one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for good. law school says the recent busting of a cia spy goes against the us russia spirit of trust while the scandal leaves the american agent of the mercy of the world's media with a steady flow of drugs and guns over his clumsy skull. the u. pledges more than half a billion euros towards rebuilding mali as a major donors conference even of the euro zone economy shrinks for the six quarter in a row. also this hour security of the sanctity of the u.s. government owns up to a massive players operation targeting journalists with the white house trumping national security as the be all and end all. on the club

of the nations eager to cash in on oxygen riches is getting bigger and china and india are now among those who got a stronger voice when it comes to cutting out the region. international news life from moscow this is an see with me a hello and a very warm welcome to the program the exposure of a cia spy in moscow has failed to stir the political arena but caused a major boom in the media instead journalist to rush to the unfortunate spy ridiculing his outdated equipment and clumsy methods he's going after can joins us now live with more on this hi there guys so why is this spy scandal being laughed at. well the reaction in the media is

a mix of irony and disbelief you hear comments like oh i didn't know spies wrote instructions and then they will point ryan fogle spy kid you know with the waves and the map and the money and washington post writes the kid looks like cheap costume shop or a galley or so and make all these giggles you have comments raising doubts as to whether this was a cia operative on a mission the disbelief is generally based on this it looks too clumsy for the cia the cheap way is the instructions but the fact of the matter is that the guy was caught wearing that wig there are photos of him in that wig then you have others pointing at the fact that there was such a detailed photo and video material of the operation and trying to build some theories on that it's actually standard practice for the russian security service to record the operations in detail when they catch someone red handed then they choose or not choose to share it with the media so our colleagues here are having

both laughs and doubts about this story and then there were laughs and doubts when the russian f.s.b. discovered the fake rock remember that was used by british secret service systems spy on russia. basically it well in in two thousand and six british authorities denied the allegations six years later the former chief of staff to prime minister tony blair admitted that they were that they were fools that they were in fact true so that it was a fake rock with a transmitter in shied planted in some park apparently. spies would approach it with their laptops and it allowed them to receive and send information at the time the story was ridiculed and it turned out to be true. again chicken reporting there live from washington guy many thanks indeed and someone else with an interest in the case is the glenmore tree near harvey a british intelligence analyst mr harvey you were one welcome to the program do

your thing this spy deserves i mean this american spy deserves all the ridicule he's getting from the media no not at all the whole thing is that spying continues on. without any. letup whatsoever we saw. as your correspondent from washington talked about the case of the. moscow rock and at every time there's deniability what this is it's not so much a failure by the cia and there's unquestionably this cia officer operating as a political secretary has cover at the u.s. embassy. he wasn't particularly effective it is a great success for the f.s.b. the russian domestic security service their counter surveillance account for

intelligence has been shown yet again to be remarkably effective what fairly fail to do is follow a set of rules which the cia has always had it's called the moscow rules it requires you very the pattern of your behavior you're constantly told what is happening i don't know enough about the young man in question but it seems to me he was a little bit of a tirade he would have been a russian speaking intelligence officer assigned to the moscow station of the cia the paraphernalia he had. the wig which the media makes great fun of this is not so foolish after all you know you're trying to disguise your appearance carry it. yes and by the way the u.s.

has still commented on this condo if ryan photo a is a cia spy what does it tell us and our best standards well. spies are very effective until they get discovered then there's huge embarrassment embarrassment remember that separate state john kerry is currently meeting so gay lover of the russian foreign minister. this is going to be a most embarrassing encounter as far as the americans are concerned lover of war have a smile on his face a smile he didn't have when the suburban spies like and our chaps and christopher met sawsan the others were discovered three years ago you know the illegals operating in america the. what i think is as i say it is

one to the russian news the f.s.b. a zero to the americans he has been declared persona non grata he will be removed back to the united states again another cia officer would replacing wright and russia and the russian foreign ministry particular has once again stressed it disappointment over the scandal political impact is it likely to have. very little indeed remember president putin for many many years both as a k.g.b. intelligence officer in the former g.d.r. and then as head of the f.s.b. is absolutely wedded to the russian security services he is surrounded by the sea living he. hurried jews his people all the time it is a little it used to be described by kipling as the great game well in this

particular instance russia has scored america has lost but make no bones about it there will be a few recalls at the moment and before we know relations through back to normal and as i say. the cia will replace only with another intelligence officer and the game will continue. training our harvey british intelligence analyst thank you very much indeed for your insights thank you thank you. russia has once again expressed a disappointment over the latest spying scandal saying the cia's action undermined the government's efforts to cooperate. brings us more now. actually we're having our live invasion right now how do you go so what exactly is russia saying on the issue. well we've just heard from presidential aide. it's quite surprising that this u.s.

embassy official was caught red handed trying to recruit an agent in moscow despite direct orders from the presidents of both countries to go through the services to start working together on one side rather than against each other so perhaps these orders are being star getting stuck at some levels of officials or in other words are simply being ignored. added that russia and the you have many mutual friends and many spheres where they could work together and he said it's very likely that this articular spy scandal is going to change that are ruining relations. or thank you very much indeed and we'll see you later and online with elected a selection of top spying scandals of the twenty five century involving the u.s. and russia so had to r.t. dot com for the grand this story.

almost half a year after french troops landed in mali to push back rebels bombings and security still plagued the north of the country it's a situation heads of state are hoping to solve now as they gather in brussels for the donors conference that aims to raise nearly two billion euros for the wall to a country. has more now from the summit. 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 the radical islamist militants as well as a political crisis for the last couple of years now now the french foreign minister lavrov 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 however it does plan to keep about a thousand troops in sin that 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 r.t.e. 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 and they move through or

they consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to retire living areas of the state of chaos so. it's an ideal place for going to get out but it is just a. way for them as their assets they followed the variation. that sooner or later. the intervention of the great molly barrett is that guys are saying. the french foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country where her critics do question the extent of the kind of stability the mali may be seeing at the moment now 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 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 via 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 me today here in brussels and danielle do brought from the french on to colonial group survey says throwing money at money will not create a stable. bringing 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 and the results you have to do it have a stronger stronger political institution you have to have a strong polices. aim to improve the conditions the west conditions of the people

you have results and it in death case we are putting did the stages one bit before another but in the in the wrong in the wrong since despite of the world as being directly. targeted by a lot of. countries then i would. who are looking for the natural resources on friends have 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. just north of mali a police station burns and leave his restive city of benghazi to days after a mysterious comp last revolt style of escalation of violence in the former revolution and coming up later we'll look at the tertian gripping the country and what is facing that arrest that they sent a bunch of all of them right. do

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asked as he welcomed the u.s. justice department is on the box food defending its massive spoil peroration against the associated press news agency about one hundred journalists and editors have their phones top full months with the revelation sparking widespread outrage on his miserable has been following the 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. 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 their 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 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 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 i mean 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 this 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 contribute to action returns it says that the damage has been done and no whistleblower will ever risk going to the associated press they weren't able to notify the head of associated press because it would undermine the security of the whole operation like the idea of justice anyway in the united states around the world we see now how can that be a problem of justice when the torturing august strike is 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 generally it has to be said that given the obama administration's attitude you know really an american journalist your phone calls are being recorded or at least the phone logs are being noted down and sent to the f.b.i. . the world's most maligned detention facility marks a dark milestone ninety nine days of a mass hunger strike under thought it would be is not enough inmates have gone time of day reporting escalating harassment saying they're being subjected to painful searches for reasons as petty as a telephone call with their lawyers that bring up. competition over the arctic's vast natural resources is taking a new twist china and india states hardly associated with the north pole joining

forces with four other nations that have been awarded permanent observer status to the council on news editor i have a cross to explain this cold calculations. we witnessed today at the arctic council in meeting was what some are calling an asian rush to participate in the group that the arctic council oversees the arctic area and the receding ice flows have opened up shipping routes for asian nations particular to take advantage of and there's also a lot of interest in the mineral resources specifically in the arctic area the us survey in two thousand and eight estimated that twenty two percent of the earth's oil and gas was under the arctic bad trouble is people aren't really sure how to divide it up so we've had strong proposals that the arctic be divided according to long to shoot or to close coastline exposure to the to the arctic area but there's also been a suggestion from the u.s. which is a permanent member of the council to an international zone be created free for all

if you will a lot of people fear that that would open a pandora's box certainly the countries would who border the arctic region feel that might let players into the arctic area who don't necessarily have the best interests of the indigenous people of the arctic at heart. the u.s. plan funnily enough. fines echoes in china's stance towards the arctic where they they now call themselves a near arctic nation and they would be delighted if the arctic was opened up and allowed exploration from nonspecifically arctic nations to get involved the interest in china in particular from china in particular but also from singapore which also join the council today is a major trading how they can shorten the transport time to european markets for the i phones the i pads the televisions what comes from the asian markets to to europe they can shorten the. travel time or transport time by at least a week if not two weeks and this would basically help increase profit margins for those who would be interested on the other hand there are resources as well and the

chinese as you know are very eager to. secure resources on a global basis we've seen their work in africa and i think probably was we'd see a continuation of that policy in the arctic. at least one person has been killed in libya second largest city been gauzy after a minute has that stormed a police station it's been reporters that the building is still on fire with minister missing that's how it comes amid a frantic pullout of the u.s. and u.k. and this is stop due to the recent spike in violence and lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine things the west could be leaving behind the mess it helped create with a green monster that they could no longer control and it's turning against him in a way that was absolutely foreseeable the fact that tony blair policy which obama kameraden circles you follow. your with khadafi an orchestra two thousand left

created distribution which was understandable and you want to know mr knapp and we worked directly through the ark to you the issues you also went out to you guys you know other parts of libya and now libya has become fund governor so even the people who needed the mats have to keep to protect themselves because nobody will care in the situation just to keep the how to control. a simple telephone call with lawyers now of course gone tunnel it may it's a degrading border search according to prison as they allege that authorities are determined to stop the outside world learning about the desperate situation bad eighty percent of inmates at the detention of the city are now in the hunger strike that is marking its ninety ninth day and dr frank on old from the medical justice network says torture that continues repeated insertion of relatively worried board feeding tubes is obviously pretty awful. the joint task force is so peace shows

that rather than leaving the tube down as would be safe i'm sure he's being removed and shoved back down routinely regularly and painfully with a patient in restraint over and over again the policy behind v.s.o.p. is to punish them destroyed for daring to protest understructure it is a protest against what the strikers sees as the no access to justice in this case a decade or more of detention without charge or trial or possibility of release and it's clear that the hunger strikers are being underweight and with origin due to the planning of their force whether it's punishment as a means of control or for medical error so i think there's a real chance and something will go badly wrong and fairly soon that the doctors in guantanamo are in breach of their ethical duties by colluding in torture the medical association and the un agree with these doctors like everyone else have duties to refuse unlawful orders and to expose abuse that was established in new

york or because they do not want the hunger strikers do not trust and sometimes fear the storm were responsible for cooperating in what they see as abuse so there is no doctor patient relationship there hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. nearly one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for. some other families in brief now studios have run it across the occupied territories and not sixty five days after hundreds of thousands of arabs were forced from their homes to make way for news rain to state the day's cold not in arabic or the catastrophe has broken out in jerusalem on the west bank placing stone throwing protesters against israel. security forces. the series of bomb blasts have struck

across iraq killing at least fourteen people injuring dozens more the deadliest attack icon bombing happened in the northern city of kirkuk killing eight people and wounding eight more so side bomber on a motorcycle later hit a police checkpoint in a city north of baghdad killing one security officer coming up our report on the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico the big rigs. giving peace a chance this may or may not be the case when it comes to the fate of syria russian peace plan to end a civil war is being reconsidered are the u.s. and its gulf allies serious or is this a ploy to merely intensify the conflict. russia

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