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with a worldwide news live from moscow this is on. welcome to the program barack obama devoted his state of the union address of his second trying to appease lawmakers and taxpayers with fresh promises to boost the economy and slash deficit on foreign policy the us president also announced that thirty four thousand troops are to leave afghanistan by next february and he said now and joins us live from the shooter with more on this so good to see you today and so afghanistan. health care benefits a fairly good mix arrangement there of what he had to say for the state of the union what were some of the highlights he would say well most of the focus was on domestic issues but a very big announcement on afghanistan it topped the address really after over a decade of war troops are coming home in two thousand and fourteen as obama put it now obama pointed out that there are two men. adham now preparing afghan forces to

take over so that the country does not slip into chaos again the key word here again it seems almost as if it's a stable place now well just today tens of billions were reported killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents and it's rated one of the most corrupt countries in the world now obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction and that this year it's expected another thirty billion could be spent in aid well despite red flags from a watchdog monitoring aid that there's no way of ensuring all this money is going to the right place or whose hands the cash is falling into the watchdog is also saying it's too dangerous in many places in afghanistan to safely observe what's happening former m.p. . says some have become very rich including western officials well most afghans

have been left with nothing many countries thrive on this war they make money their n.g.o.s their un people others who are lined up and making fat salaries and while the life of afghan ordinary afghans have not changed we of course we have had some things like media. communication and this and that but. in relation to what was available and what could have been done it's a drop in the bucket. now another pledge from obama was to continue to push for legal and durable policy on counterterrorism again legal and durable no mention of guantanamo drones or wiretapping but obama didn't mention internet freedoms sort of he flaunted signing an executive order on cyber defense but the order is really seen as a response to congress's refusal to pass the cyber intelligence sharing and

protection act or sis last year in light of serious privacy concerns in other words a loophole. is now going to be put into action well this all while obama spoke of defending democracy across the globe most notably the arab spring which has previously been held a great success by his administration especially in libya egypt and tunisia those countries all now still drowning in chaos and violence to hear a song well obama has changed his tune a bit now saying well it's going to be messy also his tone on syria a bit distant considering a year ago the u.s. was insisting president also to go many people were expecting intervention obama now saying they will continue to put pressure on the syrian leader that's what it looks like in terms of foreign policy again most of the speech did focus on domestic issues and i think we'll be hearing from experts that they expected a bit more really on foreign policy well perhaps you know it's one of those i think

is supposed to focus primarily on domestic issues foreign policy often is a bit of a sidebar but as you were mentioning and so. we're looking with the rest of the world wants to see him here absolutely of course the thirty four thousand troops to be pulled out of afghanistan by february so that's certainly a good point in the sort of you know or and he said no we thank you. well it was a pleasure to have you with us here and see if anything was talking about barack obama's state of the union address he's been a we all know chalking the course for his country all those that have been speaking out against his plans for strict gun measures protesters in the state of new york demonstrate against tough stretch and slapped on them by the authorities following the sandy hook school massacre last december. israel's media is facing pressure from the very top to keep quiet it's come to light after the australian press fall the report of a melbourne man who hanged himself in the israeli jail in twenty ten after being

held in secret for months but the story never made it to the headlines until recently as he's pulled a sleeper investigates. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu summoned the editors of all the major israeli news outlets to an emergency meeting and in that meeting he asked them not to publish the story saying and i'm quoting that it would be embarrassing to a certain government agency not at first the editors did listen and all references to the original australian report would remove from israeli news web sites but later it was for back not only to the websites but also to all the radio and t.v. stations here and certainly since the early also this morning it has been the headline news everyone though is referencing it as a report from australia not what we understand is that israeli parliament terence did oss the justice minister to confirm whether or not this report was true they also demanded to know if they were other prisoners who were being held in secret in

israeli jails the justice minister's comments were and i'm quoting that there is no doubt that if this information is accurate this is something that needs to be checked state senses gave news office in israel the green light to report on this parliamentary debate but nothing else but of course we're witnessing now that the reporting has gone much further than just this debate such a gag order it is important to say is highly unusual in his role ways statement a tree since as many and now all the local media to quote fallen soul searching on controversial topics such as the alleged israeli strike in syria last month what we also understand is that various human rights groups such as human rights watch as well as the israeli civil rights movement have been aware of this particular incident for quite some time now the australian media is reporting that this man came to live in israel when he was a youngster he made what is called idea and he was recruiting on the stand by the messiah these raided secret service something went wrong and we've been given no

reason for him being imprisoned but they respect the nation that it would have had to be connected somehow with espionage and sensitive state secrets the. former foreign minister avigdor lieberman has said that we parliamentarians have damaged israeli security by bringing this issue to the fore in the first place. and of course one of political reporting right the tough times made that many in europe are finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet but taxpayers are unlikely to be given much reprieve especially when their governments are tackling reco debts and it was no one willing to ditch generously funded public services. to continue having one of the highest tax rates in the world. has the story. he's a leading man of stage and screen however european heads of state will be hoping share our debt by a deal doesn't become the leader of a tax exodus by the super rich fund to our lands decision to push through

a seventy five percent top rate of tax on those earning over one million euros saw the access up sticks and head to russia europe has some of the highest rates of taxation in the world with many giving lead mine share of the to the state of vermont feel. it can be a balancing act course you want to run a successful business but if you make over a certain amount you find yourself paying out huge quantities of taxes over fifty percent. there are warnings that when compared to low tax countries like russia they could lose their competitive edge if their country was low taxes and with high taxes capital flow well to country with 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 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 say's that lowering the current rate of tax would not just make big changes to his business but also to the lives of his staff does where not only can his with him and can he 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 investment employ more people everyone benefits something that is impossible under the current tax system. those in power argue that the problem in european countries right now is that taxpayers want to have the best. both worlds. 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. tax cuts

and in your business is like this one going to have to continue to struggle to bring home the bacon when it comes to saving fifty development. and i still to come for you this hour here on out of a dangerous precedent in just a couple of minutes we report on a court ruling that's a big gaping hole in the british government's unemployment scheme. and learning at the tough way two years often pro-democracy revolts swept secular. schools teaching children the hard line islamic spreading throughout the nation and all of that.

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thank you for joining us here on our. attention. where religious schools are spreading throughout the nation following the revolution that was two years ago some parents having no problem with their kids getting down to the nuts and bolts of at an early age. such type of education is only planting the seeds of future extremism as reports. 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. what. i read on 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 rooney carried out an extensive research of religious schools in tunis 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 in youngsters. that i have noticed that all female teachers at these schools where any cub while teaching you can't see her face this isn't a 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 your 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 all 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 meaning 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 to force 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 may not be exactly what many parents had hoped for in their quest for freedom and democracy in tunisia. are. of course always lots of stories over at our website dot com for example when marches against the president suddenly turn into violent police brawls in egypt.

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these are the. this is the u.n. sanctions against north korea. meeting of the international bodies of security council it resulted in a unanimous condemnation of pyongyang nuclear test by the communist state conducted a controlled detonation on choose day. such activity north korea and. china was among those condemning pyongyang's atomic test the director of global studies at hong kong university. believes join the united criticism its relations with the secretive state will remain intact. does knowledge wish to see any uncertainty in this region because many juniors debility is major as

a critical region at this moment. due to the rising rate his activities in japan and south korea. north korea has and you have to. understand so it's not just those modes all the interests of beijing and this kind of behavior. will still be tolerated by beijing at this moment says the new government of south korea and japan just being installed and because. it's a few. writers escalation. of the truth it is better to so. beijing also a good excuse to move all but assured me the result will be a competition among all the powers in the region so i'm going to go. right to iran

now that has begun a fresh round of talks with international inspectors officials from the u.n. nuclear watchdog are now in the capital tehran trying to get access to the parchin military complex suspected of covert atomic research the country did say that it may allow the team to revisit the site that's our own also said it's been converting in a rich to raney him into reactor fuel in another move aimed at easing tensions with the west and the process is meant to slow the build up of material which could be used to make nuclear weapons matthew mcallester nuclear expert from queen mary university in london believes direct talks are the only way forward. if the international society and i ate meat inspectors are allowed in that this is definitely going to the are very good sign from it on to international society that it has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first time i would go into power to. the i.a.e.a. board if i'm not mistaken three times and they have not found anything but there

are still concerns you have raised it on that has not yet replied to questions posed to them one thing many analysts tend to agree on is that in order to in order to stop the whole crying to feeling in crisis as there is a need for direct hearing in american talks and this is something that we still are not seeing at all. and starting with thailand into the world of that we go now where at least nineteen people have been killed in thailand's turbulence south it's off to what's said to be the area's most vigorous of militant attacks in several years some one hundred heavily armed men stormed an army base we were repelled thanks to a tipple from militants who had previously defected and the casualties among servicemen were reported to thailand's three muslim dominated provinces often suffer from attacks by insurgents calling for greater autonomy from bank.

and in another 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 this following two days of intense combat and the militants are now in control of a small warplane fleet which includes make fighter jets the f.s.a. commanders say the government troops will no longer be able to send reinforcements to stop rebel advances in a province in neighboring aleppo however damascus has played down the importance of the airbase claiming it was only used for training purposes. it was one of the u.k. government signature policies designed to get people back to work that has led to claims of slavery and can now result in the earth already is having to cough up millions to all those who took part in an explanation. as it. university graduate kate riley and forty year old jamison wilson succeeded in their claims that their unpaid works that they were made to take part in was indeed

a little for them 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 we claim that money that could leave the door open to millions of pounds compensation that would be footed by the taxpayer of course that's causing a lot of concern are teeth done its own investigation into the work program in response to what's the government has said that it was rigged 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 now speak to us more about this i'm joined by amery o'reilly for the boycott work program thank you very much for joining us a small victory do you think. by now because on the surface of it it seems like a big deal and

a win for 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 unpaid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful spot you're right it doesn't go far enough to still a lot to be done one of this my significant schemes mandatory where activity is still intact and really disturbingly the government threatening to bring emergency regulations through to bring workfare straight back in to controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are employed in the government'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 instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paid well. affectively replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were employés not only that the governments are 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 where not a single person is receiving a wage for them before one graduate who is all not what program certainly a small but significant victory in a fluid for that k. fed today it certainly means that the government now has to go back to the drawing board when it comes to their work schemes. sorry for putting right there already are shifting our gears now to america as barack obama prepares to enact tougher gun control measures and many of the country think he's taking americans down the wrong path for the state of new york was the first to follow the president bypassing restrictions like flogging customers who buy large amounts of ammunition and health checks for potential gun owners are to use and i see you're going to reports from the state's capital albany on how the people there are just in a lot of it. the big apple business as usual. a few hours by train the empire state capital. as the united states remains divided when it comes

to what to do with guns in this country after a recent series of shootings hundreds of anti-gun control protesters gathered outside the state capitol building in albany hear the toughest state law on firearms in the us after the sandy hook elementary school shooting the safe fact was passed a month ago. and those whose guns are at stake are far from happy so why look like a terrorist because they will look like a fanatic among other provisions the new state law bans weapon sales over the web restricts ammo magazines to seven bullets and clued stricter background checks and regular research a vacation cuomo signed that law in a mill and i without these three days were to be allowing the people to read it. these protesters say their second amendment right to bear arms under the west constitution is being stepped on by the legislators they need to smarten up and

listen to get the garbage out in your ears and listen to what the people are saying gun owners believe politicians are looking for criminals in the wrong places i've been a gun owner for thirty years and now some of the guns i have in my locker are now illegal well i've never had a. yes mark and taken my life there's nothing wrong with good law abiding citizens had firearms it's just it's an assessment because this legislation is not going to stop hardened criminals obsessed with firearms it's not going to stop drug dealers it's not going to stop the murderers it's not going to stop the latest so what is the answer as the u.s. struggles to find common ground on where the gun debate should take the country next i think the fear punishment anyone does a crime with a gun here. no flap in the hand no crow no. imagine. what you see in the country well the position of these gun advocates is

clear what remains to be seen is whether the us as a whole can ever come to a compromise and if they cannot r.t. albany. on the impending a round of talks on iran's controversial nuclear program that's all to be debated and crosstalk after a short break. wealthy british style it's time to rise.

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