ports controversy with the secretive passport revoking crackdown barring its own citizens without warning or clear evidence. pro israeli lobbyists seek to ensure you are support in case of a strike on iran the group's gathering also triggers protests against israel's policies in the region. plus mass protests and the grounded flights striking workers of the spanish airline iberia plan more option against the british management which looks set to thousands of jobs. evening we've got world news and analysis live from you at six pm here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of in you're watching our t.v. well into our top story now

a highly secretive security program is raising eyebrows in the u.k. where the government is revoking the passports of citizens that it considers to be dangerous to the state many of those on the blacklist were born in britain and received no explanation as to why they've been barred from their own country well the passports were often revoked with no warning when their holders were abroad it's a tactics that some have dubbed a medieval exile so let's take a closer look now we begin with the below all bird jawi who came to the u.k. as a baby he grew up there and he had his citizenship revoked almost three years ago he was later killed in a united states drone strike in somalia now his close friend also british born mohammad soccer had suffered a similar fate he was a private his nationality and two killed by a u.s. strong drone attack in somalia that very same year a sudanese british man took his four british children on holiday in sudan shortly after leaving he had his family were stripped of us passport his children were.

ended from growing up in the united kingdom and in another case a british born family including three children all lost their citizenship while in pakistan is andrew farmer has been speaking to the man who first broke the story in london let's roll that clip. well the full extent of chilling government program to rid the country of suspect terrorists has been revealed we now know that over the last three years sixteen people have had been stripped of their british passports and the grounds of national security critics claim that these suspects have little chance of a pale with human rights lawyers actually describing the whole process as mediæval and sinister well to talk more about this is chris woods from the bureau investigative journalism which actually broke this story chris with a new report it says or people are claiming that this completely ignores people's human rights and also the basic principle of innocent until proven guilty what is the evidence to support this all of these sixteen individuals of have citizenship revoked their passports counseled on the personal side of the home secretary so the

courts have had no say in this process we don't know the evidence that's been laid against these men. and even if they are able to get an appeal which is very very difficult that appeal will mostly be heard in secret and again those affected and their lawyers may never know the true extent of the evidence against them so it's a very secretive process in which the rule of law really does seem to be absent in some places and that's been commented on by judges sitting looking at this process some of you raised the point that the government has waited until people got on family holidays for example before stepping in and removing my citizenship effectively locking the door behind people who are not only locking those affected out of the country but their families as well the children who are british british born unable to come back into the country without separating the families and so on so this can have very serious implications far beyond the individual as we know to these suspects that are actually being killed by u.s.

trained strikes is that a coincidence there's no proof yet of any direct connection between those events but certainly people are asking questions it is clear that those people died after the certain shit was removed as part of an active targeting by the united. states and again neither of those individuals were ever charged with any offense in the u.k. we know they were accused of serious terrorist offenses but there were no charges ever laid against them chris thank you we will have to leave it there it is worth pointing out that the government has had these powers since two thousand and two well though it is this current government is really ramped up its use and over the last three years the number of cases has increased from six to twenty one and of course as we've heard the government only has to publicly justify what it's doing on the grounds it is in the interests of national security well as we've just heard there are some allegations of a british or american connection in this controversial program last june a former london based care worker mocked there he is right there he lost his

citizenship and was allegedly pressured by the british secret service into working as an informant after injecting the m i five off or he was reportedly secretly rendered to the united states where he currently faces terror charges while r.t.s. caught up with us father who claims that his son is being unlawfully prosecuted it was unexpected and shock to the whole family who are pretty sure leads he all of us navy has a pretty sick but it was a lot of a shock to us to have wondered how it could be like that for someone just to be this is this is just to be provoked like that british and has been removed from what he was out of the car that he was away and it was even hard for us to contact him to appeal against the kids all i can see is that my the he's a muslim and believe and he's a practicing muslim but being apart from this and it's not being an islamist that's all i can say oh that's what that's always been victimized. diplomacy could be failing on military action against iran should be seriously considered that at

least is the general true and that the american israeli public affairs committee conference underway in washington more than ten thousand delegates have gathered to push for greater u.s. backing of the jewish state and to make up for a series of setbacks that the powerful pro israeli lobby has recently suffered that meeting has drawn a not only media attention but also quite colorful protests to see it right there more than one hundred activists descended on the venue to express their frustration with america's allegiance towards israel among their major concerns is the aggressive settlement expansion on land palestine considers to be part of its territory parties going to canada has more on what's been said in and outside of the apac conference. apac is pushing for a congressional resolution that would say should israel decide to strike iran the u.s. would give all the support including military or oceanus mosque to humane on the table.

we have stated this time and again and we expect those who say to me that. this kind of a congressional green light for preemptive strike although non-binding is seen by some as a way to put more pressure on the obama administration which so far has been reluctant to see the u.s. dragged into another war in the middle east the us will never abandon their nuclear efforts unless they genuinely believe that america is serious about keeping all options on the table. of the many of the conference said they thought the administration was soft on iran but that's a view that was expressed on the sidelines not from the podium the potential of israeli nuclear defense is the only thing that's keeping the country alive not relying on america because obama has not been forthcoming in defending them against iran in fact he's been stalling them apac is also pushing for legislation that

would designate israel as a major strategic ally of the united states the question many ask is why does the country that's perceived as being closest to america suddenly need the congressional seal of approval now according to an n.b.c. wall street journal poll that came out just a few days ago fifty five percent of americans now no longer want any sort of preference between either side of the israeli palestinian conflict the lobby may view this is a chance particularly in the face of sequestration where there could be cut just across the board almost two hundred million dollars they could view this as a last chance to tie in support. this fight here just. of the subject the conflict with the palestinians has received considerably less attention at the summit then iran but the general impression here is that what's widely regarded as the most influential lobby in the american politics has detected a potential threat not just from israel's neighbors but from inside washington

itself. in the wake of two wars in a battered economy we see signs of an increasing desire to disengage from world events and focus inward. this growing yearning to untangle from what is perceived as too complicated a world effects both parties conservatives and liberals alike they just want out. for israel even the tendency toward isolationism is extremely dangerous refusing to speak on camera some of the delegates expressed frustration over the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel as defense secretary chuck hagel is known to have been critical of the pro israel lobby president obama will not be speaking at the conference this year but he'll be traveling to israel at the end of the month and one of the speakers here said it's going to be a real challenge for him to show that deep down and i quote him he really understands israel and the threats that he faces that gives an impression that the

character is not too happy about the administration seemingly trying to play down the war talk in washington i'm going to check on. well it's not just the war talk but also money talk that's dominating this year's apac conference pro israeli lobbyist want to ensure that aid to israel is exempt from the looming u.s. spending cuts known as the sequestration process and while it remains to be seen whether they will actually succeed we here at r t are interested in your opinion on whether these cuts will actually affect israel so we decided to break down the results for those of you who have already voted now here we have it right here forty four percent that's almost half of you who believe the israeli lobby is simply too influential to actually allow for the funding to be slashed a third of you thirty three percent in the purple right there hold the opposite view you believe that all foreign handouts must be reduced regardless almost a fifth of you in the orange believe that the aid is simply too important to

israel's survival to actually be cut and a tiny minority just four percent of you in the green right there believe that the lobby will agree to the cuts but only if the us in turn backs israel in a potential strike against iran of course it's not too late to express your point of view just log on to our website r t v dot com and have your say. at least five people have been killed six hundred injured in fresh clashes between protesters and the police in the egyptian city of port site aid violence erupted as

hundreds of people demonstrated to demand justice in a trial over last year's deadly football riot true has been following the on a rest from cairo. it looks like that the clashes have been continuing overnight in this restive total cost the city of port sayit with the death toll rising what happened was the thirty nine defendants in this point saeed football massacre that occurred last february were moved by security forces angering families who gathered at the security directorate to protest and then clashed with the police force the army was asked to come into the streets to calm a situation down they were confusing reports yesterday that the army were actually attacking the police something that the military actually said didn't happen however we expect this to continue as we look ahead to two suffered a verdict on the remaining defendants in this. football massacre we've also seen violence in months or of the nile delta city after

a young man was run over by a police vehicle during demonstrations that continues here in cairo there's been quite restive here as well the police forces in the early hours of yesterday morning attempted to clear the crease and open up to traffic this and get protesters who clashed with police on the cornish and close the square behind me including erecting further tents this is of course is happening in the background of the visit from the u.s. secretary of state there's been a lot of i'm going here in egypt when the u.s. secretary of state came in including at his first meeting on saturday protesters gathered in front of the foreign ministry burning effigies of john kerry saying he was pulling could be supporting the muslim brotherhood and pursuing the american interests as john kerry left yesterday evening culture is the hard core football fans who quite a politicized groups actually blocked the airport road meaning he was delayed by two hours before he left. well belcher is also posting all the latest updates from

egypt on her twitter page and if you want to follow her well we should have shown her our address but we will i promise you next hour still ahead for you on our team the trial of our late a russian attorney whose death in jail has led to a row between russia and the united states that and other news for you coming up after a short break. well . it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future are covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so or like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm target market was a big. news

today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation to rule the day. i. welcome back i'm lucy catherine and you're watching our t.v. while staff at iberia airlines are set to ground more than a thousand of the spanish airlines flights as a protest against job and pay cuts the firm plans to lay off around a fifth of its workforce in the latest blow to the struggling euro zone member

spain already has one of the highest unemployment rates in the block parties test arcilla reports now. the staff of the iberian airlines one of the national carriers has taken this to heart taking it personally really there's been a rise of the anti british a sentiment there and now this. as well as job cuts it has been a result of iberia merging with british airways forming the group and says this announcement had come to pass we've already seen the people taking to the streets those working for iberia and we've seen the putting out a poster saying british go home and the workers unions are also been calling the management a betrayer is that they have actually betrayed the spanish people by selling spanish national interests to foreign interests that's what they're calling this there has been a three months of negotiations between the unions and the management which should not see any deal and therefore leading to about three thousand eight hundred jobs

wanting to be caught as well as one thousand three hundred seventy flights that are a grounded today now this is certainly paralyzing to the spanish economy not to mention adding on to the twenty six percent of unemployed already and steering here some sort of nationalist a sentimental wanting to protect their own interests of course over what they see as mediation from foreigners at this point reaction from the euro bloc especially specifically the euro zone have been pretty much one block dealing with billions of debt anyone with that amount of debt would be having a headache trying to deal with this cyprus is the latest that they're going to talk about bailing out at this point. the warning bells for the country has already been sounding as of last year but no deal has been made and today they're trying to move that forward and this is just the latest of a string of countries already that have had to bail out and also portugal in arlon want to renegotiate their bailout plans that have already been received they want

more time for their money and this is despite leaders saying that they are on track or that begs the question if they are indeed on track why would they need more time to restructure. again making markets and investors jittery today they're dealing with cyprus this bailout and as well less of protests in spain but the question among nervous investors and concerned citizens is to morrow who is it going to be and how much more isn't going to hurt parties tess arcelor reporting there well meanwhile relentless budget cuts are also triggering a wave of separatist movements within europe for the latest to join in the german state above area it is considering secession we're going to tell you why in just a couple of minutes. i'm also court has resumed hearings in the trial of the late russian attorney sergei magnitsky he was arrested five years ago on tax fraud charges but died a year later in pretrial detention his death has caused a scandal between a russia and the united states over human rights violations but this case

supporters say that he was jailed because he accused the state officials in russia of corruption and he was also abused while in prison parties i'd say are shot ski has more on the case for the prosecution has justified his decision to resume the case against magnitsky which was stopped in two thousand and nine after his death. even despite that the man in question has been dead for more than three years because the case has been so much controversial and there is a certain need to find out whether magnitsky had anything to do with the alleged embezzlement and tax evasion something he was accused of back in two thousand and eight when he was arrested the family of the deceased man said that they would not participate in this trial believing that this trial is a violation of human rights but the prosecution insists that this is not a violation of the law despite that the man is dead they still want to find out whether those accusations against him had any substance behind them he was arrested in two thousand and eight accused of helping his supervisor william browder to

evade taxes of more than one hundred million dollars in two thousand and he died in custody allegedly because of me. treatment it's also worth mentioning that it was not the original case which sparked lots of control the seeds was the fact of death in detention which. sparked huge spats between washington and moscow with the us congress. the so-called magnitsky act which imposed a string of sanctions on the russian officials travel sanctions travel bans in particular those officials who the u.s. believes to be associated with the death of. the russians the duma responded with sanctions on us human rights violations as it was described of their own including a ban on the adoption of the russian children by u.s. citizens. well on to some other international news stories for you at this hour we begin in kenya at least fifteen people are reported to have been killed there in a series of attacks on police stations on the day of the country's presidential

election the government has blamed the killing is on the separatist group the republican council kenyans are electing a new leader for the first time since a controversial two thousand and seven vote that had sparked weeks of deadly enter ethnic violence. the cardinals of the catholic church have gathered in vatican city for the first round of meetings to choose a new pope they'll be picking a date and setting the procedures for the vote the search for a successor to pope benedict the sixteenth who resigned last month comes amid a scandal involving the british cardinal keith o'brien who had stepped down over allegations of sexual misconduct. but varia is the latest province to be caught up in a wave of european separatism triggered by scotland and catalonia widely considered to be germany's economic powerhouse politicians there insist that they would be better off as an independent state peter all of our looks at just how far above area is ready to go. germany read you fine but just three years ago the

cracks are showing in at least one of its regions your voice. we want an independent state of bavaria this is an extraordinary aim there are twelve million by variance if independent we could be the ninth biggest nation in the e.u. with the fifth largest annual economic turnover the bavaria party's campaign literature certainly doesn't pull any punches when it comes to showing how they believe the rest of germany treats the something state the group poses little threat to germany's political big guns it took just over one percent of the vote locally in two thousand and eight but their ideas are spreading increasingly influential circles early shift to predict when i look at the map of europe and of history i see the boundaries are not made to last forever if they can be moved by free people czechoslovakia made the peaceful transition into two democratic states

in two thousand and fourteen scotland will have a referendum there is work being done in catalonia this movement is happening in europe today. the varia is booming when it comes to business it's home to some of the most recognizable and expensive brands in the world while munich is one of the world's major economic centers all contributing to an annual income of almost half a trillion euro a major factor which sticks in the craw of the variance is how about wealth is distributed throughout the federal states they're sick of paying for poor lin it hands over around three billion euros a year to the capital what impact would an independent bavaria have upon the daily lives of those living and working there to find out i've come here to the beautiful bavarian countryside to speak through a very keen on it dependants. yossef farm produces bio gas soft he diversified

from dairy you know generates electricity to local homes definitely a case of where there's muck there's money but it's where his tax cash goes that's concerning him more than the smell always talk escape tickets were completely on represented in germany on our own we would be a good size european state all we are now on the financier's of berlin and others. and fios surf there's more at stake than just money for one of europe's oldest states. is since reunification there's been too much number of very an influence on us i want my kids to grow up feeling very culturally linguistically no one learns the very language in school we want to change that. when germany's unity day celebrations get underway in the autumn open ice is might

find that here in the largest states they're more keen on parting ways than partying these are all of a party that very. well don't change that channel in just a few minutes we're going to be bringing you our team is the latest sports update stay with us. hold it. hold. her. hand over the speed. you.

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