How load variables to a movie clip on a masked layer on my main time line

the problem I have is that I been trying to load text from a
text file news.txt into a movie clip on my main time line the
problem is when the layer where the video clip is locates is masked
the variables will not load, but it does work when the layer is
unmasked, but then the website does not work the way it is suposed
to look.
any Idea on how I can get arround this????

PArt of the problem will be due to declaring the uiLoader inside of a function. When you do that you limit its scope to within that function. You should declare it outside of any function if you need to access it in more than one function.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import fl.motion.MotionEvent;
var uiLoader:UILoader;
var targetObj:Object;
The other problems I see regard the line you point to. It is not spelling the name the same, using a lowercase "l". Also, if you want to target what the UILoader contains, you should target its "content" property, as in...
targetObj = uiLoader.content.mask_01

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