and some. of our time. a canadian cafe sets up the world's first digital currency a.t.m. . the cryptocurrency taking the online world by storm. based on the victims of a cia drone strike travel to the u.s. the representative behind the visit calls on congress to acknowledge that islam about are going to handle security problems itself. and the red lights are green energy in the u.k. the majority of the population votes it down believing the benefits fail to outweigh the aggravating times.

myself and everybody here at all good morning and welcome to the program. but a coin in the experimental online currency is now a global one complete with its own and so far only a.t.m. and the first machine has been set up in a cafe in vancouver where people can exchange digital money for physical cash but you're probably asking yourself exactly what are bit coins or in the simplest terms it's just a currency but an online one a bit of coins are stored in web wallets that are completely anonymous lacking even your name though the transactions are public bitcoins can be sent from one wallet to another just the click of a button and in most cases with no fees or delay and the system bypasses banks middlemen and governments what's more bitcoins can be easily sold for any currency available whether that be in dollars or euros i suppose or the down side being that

the exchange rates do tend to be fairly volatile finally though where do they come from and the process is called bit coin mining and consists of computers running special program to generate a steady flow of currency and jeffrey albert tucker from the foundation for economic education because the currencies rise simply spectacular a year ago this time i thought it was insane i mean i thought well this is just another 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 you don't it's a few times it isn't when you realize this is incredibly easy it's much much easier than it really hurts and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit system it's just pure technology. and bitcoin exchanges and brokers have popped up all over the world

even china's largest search engine now accept payments in the digital currency and we were also told it could well become the dominant legal tender. really it's funny that it to be a lot of terms of currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of accounting that calculation so you can do your account you know and so 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 the government currency entirely which the u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with it it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada or the u.s. the u.s. would lose out and it's this trend where it's regulating cryptocurrency. now maybe popular and in demand but bitcoin has had more than its fair share of controversy and turbulence a money laundering concerns and shady online activities have sent its price soaring

collapsing and then 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 bit quantity x.e. talk to my colleague kevin allen. we've got a policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger. but if somebody wants to find out who is making the transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of the shutting down the silk road and the black market and actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associate associated big one just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both twelve hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and

it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually gone up one hundred percent since then. and you can find out a little bit coin works and why it's become such a magnet for those details on the website right now. on the way. big brother the bricks group of emerging economies say that i don't want to be spied on by the u.s. on the building secure cyberspace hidden from america's eyes. on the sochi countdown entering the home stretch. of being ticked off in the olympics if he gets called surpass the one hundred day mark until the winter games. now a justice seeking journey of thousands of miles for one pakistani family which survived a cia drone attack is now culminated in that testimony in front of a u.s. congressman the strike killed their grandmother but failed to hit any militants so

the victims of the bombing aust lawmakers why their home was targeted 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 growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though her heart was with these drone victims were appealing through on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated the nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the full pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when the skies are gray and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of run 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 they have no idea what village in my house is talking to. 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 when the drone haint 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 a lot 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 a prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the

victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. users. in a concentration camp to be picked this is what trying to show on how long the for so long. as you leave and this is being targeted and at the same time do 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 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 and being one of the toughest opponents of america's drone war for 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 completely capable of handling militants

itself. as the third largest recipient of military aid from the united states and approximately a billion dollars in aid 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 public opinion for instance given the fact that we are giving a billion dollars a year to pakistan when we have the pakistani army arrest the one hundred or two hundred or even five hundred militants that we believe could possibly one day. and what's good for america's foreign wars is also i wanted. to get in. and stop the flow of drugs across this state.

where infected memory sticks. into the secrets of politicians. today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. thank you for joining us here on r t i am brewery sushi britain may 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 and they're only predicted to snowball if the

u.k. proceeds with its pro green policies political reports from london. joking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terry assessing it as our announcement that energy prices of things are 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 idea is proved popular for a country battling with all staring at each according to recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies because. the first well you know about what it is cost to wait and see if it's crazy cheaper things to go to not prefer the profits an option really which is to

tax that noise be well spun legacy of life 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 the government figures show that green taxes add one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as solar panels like the ones like a tit 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 from now. r.t. london. meanwhile germany's energy giant warn 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

a professor dr frank android's from the claw style university of technology in. leaves that energy safety comes at a very high cost of there's one principle problem if you rely on winter not all energy you have to be a real thank you for all the energy if when the wind blows or if when the sun shines if there's not a case of no energy so if you have industry country which needs a base lot of energy you need a backup power plant so we haven't germany you know the situation. that we build more and more with moves more and more solar panels but they will never deliver you a stable energy and so we have coal powered coal fired 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 by most people and therefore this renewable energy is oregon or

because renewable energies are regarded as without any alternative. old energy industries are here without trouble to the north of england to see what happened when industrial towns were consigned to the. also to come in the program and meet the locals who are fighting to peel back the rust and get to form a industrial heartland of northern england again. towards. 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. territorial waters fish they load the fish to the ships and leave for.

illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our. economic down in the final. and the rest. will be. joining us here just a moment on a live report from soft chief the head of u.s. intelligence james clapper defended america's spying policy in front of

a senate panel he said collecting and analyzing intention. foreign leaders is indeed a major focus has been his response to the flood of international outrage after the scope of u.s. surveillance activities worldwide was revealed but meanwhile one of america's spying targets out of brazil has been calling for a new secure cyber space to be created to prevent u.s. wiretapping and that idea is received the backing of the other brics nations russia india china and south africa are all now considering laying a vast network of data cables immunity to n.s.a. snooping technology this could be a great solution says jeremy zimmerman from the internet liberties and digital rights advocacy so. when the cable ends up in the us then n.s.a. as 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 or set 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 labor software and decentralized services and then to encryption to 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 one question being does the u.s.

president have any control over the n.s.a.'s activities and in fact who is behind america's vast spying networks are some of the questions and discussed and attacked in peter lavelle's crustal program today it's coming away at seven thirty g.m.t. but for now a quick look. what jay carney the president spokesman 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 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. life from moscow it's our duty the wait for the start of the twenty fourteen soft she wins her lympics is now across the one hundred day mark and the games clocks in the russian capital and the host city have both been switched to counting down the homestretch we can get more details now from paul scott who is live for us in sochi . yes the preparations are continuing we are the poor building here in sochi for the unveiling of the uniform that is going to be worn by the volunteers during the games now it's a multi-faceted multi-colored designed set to represent the eighty three regions of russia from kaliningrad in the west of logical stuck in the a small amount in the north. in the south it's a vos area to represent and that's why there's so many facets to this quilt design on the uniform now there are going to be twenty five thousand volunteers to help

with the smooth running of the games selected from one hundred eighty thousand applicants and over the last twelve months or so twenty six training centers have cropped up in and around the country in the round russia to help train those volunteers to ensure that come the start of the games they are fully trained and also organizes a keen to. admit as well that volunteers easily younger people students pointing out the four years ago in vancouver at the winter games that the average age of a volunteer it was forty fool well also later on wednesday the international olympic committee begin a two day conference a bi annual conference on sports on the environment is designed to raise awareness of green issues and sustainability so that the damage to the environment in the build up to the games during the games and after the games is kept to a minimum that begins on wednesday and finally early on tuesday the i.o.c. president of course tuesday the day that marks one hundred days until the start of the games thomas bach had

a tour of some of the venues in and around sochi to see how the preparations are coming along he visited the athletes' village the main media center on the fixed lympics stadium which is going to host the opening and closing ceremony and he says the venues are impressive and he's confident that the athletes will be delighted with their. car so the countdown hitting a high gear in sochi with bullets going thank you. but of course. they cannot stop. the traditional flame from the start of its journey and through its most spectacular. trip. sometimes yes we are carrying the flame. you can see the photo of the torch relay right now. one hundred twenty three days. through.

really. for six weeks. in a record setting. olympic torch relay. m r t. r good to have you with us here today a rare piece of good news in the u.k. where the g.d.p. is the measure of annual economic output has now risen by almost a percent but while some areas are getting back on their feet others particularly in the north of england to a halt. to find out what it will take to breathe life back into the struggling. once presiding the lifeblood of the british economy now much of britain's industrial infrastructure lies in ruins. the last 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 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 services. burnley's from. and go to football star i need help i'm going to leeds hope for being here way. because

i don't wanna be your only my. opinion might be divided but burnley which was recently named the most enterprising place in person deserves that accolade says n.p. cotton but with this is the university college will be ten million part of the money which transformed. into a person learning for future your people. there are the studios in engineering and construction. there will be the young people of our future in the money for the center of the building go bald. do you think there's a lot a lot of all bills along here or all be renovated as a company are moving in there when it's finished it would bring in all the fortunes of the burley which will be a telecoms. deal through the economist has publicly defended his article and

despite millions in government spending for regeneration projects and burnley'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 centered around such towns. die real people who are connected to a turd i mean i'm connected to this in my life my heart beats here throughout my heart die we'll fight by. r.t. reporting from burnley in the north west of england. or into the on sea world update now let's start with ankara where protests erupted against the turkish government on the country's republic day a riot police fired tear gas as they clashed with demonstrators of the day monks the nation's ninetieth anniversary and

commemorates its found opposition parties claim the government has gone against the country's first. and the second set of palestinian prisoners has been released by israel as part of a peace told deal with a group of twenty six was greeted with fireworks in gaza more than two thousand people attended a ceremony held by the palestinian president right there in the west bank for a final agreement to be reached one hundred four convicts are said to be released in the following months. for french kidnapped in twenty ten have now been released in. the men were captured by al-qaeda groups during an attack on two french you raney i'm operating firms and they were freed without a military assault or a ransom being paid should be. shot. and a bunch of them from bangalore in the south of india to hyderabad burst into flames killing forty four on board the vehicle was carrying fifty when it was said to have

hit a highway over a culvert the impact ruptured the fuel tank and engulfed the physical in flames india does have the highest and you will row death toll in the world that's according to the world health organization. what up next man versus woman we look at to combat schools in ukraine it's interesting for seconds.

i. jamie the national security agency has taken months of scandal embarrassing lies to get obama and his administration to this point what is clear is the following are the obama is unaware of the extent of n.s.a. surveillance or he remains untruthful with the american people and the world in the end it's all about trust. she turned his lover into an amazon.

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