there are global protests against a u.s. g.m. food giant accused of dominating the world's food market so much so that consumers health is at risk and farmers are taking their own lives. militants laid siege to a french mine. in retaliation for fraud as military four is in north africa now worried the mali intervention is fanning extremism across the continent. reporting the suicide bomber targets police in the capital of russia's republic of dagestan killing one and injuring fourteen people it's the latest in a string of deadly terrorist strikes in the region.

and screen online international news and comment from our studio center here in moscow this is. a wave of rallies rolling across the globe in protest at biotech giant monsanto campaigners and environmentalist some more than forty countries accuse the multinational corporation of aggressively expanding into the food market and spreading hazardous products some of the largest demonstrations are taking place in the u.s. where the company was set up more than a century ago auntie's and started chatting and joins me live now from new york and started tell us what is the situation there what is happening where you are at the moment. well the x.t. is one of danton's american cities. and against monsanto today well you know mark the march. according to our estimates there are over two thousand people here on.

the money over to. thousand people they were just marching through the city odds now are the protests are continuing and definitely all of these people are gathered here today to speak out against the giant biotech more issue that's for years been accused. of manipulating farmers enough the importance of not lies in the agriculture industry and certainly the concerns that serves about the genetically engineered wouldn't have generally modified food that they produce wheat and all of these people in new york in the united states and across the world are speaking out against this giant corporations they that caused immense lobbying power in the west specifically at hospital around for over a century so certainly its behavior is very hard to tackle but these people are hoping to do just that well all very well voicing their concerns but what do they actually hope to achieve bill ah the goods are set out are pretty simple people are

saying that it's time to begin labeling genetically modified food in the united states for one so that consumers are able to make a knowledgeable choice about what it is that they're buying purchasing and feeding their families and certainly this is been something that's been a huge battle and that is that it's needs because of the major lobbying powers that monsanto and any sort of tangible legislation was either blocked or legislation that is in favor of monsanto's activities horse through very strongly by its lobbying powers and it's very close by in washington d.c. so what protesters want labeling up here most as well as for their scientific research in trying to find out exactly what kind of an impact genetically engineered genetically modified modest job on consumers around the world those those are thanks very much indeed for that live update there from new york thank you i was positive note. while the global move against genetically modified goods started off in new zealand hundreds of people gathered to send

a message to the biotech manufacturers australians they have been protesting in their thousands to demand a g.m. free zone and rallies have also taken place in japan's capital tokyo demonstrators marched through the streets of europe's key cities as well carrying stop one fan to post of an activist nick but not be says that the corporation is forcing small farmers out of business pushing them into such despair that some commit suicide if you look at what happened in india i mean there's an epidemic of suicides of the farmers because i'm santoso them are a cotton seed that they promised a certain thing and then those seeds didn't perform how they were supposed to and it drove a lot of these indian farmers into sheer poverty and they ended up committing suicide by the hundreds of thousands some sort of effects family communities everywhere i mean in the united states they're known for suing small farmers there's a lot of small farmers at the putting out of business because you have genetic migration into two crops that weren't supposed to be g.m.o.

but they're getting cross-pollinate it and then monsanto comes in and they use their government cronies to go in and shut down small farmers because. their genetics from their seeds that they that they did have have slowly crept. into the genetics of non-human seeds. despite global bank of the us senate discovered a bill which would have given american states the authority to decide whether to label genetically modified products the majority of legislators believe that people don't need to know whether they are eating g.m. foods parties making lopez explains why. for years now americans have been concerned about the food in their refrigerators and more importantly the ingredients in those foods the debate over genetically modified crops isn't only playing out in the fields it's being harvested in the courtrooms as well as within the walls of capitol hill and it turns out the u.s. government might have a bigger stake in the biotech industry than anyone could have imagined

a report released by the food and water watch group shows that the u.s. state department played a major role in promoting g.m. foods and crops around the world the report examined diplomatic cables from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine revised the first comprehensive analysis of u.s. policy when it comes to the biotech industry now here are the four stated goals that food and water watch discovered in these cables the first one is to promote biotech interests abroad they try to facilitate trade and encourage cultivation of g.m. crops second up lobby foreign governments to weaken biotech rules you can't after all profit off these countries if you can't get your products in some of them along with lobbying the need to protect biotech exports by stopping trade barriers like tariffs all this to promote and protect an estimated twenty five billion dollar industry and biotech crop exports and in particular one property monsanto which was

the biggest biotech seed company in two thousand and eleven and finally reach out to new markets by pressuring the developing countries to adopt a biotech crops the main argument here is that these crops are stronger and can end up in security around the world with a growing global population the state department also lobbied against the labeling of these crops and genetically modified foods they don't want any type of labels on them countries from egypt to hungary argentina to mozambique were targeted in these efforts and many of them were very receptive some of them. actually change their regulations as a result now this lobbying started happening around the same time that monsanto admitted to bribing indonesian officials and in attempt to weaken environmental oversight of g.e. crops now in the wake of these cable releases it appears that monsanto and other biotech firms don't need to bribe country officials anymore they have the government to do that using taxpayer money nonetheless it is the latest chapter in

a dispute over your dinner plate in washington meghan lopez r.t. . if he's author of seeds of destruction the hidden agenda of g.m. and he explained how the ability to manage is to stay afloat despite widespread criticism and damning research into its activities. this is a. strategic interest of the u.s. the agribusiness lobby which lobbied the bush sr as president i think ninety two monsanto went to the white house and had a closed door meeting with bush and got bush to agree to make sure there were no old government s. whatsoever on the health and safety of g.m.o. products before they were released to the commercial public rats but with g.m.o. monsanto rice corn and other had. huge incidence of cancer tumors compared with nonviable rats they had an enormous organ damage death rates five times out of the

normal routes and the study was suppressed well it was it was downed by the european union's food safety administration and it turns out most of the scientists on the handle had ties to monsanto so it's just the corruption that ensemble tries to infiltrate its way they try to block label leaning california because that would damage their all the. product situation in america people are beginning to wake up . on our home page should r.t. dot com we're asking you what you think these protests and demonstrations around the world will achieve anything so let's see what the results are so far and we can see that the reactions in this last change where sixty three percent do believe that these campaigns will increase public awareness but there is a concern that business lobbies will prevent any policy change there is a sense of optimism seventeen percent think that this could actually lead to a global ban on g.m.

products while eleven percent blocked so off to mystic saying it could attract a little attention but of course there are more pressing problems such as world hunger to think about a nine percent do believe that this could force some ongoing moderate change in the production of g. and foods an ongoing campaign could well be underway now that's what you think if none of your feelings are expressed in the comment. you can always go on to our feedback and comment section of our t.v. dot com and we'll be giving a lot of updates on the website throughout the day and of course giving updates here on screen at r.t. dot com on those demonstrations which are taking place around the world. with the backing of a government sewing see. the world. in the free. francaise admitted its troops took part in an assault on a military base in the air after it had been overrun by islamic militants it

followed a twin bomb attack on the base an outlying french owned uranium mine a prominent islamist group took responsibility saying the operation was revenge for france's intervention in mali when a partner violence has begun to emerge across former french colonies in africa in general or military intervention in mali to stop an islamist takeover of the country while a few days later more than eight hundred people were taken hostage by extremists in algeria demanding an end to france's military for dozens of the hostages were executed or caught in the crossfire in the ensuing battle the man behind the raid a veteran north african al qaeda leader was believed to be killed but it turns out he has now dispatched militants to attack from libya meaning it too has now become a host to terrorist cells he says it's retaliation for france's actions in north africa. is. behind. that killed

twenty people. have described. in revenge for islamic militants in neighboring mali one of the two groups claiming responsibility for almost ten years explosions at an army base and your reign in mind in nigeria is the movement. africa last year the coddling group seized control of a northern part of mali and brutally ruled the area for months people being driven out of mali by french troops runs as president then failed the operation at success here in the capital the macro the french military we've spoken to have also expressed to us that option is confirming they destroyed all the major bases of the militants in mali north but this recent attack in nigeria it's clear that the rats remain serious and it shows that the militants are not defeated and the fight

against them is far from over although the battlefield has really catered for in the recent loss also on the set france would not interfere in niger however the next day french troops took part in operation to free hostages with images captured off of the attack on a further to half of those want the french intervention to really get a chain reaction that will give paris more travels and will bring more violence to the entire region. notional team from mali. and if she returns he dumps french military action will suppress extremism in the region especially given the natural riches that. there's no doubt that the french intervention will lot of changed anything but in particular. the idea that streams or al qaeda linked groups are just going to go away friend special forces are left for money into these yeah which usually we knew about because of course the yellowcake uranium

saddam hussein deals is where all the world's uranium you know there's a big fight for whatever is happening in these areas there's a scramble for this uranium french company or a with my how strange with its revenues twenty eleven or about the g.d.p. of the entire country well first of all ground to extremism of any kind. for to go lame is to convince the e.u. it needs more time to deal with its economic crisis but his report later the sob story is already pushing the middle class towards the bread line as people struggle for a way out and that. other children on the margins of society scrabble along the path to knowledge on two legs or four.

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these are. republican. children are reportedly. in a string of attacks that have shaken the republic recently. the explosion happened and around meant a very close to the regions in terror ministry building and according to the locals the blast was so powerful that it could be heard in different parts of the city it was a female suicide bomber she was in a car police stopped her to check the documents and at that time she detonated her

device currently the area is blocked off by police as there are fears that this blast may actually be fulled by in other one to increase the number of casualties now this tactic is really well used by terrorists around the globe in particular by the al qaeda terrorists in their terror operations in various areas now this blast is just one in a string of latest terror attacks that hit this region just five days ago there was another deadly blast and we four people were killed and forty others severely injured the region of dagestan remains one of the most volatile areas in russia's north caucasus with reports on terror attacks coming in almost in a regular basis. russian energy sniffed the world's largest publicly traded oil firm has such a massive new deal forking you know billions of dollars in the joint venture to pump out an estimated forty billion barrels of black gold in venezuela you get the

details on our website right now and. rage across the poor suburbs are spoken for six million despite a heavy police presence in the streets and good videos pictures and all the updates of the cold. portuguese workers are again protesting against only going a sturdy measures this comes as there's been plans to also the e.u. and i.m.f. for more time to cut its debt the country wants creditors to revise that among the targets for him and his own if he's president of the middle close has been hardest hit. europe's politicians insist that all star team is essential but what effect does that austerity have upon the everyday people to whom it's inflicted upon. i went to meet a family just outside of lisbon who are feeling the pressure of portugal's financial failings and we create we used to take certain things for granted hard

water lights now have to watch everything we use families in financial straits like this want to becoming a common occurrence is the gap between the middle class and the breadline narrows in one of europe's purchased countries. my husband lost his job now will live on soothing and whatever work he can get as a day laborer those savings are running out with two daughters and one grandson the effects of portugal's financial plight is being felt through generations of this family and it's leaving its mark i'm twenty years old people my age should be planning for the future but there's no work the way things are now i have no prospects no hope. this family a lucky there are many in portugal and a far worse situation as the country's debt grows and the unemployment levels rise

charity organizations are seeing an increase of those needing help push. the we have children passing out of school because parents can't afford to feed them properly how can then learn if they're focused on hunger these armed children from bad pairings just parents that conned them and there's another worrying trend appearing to send bernie all too often we see the same thing there are many lose their income they're too proud to ask for help the bells start piling up the mortgage to food the poor you know it's the family on the street but future is that with the children the problem for portugal is that it has debts around one hundred eighty billion euro one hundred twenty percent of the new production couple that with twenty percent unemployment and it leads to a very difficult situation for its people the country needs money but it doesn't have the economic output to pay off its bills. however what's of more concern is

that the country could see the generation grow up under the shadow of national debt here in my son what i hope for do we go is that he can get a job somewhere abroad i can see anything for him here peter all of our team. these thirty orthodox protesters and gay rights campaigners have been arrested during a heated rally in moscow they were sexual activists were protesting before the lower house of russian parliament where they were charged by christian vigilantes wielding icons and crosses police were forced to intervene dragging away dozens from both sides initial demonstration was intended to protest against russia's anti-gay propaganda law which activists and rights groups denounced as oppressive and the sexuality was decriminalise in russia in the early ninety's but homophobia remains rife. education is the most powerful weapon nelson

mandela once said in a small palestinian community families are taking that advice to heart it's a two hour trek to the nearest school for some young students who are determined to learn against the odds of these paula slim reports of the daily challenge of grabbing an education each morning the steep hills of this inhospitable corner of the day desert come alive with children scrambling down the slopes to get to class before the bell rings. some children walk seven kilometers each way they are very keen to learn. it takes a certain kind of dedication to be a student at the school people's or the comic stream obstacles just to get here. in the winter when it rains a lot of children fall they arrive at school with wet clothes in the summer the snakes are the main problem. then there are others like judge brinn coercion who come by donkey he wakes up at four each morning so he has enough time to ride the two hours it takes to get to class sometimes i fall from the donkey and i get

injured one time i cross the street and my friend who was in another donkey got hit by a car but god saved him and he did not die but riding on this is not secure especially in harsh weather conditions and up a rocky mountain passes the chances of falling are pretty high it would be a lot easier if the community could build a road to the school but they're not allowed to his radio authorities say they are here illegally we always live with the feeling that they are going to kick us out from the camps and we're afraid for our children's future. we just want to live our ordinary lives without fear we have no electricity or water we have no roads. luckily the school is built in line with strict israeli orders but even though the bamboo mud and straw wars cannot be bulldozed neither can they be expanded but for the children and the literate parents it's worth the effort these people realise the importance of education. thriving that it's that kids. look at

the trying to learn. and they realize this importance because they're you know a very. big cannot for the better it's for the one hundred thirty students it's a few hours with spite from the harsh reality awaiting them outside these gates the chance for a future which their parents never had driving them to make sure they get to class whichever way they can pull asli r t y d abu hindi in the west bank. some more international news this hour in our world update a french soldier has been taken to hospital after he was stabbed in the western business district of paris while on patrol as part of an ongoing anti-terrorist operation he was reportedly attacked by a man of north african origin who was aiming for his neck the suspect is now on the run french president francois hollande said he will look at whether there was any connection with a murder in london on wednesday a british soldier was decapitated by two attackers with a machete sparking

a wave of islam a phobic violence there. in pakistan sixteen schoolchildren and a teacher have died after a school bus caught east of the capital islamabad the children were aged between five and fifteen police seven others injured in the fire were taken to a local hospital there are reports a gas cylinder also exploded in the blades. in syria at least twenty four people have been killed in fighting between government forces and rebels in the western city of. eighteen of those who died opposition fighters according to a u.k. based activist group president assad's troops launched an all out offensive on the area a week ago the city's seen as strategically important for rebels funneling weapons from lebanon which is just ten kilometers to the west. and hundreds of netanya activists of march in the burning suburb of book to mark the anniversary of the murder of an unemployed man stabbed to death in his home by

four right wing extremist they accused him of abusing the welfare system and later sentenced to twenty four and thirteen years in prison a suburb in the north of ireland has become a hotbed of extremist activity in recent years. but i'll be back with the news team with morphine half an hour from now just over half an hour the meantime our financial experts next and. expose those they suspect to sucking up public will in europe that's the kind of the. with. paranoia and zero tolerance policies strikes yet again the latest in

a string of children being punished for making gun noises or playing with toy guns involves a son of a us marine who had the audacity as a child to use his imagination and p. pretended his pencil was our gun banger children imitate what they see in every t.v. channel and in many video games kids are going to see a lot of guns in fact the boy at that moment was admirably pretending to be just like his father a us marine you know guns kind of come with that job description rather than complain you all again about the obvious idiocy of zero tolerance policies against children playing let me give one suggestion to actually help fix the problem there are so many teachers and school administrators across america that i bet many of you know one of them try talking them about the madness of zero tolerance a lot of people do things just because they were told to or they never thought about it before so please dear friends try to get teachers you know to actually think about it i can complain on t.v. all day long but one conversation from a friend or relative really could change many people's minds maybe but that's just

my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report cards are too many central bankers not enough wealth creators too much quantitative easing not of capital creation yes people we are literally drowning in central banking safety glug glug glug but. well glug glug glug because we are drowning in central banking the first headline is jeff gunlock we're drowning in central banking we're drowning in central banking right now and quantitative easing that's where the bubble is it's not going to end anytime soon until there are some negative consequences one of the problems we're

going to have in the global economy is currency devaluations that's the solution for an individual country for the issues they are facing right devaluations against what well just nine hundred seventy one when the gold window was closed everyone's been trading against each other so now there's a recognition that everyone is evaluating against against what well there is only one answer to that they will have to come back and say we're all going to devalue against gold just like they did in the 1930's and that's what's happening anyway because people in china people in asia people the middle east people in the emerging economies are buying gold hand-over fist the physical gold because they realize the devaluation is coming it's coming they're not stupid only the people of america and the u.k. are stupid enough to think that there won't be a return to a gold standard well we're drowning in central banking because all central banks are mimicking what the federal reserve and the japanese central bank are doing because they have to because they're all dead.