the national correspondent joins us live from tunisia. why did they release him and do they suspect he's part of 9/11 or not. >> hi, well, i think that they released him because the evidence against him was largely circumstantial. there are a lot of reasons to be suspicious this have man. he spent time in prison and a few years back on charges of wanting iraq, jihad there. and he was in nabir at the time and questioned whether he was planning to go to syria and fight there. but i think ultimately, they didn't have anything solid on him. >> greta: the fbi finally, our fbi are finally able to question him. do you have any information now on your end in tunisia, what information he gave them? we're getting nothing on this end. >> well, no, i mean, the americans have certainly been in touch and cagey about what actually took place and the tunisia not discussing it in any detail. and what's interesting, an extremist group here in sharia and published photographs of the fbi agents allegedly did the questioning on one of their official media net

in tunisia. while some people suffer from bloody conflicts others literally make fun out of them and develop in the u.k. braces again allowing players to take part in the sea where with the ultimate goal of bringing down president assad. also line up to georgia's own government was rocked by a prisoner abuse scandal the country's parliament sets free two hundred political prisoners overturning a presidential veto for the first time in the country's modern history. let's get. to some more world news in this hour israel forcefully addicted to me and the international protestors from a turn to count they've arrested in the west bank to prevent the building of jewish settlements there several people have also been arrested the piles are illegal under international law and with split palestinians from the lands they claim in east jerusalem prime minister binyamin netanyahu orders the area of the so-called tent city declared a closed military zone and shut off access. not family of the internet freedom

in tunisia. tina has told the british prime minister to make jobs not war in a robust response to his comments about the falkland islands david cameron said the u.k. military is ready to fight for the disputed territory sparking concerns there could be a repeat of the armed conflict between the two nations thirty years ago a surface has more for us. here with our says question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the falkland islands and prime minister david cameron saying of course we would say he made his position there extremely clear if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the falkland islands that military treats would be the fly by person so absolutely very clear on that very strong rhetoric coming from the prime minister a view that issuing this comes on the back of argentina as president re making these accusations that the falkland islands is stolen from argentina by britain i think she called it a nineteenth century colonialism and i think some concern for people he

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in tunisia. and i mean while in egypt ruling in god's name reportedly doesn't come cheap the muslim brotherhood is accused of riding to power on washington's handouts and using the money to incite violence and protests just a bit later here on the program we hear from one of the lawyers that brought those charges to bear. plus the head of internet giant google is visiting north korea we ask an expert with a pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic file. when other argentina has told the british prime minister to rein in his colonial ambitions and concentrate on his country's internal problems the hardline response follows a warning from david cameron that the u.k. would fight to keep control of the falkland islands and the two nations fought a war of the territory back in one nine hundred eighty two. more. here with our says question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the falkland islands and prime minister david cameron saying of course we would say he made his positio

in tunisia. pensions go on the red list in the u.k. the prediction is that the entire five at saving system could collapse as the young lose interest in putting a little aside for the future that's ahead. plus the head of internet giant google is visiting north korea in a few minutes we'll ask an expert whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic fall. well that's still to come and plenty of other stories but first the british government marking its midterm point use the day to pat itself on the back and tally up its achievements from education reforms to shutting down tax loopholes the government's list wasn't short with the promise of more to come and let's hear more now on what the prime minister had to say from r.t. so joining me there in london listening today you could be forgiven for thinking there's not been a single problem these last two and a half years when you. oh prime minister david cameron and the deputy leaders because it should nick clegg giving one of their rare chewing public appearances together to d

report in which sami was betrayed him all the capture example fighters he talked about coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still explanation wasn't enough to lose the minds of his parents if anything it made matters worse these simply can't understand how intimidating man transformed into a jihadist notice how well they do have this. a year ago suddenly began training and i was very happy because i'm a muslim and i thought it was a good thing maybe after that he started going to a mosque and heard something that made me go off to syria i think reports claim some four hundred out of the five thousand mosques in tunisia are controlled by radical islamists who call on their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries the exact number of tunisians fighting in syria or libya or iraq is not known but the families and friends of those who went off to fight in a foreign land are saying that even one death is already one too many especially for those who are. fighting a foreign leader in a different country the government says that they're watching the situation closely but

in tunisia. pensions go on the red list in the u.k. with predictions that the entire private savings system could collapse the young lose interest in putting a little aside for the future that's ahead for you plus. the internet giant google is visiting north korea in a few minutes we'll be hearing from an expert on whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic far wall. all that to come and plenty of other stories but first the british government marking its midterm point use the data put itself on the back and tally up its achievements from education reforms to shutting down tax loopholes the government's list wasn't short with a promise of more to come first listen to what the prime minister had to say. prime minister david cameron and the deputy leader of the kurdish nick clegg giving one of their rare joint public appearances together to deliver this mid-term review it was an awkward appearance it was really really difficult watching there were red faces several awkward pauses there were these really embarrassing it wa

i called the president of tunisia and said you have to send reinforcements right now. our embassy is going to be over run. he sent it. it stopped. the government has been responsive understanding the terrorists do not just threaten us in western countries, they threaten the stability and the future of the governments. we have to help them the way we helped colombia years ago. finally, we need to do a better job conveying a counter narrative to the extremist jihadist narrative. i have said to this committee before with a lot new members on it, we have abdicated broadcasting arena. yeses we have private stations, cnn, fox, nbc, all of that, they are out there, they convey information but we are not doing what we did during the cold war. our broadcasting board of governors is practically defunct in terms of capacity to be able to tell a message around the world. we are abdicating the ideological arena. we need to get back into it. we have the best values and best narrative. most people in the world just want to have a good, decent life that is supported by a good decent j

in tunisia. there's a medical emergency in madrid thousands of health care workers from the streets angrily protesting against plans to privatize a number of local hospitals fearing this will ruin the already slim employment opportunities. still to come this hour the head of internet giant google is visiting north korea in a few minutes we'll ask an expert whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic farm. on a still to come but first pynchon could become extinct in the u.k. within forty years that's according to a new report warning of an impending savings crisis its authors cite fewer and fewer young people who are willing to lock their money up for decades especially in this economic climate well let's get more on the dollar for now with our he's joining me live from london is it really looking that gloomy for pensions. well it does look like the private pension bill going think that's according to one prominent pensions expert here and he says that by twenty fifty they could be

in tunisia. and the world some people suffer from bloody conflicts other literally make fun out of them a more well developed way in the u.k. is again allowing players to take part in this year in war with the ultimate goal of bringing down president assad and read more about it at r.t. dot com. also online for you after georgia's alter government was wrong to buy a prisoner abuse scandal the country's parliament sets free two hundred political prisoners overturning a presidential veto for the first time in the country's modern history for more that had to ati's website. so let's not try some other world news in brief this hour israel has forcibly evicted palestinian and international grotesqueness from a tent camp that they had erected in the west bank to prevent the building of jewish settlements there several people have also been arrested their building plans are illegal under international law and will split palestinians from lands they claim in east jerusalem prime minister binyamin netanya

director mueller was in libya and tunisia recently. i get disappointed when people give half of the story. the guy has been released. as hillary clinton said today, yes, but he's under constant surveillance within tunisia and following the rule of law and as more evidence becomes available, they are prepared to act on him again. i think as hillary clinton said dramatically, our focus here now is to bring these guys to justice but also to understand benghazi in the context of what's happening over the last few days to understand the evolving threat from al qaeda and to deal appropriately with that. >> dana loesch there were phone calls today that they would have been fired. do you agree with that? >> there were a lot of missteps here. we do know that you had said that there was a whisper of questioning susan rice and secretary of state clinton. i don't think asking questions on why talking points were changed, we know for sure the u.s. intelligence report came out and said extremists that led the attack had al qaeda ties. why was that r

tunisia man suspected of involvement, has been released from custody. we'll get reaction shortly from one of the administration's biggest critics on the issue. first, national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon. >> four months to the day since ambassador chrissteins and three others were killed in a terror attack on the u.s. benghazi mission, one of the only suspects in custody has been released. 26-year-old, tunisia detained in turkey was released by tunsen court due to lack of evidence according to the lawyer. he was present in the attack on the u.s. mission, fox news reported in november. based on video that the u.s. intelligence agencies had from the compound. his brother fought against the u.s. forces in iraq and his father encouraged both suns tovo themselveses in jihad, according to the lawyer. the f.b.i. gained access to him in late december. allowed to question him, in what some described as kangaroo court filled with protesters for three hours. law enforcement officials say he was, "probably not a big playe

in tunisia. meanwhile in egypt ruling in god's name reportedly doesn't come cheap the muslim brotherhood of writing to power on washington's handouts and using the money to incite violence and protests just a bit later here i see we hear from one of the lawyers that brought those charges to back. another argentina has told the british prime minister to rein in his colonial ambitions and concentrate on his country's internal problems the hardline response follows a warning from david cameron that the u.k. would fight to keep control of the falkland islands in the two nations forty nine hundred eighty two war over the territory r.t. served. here with this question in an interview whether britain would fight they keep the focus and prime minister david cameron say. extremely clearly if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the folk and islands that minute she treats would be destroyed by britain so absolutely very clear on that very strong rhetoric coming from the prime minister that if you com

in tunisia. and while some people suffer from bloody conflicts others literally make fun out of them a mobile app developer in biggest races again following allowing players to take part of the syrian war with the ultimate goal of bringing down president assad that at all to dot com. and also online for you after georgia's all government was rocked by a prison scandal the country's parliament says free two hundred political prisoners overturning a presidential veto for the first time in the country's modern history the role that had to his website. in notorious u.s. ascension facility had gone tunnel bay in cuba marked its eleventh anniversary this week despite president obama's four year old promise to close the account human rights groups are calling for freedom for those cleared for release and for a fair trial fathers meanwhile as. polls show the majority of americans have moved on. president obama's call to look forward not backward has resulted in attempts to sweep the past under the rug in

in a moment, our report on an auction taking place in geneva of -- tunisia. >> first, a look at some other stories making news. >> new clashes have been reported around the syrian capital of damascus. this video is said to show fighting in a suburb. the army claims to have taken it from rebels. about 50 countries are calling for perpetrators of war crimes committed in syria to be held accountable by the international criminal court in the hague. >> the un's human rights chief, navi pillay, once an international investigation into human rights abuses in north korea. she says there is evidence of rape and a slave laborer at prison camps. she says there has been no improvement since kim jong un took power. >> at least 30 homes have been destroyed in new south wales in australia as searing heat continues to stock wild fires across the east of the country. austrian authorities described the blaze as the most ferocious they have seen in years. the country's top observatory escaped without any major damage. >> thousands of two nations have joined protests against the government -- of tunisi

he went to tunisia. he beliefs that the investigation is proceed iing. i know the fbi has been on the hill doing briefings with certain committees. i don't know about this committee. but i certainly hope that the fbi is able to investigate, identify, and hold responsible those who waged this attack against us. and i think based on their work, they feel that they are pursuing some very positive leads. >> okay. my understanding is the tunisian person who was held was released by a judge there. and that person has been released. so basically we don't really know at this point who did it. >> well, congressman, i confirmed with director muller who was just in tunisia meeting with their high officials that this person is basically under law enforcement surveillance. and forbidden to leave. director muller told me that that had been confirmed to him by the tunisians. >> all right. just very briefly, we don't know who -- no one's been held accountable, charged with this offense. before gadhafi was taken out, my understanding is the nation of qatar shipped in 18

in a moment, our report on an auction taking place in geneva of -- tunisia. >> first, a look at some other stories making news. >> new clashes have been reported around the syrian capital of damascus. this video is said to show fighting in a suburb. the army claims to have taken it from rebels. about 50 countries are calling for perpetrators of war crimes committed in syria to be held accountable by the international criminal court in the hague. >> the un's human rights chief, navi pillay, once an international investigation into human rights abuses in north korea. she says there is evidence of rape and a slave laborer at prison camps. she says there has been no improvement since kim jong un took power. >> at least 30 homes have been destroyed in new south wales in australia as searing heat continues to stock wild fires across the east of the country. austrian authorities described the blaze as the most ferocious they have seen in years. the country's top observatory escaped without any major damage. >> thousands of two nations have joined protests against the government -- of tunisi

director mueller was in both libya and tunisia recently. i get disappointed when people give half of the story. the senator just said, you know, while this guy's been released. but as hillary clinton said today, yes, but he's under constant surveillance within tunisia, they're following the rule of law, and as more evidence becomes available they're fully prepared to act on him again. so i think, you know, as hillary clinton said dramatically, our focus here now is to bring these guys to justice but also to understand benghazi in the context of what's happened in mali recently, what's happened in algeria over the past few days, to understand the evolving throat from al qaeda in the maghreb and to deal appropriately with that. >> dana loesch, there were calls from some people, rand paul and others, that hillary clinton would have been fired over what happened. do you agree with that? >> i do agree with that. i think senator paul was correct in his claims today and how he addressed secretary of state clinton. there were a lot of -- there were

but because of election, today governments across the middle east and egypt, tunisia, lebanon, palestine, turkey, iraq are on no longer pro-american or anti-iranian. they are all pursuing at least independent foreign policies, which are by definition much less to see a stick about strategic cooperation with the united states and much more open to the islamic republic of iran. simply put, today relatively speaking the united states is in a profoundly weaker position in the middle east and the sonic republic of iran is in a significantly stronger position. this essentially have been because there is a dramatic shift in the middle east onto power. in our book, "going to tehran," we describe how part of this shift has been as occurring is because of mistakes and american policies in the middle east. but we also describe in our book that part of what is going on a something vastly underappreciated in the last, which are the successes of the islamic republic of iran, which are also driving a shift in the regional balance of power. we arguing about these two are inextricably linked. the success

egypt again conditions in tunisia to now worse than on the banality mubarak is gone mostly wants to establish and islamofascism dictatorship that's what morsi is all about we want to bring that about and then are you feeling that we should of influence the outcome we didn't bring about we should have learned your brain or the. we didn't we did i think or you think a certain amount of business i think sir that maybe whether that had only riding on your blog you should read a little bit of history and current events michael it looks like you agree with stephen i want to do it here let's let michael go well if i if i may again i think i know facts can be annoying but arab spring actually is an arabic word it's a direct translation from the arabic now what happens in egypt for example i may approve or not approve of you can't have it both ways we have one the panelists saying that western values appalling and repugnant do so much damage the same time he's moaning about what is going on in the middle east right now i think that western american anglo-american european policy towards the

so be it but i can run through many countries and even places like gaza iraq syria libya egypt yemen tunisia where the west has helped the islamists. i can also point to places like mali where we're fighting with the us on a some saying that's inconsistent oh ok what should be consistent what policy should we have because it seems unclear to me i mean what about democracy that's consistent. daniel go ahead i go and then you. i'm not sure it is well why not in other words the islamists are people who have learned to use democratic means to gain for tarion control look at mohamed morsi he's only in office for a couple months and he's already trying to be the new furrow the islamists have learned unlike the fascists and communists who never got that far they have learned to mobilize people and to win elections find good for them it doesn't mean i have to support them doesn't mean i have to be in favor of their coming to power i want a modern middle east a modern muslim world that the muslims themselves can achieve and it's not going to be achieved through islamism islamists and that's a backwar

operation in libya since february twentieth eleven but libya was sandwiched by the regime change in tunisia in egypt on the one hand and that created facilitator the nato operation because gadhafi was isolated with the fall of libya and let's be very clear it's all on record in the mainstream jamestown foundation sources have said that the twenty six who fled after the fall of gadhafi you fought a lot who worked for the n.p.c. french intelligence told them to go to northern mali and destabilize mali and the coup leader in mali who overthrew the civilian government it's on record again on the jamestown foundation website that he was trained by the u.s. and french intelligence services and so not only was my money destabilized and what with terror these courts and so-called your hobbies they're not your hobby if your heart is an honorable obligation to fight against oppression these are death squads who targeted the heritage of mali and the margin people and then nato have wanted these people to actually to draw in our jewry and so this is what's happened and this is a direct consequence nato

death comes a spark that makes life better for the rest of us who are living we saw that play out in tunisia when a young street vendor mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest the kleptocratic rule of his government and bring attention to the suffering of his generation within weeks tunisia's oppressive government was toppled by largely nonviolent actions of average citizens so too were egypt's and libya's arab spring was let's hope that aaron's death will be just like his life a spark for nonviolent revolutionary change to bring about a more just freer and more equitable america. and that's the way it is that i have monday january fourteenth two thousand and thirteen more information than any of the stories we covered visit our website the thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and our team. and if you missed any and tonight's show you can now watch it in h.d. on hulu at hulu dot com slash the big picture also check out our two you tube channels there are links of tarpon dot com also there you can check out all the different ways you can send us feedback and don't forget democrac