officials agree upon the wording of a security pact which will give us troops left in afghanistan after the twenty fourteen pullout immunity from local prosecution however a council of elders in kabul still has to be convinced. the united states government subsidizing. the taliban. the haqqani network those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers look at the allegations the u.s. has handed millions of dollars to companies linked to terrorism in afghanistan. also as the british government warns christians are a threat of extinction in some middle eastern countries to syria to investigate the impact of sectarian violence there. and the e.u. joins the race to dominate the skies with unmanned drones of its own sparking fears

of fresh unaccountable attacks from above. this hour's top world headlines live from moscow this is r.t. with me rule received from everybody here today thanks for joining us america has allegedly given a worth more than one hundred fifty million dollars to companies in afghanistan that are suspected of links with terrorist organizations the revelations come from an investigator who was specially appointed by the u.s. congress. picks up the story. the u.s. special inspector general for ganesan reconstruction found out that the pentagon has hired forty three companies with suspected ties to terrorist networks the data come from the pentagon's own classified investigative reports and commerce

department list of terror connected companies now the list of these forty three companies including a road construction firm presumably owned by a leader of the colony network the network was blamed for an attack on the u.s. embassy in kabul that killed sixteen people two years ago the u.s. army has carried out a classified investigation and said there was evidence of a direct role of both the company and its owners quote in the facilitation and operation of the hakani network and that approximately. from one to two million dollars per month close to the network to finance its activities the inspector general said i've seen the information quote and it made my hair stand on and he said well not just his united states government subsidizing. the taliban al qaeda the haqqani network those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers from these spec to general members of congress have heard about billions

of dollars simply wasted in of ghana's that now they have evidence suggesting that u.s. taxpayer money goes to finance terrorists or suspected terrorists the same networks that the u.s. is fighting despite these findings the pentagon has resisted permanently blocking the companies from getting more u.s. contracts because his lawyers say they cannot use the evidence against these companies because the evidence is classified especially specter general for afghanistan reconstruction pointed out what he called the absurdity of it he said we can probably attack them via drone on monday and will issue them a contract on tuesday in washington i'm going to check on our team. and i washington has moved one step closer to securing immunity from prosecution. for soldiers who remain in afghanistan beyond two thousand and fourteen but the secretary of state the american one john kerry he says the text of a security agreement has now been settled on it ultimately clears the way for

thousands of american troops to stay on the ground and remain under u.s. legal jurisdiction today the document is being considered by eight three thousand member council of afghan elders who have come to kabul from all corners of the nation now the size of the remaining american contingent is also a sticking point that needs to be agreed upon doubled sultanzoy as a candidate in the upcoming afghan presidential election he says the current government has not considered the will of the people i think the afghan president is trying to use this as a personal game the people of afghanistan. and all others who are involved in this country we're tired of or we're tired of bickering and we're also tired of. being playing politics with the lives of people of afghanistan on one hand the president wants to portray himself as a patriot on the other hand he's not able to even take care of corruption

a rule of bringing rule of law and good governance that's what the people are suffering from he's trying to distract the people of afghanistan from what he hasn't been able to do to for this country and legal immunity for american troops in afghanistan has long been an obstacle in relations between the two countries the issue is made even more sensitive by some serious allegations against u.s. special forces. interviewed one journalist who investigated claims of alleged mass murder which have been denied by washington officials. the special forces team the green beret as they're called was deployed to an isolated valley west of kabul where the taliban and other insurgent groups have a very heavy presence and what happened was over last winter the locals are complaining that the special forces team and their translators were murdering people torturing them abducting them and disappearing them just extraordinary allegations that at the time were essentially unproven after the special forces

team was forced out of the area by the afghan government bodies started showing up outside the base bodies that they said were the bodies of ten men who had been seen rounded up by the americans and then were not able to be found either by the red cross or by the afghan government afterward so essentially investigated these allegations assembled a student body of testimony from locals from officials. to learn about two confidential u.n. and red cross investigations that corroborate the allegations that suggested that the special forces and their translators were indeed responsible for these men's fate potential war crime allegations that they prove to be correct has there been any accountability for what happened to matthew well the military says that it opened a criminal investigation so they declined to comment for the story save the queen all the speeches ongoing but in the five months that i spent reporting the story no single one of the witnesses that i spoke to had ever been contacted by a u.s. military investigator so it really does beg the question of whether these. years

are actually going to be able to establish any sort of accountability for what happened there still to come for you but. that of dealing with the dead of the ever rising cost of living in the united kingdom results in soaring posts in all debt with millions of families unable to find enough money to pay for the. western officials are alarmed at the plight of christians in the middle east. well there are increasingly becoming targets of sectarian violence britain's faith minister says the region is now seeing an extra dose of biblical proportions with christians under threat of becoming extinct in some countries full of silly it takes up the story. for many christians in the middle east the arab spring has been wintry at best the international society for human rights says that born out of the every five acts of religious discrimination in the world today are perpetrated and

carried out against christians nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the middle east and north africa if you look at syria for example with ten the state of the total population is christian a third of them have already fled from the civil war that started two years ago and that number continues to grow off to the murder of father best in years nasa last june two thousand and twelve the threats and the persecution of christians escalated so much so that many today say the night me facing the questions of syria is the same night me that the questions everyone has been living under since the invasion in two thousand and three the soul of a homo i believe it is all systematic and planned foreseen christians to leave in iraq for instance less than two hundred thousand christians remain we do have concerns we do hope we can stick to our land syria which is the cradle of christianity we also hope that the pope and heads of christian

denominations shall call for denouncing violence and adopting dialogue in all this to this year the christian town of mahmoudiya outside of damascus was attacked by rebels tens of soldiers were killed and many residents fled it's still not clear how many of them have not returned to the village and where in syria they have been displaced only i visited the town of homes where syrian soldiers took me to the frontline and showed me the damage the rebels had carried out against a local church one hundred this is the church unfortunately it was not like that before look at this destruction in mass and from here the explosions were coming down on people praying of course people started crying out for help from us because the. priest was right here and they were captured here in the church elsewhere in egypt to the muslim brotherhood supporters have blamed christians for the army's all star of the president mohamed morsy more than eight hundred christian sites

were attacked and some fifty two churches razed to the ground one in iraq after the american invasion back in two thousand and three home for the iraqi christian population lifting for other middle eastern countries an american think tank the pew forum says that christians faced harassment and oppression in one hundred and fifty nine countries this is maybe three quarters of all the countries on the face of the point to see on t.v. television. covered your lot from moscow as america's unmanned drones are notorious for the deadly operations and flashpoints all around the world and now the european union also wants a slice of the sky leaving each have signed a deal to co-produce their own drone technology but the plans of spot fresh fears among activists who say they still lacks overall accountability peter all of his story. well the group has been dubbed drone club and their intention is to develop

a new generation of unmanned aircraft over the next ten years now the reason that they're doing it this is that they believe they're being left behind when it comes to drone technology by countries like the united states and israel and currently both britain and france do operate drones they use the american bill to report drone interesting lee enough though germany has said that they are opposed to the use of any kind of weaponized drones and the european defense agency has being quick to point out the known weaponized uses for drone technology however the use of drones particularly by the united states in countries like pakistan and yemen and the widespread civilian casualties that are being caused well that's left drone technology as a very emotive issue and here in germany the war activists on topic about the decision to develop them here for a very concerned i think that's the very nice phrasing that they've tried to say

that says for to control human trafficking over that mediterranean airspace and so forth for surveillance purposes i don't see them necessarily helping migrants coming from africa from lampedusa didn't help to save any of those people so there is no control about these things they can say is being used for humanitarian purposes but actually they could be used for lethal purposes well this comes after a recent u.n. report that was somewhat damning of drone technology in fact referred to them as being a danger to global security and that by using these type of weapons it encouraged more nations to try and acquire them correspondent peter all of our. today's edition of breaking the set abby martin debating the potential ramifications of a global buildup of drones. now the cold war is technically over looks like a new kind of arms race is alive and well so european leaders have just announced

they're forming a drone club decision that been decades in the making and france germany and several other nations are pouring money into a new generation of armed drones to rival those used by the u.s. and israel looks like all of america's unmanned kills are leading to a bad case of drone and b. but it's not just europe that has set its sights on these deadly robots for the last few years iraq one has been working on its own drone fleet this week the islamic republic on the veil that's the largest armed unmanned aerial vehicles to date capable of striking targets almost anywhere in the middle east in fact you avi's are so popular now seventy six countries possess them according to government accountability office one can only hope now world leaders are taking into account the alarming inefficiency and deadly outcome of these drone wars because if they don't will find out the true danger of a global drone race. or

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the pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. thanks for joining us here on our tickets today people in britain a bearing themselves and loans and credit to meet the high cost of living the level of personal debt in the country is now close to an all time high and as aussies laura smith reports millions of families now risk losing their homes as they struggle just to make ends meet. heroine london's main shopping dried christmas has already begun with all the exhausting spending that entails but

millions of households across britain will be entering the festive season already saddled with unmanageable debts a new report says personal debt has hit one point four trillion pounds as the rising cost of living forces people to borrow to make ends meet debts they ultimately wouldn't be able to repay that one point four trillion is an average of fifty four thousand pounds per household that's almost double what it was ten years ago and almost as much as the country's entire economic out that figure includes mortgages secured debts but the report warns that owns secured debt has also tripled in the last twenty years britain's fifty five point six billion pounds on their credit card treble what it was fifteen years ago all that says the report has a how doing a fact on people and their relationships so i start change that chart he sees about

half a million people a year in that room so relationships can really kind of pressure pressure on their family lives and on the stigma associated with that just makes it really hard for people to deal with their problems and they're about to feel the pinch even more despite historically low interest rates britons have failed to pay off as much debt as their american counterparts and when interest rates rises the bank of england has promised they will as unemployment fulls mortgage payments will go up to potentially putting thousands of families out onto the street. now a diplomatic spot involving over two thirds of all nations a group of one hundred thirty three countries have made. un conference on climate change right in the middle of the session on the details on that right now on our web site. and while you there check out this story as well as apple is plunged into

a legal battle off the trying to register the brand name in russia setting one of the country's oldest political parties details again on the web site. right to see. first rate. and i think your. orders. eleven twenty am here in moscow let's shift gears to geneva now it's where it's day two of talks on iran's nuclear program all sides are expressing confidence that a breakthrough is possible it's off to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu flew right here to moscow in a last ditch effort to get russia's president to toughen the terms of the proposed

deal by the agreement being discussed would reportedly create a six month diplomatic window if it's iran before a final pact can be negotiated during this time the country must freeze parts of its atomic program in return for limited relief from sanctions but israel things that deal will just buy time for terrorism to make a bomb and is threatening a military strike against the islamic republic anyway we talked to one israeli journalist who believes that netanyahu is efforts to prevent the agreement will not work. of all indications at deal is in the making of course it could always fall through if one of the players insists on some minor point but the general direction is thoughts and agreement towards. reconciliation and many in the israeli public think it's a very good development contrary to what. would make it

appear here at r.t. you will of course be keeping you updated on the second day of talks in geneva but if you want to learn more about the negotiations with iran just head over to watty dot com. now in the program fracking is offering governments around the world access to potentially vast amounts of energy resources so they're largely ignoring widespread protests over the method which involves breaking up rocket at least one kilometer below the ground surface opponents say there could be grave environmental consequences warning the use of explosives and chemicals contaminate water supplies and pollute the ground on the air as well san francisco based climate campaign director rose bratz she believes the fracking industry is wasting its time in pushing this new technology. fracking has been associated with air pollution water contamination water depletion earthquakes and of course climate

change you know across the u.s. and internationally these threats are just being quieted by oil and gas companies reaching often confidential settlements with people who are desperate to get some compensation for the damages they've suffered oil and gas companies have spent billions of dollars. really selling as you know a story about how fracking is safe and their reality is quite different. for pakistan opening up the world update to our official say a suspected american drone strike in the northwest has killed six police say the unmanned aircraft fired at least three rockets at an islamic seminary killing teachers and students burning the bodies beyond recognition to afghan militants were reportedly also among the dead pakistanis publicly against cia drone operations in the recent independent estimates suggesting up to nine hundred

civilians have been killed since two thousand and eight. hundreds of protesters in italy threw smoke bombs at police who responded with tear gas and brute force scuffles broke out on a square in central rome a people had gathered to protest against the high speed rail link between italy and france the opponents of the project argue it's a waste of money and would hurt the environment at the rally was timed to coincide with a meeting between the italian prime minister and french president who arrived in rome to discuss the plan. a series of deadly bombings across baghdad has targeted crowded areas most of them in shia neighborhoods we have reports of thirty five people killed and dozens wounded unrest is spiraling in iraq with this year already becoming the deadliest since two thousand and eight now the total number of lives claimed by violence in the country since two thousand and three is now estimated at about one hundred twenty thousand with four thousand suicide bombers

having carried out attacks on police posts schools mosques and busy streets as well john white a journalist who has covered the issue extensively he says the iraqi government at the end of the day is just unable to control the radicals that have been pouring into the country for years. the antiwar movement in europe and the united states predicted that this is to say see what would happen if you actually knew key went into iraq as they did in two thousand feet so this is a case of the chickens coming home to roost but you can't the entire region is in complete chaos because of this regional conflict and there's difficult for security forces in iraq and syria to keep a lid on these things that's why it's important that the west who is pressure on the position. to stop fighting and to come to the devotion table but to isolate these sunni fundamentalists they have no place in the future of the region

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welcome to the kaiser report i-max kaiser the bitcoin barbarians are at the gate nipping at the feet they can manage going to all dollar reservist's something that bread and circus pushing political clown tyrants mocking the corrupt regulators and party officials who hate any payment system which they can chop up like a lot of cook like a credit card and despise any currency through which they can snort that line of coke yes the big calling barbarians are here and the bar arrests relic loving hordes are letting them through the gates because all the great. cities are are a lever is obama is a friggin schmuck. stacey stacey stacey yes the empire scrambling and it's lashing

out and people are sick of it people are sick of being taxed to death they're sick of being spied on they're sick of being stolen from by caesar who's desperate and hungry and greedy that he's losing his power he's an old man and he's lashing out at everybody and bitcoin is rising dramatically as people find a way to live outside of that system but we're going to start with that crumbling empire of cesar's tweet from james mcintosh he says cia is building data base from western union and others on money transfer all over the world no privacy left yet there's a direct correlation between the stunning revelations and all of the ongoing machinations of the police state and the rise of bitcoin and as you point out for similar reasons back in the roman era you had the barbarians who did not really conquer they were let in by the presence they were tired of what was happening in

rome people around the world are tired of the n.s.a. the cia the g.c. h.q. in the u.k. they're letting big coin happen they want it to happen because they want to put they want to euthanize these bankers and they want to euthanize a system of bitcoin is the euthanizing agent and ironically you know as we've covered before the n.s.a. is doing the spying mostly for corporate espionage and you can see this because every new revelation it's always either they're spying on some major corporation or some major leader there you never catch them spying on osama bin ladin or his family or some other fake you know terrorist so let's look at the consequences of this and i say spying crushes us tech companies and emerging markets quote an industry phenomenon says cisco's chambers so this is wolf richter and he's looking at some of these statements about their dramatic declines from like the light.