i'm so sorry mr jaffer i've just run out of time here do you forgive me it's a conversation that just require more than just a few minutes mr jaffer you know journalist and political analyst a great pleasure to have you want to r.t. today thank you. well it is a grim anniversary for the us and that of vietnam. they cannot by the fact that they have great military supremacy and just destroy a government occupied country and we mold their country so that it becomes a proxy or a quiet for the united states well despite the huge losses from both sides suffered in the conflict almost four decades ago we explore whether washington has learned the lessons or is possibly poised to repeat it's costly mistakes. france says it will significantly boost its intervention force to mali where the total number of troops deployed to the conflict zone expected to reach two and a half thousand for another paris is carrying out attacks against islamic insurgents in its former african colonies though only from the air at this point but despite almost five days of intensive airstrikes aimed at helping mali'