barack obama's state of the union address sees a pledge to pull thousands more troops from afghanistan about early next year but the targeted killing of terrorist suspects including americans without charge or trial fails to make because by his speech. north korea faces more sanctions as the u.n. security council strongly condemns the young young said and most powerful underground nuclear test today. is high earners on the bond and head away europe's small business owners call the government's taxes suffocating as the pressure mounts during tough financial times. news from russia and around the world this is see with me. hello and welcome to the

program bronco bamma devoted his fast state of the union address of his second term to trying to appease lawmakers and talk spares with fresh promises to bruise the economy our debt and deficit reduction of the occupation force in afghanistan was also announced with thirty four thousand troops to use in the by next february but such a sticky issues were notably left out of the speech as our team is going there to check our calls. 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 the arab spring he said it's quote unquote messy he also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. will cheer leading 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 the administration 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 while the president was talking about the u.s. bringing troops home from afghanistan the administration is set to continue to chase down terrorists across the globe and although there was no mentioning of the word drones with 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 very bases 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 we're going to search through a range of capabilities we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america 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 and during his speech obama announced the signing of a new cybersecurity huda the stated purpose of which is to boost the nation's defense against time because of the policy has been slammed by critics as an invasion of privacy on trying this and also tom gjelten says the cyber thieves simply not transparent enough so they accountable. we are moving into. an era

where countries feel more and more free 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 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 in the sack are going the u.n. will be fought sanctions against north korea and imagine the international border security council resulted in a you're not of us condemnation of people young said nuclear test the communist state conducted a controlled atomic detonation on face on cheese day in defiance of a young bonneville centric service in north korea's main ally and he's been a fox to china was among those condemning atomic test at director of global studies

at hong kong university is simon chan believes one of beijing joined the united to says its relations with the secretive state will remain intact. beijing does not wish to see any unsold in the in this region because mentoring instability is to measure as a principle of aging at this moment however due to the rising writers' activities in japan and south korea in the reason beijing is seeing north korea as an effective balance against united states so it's not just the be ok does nords call the interests of beijing and these kind of behaviors i mean we still be tolerated by beijing at this moment so is the new government of south korea and japan just being installed and it could rain makes use of this excuse to mobilize their own writers as collusion goes to build up their military capabilities so if

that can be done then beijing but also matured as their only excuse to mobilize their own military campaign and then the results could be a competition among all the powers in the region. for. iran's foreign ministry says international inspection demanding access to the chain military complex which is suspected of covered atomic research the country said it may allow the u.n. watchdog to revisit the state it comes as another round of talks on iran's controversial nuclear program begins later today to iran also said it's been converting and breached uranium into reactor fuel and another move aimed at easing tensions with the west the process is meant to slow the build up of material which could potentially be used to make nuclear weapons and matthew makowski new security 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 from it on to the international society it has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first time i would go into our tents the boys if i'm not mistaken three times and they have not found anything but there are still concerns he raised it on that has not yet replied to questions posed to them one thing many analysts a counter agree on that is that in order to in order to. stop them for crimes that during the crisis as there is.

the leader of a tax exodus by the super rich francois lands decision to push through a seventy five percent top rate of tax on those earning over one million euros saw the access of sticks and head to russia europe and some of the highest rates of taxation in the world with many giving the lion's share of the things to the state of a minefield that need 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 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 very hard to owns a haulage 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 it was our current 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 peter all of a r.t. . and there is a con this hour on a dangerous precedent and just a couple of minutes reporter in a pool that's blown a big hole in the british government's unemployment's panels. also then later learning of the tough wait to gaze at the pro-democracy rolls a slab secular tunisia schools teaching children a hard grade is learned last friday conservation all that after a short break. we speak your language anything about the war not being. good news programs and

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nation following the revolution two years ago some parents have no problem with that kids getting down to the nuts and bolts of islam as an age but others fear such education is only planting the seeds of future extremism of history now going to our calls. 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 as a man 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. what. 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 mooney 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. but 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 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 to gether education is on the backburner it's this absence of control that especially worries tunisians 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 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 and all too dot com for you when marches against the president sort of leads out into a van and draws with police and egypt's biggest city is we're talking about these guys who are turning up the heat and our channel gives you an exclusive chance to hear from the secretive stars of the egyptian uprising online. and also that after suffering a tough test by mother nature of home owners in parts of new york which were hit

hardest by harkin sunday are in for an unfortunate surprise from the serious talks authorities. on all see dot com while some believe there's a feeling sad about the pope's decision to plant his vatican biogs these ukrainian girls were only too demoing to to hear the news on stage the celebration powers as most famous child. is today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. i know most week long manhunt for an ex l.a. cop and a murder suspect with a one million dollar prize on his head appears to be. a remote woodland cabin where

christopher dorner was believed to be hiding and was burnt out and assures out charred remains of a human body were discovered inside dorner is accused of and banking on a killing spree after vowing to avenge his sacking in two thousand and eight it was believed to have already taken the lives of three people including a police officer. and also in our world updates this hour at least gun might have been killed in thailand stuff you don't south after all said to be the areas most vigorous militant attacks and several years. one hundred heavily armed not stormed in on the base but were repelled thanks to table for militants who'd previously defected no casualties among servicemen were reported three muslim dominated provinces often suffer from the times by a soldier's calling for greater autonomy it's been called. the nother blow to syria's government forces the rebel free syrian army has seized a military airport east of the country's second city of aleppo following two days

of intensive call bought the militants are now in control of a small airplane fleet which includes mig fighter jets have a say 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 training the says. it was one of the u.k. government's signature policies designed to get people box 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 of his staff explained. 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 eagerly flawed so they were successful and a small but significant victory now the lawyers for that ruling say it could 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. are 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 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 not speak to us more about this i'm joined by

amery o'reilly for the political work 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 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 by 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 when of this my significant schemes mandatory where tactility is still intact and really disturbing me 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 end of course the imperative is getting them back he said work i don't think anyone's that just being 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're right this is a fair assertion and one that was put out as an incomplete but was there it's hugely controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are in place and the government 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 and doing nothing at all. instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paid work by hand in big business like. tesco poundland hundreds of thousands of hours of unpaid work effectively replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were an employer based 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. up next abby nods and takes on the mainstream media and breaking the said.

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what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set you have another reason to smile yet today your luck might be about to change because the one thing we can all laugh about is fox's little mainstream blunder check this out this is the marriage column fox news just posted a couple days ago to be happy we must all admit women and men are equal in article all about traditional gender roles women have to play the women roles in men have to play the men roles that the only way marriage could ever be a small problem the happy couple fox chose to gloriously illustrate their take on relationships is actually two lesbians.