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g. hottest have already been killed in this city of timbuktu mali is battling to restore stability in the nation after al-qaeda linked radicals seized control of the northern region meanwhile over sixteen hundred french troops have been deployed to the central african republic to curb rising sectarian violence there. several hundred teachers in mexico city have marched on the interior ministry building what started as a peaceful rally turned ugly when high ranking officials refused to follow protesters demands the mob smashed through barricades and lit torches after a face off of police future is valid to carry on their protest against a controversial education reform criticizing it forward leaning toward the american system a privatized education. south africa's government officials are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before his burial on sunday but as a country mourns many fear his death may reveal serious tensions in the still divided state parties polis lawyer reports from a suburb of johannesburg where life is far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's defini

g. hottest groups like torture and murder more on the crisis in syria just ahead. it's thursday december nineteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. well the white house appointed review group on intelligence and communication technologies released a report detailing forty six recommendations for the national security agency to become more effective and more transparent the report was just over three hundred pages long just under three hundred pages long that is and since the moment it was released we have been combing through each page to bring you the most important information coming out of it for an in-depth look at this and other developments in the surveillance saga this week artie's sam sachs reports the week started with edward snowden reaching out to brazil in the n.s.a. making a p.r. push with the help of sixty minutes. but the week is ending very very differently on monday the federal courthouse behind me delivered the first legal blow to the n.s.a. signature bulk phone records collection program a program that the wo

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