the decision to cast the cia with tracing down al qaida yemen marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against hurt but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of in cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now with the power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal. then the military the cia will have greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate here greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to go in the country the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after months of violent popular revolt against him and his government for many years had been supported by the u.s. in exchange for letting americans go after all quieting yemen as we can leaks cables often taking credit for the u.s. drone strikes we have t

the us had been cooperate in with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with their nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the us military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the us starts to hit people who are members of all idea new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda their security in. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack theory the american military presumably ming at an al qaida training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in yemen his family and eight with the expansion of the drone war it seems to go once the seeking only a misnomer the abiding on my account and only say some of them make the turns of this

nothing that would strengthen the hand of al qaida and promote them a western intervention in yemen particularly the west who supported presence for all these years sold him large numbers of arms and weaponry and now seem to be opposing him in all that to try and create some of the settlement i think the western role should be to try and promote a political dialogue between the various factions which is not impossible to achieve that and try to bring about some kind of resolution and peace there but if the west goes in with our. starts bombing on behalf of. who then i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge poverty and social issues it's the poorest country in the region its median age of population is less than eighty and it has the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help it develop its historical reason why to get involved in yemen i mean obviously used to control part of yemen maybe wants to gain ground over

qaida terrorists there fearing they make spoil the current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret air base in the persian gulf to target militants and starts he's gone it's to council as introducing a spokes will move the operation into the legal. decision to pass the cia with tracing being given marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against hurt but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes in cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now that power vacuum and all the political perm while in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operate under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate they are greater latitude in other words they don't have to. ask anybody permission to bomb the country the yemeni leader who i

for the authorities there are trying to break various terrorist cells and there are a connection with al qaida and if you talk about that you started for example the same republic where the events are unfolding right now just last week the our police found and destroyed what they called was a factory of death an underground weapons factory where they found numerous homemade explosive devices will be more controls which could have been used in terrorist attacks across the entire a country also just last week police announced that they've eliminated personal been will be have been searching for since last a new year's day he was supplying a terrorist attack which went wrong actually the female suicide bomber who was supposed to all conducted exploded before her she could she could conduct this this terrible job of hers so the fighting is going on in that region and it is. like the president says it's very important to keep security very straight and. he's gorgeous you know reporting live from moscow thanks for that. still to come here on r t stripping millions of people want their privacy

qaida and al qaeda no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need a base. from which to fly really very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . british m.p. jeremy corbin thinks the u.k. and america risk making grave mistakes and repeating old ones by getting involved in yemen if the west goes in with our starts bombing on behalf of unclear who then i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge poverty and social issues it's the poorest country in the region it's median age a population is less than eight i mean it's the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help develop any government or political unity. to bring together all of the factions and all of the interests across the yemen i cannot believe that drove you to bring this about and in their haste to be involved the u.s. looked to me like you're in danger of making all the mistakes they made in afghanista

qaida and al qaeda no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need a base with which from which to fly they are really very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . it's reporting from london while other news now from around the world in our world update a nato air strike has hit a blast in the libyan turn the key one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital tripoli libyan state t.v. reports of these twelve passengers have been killed there are no further details of the incident and nato was not immediately available to comment on this and we'll bring you more details on this development as we get them here at r.t. . to start intelligence says at least fifteen alleged serjeant's have been killed in the u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan a series of strikes targeted a suspected militant compound near the main town in pakistan itself was it a stand tribal area the region is known for housing many taliban insurgents who frequently carry out attacks against the government forces. syria is calling on refugees who fled to turkey to return to the term the

qaida militants have managed to escape from a challenge yemen now turned serjeant's attacked the prison from outside they targeted security guards and seize their weapons killing at least one officer in jail is believed to house more than one hundred key al qaeda members among those who broke out were prisoners convicted on terror charges months of unrest in yemen have led to fears of al qaeda is growing influence. syria has poured scorn on you moves to impose sanctions saying it will simply forget europe is on the map a violent crackdown against anti-government activists in the country has left hundreds dead since the uprising began in march because activists are calling for president bashar asad to step down meanwhile the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has renewed his supplies to allow humanitarian missions into the country. the u.s. president is expected to confirm later today his decision to cut american forces in afghanistan by a third rock obama has called the scale of the withdrawal significant and said troops will start to return home by joe long the afghan defense ministry

qaida and al qaeda no longer permit these train attacks in the country they need a base with which from which to fly they really are very much more involved in terms of base the u.s. and the u.k. . is laura right right there ok let's go to some other headlines from around the world for you this hour starting intelligence says that at least fifteen alleged insurgents were killed in a u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan a series of strikes targeted a suspected militant compound near the main town in pakistan's south waziristan tribal area the region is known for housing many taliban insurgents who frequently carry out attacks against the government forces. syria is calling on refugees who fled to turkey turn to the town they abandon moved into groups the government says it's regained control and will continue to pursue what it calls the remnants of terrorist groups eight thousand people left town are now in refugee camps on the turkish border syria is in jewett months of brutal crackdown on protests to try and force the president to quit. a suicide car bomber has struck in northeaster

qaida is overstated for that very reason because using as the bogeyman in order to get us to invest in his government i'm not discounting the threat entirely but i don't think it's anything like what sally is said to us and we bought bad who are quiet and sinker apparently but it also gives us an excuse to stay there and try to keep the country stable saudi arabia's interest in yemen is profound and if yemen is going to go some way that the saudis don't particularly like the saudis are going to step in and make sure that it doesn't happen if i were doing something with a regional partner right now and i were doing something aimed at yemen that's whom i would be working with be working with riyadh's got its own problems i watched an interview today by professors very astute in saudi affairs and she said something like seventy percent of the people were under thirty and have a college education in many cases and have no jobs just an eight hundred dollars stock came from the government it comes from basically from all revenues this is no way to build a future so saudi arabia is sitting

the cia is reportedly building a secret air base and the persian gulf to target al qaida terrorists in yemen the plan. has managed to strengthen america's military presence there with the u.s. saying it's concerned militants makes lloyd the current unrest in the country to seize power but as an educated reports introducing cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. decision to task the cia with tracing down marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes so if you can walk ration with the yemeni counterterrorism units for now and get that power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate here greater life

qaida there i mean there is one thing the key is a common denominator is how much the west wants to intervene and not intervene mr ambassador go ahead. yes that again is the that's the same of queer i mean i'm just now you know you wish i didn't work myself the question i have sort of put to you our call would with the saudis like to see a functioning democracy and. and that's the thing we're all here and the thing which is which is stalling i think change across perhaps i mean i have read many many reports and so on and people said what is stalling the whole change in yemen it has take a long long time and i've seen the this is the initiative which had in many many flaws and perhaps to a certain extent it's cause there's cause this now sort of and diggers and very. grave burial where we are now in yemen you know we don't know where we're going to stay where are we just taking towards and the west unfortunately our friends our friends in order to be a man has been a little bit different from the rest of the of the countries you have been mentioning that we have got a group named as

joined the ambassador in guarding that he actually is complicit with all carter or benefiting from al qaida but that certainly is an accusation from his opponents that in both jobs and zinjibar two towns that are now under islam this rule that he has fomented this has has allowed this to happen i doubt it but that is nonetheless a an important accusation in yemen these days mr ambassador is a silo a worth a worthy of protection by the united states now is that they would just like to see the back side of him and still have someone there that would protect american interests in the region after all it does border on saudi arabia. our current terrorism cooperation with yemen has has always extended beyond president salva he was an important part of it but not an essential point to remember you are he said what you already said was so if you're implying that he's in the ones he's in the past tense category now. well i think in terms of ongoing counterterrorism cooperation it's considerably reduced but also in terms of his long term. shelf life and i think he's part of the past not its fu

qaida it is believed that it's quite heavy presence there as well and in fact if you remember after u.s. forces were able to feel also a bit a lot of washer authorities i believe it was the next week that they've announced that they've managed also to find an element in each one of the biggest key a representatives of all tied up in the russian officers as well. five corpuscle now following this developing story seven officers dead after an anti terror gunfight in thank you stan thanks for that. well it's nine minutes past the hour still ahead for you stripping millions of people of their privacy and all the in the name of fighting terror report on us at first to keep information on all transatlantic passengers from the e.u. for fifteen years top lawyers have slammed the proposed deal asking we go. now to greece where the prime minister as was a crucial part of the mentoring vote of confidence on handling the country's debt crisis he must now navigate the nation through a series of tough spending costs and sells of national assets in order to secure a new e.u. bailout and avoid defa

fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations. check out our website dot com for more opinions on that instrument including one point by us radio host alex jones the abuse of drone technology could be the beginning of a terminator style world ruled by computers also while mined for a new album gathering of the world's movers and shakers we talked to activists who make a stand against the end patentable media blackout surrounding the annual build their birth meeting find out some of the theories and just what's being decided on the wall of silence and whether it's worth taxpayers having to fund it. also crowd in space the i assessed gets three new presidents doubling the number of humans currently in orbit the combined international proveable perform unique research including attempts to find cancer cure there also be expecting a farewell visit downfalls atlantis the last hour flight of the current u.s. space shuttle program. to japan now where the str

is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations. u.s. drones have also been used in pakistan words latest strike killed at least eighteen people while official reports claim the casualties were militants some witnesses name civilians among the victims as drones have become lot of washington's most favorite weapons americans fear the technology might soon be used to snoop a little closer to home planet you can reports. is when a u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody in the command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing a button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban vi

and its western allies would be would support any leader in yemen who would take on al qaida in a serious way do you think that's a good idea what about backfire on the united states and the west go ahead. i don't think that's true i don't think it's anyone gets our support i think we can be more demanding that listen the yemenis going against al qaeda is not a favor of to us al-qaeda is threatening yemen. it is a shared interest that we have so it's not a something that they can use to blackmail us but our interest in yemen should be much broader than just the kind it should be yemen's development it should be the political political stability there if we have a narrow approach i think we're doomed to failure and i think you can go back historically and that's what i do in my book and show from all one tool for when we had a broad sustained approach and i don't not only targeted al qaeda but also supported yemeni political and economic development that is when we made our major gains against al qaeda and actually severely degraded its leaders in its ranks and in all four they constituted

fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations. well many more stories are available for you online twenty four seven at r.t. dot com and here is what you can find there right now on a legacy of civil war with side of the united states while a few enthusiastic way dressed up to reenact history millions of americans are still fighting for equal rights one hundred fifty years later. and that the designers of a dancing branch in southern russia face criminal charges for stealing over half a million dollars after a massive flaws were revealed in the reconstruction the full story is that our teams are. in the war enough north africa to. moscow's ban on european vegetables the range of issues facing russian and european leaders meeting on the banks of the volga river the traditional russia e.u. summit is being held in the city of nizhny novgorod hundreds of kilometers from moscow and r.t. if you got there he is there for us. on the first informal day of the

mandate to fight that the what do you see as the reality and what evidence do you have that it is al qaida that is amongst these rebels well first of all i was directly involved in the one nine hundred ninety s. operation to get terrorists. out of libya and i can assure you that all terrorists were removed from libya by about one nine hundred ninety eight thousand nine hundred ninety nine since then khadafi cut off by the way was the first government to inform interpol about osama bin laden could duffy is hated by islamist fundamentalists because he is a socialist muslim and he has a very different agenda that is not sure i am khadafi has very strong record on human on women's rights women have the right to education hold property divorce hold jobs have income many rights that other women in the arab world do not have so he is a moderate and he is not involved in any terrorism at all that is absolutely foolishness so then do you see the united states' role in backing the red.

fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations but let's take a brief look at some other world headlines pakistan's prime minister has ordered an inquiry into the death of a go about at the hands of paramilitaries it was captured on video showing footage filmed by passers by in the city of karachi close then the breaking for his life before being shot. still stay the course while trying to rob some of the victim's family the noise this incensed innocent person has been killed. a volcanic ash cloud has grounded more flights in argentina. chile that's. something that had already caused flight cancellations earlier in the week now all flights from the travel as ours and so forth from montevideo have been suspended and it. could damage the engines. well it is a journey across russia continues as a close up team travels to the ones on television i'm not asserting. yes the mountainous region on russia's southern border has had an unstable existence since the