the. bombing targets the iranian embassy in beirut. i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. the u.s. drone war on terror is missing its mark with human rights groups reporting mounting civilian travels to a yemeni village to hear firsthand accounts this is all that remains from a u.s. predator drone strike right here in yemen that killed two suspected members of al qaeda but also civilians so 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 a russian called. green peace activists bringing the total of those released to

twelve of them part of a group detained for the. top stories this hour. live from moscow this is a twenty four hours a day up to twenty three people have been killed in powerful blast near the iranian embassy in lebanon capital beirut conflicting reports suggest an iranian cultural attash a is among the victims of the bombings that injured more than one hundred forty lebanese group linked to al qaida has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack the middle east correspondent has the latest. 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 rig's 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 and also in 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 now the iranian embassy building itself was only likely 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 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. well we spoke to political analyst who is in beirut and he told us what he believes were the reasons behind the attacks i don't agree with the iranian ambassador who pointed his finger to the israelis gets through that the israelis are beneficial as by this explosions but who perpetrated by x. are al qaeda linked groups there. is bandar bin sultan 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 on r.t. say cheese to the business by. camera scans my face it recognizes that i'm female and age between thirty and forty five it then sends that information back to advertise. on how facial recognition systems are being deployed to help big companies sell their products to suspected consumers . 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 tehran gave up its program meanwhile russia's president has voiced his optimism that a deal would be reached soon paul scott 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. optimism is shed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov your residual 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 which lever of also went on to say that iran has agreed to two stipulations specified specified by france at those earlier 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. let's take a closer look at the terms of a possible nuclear agreement as paul mentioned in his report international negotiators are demanding iran halt uranium enrichment to the twenty percent level blending down the existing stock to five percent to run and also to limit the

number of centrifuges used and allow broader monitoring of its nuclear facilities world powers would then agree to unfreeze some iranian assets and ease the sanctions currently crippling iran's economy while the former french prime minister dominique de villepin believes international negotiators should seize the moment to seal a deal or face far reaching consequences 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're not going to get the final agreement from scratch on wednesday but we can go in don't process of and i remember with and inter-marry agreement and then we can progress and have a final agreement that would 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 this 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 triage in iran coming from either up ahead of tomorrow's talks r.t. so if you have an answer spoke to iran's deputy foreign minister about how his country's relations with the west have changed after president rouhani came to power for an interview will be shown on friday right here on r.t. here's a preview. it's for their 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 rounds rights and not undermined any 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 it's for the future to tell because i. i i. i. a drone strike in yemen has killed three card as suspects according to local officials the american deadly drone campaign is usually shrouded in secrecy with relatively little information about who the victims of the attacks actually but human rights watch managed to study six strikes and found the majority of those killed in them have been civilians including women and children obviously coming

off travel to a yemeni 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 a charity i didn't know. 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 selenium 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 kabul lawn is far removed from al qaeda operations but without warning it was thrust into the war on terror. salim'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 life can 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. the near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. out to. accept 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 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 we 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 in ca law on in yemen and lucy catherine of.

one you've been watching on t.v. big coins market prices increased by almost fifteen dollars in the last ten minutes to see it be hitting record highs coming off looking to what's putting the wind in its sails and why the u.s. government is so willing to hold. this immediately though so we leave that maybe. by the see push the security for your party there's a good. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from

song politicking only on our t.v. . dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to noticing. faces change the world lights never. the old picture of today's among younger sons from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. the flight recorders recovered from a passenger plane which crashed near khazan have shed some light on the tragedy early indications reveal the autopilot was disengaged just moments before the jet plummeted to the ground and burst into flames the boeing seven three seven aborted

the landing after that the crew requested a second attempt it's believed it's the first time the captain of ever attempted to go around the plane rapidly climbed to a height of seven hundred meters while losing speed the crew then forced the jet into a dive in order to regain that speed but it hit the ground and almost vertical angle and fifty on board died in the crash on sunday evening investigators are still working on decoding the black boxes reports suggest the tape in the cockpit voice recorder was missing while the flight recorder was badly damaged. the virtual currency bit coin continues to reach new highs at one point today its value hit nine hundred dollars which is almost ten times more compared to last year or that later fell back to around seven hundred coins skyrocket rocketing price raise the eyebrows of u.s. lawmakers and prompted a special hearing on capitol hill for saudis kitty pilgrim reports the cryptocurrency success stems in many ways from wide support from within the u.s.

. 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 included in the bit coin as well as working towards tackling the risks that are involved with the task of money laundering and drug smuggling but they did describe it now as a legitimate source of financing which is quite a huge turnout is a change of changes there considering the u.s. has been at the store just to criticize us of the coin 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 big 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 so there's some investments going on we know it's incredibly to multiverse so that it quite and that's because it is accused of illegal activities but at the moment it is

a historical highs because of what the us are saying which as i say is rather ironic with the u.s. congress setting its origin how to clip coins wings result is going to come reports it seems they don't actually know what exactly they're all scared of. from us live foresman officials we heard about all the bad things related to virtual money we heard that cyber criminals love it drug dealers use it terrorists are looking into it child pornography is bought and sold with virtual money to direct the treasury department's financial crimes of course my network even suggested that the stateless currency may have been created to facilitate illegal activity because it bypasses central banks and government regulations here's what the u.s. secret service said. while digital currencies may provide potential benefits they present real risks for the criminal and terrorist organizations trying to conceal their illicit activity and as such digital currencies challenge law enforcement's ability to carry out our responsibilities to enforce the law and suppress criminal

activity the chairman of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee asked what congress can do to help the agency's crackdown on what they described in such dark colors the lion force one official said there are good with the existing laws including the patriot act the language of which is broad enough to allow the agencies to go after the new players in the world of virtual money but they did say they expected the big corners and others providing money exchange services online to report to the u.s. treasury and generally to comply with existing regulations like getting a money transmitter license and so on following the officials testifying in congress where the gentleman from the big question foundation the chairman of the committee senator carper to question them and at the end quote it albert einstein's wife mrs einstein to produce quite brilliant in her own right. if she understood her husband's theory of relativity and she allegedly responded i

understand the words but not the sentences so with regard to virtual currency it is fair to say the us congress understands the words but not sentences which is true for the public in general bitcoin users are not exactly the average consumer for now in washington i'm going to check out. just remind you always put your mind for the moment including the corporations with the wrong ideas when it comes to motivating staff before you go call and find out what thanksgiving campaign scared off customers from one of the biggest u.s. food stores which has also been accused of underpaying at work. plus the alarm over rising pollution in china has apparently not fallen on deaf ears for ages and are saying it's time to sacrifice the country's economic growth which has left many breathless for the sake of better living conditions on our website we've got more details on the nation's new ecological campaign. a total

of twelve greenpeace members have now been released on bail after a court in some petersburg let out nine more activists today a group of thirty campaigners were arrested two months ago in the arctic while trying to board an oil rig. as more russian investigators have applied to courts here in st petersburg to prolong the pretrial detention for roll 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 georgia has already decided to keep in the russia's jail one till february one activist from australia while released on bail to a 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 we'll see definitely more hearings and more court rulings this week be arrest of these people has already sparked worldwide criticism with people in a 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. when they arrived to russia's northern pretoria see. all drilling in the arctic it's owned by russia's energy giant gazprom they tried to organize a protest against drilling in area of course the investigation still continues and . to be. clarified exactly what happened and how it should be classified of course it is a very controversial case. for all to use world start in south africa where one

person has been killed and about fifty are trapped after a roof collapse at a construction site of a south african shopping mall twenty nine people have been taken to hospital with serious to critical injuries the rest are believed to be construction workers remain trapped under the rubble with ambulances on the scene the cause of the collapse remains unknown. voting in a national assembly election in the pool has been disrupted after a bomb blast near a polling station injured several people reportedly went off after an eight year old boy picked up the roadside device thinking it was a toy incident comes after a series of similar attacks in recent days by protesters who say elections cannot be held until a crossed party government is put in place. in haiti thousands strong anti-government march turned violent after crowds hold rocks and fired shots in the air these one person was killed in a rally which was held in protest over the high cost of living and corruption and

greed protesters set barricades of tires a line to call for president martelly to quit and smashed up cars and tore down posters of the leader's face before burning them. one of the world's giant retailers the british supermarket chain tesco is to kick off facial recognition technology to improve its advertising strategy but previous the campaign is already sounding the alarm result 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 age between thirty and forty five and seven is that information back to advertise to collate 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 that'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 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 shopping 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 privacy campaign is worried it could be the tip of the iceberg with technology improving all the time how long before you're being tracked i don't identify why you pay for your groceries. so that brings up that for the moment talked about with the team and just over half an hour from now in the meantime breaking with abby morton looks at american exceptionalism but from a very. different angle. there's 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 are 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.

what's up people all those i'm not even in this is breaking the set all veterans day came and went last week a day full of empty gestures and baseless rhetoric of course the main on address concerns and all the pageantry 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 bashing 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 in wartime injuries and vietnam so if you want the v.a. to explain this trend to them join me and let's break the set.