barack obama's state of the union address sees a pledge to pull more troops from afghanistan but a targeted killing of terrorist suspects fails to grace the speech. so islands is golden a new report shed some light on the israeli government trying to censor the country's media and hushing up cases it does not want to be made public. by owners pack their bags and leave the eurozone small business is suffocating taxes during tough financial. without worldwide news live from moscow this is on with me of all research welcome to the program barack obama devoted his first state of the union address of his

second term trying to appease lawmakers and taxpayers with fresh promises to boost the economy and slash debt and deficit and foreign policy the us president also announced that thirty four thousand troops are to leave afghanistan by next february and he said now and i joins us live from the shooter with more on this so good to see you today and he said so afghanistan on taxes 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 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 missions at hand 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 ten civilians were reported killed. in

a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents 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 eight 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 and 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 there is there un people are 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 and like 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 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 so we 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 any so. we're looking at the rest of the world wants to see in here yeah 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 union or any sonali thank you. well it was a pleasure to have you with us here and he has a nice that was talking about barack obama's state of the union address he's been 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 and the story never made it to the headlines until recently as aunties poultice leader 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 be moved from israeli news websites 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 there 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 since it gave news outlets 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 it is highly unusual in israel ways states military sense as well many and now all the local media to quote fallen sources 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 has 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 raiding 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 left wing parliamentarians have

damaged israeli security by bringing this issue to the fore in the first place. correspond to policy reporting right there or tough times mean that many in europe are finding it increasingly harder to make ends meet the taxpayers are unlikely to be given much reprieve especially when their governments are tackling record debts and it was no one willing to ditch generously funded public services the e.u. looks set 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 this year our debt by due 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 up sticks and head to russia europe has some of the highest rates of taxation in the world with many giving lead my share of the things 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 for europe that when compared to low tax countries like russia they could lose their competitive edge if their country with low taxes and with high taxes capital flow went to countries that low tax 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 very hard 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 staff does where not only can he is with us 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 if no one is willing to give up the services that those taxes go to pay for them with you signs of any major tax cuts on the horizon in your businesses like this one going to have to continue to struggle to bring home the bacon when it comes to saving fifty development beach or all other. and i still to come for you this hour here on

out of a dangerous precedent in a couple of minutes a court ruling the big gaping hole in the british government's unemployment scheme . learning it the tough way two years often pro-democracy revolt swept secular. schools teaching children hardline islamic spreading throughout the nation and all of.

the. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television. set not with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thank you for joining us here today i'm rory suchet let's turn our attention now to tunisia where religious schools are spreading throughout the nation following the

revolution that was two years ago some parents having a problem with kids getting down to the nuts and bolts of. each other's such type of education is on the planting the seeds of future extremism as autism when they go to school 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 as a man 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. what do 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 i thought it a good thing that 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 nick ation 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 a 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 if 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 worries tunisians on top of the concerns about extremist salafist groups gaining ground. on

some of 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 and democracy in tunisia. are. of course always lots of stories over at our website dot com for example though when marches against the president. police brawls in egypt's biggest cities it is. these guys who are turning their. chance to hear from the secretive. uprising online. also therefore you are. suffering

a tough test by mother nature. of new york which were hit hardest by hurricane sandy. unfortunate surprise from the city's. about the pope's decision. to delighted to hear the news in the celebrations deep inside one of the most famous churches in paris all those details and pictures for you. today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the day.

this is and the u.n. sanctions against north korea are an emergency meeting of the international bodies of security council it resulted in a unanimous condemnation of pyongyang says. the nuclear test of the communist state conducted a controlled atomic detonation on choose day in defiance of a un ban on all such activity north korea's main ally and aid benefactor china was among those condemning pyongyang's atomic test the director of global studies at hong kong university simon shen believes while beijing joined the united criticism its relations with the secretive state will remain intact. and that's knowledge which has the onion sewed in the in this region because mention is debility is the major form or is the critical region at this moment however due to the rising writer's activities in japan and south korea the reason is seeing korea

as a new fact to balance against understates so it's known as it does modes to call the interests of beijing and these kind of behaviors i mean we still be tolerated by beijing at this moment since the new government of south korea and japan are just being installed and the people will make use of this excuse to mobilize the writers escalation as well as to put up on the truth abilities so it can be done in beijing but also make good on its cues to move on with your campaign and then the result could be a competition among all the powers in the region so i'm going to go through. all 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 its own also said it's been converting into

reached your reigning him into reactor fuel in another move aimed at easing tensions with the west and the process is meant to slow the buildup of material which could be used to make nuclear weapons matthew mcallester nuclear expert from queen mary university in london believes direct talks the only way forward. if the international society and. inspectors are allowed in this is definitely going to be a very good sign from it on our to the international society that has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first star and i would go into. the. if i'm not mistaken three times and i have not found any but still. on that i have not yet replied to questions i would say to them one thing many analysts attempt to agree on is that in order to in order to. stop them for

crimes that you are in crisis there is a need for direct hearing in american talks and this is something that we still are not see 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 war said to be the area's most vigorous and militant attacks in several years some one hundred heavily armed men stormed an army base but were upheld thanks to a tipple from militants who had previously defected and the casualties among servicemen were reported at thailand's three muslim dominated provinces often suffer from attacks by insurgents calling for greater autonomy from bangkok. 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 in combat and the militants are now in control of

a small warplane 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 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. 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 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 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 read 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 workfare 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 and for us it shows that workfare forced on paid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful spot 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 disturbing to me the government threatening to bring emergency regulations through to bring workfare straight back and hugely controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are in place and 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 work the fact. replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were and them place 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 so it's really a small but significant picture and if the if 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 skiing's he's a surfer putting right there already are shifting our gears now back 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 drugs for potential god knows how to use and i say you're going to reports from the state's capital albany on how the people there are just ignored. 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 i 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 include stricter background checks and regular research if acacia 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. parking ticket in 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 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 fine if anyone does a crime with a gun here. no flap on the hand no pro no body imagine. what you see in this country while the position of these gun advocates is clear what remains to be seen is whether the u.s. as a whole can ever come to a compromise and r.t. albany. on the impending a round of talks on iran's controversial.