in the sky the already busy airspace over america is preparing for an incursion of thousands of new drones sparking fears of possible air accidents. and hopes for a possible nuclear deal with iran rise in geneva despite israel trying to throw a spanner in the works claims its blackmailing leader. and daylight robbery daring raids a fledgling online bank making off with more than a million dollars worth of bitcoins. and how much fuel cool records cost we look at the cia's evaluation as reports emerge of the agency buying up.

the entire team welcome to the program today. live in moscow with your world headlines for this hour america's buzzing space is bracing itself for a new invasion of thousands of drone although they are expected to be used for peaceful purposes such as fighting in weather tracking though it is causing rather a lot of let's give you some details as to why you will never notice it from the ground currently the skies above the u.s. are crowded with roughly five thousand planes at any given moment while the daily total of movements is up to a whopping ninety thousand and you can only imagine what will happen if unmanned aircraft join this sky high traffic and dangerous incidents involving drones have

already taken place and. explain. according to the u.s. federal aviation administration by two thousand and twenty there will be up to thirty thousand drones flying in the u.s. airspace not just by law enforcement and other government agencies but also by private firms for all kinds of purposes so the f.a.a. game itself two years to come right. out regulate that brave new world where everybody can fly their throw their designating six test sites across the country to see how it goes aside from doing serious might we see concerns there's a danger of meeting air collisions even now as the government is not yet allowed the commercial use of drones the f.a.a. is getting a rising number of safety complaints from pilots in march of this year and only tallia airliner made national news headlines when the pilot reported spotting a drone as he was trying to land at york's j.f.k. airport back then the f.a.a. and the f.b.i. has moved to the nation's into finding that the plane was flying over densely

populated area when he brushed shoulders with the go to the horror of the pilots of course or in a separate incident in the indianapolis five forty body image to load him in the opposite direction at a high speed. just to give you an idea of how concerned pilots are one pilot said we're concerned about birds we're concerned about other airplanes and now we're throwing in something totally uncontrolled when they suck one of those drones into the engine of an airplane he said then it will get everybody's attention and one of the challenges is that drones occasionally loose connection with the operator on the ground it's a well reported problem but apart from accidental collisions there is another challenge drones can be hijacked by someone with very bad intentions so the brave new world of drones can also turn out to be a very dangerous one in washington. are to. find hereabouts here we spoke to

a former american airlines pilot mark weiss he believes it's a tough task to composite fears are certainly off to washington's controversial use of drones all around the world. we are the united states has most of its background it's in controlled airspace in a war zone in a civilian arena. this has to command a much greater controls it's going to be scrutinized and believe me as a professional pilot i have my doubts but i believe this is. and i think what we see is there are certain airspeeds in certain areas opened up to unmanned aerial systems you'll see that happening and you'll see pockets and we're in grow a lot from moscow as r.t. one man's loss is another man's gain or in the case of the arab spring an opportunity for china here at r.t.

we report on beijing's economic charge into the middle east and north africa region left for the taking by crisis and violence. at the head of the olympic torch space walk we managed to speak to the cosmonauts participating in this unique part of the relay. still to come here on the program. i've often out here on our potentially groundbreaking nuclear talks with iran have now entered their third day this following a mammoth discussion on friday that ended long after sunset under the deal currently gaining momentum terror on it could freeze its atomic expansion for a partial easing of sanctions hooshang amirahmadi who run in this year's presidential elections in iran he thinks tehran has done its best to try and appease the international community. this not make it public as. we know it at this point how back sept the basic requirements to

buy on this point it on is doing what it was expected to do i think that really an issue is what the don gets in return i think that's where the problem really stands now the fact the problem is this the problem is that this a kid is going to come back to washington d.c. he's not going to do it live in geneva when he comes back to washington and he's going to do the he's going to see that crowd around him the. congress the on others the many kind right beings the public and party on oh yeah i'm going to have to give him my dear real hard on. well the potential agreement is not exactly pleasing iran as a long time enemy israel prime minister netanyahu calling it a mistake of historic proportions the international community got a deal this is a very bad deal and president obama called the israeli leader in

a bid to try to reduce tensions in tel aviv though apparently his reasoning is not enough you can tell it just by looking at netanyahu is official twitter page moreover even with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry being generally positive about the course of the talks not everyone in washington is satisfied with the diplomacy i doubt very much that the diplomacy will be affected even if there is not the prospect that if diplomacy fails that we will in fact resort to military force however for what exactly the professor of political communication of the university of tehran he feels washington is drifting away from the israeli imposed hawkish stance on iran. i think nothing you know who is isolated. closer friend had the united states is moving away from the hawkish policies of the party he has worked for the last many years to manufacture the crisis with regard

to iran is this one nuclear program and he's seeing all his efforts going away and he's obviously upset he should be upset and the main reason for such a change of heart in both the us and europe is that israel's policy of blackmail is losing its effectiveness that's according to the professor he is basically saying that has an option to attack you learn militarily that talking points. have been using for the last many years telling europeans that if you don't pressure iran they cannot make lee attack iran militarily obviously given the fact that israel has attacked its neighbors every few years for the last many decades you always have to worry about an israeli prime minister making threats like that but overall i think that type of threat is losing its. effectiveness and i think europeans are realizing that we can i do stay tuned with us here on r.t.

for extensive coverage of the ongoing iranian nuclear talks in geneva. i just turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow online thieves have carried out a daring bank heist making off with more than a million u.s. dollars worth of currency and this is a robbery with a difference because it's not dollars that have been swiped but rather bit coins and we're talking more than four thousand of them and they've been stolen online from a virtual bank that was only set up four months ago a bit coin is a crypto currency that's unregulated and not backed by any government stored in computers in virtual wallets and in this daring robbery hackers broke into one of these supposedly secure wallets held by an unofficial bank and made off with a million dollar hole entrepreneur william mook says bitcoin security actually measures up well compared to traditional currencies. it's same for the

federal reserve notes the f.b.i. reports that of thirty eight million dollars stolen from them of traditional banks last year only eight million dollars this week cover of the forty one hundred clients the owner of the home web hosting service has taken sixteen hundred of his own good clients and used to give some people hundred percent of their money back. i'll ask you some details or not see how does bitcoin work well it's called a crypto currency it can pay for products or services but coins are held in online wallets which are kept on computers this makes them vulnerable to hacking but they can be sent online from the computer to a computer without going through a regulated financial institution they can exchange though for dollars or even euros right there and just like gold bitcoins can be mined although the pick in this case is a one of computer power and of the more power you use though with the greater the chance you could land yourself a virtual coil in their value has soared three years ago ten thousand of them could

buy you a pizza right now one can get you a top notch smartphone here's william oke once again. what we see today in the world was a life or crisis in greece and the failure of cyprus is regulation doesn't work. you have regulatory can't assure you just have system failure and the thing that makes a big point exciting for people believe it point is the fact that it's an emergent system if it does require regulation just. really wasn't as good as we call it. in a fresh twist in the global spying scandal that's now been reported the cia is paying the american telecom giant eighty and millions every it's in exchange for accessing its database of coal records as germany and brazil now submitted a draft resolution to the un on safeguarding internet privacy and restricting mass

surveillance of journalist david seaman he says when a government starts paying private phone records citizens have a very good reason to be afraid of. it's a huge company that has its footprint all over the globe and they're just being paid to hand out this customer information is a clear violation of the fourth amendment and customers have nowhere to go because i'm sure he is not alone in this sort of practice why are they tracking the communications of private citizens who have no connection to crime or terrorism what is their real goal here if this is a form of i think a light form of terrorism where people are becoming afraid to use their own technology in their own devices it's really it's kind of orwellian and the explanation they gave for it doesn't make a lot of sense to me or to always a plenty more for you online including for this hour when the will to make yourself heard is stronger than any obstacles agree channel moves from the studio to the streets all in a bid to keep cool costing live to its viewers find out how they lost their regular

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will take the torch on that space walk how they intend to mark this momentous occasion hi my name is lindsey friends from russia today and my question is for a leg cut off and survey results came the phrases that garren armstrong said on their pioneering space endeavors became historic the famous plug a hole a let's go back to the right. and the one small step by armstrong have you ever maybe thought of a catch phrase you will use when you take the olympic torch out on its first ever spacewalk. it's true that many of the most memorable moments amount to certain phrases i didn't think would be too original here and any words that will accompany a spacewalk with the torch will aim to promote movement and healthy lifestyle and sports will move the world. where you don't have to be in outer space to feel the spirit of the games you can follow our coverage of the unique olympic torch space

walk do it live and fourteen forty g.m.t. that's on air and online as well at odds he taught com. this is now it may of course ruin for some but the arab spring has turned out to be a godsend for others that includes china beijing's firms and diplomats are taking the middle east by economic storm filling a vacuum created by a partial u.s. withdrawal. true reports even in crisis rocked egypt the chinese have still managed to find opportunity. this is north cairo where egypt's burgeoning chinatown has now planted its roots. says the chinese community here is thriving despite the political turmoil. most chinese come here for study were to call the muslim chinese minorities i opened my restaurant recently i know the

political situation here is difficult but it doesn't affect chinese businesses it's a good place to live as u.s. egypt relations soured after american officials with help keep the military and economic assistance in october egypt has hinted at cozying up to other super powers like china and china it's more about his political expansion gaining clout with one of the region's main play is rather than finance we have sixty three agreements. i mean different kinds of cultural political egypt is sensitive country in the arab region and it is very useful to have good relations developing relations with us because we have a say in the region marching turn of the chinese embassy in cairo says although two thousand and thirteen was a turbulent year for egypt the country's exports to china increased by a staggering one hundred thirteen percent we are very happy to see this figure we

tried to make more efforts. to reach the. one billion very small egypt's economy which had heavily relied on its terrorism market has taken a pounding after two and a half years of revolution and regime change and with cairo and washington and loggerheads it looks like egypt might keep looking eastwards. boccieri r.t. kind. and early on r.t. my colleague cavanagh and he spoke about china's resource hunger with author and investor jim rogers who told us that beijing's up a diet is nothing regional it's worldwide china's trying to secure natural resources all over the world africa south america central asia germany's offset the raging success is built on washington's failures what do you think. well certainly if you look around the world you will certainly see there's

a lot of truth to that the chinese have more or less. they're all over africa there by plantations and everything else america's got very little presence in africa now time is making inroads in the middle east is going to get a lot of oil from iran going forward it looks as though china may even start getting oil from iraq you know america says that they were a liberated iraq in the end it may be the chinese who get the oil tiny's look around the world they see what's happening over the next few decades they're going to be big shortages of oil and many other things developing the chinese like capitalists are trying to secure future supplies while they can get them in there cheap and when other people are not rushing in to buy them the west's exit out of the middle east has not only been political hundreds of companies including energy ones have abandoned business there and that's led to a rise in power prices for consumers in europe today's kinds of report exploring

the ballooning energy costs. many demonstrators staged a bonfire by burning of energy bills to voice their opposition to rising costs of fuel burning their energy bill is like burning your draft card you know during the vietnam war they burned their their their draft cards burning their energy bill is similar in that you don't want to join up forces with the corrupt big six energy companies in the u.k. that are their financial terrorism so if you don't want to support financial terrorism of the big six energy companies here in the u.k. you would burn your energy bill i suggest get a thousand people on the millennium bridge here in london to get together and burn their energy bill in unison. by the cards report throughout the day here on r t but for now britain along with territories linked to it lead the world when it comes out of tax avoidance that's

according to tax experts on campaign is here is some of what their report claims other super rich could be hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars in eighty two countries considered to be tax savings a quarter of those have strong links to the u.k. they are british overseas territories crown dependencies and some commonwealth states some of the cash to made it about three hundred thirty billion bucks now reportedly in the hands of the london buying because he's probably boykin our reporting on why the secrecy is so hard to resist. the u.k. government has been bashing tax avoidance for months in fact prime minister david cameron made increasing tax transparency a key issue at the g eight summit that he hosted earlier this year but despite all the effets according to a group called use of the tax justice network britain is the world's worst offender for financial secrecy twelve of its island dependencies where the queen is the head

of state by the way ranked among the top fifty most secretive tax jurisdictions in the world the laws relating to these island dependencies such as the cayman islands been huge a jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act what to talk about the issue i'm joined by salmond shaheen who's the editor of the international tax review magazine simon thank you for joining us well the people that deposit their money in these tax havens do it through entirely legal schemes so what's the fuss about anyway but i think it's a misconception to describe tax avoidance as legal it's just not illegal and the reason for that governments have been unable to anticipate the feed schemes employed by multinational corporations and their highly paid armies of accountants and lawyers that they've they've sent across the world to root out the best tax feels their claims that britain has made

a lot of steps to improve transparency especially over recent months they've certainly spoken a lot about it are you surprised by these negative rankings i'm not surprised but no i mean the crown dependencies in overseas territories of have long been considered among the worst offenders of all of the world tax haven read what is surprising is that the british government not doing very much about it really needs to get its network of tax havens offshore in the in order some machine thank you very much for joining us well reports that large corporations and super rich individuals have been dodging billion. of pounds in taxes three entirely legal loopholes have caused public outrage so these that britain has been labeled the world's ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by kids of approval head boy. or let's open up the aussie world out there now with devastation in the philippines typhoon haiyan has killed at least one hundred in the philippine city of tacloban

that's according to government officials the superstorm was reportedly leveled most of the houses in the city rescuers are struggling to reach various areas as roads and communication lines have been cut but typhoon is one of the strongest ever speed nearly reaching a wreck or three hundred twenty kilometers per. hour the philippines released twelve million people currently at risk. people in the pakistani city of pressure well they've taken to the streets for a city in protest i mean to a nato military supply route in the area the protesters are outraged by a recent u.s. drone strike on a taliban come on the country's government says the cut short of peace talks the militants new leader is already calling for revenge. the u.s. along with its chief ally israel have lost voting rights at the u.n.

cultural agency unesco both countries missed a deadline for paying their dues to the organization said they would stop contributions off the unesco gave membership to palestine in twenty eleven and cost the agency about eighty million bucks a year for the losses still mostly washington's in tel aviv according to some international affairs analysts. well there is no doubt that when the united states steps back from any global agency that american influence in the perception of american moral authority and its political credibility takes a hit suffers some damage one other consideration by the way is what happens with israel because israel also followed the u.s. in suspending its payment of dues and for israel this creates a vacuum that is much more perilous for israel's kind of global

legitimacy. and it is for the united states. let's turn our attention now to libya where at least two people have been killed and around thirty wounded when separate armed militias clashed in tripoli scores of gunman poured into the streets venting their anger over the killing of their leader several days ago a political activist. you believe the country is facing some huge challenges. well the existence of these militias i don't see bright future for libya there was a lot of follow these. they can get away with their crimes that libya so any crime committed in libya is either forgotten all or most even though just to get it now what we see in libya is more crimes committed than their belief is received in previous regime was a lot better compared to what's going on now in libya we had security we had independence. lots of libyans now even those who. contributed

to the so-called evolution of regret that they really contributed. or i thanks for joining us here on our i hope you're enjoying your saturday if you're watching our team international you can make a former russian military man in his very special kindergarten project there in the u.k. if you're watching from there what's going on the ground with afshin rattansi in just a. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred ton two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space.

olympic torch relay. on r t v dot com. i know c.n.n. m s n b c fox news have taken some knots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you. look. at our teen years we have a different. oh because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not.