big color 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 to date. and this is beyond their bags and head away europe's 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 an e.u.

less of 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 bruise the economy and slash debt and deficit but certain policy issues which washington has been criticized for were notably left out of this speech to alter he's going to sure can. 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 dysfunctional the country would have made more progress instead he said the country 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 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 free basis around the globe as you can imagine we did not hear much again about this war that the administration is waging with a 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 in 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 through 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 the 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 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 cautious he 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 mr asia 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 of the potus a waitress to boost the nation's defenses against her 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 country is being able more and more to attack each other and they very feel that they can do so without being caught the difficulty is that particularly here in the united states there is so much secrecy surrounding cyber war 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 to an imagist a meeting of the international bodies security council resulted in a unanimous condemnation of pyongyang said nuclear test the communist state conducted a controlled atomic defamation on tuesday in defiance of a young. north korea's main ally and i had been a fox that china was among those condemning atomic test but directo global studies at hong kong university simon show and believes while beijing joined the united criticised its relations with a secretive state will remain intact. asian best knowledge wish to see and suddenly in this region because mentoring is the ability is to measure the critical engine at this moment however due to. the rising rate is activities in japan and

south korea is in beijing is seeing korea as an effective balance against understates so it's not just the be ok does nords the quality interests of beijing and 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 they way that you took this excuse to mobilize their own writers as collusion was to build up their military capabilities so it can be done 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 paltry military complex which is suspected of atomic research and out of the country said it may allow the un watchdog to ever visit a 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 their process in maine is meant to slow the buildup 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 believes direct talks are the only solution to the stalemate. if the international society and. inspectors are allowed in this this is definitely going to be a very good sign permit on or to the international society it has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first time they would go into our tents the board if i'm not mistaken but we times and they have not found anything but there are still concerns raised. on that has not yet replied to questions posed to them one thing many analysts counter agree on that is that in order to in order to.

stop the for chrysler crisis as there is a need for direct. american talks and this is something that we are not so at all. times and means many here about finding it increasingly harder to make ends meet but taxpayers are unlikely to be given much for a preview 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 a very last again. he's a leading man of stage and screen however european heads of state will be hoping share our debt by 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 excess of 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 the need 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 low taxes in 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 but he can't owns a whole it 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 staff that's where not only can his was 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 when it comes to saving fifty development these are all other r.t. . and for you this sound a dangerous precedent in just a couple of minutes we're told in no quarter earnings as flood a big hole in the british government's unemployment schemes. and learning it's the tough way to democrats their roles as website can attorneys in schools teaching children a hard grade. over the threshold bring. good

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this is all seen 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 keisha is only planting the seeds of future extremism. 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 are 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. that 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 base 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. and 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 if her face is covered emotions 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 studying 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 on tunisians 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 i mean not be exactly what many parents had hoped for in their quest for freedom and democracy in tunisia. our team. and right now on our home for you when marchers against the president suddenly turn into violent brawls with police in each of the biggest cities if these guys head turning up the heat and our channel gives you an exclusive chance to hear from the secretive terrors of the direction 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 important fortunes 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 . again flared up. 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 in was burnt out in a shootout dorner is accused of embarking on a killing spree after vowing 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 activists and journalists don't do bob 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 and 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 the 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 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 they lose confidence in going to 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 the united states. and in our wild up days this hour at least nineteen gunmen have been killed in thailand type event south of all said to be the areas most

vigorous militant attacks in several games some one hundred heavily armed men stormed another base but were repelled uprising started all from militants had previously defected no casualties among scientists that 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 the ministry airport east of the country's second city of aleppo following two days of intensive combat the men says are now in control of a small war plane fleet which includes make fighter 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 work 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 scheme 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 eagerly 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 done its own investigation into the work program it's been a hugely controversial program a lot of problems in the 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 being quite embarrassing for the government today not speak to us more about this i'm joined by amery o'reilly for the boycott work there program thank you very much for joining us a small victory do you think that far 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 and as far reaching well today's ruling is really significant for us it shows that workfare forced on paid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful search 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 the 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 to sort of 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 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 a tooth so really the figure is quite shocking but you write this if it's their assertion one that was put out as an incomplete it's hugely controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they all schemes that are in place in the governor's 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 in doing nothing and. instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paid work but handing big business like. tesco poundland hundreds of thousands of hours of unpaid work effectively replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were and 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 it's a lou it's 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 the aussies latest coastal debate stay with us. wealthy british style it's a spot on pretty much classified. markets why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with max

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