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joining us here and. straight into your top headlines for now britain has dish the help feed the poor despite half a million citizens including children. positions criticize the government for gossiping with pride and ignoring the problem. the story. just a stone's throw from the seat of government in westminster is something that's becoming a more and more common sight in the u.k. this building's used as a food bank handing out emergency supplies to families so poor they can't afford to eat as the cost of living rises the number of people turning to food banks increases with its funding tighter all the time but nevertheless the government has

turned down a potential pounds in funding for food aid why because the money comes from the european union very britain we've caught i government with a very anti european ideology appears to be more keen to. warn europe to get credit for something than to get money which can how fate hungry people are if you are starving you need some food and you cry to die and this government's refusal to cry in the carriage is literally taking food out to the merits of the hungry the european aid for the most deprived fund amounts to two and a half billion pounds but the position britain's taken means the country will receive just two point nine million and instead of using the food aid as intended it's expected the government will spend it on helping unemployed people find work

all well and good to say critics but there are people who need survival basics now and this money is meant for them my colleague polly boyko has been to meet one of the unlucky many. we've. got to go. to somebody else. well to say please can you help me and need some food i'm just sick on top of diabetes he has a heart condition and emphysema is part of the benefits shake up andrew's disability living allowance was taken away because the government deemed him fit to work living on his partner's wage alone has pushed their budget over the brink over the past eighteen months they've had to turn to their local food bank six times stereotype of who goes hungry is changing rising inflation and energy prices coupled with stagnant wages means that incomes in many working households kaante

even cover the essentials this is the food bank that andrew had to turn to after he told his local doctor that he couldn't afford to eat now it says here that hunger isn't just a third world problem and the figures confirm it this year between the months of april and december half a million people had to turn to food banks for emergency supplies that's almost double the figure from last year this winter the british red cross started collecting food aid to help the u.k.'s hungry for the first time since the second world war as a humanitarian organization we were more or more concerned about people suffering from food poverty with and also says that we were seeing more and more people presenting with issues around food and not enough to eat we have made cuts too deep to farm and they are now having very very serious social consequences but at the moment things show every side of continuing to get worse not getting better in time

we get a tour of andrew's local food bank we see volunteers delivering bags as well as clients turning up for emergency supplies when asked not to film the customers because of their distressing circumstances there is a sense that if feels like he's starting to. act. off the war situation where there is a big divide coming in. i have more on those that don't have much less on average three new food banks open every week in the u.k. the number of people turning to them is heading towards a million you found yourself in this situation way begging for food when there's no need to any where surviving still. for some of the amount of food banks used to serve a tiny minority there is now one in every area the mainstream and for many of those

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you claim in america you get enough your comments to do should show that you know there's live. my scars throughout the day here on our two years a national finale the human rights groups are sounding the alarm over emerging reports of secret prisons in syria controlled by radical islamist groups of civilians including children are said to have been tortured and executed in such facilities most of them for so-called crimes against islam these are the mists in syria have been gaining a foothold among the opposition ranks overshadowing the moderate groups and with the nation plunging deeper into turmoil washington's dealings with the rebels are only worsening the situation it's guy nature can explains washington says it's willing to negotiate with the so-called islamic front hundred syrians just days

after the front kick the western backed supreme military council lot of their headquarters and seized their warehouses to do we can engage these on the front of course because they're not i think needed and you haven't you yet the. for and includes groups that are demanding a hardline shari'a state could be a strategic mistake if the us administration or europe or their allies would be engaging in a partnership and the partnership meaning they would be collaborating with organizations that are the hobbies and have not committed to become moderates or recognize the fact that if they come to power or part of power they will recognize human rights that did not happen while washington is reevaluating whom to support in the fight against assad's own kaiden the groups have made significant gains in the north of syria where they've pushed out other rebel forces in the name of allah the gracious and merciful. when you're firing rockets it's allah who fires and with

these strikes the rani a drop in the ocean the lines of these lawmakers state are fulfilling their old from iraq to lebannon is islamist forces are better trained and better armed some of them got their training fighting against the u.s. in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. when the u.s. was arming the anti soviet mujahideen in those days some got their experience and their arms fighting against the u.s. in iraq much more recently washington says islamic front that it is willing to negotiate with does not include designated terrorist groups like job at all and the so-called islamic state of iraq and live on but on the ground in syria there are so many different groups that the labels could be relevant residents of the town of audra near damascus can't name the exact rebel group that executed over eighty civilians there including children earlier this week. do you also supported the syrian opposition on the premise that washington would be able to discern different shades of extremists they would figure out which ones are less extreme but even the

report that there was no battle over the warehouses between the islamic front and the western backed supreme military council is one indicator of how blurred those lines are and how flawed. that one can distinguish with certainty between those groups in washington. and while the anti assad forces may be united in their goal to topple the president there is little unity within the movement itself and that's particularly as extremist groups came more and more power and then turn the moderates just last week the secretary commander of the free syrian army was executed by radicals and it's not the first such clash inside the opposition as internal strife reaches critical that. now syria has become a beacon for extremists all across the world volunteers even from the most secular countries of europe coming to fight alongside this you hardest of course this is raised e.u.

officials especially as these islamists will have to come home at some point. or all of our reports. the number of europeans heading to syria to fight in the country's going civil war is currently topping me e.u. counter terrorism agenda speaking at a meeting of security officials in brussels the belgian interior minister said as many as two thousand citizens may be involved in the conflict his french counterpart saying well those numbers on the increase statement reiterate spine dings by the international center for the study of radicalization there are a group based out of king's college in london they suggest that since april of this year the number of europeans going to syria to fight they have increased three fold the findings suggest that up to eleven thousand foreign is as many as seventy different countries may have taken part in the conflict at some point eighteen

percent of those coming from western europe the majority of that eighty percent from britain and from france but also a contingent from right here in germany in fact in the german states of the interior minister has been proposing a nationwide campaign to try and tackle radical i say shit this is after a study that found that jihadist recruiters were using universities to try and recruit potential fight says this is all adding to the reason why why the issue of europeans heading to syria to fight is topping. the counterterrorism agenda because well the leaders of european countries don't know what will happen when these people return home and will they return home radicalized as potential home grown terrorists. and as the power of the radical islamists continues to rise will the west finally admit that perhaps bashar al assad is the best candidate to

prevent syria from turning into a center of jihad a report say there are clear signals to consider fun the for. story right on. for now on r.t. international more than a thousand journalists are ready to grill the russian president on policies and decisions that mark this year that it may put into hold is a traditional annual news conference in just a few hours we'll be bringing you the event live here on r.t. international but for now we're going to push going off with a preview these conferences have become a tradition the president has been holding them for quite a while at the end of each year and also another thing which we've gotten used to is the extended length of last year's conference was around four and a half hours long it's not expected that the president will cut journalists short this year either an hour or more on the hottest topics that we're expecting is the upcoming amnesty in russia which should affect up to twenty five thousand people ukraine with the latest developments there the association agreement with the e.u.

and deal on the fifteen billion dollars loan which was given to cuba by moscow just recently also diplomatic breakthroughs wake the one with the syrian chemical arms deal and the iranian nuclear program of course relations with the u.s. and many other topics since over thirteen hundred journalists have registered for the silver events we truly are expecting a great variety of issues to be totally on usually not all questions are serious either some of them the rules give the president an opportunity to show his human side and this conference is set to take place just a few in a few hours in moscow i'll be there as well and we'll bring you all the details of course throughout the day even if it's going to right there you can watch of let me put in john you will news conference live here on r.t. international and that r.t. dot com it's a new moscow time that's three am in new york. as far as the concern here on the program still lots more to come your way on the international including the three

headed ukrainian opposition take a close look at the helm of the protest in the ukrainian capital similar political ambitions but quite different in their agendas. because all the spying brazil walks out on a huge american fighter jet deal with growing fear of the n.s.a. surveillance. as the country's president. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

in. the street are still. strategic. cover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about. more american they encounter fear. and pressure. blocks the way to information freedom. a busy day for news here on r.t. international let's go straight into a four year and the e.u. says ukraine's recent deals with russia will help to stabilize key cash strapped

economy and will not be an obstacle in the way to the country's possible european integration but that view is obviously not shared by ukraine's opposition leaders who slammed the multi-billion dollar agreement and even used it to further insight protests in the capital and while they may sound in tune on kiev's independence square as high chance this unity will dissolve as soon as the rallies are over seas alexey had a chef ski reports. he used to deliver hammer punches in the boxing ring and now he's given up his world champions belt to succeed in politics but old habits die hard but don't if you score likes to use boxing language even in his politics his party's name is the ukrainian democratic alliance for reforms which abbreviates to the ward which translates as a punch. i call out victory in

a courtroom battle i make in my personal opponent. hearing the status of a living sports legend in ukraine klitschko made a rapid rise in politics with his party making it into parliament last year previously known as a politician of relatively mild views he raised many eyebrows when she merely provoked a major brawl by directing the ngo fired up protestors at security offices during a rally. ukraine cannot be controlled like one controls the situation in the boxing ring the chaos is too big in the country now i like klitschko but you can't use force to change ukraine another card in the opposition back because i've seen needs a new x. foreign minister relatively young but experienced in politics he took the reins of former prime minister yulia timoshenko sparty when she was put in prison you. new cars been vocally advocating her release. in order to release the.

current bill to. the sec the government uses the band to accommodate the president's ability though not everyone is buying it should tymoshenko walk free his days at the summit of ukraine's politics will be numbered there are even some judge it is real conviction. because released with two shankill and you shan't go there was always that changing it was always that simmering undercount which frequently exploded into iraq into a messy move there between the two sides with us and yet this very little prospect that would be any debts in fact is every or at least would he be worse and last but not least i looked at a new book the leader of the nationalists were the movement gays migrants jews and particularly russians have been in his crosshairs all along. he wants to surrender us ukrainians to servitude to eternal slavery under moscow. new book supports your integration for ukraine but many say his values are incompatible with the european

ones the western powers faint well anything will work if the if we can work with them together and elements and you radicals are ok i think it's a dangerous game i think it is basically represents interference into ukraine's affairs the european union is actually prepared to raise the stakes so cry in a european country on the fringes and basically risking a sort of a civil war in this riding the tide of you know my down and the troika of ukraine's opposition looks like a solid unit but appearances can be deceptive when the storm settles and the twenty fifteen presidential election draws closer the lack of a clear opposition front runner could play into gonna call which is hands and these three men would hardly miss a chance to grab at each other's throats to be their one alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from key if in ukraine. and over on our website for you right now what. europe gets nuked in a promotion for china is moon rove. that's almost

a mushroom cloud there is pictured hovering of eastern europe. dot com you can learn what exactly is behind that story. i'm curious to know who is one of the largest shareholders you might be surprised to know it's none other than the f b i those details also online right now on. the scene. first street. and i think that you're. all right thanks for sharing some of your thursday with us here on oxy

international brazil has snubbed the american plane making giant boeing after years of negotiations over the supply of fighter jets now it's believed the news of washington's spying on the country's president ruined a multi-billion dollar contract for the chicago based company those billions will now go to sweden's sob one count affairs editor says american companies are simply losing competitiveness because of the n.s.a.'s ongoing spy scandals. once this these revelations came to the floor they damage the reputations of american companies the fact that the n.s.a. has been pushing back doors and to date is into the data systems of a lot of american firms means that those american firms can't be trusted either by domestic customers or certainly by overseas customers companies are going to continue to lean on the government to push back because they're losing customers they're losing money losing the edge to companies based overseas and that's why one of the recommendations that they're supposed to hit the president's desk is that

the n.s.a. stop doing this stop pushing the. data corruption systems because they're damaging american competitiveness by doing so. and that's got some of the international headlines for you start with egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi now facing charges of treason espionage and sponsoring terrorism all of it has already ongoing trial for inciting violence officials allege morsy collaborated with iran and militant groups such as hezbollah to trying to stabilize the country following coups if convicted he faces the death penalty and now new charges have also been brought despite almost daily protests by morsy supporters that often result in violence. hard to roam thousands of rally dead to voice their discontent with the country's economic policies people also called for parliamentary reforms and demand at the government steps down italy's witnessed

a spate of protests over the weekend with some of them and begin scuffles detentions with protesters and police. and is ready troop of shot dead a palestinian man during a counterterrorism operation in a west bank refugee camp eight others reportedly wounded the israeli army opened fire often being attacked by crowds throwing explosive devices at soldiers and about one hundred palestinians were involved. before we get to i mean martin for now and india is see thing a new warning over a prize ols over the arrest of one of its top diplomats in the united states devyani khobragade was strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts she was detained for allegedly incorrectly filling in her house papers immigration papers and underpaying her as well a professor of strategic studies abroad. believes there's certainly some underlying hypocrisy in the rest. the diploma to know was actually humiliated she was strip

searched and hunted and hand cuffed and this was you know this is this this was unusual incident and there has been a priority of anger in india and the means have retaliated against the american diplomats in new delhi by would drawing some of the villages but in moving the security about it it's ramadan the u.s. embassy in new delhi and warning go further actions against u.s. diplomats based in india this is the kind of hypocrisy that we see in the united states that they apply a one stand for their own diplomats who opposed to go overseas and apply different standards of foreign diplomats who up based in the united states the outrage at india has been such that a lot of members a bottom and a demanding action this appropriate action by in other words the asking quote of presence i will get you more of the world's top headlines in about half an hour's time next though i'm stepping aside from angry abby it's abby martin breaking the

set just a moment here with oxy international. the parliament of yemen has put forward a motion to ban drone attacks in the country the motion is now awaiting approval by the president and it's probably impossible to enforce unless they could build a really big net or something isn't it strange that now after years of drone strikes in their country the parliament just wakes up to the fact their systems are getting blown up from the sky to be fair yemen doesn't have a ton of cash and i could see how having the well equipped and funded u.s. military to take care of the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really in tyson i mean it must be scary to be a politician with lots of power hungry terrorists about this would be the first time in history that a stronger foreign power fought a weaker states battles for them. but the problem is that according to the

huffington post a former u.s. state department official in yemen says that every year drone attacks create eight from forty to sixty new terrorists why they create terrorists because according to the human rights watch seventy percent of the people killed by drones in yemen are civilians you know if the yemeni government is really free from washington's grasp and really wants to deal with their al qaeda problem they'll have better luck doing it themselves with the good old rifles and bayonets pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion. any force because the car business eastern related to man for his cars by offering his workers increased wages in cash but now in america the idea is to increase demand by offering workers access to more debt more credit which is a slippery slope into hell because that debt of course comes in interest payments and the interest on america's debt is not greater than or approaching america's g.d.p. as it is in japan so the global interest in the global debt is approaching the

global g.d.p. and you enter into this slippery vortex of credit to collateralized hell where no amount of revenue our taxes will ever pay the debt which is exactly what the plantation owner is what we all be living on the field that. you did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy but. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across silicon we've been hijacked handful of friends national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm trying mark it on this show we were. you know the big picture of what's actually

going on in the world we go beyond identifying. rational debate real discussion political issues things that are there but still ready to join the movement then welcome the third. the. how do you folks i'm out here martin this is breaking the sidewalk to activists in oklahoma are facing serious charges after staging a sparkly demonstration against oil company divine energy for its use of fracking as part of a demonstration the two men on a veiled a pair of glittery banners and apparently the war on terror has turned into a war on arts and crafts because local police promptly arrested the two men and charged them with staging a terrorism a hoax as laughable as the charges the punishment for

a terrorism hoax in oklahoma is no laughing matter carries a prison sentence of up to ten years these bogus charges is only distracting from the real issue the devastating effects fracking has on the humans and the environment just this week a new journal i'm sorry a new study from the journal and open ology found the link between the chemicals used in fracking and infertility birth defects and cancer but instead of worrying about these explosive revelations on fracking the government seems more concerned about the letter bombs and let's break this that. it was. very hard to take. one ever had sex with her but there.