all eyes in the sky the already busy airspace of the u.s. is preparing for an incursion of thousands of new drones sparking widespread fears of potential air accidents. over a possible nuclear deal with iran rise in geneva despite israel trying to throw a spanner in the works and with claims it's blackmailing world leaders. daylight robbery daring raids a fledgling online bank making off with more than a million dollars worth of bitcoin. and how much do your call records cost we look at the cia's evaluation as reports emerge of the agency buying up people's loeb's from an american telecom giant.

the world's top headlines live from moscow this is r t with me role research from the entire news room welcome to the program america's a buzzing space is bracing itself for a new invasion of thousands of drones although they're expected to be used for peaceful purposes such as firefighting and weather tracking it is causing rather a lot of concern and here's why you'll never notice it from the ground but the skies above the u.s. are crowded with roughly five thousand planes at any given moment those yellow spots are airplanes and the daily total of movements is up to a whopping ninety thousand you can only imagine what could happen if unmanned aircraft joined in this traffic and dangerous incidents involving drones have

already taken place as artie's guy nature can reveal. according to the u.s. federal aviation administration by twenty 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 up the fight is on how to regulate that brave new world where everybody can fly their throat. test sites across the country to see how it goes aside from very serious might we see concerns there is the danger of mid air collisions even now as the government has 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 new york's j.f.k. airport back then the f.a.a. and the f.b.i.

had little to do with the nation's into finding the drone the plane was flying over densely populated area when he brushed shoulders with the drone to the horror of the pilots of course or even a separate incident in the indianapolis five hundred feet. below 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 lose connection with the operator on the ground that so 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. r.t.

and we had a chance to speak with former american airlines pilot mark weiss he believes it's a tough task to calm public fears a particularly after washington's controversial use of drones all around the world . we are the united states has most of its background it's. in a war zone in a civilian arena. this has to command a much trying to control 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 and see that happening and you'll see pockets and we're in grow. are still to come here on our team one man's loss is another man's again or in the case of the arab spring an opportunity for china there on the program we

report on beijing economic charge into the middle east and north africa region left for the taking by crisis and violence. also ahead for you there with the limb pick space walk here in the program we managed to speak to the cosmonauts participating in this unique part of the relay don't miss it it's coming your way shortly. here on a potentially groundbreaking nuclear talks with iran have entered the third day following a mammoth discussion on friday that ended long after sunset under the deal currently getting momentum tehran 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 his best to ease international concerns. this time make it public as. we know it at this point back sept the basic requirements are by

on this point eight on is doing what it was expected to do i think that the an issue is what you don gets in return i think that's where the problem really stands now the fact the problem is this the problem is that mr kerry is going to come back to washington d.c. he's not going to 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 id lobby crowd the congress the the on others the many kind right beings the republican party all oh yeah i'm going to have to give him my dear real hard on. well the potential agreement is not exactly pleasing iran's long time enemy israel prime minister netanyahu calling it a mistake of historic proportions the international community got

a bad deal this is a very bad deal in fact president obama went as far as the cole the israeli leader trying to reduce tensions and tell of eve but apparently his reasonings were not enough you can tell 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 military force however for what is the professor of political communication at the university of tehran he feels washington is actually drifting away from the israeli imposed hawkish stance on iran. i think mr nothing who is isolated. closer friend that the united states is moving away from the hawkish policies of the party he has worked for the last many years to manufacture

a crisis with regard to iran is this one nuclear program and he is seeing all his efforts going away and he is obviously upset he should be upset and the main reason for such a change of heart in both america 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 point that israeli officials have been using for the last many years telling europeans that if you don't pressure you on economic 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 if you can do stay tuned for our extensive coverage of the iranian nuclear talks on going in geneva israel may be losing another level of international pressure. this creates a vacuum that is much more perilous for israel's kind of global legitimacy the countries being stripped of unesco voting rights along with america for failing to pay the dues coming up a bit later in the program. but as if rogers the moscow online thieves have carried out a daring bank heist making off with more than a million u.s. dollars worth of currency only this is a robbery with a difference because it's not dollars that have been swiped rather a bit coy and we're talking about four thousand of them they've been stolen online from a virtual buying that was only set up four months ago and if it is

a crypto currency that's on regulated and it's not backed by any government and they're stored on computers in virtual wallets and this daring robbery hackers broke into one of these supposedly secure wallets held by an unofficial bank and made off with a million dollar whole bunch of william mook says bitcoin security at the end of the day does actually measure up rather well to traditional currencies it's safe for the federal reserve notes the f.b.i. reports that a thirty eight million dollars stolen from them of traditional banks last year only eight million dollars this week. of the forty one hundred points 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 the money that. well let's give some details here on r t how bitcoin works as i said it is a crypto currency it pays for products and services the coins held in online

wallets which does make them vulnerable to hacking and they can be sent online without going through some sort of bank and they can be exchanged for government backed currency like dollars right there or even perhaps euros as well and just like gold bit coins can be mined although the pic in this case is actually computer generated in computer powered and the more power you use the greater the chance you could land yourself a virtual coin value has soared just three years ago ten thousand bitcoins could get you a pizza now the same amount can buy you a penthouse once again his will be a book what we see today in the world it was alive or crisis in greece and in 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 emergency system if it does require regulation just by it really wasn't as good as we thought

. it's all to learn from moscow with me rule resewn shy more news after the break. the president of the boston. eric rosengren says that. morale improves low rates and bond buying will continue yes the beatings will continue until. so listen up you smelly consumer peasants and rotting dead runs because this will continue. to a bloody pulp intil you smile smile like we're all wal-mart greeters have they not been fired last year and spend spend spend like every man's mortgage is his castle.

speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic. reporting from the will talks of the interview intriguing story for you. to. visit. thanks for sharing your saturday with us here on our table get to max kaiser soon for now though in a fresh twist in the global spying scandal that's now been reported the cia is paying the american telecom giant. millions every year it's an exchange for accessing its database of old people's cold records this is germany and brazil submitted a draft resolution to the e.u.

when safeguarding internet privacy and restricting mass surveillance journalist david seaman says when a government starts paying for people's private phone records citizens should be very afraid. 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 on 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. always and many more stories for you on line right now including at r.t. dot com when the will to make yourself heard is stronger than any obstacle a greek channel moved from the studio to the streets in

a bid to keep broadcasting live to its view is find out how they lost their regular via our website dot com. have a look at this right here having a tough time working this one out brand new space discovery inside our solar system of. objects. what is it. on the website. it is a quarter past the hour here in moscow and in just a few hours the olympic torch of the twenty fourteen winter games will be taken on a space walk for the first time in history hear about see we've had an exclusive chance to talk to the cosmonauts who will carry it out into open space there was a mission control for. for the first time in history the torch of the olympic games will be taken on a spacewalk aboard the international space station we got a chance to speak with the crew up there today so we asked the cause minot's who 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 gaar and armstrong said on their pioneering space endeavors became historic the famous. let's go back to the right and the one small step by armstrong have you ever maybe thought of a catchphrase you will use when you take the olympic torch out on its first ever spacewalk. it's true that many is the most memorable moments amount to certain phrases i didn't think would be too original here and any words that will accompany the space walk with the torch will aim to promote movement and healthy lifestyle and sports will move into world. now you don't have to be in outer space to feel the spirit of the games you can follow our coverage of the unique a limb pick torch space walk do it live at fourteen forty g.m.t. that's on air or online at r.t. dot com.

and starting from moscow it may have caused ruin for some but the arab spring has turned out to be a godsend for those we're talking about china beijing's firms and diplomats are taking the middle east by storm filling a vacuum created by a partial u.s. withdrawal. true reports even in crisis rocked egypt the chinese found business 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 or 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 us egypt relations soured after american officials with the

help keep the military and economic assistance in october egypt has hinted at cozying up to other super powers like china. china it's more about its political expansion gaining clout with one of the region's main players rather than finance we have sixty three agreements. i mean different clients cultural political egypt is central 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 merging 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 were 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 my colleague kevin and i spoke about china's resource hunger with author and investor jim rogers mr rogers saying that beijing's appetite is not regional it's properly worldwide. china is trying to secure natural resources all over the world africa south america central asia jim itself said that beijing 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. their 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 capitalist are trying to secure future supplies while they can get them in their cheap when other people are not rushing in to buy them and the west's exit out of the middle east has not only been political hundreds of companies including the big energy ones have abandoned businesses there and that's led to a rise in power prices for consumers in europe because report goes off to done today. many demonstrators staged a bonfire by burning of energy bills to voice their opposition to rising cost of

fuel burning their energy bill is like burning your draft card you know during the vietnam war they heard there are their draft cards burning your energy bill is similar in that you don't want to join up forces with the corrupt the 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. why britain along with territories linked to it lead the world when it comes to tax avoidance that's according to experts on campaign is some of what they report claims for the super rich could be hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars and eighty two countries considered to be tax havens a quarter of those have strong links with the u.k. they are british show overseas territories crown dependencies and some commonwealth

states as well and some of that cash asked to me estimated i should say at about three hundred billion dollars now reportedly in the hands of the london bankers. has more 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 efforts according to a group called 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 jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say

that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act well 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 deals that 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 of the world tax haven ridge 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. if pounds in taxes three in tiny legal loopholes have caused public outrage sitting these that britain has been labeled the world's ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by cheers of approval ahead. are bad news out of the philippines let's get into the world updated we're talking about typhoon haiyan it's killed at least one hundred twenty in the philippine city of tacloban this according to local officials at the super storm leveling most of the houses rescuers are struggling the roads phone lines are down typhoon is breaking records the strongest to ever hit the philippines with twelve million

people. i mean these people right here in the pakistani city of peshawar taking to the streets in protest they're trying to block a nato military supply route in the area of the protesters outraged by recent u.s. drone strike on a taliban come on now the country's government saying that strike is ruin the peace talks with the militants new leader is already calling for. other u.s. along with his chief ally israel have lost voting rights at the u.n. cultural agency unesco both countries missed a deadline for paying their dues and they had said they would stop paying dues off the unesco membership to palestine in twenty eleven and that move course the agency about eighty million dollars a year for the loss is still mostly washington's in tel aviv according to some international analysts. there's no doubt that when the united states

steps back from many global agency american influence in the perception of american moral authority and its political credibility takes a hit saw first. one other consideration by the way is one. 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. it has been a pleasure having you with us here on our t.v. today i'm rory sushi in moscow signing off but for now the kaiser report that's coming your way.

illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i would occur just on vacation got into a taxi driven by a former migrant worker who used to make a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes from the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret worker on a salary that could build a bright future woman compared to a a local who can't even make ends meet well you could see why the market workers are a lot more motivated let me put it to you this way if you knew that you had to work five hard years of some awful labor under awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany what would be able to pay off the house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals and country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work in complete futility for table scraps but the shust my opinion.

i max kaiser welcome to the kaiser reported no the president of the boston. eric rosengren said that. morale improves low rates and bond buying will continue yes the beatings will continue until around improves so listen up you smelly consumer presence and rotting debt groans because the fed will continue to beat you to a bloody impoverished pulp intil you smile smile like we're all wal-mart greeters how they not been fired last year and spend spend spend like every man's mortgage

debt is his castle smile and spend smile and spend repetitious like a japanese sexpot or the abuse in capital destruction will continue do you understand i'm saying here the boston fed is saying that they're going to continue the financial beatings until morale improves this is very pull pot like very dictatorial like states here but what is that what's going on here well the saying is the beatings will continue until morale improves is often commanders in the military who say that to their abused soldiers and you see this in the with the central banks is that their command and control their authoritarian they're demanding that it's you or the grunts that got it wrong we're doing the right thing you're the ones that are you need your morale improved now eric rosengren of the boston fed told the boston business journal that the fed is prepared to keep these low.