headline. prime's reports. welcome back live from our studios in moscow you're watching r.t.m. lives in france thanks for joining me. as one of the last outposts of the british empire ascension island in the south atlantic is still said to be suffering from the effects of colonialism the u.k. stands accused of a victim families that have lived there for over a century let's take a look now ascension island is a tiny spot on the world map right here it's home to barely a thousand people many of whom may now have to leave reportedly to make way for an american military base the islanders who are mainly british citizens will not be allowed to stay after retirement or if they're unemployed at eighteen the case bears similarities to the expulsion of inhabitants from jay go garcia part of britain's indian ocean territory the island was forcefully depopulated in the one

nine hundred seventy s. also to make way for a military base those living on ascension island now say that similar to diego garcia london is squeezing the life out of their home or a smith reports the tiny island in the mid atlantic made a volcanic rock couldn't covered in pigeon guano but to eight hundred people it's hope but now the story of ascension island has all the whole marks the beginning of the diego garcia the british owned indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived through generations. good memories. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the. islanders accuse the british government of.

operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people over eighteen had to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infamous listening posts run by g.c. h.q. the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely

and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to haul in the special relationship. david lindsay is family comes from the island he says it's outrageous that the fate of british citizens depends on the us military ambitions most people on essential. indian origin a month ago i was. very very strong sense of a sentient being. starved to death there is a precarious. political representation there is the absence of property rights. and it is a serious question. when asked about why on british territory british citizens living there these are all british passport holders of why these people are being treated like this for the sake of a station a place which is almost certain you might know more of the details of this involved

in gauging the activities that have been such a huge global story in terms of spying on pretty much everyone but that is opening on british not an american or a british population there is being mistreated. but second look at other world news now first to nigeria where some fifty students were massacred while sleeping in their dormitory as one militants assaulted their college in a rural area of the country where this is savy attackers went room to room gunning down young men and those who tried to flee the terror group boko haram is believed to be behind the atrocity it comes just a week after the kenyan shopping mall attack on islam a slaughtered at least sixty eight the founder of the viewpoint africa website told us deep social problems have led to the surge of violence on the continent. pulled these groups all the joints to. be butt out. the y. the m.l.a. in in mali or if the were jewish across west africa these jihadi cells are all of

the blueprints on the organization of the west has already declared terrorism leads to islam is in islam is in links to fundamentalism and ultimately muslims when you're dealing with an ideology when you're dealing with a mindset and indicates all these groups they believe they can do no wrong because they think they believe they're getting their group from god so it's not the extent it becomes very difficult to dislodge difficult time. generational problem alternately the the use would be the ones who would be that be educated better be mindful of what can go wrong when they join these groups and ultimately when you start addressing the right from course it's creation of jobs addressing social issues ultimately we may be able to reap these problems from our small society. and other stories from around the globe an explosion in the pakistani city of peshawar has killed thirty three and left at least seventy wounded

a car bomb last place near a police station and historic market area a blast as the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting christians and government officials in the city taken together they have killed at least one hundred twenty people and injured scores more. prisoners enjoying the luxury conditions behind bars have left these prisoners seeing the red in chile the cordillera facility in santiago holds agents of the former military dictatorship for crimes against humanity the president has ordered the president to be closed and the mit inmates moved to another jail that news apparently triggered the suicide of a former intelligence chief of the disgraced dictator of coastal pinochet according to his lawyer the ex general was upset at being moved to a regular facility. a suicide attacker has struck a shia mosque in baghdad killing at least forty people the blast caused the mosque

roof to collapse onto the congregation which was mourning a man killed by militants on saturday dozens of people are injured more may still be trapped inside it comes after a series of bombings in iraq kurdistan that claimed six lives. in london thirty passengers of the tourist boat have jumped into the thames out of fear for their lives after the vessel caught fire the flames spread extremely quickly forcing the passengers overboard a passing boat plucked them out of the water no one was seriously injured only a few suffered from smoke inhalation. come betting industrial decline while boosting economic growth the french government faces a tough agenda in the coming years as president all along tries to maneuver his country out of financial turmoil amid pressure coming from brussels and berlin to make sure he fulfilled his promises amid growing euro skepticism tess are still has

the story. this you know where your promises are come on where are they the boiling over of frustration caught on camera priority is employment we need to eat but at this point the bad news no longer come a surprise to many french the popular self-styled mr normal condemned for having no power to stop economic uncertainty from becoming the new normal at the research that is possible with only eleven percent of the french thinking their economy will improve over the next twelve months running out of economic an initiative at home a laundry simply unveiled a three point five billion injection into thirty four key sectors hoping to spur a third industrial revolution. for now ordinary people have managed to survive the crisis because france has been a rich country for the past ten twenty thirty years and older generations have proportionally more money than the younger ones so in the family the transfer

phenomenon is common meaning the grandparents are helping their grandchildren finances studies but we can't go on like this for much longer. and then there's your skepticism it's rises reflected not just in opinion polls but increasingly in the election outcomes as well. i asked the president to hold a referendum in january two thousand and fourteen and i asked the french do they want to stay in the european union do they want to stay with this do they want european lewis to be stronger the national mood. it is right here the decisions on everything from public finances investment unemployment and the euro zone are debated and made the problem seems to be that there are more debates than decisions prompting the french foreign minister to say that this place needs a boss but france cannot afford to stall as french president francois hollande is still under great pressure from berlin and brussels to deliver on his economic promises in

a draft text in april alone socialist party attack merkel and her selfish intransigence and called for a confrontation with germany over policy. if the economic situation in france dramatically worsens compared to germany it will take france on a different political course that will diverged from the german one this will create a complicated conflict inside the e.u. if that happens tensions will get worse a collision course that will rock on already unstable boat as germany itself is dealing with a growing add to your frustration over having to bailout the now actually on healthy neighbors. we seem to stick to germany only because anglo merkel never said publicly the front belongs with southern europe. not yet at least to us are still your r t paris. and lindsey france i'll be back with you with all the latest in less than five minutes from now you're watching.

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