org really. on. a double bombing targets the reagan embassy in beirut leaving dozens dead and scores eight hundred and the number of victims is expected to grow. and i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. for you as drone war on terror is missing its mark with human rights groups reporting mounting civilian deaths he travels to yemeni of the alleged to hear firsthand accounts that. this is all that remains for us predator 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. real records for

a virtual currency bitcoin peaks at nine hundred dollars after it's named a legitimate financial service at a u.s. senate hearing. hello and welcome to the twenty four hour news line from. our top story now. up to twenty three people have been killed in powerful blast near the iranian embassy in lebanon as capital beirut as a radian cultural attache is among the victims of the bombings that injured more than one hundred forty a lebanese group linked to al qaida has reportedly claimed responsibility for that middle east correspondent point to see isolationist. the blasts happened at nine thirty this morning there were two blasts that were just seconds apart and

according to lebanese security officials the first blast was caused by a suicide bomber and the second was caused by a car bomb explosion came just seconds apart leaving charred bodies strewn about on the ground there also been 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 of arriving you have ambulances that are still at the scene right now as we speak now the iranian embassy building itself was only lightly damaged but the iranian embassy compound has been extensively hit the area is a stronghold of the militant hizbullah group that has strong ties with the syrian president bashar assad and it's some tear 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 as to that compound in the dock here neighborhood in say in south beirut this is happening in a predominantly shiite neighborhood. and there was a political analyst. who's in beirut and he told us would have believed were the reasons behind that. i don't agree with the iranian ambassador who pointed his finger to the israelis it's true that the israelis are beneficiaries by

the explosions but who perpetrated by. our al qaeda linked groups there. is done in saudi arabia the militants or the proxies of first saudi arabia are now it around the cities of holmes and damascus when. syrian army decided to crush the rebellion in this area the saudis. wanted to send a message hysterical very hysterical message to iran still ahead this hour here on r.c. say trees to the business spine. special that scans my face it recognizes that i'm female and aged between thirty and forty five then tell that information back to advertise they. have facial recognition systems are being deployed to help the big companies sell their products to unsuspecting consumers that. talks over iran's

nuclear program are set to resume tomorrow after a round of negotiations earlier this month failed to seal an agreement israel has been staunchly opposed to a deal along with france saying any lifting of sanctions against iran would happen only if its program meanwhile russia's president has voiced his optimism that a deal would be reached soon. now reports. on monday at the initiative of russian president vladimir putin haye 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 are the residual of these 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 and if we let speculation lead us astray we could lose this chance there are many who won't be very upset if the talks collapse once again it's. 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 let's now take a closer look at the terms of a possible nuclear agreement international negotiators are demanding iran holds your aim richmond's to the twenty percent level blending down big six in the existing stock to five percent to iran is also to limit the number of centrifuges used and allow broader monitoring of its nuclear facilities while power has been agreed to unfreeze some iranian assets and ease the sanctions currently crippling iran's economy and to discuss the situation around iran's nuclear talks the former french prime minister dominique de joins us now live from paris this year the plan welcome to r.t. it's fantastic to talk to you again so france is widely accused of blocking a breakthrough during the previous talks most of the case especially bearing in

mind that francis position on iran has always been more or less the same. well that's not the exactly true because i was the one leading the negotiations in two thousand and three and at the time and the presidency we got an agreement with the u.k. with germany and with iran it was the president today rouhani that was the negotiator and then under the presidency of nicolas sarkozy then the position got a little more different and tougher but i believe today what we have to understand all of us is that we have agreed opportunity it's a great opportunity for the region it's a good opportunity for the world community because of the political change in iraq he ran because of president rouhani because of the stronger position of the

moderates and the reformers in this country so i believe that everything should be done to get through and this week this breakthrough is possible there are some remain questions are on the table the first one is the question of the plant of iraq the second one is the question of the question of the right to enrichment of uranium and it's a difficult question and it has to be in phase of the n.p.t. of the nine hundred seventy the signing of the n.p.t. and the search question is what should we do with the stockpile of uranium enriched uranium which today iran has in great quantity approximately one hundred eighty kilos of human rich to twenty percent but on these different questions we have technical answers so now what we have to look for is the wording of the text and i believe that we are very close with the different

countries the the five plus one the five country of the security council. in germany and you run we are very close to an agreement the question is how much are we ready to take the risk to sign the agreement and i think to assess the importance of this agreement we must understand that it is a process of course we are not going to get the final agreement from scratch on wednesday but we can go in the process of and agreement with an interim area agreement and then we can progress and have a final agreement that will be better so i think it's a chance and we should take it it is the interest of the region because this will have strong consequences on the situation in syria on the situation in lebanon on the peace process so this may change completely the dynamic of the region for good

on the contrary if we don't sign the agreement if we don't take all the chances to sign this agreement we may have the strong consequences and we may face is strike in iran coming from israel sure and of course it's a combined effort of all the participants but talking about previous talks again they view as has adopted a more positive approach here compared to previous negotiations and i say want to make of the idea that france is playing out a good cop bad cop scenario with the us and real decision makers are still the us and israel here. well france has a strong legitimacy in this discussion because france for many years has been involved since the start in the negotiation with iran french diplomacy knows where you run a nose world the question of proliferation second france of course has a temptation to take advantage of the withdrawal of the us in the region france has

a very good relationship with sealed eurabia with the conservative monarchies of the gulf and of course today a strong position with israel but this should help france to take the risk of going forward and to finalize an agreement we have the technical capacities we have the technical knowledge and i believe that you learned today is ready to do a big step forward so we have really to put thresher in order to sign this agreement we should not let this opportunity pass because we know that the consequences for the region will be worth than everything it might be a signal for war in the region which of course nobody wants and many are accusing paris of siding with israel how big of a role does israel playing or dead. well of course israel has a strong concern about its security and we are of course in

a position of willing to guarantee the security of israel so i believe that israel of course has legitimate concerns about its security but i believe that signing an agreement with iran will give to israel a lot more guarantees that not signing today we have technical answers there is a willingness of their international atomic agency to control the situation in iran so i believe we have done such a word in order to answer the legitimate concern of israel that we should be able to sign an agreement of course there is a lot of people in israel that still don't want to change anything because iran is the auld enemy and israel wants to have to keep the situation as it is but i believe that for everybody if we want to solve the problem of the region whether

it's syria whether it's situation libyan and we've seen this horrible terrorist attack in lebanon whether we want to go forward for the peace process we need to go forward and we need to reintegrate iran in the original community so of course it's a big challenge or false everything will be different if this agreement is signed but it is the common interest of the whole region. of course we're all awaiting for a breakthrough tomorrow all right france is the former prime minister dominique de villepin thank you very much indeed for your time and for sharing your perspective where there's so average it thank you. and ahead of tomorrow's talks aussies say fiction of a nazi spoke to iran's deputy foreign minister about how his country's relations with the west have changed after president rouhani came to power that full interview will be shown on friday right here on out. it's

a dialogue has been established in different spheres including a bilateral dialogue with the u.s. on the sidelines of the p five plus one in regards to our nuclear program and you atmosphere has been established but we believe that some forces in the us and in the west in general are applying efforts to destroy these new relations instead of using them iran is always showing readiness to cooperate with the u.s. and the west to embrace any of their positive approaches as long as the runs rights are not undermined and the agreement on an equal basis could attract iran's attention we believe washington now has this chance to negotiate with iran but as to how they will use this opportunity is for the future to tell. america's deadly drone campaign in yemen is shrouded in secrecy with relatively

little information about the victims of that time but human rights activists say the majority of those killed during the campaign have been civilians at least twenty at least of fifty seven people including women and children in this account and i've traveled to yemen a village devastated by the u.s. war on terror. 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 the 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 of the the final to be the father of three was killed by a u.s. 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 and 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 saline inside the car the rest was outside but 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. can't 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 must there. the near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. out. 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 kills 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 at 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 expression of the at some point when i can slug enough powerful enough to be able to inflict serious damage the u.s. war on terror has no borders often waved 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 income on in yemen and lucy catherine of. lawmakers in washington assessing the science on how to rein in the base coin that's wild but the current safe place in aleppo coming up after a short break we'll look into what's pushing the wind at its sails and why the u.s. government is so willing to pull them down to the brink. this immediately goes so we leave the baby. by the sea potions to cure. all your

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hello again this is aussies good to have you were a bit slow to move on now the virtual currency bitcoin continues to hit new highs its value hit nine hundred dollars today almost ten times more compared to last year this has raised the eyebrows of u.s. lawmakers and prompted a special year of capitol hill many believe bitcoin skyrocketing value stems from wide support from within the us as are his case of people being ripple 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 of it quite as well as working towards tackling the risks that are involved with the 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 u.s. has been at the store just to criticize out of 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 u.s. dollars you'd be looking at three hundred eighty seven thousand today let's go back a year if you invested a thousand you'd be looking at seventy six thousand just over that there's some investments going on we know it's incredibly to mulch we're so the big white and that's because it is accused of illegal activities but at the moment it is a historical highs because of what the u.s. does say which as i say is rather ironic. the flight recorders recovered from a passenger plane which crash landed near it have shed some light on to the tragedy early indications that reveal the autopilot was disengaged just moments before the jet plummeted to the ground and a bust into flames the boeing seven three seven aborted of the first landing after the crew requested a second attempt it's believed is the first time the cops and had ever attempted

a go around after rapidly climbing to a height of seven hundred meters the plane stalled and nose dived into the runway at a speed of more than four hundred and fifty kilometers per hour or fifty onboard died in the crash on sunday evening investigators are still working on decoding the black boxes reports suggested the cockpit voice recorder appeared to be blank while the flight recorder was badly damaged. right now it's time for law she was wild update police have used tear gas on demonstrators on the highway of square in cairo as that european capital marks its second anniversary of deadly and to military approach that clashes broke out one of group opposed to military rule charged into the square confronting a group of pro ana protesters who were all built on the square for the commemoration or sprayed it was read graffiti denouncing by the government and there was a brother. watching

a national assembly election in nepal has been disrupted after a bomb blast near a polish station injured several people it reportedly went off after an eighty year old boy picked up the road sign devise thinking it was a toy the incident comes after a series of similar toxin recent days by protesters who say elections cannot be held until across party government is britain plays. in haiti at thousand strong anti-government march turned violent after qualls held walks and fired shots in there at least one person was killed in the rally which was held a protest over the high cost of living and corruption protesters sent barricades of tires and light and call for president mostly to quit they also smash up cars and tore down posters of the leaders face for all but. one of the world's jund retailers the british supermarket chain tesco is typical facial recognition technology to improve its advertising strategy but privacy

campaigners are already sounding the alarm as all she is laura smith explains. so say it's thursday morning i will kid 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 says that information back to advertises who collects it 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 realizing that comparing something to a film about the negative effects of having technology and media everywhere is a bad thing but tesco to friends the practice saying it's not new technology and isn't capable of facial recognition we're always looking to work with partners who provide innovative ways to enhance the customer experience the ability to tailor content based on time and location means it can be extremely useful and timely for all customers all in the name of advertising customers permission would 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 as i did to why you pay for your groceries. and coming up next new orleans and its rampant gun

epidemic stand. there is now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness what a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and that they were able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four

hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a tiny tiny drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of many americans but that's just my opinion.