to the police that some. of our time. a canadian cafe sets up the world's first digital currency a.t.m. doling out cash for a bit calling cryptocurrency certainly taking the online world by storm. as the stony victims of a cia drone strike traveled to the u.s. representative behind the visit coals on congress to acknowledge that islam about it can handle its own security problems it's some. kind of red light to green energy in the u.k. the majority of the population votes it down believing the benefits fail talib way the aggravating types.

and welcome to the program here on t.v. . and live in moscow with the world headlines right now bitcoin the experimental online currency is now a global one complete with its. only a.t.m. first machine that has been set up in a cafe in vancouver where people can exchange digital money for physical cash but you're probably asking yourself well what exactly coins now in the simplest terms it's just a currency but an on line one a bit coins are stored in web wallets that are completely anonymous even your name though the transactions are public a bit coins can be sent from one wallet to another just at the click of a button and in most cases with no fees or delays in fact system bypasses banks middlemen and government on what small is a bit coins can be easily sold for any currency available whether it be dollars or euros being though that exchange rates tend to. the robber volatile and finally

where do they come from well the process is called bitcoin mining and it consists of computers running special programs to generate a steady flow of currency 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 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 would get in 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 realized this is incredibly easy it's much much easier than kroger's and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft or all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit system it's just a superior technology. but coin exchanges and brokers have popped up all over the

world in fact even china's largest search engine now accepts payments in this digital currency and we're also told though it could well become a major player. really it's funny that to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of account in the calculations so you can do your accounting then in fact people do this all the time and you can enter into the creative because fear and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass the government currency entirely which the us is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada rather than the us the us would lose out if it continues this trend towards regulating cryptocurrency. now may be popular and in demand but bitcoin has had more than its fair share of controversy and certainly turbulence as well money laundering concerns shady online activities will have sent its price soaring and

collapsing of any recovering all over again and the latest incident saw an f.b.i. raid on silk road it's an online narcotics market place that dealt in bitcoins mitchell demeter the chief bitcoin officer at bitcoin e.x.e. spoke to my colleague kevin now in. we've got n.t. money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is be recorded on a public ledger your name isn't it 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 it associated big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did 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. well you can find out much more and how it coined works on why it has become such a magnet for controversy i do so at our website don't call them still to come of the program here on r t this hour including a ban on big brother the brics a group of emerging economies say they don't want to be spied on by america they plan to build a new secure cyber space hidden from washington's eyes. on the soft cheek countdown entering the home stretch readiness boxes are being taken off in the olympic city at the clocks past the hundred day mark until the winter games opening ceremony. by five minutes past the hour moscow time britain may have a rethink on green energy this since a survey claims two thirds of its citizens are against directly propping up the industry and the so-called green levies make up

a hefty part of africa energy bills and only predicted to snowball if indeed the u.k. proceeds with its green policies it's the story. talking about the weather may be a british for you bill but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terrorists say sing. it was our announcements that energy prices all cents 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 idea is 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 if. you know about what it is cost to wait and see if it's right things cheaper things to go to really not prefer the profits

an option really which is to tax that noise be. legacy of 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 that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as solar panels like the ones that catered 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 in the meantime germany's energy giant has warned the country's swift switch to green power could end up backfiring 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 enjoys from the class the university of technology he believes that energy safety certainly comes at a very high cost of the principle problem if you rely on when to. dollar energy have to be a real thank you for all the energy if when the wind blows or if 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 they are no

longer accepted by as a people and therefore this renewable energy is oregon or because renewable energies are regarded as without any alternative. and as germany turns its back on its old energy industries we traveled to the north of england to see what happened there when industrial towns were simply consigned it to the scrap heap you to but later on the program here on our t. we meet the locals who are fighting to peel back the rust and get the former industrial heartland beating once again. for now in the program the head of u.s. intelligence or james clapper has defended america's spying policy right 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 was finally revealed meanwhile one of america's spy targets brazil has been calling for a new secure cyber space to be curated to prevent us why it's happening and what

ideas receive the backing of the other brics nations russia india china and south africa who all now considering laying a vast network of data cables immune to n.s.a. snooping technology and this could be a great solution as jeremy zimmerman from the internet liberties and digital rights advocacy group. 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 that 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 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 even have control over the n.s.a. in fact who is behind america's vast spying network some of the questions being discussed in today's edition of cross talk with people of well the next round of that coming up at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't emitted. what jay carney the president's spokesman said is that 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 to know 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. i'm going to stay with us for crosstalk a bit later here on our t.v. . newspapers have attempted to drag russia into the center of all this global spying. been investigating the latest claims for us now joining us here live on the program good morning can you tell us what exactly are the papers going on about well yes essentially there is saying during the g twenty summit which took place in st petersburg this year guests including political leaders world leaders have received gifts backs which. flash cards as well as phone chargers which according to the newspapers are essentially spy ware now these allegations have already been

denied by the presidential spokesman a russian presidential spokesman who said that as a matter of fact it looks like. just an attempt to sway the attention away from the real problems towards imaginary ones and because the newspapers didn't particularly cite to any of their sources specifically is it a fact italian government itself is already starting to look into these allegations in order to find out where exactly they're. all right. thank you. all right a lot more news though still to come here on our teeth thank you for joining us today breaking the set and of course the world update just around the corner. this immediately though shall we leave the media. was she who she truly for your party is it the. shoes that no one is as you would to guess that you

deserve answers from. politics. these are the images. from the streets of canada.

past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. just a seeking journey of thousands of miles for one pakistani family which survived a cia drone attack has now culminated in their testimony in front of a u.s. congressman the strike killed a grandmother but failed to hit any militants so the victims of the bombing are asking lawmakers why their home was targeted in the foot ice at the briefing artie's guy nature. 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 writes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though 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 a 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 boat pardon me 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 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 at 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 why our village in my house is talking to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was 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 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 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 they're being picked this year off from the floor to be shown how long before someone driving. s.u.v.s 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 of being one of the toughest opponents of america's drone warfare u.s. representative alan grayson is the man behind the visit of the rockman family to his country speaking directly to r.t. he said he believes the pakistani army is now fully capable of handling militant issues by 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 you 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 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 pose some kind of threat to the united states and what's good for america's foreign wars is also one it's crime fighting wish that home a sheriff in texas first tough immigrant said that he also wants the flying

machines over his head in order to get the lowdown on the crime scenes and to stop the flow of drugs into a state that's online for you right now. also the story two pilots have a narrow escape right on the outskirts of moscow bailing out just in time from their experimental military helicopter came crashing down just outside of force there or right on the verge of. those details right now on the web site. for the meantime on the wait for the start of the twenty four thousand sochi winter olympics has now crossed the one hundred day mark of the games clocks right here in the russian capital city have both switched to counting down the homestretch a short while ago i spoke to scott he's in such. 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 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 on wednesday the international olympic committee begin a two day conference apply on the 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 one hundred days until the start of the games 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 stadium which is going to host the opening and closing ceremony and he says the venues are impressive and that he's confident that the athletes will be delighted with. an olympics of course can start without the traditional flame. bring it to you literally that. say so are some of us indeed are carrying the famous torch through the relay we put all the spectacular footage on our website right now at. the olympic torch is on a big journey to show. one hundred twenty three days. through do remember the cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty for those killings. in a record setting trip. let's

get some good news out of the u.k. where the g.d.p. the measure of annual economic output has risen by almost a percent but while some areas are getting back on their feet others particularly in the north to a halt reports. 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. it's a nice. people services. burnley's friendly. and good a football star i need help i'm going to leeds. here. 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 person deserves that accolade says n p called in but this is the university college be. transformed. into

a person learning for future people. there are. engineering and. there will be the future in the money for. inducing. there's a lot. of 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 who are connected to it connected to this in my life my heart. r.t. reporting from burnley in the north west of england. our to the aussie wild update now to ankara we go where protesters against the conservative government on the country's republika they clashed with riot police all in the midst of tear gas a day maki the nation's ninetieth anniversary. a second set of palestinian prisoners has been released by israel as part of a peaceful deal twenty six agreed to by the palestinian president in the west bank of a two thousand in attendance for the final agreement to be reached one hundred four more convicts will be released. for french hostages kidnapped in twenty ten have now been released in need of the men were captured by an al-qaeda group during an

attack on two french uranium operating firms they were freed without any type of military assault. which high stepping aside for abby martin a break in the set is just around the corner.

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will he ever be able to win. men versus women on o.t. . the third. hey guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set on this day last year new york and new jersey were getting rocked by superstorm hurricane sandy overall the storm cost the city's sixty five billion dollars and took months of cleanup efforts no doubt it was a devastating storm and as we look back one year later what have we learned well the next time a storm the size hits we do know that the subway system will probably be shut down again due to massive flooding keep in mind there are still hundreds of people living out of hotels because they don't have a home to return to i'm sure congress eventually agreed to send fifty one billion dollars in relief to the victims of sandy we don't know where that money went to the national center for disaster preparedness only twenty three percent has been

dispersed of the agencies directly involved in the relief efforts and only fifteen percent of that has actually reached the hands of the victims but a lack of financial aid isn't the only glaring problem here those who were fortunate enough to rebuild post sandy are doing so in locations that are red zones for flooding related disasters in the future basically they're setting themselves up for disaster all over again which brings us to the elephant in the room and no one not talking about chris christie i'm talking about climate. ange half of the politicians out there want to stick their heads in the sand and keep denying the obvious fact that climate change isn't only real it's already happening and thanks to sea levels rising at an alarming rate we sure to see some hurricane sandy style flooding or worse much more frequently according to a recent report meanwhile our do nothing congress wants to do nothing about climate change or carbon emission problems while the country they're representing continues .