are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. or in. the call of it takes center stage during barack obama's state of the union address about the targeted killing of terrorist suspects including americans without charge or trial fails to make the cut and paste the speech but he did pledge to pull out thirty four thousand troops from afghanistan and the next year. north korea faces more sanctions as the joint security council strongly condemns pyongyang certain most powerful underground nuclear test today. and this is upon their bags and had a way your small business owners called their governments taxes suffocating as pressure mounts during tough financial times.

for russia under around the world this is the was me a hello and welcome to the program barack obama devoted his first state of the union address of his second term to trying to appease lawmakers and taxpayers with fresh promises to boost the economy and slash debt and deficit but certain policy issues which washington has been criticized for well notably left out of this speech to come out with the details. he certainly talked about the economy which according to the president is healing even though the country still wanting a huge deficit he said the u.s. is halfway through reducing its deficit by four trillion dollars economy say that's how much is needed for the u.s. to balance its budget president obama hinted that had congress been a bit less this functional the country would have made more progress instead he

said the country has has been moving from one quote unquote manufactured crisis to another to reduce energy cost president obama said the u.s. would produce more of its own oil and its own natural gas as it has been doing over the past two years on foreign policy front to a while the president was talking about the u.s. bringing troops home from afghanistan the administration will is set to continue to chase down terrorists across the globe and although there was no mentioning of the word drones what everybody knew that you know drones have been the hallmark of president obama's foreign policy and he didn't talk much about that again there was no mentioning of the word drone despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is setting up new drone break bases around the globe as you can imagine we did not hear much again about this war that the administration is waging with the remote control a war that is shrouded in secrecy all the president had to say on this is this is

true different kind of affiliates and extremist groups have emerged from the arabian peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is a bomb. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupy other nations where necessary draw range of capabilities we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to americans so not much over was said about the administration's no prisoners policy which has raised all sorts of red flags and most reports of civilian deaths in those drone strikes president obama did say in the speech that his justice department was working on the legal framework for those operations but one wonders what kind of a legal framework could be when the man who's been in charge of the program john brennan during his confirmation hearing last week the key explained why it would be hard for the administration to go to court with drones and he said that we don't punish people for past deals with strikes before they take action basically said

that the u.s. government could execute people for what they haven't done yet and it would be very hard to to you know to come up with legal framework for the state of the union speeches of course is not supposed to be controversial or detailed so the president did not have to really expend on this very controversial policy of his although the president try to speak in most generic terms on foreign policy one could notice a change in the way he was talking about the results of the spring the aftermath of things he said it's quote unquote messy you also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries and maybe the change they see now is not much to their liking the president was very quickly incautiously mentioned syria saying the u.s. supports those in the syrian opposition that respects the rights of all syrians but with terrorists flooding into syria and with radical forces doing a lot of the fighting for the opposition there it's really hard to see much respect

for all syrians right at the moment the president mentioned north korea saying north korea's provocative actions show how much the u.s. needs missile defense he also said it ministration will be seeking further reduction of nuclear arsenals with russia it's a foreign policy goal that president obama announced in his state of the union speech without going into details. during his speech obama announced the signing of a new cybersecurity it would on the state the proper so which is to boost the nation's defenses against time but the policy has been slammed by critics as an invasion of privacy and journalist and author tom gjelten says the cyberspace simply not transparent enough to be accountable we are moving into. an era where countries be all more and more free to attack each other and they very feel that they can do so without being caught the difficulty is there

particularly here in the united states there is so much secrecy surrounding cyber war and cyber weaponry in general but particularly army officers there should be perhaps nor will govern our conduct is that worse some discussion about. how international laws of war. the u.n. will be found sanctions against north korea and an imagist meeting of the international body security council resulted in a unanimous condemnation of pyongyang and said nuclear test the communist state conducted a controlled atomic defamation on tuesday in defiance of the young by. north korea's main ally and aid benefactor china was among those condemning atomic test but direct so global studies at hong kong university simon shine believes that while beijing joined the united criticize its relations with a secretive state will remain intact. asian best knowledge which has the onion

sowed in this region because you know stability is the major. principal agent at this moment however due to the fact that the rising rate is activities in japan and south korea it is an aging is seeing north korea as a new threat to your balance against the understates so it's known as the be ok does mode to call the interests of beijing this kind of behavior i mean we still be tolerated by beijing at this moment is the new government of south korea and japan just being installed and a good way to choose a vis its peers to mobilize their own writers as collusion was to build up their military capabilities so it can be beijing but also matured as their own excuse to mobilize their own military campaign and then the result could be a competition among all the powers in the region. iran's foreign

ministry says international inspectors are demanding access to the parching military complex which is suspected of atomic research and enter the country said it may allow the un watchdog to revisit the site it comes as another round of talks on iran's controversial nuclear program begins last later today tehran also said it's been converting and reached uranium into reactor fuel in another move and easing tensions with the west they process a man is meant to slow the build up of material which could potentially be used to make nuclear weapons and matthew mcconaughey new class accuse the expert from queen mary university in london benet's direct talks are the only solution to the stalemate. if the international society and. inspectors are allowed in this is definitely going to be a very good sign from it on to the international society it has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first time they would go into power to end the

war if i'm not mistaken he times and they have not found anything but they are still concerned they raised their arms that has not yet replied to questions posed to them one thing many analysts are counter agree on that is that in order to in order to. stop the whole crisis with during the crisis as there is a need for direct hearing in american talks and this is something that we still are not so. tough times and means many here about finding it increasingly harder to make ends meet but taxpayers are unlikely to be given much reprieve especially when their governments are tightening for debts and with no one willing to ditch funded public services the year looks set to continue having one of the highest tax rates and the wild speech on of a lesser gates. he's a leading man of stage and screen however european heads of state will be hoping

your are dead by a do doesn't become the leader of a tax exodus but the super rich front lawns decision to push through a seventy five percent top rate of tax on those earning over one million euros saw the actor up sticks and head to russia europe some of the highest rates of taxation in the world with many giving the lion's share of the things to the state of vermont feel good can be a balancing act of course you want to run a successful business but if you make over a certain amount you find yourself paying out huge quantities of tax over fifty percent don't. there are warnings for europe that when compared to low tax countries like russia they could lose their competitive edge if they're a country with low taxes and with high taxes capital flow well to country with a low tax and the same is true for people with talent there's always going to be

people that think the taxes are too high but a growing number actually starting to think that it's becoming detrimental to the development of business that he hired to owns a whole each company in munich currently he employs around ninety people transporting everything from the small to the big and bulky all over mainland europe he says that lowering the current rate of tax would not just make big changes to his business but also to the lives of his stuff that's where not only can he is with us on him. it would be super first i could pay higher salaries this is a very important issue right now due to the rise in the cost of living also i can invest more into the company and grow the business even employ more people everyone benefits something that is impossible under the current tax system and that those in power argue that the problem in european countries right now is that taxpayers want to have the best of both worlds big management of the phenomenon we face

regarding taxes is that everyone wants to pay as little as possible however no one is willing to give up the services that those taxes go to pay for them with few signs of any major tax cuts on the horizon in year businesses like this one going to have to continue to struggle to bring home the bacon but it comes to saving fifty development peter all of a r.t. . and for you this sound a dangerous precedent in just a couple of minutes we're told and of course hurting that blood a big hole in the british government's unemployment schemes. and lending its the tough way to democrats their roles as website. schools teaching children a hard grade. over. good

lumbered sure to mccurry was able to build a colleague's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture.

this is live from moscow welcome back. internees a religious schools are spreading throughout the nation following the revolution two years ago some parents have no problem with their kids getting down to the nuts and bolts of islam at an early age but others fears such as you cation is only planting the seeds of future extremism on carbon. tunisia's learned some tough lessons in the wake of its revolt but now the report card for what's going on in its schools is facing examination in the school in one of the poorest districts of the tunisian capital children come to learn about the qur'an and the way of life of true muslims religious education was banned under the

old regime but it's making a comeback in a big way the rise of islam islam has led to an increase in the number of religious schools springing up across the country these schools are private operating outside of the control of state officials who have no say over what's being taught in these schools and some worry that this may lead to a rise in the number of young extremists even many religious experts agree filling young minds with religious doctrines may not be the best way to bring up children. i read in one of the papers sent by a three year old girl to her mother with a message my beloved mom teach me about the afterlife the same way you teach about this life is this a way to teach three year old children we can see it clearly attempts to brainwash these children dr from loony carried out an extensive research of religious schools and to nice to find out whether critics were right to say that they were damaging to the country's post revolutionary development she found most schools were

primarily focused on teaching strict islamic values without worrying about the effect these methods may have on youngsters. i have noticed that all female teachers at these schools where any cub while teaching you can't see her face this is in contradiction with what's known in psychology as communication how can she communicate with the kids of her face is covered in motions and movement of vital to kids and social interaction such things do not contradict our values and morals . but parents who send their children to study at these schools believe they are on the right track. educating our children with muslim values is the way to ensure that they will lead a proper life from childhood study in the koran improves memory increases thinking abilities and says the right course for the rest of their lives. at the moment not even the ministry of education is able to say exactly how many religious schools

there are in tunisia after the revolution they sprung up over the country many operating without license from the state the government has acknowledged the problem but has its hands full trying to keep the economy together meaning education is on the backburner it's this absence of control that especially worrisome on top of the concerns about extremist salafist groups gaining ground. these groups don't believe in democracy republic and freedom they consider them to be against their religion they want to impose their way of life onto new zealand by force as if they know better than other people after the arab spring revolt tunisians were eager to embrace what they hoped would be a new way of life but with radical islam permeating more and more spheres of everyday life these children's future may not be exactly what many parents had hoped for in their quest for freedom or democracy in tunisia. r.t. . and right now on r.t.

dot com for you when marches against the president suddenly turn into violent brawls with police and each of the biggest cities if these guys head turning up the hill and our channel gives you an exclusive chance to hear from this secretive starwars a bijection uprising online. also there for you after suffering a tough times by mother nature homeowners in parts of new york which were hit hardest by hard going to sunday are in for unfortunate surprise from the city's tax authorities. and also while some believe is that feeling sad about the pope's decision to pop his vatican bank these ukrainian girls were only too delighted to hear the news and staged a celebration in paris is most famous. today . and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of

canada. trying to corporations rule the day. and almost a week long manhunt for an x l a cold and murder suspect with one a month one million dollar prize on his head appears to be about that's after remote woodland cabin where christopher dorner was believed to be hiding and was burnt out in a shootout dorner is accused of embarking on a killing spree after vying to avert his cycling in two thousand and eight he was believed to have already taken the lives of three people including a police officer and antiwar activist on john is don de bar believes it was the cops themselves that could have driven his instability. i do not think violence is justified no matter what happened to mr dorner however from reading what he. he had released his so-called manifesto it's clear that he's witnessed

a great deal of police misconduct aside from experiencing it himself as a police officer in the way he's witnessed a number of incidents that were either buried under the rug or covered up in one fashion or another and so it seems to me that the end game from the point of view of l.a.p.d. is to kill him before he has an opportunity to end up in a courtroom when there's a pattern of behavior that repeats itself over and over despite massive evidence in some cases that something quite contrary is going on to what's being said then the only conclusion that you can come to was that this is what is being done is not an error but rather a policy when you treat people in that fashion they lose confidence in the justice system it was confidence to go into the courts for relief and some people decide to fight back in the only way they know how this particular person was trained by the

government to be a killer and let loose elsewhere in the world to kill on behalf of the interests that rule the united states. and in our walled up days this hour at least nineteen gunmen have been killed in thailand's top event south said to be the area's most vigorous militant attacks in several games some one hundred heavily armed men stormed another base but were repelled a time start table for medicines that previously defected no casualties among seventy one were reported thailand's three muslim dominated promises often suffer from a tox by insurgents calling for a greater autonomy from bangkok. and not applied to syria's government forces the rebel free syrian army has seized a ministry at fort east of the country's second city of aleppo following two days of intensive combat in one sense are now in control of a small war plane fleet which includes make fine to jets. f.s.a. commanders say the government troops will no longer be able to send reinforcements

to stop rebel advances in a province neighboring aleppo however damascus has played down the importance of the airbase claiming it was only used to train for training purposes. now it was one of the u.k. government's signature policies designed to send people back so wild but it's led to claims of slavery and could now result in the authorities having to cough up millions to those who took part explain. university graduate kate riley and forty year old jamison wilson succeeded in their claims that their unpaid work that they were made to take part in was indeed a little for them but it was taking place in the court of appeal today and they argue it was that the surrounding issues will legally flawed so they were successful and a small but significant victory now the law is that that ruling say it would mean that thousands of people who have their benefits stripped from the under similar

circumstances in this government work program could reclaim that money that could leave the door open to the millions of pounds compensation that would be footed by the taxpayer of course that's causing a lot of concern that the d.w.p. is saying that they are not going to be coughing up any cash whatsoever in our teeth on its own investigation into the work program it's been hugely controversial program a lot of problems in response to what's the government has said that it was ridiculous to suggest that there were any problems with the work program and that it wasn't helping people get back into work but look this is all being quite embarrassing for the government today now speak to us more about this i'm joined by amery o'reilly from the political work there program thank you very much for joining us a small victory do you think there. are enough because on the surface of it it seems like a big deal and a win the obviously the people involved in that but is this going to be as hard

hitting as far reaching well today's ruling is really significant for us it shows that workfare forced unpaid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful so that means every single person who's been sent on these schemes in the last two years was sent on them unlawfully and the tens of thousands of people who faced really extreme hardship and possible destitution but having their money stopped as a result of not participating may well. be entitled to claim that money back but you're right it doesn't go far enough for still a lot to be done one of this my significant schemes mandatory work activity is still intact and really disturbingly the government threatening to bring emergency regulations through to bring workfare straight back in this when just today the schemes are found illegal when they've been riddled with corruption allegations from the start and the government's own research shows that has no effect on helping people find work you know there are millions of people unemployed here in

the way and of course the imperative is getting them back he said work i don't think anyone's the jesting that these people shouldn't be put back to work but i think it's the rhetoric that's surrounding it and indeed the figures as we said are to see their own investigation and the figures just do not add up the percentage of people who are actually getting jobs from this program were incredibly full of but it was worse than doing nothing it's also really the figure is quite shocking but you're right this is a fair assertion and one that has put them in conflicts where it's hugely controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are in place and the governor is quite right getting people back into jobs are they not unemployment in the u.k. the moment is a huge huge issue but the government nice that these schemes don't work its own research shows they have zero effect on helping people find work possibly worse than doing nothing and. instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paid work by handing big business like our gas tesco pound and

hundreds of thousands of hours of unpaid work effectively replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes weren't in place not only that the government is using these schemes to massage the unemployment figures because when people are forced to work without pay on the schemes they can't count them as having a job a very strange definition of having a job with not a single person is receiving a wage for them before one graduate who is on that work program certainly a small but significant victory and as a lawyer for that case said today it certainly means that the government now has to go back to the drawing board when it comes to their work schemes. and after a short break it's time for his latest console debate. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of the times.

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a. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle talking the talk or serious in meaningful negotiations this is the question always asked when it comes to the western powers approach to rand's nuclear program soon the two sides will meet again in search of mutual agreement are there too many red lines and toxic history for this to happen and who really needs to unclench your fist. cross-talk un's nuclear program i'm joined by mohammad marandi and turan he is a professor at the university of tehran in tampa we have rafi is our day he is a foreign policy expert and president of the international american council and in washington porter he is an investigative historian and journalist or

a gentleman cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to professor marandi in turn if i go to you first the two parties are going to meeting kazakhstan what's different this time around if anything well i don't think much has changed the united states has increased pressure on iran has increased sanctions that has had a negative effect on ordinary iranians the fact that. senior government officials including the former secretary of state have said that the sanctions are there to force to put pressure on ordinary iranians to bring about change i think in iran is seen as something quite. uncivilized and inhuman to try to hurt ordinary civilians to put pressure on the government i don't think it's going to change i have no doubt that it will not change the policy of the iranian government so in general nothing has changed the iranians feel that there's a general an assault on the country.