this is why you should care only on the algae dog gob. breaking news r.t. international with me political reporter look ahead for germany after being released from prison after president putin signs of pardon on what he called a humanitarian principles also. here that the people don't deserve access to knowledge because people cannot deal with. r.t. international speaks to a wiki leaks associate and co-producer of a movie which shows just how hard it can be for whistleblowers to get the truth in print. and syria's embattled crowds take their ambitions for autonomy to a new level demanding a seat at next month's international peace talks in switzerland.

this is o.c. international coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program after a decade of incarceration we have heard of course case three his lawyer says russia's most high profile prisoner has a lot of jail some reports suggest he's now on his way to germany and get the latest from. petra zawacki in northwestern russia where hard of course ski served hi there you go so we're doing our this point. well we know now for sure that because a lot of osceola left the president's premises this has been confirmed by the service and by his lawyer but we don't know where he went this is the major mystery right now interfax news agency quotes the same p.l.l.

service saying that of course he boarded a helicopter and then took off to germany but at the same time the staff of the airport here in because i was where we are now around two hundred kilometers away from that prison basically they have information that he took off also on one of the helicopter but to seem petersburg none of this information has been confirmed by neither his mother nor his press secretary but concerning the helicopter the emergencies ministry said that they did send a chopper to this area but not for mistook it of course people to evacuate injured soldiers so we're getting really mixed contradictory information right now but what we know for sure is that could of course the release came as a surprise completely to everyone including his lawyers and his family. he loved him but i can't talk to him because he doesn't have you know what i am in moscow right now and i don't know anything except for speaks out on the radio first

of if you haven't accepted what has happened yet has been too much for me since yesterday i'm still feeling lost and confused i guess i still can't believe it. so where did our course in germany is in thing peter's book is the here let's find out what people in germany think about this whole situation. yes i hope you can hear me well the latest that we're getting here in berlin is from the reuters news agency reporting. quoting a girl in a police official who has said that yes he is heading here to berlin now that's just come to me in the and the last few moments we're also hearing reports that his his family his mother and others are heading here will be heading here they'll be coming tomorrow on saturday they'll be taking off from moscow to come if

that's the latest the very latest that's just come through now open till this moment because of course he had been leading journalists on a a merry dance to find out where exactly he was going to be going it does seem that now is germany and right here to berlin it always seems like the most realistic option because his his mother has been being treated for cancer right here in the the german capital also chancellor angela merkel being quite vocal after the the announcement was made that president vladimir putin would be giving a pardon to specie said it was something that she'd followed for quite a while and that she was glad that was happening also another e.u. leader the president of the e.u. parliament martin schulz had said that it was progress and a positive step the pardoning of because now we know for a fact from the prison service of russia that upon his release he applied for

a travel document a russian passport that he will be traveling on towards germany as we now hear however it's unknown exactly what his visa status will be so we'll have to see what will happen when he eventually arrives in. germany what will what its legal status will be in the country so what i can tell you first is from the police officials here in berlin they say because it's heading right here and this is the latest assays a piece on of as well as going off thank you very much to you both for those updates and of course how correspondents and russia as well as in germany are following the latest developments in the release saga thank you. and it's no exaggeration to say that president putin's announcement that holder called ski would be pardoned came as a huge surprise and he saw now it takes on it. he may well be one of the most well known prisoners in the world but the idea of a pardon for former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky was unexpected to say the

least a four hour q. and a and not one question about for the record ski and then this if you don't know who the coastie recently wrote a petition asking me to pardon him because he spent more than ten years in prison this is a serious punishment he saw as humanitarian reasons saying his mother is sick i believe taking jew account of all the circumstances it's possible to take a respective decision and in the near future i will sign a decree to pardon him the former c.e.o. and founder of the oil company yukos built a fortune that made him russia's richest man after the collapse of the soviet union snapping up state assets at a bargain price in often dubious circumstances other kafka's fall from grace began in october two thousand and three when he was arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion he and his business partner plot told never to have were found guilty in two thousand and five and handed eight year sentences four years later fresh

charges were brought against the two men and in twenty ten both were convicted of money laundering and embezzling two hundred eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion u.s. dollars. holder called skis here by sentenced to fourteen years in prison. word of his pardon and imminent freedom came as something of a surprise for all sides including apparently his lawyers debates are raging over whether this is a pay our start a smart move but most intriguingly about what's next for mikhail khodorkovsky and he's now a r.t. moscow. and mark armond is an oxford university historian and joins me now live to talk more about. mr armand welcome to our t.v. always good to talk to you. russia recently claimed some foreign policy big trees with these as well as iran's nuclear talks as much it appears in probably seeking to cement these even more by letting it go or do you think what us is really

silly. well it may well be a way of putting a dampener on the and to russian campaign which goes on in the west media and so over human rights that if you let out a very wealthy only go if you release the riot greenpeace. as well as quite a large number. of criminals this will defuse some of the ongoing campaign and people who. symbols all. over the west and rights groups and it's very striking when this holocaust he's campaigning on very quiet in the last six months he's had a very me to say well hunted and very active campaign going on all of us ten years and so i feel as often is the case when you know the children are quiet you see what they're up to equally when suddenly a public relations campaign which is so well will also perhaps you can some kind of deal was being made that in a sense holocaust you say hi no longer going to be problematic. to the government

the government can then say well we have acted in a humane reasonable way we draw the sting movies educations to attack in russia try and have the muslims in trouble the same sultry winter olympics. we're getting reports that we have what are called ski has allegedly flown to germany anyway since the him today said one of the ironies of all western policy is of course that it will be contradictory over many issues but for instance british and german governments are constantly complaining that countries like switzerland the wealthy people to hide their money in accounts not to pay full tax yet when people order money out for instance russia and other countries into british banks hold their own banks into an upright but we seem to be rather complacent about that so there's a double standard here and so i suspect for find that in the years up to have even after two thousand and three quite large amounts will miss her of course the slow

weekly or quiet has been safe. he deposited income trees in banks in places like germany and britain also cause as we've heard his mother has had treatment for her with one of the actors in the president's decision in germany so that also is a reason obviously absynth growth germany well pace and get credit for this in the west so far we haven't set been hearing much from that. you know i think the problem for president putin is as when he managed to mediate a resolution to the syrian chemical weapons issue which didn't military intervention number but also life michel this would be considered a very beneficial development not least because british or american forces might take much action but there is a sort of. western. intellectual activists if you like who feel that they were fourteen for the goose is false is so they over the ukraine so i think there will

be people in human rights and she will be rather disappointed ironically that they've been demanding the release of prisoners who they have or traitors little profiles of them may well be basic criminal allegations against him too they will be rather disappointed by this what they will have to do that now i suppose is to try to find some other symbols for the provinces going to agree if he's not in russia if he's not in prison the right on this not in prison maybe also who. then of course it's much more difficult to educate if you're saying you're looking at and you can prison doors at least they're saying here are people locked up in some really good i think inside area where all sorts of less the urge this is about russian and soviet prison conditions comes to mind and people imagine you know the terrible suffering going on star and malcolm and i thank you very much indeed for sharing your insight with that's where it thank you. and i will be bringing you

more news and perspective on. the release there on the day to day here on our c. and at how website dot com. not all argued basically for the abolition of these kinds of agencies to interfere in the internal affairs of foreign nations i think it's counterproductive i think we create more enemies than we do friends when we involve ourselves in these so-called color coded revolutions many of them have been overturned since the united states with some brochures engaged in them i would say if the common turn has been shut down then they ought to shut down some of these agencies in the united states.

and again this is international while combined despite the vigorous a time so whistleblowers to expose the wrongdoings of governments it's often quite difficult for them to find media outlets willing to publicize the truth. a recent movie bonded by wiki leaks highlights the struggle also he's going to conference spoke to one of the film's co-producers for us.

it's been described as a wiki leaks or road movie following the journey of a group of wiki leaks associates across central asia searching for media outlets to help publish secret diplomatic cables with making me do. something which which i would like to call an acid test and our us interest was one of the u.s. state department cables where you give these cables to certain. publications and see how they react to it most of the publications have difficulties in responding to and publishing secrets that had to do with the united states with empire in our world johannes wall strong helped direct the movie although a feature film wasn't the original plan initial goal was to actually distribute this material that bradley manning allegedly makes to work in weeks and in that attempt to get the material out to the public and people will realize that there

were. some interesting things happening in the way that the media were actually reacting to it the team traveled through central asian republics from kazakhstan to us occupied afghanistan all in an effort to partner with local news outlets to redact and then publish relevant cables. social group report diversion resign your bills you were to give more. but. most of the other. question is to. get it done in but with. another thing traditional in case after case editors would initially show interest and then back off. in the dark but no. not. to me it was surprising. not as much based on the idea that these countries are bastions of free press and.

but i was more surprised about the honesty. in their limitations and was surprised that many of the of the editors and journalists that we met. in the central asian republics they would would actually explain that there are certain things we can publish in certain places we can actually see where fear of. having your funds got down or something else does actually physically influence your ability and in reporting on. what you know in this particular test the material is american. but it's hard to tell to what extent it's a question of fear particularly from the united states or if it's a fear from the local regime a censorship of sorts that johan is believes exists within the western world as well the idea that censorship is something that exists in. third world countries and speak but not in the enlightened west that idea i think has.

been very challenged by work the main point which which we're trying to make isn't that you know there's somebody which is more censored than somebody else the main point is that there is there's a certain degree of censorship everywhere and what would you say is the biggest obstacle to freedom of speech and freedom of information these days it's the biggest obstacle to to freedom. of speech is the obstacle which isn't in our minds it is the the idea that the people don't deserve access to knowledge because people cannot deal with it and that idea in my opinion is there is not just to stick it is. it's incredibly insulting but in making a film about the boundaries of press freedom johana says he discovered a world that's moving away from old boundaries one of the most amazing things which

has happened with them. with these releases and particularly if we speak about the n.s.a. documents. is that the censorship that we had just a few years ago has become irrelevant. moving forward through the day on r c and of course you can watch it online right now at how web site. a number of european countries are what's known as passive partners of the united states spy program helping america monitor the globe that's according to a fresh batch of leaks provided by edward snowden denmark the netherlands spain and germany are among the states named they were paul's contradicts earlier revelations which suggests that germany was a subject of surveillance not a massive part of the program under justin rather a former advisor to the u.s. justice department says the n.s.a. scandal has caused a rift among america's allies the n.s.a.

has spread its reach into so many other countries including our nation which is completely unnecessary destroy its diplomacy disrupt economic relationships with other countries all for the purpose of gathering and storing a bunch of doubt are on innocent people all over the world who are suspected of doing absolutely nothing and i think we see these reverberations it's not just among the five countries some of whom have been colu to helping the n.s.a. gather this data all we see the world for worldwide and they're far reaching because again and this is tentacles have been far reaching. sirrahs kurdish minority one's a seat at next month's international peace conference in geneva the arabs are pushing for autonomy in northern syria and have been fighting to protect their homes from radical islamist rebels the largest people without a country in the middle east and are mostly spread out across

a region they call kurdistan they make up key minority groups in turkey syria iraq and iran with a total kurdish population estimated at around forty million. dollars here now reports the kurds have their sights firmly set on a long awaited independence. discriminated repressed and divided for years the kurds were the scapegoats of the middle east but now the fortunes have turned resilient and hopeful history is on their side for four thousand years kurds lived in iraq now they're enjoying defect autonomy and many believe independence is not far away but is now practical is not run by a powerful state in baghdad and a strongly believe that we are moving towards. a full independent kurdish state in the north of here across the border in turkey as much as twenty percent of the

population is kurdish they fight for independence has long been a thorn in and her side but. always called for a kurd fighters they have more weapons and they'll never give them up easily but it's in syria where the kurds face the toughest fight they are caught up in the middle of a bloody civil war their territories are being claimed by al qaeda their villages raided their people killed residents of this kurdish village of pursuit fina forty five kilometers from aleppo say all it does is make them tougher fighters they are prepared to die to protect their land and their people. now every night they want to restart the clashes but now we're well prepared because we made new bunkers so we have more ability to them before if they attack us we are ready to defend ourselves but if they don't we want to attack anybody. with such a strong fighting spirit and even stronger desire for sovereignty the kurdish influence in this part of the world is growing and arguably it might be only

a matter of time until a new state appears on the map of the middle east policy or r.t. many syrians blame neighboring turkey for backing radical islamist groups have been terrorizing the kurdish minority and one kaddish official told us that i am cora's actions will backfire. the so is i think that if turkey's government keeps supporting militants in jihadists and the silty it's their entrance into the kurdish regions into the central areas of syria then the kurds that live in turkey won't stay silent also the jihadists attack the alawite dominated regions turkish are the whites will also take actions turkey's cooperation with terrorists will have consequences if you play with fire you get burned as they say that turkey is interested in stability in the region and supporting terrorists is not in the interest of turkey nor is it in the interest of the kurdish arabic people in the region. one time now for more world news and breathe and eight people have

been killed in a double bombing in iraq the two explosions struck a lie stock market in a town north of the capital baghdad while the victims were being buried another bomb went off killing three more just yesterday a group of suicide bombers targeted a share programs in another region taking as many as seventy six lives bloodshed in iraq this year has reached levels not seen since two thousand and eight it's all sort of called the go to special project looking back at how the violence of twenty first you know rather old. crowds of parents clashed with fire teachers in southern mexico former members of staff arrived on pickup trucks to take over the school but faced fierce resistance hundreds of anti-riot police had to be deployed to restore calm in september they teachers who went on strike or sacked and replaced with members of

a different trade union. other news on the european union's long term credit racing has been dealt a blow standard and poor's has downgraded from aaa to a.a. plus and this despite ireland's recent signs of recovery being gazed an example that the block is going in the right direction but as. reports many irish are still looking abroad for better options. despite painful a steady three years and counting the irish capital of dublin is relatively bustling but the same can't be said for all other parts of the country carlo want to talk to the are the sugar company that at the forefront of industry now stands empty this sound is only one hour away from dublin but miles apart in terms of the economy even if you just grab a surface to look around you'll see a lot of these boarded up houses or flop fronts or for sale signs a shadow of what this sound used to be this is

a think you. know forty three hundred year old brief. history here. while the government heralded arlen's exit from its international bailout as a success many find little to celebrate with others having long moved on in search of greener pastures people with skills people with jobs and i live in the country we thought that we put behind us the black plague effectively of immigration out of the country and now it is back growing sectors of this economy which are importing workers from outside of ireland on pride wages with high skills and so forth completely deserve it gandalf but that is starting to draw these a little bit of a tension within the population as well the european commission statistics office figures show thirty five thousand more people left are linda didn't arrive to last year making arlin go from having had the highest net immigration levels in europe to the highest net emigration in just six years if we see what. i did lead. if you

think if we want to feel you feel really really help here and when young emigrants do come back it won't come as a surprise if they're just back for the holidays like feel one who had just arrived from perth he left two years ago after completing a science degree and went on to become a videographer in australia there wasn't anything sort of keeping me here besides my immediate family really all my friends it's a londoner area canada has just completely crossed the world so i made it very easy for it and while the holidays draw back the irish to their native land it will take more than a bailout exit to keep them home does are still your r.t. are lunde. safety and cost ha.

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 of the good old rifles and bayonets pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion. hello welcome to safely and kill i'm said shevardnadze the picture in ukraine is murky where costs are compete with a leaning towards pressure the u.s. has already said it's ready to. support those protesting the government's rejection of integration with you is just the norm or systemic ever in american foreign

policy. for decades america has been the leader of the world. after years of complacency crises and expensive wars is it struggling to maintain its position with so much broken at home is it worth the effort of trying to fix things aboard is the privilege of being the world's sole superpower slowed becoming a dangerous burden. that our guest today is legendary politician pat buchanan a center advisor to three american presidents who was once a candidate for the top job himself mr mcadam it's such a pleasure to have you on our show tonight welcome delighted to be here sophia so why does the start will latest news john mccain promise to support ukrainians in their political stand against a government is that helpful for ukraine well my feeling is that senator mccain

whom i respect i had no business in the ukraine this is a decision by the ukrainian people and ukrainian government as to whether they want to orient toward the russian customs union or toward the european economic union and i don't think that's an issue in which the united states has any right to be involved it's a decision for the ukrainians as i said and senator mccain being there would be a little bit like president putin being in canada during the nafta debate and telling the canadians not to sign so i think the ukrainian should make this decision themselves you know there are talks about sanctions to us could use against ukrainian government what are they is that action warranted. i don't take any action against ukraine is warranted no matter what decision it may and this is a decision again for the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people it has nothing to do with the vital interests of an.