everything is. part of the big picture. it's eight pm right now here in moscow the headlines tonight russia and the e.u. should be partners by choice not through that's the view of the european union is it outlines its vision for relations between the two during the first trip to brussels since returning to the presidency. which has already. a million documents being prepared to be really. promises no country in the world will remain unaffected by new wiki leaks revelations planned for twenty thirty. and russia's lower house of parliament approves a law banning americans from adopting russian children in retaliation for america's

so-called magnitsky. hello and a very good evening to if you just joined us here at the new center tonight our top story russia e.u. cooperation should be defined by choice and not forced by necessity that's how europe sees future ties with russia and it's a view that second by president putin to who's in brussels for talks with the blocs leaders for the first time since his return to the kremlin. reports. a lot of speculation happened before the summit that this will be a meeting of confrontation rather than corporation but it actually turned out absolutely the opposite scenario all these speakers but also one started off by saying that the trade turnover between the e.u. and russia has grown significantly now it's exceeding three hundred billion euros

a year and this is a good sign but both sides expressed their willingness to make it a corporation by choice not to by necessity but clearly the biggest contradictions still remain in the issues of the energy supplies from russia to the european continent i'd like to remind two of you is that the e.u. still has a certain accusations and certainly has some things they say about the russian gas giant gazprom wanting them to allow the access to the governmental access to their pipelines in europe while gas from certainly says this may not happen but today we've heard. well the european union leaders and putin on that issue in particular . saying that russia is not against all these kind of regulations but the only problem is that the two thousand and nine legislation made by europe in terms of the monopoly on the gas pipes now concerns the deals which had been struck before

that and the russian president described that as completely uncivilized still hoping that sides will be managed will manage to find some sort of compromise there during the press conference the energy issue took the majority of the of the time from the speakers and in the end of the press conference was even humorous about the very rather long reply by mr barroso. my friend of many years mr barroso has been explaining his position on gas prices for so long because he realizes that he's wrong just read our cooperation agreement with the e.u. . prices are dictated by markets not by government. definitely the energy sector is very important and certainly dominated the talks but of course sized also talked about the visa free travel for e.u. citizens and russians saying that this is a possibility in the various nearest future and also touching upon the geopolitical issues such as the syrian conflict where a large important certainly reiterated russia's stance that this has to be dealt with behind the negotiation table not by the violence not by

a military conflict and there seem to be lots of understanding between the leaders and. correspondent there and the conflict in syria was also raised by russia's foreign minister to an exclusive interview he gave to us to believe that maters recent decision to deploy patrick missiles on the turkish border may not be designed just to protect against drugs from syrian territory he suggested to worse there are indications that the systems may be useful against. talking about a possible regime change in syria the foreign minister insisted russia will play no part. i'm not in the business of regime change and some of the. regional players were suggesting to us why don't you tell president to leave the range for. and for him. my answer is very simple if indeed those who suggest the stores have this in mind

they should take a directly to president that's why shelby use us as postman. if present us of those interested this must be discussed directly with him. during his son just promising wiki leaks will release more than a million secret files over the next year in publications that will affect every country in the world the whistleblower gave a christmas address from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been in scott's for half a year now and what was his first public appearance since august. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he marked his six month at the embassy by talking about it and the building and it's become his home and his right to the principles of the dorians as he called you had taken him in and then he said that he is able

to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he also spoke with bradley manning who of course is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he submitted journalists and others to stand up to repression let's listen in to what he's got to say people often ask what can i do. the answer is not so difficult to learn how the world works. the statements and intentions of those who seek to control behind. democracy and more nikki unite in common purpose and common principle to design the document. in. act now two thousand and twelve has been a busy year for wiki leaks he has written a book he's also made a show party and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that

two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy a team have prepared a million documents which they promised to release with information that he says relates to every single government around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate so the message here is he might be picked up inside the at the syrian embassy base resting on his laurels. christmas stress in full on our website r.t. dot com you can also get more of the top level explosion explosions he's planning as well of course. today. these are the images from. the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

russian parliament passed a bill targeting americans accused of abusing human rights of russians abroad and also bans americans from adopting russian children move comes in response to the u.s. so-called magnitsky schools controversy here in russia his lady friend says more on the ongoing tit for tat. the most divisive part of this bill is definitely the provision talking about adoption of russian children by american families it was approved overwhelmingly by the duma four hundred twenty four she's just seven and it's been opposed by the education ministry and human rights activists citing that many of these children that do get adopted by american families with disabilities and they're given a better life in another country now bill backers have been unhappy for some time about the adoption process that takes place between russia and the united states nineteen children have died at the hands of their u.s.

adoptive parents in the last several years and the moscow has wanted to be more involved in securing the human rights of children that do head overseas with those families this russian bill is in response to so-called magnitsky act adopted in the u.s. now this all began when that lawyer sergei magnitsky died in pretrial detention here in moscow in november of two thousand and nine he had accused russian officials of major tax fraud and died in jail while under investigation for investments u.s. lawmakers have wanted to hold responsible the people who it thinks may have been responsible for his death by freezing assets and revoking visas moscow has seen this is a very anti russian piece of legislation so this bill is in response to that so it will not only freeze assets and revoke visas of americans that it feels has

violated the human rights of russians it will also doubt bad the adoption of russia's children over to the united states that the next step for this it's got to pass the upper chamber of the russian parliament and then it's got to go for a signature. by the present. growing racism violent nationalism and abuse of rights of minorities and prisoners these are just some of the things that russia is accusing the european union of lighting a decline in human liberties a stinging report targeting the e.u. also points to an abuse of power in dispersing street demonstrators corseted dog of the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights told r.t. why moscow's decided target europe why the european union because the european union positions and most of its members position themselves as. works of democracy as certain yardsticks by which the international community

absolutely must measure its own record wreckers in the field of human rights and nobody disputes by the way the fact that european union is search and european . quite a number of its members not all but quite a number of its members develop democracies but what we see is there despite those facts there are some other effects there are a very serious challenges and problems in the european union and the in each and every or its member countries. if you full interview with the russian foreign ministries commissioner for human rights at six pm g.m.t. here on this channel r.t. . still ahead before that yemen's president attempts to break away from the political heritage of the country's ousted leader with washington showing increasing interest in the face of the gulf state we examine that a bit closer

a bit later. you pay is preparing to be from afghanistan with hundreds. millions of pounds spent on the war we talk about that after this break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. to avoid is a norm or should just small arms so there's a lot almost machine building ploy and not only a source count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting the planet's history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the

bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so if you were also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the master of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed the life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is your old truck factory brushes number one of the truck made for gravel look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was old production is booming the factory has largely managed. johnson's sold around the globe hey i bet it's a brand new car wait for it to be delivered to acquire that want to truck the flag this once roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully

if i can get that. dr. was found to get one of these to travel to one every morning but with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. hello again yemen is in for a defense shake a person it's us by president tries to break away from the legacy of the country's ousted leader former president stepped down from a mass protests almost a year ago and republic transfer brokered by washington of the country's gulf neighbors is going to occur now explores why the u.s. is so engaged in yemen's internal of this. as washington continues to make

a moral case for its covert wars on terror yemen is presented as a place that is full of terry getting ready to attack america but very few think of yemen as a chokepoint the vast economic interests yemen is the poorest country in the middle east but it's sitting on one of the most important trade routes in the wall the bubble manned up straight most people have heard about the southwest canal well of course we almost broke out over the canal right that's how important it is but bob amanda doesn't instantly ring the bell although it's basically an extension of the suez canal and is of similar strategic importance almost all of europe's trade with china japan india and the rest of asia passes through babel mend up every day that's how important it is some argue that washington sees harry's me given as a problem in a sense that it could have an adverse impact on economic interests at stake the

united states wouldn't be engaged in such a conflict in yemen if it didn't hold very specific geo political and strategic necessity for the u.s. i think most importantly of course is access to this bob on monday straight which is one of the highest trafficked waterways in the world. the u.s. already has a vast military presence in the persian gulf to secure key oil shipping lanes under the banner of chasing terrorists the u.s. is setting up new drone bases on the arabian peninsula including one in djibouti which is on the other side of the strait of babel and that the arrangement that the united states government has with the yemeni government is basically one of bribery we bribe them with money and weapons and in exchange we get to bomb their country with impunity. but it may be a dangerous proposition for the yemeni government because of the offer or this price of cars among the population. on this much an american plane on this place

and killed seventy. people they were innocent they did not deserve it john. wanted some way to go we were protesting the year for it to happen he left what do we have now some americans are coming to our land to kill us the journalist who shot these images of a two thousand and nine drone strike in yemen that killed fourteen women and twenty one children is now in jail abdul hyder shyam was accused of aiding terrorists he was about to be released but the yemeni government reverse this decision after a call from the white house. because of the secrecy surrounding the program there is no way. looking for targets. in serbia prior to the dayton accords the military.

planners came to to richard holbrooke and they said well you know honestly we've run out of targets we've bombed everything. so we have to keep this bombing up and they say well we've already hit the star you said bomb them again find secondary target because they needed to keep up the pressure now my fear is that order to keep up the pressure on al qaeda or its associated organizations united states will expand you know its definition of who is a legitimate target washington is helping the current yemeni government in order for it not to fail and to be friendly to the us friendly enough to allow the u.s. to bomb them as washington see fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade route but historically that kind of a prop by the united states has often led to alienating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. line for just. a couple of stories we reported about the number of

deaths from car accidents that may be on the decline in the u.s. but that is no cause for complacency as we were starting research suggesting american citizens will soon be more likely to lose their lives in shootings that. only increase. the breathing a sigh of relief that my calendar is prediction of the end of the world thankfully didn't come to fruition many around the globe are still bracing themselves for the last probably one in ten people are worried about it. more stories in a. day gerri. is britain appearing to pull its troops out of afghanistan the u.k.'s counting its

losses in more ways than one more than four hundred british soldiers have been killed in a war which has so far cost the government a staggering seventeen billion pounds and that is probably voiture explains the sums raising a few eyebrows especially with the stereotype cuts being felt at home. seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of the so far eleven here war in afghanistan now it was a very field at the same time as a clearer timetable was announced for troop withdrawal from the region but it's those seventeen billion pounds that are being spent that have been spent on before the war on top of the existing defense budget which means the estimates for the final price tag for the afghan war might be something around twenty billion off now and of course the u.k. is going to keep sending money to afghanistan after twenty fourteen they're going to be sending from like seventeen million pounds for aid towards the afghan national security forces after twenty fourteen and this is all at the same time as

the government announcing prolonged all series here at home that's going to continue until at least twenty seventeen twenty eighteen and the chancellor announcing that there's going to be extra welfare cuts and an extra ten billion pounds slashed from the welfare budget i'm joined by john hillery who is the executive director of thank you for the carroty four point one georgia eleven years later seventeen billion pounds down the line about money have been better spent elsewhere you could hardly really think of any worse way of spending the money as you say if you pointed out here in britain we're seeing an enormous cuts to government spending into the world but it's about twenty five billion colds can total which actually is almost the same as being spent in the war in afghanistan on defense when they can be justified but this is seventeen billion over and above the existing british defense budget it's a completely only popular people in britain most of the troops are people enough given this want the troops out and now will be facing these massive cuts on top of

people really angry differently beauty team already even defense secretary. afghanistan well being under government control and that means a lot more questions from the british tax every eleven years and i think the war and the twenty billion pound price tag or add. some top world news stories in brief now dozens of people have been injured in clashes in egypt second city alexandria police fired tear gas at opposing crowds as protesters demonstrated for against president morsi the violence comes as egypt prepares for a second round of voting on a controversial draft constitution is divided the country opponents of the document say would lead to an islamist state. your staff sergeant who was caught on camera urinating on dead taliban fighters in afghanistan has been demoted and fined five hundred dollars joseph chamblin was also found guilty of dereliction of duty by

failing to report misconduct by junior marines and initial punishment of thirty days in jail and a two thousand dollars fine was reduced the marine pleaded guilty and agreed to a plea bargain with the court martial. the us citizens been arrested three or four unspecified crimes state media says the hole into the country last month as a tourist but officials say there's evidence proving very committed a crime against the state demands met diplomats from the swedish embassy represents u.s. interests in north korea because of a lack of diplomatic ties between washington and pyongyang. to become one of the world's industrial titans you need a workforce that's ready for anything of course but grim statistics in the heart of europe show millions of are also being left behind because they've got trouble reading and writing is artie's peter all of. germany and engineering giant a footballing colossus a nation at the very forefront of modern european civilization and this. when i was

younger and my friends asked if i wanted to play football i was avoiding it even though i wanted to i was afraid that i might have to read something and that would reveal my problem that i couldn't read or write properly statistics from the ministry of education suggest around seven and a half million germans are functionally illiterate and that means that they. but nothing more complex than that tim taylor fellner left school without the skills needed to get by in the world he turned to adult education and now works to help others everybody on the toughest part he says is getting people to confront their illiteracy if. there are plenty of people who realize that they have problems you notice that in yourself when you try to hide it many are in denial they think they're ok and are able to keep it covered up you're always making excuses not. tim says large class sizes coupled with parents too busy at work to spend time reading

at home has allowed some kids to slip through the cracks also wonder the radar's an estimated three hundred thousand adults cannot read or write at all the government is running programs to try and tackle this but the numbers are rolling in courses is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions affected here i know you think no one should leave school without the minimum required skills to function as a member of society this is a major issue and something we hope not only able to make sure it doesn't happen in future but to also help those who have problems now with one program that is looking to help functionally illiterate adults in and around the city of cologne has got employers and volved. from small local businesses to huge manufacturing giants they've agreed to give staff with literacy problems flexible working hours so they can attend classes that get us on our boats plots it has been a very successful way of get an education to people who perhaps don't have the time

to attend regular classes it benefits the employees as well they get to contribute to the local community and in return receive employees with more skills. if a bit is. despite the good work being done by programs like this one out of the estimated seven point five million functionally illiterate people in germany. only five percent are receiving any kind of education peter all over r.t. germany hope you stay with the course they've got a great programs lined up couple of minutes of the martins martins break in the set again. the.

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