up to. fifty. a canadian cafe sets up the world's first digital currency a.t.m. doling out cash for coins in the crypto currency making waves in the online world. as the pakistani victims of a cia drone strike travel to the us wishing they could live without the constant fear of being the representative behind their visit and calls on congress to acknowledge it can handle security problems itself. and a red light to green energy in the u.k. the majority of the population votes it down believing the benefits fail to outweigh the.

from everybody here at a. very good morning to you i'm live from the russian capital i've got your top world headlines for this hour bitcoin the experimental online currency is now a global one complete with its own bank and so far it's only a.t.m. of the first machine has been set up in a cafe in vancouver where people can exchange digital money for physical cash but many of you are probably asking yourselves what exactly are bitcoins or in the simplest terms is just a currency but an on line one but coins are stored in web wallets that are completely anonymous lacking even your name though the transactions are public a bit coins can be sent from one wallet to another at the click of a button and in most cases without any fees or delay the system actually bypasses banks middlemen and governments what's more bitcoins can be easily sold for any currency available whether it happens to be in dollars all euros or the down side

being that the exchange rate. are fairly volatile and finally where do they come from well the bitcoins are created by computers running special programs a process called mining and jeffrey albert tucker from the foundation for economic education he calls the currencies rise simply spectacular. a year ago this time i thought it was insane i mean i thought well this is just another student technology you know they come along every few days and they flame out so i'm a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i'm getting that the future of monetary system is crude cryptography and this kind of crypto market based currency it's quite spectacular and i tell you it only use it only takes a few times using very quickly realize this is incredibly easy it's much much easier than credit cards and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft or all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit card system it's just

a superior technology. bitcoin exchanges on brokers have popped up all over the world even china's largest search engine now accepts payments in this digital currency and we were also told it could well become the dominant legal tender. really it's funny that it to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of a cabinet calculation so you can do your accounting then and people do this all the time and you can enter into the economy because fear and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass government currency entirely the u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with a.t.m.'s it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada or the us the us would lose out if it continues this trend where it's regulating cryptocurrency now may be popular and in demand but bitcoin has had more than its fair share of controversy and turbulence and money laundering concerns and shady

online activities have sent its price soaring collapsing and recovering all over again and the latest incident saw an f.b.i. raid on silk road it's an online narcotics marketplace that dealt in bitcoins mitchell demeter the chief bitcoin officer at bitcoin e.-x. he told cavanagh in the currency has huge potential. i think it definitely has the potential to be revolutionary it basically gets your cash into a digital form where you can send it around the world instantly with no middleman what do the authorities think about it i mean there's an element of course there's been a worry that it's going to be transparent untraceable dodgy dealings could be done with it what are you doing to cope. we've got any money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger your name is attached to it but if somebody wants to find out who was making that transaction it can be done the silk road was

a perfect example of the ended up shutting down the silk road that was they could be squee the black market e.-bay and actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of you will associate it associated be quiet just directly with the silk road . currency did about ten percent for bo twelve hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and it's actually the currency. one hundred percent since then. and you can find out more on how bitcoin works and why it's become such a magnet for controversy to do so on our website dot com also to come up in the program here this hour a ban on big brother a group of emerging economies say they don't want to be spied on by america as they plan to build a new secure cyberspace hidden from washington's eyes. on the sochi countdown

enters the homestretch. boxes of being picked off in the olympic city as clocks passed the one hundred day mark until the winter games opening ceremony. for now here on our justice seeking journey of thousands of miles for one pakistani family who survived a cia drone attack is now. testimony testimony in front of u.s. congressman the strike killed their grandmother but failed to hit any militants so the victims of the bombing. why america targeted their home in the first place. it was at the briefing. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of gross strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though heart was what these drone victims were

appealing through on appeal with twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed vegetable garden. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of brightens the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed that any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every

day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but blood kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any warrior who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. he's a. see looming in a concentration camp they are being picked on this is off what kind of. if someone has long or someone is driving. less you see that this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put

a human face to drone strikes there's a short chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington i'm going to check out. being one of the toughest opponents of america's drone warfare u.s. representative alan grayson he's the man behind the visit of the rockman family to his country speaking to r.t. he said he believes the pakistani army is absolutely capable of handling any militants itself. pakistan is the third largest recipient of military aid from the united states and year after year receives approximately a billion dollars in aid why ask yourself why are we doing this when there are alternative means that come nowhere close to doing this kind of harm to innocents and inflaming foreign public opinion for instance given the fact that we are giving a billion dollars a year to pakistan while we have the pakistani army arrest the one hundred or two hundred or even five hundred militants that we believe could possibly one day pose some kind of threat to united states and what's good for america's foreign wars is

also when it's crime fighting wish list. a sheriff in texas known a first tough anti immigrant stance has now said that he also wants unmanned flying machines to get the lowdown on crime scenes and to stop the flow of drugs coming into a state that's stories online for you right now so i was up here where a free gift even from friends the lesson from september g twenty where infected memory sticks could have been given out to pry into the secrets of top politicians that's also on our website for you this. present media freedom worth nothing. when it comes to the interests of multinationals we have a media that is corrupted by power mostly by corporate power you have corporate ownership from the top corporate advertising coming in from the side we have the media is where advertising and money and corporate influence is really the mother's

milk a documentary filmmaker is being sued. for the truth is being told the private investigator think. it happens people buy and sell those come services all over the world. hundreds of million dollar industry needs to protect its reputation a few million doing spent on a campaign to do just that is probably good money well spent. so what will be the verdict. big boys going bananas. drugs some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. but they enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships

and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. thanks for joining us today they have a rethink on green energy since a survey claims two thirds of its citizens are against directly propping up the noncompetitive industry and the so-called green levies make up

a hefty part of average energy bills only predicted to snowball if indeed the u.k. proceed with his program policies. talking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terror is setting in as our announcements that energy prices are set to rise yes again now roughly ten percent of the u.k.'s average household energy bill is made up of so-called green taxes and the prime minister david cameron has pledged to do away with them in order to help out struggling brits now the ideas proved popular for a country battling with austerity according to a recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies are concerned about it but. you know about what it is cost to wait and see if it's way cheaper things to go to really not prefer that they kowtow

profit is an option really which is to tax that noise be well spun never see it light see bills come down to hear us about shadow of a doubt opposition leader ed miliband says that green levy's aunt to blame for britain's high energy prices but the government figures show that green taxes adds one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half of that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as solar panels like the ones like kate on the roof of london's blackfriars train station but as the latest survey shows for the brits counting the pennies to keep warm this winter concern for the environment is going to have to come in second for now polly boy artsy london. meanwhile germany's energy giant warned the country's swift switch to green power could backfire due to the high prospect of blackouts and there are fears that in the worst case scenario a one hour blackout across the country could cost almost six hundred million euros

and professor dr frank andras from the class style university of technology you believes that energy safety comes at a very high cost. but there's one principle problem if you rely on winter no dollar energy you have to be a real figure for all the energy if when the wind blows or if the sun shines if this is not a case of more energy and so if you have industry country which needs a base lot of energy you need a backup power plant so we have from germany more of a situation. that we build more and more moves more and more solar panels but they will never deliver you a stable energy and so we have called poem called fire power plants and this will increase the cost. in germany i'm as mentioned we have a situation that in principle nuclear power plants are forbidden so there are no longer accepted as

a people and therefore this renewable energy is all rigged or called renewable energy use or regarded as we thought and the alternative was germany turned its back on its old energy industries we travel to the north of england to see what happened there when industrial towns were just consigned to the scrap heap coming up later in the program here on our team we meet the locals who are fighting to peel back the rust and get a former industrial heartland beating once again. for now here on the program or the head of u.s. intelligence james clapper has defended america's spying policy in front of a senate panel he said collecting and analyzing intentions of foreign leaders is indeed a major focus that's been his response to the flood of international outrage after the scope of u.s. surveillance activities worldwide it was revealed meanwhile one of america's spying targets that of brazil has been calling for a new secure cyber space to be created to prevent u.s.

wiretapping that ideas receive the backing of other brics nations russia india china and south africa who are all considering l'engle vast network of data cables immune to n.s.a. snooping technology. this could be a great solution says jeremy zimmerman of the internet liberties digital rights advocacy. when a cable in the us then n.s.a.'s full access if the cable ends up somewhere else then it's yours to try to secure that access then of course there are the questions i mean the hardware that will be used on both ends of those cables is one point for interception and of course if those cables are used to make information transit to websites such as google or facebook all the web sites in which n.s.a. has full access it won't solve per se the question of privacy invasion on a massive scale by the n.s.a. i hope those governments along with laying down those new cables will for instance invest in new industrial policy is where they would foster the development of free

liberal software and decentralized services and then to an encryption to put back in the hands of their citizens ways of gaining back control of the technology with all the new cables in the world if people keep believing that they can trust google facebook apple and microsoft then they will send all their lives to to the n.s.a. so of course it has to be a broader set of technological solutions and political solutions and also social solutions. so does the u.s. president have any control over the n.s.a.'s activities who is in fact behind america's vast spying network just some of the questions discussed in today's edition of cross talk of people avail that's coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. for now a quick preview. what jay carney the president said is you know the president knew nothing about it however the n.s.a. is doing a great job what they're doing anyway so it really does raise some very troubling

issues does the president have control over the n.s.a. does seem though are was i mean even more seriously was this an operation approved under president george w. bush that's gone on and they've not bothered to inform the president the united states is being run by remote control by a group of corrupt companies and these companies want the n.s.a. to find out secrets trade secrets from all the companies in the world this is this is what they're doing this is unacceptable the american people deserve a better government than this. and i thank for joining us here on r.t. today the wait for the start of the twenty fourteen soft cheese winter olympics has now crossed the one hundred day mark of the games clocks in the russian capital and the host city of both switched to counting down the home stretch as artie's pulled scott reports from sochi for the hard work on preparations there is certainly

speeding up. the message from the organizes is that sochi will be ready but it's actually been a rather low key affair to mark one hundred days until the start of the games the feeling in the city is that the hard work needs to continue the new president of the international olympic committee thomas bach has been on a tour of some of the venues over the last twenty four hours or so he's been to the main media center he's been to the athletes' village and he's been to the fixed olympic stadium which is going to host the opening and closing ceremony but says that he thinks the venues are impressive and that he's confident that the athletes are going to be delighted with them over the course of the next three months they're going to be one hundred seventeen different tests on those venues there are going to be conferences rehearsals and sporting contest to make sure that all venues are up to operational standards but the feeling in sochi is right now as the clock begins its countdown of the hard work needs to continue to ensure that come february the seventh they say it say is ready to welcome the sporting world no

olympics of course can start without the traditional flame from the start of his journey and through its most spectacular point so we're bringing you the updates on the tortures trip sometimes even carrying the flame our selves sophie shevardnadze right there you can see the photos and the footage of the torch relay right now at . the olympic torch is on a big journey. one hundred twenty three days. through two. cities of russia. really fourteen people. or sixty killing. in a record setting trip by land here. the. torch relay. m r r r. r just a moment on the bed but for now in the program a rare piece of good. news in the u.k. where g.d.p.

the measure of annual economic output has risen by almost a percent while some areas are getting back on their feet others particularly in the north have adjusted to all hold. on to find out what it will take to breathe life back into these struggling town. once providing the life blood to the british economy now much of britain's industrial infrastructure lies in ruin but whilst full industrial hubs like leeds and manchester have risen from the ashes many smaller northern towns and cities have had a harder time reinventing themselves and a recent article in the economist magazine took it one step further suggesting that rather than further investment in places like middlesbrough or burnley and whole decaying towns and cities should be left behind it's true that economically britain

remains a deeply divided country but with all this talk of failing towns and cities we thought we'd come and speak to some of the people who actually live in them and find out what they have to say about it all and say we've come to the market town of burnley in lancashire in the north west of the country. so. people say a lot of. burnley's friendly. and good a football. needs help i'm going to leeds pub for a year. because i don't want to be your own in my. opinion might speak divided but burnley which was recently named the most enterprising place in britain deserves that accolade says n.p. cotton but this is the university college will be.

transformed. into a purse of learning for future people. there or in engineering. there will be the future in the money for. this and do things. there's a war. there all be relevant to. moving in there when it's finished. the economist has publicly defended his article and despite millions in government spending for regeneration projects and bernie's evident successes and across the northwest of the country unemployment has continued to rise despite falling marginally across the u.k. on paper talk of abandoning some of these towns may carry some weight but try telling that to the people he's livelihoods and indeed lives have centered around

such town. people were connected to it connected to this in my life my heart. r.t. reporting from burnley in the north west of england. straight into the. start of where protests erupted against the conservative government on the country's republic day a riot police fired tear gas as they clashed with demonstrators today marked the nation's ninetieth anniversary under it's a memorial for its founder opposition parties claim the government has gone against the country's. second set of palestinian prisoners has been released by israel as part of a peace deal with a group of twenty six was greeted with fireworks in gaza more than two thousand people attended a ceremony hosted right there by the palestinian president for a final agreement to be reached one hundred four convicts are said to be released

in the next few months. and for french figures kidnapped in two thousand and ten have now been released in. the men were captured by al-qaeda group during an attack on two french uranium operating firms they were freed without a military assault taking place or a ransom being paid. on the bus traveling from bangalore in the south of india to hyderabad burst into flames killing forty four on board the vehicle was carrying fifty passengers when it was said to have hit a drainage tunnel and the impact ruptured the fuel tank in ingolf the entire vehicle in flames a bus crash is all fairly common in india due to poor infrastructure. well i had next thought see both of them web black belts the question is is the strongest sex the strongest fight a place your bet and just a moment. if

we look at the history of the o.p.c. w.n. it's in danger men say in the past with the united states best there is a history of let's say intimidation on many collation whatever you call it if indeed though we find that president assad is lying or cheating and i doubtful that he'll do that because his life was really on the line in the life of the whole regime then of course then i think a military strike could take place. right from the scene. of. the first strike. and i think picture.

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