two massive explosions hit iran's embassy in the lebanese capital beirut killing at least twenty three and wounding schools more one of the mission's senior diplomats is among the dead. or so i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. as the civilian death toll from u.s. drone strikes in yemen mounts on the sea of monitors to reach one remote village to see the facts for us time and. this is all that remains for us hundreds of drone strike right here in yemen that killed two suspected members of al qaeda but also civilians so is the loss of innocent lives justified in the fight against al qaeda stay with us as we report from one of the front lines in the war on terror.

and moscow's optimistic about the upcoming nuclear talks with the wrong saying there's a real chance of hammering out a deal despite staunch opposition from france and a zero. and welcome to twenty four hour news line for most i mean you know our top story now in lebanon is capital beirut two huge blocks have caused devastation outside the ring an embassy in an area known to be a hold at least twenty three people were killed including a diplomat and over one hundred forty have been injured for the latest when i joined live by middle east correspondent paula hi there paula so a tragic day for barry today will do in are about what happened there. well among those who have been confirmed dead are the cultural attest shape of the

ukrainian embassy in beirut as well as two other iranian nationals the blasts happened at nine thirty this morning there were two blasts that were just seconds apart and according to lebanese security officials the one was caused by a suicide bomber who was driving a rigged car and the other was caused by a person on a motorcycle as i say they came just seconds apart leaving charred bodies strewn about on the ground there also being flames rising from several buildings aid workers as well as residents have been carrying the wounded in the dead on blankets to nearby buildings there have been hospitals that have been inundated with people arriving you have ambulances that are still at the scene right now as we speak now the iranian embassy building itself was only slightly damaged but the iranian embassy compound has been extensively hit the area is a stronghold of the militant his blood group that has strong ties with the syrian

president bashar assad and it's unclear at this stage whether or not the blasts are linked in any way to the syrian civil war but it's important to note that this area has been hit by similar such explosions in the past and at that time the blame was put on rebels who were believed to have targeted this area because of iran's support for. in syria now the lebanese government has condemned the attacks it has called for an emergency meeting at the same time tehran's envoy to lebanon has said that he believes that israel is behind these blasts in the same comments are being made by the syrian information minister at this point in time there is a heavy has been less security deployment at all interested to that compound in the dock here neighborhood in say in south beirut this is happening in a predominantly shiite neighborhood. lined there from tel aviv paula thank you very

much indeed for that. now yemen is one of the hardest hit targets of america's deadly drone campaign but despite president obama's promise of more transparency relatively little is known about who's actually being killed there obviously this account of was able to reach one yemeni village where a cute community has been devastated by the effects. it says no faith for the one who has no trust but both are now in short supply in this part of yemen for months the class has been without its mouth teacher and this pupil without his father this is the big show about a charity i didn't ask. his name is still on the staff schedule but i leave hasn't been here since signing out of class on january twenty third the last the day the finality the father of three was killed by a us drone alongside his twenty year old cousin salim a college student who drove them in

a borrowed to yoda they picked up two strangers who turned out to be suspected al qaeda militants witnesses reported a whirring sound in the sky then missiles struck their car. the smell of death was everywhere some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around. i found a part of selenium inside the car the rest was outside we only recognised him by a piece of his trousers. you couldn't tell who was who if they were even human it was sickening. one drone change the sleepy farming village for ever less than an hour's drive from yemen's capital lawn is far removed from al qaeda operations but without warning it was thrust into the war on terror. saleem's mother shows me where her son used to sleep she can't bear to get rid of his things although she knows she'll never return home. to help us i didn't understand until the next day

that an american drone killed my son why tell me may allah deprive them of their souls like they robbed us of our son he was the only one providing for this family all we have left now is our tears we only target al qaeda and its associated force and even then the use of drones is heavily can strike before any strike is taken there must be. near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. except there was a deadly failure yemen's interior ministry confirms the cousins had no links to terrorism in a country where tribal ties surmount all the loss was felt far beyond the family the white house has never acknowledged the deaths let alone the strike but mohamed shows me the evidence this is what killed them what's thought to be a fragment of a hellfire missile launched from a drone. the u.s.

believes this is its best weapon against al qaeda although not officially out war in yemen the covert drone campaign has been dramatically ramped up here under president obama. yemen's al qaeda threat is real it's plotted attacks on international airliners and caused hundreds of deaths the cia described it as the most dangerous and active branch of the terrorist network the defense is that drone strikes have seriously damaged his ability to plan attacks but critics here say it's doing the exact opposite it does not. contain the ghosts of the facts that may have contributed to the growth and expansion of a. at some point when i get off powerful enough to be able to inflict serious damage the u.s. war on terror has no borders often waged remotely with cruise missiles and drones

it's an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines of fight against groups like al qaida in which ordinary civilians also end up paying a price. i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. all the kids at school have their fathers but we don't reporting in ca law on in yemen and lucy catherine of. a delegation from yemen is due to meets u.s. lawmakers to push for an end to that families of drone strike victims also avoids the pain of the losses be international conference in washington i would the weekend. as well calling for more transparency and accountability with some declaring america's campaign as a form of terrorism it was heartbreaking to hear these stories of people who had not even heard about the united states didn't know why these missiles were coming down and attacking them you know people who have committed suicide because

of the mental pressure of having these drones hover overhead twenty four hours a day in my mind having missiles come out of the sky from out of nowhere and attacking families is a form of terrorism. so i don't know how you can determine that somebody is a terrorist without presenting evidence against them and that's what the geneva conventions call for so you know these drone strikes violate many many tenets of the geneva conventions they violate the sovereignty of the foreign countries that we're attacking the drone attacks are not only you know not effective but they're actually counter effective because absolutely we are creating more enemies with every innocent person that we kill. and coming up later this hour here in our see the business of spying. special that scans my space it recognizes that i'm female and age between thirty and forty by it then seven that

information back to advertise to. learn how facial recognition systems are being deployed to help dig come to how big companies sell their products to suspects in consumerist the. u.s. secretary of state john kerry played down the israeli prime minister's fears that a possible nuclear deal with iran will threaten israel security while franson says sanctions would be lifted only if tehran gives up its nuclear program entirely but russia which will also take part in the latest round of talks on wednesday things there is still hope of an agreement as are now reports. on monday at the initiative of russian president vladimir putin he and his iranian counterpart hassen rouhani had a phone conversation after which the russian president was quoted as saying that he believes there is now a real chance that iran and the international community can come to an agreement

over the country's nuclear program an agreement that would eventually seeing the easing of sanctions on the country now the storm just opposition to that move is coming from israel who has strong support from france france of course are in the negotiating group in fact french president francois hollande has been in israel prior to those talks in geneva on wednesday but despite the documented differences after the first round of talks a lot of optimism is shed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov you're the residual just three speculations of the positive shift we now see in negotiations over iran's nuclear program has only become possible because of pressure coming from sanctions against it i suggest we leave it to historians to decide we as diplomats simply can't afford to be dragged into these meaningless discussions we now have a real chance to sign a solid deal if we let speculation lead us astray we could lose this chance there are many who will be very upset if the talks collapse once again which lever of

also went on to say that tehran has agreed to two stipulations specified specified by france at those talks that is to stop enriching uranium to twenty percent all together and to limit the amount of uranium enriched to three and a half percent so it does seem that ahead of wednesday's talks there is a real sense of optimism that there could be a breakthrough which could end this decade long standoff and we've also spoken to jamal adds a policy director of the national iranian american council he believes israeli prime minister netanyahu is against any deal with iran on principle even if it favors his own people. this is actually very concerning for for israelis to see their prime minister going out and lobbying against a deal that would actually be in the interests of everybody in the region who doesn't want to see you on potentially have the ability to build a nuclear weapon that's what this deal does and what i think the problem here is is

that benjamin netanyahu was never in favor of getting a deal he's more concerned with keeping iran isolated with advancing his own you know geostrategic ambitions and that's the same case for the saudis so now they see that there's actually a deal on the table that would achieve the stated goal of putting measures in place that we can verifiably assure the world that iran does not have a nuclear weapons program they're trying to undermine it. it won't and so glad for you this sounds terrifying video of a boeing seven three seven nose diving to a song raises more questions i've supplied data recorders delivered to most. school after the right. leg.

the. economic up and downs in the final months day the longer the deal and the rest because i was doing the case you'll be every week told me. what i'm going to a little more than a lot of the new knowledge base your life you know alone. a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher.

hello again this is our c. welcome back the value of bitcoin skyrocketed to a new record over nine hundred dollars today the price of the digital currency has now tripled since last month and this latest surge came thanks to some high powered support from within the e.u. ours let's not discuss this and more with casey pilgrim she joins me now here in the studio hi there katie is so amazing growth is going from strength to strength you have a small piece a lot of this is because of what's been spoken about in the u.s. senate ironically in the last couple of days are they spoken about the fact that we see benefits in digital currency is including a bit coy as well as working towards tackling the risks that are involved with the tasks of money laundering and drug smuggling but they did describe it now as a legitimate source of financing which is quite a huge

a change of changes there considering the us has been at the store just to criticize up in the corner as a result of that you just demonstrated how much we've seen it so i just want to let you know that if you had invested in the bit coy two years ago if you'd invested a thousand us dollars you'd be looking at three hundred eighty seven thousand today let's go back a year if you invested a thousand and seventy six thousand just overly there's some investments going on we know it's incredibly to malta or so that it quite and that's because it is accused of illegal activities but at the moment it is a historical highs because what the us the sec which as i say is rather ironic and what else is behind it it's amazing as well one of the founders of it coin is china has a second biggest economy in the world and it's the most populous and so much so that it's been used in real estate transactions recently they've given it the thumbs up we know that chinese people traditionally are saved. is that saving that money in

because as well so this is all there in cars in that time now using this is as a source of payments all right casey thank you very much and if that's how they had to thank you. patrick a mug a general counsel for the bitcoin foundation believes the government should know but of the additional currency with new regulations if you're operating a big coin service company most likely you fall into an existing regulatory framework if you're building securities around than most likely that use of the protocol will have you regulated by the securities and exchange commission if you're using it as a money service then most likely your money service business those are highly regulated businesses and industries today so there's not a need for new regulation in the space it's just a matter of the service industry around being built up and integrating that into the traditional system so let's see how things turn out whether it's a currency or

a payment network or both let's see how it shapes out a little over time before we rush to create new laws or regulations around this. trillions and trillions of calculations every second that's exactly what china's most powerful supercomputer is capable of leaving its closest you us a rival way behind you can find out how wide the margin is on our website and so on is what it is useful. and also about what can land you in a cool way to drive one local acts of is just a one way to post was an upload five year sentence more details on that case at r.t. dot com. the flight data recorders from a boeing passenger jet which crashed near the russian city of killing sixty on board have been delivered to moscow investigators hope they will help shed some light on what caused the plane to nose dive into the ground can offer ports now

from this side of the tragedy. the final traumatic moments of a flight that had almost completed its journey forty four passengers six crew members everyone on board gone. such a good boy healthy and handsome he had a good family his son is only three years old he made many plans for the future a tragedy that meant family friends and colleagues in their rivals for waiting to welcome their friends and loved ones home or instead reading their last. meeting his two associates yana from moscow and donna from cameras in england one of the two foreigners on board that moscow took us on flight they were on their way to take part in a business master class for local students. we all knew what happened but many kept hoping until the very last moment that their relative sense survived the horrific picture many became hysterical community doctors helped because some lost

consciousness others had to lean on walls. just are closer to head to ready for the victims' relatives whenever they're needed ambulances are also on standby for when the shock is too much to bear with respect complications we couldn't pick ation in an already began government in its campus there nobody's only fragments the force and speed of the impact means there are a few clues right now the flight recorders have been taken to moscow since they're badly damaged but could reveal what was said in the final few minutes in the cockpit and whether the plane was functioning normally twenty four hours after sunday's plane crash flights have resumed international airport but it's not business as usual scores of people have been coming in bringing flowers to show their respects to the victims while instead of new evidence giving answers the latest footage of the crash is only raising further questions you've got this kind of artsy republic of other stars. and of course all the latest information on the

tragic flight at dot com an ally of update section. one of the world's largest retailers british supermarket chain turns skaro is planning to install recognition technology to improve its advertising strategy privacy campaigners are concerned about the program which identifies customers to target them with customized ads based on their age and gender laura smith explains . so you say it's thursday morning i will can to a shop it is all the usual stuff plus a special camera that scans my face it recognizes that i'm female and aged between thirty and forty five then seven is that information back to advertised who collates it's to establish a pattern of who goes into the shop from now on on thursday mornings customers will be bombarded with. shampoo and fashion magazine.

if you think about something out of a futuristic movie think again it's what's happening now tesco the u.k.'s biggest supermarket chain is planning to introduce facial scanning technology in its petrol stations with a view to targeting advertising at the demographic that uses the shop most times of day even the c.e.o. of the company that makes the technology says it's like something out of minority reports seemingly not realising that comparing something to a film about the negative effects of having technology in media everywhere is a bad thing but tesco defends the practice saying it's not new technology and isn't capable of facial recognition all in the name of advertising customers permission will be sought and previously campaign is worried it could be the tip of the

iceberg with technology improving all the time how long before you are being tracked identify why you pay for your groceries. a total of six greenpeace members have now been released on bail after a court in st petersburg that's out of three more activists today a group of pain as were arrested two months ago in the arctic while trying to board an oil rig is more if an ocean has more. russian investigators have applied to court here in st petersburg to prolong the pretrial detention for all so called arctic thirty. saying they need more time at least three more months to complete their probe with ace week marks two months since thirty men and women from nineteen different countries mostly greenpeace activists but also the arctic sunrise icebreaker crew and two journalists were detained on monday the first hearing started and the judges already decided to keep the russians jail one till february

one activist from australia while released on bail to the three other participants of russian citizen ship but there are a total of thirty applications and all of them have to be started and examined by the judges this is why you will see definitely more hearings and more court rulings this week the rest of these people has already sparked worldwide criticism with people in more than forty countries taking to the streets to express their solidarity to protest against this decision over russia's court these people were arrested in september when they arrived to russia's northern pick shura c. close to put as long now offshore all drilling in the arctic it's owned by russia's energy giant gazprom and it tried to organize a protest against drilling in this area and course the investigation still continues and still to be. clarified exactly what happened and how it

should be classified but of course it is a very controversial case. and some more news from around the globe this hour at least fourteen people have been killed after the italian island of sardinia was hit by severe storms and heavy flooding according to local officials a number of others are missing after rivers by the banks flooded homes and brought down bridges hundreds of people across the island have been evacuated from that how . large demonstrations are expected in the egyptian capital to mount the second anniversary of mass protests against the military which send a violent and saw the loss of forty two lives security forces are now on high alert across cairo supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood are also planning to demonstrate. i know it's almost time for breaking the sad way today are the not and looks at

american exceptionalism but from a very different angle to the establishment that's next here on out. dramas the truth being the worst. story others you know. since it's changed the world right. to pictures. from a. lot. done. in the future. this is going to show about a technology keeping the moscow metro rolling. rolling in. ways in the oil industry

and the dream team of robots go places too dangerous for humans. to snooze in innovations here and technology on. the future. philippa torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two so my number two cities of russia. really run fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a living torch relay. on r t v dot com. panic in the sea of christine is panic in the seats of the is

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are in all the pageantry it was the dire state of american veterans today to see just days after the holiday a shocking new report revealed that almost one million servicemen and women have been injured in iraq and afghanistan that's right one million women soldiers have visited v.a. hospitals and. the start of these wars compare that to the vietnam war despite the draft the number of wounded warriors totaled just over three hundred thousand and one million might sound extreme what's more disturbing is that it may even be more you see as of march the department of veterans affairs actually stopped publishing their statistics on injured veterans why or according to report by international business times the v.a. cited reasons of bashful security so on top of the already and adequate health care for vets now are being censored from the eye opening up to six of the true reality of the war on terror not being able to see the truth prevents us from understanding why there's been such an exponential growth.