young young. russia's parliament house has an amnesty bill that meaning live jailed members of pussy riot could be freed by a new year and the crew of a greenpeace ship seized in the arctic could have all charges against them dropped . from jail cells in cambodia and sweden to solitary confinement in denmark the founder of the pirate bay website continued his battle against the authorities in a case with powerful or great interest at play. western powers single a rethinking their support for syria's rebel movement apparently acknowledging that the fall of offloaded could lose six three minutes such as those implicated in a recent massacre outside damascus. ukraine's multi-billion dollar deals with russia drawing cries of treason from the most radical opposition leader who accuses

president yet to call which of pawning national assets for attempts to fix the budget. you are an international line from moscow with me and he said now we have breaking news this hour a sweeping out in a sea bell that could pardon tens of thousands of people has passed in russia's parliament not only with the measure give offenders and suspects a clean start but it could also put an end to some of russia's most controversial criminal cases. has been following the bill's passage. it's the twentieth anniversary of russia's constitution and this is a good way to celebrate this amnesty as plans to in fact up to twenty five thousand people including those have already been convicted of crimes those charged and currently under investigation which means members of the parliament which currently

are serving time in jail but there were say that they could be freed before the end of this year so they could get to greet the new years with their families since one of the crimes that they were found guilty of was hooliganism and that does fall under this amnesty also the so-called arctic thirty the group of greenpeace activists who were arrested in the russian north and are charged with hooliganism they were released from jail on bail but should see under this amnesty all charges dropped against them as well and also is expected to affect some of the protesters were arrested during a mass protest rally in moscow on the witness square which ended with a clash is with us however we do know that this draft is not affecting those found guilty of serious crimes because of that of course is very likely to be released from jail sooner than his sentence will and now more of the lower house of parliament has passed that and the amnesty should come into force before the end of

this week. there are killer nor a terrorist but mamma and activists and alleged attacker and yet he's being held in conditions worse than some than those of some mass murderers one of the founders of pirate bay isn't tangled in a complex legal battle accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers artie's peter oliver reports. abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a ghost for its walk home vog seen the inside of jail cells in cambodia sweden and now solitary confinement in denmark is just terrible as this man there to see that he is being treated like in this way like as if he were a terrorist hard criminal or violent criminal or some kind acquitted on computer hacking charges by the appeals court in sweden he now has to wait and see what he'll be charged with in denmark due to the intricacies of danish law there's no

way forgot for it to know how long he'll have to stay in solitary if it was you know a decision or warrant that was made by a judge i was i was able to tell him you know for two weeks and then we we can go and see the judge but now because it's a decision made by the prison service i'm not able to tell him if there is i can't give him any deadline whatever case is brought against got fred for now he spends twenty three hours a day locked in a cell by himself but the thing that upset him most and me as well were said he wasn't and now to have his books in this cell even scandinavia is most notorious mass murderer anders breivik has access to reading material as he serves his sentence in norway for the slaying of seventy seven people those involved in online activism sometimes called hacktivism fear a witch hunt for the treatment of god. shows that the governments are scared on the

act or worse from the door which they've tried to get help to worse for everything they think which might be illegal even if they are revealing crimes support for godfrey it is coming in from all across the world the likes of julian assange the activist collective anonymous of throwing their weight behind the campaign to get better treatment for a man they claim is the. persecuted because of his online activism on twitter using the hash tag an account got for its online alias his supporters flooded the social media site some accusing the danish authorities not knowing what they're doing in the case just see somebody does something online online means birds they really can't control it but they don't really seem to get what they are actually accusing him of for his family his mother is allowed an hour long visit once a week for which she has to make a thirteen hundred kilometer round trip it's immoral i would say and i don't think

the danish people understand what's going on in their prisons. denies the accusations of illegal online activity and the longer he waits for prosecutors to put together their case the more he becomes the face of online activism peter all over r.t. germany rick fogging founder of the three days pirate party thinks the danish authorities are acting independently in this case we can observe that throughout this entire ordeal starting with the raid against the pirate bay on may thirty first twenty six a number of rights violations some more egregious than others have been committed and it's very hard to escape the feeling that governments are seeking to make an example out of god for it's far too rogue known as on a carter just to be scare others that might challenge the status quo

and be frankly please the united states which kind of disgusts me to be honest i would certainly agree that he is a victim but somebody is to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood. well the pressure first started to mount against pirate bay back in two thousand and six when the file sharing website got on the wrong side of hollywood it was taken down for several days when swedish police raided its headquarters as the government to find it it was time to take action three years later the founders of pirate bay were charged and eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations so our home lost his appeal and was arrested in cambodia last year then extradited to sweden but finally ended up in denmark as a suspect in a separate case. this eerie and president is the lesser of two evils

that seems to be the message from western powers to the rebels at the latest so-called friends of syria meeting where the apparent u. turn was prompted by the rise of al qaida and other extremist groups there which may gain the upper hand if bashar assad's government falls in the latest incident dozens of innocent people were reportedly killed and tortured when radicals raided the town of outside damascus r.t. arabic brings us this report. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town of daraa they saw panicked disoriented people running for their lives and they ran themselves they will never forget the despair in the eyes of those who were forced to stay behind we have no reliable way to communicate with the people trapped inside address but officials are saying the atrocities against the civilian population are continuing our people are being butchered and even burned alive and every bit of news coming out of the town is doing a new blow to those whose families are still being held by the militants everyone

working for the local authorities was to be killed regardless of their religion organon an asian they were all taken to be killed they took everyone even those who supported neither the government nor the rebels they were all either tortured killed or used as human shields the things being done in a drawer unthinkable they're slaughtering children and throwing them out of windows and no one's doing anything about it the syrian authorities say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address sadat taqiyya and many other areas which remain under the control of the armed opposition that the situation in syria has now deteriorated to the point that international norms of combat are no longer being observed. he's an industrial town with a lot of these residents working both in the private sector and for government agencies horrifying crime a sort of being committed in this town houses were set on fire with people trapped inside and. the syrian army which is

a position just outside the town continues to carry out surgical strikes as part of their effort deliberate address which is now the only hope of the families waiting for news of their loved ones inside the town. r.t. . as soon as reports of the massacre started to appear are to you got in touch with some prominent human rights groups to get details are clear has more on what they told us the fact is that syria is so deep in crisis that the international community is essentially unable to do anything it cannot even verify various mixed and partial reports that are coming from the war zone and this is what we see happening currently with the reports that we are receiving from both address and aleppo what we are being told is that in aleppo the military launched an air strike on where both held positions according to local activists at least one hundred people have been killed including some twenty eight children now the chaos in the

country has led to the rise of extremist militant groups among the rebels and it is now essentially the extremists who are leading the way among the anti aside ranks now many both inside syria and the international community have been sounding the alarm bells from the beginning that this is what will happen but only now are others particularly in the international community starting to see what is going on in the ground. but despite concerns over who is joining the rebel forces washington says it may open up talks with the newly formed islamic front which includes some of the more radical elements of the opposition later today crosstalk debates what these people are up to and whether forging ties with them is a wise move. some a lot of these people are fighting against assad and they might be religious but they're fighting against assad because they want freedom for the country and the and assad is a dictator so they do says not a democratic country and he's a dictator let's not pretend the round are they interested in democracy i've

mentioned this before here they're not interested in democracy at all so they're actually very much you know everybody in. the country together that's the that's what russia has been supporting the sovereign country they're killing christians they're killing druze they're killing alawite it's they're killing. you know disagreeable sunni's who are they now are killing is the question so i think the idea that they would form a stable government let alone a. secular one is insane. the trade deals that ukraine struck during recent talks in moscow may bring some breast bite to the country's economy but not to the anti-government protesters in

kiev even though the issue that troubles them most a possible customs union with russia was not touched upon at the meeting my colleague josh we discussed the deal and there are likely impact with artie's venture capital host katie pilbeam the end of the day came down to a practical economic decision ukraine simply can't afford the e.u. did and at the moment russia gave a ferry it's time to talk about that then so we've got the buy. and this which are fifteen billion in total added to that is the gas discounts as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just that the problem at the moment is that their forms are dwindling and that's a real problem because at the moment borrowing costs are really escalating and that's where the risk of defaulting on your debt comes in and it was thought that they accepted the e.u. deal or not this deal that russia has now put on the table they may have defaulted

in less than six months which is quite telling you asked about the e.u. deal so this unique approach we know he famously called it a humiliating and said it was a sum of six hundred ten million euro as it were also as in order to receive that money they would also have to enforce harsh spending cuts also gas increases is while. at the end of the day it was an economic decision basically i mean people would be bearing the brunt of it all in case the e.u. . struck with you which could mean if you think about it lead to more protests in the future and that was a concern as well but there are still going on. people are not happy at all but i can tell you that investors are happy to provide in fact is short they're going to be getting three billion in three days now the point is the e.u. deal would have had long term benefits no one's arguing that but what we are saying is the ukraine economy could have defaulted in getting there. the economic benefits

the agreements with moscow have been branded as treason by one of the most outspoken protesters and here the head of the nationalist party is for border so as president you know corbridge of the country's assets to win concessions from russia or to the works there so if you takes a closer look at who's leading the opposition movement in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine z u s gratian is was not enough to persuade one of the country's opposition leaders and the activity book dropped shoulders with the german foreign minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerville is openly gay and elected me books parties border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear at tackling gay parades the most we want to build a country based on harmony and social justice issues were being dragged into homosexuals values by the western states and we will not allow them but homosexuals and people of different races are clearly not books biggest foes. any treaty with

russia is not worth the paper it was signed oh. dear he looks forward cannot make up the core of the protest movement but there are clearly it's loudest voices and it's actions as well as words and assault of the city hall and scuffles around it ten days ago they toppled the lenin statue in kiev and event described as the fall of the tyrant by the guards and reckless vandalism by many others this is a crack in the pavement where the toppled lenin monument literally lost its head and if walk around the pedestal of what used to be the monument to the former soviet leader we can see some graffiti over here first one here says yellow card which you're next and the one at the bottom says glory to the insurgent army of the 1940's in ukraine which some in this country believe to be freedom fighters who fought for independence while many others described as nazi collaborators on top of that and no militant field commanders believe were spotted at my done a man who fought as

a mercenary in creation and south of said in all cases against the russians. until the end of my days i will kill russians jews that communists british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine and over the you were twenty twelve football championship you went undercover into their training camp these are people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and i watched while they followed live weapons and the presence of such people among the protesting crowd seems to cause no concern among european officials walking on the same square. which is rather extraordinary isn't it to see somebody that the united states has banned from entering the country on the same platform senator mccain to see somebody who's been by and by that i say francis mistake statements for denying the holocaust who supporters actually in the streets of kiev still do make anti-semitic as well as anti russian. gestures and slogans it does signify that the west

and politicians are quite happy to use nationalist forces when it suits them that lack of reaction is particularly bewildering given many european statements about ukraine's right wing factions in the past and the burning over ukrainian football ground for not slogans in the stance so if you create does make it into the e.u. some day it will be interesting to see how people with such different values sit at the same negotiating table. let's see reporting from key of ukraine. washington's appetite for surveillance has gone too far according to the bosses of america's tech giants or google apple are ready to really rather rooting for change or just desperate to appease angry customers they're more in just a few minutes. although nuclear fallout secret tests carried out in the one nine hundred sixty s. are coming back to haunt the u.k.

as the six service men say their plight is being ignored by the government. and the british prime minister held the u.k.'s afghanistan mission as a success even as violent attacks continue an opium farming country. what defines a country so. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

deliberate torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others made. a living torch relay. m r t v dot com. welcome back to our to international live from moscow mission accomplished that's how british prime minister described the work of his country's troops during a trip to afghanistan a year before they're taken out of the country those comments have been ridiculed by critics who point to continuous terror attacks drug cultivation and human rights

abuses iraq war veteran michael prysner says the phrase hides a decade of pointless conflict. mission accomplished was used by cameron because you know politicians don't really say hey you know that wildly unpopular war is that we sent you and your children to die and whose legs for over a decade well we messed up and it was all of which they're not going to say mission accomplished by camera needs that we died for years in a colonial exercise that was a total blood soaked disaster due to the arrogance of rich politician who thought they could dominate the land and resources of poor people in afghanistan using the blood of working class people from the united states and from the u.k. for chairman to assert that there has been so called progress against the insurgency there is an absolute fantasy and yet another indication that cameron's victory speech was premature a taliban attack on a nato base in eastern afghanistan has left three insurgents and one afghan

policeman dead it's the second such attack on the base which is a vital checkpoint on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. and the bosses of the world's top tech firms have descended on the white house urging president obama to rein in washington's global surveillance program google yahoo apple and many others have suffered severe reputational damage since it emerged they were all in one way or another complicit in the n.s.a. spying but former cia officer ray mcgovern thinks this is just a p.r. stunt. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money out of it and sorry for their their establishment and then a permitting the united states government to get trapdoors behind it they're losing business that's the name of the game for them and so yes they'd like to have a sensible rules to make it easier for them to do business particularly overseas

but it's long since time for them to speak out about violations of the fourth amendment. and say aims to make all individual privacy a thing of the past at least that's what the journalist who first revealed edward snowden leaks thanks at r.t. dot com we've got the full details of his address to e.u. inquiry on the matter in which he accuses politicians of refusing to budge until they themselves are affected. and oklahoma environmental activists face up to a decade behind bars for a protest after police mistake the glitter on their banner for a chemical weapon and accuse them of a terrorist hopes. also online on the international space station supply trips are put on hold until the astronauts go out and fix the recently fried coolant system that story and much more at our team dot com. they did their duty and were repaid it with sickness servicemen with the royal air force were tasked with

carrying out nuclear tests in south australia at the height of the cold war as artie's tests are silly reports calls for the u.k. government to compensate them are getting louder. jeff lydia was seventeen when he joined the royal air force and was eventually posted to mary lincoln south australia nuclear tests were carried out there in the fifty's with some publicity but minor trials reportedly continued in secrecy until the my nine hundred sixty s. run through being. we knew every or for every fortnight aircraft flew in with a nuclear flask. which we unloaded onto a lorry and it was taken away by the scientists we don't know what they were doing with what he turned fifty illnesses he believes were caused by his exposure to radiation that matter linga started manifesting i started off with i had tb i then started having degeneration of my spawn my daughter as gauze pancreatic

condition which can only be of traced back to genetic source so i have the question in my mind. was it many was it because i was there and many others are asking the same questions even before world war two radiation was a hazard the problem is measuring it in a meaningful way very very difficult indeed nevertheless there is undoubtedly i think contrition among the british authorities not to own up to any responsibility these people were experimented on quite honestly i was disgraceful how those soldiers were created and they've long been asking the government for recognition and compensation their service is part of history and war you allies of future generations will not forget but for those who would actually serve the forgetting is not an option especially for those who feel that of the social they've made

decades ago may have cast a shadow on very large eyes and those of their loved ones if you look out of the country's nuclear front is a treaty that veterans and compensate them and recognise them and we stand going to the bottom of the table that is wrong france the united states and even the tiny aisle of men have already done so but the ministry of defense maintains that while there is a quote huge debt of gratitude owed to the veterans the government rejects any link between veterans health problems and their military service citing a two thousand and ten health needs audit overall the range and severity of problems reported was typical of older people in the u.k. in general and a veteran who believes they have suffered ill health service has the right to apply for a no fault compensation jeff knows the clock is ticking and while he's hopeful he has no illusions about how difficult the fight will be at the very least what he

wants is this safe urn to. cost money money to say thank you we're like goes. we don't exist does or sylvia r.t. london. over some other global headlines scuffles have broken out in mexico city between riot police and protesters angered by a dramatic hike in metro to get prices for millions of commuters the subways the only way to get to and from work in one of the world's largest metropolitan city. governments says the fare increases and is needed to stem financial losses and ease overcrowding. fighting has broken down the capital of south sudan leaving up to five hundred people dead and forcing thousands to flee their homes it provokes fears that the world's youngest country could sink back into civil war this comes as ten politicians have been arrested for supporting a failed coup attempt on sunday authorities say they're still hunting for a former deputy prime minister who they accuse of leading the attempt to overthrow

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