syrian rebels are threatening to execute a kidnapped ukrainian journalist a for ransom is not paid reportedly saying russian and ukrainian citizens should not be allowed to leave syria and live. debt ridden greece gets its latest installment of bailout funds needed to keep the economy afloat exchange for a debt buyback scheme which many see is counterproductive. and is the u.n. atomic watchdog resumes talks with iran to look at why many iranians consider acquiring nuclear energy is not just a matter of necessity but of national pride. national

news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. ukrainian journalist a kidnapped by syrian rebel forces forces execution thursday unless a fifty million dollars ransom is paid and. had been working in syria during the conflict helping international media including our team european federation of journalists strongly condemned the targeting reporters and making outrageous demands well middle east correspondent paula slipper is following developments. the journalist and her coach never was taken hostage in october in your homes the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has appeared to you tube videos that were released by the free syrian army and in one of those she appealed to the embassies ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demands will in fact be made she read a text in those videos. ira bacon which admitted to having participated in the

fighting and having worked as a military interpreter with syrian and russian officers but in tears down the authenticity of these videos than even that they were made while she was under do wrist now the ukrainian foreign ministry has also released a statement from last month saying that officials were negotiating over the news but they did not also further details. the syrian rebels are reportedly threatening to make a russian and ukrainian citizens in syria their target and prey saying they shouldn't be allowed to leave the country alive meanwhile moscow is warning that the opposition may win the conflict but at an unacceptable price. he has the details the russian foreign ministry would not exclude the possibility of the syrian opposition forces being victorious in the military conflict in this country that is according to the deputy foreign minister minister but he stressed once again at what price a completely unacceptable price according to the russian foreign ministry this victory may come he said that for now as it's been claimed that sixty percent of

syrian territory is being controlled by the full opposition forces wells forty percent of the territory remaining under the governmental control and if the opposition will be willing to push further this may lead to more casualties with forty thousand people about forty thousand people already killed the death toll could rise to hundreds of thousands of people and this is something russia finds us completely unacceptable and believing that this price is way too high this statement comes shortly after a conference in morocco finished with around one hundred countries pledging their support to the syrian opposition the same time of violence is still taking place in the country with several terrorist attacks rocking damascus and the neighboring outskirts of damascus in the last forty eight hours washington is accusing them of using weapons banned for use in populated areas and its fight against rebels jacob hornberger from the future freedom foundation. because the u.s.

has deliberately demonizing the syrian government and we've heard this stuff before about you know saddam hussein's debbi indies and he was going to unleash them on the us and mushroom clouds over american cities and it was entirely bogus it was really it was a way to get the american people to support the invasion and occupation of the country and that's what all of this interventionism is all about to install their dictators in a power look like how the us empire is not complaining about the dictatorship in bahrain i mean there you've got at home military u.s. military base so they got to stay quiet about that here and in and day you see what went on in egypt you see in saudi arabia i mean the u.s. has long supported dictatorship saddam hussein was one of the ones they supported and so this is about regime change in the hopes of installing a pro u.s. regime but as we've learned things don't come out is as they often plan him to be as a u.s.

and its allies before the endorsement to the syrian opposition if there is it may not have control of n.t.i. sad competence on the ground on law and we have analysis on who is actually fighting against the government that the tactics they using. well the death of former russian spy alexander litvinenko who was poisoned in london six years ago is again in the spotlight a testimony or preliminary hearing into the instance suggests that me and co was a paid british intelligence agent the russian state was involved in his murder before let's cross to london now and artie's laura smith quote you know what has been revealed at the hearing so far. well what is going on at the moment today and

tomorrow as well is what we call a sort of operational herring to establish the what the details of the inquest what the scope of the eventual inquest into because death will be it covers things like how it will be conducted and what will be looked at during the eventually inquest and we're hearing all sorts of things coming out of it the lawyer for for the inquest has said that what he would like it to do and what it may eventually do is look into the culpability of both the russian and the u.k. states equally so not just the russian state but did either of those two countries instructs this poisoning and did either of them fail in their duty to protect lives . but interesting really under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure come up again when the inquest is held also will the inquest include

a jury his wife marina doesn't apparently want a jury to be included would increase public confidence in the ultimate outcome of the inquest but of course all the jurors would have to have a state security clearance so that's another question which we will be looked into we hope that the results of that will come out tomorrow and then we'll know exactly what's going to be looked at next year when the inquest is how and nor is there any evidence at all backing this claim that the russian government was involved in his death. well of course we're hearing a lot coming out of the court today about. tweets from various people in the media here in this country are picking up a lot on that we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is is guilty but the evidence that the u.k. government has doesn't show any evidence of culpability of the scottish mafia the

u.k. secret services or. involvement but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting the u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing evidence on the other side of course. u.k. police's main suspects. because poisoning he recently passed a lie detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically asked whether he has had any involvement in his death he said no lie detector test was passed by him also because only father told r.t. that he didn't suspect the kremlin or andrey lugovoy of having any involvement in his son's murder. this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world there is there are wider implications to this and of course it has been the major stumbling block in the u.k. russia relations for the last six years since it happened russia can't extradite

its own citizens and the british courts would like to take another look at look at boy but they can't and it comes up every time in any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria. this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world that will indeed laura smith thank you for that. her eurozone finance ministers have rubber stamp the latest installment of bailout funds for debt ridden greece the money had been withheld for months was dependent on ifans buying back some of its debts before getting a vital cash injection but as artie's put all of the reports the deal might not be as good as the full eurozone. greece has given its financial backers something of an early christmas present by buying back a chunk of its debt from them however when they take the wrapping paper off but if

they don't find it's a little less which they've asked for as part of a bone to buy back scheme which saw things buy back its own problems at around thirty four percent of their original value the international monetary fund how expected greece to be able to get its debt situation down to one hundred twenty four percent of all economic output by twenty twenty really does not seem likely right now this is cause the i.m.f. to say well we won't be lending any more money to any countries that can't pay back their debts however there is a dangerous precedent with this in terms of greece being able to return the money of course private investors private creditors see greece well a lot of banks and a lot of insurance companies are already have to take that hit it it may swell there's no way we're going to get this cash back for greece but that is something that the i.m.f. certainly are not willing to accept right now. the next day max keiser reveals how

banks have been getting away with dodgy dealings. h.s.b.c. to pay a one point nine two billion dollars fine to settle charges over laundering state and federal authorities decided against indicting and just piecing in a money laundering case over concerns that criminal charges could jeopardize one of the world's largest banks and ultimately destabilize the global financial system too big. too big to jail this government condones crime and they wonder why the mavericks on fire because they will murder not fire because they've got the contract for the lighter fluid company. un atomic experts are back in iran to try and make headway over tensions surrounding its controversial nuclear program is the first visit since talks with

a deadlock in august and i tame is hoping to get access to some sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but they're unlikely to get inside the project military facility which tehran insists is a non-nuclear site say that inspectors have no right to inspect it iran also consistently denies its uranium enrichment has been trained despite lack of evidence proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened military action if diplomacy fails for national reports mistrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of mourning when i'm in syria met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of iran's leading nucleus scientists and do it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten. you left to work and then i heard

a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this. i called must must must. must i thought he was just scared then i turned to him there was no fleece just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran doesn't work they were working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for know how else we have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent. women series husband began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seventy's western countries were. regard to how to run develop its own nuclear program supplying into technology with no strings attached that changed when the iranian regime deed was earlier seen as

inalienable right became its biggest liability iran. would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just because western powers say so while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that the country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this tension is fabricated with the sole purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have naive in your kitchen and some of the recent concert contour. or. benjamins. maybe you want to use it too from. this is very. george king. the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be

trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want a total change of leadership see should be non-negotiable for the country. in the current issue has become like iran. but you knew. it was. kind of drago if you're on. even you. want to come up. which is. the blast that killed him and sirius has been shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its right to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions

people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. nationality from tehran. well coming up present for the in a strongly criticizes washington's decision to ban russian officials to high profile corruption cases. head of state says america's reaction to the magnitsky case and its relations between the two countries at stake. plus more britons are in work but joy over the dropping jobless numbers could prove short lived more on that and other international stories after the break. the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during

a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft and drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only had one solution offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america's always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chiefs honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can expect a nineteenth century attitude towards crime we'll be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion.

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back here with r.t. russia's president has hit out at america's recent congress sanctions on russian officials washington nor makers accuse several russians of being involved in the prison death of a lawyer surrogate magnitsky burn to their moves as absurd but they were putin also highlighted america's present track record. as a human. but frankly speaking i don't understand why our american colleagues are doing this most likely it's internal political intrigue the foreign ministry has already called it the theater of the absurd that's precisely what it is looking which is sort of gay magnitsky is death was a tragedy but does nobody die in u.s. prisons and maybe even in greater numbers earlier that it is a for eight years they have failed to show up one time to mowed down where people are kept without due process under wearing shackles like in medieval times people

who open secret prisons have legalized torture during investigations and now pointing out our drawbacks you. could put in also affirm that russia has yet to complete its investigation to magnitsky death moscow has already promised to retaliate against the congress sanctions by barring americans it accuses of human rights abuses. as always with r.t. dot com including the power of hypnosis will be tested only someone who claims he has amnesia as prosecutors hope you'll remember the day when he allegedly killed five fellow servicemen in iraq. and. that's how activists in russia bank officials the gaping holes and the puddles on the roads.

there's an early christmas present for britain the jobless rate has shrunk and its biggest quarterly drop in a decade but it's no reason to pop the champagne just yet sarah ferguson spades. well some unexpected seasonal cheer this week with official statistics showing the u.k.'s unemployment rate has fallen by eighty thousand people between august. well the government might have been acting like christmas is coming early but the cold hard reality is that all of course britain there are going to be a huge number of people right now he simply don't recognize the picture that they statistics of painting and that's one person is back to work you need to separate out this month's figures from kind of the medium to long term direction of the economy on the right market so we're still gigs on the tail end of summer olympics

effect we're not sure whether when we start to move out of our period you're going to still see this very strong employment growth particularly amongst young people take for example those on the government's work programme that they have to come along to the job center is part of that program and if we signed up for the mandatory unpaid work experience now those people will no longer be included in the unemployment the to think very clearly that's very far for a more ordinary people indeed these people on the program themselves would consider employed so you can see you have to be very careful with this not show that these statistics are giving us do you feel like the government's doing enough to help young people can see anything around me. really and how you find the on the work program a lot of young people we've spoken to have you know i haven't found it all that helpful most of. the people are looking for. an employer young

person who. never would have before in their lives. of course it's not all bad news there are some encouraging signs in these statistics but it's very early days and to conclude that the labor market here in the u.k. is back to full health would not only be foolhardy it would be dangerous in fact predictions saying the. twenty thirty one week it's the unemployment that one million mark we're getting now that could have even. implications for the young labor market here in the united kingdom and right now where things on the press the pace events are weighing. millions the work is all of course the twenty third she is looking to be very far from a happy new. star. fighting shoving and strong language that's the ukrainian part of its preview to the new speaker is becoming a familiar sight this time the fist began flying with opposition m.p.'s accused

former colleagues of betrayal for wanting to run independently outside opposition activists tore down a barrier around the parliament proclaiming the democratic country faces off its government september's election was criticized by international observers christening ukraine's opposition leader as well as pro-government media coverage of the ruling party's unfair access to state resources. small world headlines now in the west bank dozens of young palestinians have clashed with israeli soldiers apparently threw stones and bottles before troops responded with tear gas tensions are high after palestinian teenager was shot dead by israeli border police on wednesday. brandishing a gun in the night by the palestinians. riots broke out in argentina after thirteen people were acquitted in a high profile sex slavery case demonstrators in one of cyrus threw stones at government buildings and the basic nation of judges who delivered the suspects accused of kidnapping

a young woman and forcing her into prostitution top politicians including the country's president have come out in support of the process that. is a state of disaster in summer which has been assigned to people reportedly local media say trees are going up rooted and power lines are down mass evacuations have been ordered in several areas including the capital where most roads have been cut off. the u.s. has admitted to determining more than two hundred afghan teenagers some as young as thirteen and keeping them for about a year without a report to the u.n. said imprisoning the youngsters was a preventative measure against insurgency. in a situation that over the last several years what has been going on is over two hundred afghan teenagers that were captured detained as a result of the fight against the taliban and al qaida in afghanistan and held out a u.s. military prison. air base. the shocking numbers here are that the age of these

people was on average sixteen years old a lot of them were a lot younger we're talking about twelve thirteen fourteen year old kids held for an average of a year and curiously in many of these cases we're talking about brothers here who are sitting at home and just captured and detained and taken into this military prison because there are suspected of being enemy combatants and in many cases it's important to underline here that these teenagers were not wearing military uniforms they were not participating in combat they were just suspected of being enemy combatants and they were taken to. the u.s. says it's a preventative measure we need to do any everything we can to make sure these suspected enemy combatants don't return into the battlefield and cause they're not charged with any crime whatsoever there's no mandatory rule that they need to be provided with legal assistance they're saying that these afghan teenagers were allowed for example to participate in open hearings and defend themselves afghan teenagers defending themselves we have to say that most of the many of them have

been released or transferred to the afghan government at this point but many do remain as well. to the break in the mystery that still surrounds the final days which is just stunning. choose your language. we keep it up and if it's going to kill some of. the concerns here can. choose to opinions that you think are a clue to. choose the stories that inflicts choose access to your office.

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