agent who works in the us embassy was detained trying to recruit

a russian federal security service agent but while spying scandals are usually taken very seriously this one is getting quite a few laughs in the media and on the internet all season it say to explain why. just have to look at some of the headlines across the western media today to understand the magnitude of the laughter they're having now from russia with the wig james blog and many different headlines have come up across the western media today in relation to the spy incidentally to spy scandal mostly because the man detained ryan fogle had a wig on him and a comb which in the era of high tech technology some say is something that a spy may not have but we've already contacted several experts who've said that intelligence experts those are who said that despite that we're living in the era of high technologies still things like wigs can be very effective in terms of concealing one's identity and we also have to remember the previous scandals in the

previous cases where it says the most recent anna chapman scandal when none of the media actually took the serious and said that she was most likely a model or an actress rather than a spike until the rumor was confirmed but let's dig a little deeper and go back to two thousand and six when a scandal between the u.k. and russia erupted when a russian state channel showed a documentary exposing several of the agents working in moscow gathering intel while they were doing it by means of a certain technologies disguised as a rock while the media was laughing out loud back then as well saying that this is a conspiracy theory who could possibly go on information with a rock until one of the former members of the u.k. government actually admitted that things like that existed and this was nothing but true so we have to wait and see of course whether there will be any comments from the official washington on this latest issue so is it possible that this scandal can pose a serious threat to russia u.s.

relations doesn't seem this way because mostly because of the lack of comments now we know that the us ambassador michael mcfaul was that the russian foreign ministry in the morning to do some explanations. regarding this incident but he had no comments not before. after the meeting with the russian officials so this suggesting of course along with the lack of comments coming from the russian side only very very shrewd comments coming from the russian side that this will not hamper the relations as they stand currently especially in the times when washington and moscow seem to agree on the diplomatic level in particular about the syrian conflict so this doesn't have an indication that this will probably grow into another scandal another round between the two countries and this is the bank with more news for you in just a moment. well . it's technology innovations all the developments around

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else he welcomes lock china and india are among six lucky nations i would have permanent observer status to the office a council which is currently meeting in sweden they're hoping that will give them access to the vast and injuries that laid beneath the ice and aussies of a cross he joins me now in the studio to discuss why countries are so keen to get involved so you know what you're seeing here hi i had the meeting has finished right now exactly who got accepted into the club well the arctic council which is playing a very few people cared about the arctic council several years ago it was only after a two thousand and eight us geo survey that estimated that twenty two percent of the earth's natural resources were in the region that people became interested so we should preface everything by saying that there is

a great deal of interest in the arctic natural resources today the arctic council admitted to china south korea india italy japan and singapore as. servers to the council this means that they can participate in what the council does propose projects but can't vote with the council some n.g.o.s as well greenpeace among them but interesting the interestingly the e.u. had also sought an observer status membership but that was blocked today by canada is interesting yeah i would say that china now other countries got accepted access to the council is a big move for china isn't it yes yes it is it's part of china's growing. foreign policy its resource policy perhaps i think we could probably boil down china's interest in the arctic to resources and routes china's particularly interested in availing of the north sea passage and reducing the time it takes to ship products from the chinese factories to european and american markets now that the ice is

receding to quite an alarming degree. chinese firms are china the chinese government should i say is very interested in shoring that its interests are. respected by those who will be opening up the arctic passage from the resources point of view of course yes china has pushed a number of partnerships with nordic countries and lobbied very hard to become involved in the council it was involved in a spot with norway over the appointment of a nobel peace prize to a dissident recently and. despite that no way back to china's application to the arctic council and they also set up a free trade agreement with iceland last month the first of its kind so china is very interested in gaining access providing perhaps the financial grant behind some of the massive exploration that may take place in the arctic in the near future they're interesting this sets up some tension with the u.s. to union the. the u.s. is obviously competing with china on

a global economic scale and many would see china's entry into the arctic family as. raising of the stakes in that competition there is common ground there between china and the us to it should be said that both china and the us a favor opening up the territorial division of the arctic as an international area and this would allow them of course pursue their interests a little bit more vigorously than if the arctic was divided according to the map should we say so many things at stake now that so how well this impacts the council and what well the swedish chairmanship of the council has just finished and canada who blocked the entry should we should run into the council is now taking over the chair now when he was in opposition canadian prime minister harper advocated a multi-billion dollar expansion into the arctic this was to invest in ice breakers

and a arctic port deep arctic port to kind of is very very interested in of course among those on the canadian representative on the council is an ethnic of the arctic area she's indigenous to the arctic area and it's expected to canada will make the plight of the indigenous peoples a core of its chairmanship this is an interesting tension between some of the economic interests that are coming on board now. the plight of the local arctic peoples. who are living with the daily reality of climate change arranged by thanks for all for explaining all the thank you you thank. and at the home for you right now a bahraini for human rights activists gets asylum in the u.k. often two years on the run but he lashes out at london for aging baldwin one down on the opposition and told the story in for now website also that for you. hunger

strike isn't gone tunneled they are subjected to humiliating body searches before any call touch with their legal representatives reports say in a bid to prevent any legal information about the real condition of the maids go to the full story at all to dot com and also don't miss out more is expensive on ad coverage of the protests and because they want. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. holding nearly one hundred kuantan of all detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for good. in the soundtrack some other headlines around the world palestinians marking their sixty fifth annual now but day with brownies and protests translated as qatar strictly this day marks the anniversary of the creation of the state of israel in one thousand and forty eight the fighting that followed hundreds of thousands of arabs feel forced on their homeland those people and that families now claim their

right to their property they left behind science and us recent times that issue has become one of the main bones of contention between israel and palestine. nigeria's president has declared a state of emergency in three states of the north east of the country is decision was prompted by a surge of guerrilla attacks with at least twenty three people killed in the latest round of violence on the reinforcements also be dispatched to the troubled region with an order to demolish all islamist hideouts. months and also retreats have restricted access to the area around the couple cats of pets hotel you know on top of prairie evacuation routes the volcano has been increasing to over the past few days the latest eruption of something small cool to me was into the sky and cover nearby towns with us no evacuations have taken place yet but emergency officials say they are watching for rain because most on the ash gathered around the crater flooding mia by communities. more than fifty people are feared dead author and

over one hundred boat capsized off the coast on them on the passengers will flee in a township and the west of the country which is preparing for their arrival of a powerful and close the go on has called for them to be evacuated from the region because many live in ramshackle times in vulnerable low lying areas. britain is planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new military equipment a large chunk of the money will go towards a new class of nuclear submarine but the project faces serious problems the sub's nuclear reactor is malfunctioning and it flies underwater reports now on the high tech weaponry which is far from state of the yacht. 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. problems from ground to. corrosion this is. the astute and i jinxed 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 problems could run deeper. is that. if. 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 with. 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 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 these 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 to any one of the things the compiler part of obviously the people be. very protective of the subs and you preach. about the problems. on information that. it is difficult. you come to expect and understand and there's a distinction between the protectiveness and secretiveness of local people compared to seek to most of the company 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 bill not because for 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. burke and so do we continue to produce in this part of submarines 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 on the next couple of years but this project kid three sink or swim time. surf arty barren furnace in the north of england and of course more international news and minutes for you but to stay with us for peaceful or else crosstalk.

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