breaking news on hopes for a deal on iran's nuclear program fade in geneva. talks have hit a snag one accusing of blackmail. above and beyond the twenty fourteen olympic torch relay reaches out to space the symbol of the games is taken for a space walk for the first time in human history. thousands of drones over america there's concern they could pose a risk to the huge amount of traffic.

from the studios and here in moscow was just one in the morning this. iranian lawmaker blackmail during talks on iran's nuclear program negotiations are at a crucial stage between iran and six world powers after a decade long deadlock that had been hope of a deal but now negotiations appear to hit a stumbling block on. the negotiations in geneva. from the very beginning this skepticism really has been coming from france in the beginning they just. concerns had to be taken into consideration if any agreement is indeed reach we know israel has been very uncomfortable with this with netanyahu the premier of these rail warning that this is a bad deal however right now francis suggested that they are all there are conditions that must be met by iran one of its main concerns for instance is the a process in establishing. a name and which meant another demand for france and it's been suggested by the foreign minister is the halting of the iraq you know

heavy water reactor death something iran does not want to do now aside from that there are also words that were spoken by the foreign minister that might have insulted also the rain and because he's a lawyer five years had said that france didn't want to be part of a cotton game and that the final draft or final draft texas too favorable to iran now the lawmakers of iran had said that sounds really has been hindering these talks that have indeed been pulling it blackmail it hasn't gone unnoticed here in peace talks that france has been really taking quite a hard line from the very beginning is some of server servers saying that even a hard line then be a u.s. or the u.k. one western diplomat told the associated press that in fact the conditions that france is demanding are harsher than those that demanded by the u.s. and other partners did hear words for example from the british foreign minister william hague saying that they should seize the moment in order to reach a deal that it wouldn't the world for a long time those are quite positive words that we heard the u.s. talking about narrowing gaps when it came to issues well as it stands right now the

talks continue and there are suggestions from the reigning delegation that there could be a resumption of the talks in about two weeks time and rub it on a journalist and political analyst based in strasburg says france's position on the deal is dictated by the interests of the players. but they proceed to take an extreme position all the time and there are a number of reasons for this the first is that they are playing good cop bad cop with the americans obama is suddenly being much more reasonable in his attitude with the iranians the french are out there on the flank saying oh you must agree too easily israel must be protected and so on and in a sense that if you like. playing the game the american said so that they could charge reasonable the french reasonable there is another factor which is that everybody knows the enormous pressure of the israel lobby in america it's not quite so well though it's pretty pretty considerable in france as well. learn about us

lanny from iran to fast news agency and he said france is sabotaging a deal with iran to score points in the region the news that we get from the diplomats who were sent diplomats is being said that france is opposing the deal which is being going to happen in iran and the p five plus one there are some analysis speculations on that why the france is opposing this one is that france has good relations with israel france help israel to complete building the plant of their man are on the other hand france is having good relations with the arab countries in the region so in this case countries and is the are opposing any deal with iran. france can enjoy difference between israel and arab countries with the u.s.

to strengthen the entire ties with those countries. now let's take a more detailed look at the deal negotiators have been trying to put together first according to some sources the six world powers want to run to halt all activities to enrich uranium at twenty percent they could then permit enrichment at a level below weapons grade in addition iran would be obliged to limit the number of centrifuges it uses the demands also reportedly include more intrusive monitoring of tehran atomic facilities in return world powers would unfreeze some of ron's assets in foreign banks plus the west would reportedly consider easing sanctions which have crippled the country's economy or would of course keep you updated on the progress of those nuclear talks in geneva throughout the rest of the day on air and online on our web site just to remind you also that we do to cross live to geneva a little later because we understand that a news conference could well be launched following those three days of talks we're hoping that we can join our correspondent test our silly who's following that conference a little later today as well here on r.t.

. a giant step for these sorts of twenty eight fourteen winter games the olympic torch has been taken on a space walk for the first time in history as part of the longest ever torch relay auntie's lindsey france which is the unique moment at mission control. well it's a very exciting thing to watch live here because what we're actually getting to see right now is down on the floor the engineers are essentially walking the cosmonauts through the steps of making it all the way around the international space station with the torch in hand and also it's important to note here if the viewers out there have noticed the torch is modified obviously it's been tethered very securely to the cosmonauts because no one wants to lose that thing into outer space i'd like to know who they may have voted to go after that thing if it actually gets loose so it's again. it's his fourth spacewalk and sergey it's his first and of

course he gets to be part of this which is amazing now of course the torch has been in space before once for the one thousand nine hundred six olympics once for the two thousand and six but this time in space it's actually going on a space walk it's not just inside of a shuttle or inside of the eye is this so it was a big moment here when we actually saw the torch come out of the hatch attached to the cars minot's and make its appearance out in space the symbol of unity and sportsmanship being seen all over the world in fact i when i'm not live i'm taking pictures with my camera phone as is everybody just because it's so amazing to actually be part of this and get to see on these huge screens right here at star city not only do you see only huge screens but we can hear the engineers talking to the cosmonauts and hear their responses coming from the microphones back to these guys we're actually seeing this all happen right right in front of our eyes and it's just it's like nothing i've ever experienced just it's an amazing thing and. i

just wish that more people could be part of it now that the torch has a couple more days left on the i assess before it heads back down to earth with a three person crew on a soyuz spacecraft again and so it's then going to rejoin this historic relay to saatchi for the kick off. in february at the olympics so we will be bringing you all the live developments of the olympic torch right here on r.t. . well we spoke to the cosmonauts who carried out carried that symbol of the olympics into open space and you can catch that video that conversation on our website r.t. dot com and we'll continue to chart the course of the torch on its return to work as it continues its way across the world's largest country you can watch all the highlights live on r.t. . deliberate design it's a big journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred two cities of russia. really origins the people who are sixty

thousand to one. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on the marquee. thousands of drones will soon be swarming across u.s. airspace and are expected to be used for civilian purposes such as far fighting and weather tracking but their presence is still causing concern now let's take a look at the states from above these yellow spots are planes in american airspace and as you can see the skies are already very crowded the total movements every day is around ninety thousand and when unmanned aircraft join this traffic well you can imagine the number is simply going to rise so what that compromise the safety of air traffic what he's got to check on looks for the answer. 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 all kinds of approaches to the f.a.a. game itself two years to come up with ideas on how to regulate that brave new world where everybody can fly their throw their designated six test sites across the country to see how it goes aside from very serious might we see concerns there's a danger of meet 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. have openly with the nation's into finding the drone the plane was flying over densely populated area when he brushed shoulders with a drone to the horror of the pilots of course during

a separate incident in the indianapolis five forty body. 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 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 i'm going to check on our team. moments loss is another's gain and china sees opportunity in the arab spring reform beijing's economic challenges the middle. africa region and all the taking by crisis and

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collecting evidence and questioning witnesses is useless against all my methods that have the tracks what despite all that entrepreneur when you move billy's big corn is still a can investment. what we see today in the world was a lie or crisis in greece and the failure in cyprus is regulation doesn't work. you have regulatory capture 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 he thought of us. the dutch king has been pelted with rotten tomatoes during a visit to moscow by two members of the national bolshevik party which is burned in russia into that comes at a time when diplomatic relations between the two nations a delicate and best auntie's pull scott explains well a further unsavory incident putting go further pressure on already strained

relations between the two countries now the dutch king and his wife were attending a music concert in moscow when two men through what appeared to be tomatoes at them they were unharmed and did carry on with their official engagements now the two men who were arrested the members of the national bolshevik party which is actually banned here in russia and they could be heard saying if they carried out the assault the couple had the blood of alexander domata of on their hands now don't matter of was a former member of the party who committed suicide was in dutch custody after being denied political asylum in the country and as i say the incident comes with relations already strained between the two countries the netherlands are actually suing russia at the moment for the detention of thirty greenpeace activists who were onboard the arctic sunrise vessel now following that incident a russian diplomat was beaten up in his home in the hague and that taken to a police station with no official explanation the dutch government later apologized for that incident that was followed by an incident which saw a dutch diplomat beaten up in his home in moscow by masked intruders the russian

government apologized and said that they would hunt down the perpetrators of the attack now there's no connect connection between those events and today's incident but it's just further proof and further signed really the relations between the two countries continue to be strained. reports in the u.s. suggest the cia has been paying millions of dollars every year to american telecom giant eighteen to eat for that price a company allegedly provides access to information on its millions of subscribers spies can apparently braille through their phone records database including international calls germany brazil have submitted a draft resolution to the u.n. on the safeguarding of privacy and restricting mass surveillance journalist david seaman says washington is involved in a form of techno terra. 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 and 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 just remind you on our website we've got more stories for you in addition to what you see here on screen including the hidden secrets of sue it's about you you saw it is working on a sense able to detect hidden terror labs from underground if you're wondering how it works it's all there on the web site. and this sort of is called make head or tail of a brand new space discovery six tail objects it's been supported by and nasa telescope and also in the system they've got the details right now i don't see. right. first strike. and i think that your.

orders. china is looking to take advantage of america's mistakes in the middle east beijing is using the term all cool walls to do some serious business and even some of the worst hit countries like egypt turning into a real opportunity as bill truly explains. this is north cairo where egypt's burgeoning chinatown has now planted its roots restaurant owner. 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 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 analysts say 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 kinds of cultural political egypt is central country in the arab region and it's 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 not the heads it looks like egypt might keep looking eastwards. boccieri r.t. kind of. my colleague came in and spoke about china's resource hunger with off investor jim rogers and he told us that beijing's playing finder's keepers across the whole world. china is trying to secure natural resources all over the world africa south america central asia himself said the beijing success is build 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 unrest in the middle east has helped push up international oil and gas prices mexico looks at how it's the consumers who ultimately suffer. many demonstrators staged a bonfire a 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 burned their. draft cards burning their 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. 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. because a report coming away shortly. time now for some of the world news headlines this. is over one thousand people are being killed by typhoon haiyan in the philippines rescue troops continue to reach devastated communities superstorm force evacuation of tens of thousands as well as massive power outages and flooding and is now heading towards vietnam where it's expected to make landfall something. of the five thousand people in greece's second largest city thessalonica joined a protest against the development of new gold mines in the region people are concerned about the health and environmental risks as well as the effect on tourism and so forth it was given go ahead by the greek government two thousand and eleven

has been strong opposition from locals often resulting in violence. people in the pakistani city of peshawar protests over u.s. drone strikes blocking nato military supply routes in the area and it was a recent attack that killed a taliban commander the country's government says. those peace talks with militants in jeopardy. calls for revenge. and mrs venezuela has been named the most beautiful woman in the universe in a pageant that's just wrapped up here in moscow eighty six beauties were involved in the competition and the winner gets to take home the coveted crown and to an embedded swimsuit on any that the brand new miss universe will receive a luxury new york apartment design a wardrobe and icing event for smith rocker steven tyler the former spice girl mel . so that brings up to date for the moment here with more news in just half an hour

from now on i mean time it is abby martin in breaking the sense this is ality live in moscow. 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 drawn 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 in russia in america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a local who can't even make ends meet well you could see why the migrant 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 but 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 in country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work in complete futility for table scraps but that's just my opinion. no origin. stories others refused to notice. food since changing the world's writes no. full picture of today's you know. from around the globe. broke today don't.

come. out in focus welcome to breaking the set i'm out of time you know i was going to fork over half a million dollars to obama in the last election just for the hell of it and then i didn't because i'm not the mark but now i'm full of regrets because you see if i didn't donate a large sum of money to the drone king i could have been in the house that her didn't have a fairly obama's thank this campaign finance or by awarding them with highly coveted embassador ships they expect those chosen for these important positions are . qualified and have some expertise in international relations or at the very least while traveled and flew into the language about respective state and the us it looks like it's become a position free for all for the president's big spending friends see a woman named coleen bradley bell was just a point of being bassett or for hungry her qualifications for the job include being

the producer for a soap opera company called belle philip television her husband bradley is the head writer for the critically acclaimed soap opera the bold and the beautiful the bells hosted obama at their mansion last year for giant fundraising event with coleen personally raising more than two point one million dollars for the president according to the new york times as you can see she's calamity appropriate for the job after all if the prime minister's twin brother sleeps with his wife and has an illegitimate son who turns out to be a transsexual serial killer who better to solve the snafu than a soap opera producer but of course this is just the latest in a string of absurd appointments under obama previous underqualified choices including bassett or to germany john emerson is the former president the capital group private client services master to spain james cost as a former h.b.o. executive james brewster ambassador of the medical republic as well as a real estate kingpin and senior managing partner for

a consulting firm and who could forget caroline kennedy of the kennedy family as the ambassador to japan despite the fact that she doesn't speak a lick of japanese now before i get ahead of myself it's important that every president does this and not just with ambassador ships with many positions in government remember when bush appointed a horse trainer to run fema all right all right maybe not a horse trainer but commissioner for the international arabian horse association so kids moral the story here don't give up on your dreams maybe next election cycle reconsider donating hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to your favorite corporate tool because you might just win an ambassadorship. the three sleepers they are looking very hard to take. to the one that he ever had

sex with that her think they're looking. to cut. a little. little sleep. by now americans are used to absurd amounts of money flooding into political campaigns but the amount of cash recently spent on local elections in washington state's wacom county is shocking nonetheless is even though walk in county has a population of only two hundred thousand people this year nearly a million dollars an outside campaign donations flooded into the local election council and why.