editor of exacting of intelligence review says the crisis in mali is a result of a collapse of the khadafi regime something which france itself helped instigate. there's definitely an element of falling back on an old colonial controller molly was given its independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty but is still part of the francophone region of africa the rebel operations in northern mali have existed for quite some time but it was only in the aftermath of the overthrow of the khadafi government in libya which was promoted by france britain and the united states in particular really double crossing china and russia at the un security council for regime change it was only after that that you had a massive flow of weapons out of libya into the hands of the rebels which basically took a low intensity conflict and threw it into a much greater crisis where the rebels outgunned the mali an army and so suddenly as the result of one badly flawed regime change policy in libya we have instability spreading to many parts of the african continent and beyond so it's a kind of a supreme irony that

regime in libya france itself airdrop arms to the libyan rebels while khadafi is arsenal was also raided after his fall now there are concerns about libyan smugglers taking more arms into mali you can see that over there martin arrows and this could make it actually very difficult for france to fully secure the area and a short amount of time as it initially planned international relations professor mark almond says the current situation in mali could lead to even further unrest across the region. we're getting a kind of an eye level to this problem of kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention will actually tend to send ripples of disorder further around the region and nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups can come from somewhere other than ma

understand that almost 20 years ago, 1989, khadafy helped form what he thought was going to be the arab super state which consisted of libya, algeria, morocco and tunisia. we've got terrorist states, we've got al-qaeda under different names but with the same idea and understand they want -- this is not about the united states leaving territories in the middle east. this is about taking the united states to its knees and that is what they intend to do and how do they do it economically. when you have gas and oil in these various countries as we know bp is part of the one that is attacked in algeria. it's a very, very tough time and scary that time and dicey time. make no mistake about it, terrorists have plenty of money that is coming from funding in saudi arabia. there are lots of different places for the money. >> neil: thank you very much. fascinating book. one-year anniversary and no one is celebrating because so many americans out of work. the last time the president jobs council. s a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. b

ways that this outbreak i mean first of all you have after the death sas nation murder presently khadafi you had basically within hours to re no merit in others stream you caused the border with pickup trucks military hardware. but you've also had the failed attempt by the u.s. to so-called tree partners in mali and other african country. these new units moved their units to very very quickly and it was a complete failure in all these policies and when the french are pursuing the wrong going to fail because you can't we don't we'll solve a real crisis by military means first say there has to be complete she industry teaching simply forward thinking of the united states in the west they have to focus on the underlying problems of economic development power the food shortages xander that make these countries very weak and fragile and susceptible to these kind of attacks unless that paradigm shift occur and we're just going to be killing more people were murdered jets dropping bombs and we've been doing nothing we are at the. now of course here at r.t. we would love it when you get involved

wasn't what mr causey anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to top oh mamma khadafi although the former french president couldn't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al qaida will establish its rule bin laden will return and libya will be another afghanistan the terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later marwan gets out these words could well be ringing in the is only what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every action has a reaction. secu so not only did the french intervention in libya not help the democratic process which is what they said they were after but if that's if it opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go south of the border this is a more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the ha

northern mali have existed for quite some time but it was only in the aftermath of the overthrow of the khadafi government in libya which was promoted by france britain and the united states in particular really double crossing china and russia at the un security council for regime change it was only after that that you had a massive flow of weapons out of libya into the hands of the rebels which basically took a low intensity conflict and threw it into a much greater crisis where the rebels outgunned the mali an army and so suddenly as the result of one badly flawed regime change policy in libya we have instability spreading to many parts of the african continent and beyond so it's a kind of a supreme irony that the french are being asked to come in and clean up a mess that they themselves helped create. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said stopping iran from building nuclear weapons will be his top priority if he wins in the upcoming election the spyder iran denying the allegations it's viewed as a major threat in israel and reports many israelis are already preparing for war. m

several ways it is operating i mean first of all you have a after the death sas nation murder presently khadafi you had basically within hours terrain no merit in other stream of course the border with pick up trucks no terry hardware etc but you've also had the a failed attempt by the u.s. q so called train the partners in mali and other african country is that these new units military units deserted very quickly and it is a quiz a complete failure and all these powers see and wonder when the french are pursuing the road going to fail because you can't win a we'll solve a real crisis by military means per se there has to be complete change in the strategic thinking forward thinking of the united states in the west that has to focus on the underlying problems of economic development power the food shortages except for that meet these countries very weak and fragile and susceptible to these kind of attacks and less that paradigm shift occur and we're just going to be killing more people by drones rumors jets dropping bombs and we've been doing nothing really to help africa. and on our t. dot com

of this outbreak i mean first of all you have after the death sentence a nation murder president khadafi you had basically within hours. no matter in other stream you caused the border with pick up trucks military hardware. but you've also had the failed attempt by the u.s. to so-called train partners in mali and other african countries. these new units military units just very very quickly and it was a complete failure in all these policy and when the french were pursuing it was going to fail because you can't we don't we'll solve a real crisis by military means say there has to be complete she and strategic thinking forward thinking the united states in the west has to focus on the underlying problems of economic development party food shortages except for that make these countries very weak and fragile and susceptible to these kinds of attacks unless that paradigm shift curves and we're just going to be killing more people by. dropping bombs and will be doing nothing to help africa. and on r.t. dot com we've been asking what she is saying the result of france's intervention in mali wi

nicolas sarkozy is denying claims by sites that he received millions of euros in financial support from khadafi during an election campaign. he was bush fires burning out of control across the australian state of victoria the blaze that started in a national park destroyed up to twenty five thousand have as now predicted to move fast in a northeasterly direction carried by strong wind several homes have been raised and manny fires still remain on contained prompting fears of more to come the way of a bushfire as he just really nearly two weeks ago sparked by soaring temperatures that reached over forty degrees centigrade. now the u.s. northeastern states ravaged by superstorm sandy in late october have been promised over fifty billion dollars aid by lawmakers to the sound as yet to approve the measures passed earlier this week in the house of representatives despite many opposing the bill and while politicians are bickering over cash storm survivors are left with almost no support and artes and associates are going away for its. gorgeous beach turned coast area the rockaways in queens one of th

a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of khadafiand they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries there are rumors that were floating around recently that x. could off the chemical weapons box were being shipped over to syria and we're going to be used to blame assad. was drivers monitoring americans from the skies in the name of national security maybe a cause that you are so seriously concerned about protecting their privacy and as predicted up to thirty thousand drones will be patrolling the nation by twenty twenty luckily they could be a trained solution for those unwilling to be watched in the situation in the design counter-surveillance fashion. keeping a close eye on civilians with a little help from drones. in a move approved by congress in seven years the u.s. will help thirty thousand mester drones monitoring its territory from the air that opens the door for a lot of abuses of privacy. from not just the government but corp

see drug dealers jihadists and fighters going back and hordes we know that the two are a who would khadafi are not back with heavy weapons this could affect the whole west and north africa this is for sure we're not going to stop here but of course at the end of the day it's the population who pay the price and a farmer has been looking into what could potentially drive economic interests of western countries to the region. marty potentially has a wealth of minerals that can be exploited as far as oil is concerned there is zero proven reserves however it is believed major oil fields have been discovered in the north of the country although that still has to be mapped on top of that mali is africa's third largest exporter of gold beaten only by south africa and ghana and there are also some five thousand tons of uranium deposits the french have two major mines in the country already and extract extensive amounts from neighboring niger and would not want that jeopardized in many ways they rely almost entirely on uranium for their nuclear energy all this has led some analysts to think that bi

stockpiles of arms were smuggled from there in the chaos that followed the western backed toppling of the khadafi regime as our boy explains the recent surge of violence in africa comes as a consequence of western states previous involvement in the regions. that very very few wanted peace you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people. but. a regional crisis probably wasn't what mr sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al qaida will establish its rule bin laden will return and libya will be another afghanistan the terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later mark is out these words could well be ringing in the is of me what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every

most happy miley is a direct result of the arming of of rebels in khadafi in gadhafi in libya. as well as the fall of gadhafi gadhafi was a key player in negotiating peace deals the last peace deal in northern mali. was negotiated in two thousand and eight of my guess you get after you so he was the linchpin of a lot of the security system in north africa plus the arming of the road plus the looting and get out of his own. weaponry by the rebel forces that's was created this instability and again this is not completely just this is not unforeseen consequences and there may be stupid the imperialist but they're not completely blind to the results of their actions this is are to say north korea is going nuclear over sanctions young announces a slew of major ballistic tomic weapons tests are all targeted against america which it sees as being behind fresh u.n. imposed penalties plus. the regulus game not once but twice i'll give you the story of a one year old girl who survived this. will be a bit later in the program for now though the health of the global economy and debt wobble

president nicolas sarkozy received fifty million euros in campaign finance from the lately been need mama khadafi years before helping to topple him that occasions were made by lebanese born businessman while on trial in a separate money laundering case christophe head to toe french were clearly express that while the allegations are being taken seriously hold prove to be presented. it's true that libya under gadhafi must have generated lots of dirty money with a system in place and poured cash into western countries look at this alleged contribution to sarkozy's campaign the g.d.p. in new zealand the maximum presidential campaign expenditure allowed is when it's nearly fifty million that is more than doubled over to this left over one certainly didn't go towards a campaign but instead ended up in someone's pocket at the time to prove his need and as of now there's only a statement by one man on trial who's tried to blame someone else to shift the attention away from watching each carries a legal weight. and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the globe venezuela's vice presid

sas nation murder president khadafi you had basically within hours. in other stream you caused the border with pickup trucks notorious hardware. but you've also had a failed. so called tree. in mali and other african country. these new units moved their units very very quickly and it was a complete failure always. and when the french are pursuing going to fail because you can't we do we'll solve a real crisis by military means first say there has to be. she. simply forward thinking the united states in the west has to focus on the. economic the girl power the food shortages the excel europe and meet these countries very fragile and susceptible to these kinds of attacks list a paradigm shift of curves and we're just going to be your we more people. you will be doing nothing we hope for. well here at r.t. we always love it when you get involved with the stories we're broadcasting today at r.t. dot com we've been asking what you think the french combat mission in mali will eventually achieve and on our website we've given you these options to choose from

a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of khadafi and they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries and that is happening right now as we speak but what about that extremism in libya do you think radical elements could get a much stronger foothold than now. well you know the radical elements in libya have had a strong foothold there for quite some time the libyan islamic fighting group which is headed up by the viceroy of tripoli is hakim a doorbell hodge this is somebody who was it mysteriously released from guantanamo bay only a few years ago and he was coordinating directly with nato and is also connected with sending is libyan islamic fighters to syria and they are operating in syria right now this group was founded of mujahideen veterans who had fought the soviet union in afghanistan so this group was put together in ninety five in working out a training camps partly in libya and often other coffees as well and they do have a his

evidence that might support claims that nicolas sarkozy accepted fifteen million viewers from naama khadafi to finance his presidential and. a lot of them right. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions in the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablish that allegedly hey of and constantine should show of from fear russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get a businessman on to their party's electoral lists giving him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so. this highe

a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of khadafiand they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries there are rumors that were floating around recently that x. could off the chemical weapons were being shipped over to syria and were going to be used to blame assad. russian lawmakers the polls the first reading of the bill which bans the promotion of homosexuality among children the legislature has already been dubbed by its ponens as anti-gay and today provoked scuffles outside parliament will need is here to explain why the bill has so much. well the view of gay rights campaigners seems that the bill is very little to do with actually protecting children and much more to do with curbing the rights of of sexual minorities in the country now as you said the first reading of the bail hostel will be two more readings before the bill is passed to the opera house of parliament then it can become into law when it is signed by president. scuf

that it is still run by the militias who was key to overthrowing the former libyan leader, moammar khadafyoblem for the libyan government to get any answers there. they sent the official in charge of security in benghazi was assassinated two months of the attack on the u.s. consulate. the libyans sent an investigator to look into that murder, he was kidnapped on sunday. >> shep: jonathan, hunt, thank you. >> questions over the attack could delay the confirmation of the president's pick to lead the c.i.a. a top senator is calling to hold up the confirmation for john brennan. senator lindsay graham accuses the white house of stonewalling the details of the attack. today the white house responded. >> would it be unfortunate i think in pursuit of this issue which was highly politicized the senate would hold up the nomination of john brennan to be director of the c.i.a.. >> shep: meantime, the nomination has brought those controversial drone strikes back into the spotlight. he is one of architects of the program that used to assassinate terrorists overseas. >> good afternoon. this day brings wo

the russians feel they were steamrolled into allowing military action against khadafy.for the united states and its allies, the significant presence of al-qaeda fighters among syrian rebels means they are concerned about trading a brutal deck state irfor a failed state. ed state. - - d i ctator for a failed state. >>> a u.s. drone strike killed 13 people including a top militant commander who hay truce with the pakistani military. the millant leader was wanted by the u.s. military to killing american soldiers in neighboring afghanistan. but pakistan's military considered him as key to keeping the peace in pakistan. >>> in iraq, more religous violence killed five people there. al-qaeda gunmen killed a police hand and his brother north of baghdad and a car bomb killed two shiite muslims on a pilgrimage to karbala. the government is promising tighter security for those traveling this week. >>> al-jazeera is buying an american cable chaner. the arab news channel is available on some tvs but the deal with current tv gives it a chance to broadcast to more of the country. >>>

we did a good job getting khadafi out of libya. think we would have all this trouble in mali if we did a better job with missile -- all sorts of weapons did not end up in places like mali. we have seen places like sinai and weapons ending up in the area. i think we have to be concerned about not doing enough to secure libyan weapons. u.s. officials say there are three hostages. but would you in the worst case scenario see, helima, foreign commodity companies and commodity and gas companies pull out of areas like this? >> absolutely. one of the things i watch nigeria for years and it was a red line for foreign companies in terms of attacks on their employees. they do not like to have their employees put at risk. so if we see a sustained attack on the energy infrastructure in these companies, you will see companies being cautious and closing down production to keep companies safe. >> helima, thank you for following the situation for us. >> thank you. >> where there a corn-ucopia of housing, most upbeat, including a confidence in a se

helped assemble the bombing campaign in libya to topple khadafi.ssembled the coalition with the toughest sanctions ever on iran and established diplomatic ties with burma. >> i think the examples would add up to a case for her competence. they do not add up to a case for greatness. the groundwork on burma had been ton by the previous administration and the administration properly followed through on it. are arabs and israelis closer to peace? how about iran and north korea and the nuclear programs? halted or seriously set back? has the reset with russia which she so famously introduced with the photo op in moscow with the reset button has that led to a new and more cooperative relationship? is there a clinton doctrine that she has articulated and formed as secretary of state. are there major treaties she has undertaken and negotiated through to a successful conclusion. i think the answer to all of the questions is she has not. those might mark her as a great secretary of state. she has visited 112 countries. her conduct as secretary of state has be

resources for a no-fly zone in libbia, leading to the killing of moammar khadafy. but while calling for bashir al-assad to step down, a war continues. >> overall, president obama's legacy toward the middle-east is one of limited american activism. that is carcaturd by how we handled egypt, libya, syria, iraq. >>. >> there are unanswered questions about the investigation into the 9/11 aparticular on the -- attack on the benghazi complex that killed a u.s. ambassador and three others. we have yet to hear from the survivors. secretary clinton will testify on capitol hill, wednesday. there are not a lot of changes in direction, policywides, perhaps less inclination for american intervention. senator john kerry isine as a shoo-in to replace secretary clinton. the president's pick of chuck hagel sends a similar message -- he's a republican, but his past statements on israel and iran and his opposition to the troop surge in iraq will likely make for a heated confirmation process. if confirmed, hagel will likely lead major budgetary belt tightening at the pentagon. in the