i'm. a double bombing targets the iranian embassy in beirut. and the school. 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 deaths travels to a yemeni village to hear firsthand accounts. this is all that remains from a u.s. predator drone strike right here in that respect of members of al qaeda but also. 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 court grants to nine more greenpeace activists bringing the total of

those released to twelve of them part of a group detained for their attempt to break our top story. live from our studio this is 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 attache 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 on middle east correspondent paula slim has the latest. 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 levanon has said that he believes that israel is behind these blasts in the same comments are being made by the syrian information minister. spoke to show me no wonder she's a senior associate at sometimes these college at oxford university and she explained to me what could be the motives for carrying out this in turkey. the brigades an offshoot of it's named after a founder. it professes to be behind backing the syrian revolution and these things all pull together and the region that is heavily focused on syria and now iran hezbollah off course being an ally of these two and the iranian embassy attack i think we have to look at in light of what's going on the region if i love an arms an easy target it just simply doesn't have the wrong national army that is

defending its borders it's a vulnerable state it's obviously a lot easier to move around than iran would be these are attempts to strike at a vulnerable proxy. or ally of iran and syria still ahead this hour and say cheese to the business spies. special camera that scans my space it recognizes that i'm female and aged between thirty and forty thought i then sense that information back to. learn how official recognition systems are being deployed to help big companies sell their products to suspect consumers. that's still a couple first talks over iran's nuclear program are set to resume this wednesday after a round of negotiations earlier this month failed to seal an agreement israel has been staunchly opposed to a deal along with from saying any lifting of sanctions against iran would happen only if gave up its program meanwhile russia's president has voiced his optimism

that a deal would be reached soon or to pull 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 say 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 shared 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 iranian enrichment to the twenty percent level

blending down the existing stock to five percent to run is also to limit the number of centrifuges used and allow broader monitoring of its nuclear facilities world powers would then agree to unfreeze some of iran some of iranian assets and is the sanctions currently crippling iran's economy while the former french prime minister dominique de ville power 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 into a process of an agreement 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 the smith changed 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 and ahead of these 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 that full interview will be shown on friday right here on r.t. here's a quick preview. 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 a new 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 and he agreements 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. a drone strike in yemen has killed three al-qaeda 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 are 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 have enough 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 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 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 changed the c.b. 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. 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. if they 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 be near. certainly but 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 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 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 effects that may have contributed to the growth and expansion of the. 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 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 income on in yemen and lucy catherine of. no makers in washington the setting the sights on how to rein in bitcoin the digital currency has been hitting record highs coming up after a short break we'll look into what's putting the wind in its sales and why the u.s. government is so willing to hold them down. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct your. gears don't want to meet. you don't want to. blow the time but came be. just me

so i was there i was right in the hood. i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young. the virtual currency big coin continues to reach new highs at one point over the last twenty four hours its value hit nine hundred dollars which is almost ten times more compared to last year with it later fell back to around seven hundred coins

skyrocketing price raise the eyebrows of u.s. lawmakers and prompted a special hearing on capitol hill but as 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 they spoken about the fact that we see benefits in digital currency is included in the coin 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 change 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 i just want to let you know that if you had invested in the big two years ago if you did vested 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 and seventy six thousand just over the 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. are saying which as i say is rather ironic with the u.s. congress to get some reaction how to clip a big coins wings azhar to is going to can report it seems they don't actually know exactly what they are scared of from us lying forstmann officials we heard about all the bad things related to virtual money we heard cyber criminals love it drug dealers use it terrorists are looking into it child pornography is bought and sold with virtual money to director of the treasury department's financial crimes of horsemen that were given suggested that the stateless currency may have been created to facilitate illegal activity because it bypasses central banks and government. but 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 lie of 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 quorum foundation the chairman of the

committee senator carper questioned them and at the end quote it albert einstein's wife mrs einstein who approach 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 users are not exactly the average consumer for now in washington i'm going to check out. the flight recorders recovered from a passenger plane which crashed near 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 had ever attempted

a go. and 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 at an almost vertical angle all fifty on board died in the crash on sunday evening investigators are still working on decoding the black boxes reports suggest the tape from the cockpit voice recorder was missing while the flight recorder was badly damaged just remind you always plenty on line for the moment including the corporations with the wrong ideas when it comes to motivating staff and what it all calm 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 its workers. the alarm about rising pollution in china has apparently not fallen on deaf ears authorities are now saying it's time to sacrifice the country's sweeping economic growth which left many breathless for the sake of better living conditions on our website we got more details on the nation's new ecological campaign.

to see. first. and i think you're. going to. be. a total of twelve greenpeace members have now been released on bail after a court in some petersburg let out nine activists on cheese day and group of thirty campaign is were arrested two months ago in the arctic or tried to board and oil rig. has more. russian investigators have applied to court 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 judges already decided to keep the russians 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 you will see definitely more hearings and more court rulings this week there are so 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 pretoria sea.

close to put as long now offshore all drilling in the arctic it's owned by russia's energy giant gazprom and they tried to organize a protest against drilling in this area and course the investigations to continues and still to be. clarified exactly what happened and how it should be classified but of course it is a very controversial case. time now for all to use world update one person has been killed and about fifty people are trapped after a roof collapse of 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 because of the collapse remains unknown. in haiti of thousands strong antigovernment march turned violent after crowds for old rocks and far shots of me at least one person

was killed in a rally which was held in protest over the high cost of living and corruption and with protestors that barricades of tires are lightly called for president martelly to quit and also smashed up cars and tore down posters of the leaders face before burning them. one of the world's giant retailers the producer market chain tesco is to kick off facial recognition technology to improve its advertising strategy previously campaigns are already sounding the alarm as. explains. so say it's thursday morning i will come 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 who collates it is 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 report seemingly not realizing 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 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 previously 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. more news with me in the team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime we take a closer look at the rampant at the demi can new orleans.

since the start of the arab spring there have been hopes of change and the creation of a better future sadly this is not been the case would be a bomb to democracy by nato is breaking up and on the verge of a civil war it would appear the only winners are the forces backing instability. they face.

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