golden right. from the multi-million dollar deal with ukraine to add a snowden's temporary asylum in russia vladimir putin has been answering some of the most pressing questions of his annual news conference for three hours you know we're bringing you the highlights. from the u.k. government is accused of placing pride and ideology before its people one of the country refuses helping hand from the heat to feed the poor and needy a. lot of. executions are secret delves deeper into the sick terror and violence moves that washington is attends to make friends with the broncos groups that have risen to power there with all its.

international news life in moscow you're watching all chained to a national with me your national problem and welcome to the problem. surveillance is necessary to combat terrorism but needs to be moral and governmental limitations to these practices that's how the russian president commented on the n.s.a. snooping and edward snowden's revelations but i didn't appear to know he's holding his traditional annual news conference at the moment being grilled on some of this year's most pressing topics and. it's falling fashion for us and joins us now live hi there you are so take us through some of the main points of what we've heard so far. all the president's been talking for nearly three hours now and

thirteen hundred journalists are taking part in this event and we did take the liberty of picking some of the more interesting subjects one of the questions that the president was asked was about edward snowden the former n.s.a. contractor or start a virtual documents on u.s. surveillance programs across the world he did receive temporary asylum in russia and his exact whereabouts are still unknown due to security reasons and according to the president never met personally but it doesn't i admire him as a character in things that snowden did make a major impact on the world and on the global political elite the president also commented on his relations with president obama on the tactics used by u.s. security services. because. we all know after snowden's leaks i know america was shocked to learn her telephone had been wiretapped enough of them stated if. she's absolutely fine so don't worry what are russia's relations like with the u.s. after the leaks. so you want to know how i regard mr snowden's

leaks i feel jealous i feel jealous because he can do such things and get off scot free still there's nothing to be happy about but on the other hand there's no reason to be frustrated however tough the criticism against the u.s. may be all these measures have always been aimed at tackling terrorism. however there must be some clear rules and certain agreements including that. but another issue touched upon so far was ukraine the country did have it quite rough in the past few weeks with mass protests taking place both in favor of and against moving closer to the e.u. moscow is giving kiev a fifteen billion dollar loan and according to the president this is being done primarily to help ukraine solve another problem significant economic difficulties. and you've got yes you might rush is agreement with ukraine has nothing to do with

the protests in independence square or the negotiations between ukraine and the e.u. we just see that ukraine is in dire straits and we need to support it when we have such an opportunity and we seize it with the decision we have made in these conditions was first of all grounded on offer eternal relations with ukraine which was not john in the interests of the current authorities not in the interests of the ukrainian people and secondly we were guided by rational concerns we do realize ukraine is experiencing difficulties with paying its way so why would an actual key part yes but it might be about the upcoming should affect up to twenty five thousand people in russia was also discussed and while the president did confirm that it should affect members of the pussy riot punk band and the same goes for the so-called arctic thirty the group of mean peace activists were arrested in russia and north and are being charged with hooliganism mr putin said that he admires

everyone who works to protect the environment but he doesn't agree with the tactics used by this specific organization i mean i don't want. their ship or dented our exclusive economic zone and they didn't just want to scale the platform when our border guards attempted to stop them their second by started ramming is that a civil discussion about the protection of the environment is just. or an attempt at blackmailing or racketeering someone's order to disturb the work on our development resources with what has happened i should say is a lesson. along with greenpeace in joint positive work not to make a fuss but to minimize environmental risks. of course these are only a few subjects touched upon at the conference so far we don't exactly know how long it's going to last because that's decided by the president himself i will of course continue listening in to find out if mr putin will be able to meet his personal

record of four hours and forty minutes back in two thousand and eight now absolutely thank you very much for that of course we're watching it closely thanks for that top date and just mentioned led to my opinion is still on storing the journalists questions that and you can watch the q. and a marfan live on our website it sounds he dot com. britain has ditched the e.u.'s how to feed the poor despite huff and million citizens including children turning to charities this year to stave off hunger the opposition's criticize the government for gossiping with pride and ignoring the problem laura smith now reports. 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 twenty two million pounds in funding for food aid why because the money comes from the european union britain we've caught a 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 if you are starving you need some food and you cry to die and this government's refusal to provide the carriage is literally taking food out to the merits of how great 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 that for 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 on. google. i was having to go to somebody else to help me so. i'm just sick on top of diabetes he has a heart condition and emphysema as 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 it's humiliating at first. to go. to

somebody else. to say please can you help me on need some food the 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. of april and december hoff 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 within our services and we were seeing more and more people

presenting with the issues around food and not enough to eat we have made cuts too deep too far 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 and then we get a tour of andrew's local food bank we see volunteers delivering bags as well as clients turning up claim urgency 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 move back to. the off to war situation where there is a big defied coming in those that have. more and those that don't have much less food banks used to serve a tiny minority as now one in every area then mainstream and for many of those struggling to make ends meet and the lifeline left is charity where some are going

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your slave america you know your codes to do should job you know there's live. human rights groups on sounding the alarm over emerging reports of secret prisons and secret control by iran to kill islamist groups civilians including children are said to have been tortured and executed in such facilities most of them for so-called quine's against islam the islamists in syria have been gaining a foothold among the opposition ranks over shattering the mall toward groups with a nation plunging deeper into turmoil washington's dealings with the rebels are only one asserting the situation as again explains. washington says it's willing to negotiate with the so-called islamic front in syria just days after the front kicked the western backed supreme military council out of their headquarters and

seized their warehouses we can engage these on the front of course because they're not designated areas and yet the islamic front includes groups that are demanding a hard line shari'a state could be a strategic mistake if the us administration or europe or their allies would be engaging in a partnership and a partnership meaning they would be collaborating with organizations that are the hardest 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 we valuating whom to support in the fight against assad all qaeda linked 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 them with your hands these strikes are only 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 the islamic front that it is willing to negotiate with does not include designated terrorist groups like job at a loose wire and the so-called islamic state of iraq can 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. the u.s. has supported the syrian opposition on the premise that washington would be able to do 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 west of backed supreme military council is one indicator of how blurred those lines are and how flawed is the assumption that one can distinguish with certainty between those groups in washington i'm going to shake out or to. while the assad forces may be united in their goal to topple the president there is little unity within the movement itself that's particularly as extremist groups gain more and more power and turn on the mic for its last week the secretary commando the free syrian army was executed by radicals and it's not the first such clash within the opposition as internal strife reaches critical levels see where has become a big can for extremists all across the world with volunteers even from the most secular countries of europe coming to fight alongside the journalists this has raised war is among a year officials especially as these as long as so lucky to return home one day is based on of a look at the concerns. the number of europeans heading to syria to fight in the

country's going civil war is currently topping the e.u. counter terrorism agenda speaking at a meeting of security officials in brussels the belgian interior minister said as many as two thousand the citizens may be involved in the conflict his french counterpart saying well those numbers are on the increase statement reiterate findings by the international center for the study of radicalization there 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 increased three fold of the findings suggest that up to eleven thousand foreigners from 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 also

a contingent from right here in germany in fact in the german state 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 counter to 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 homegrown terrorists. on the power with a radical islamist continues to rise while the west at an age that signs the basque under to provide and see where from turning into a sense of the full say there are clear signals to consider seeing the full story

on the line. and as for the sound of called plenty more head for he on our seem to national including the three headed to ukraine. take a closer look at the man at the helm of the months long process in the ukrainian capital is similar in that political ambitions but quite different in that genders and method. and those lying because of the spying brazil walks out on a huge american find a trade deal made grabbing fury at the n.s.a. surveillance bush reached as high as the country's president. largest consumer of the seas and i see it with me in the country is the federal government to simply say the property of the united states government. is the united states' number diligent it was done public has to realize you can't just buy . your own just throw it away there's

a problem for instance belongs to the united states environmental protection agency and i found this on a dump site here this is a computer it's not always low enough producers of these little i have to should be able to pull that at least i believe that vision responsible for their products from cradle to grave. from mexico. mental health proper jail cell to merge trying to cooperate at all but also belongs to the washington metro area transit authority to the properties of a dentist aids pay trend and trademark office. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

you're watching asking to national welcome back the ukrainian president has given assurances that recent deals with russia do not contradict the country's potential european integration and that he's obviously not shared by ukraine's opposition leaders who slammed the multi-billion dollar agreement and he used it to further instigate protests in the capital and while they may sound in china care is independence square there's high chance this unity will dissolve as soon as the run is are over as us has in excess of six play. he used to deliver hammer punches in the boxing ring and now he's given up his world champions bill to succeed in politics but old habits die hard without it which god likes to use boxing language even in his politics who sparky's name is the ukrainian democratic alliance for reforms which abbreviates to the ward which translates as

a punch. i call to the true 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 your sporting making it into parliament last year. as a politician of relatively mild views he raised many eyebrows once you nearly provoked a major brawl by directing the ngo fired up protestors at security officers 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 pack is our senior gets a new axe foreign minister relatively young but experienced in politics he took the reins of forward prime minister yulia timoshenko sparky when she was put in prison it's a new has been vocally advocating her release. in order to release the

prison. guard building. the sec the government the band members it's a bill on the senate though not everyone is buying it should tymoshenko walk free his days at the summit of the greats politics will be numbered there are even some judges real conviction. because released with ten shankill and you shan't go that was always that tension that was always that simmering that undercurrent which frequently exploded into our right intimacy moved there between the two sides with us and yet there's very little prospect that that would be any better in fact is every little would be worse and last but not least i looked at the book the leader of the nationalists of all 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 didn't you book supports your

integration for ukraine but many say his values are incompatible with the european ones the western powers faith well anything will work if that is if we can work with them together and elements and you're radicals are ok i think it's a dangerous game i think and it 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 anger 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 your own accord which is hands and these three men would hardly miss the chance to grab at each other's throats to be their one alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from key if in ukraine and i want our website in europe get sneaks in

a promotion for china's move. by the enormous mushroom cloud was pictured hovering over the eastern europe had to r.t. dot com to learn what's behind the start. i'm curious to know who is one of the largest big client shareholders while you might be surprised to learn it's none other than the n.b.a. but how you move the timeline. brazil has not the american plane making giant boeing of to get its of negotiations over the supply of find the jets it's believed the news a washington spying on the country's president ruined a multi-billion dollar contract called the chicago based company those billions

will now go to sweden sob one current affairs editor says u.s. companies are losing competitiveness because of the n.s.a. spying. once this one of these revelations came to the floor they damage the reputations of american companies the fact that the n.s.a. has been pushing for back doors and to date is into the data systems of a lot of american firms means that there's 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 which back because they're losing customers they're losing money and they're losing the edge to companies based overseas and that 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 compromise. systems because they're damaging american competitiveness by doing so. and i found take a quick break and some other wild news in a very egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi is now facing charges of treason as a panel on sponsoring terrorism i mean he's already on trial for inciting violence

officials alleged mostly collaborated with iran and militant groups including has been a lot to destabilize the country the following july screw if convicted he faces the death penalty new charges have been drawn despite almost daily protests by most of supporters that often result in violence. branded in rome to voice their discontent with the country's economic policies people also called for parliamentary reforms and demanded the government steps down italy's witnessed a spate of protests over the weekend some of them having ended with scuffles with police. and it's really true. a palestinian man during a counterterrorism operation in the jenin refugee camp in the west bank the israeli army opened fire after being at times by crowds throwing explosive devices a show at soldiers and a palestinian reportedly a member of the security forces will shoot dead by i.d.f.

troops who had been trying to arrest him or they suspected street saying of an israeli soldier. and coming up next it's breaking this out with. this as i'm saying to national state of us. the parliament of yemen has put forward a motion to ban drone attacks in the country the motion is now waiting 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 us military to take care of the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really entice and 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.

but with economic downturns in the final months they. sang night in the press because i think the eighty's. every week. how do you folks i'm out here martin this is breaking the sidewall 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's. very hard to take. that back with the terror threat there.