from behind bars to learn former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is in germany looking forward to being reunited with his family following his pardon i am released from prison. defense at a price eight and a half trillion dollars goes on accounted for in less than two decades as part of the effort to keep the pentagon running. and friday prayers turned violent in the police dispersed supporters of the ousted president who were protesting against the law restricting demonstrations.

and i welcome you watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow. now just as after being released from prison mikhail khodorkovsky is back in the lap of luxury the former oil tycoon was one of russia's richest men before being jailed a decade ago but following his presidential pardon he jumped on a private jet flew to berlin and is now in a five star hotel while our correspondents are following the story in russia and in germany so let's cross live now it's a roll over and lindsay fronts firstly to pay to his in in place a lot of questions being asked here firstly who's picking up this bill for this extravagant first taste of freedom that he seems to be having and secondly how did he get a shanking these are considering he's got a criminal record. he well when it comes to who exactly is picking up the bill we don't know as of yet but what we do know is just who's been behind him receiving

this private flight out of russia and also the hotel that we believe he is staying in and that is the former german foreign minister hans dietrich again now mr gauger it seems has been instrumental in this this move that see. come from russia here in in fact self in a letter has as thanked mr genscher for that for the work that he's done also a miracle the german chancellor has said that many thanks must be given to mr to get you for that work that he's done to make sure that this is possible because holocaust he can come here to berlin now the to do have a history they do go back in fact the last time if it does turn out that mr holocaust is in the adult hotel just just over the road from me really in there in central berlin here the last time he was there was in two thousand and three when he was meeting with mr gaynor in that exact same hotel so they do have

a history of being there. yes so what we we are seeing is that. played a huge instrumental part of seems in getting out of course here to berlin what will come next we're going to have to wait and see he says that he wants to spend time with his family want to spend the holidays but his family but in terms of where he goes from out of this hotel we'll all be watching that now we bring you all the latest from outside of that hotel as the day progresses here or right thank you peter let's turn to lindsey now who's in moscow following the story for us also we talked there lindsey about what of course the family no doubt they'll be anxious to see them to see him they heading to to berlin. that's right they are heading to berlin now his mother marina. is still as far as we know at home. at the family home outside of moscow now german media is reporting that khodorkovsky headed to berlin thinking that his mother was was there and indeed she

had recently undergone cancer treatment in germany but at the time of his really it's still here in moscow now her failing health is in fact a reason that president putin citing for considering. clemency bed and so so she plans to get to berlin as soon as possible we spoke with her earlier today about her travel plans. for i don't know when we're on which flight i still don't have the tickets i just got up i hope we will meet today you. know his daughter and also mentioned to the media how surprised she was in fact she stated in the past ten years i got used to living in a reality where my dad was in prison to realize and accept that i'll be able to see him every day is unreal that is how quickly the turn of events took place from the announcement that he would be released to his landing on german soil so for the

first time in ten years he's been released from prison he's in germany and he is now facing a first family reunion. ok thanks lindsey that lindsey france to moscow and also just before that it was peter all over talking to us from. so make a hold of course he said he was hoping to be able to spend the christmas holidays with his whole family political culture though eric margolis believes in terms of his plans for the long term future it will be hard for him to launch a political career. i wonder if he might be a little traces by his lip and not started rants against google career for a while but it'll be off to cutting out for ten years in prison will he be mandela or will he turn out and really star last thing he would lose the core of the globe's. track to

a brilliant man but he really did not arouse any sympathy i don't think it russian certainly not in the west. no none of the sort of the middle in some part or there was a little. love lost on the russian oligarchs months before the should have been in jail and there my confiscated so he's lovely really got away with some money into a boarded no longer jail since. while the patent holder called the state the decision was guided by the principles of humanity however there's been much speculation in the western media that the release was an attempt to boost russia's image you had of the winter olympics in sochi but legal expert and blogger alexander mccourt it's believed it was first and foremost because of plea for clemency. i don't think it's got anything to do with nobody it was going to stay away from sochi because of vista holder god being in prison i think the first point

to make is that he is guilty and i i want to say that because this constant attempts to say that he was a political prisoner there's been six or seven decisions by the european court of human rights i've lost count how many there are which is said unequivocally that mr holder koskie is guilty of massive tax evasion on a simply enormous scale now he has been punished he's been imprisoned for that for ten years what what has changed the situation and has led to his release is that mr holder called ski did what he had previously consistently said he would not do and that is that he wrote a letter to mr putin asking for a pardon so i don't personally see that there's any compelling reason to keep him in prison longer of course we are closely following the latest developments in this story and here is the footage from outside the five star hotel in berlin where it's

believed to be staying a team from marty's video agency ruptly is watching the scene and feeding us the latest pictures. eight and a half trillion dollars that is the figure handed by the u.s. congress to the defense department since one thousand nine hundred ninety six and it's remained unaccounted for ever since despite the organization having some of the most sophisticated military hardware in the world it still relies on antiquated and error prone accounting computer systems even lead to active duty personnel and war veterans being underpaid. investigates. but a gun is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government over reuters investigation says since one thousand nine hundred ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five trillion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for and nobody can say for sure how many billions of that amount were wasted on goods and services that were never delivered on overpayments

to contractors and many other things what does congress do about it nothing and national security expert steve miles years here with me to help us crunch the these numbers even if we leave dollars on accounting for a lot of money this is the kind of thing that you would think would bring capitol hill to a screeching halt they would be hearing this kind of almost daily you know various committees looking into it none of that just leads to massive waste and there can be all sorts of fraud that you don't know about just one example when the inspector general looked at iraq which was you know a lot of money but in the grand scheme just a portion of the money the u.s. spends what they found was about fifty billion dollars of the money the u.s. spent there was wasted about six billion dollars was completely go lost they had no idea where it was completely on accounted for and put that in perspective that's about the amount of money that other countries would spend on their defense in a year total and that's just the least pocket change that we lost in the couch one thing at found very interesting in this report is that the pentagon apparently

using a standard operating procedure to enter false numbers or so-called logs to cover lost or missing information in their accounting in order to submit balanced budget to treasury so they could write a new everything in this probably the most shocking part of this is that they get to the end of the day and they say oh there's money missing what do we do we just put a number in there that says it's there and more sort it out later i mean again this is this is the type of operating practice that if you did it in your own business if you try to do it with your own taxes for the government they haul you off to jail what contributes to the massive waste is the fact that for two decades the pentagon has dodged an audit. which means nobody checked if the numbers in their accounting made sense congress has just passed the budget that allocates around six hundred thirty billion dollars to the pentagon roughly the same amount as last year how much of that will be wasted taxpayers will never know in washington i'm going to check out our teeth we told c. retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor on the pentagon's fadia to keep track of its money

he things given the seriousness of the she the government doesn't seem anywhere near concerned enough i have actually been in this position where i was the director joint operations that shape headquarters for reasons that i did understand my pay was suddenly reduced and it took a years old to really straight to doubt it then subsequently i was paid money that i had actually earned but for reasons that no one could explain had not been paid to me from my point is that you're dealing with billions of people and a lot of instability a lot of movement and it's a difficult system to to work effectively. this is an enormous problem and this is something that absolutely must be addressed and addressed in a forthright manner at the moment no one on capitol hill seems terribly concerned and the senior editor for the veterans today newspaper gordon duff please fast expenditure goes on fund civil defense projects that never come to life. no we have

so many. defense entities that have gained so much power in washington over the past ten years certainly that i consider the phoney war on terror as been an opportunity for the defense industry to buy congress the pentagon it works much like the federal reserve we have overt and covert policies we have so many black budget a budget projects including nuclear weapons development projects that when dark is early as one nine hundred ninety one we have heard of none of the dances we know that were achieved during the strategic defense initiative in the eighty's and ninety's the have all gone dark but they're continuing to eat funds and we're watching much of the military budget used for sustaining a top heavy military and air force for every third person in our air force is

a general. trying every inch of the festive spirit and to the glass. gurudas. but with the holiday season getting underway special these patrols get going in the scottish capital to take care of those who have overindulge we've got a story in a few minutes and. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. doesn't pose a security for your party isn't the. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politicking only on our t.v. .

with economic downturn the find out that landed in new york sang like the rest of life during the making every week. hello again now it's in place in cairo and gays that have used tear gas on a series of protests clashes started when crowds of supporters of the the post president mohamed morsi took to the streets after friday prayers true takes

a look at the brutal police crackdown and through the eyes of egyptian people. mohamed buckra waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son headed jailed for taking a pro morsy ruler to school teachers notified the authorities when they saw the four think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of sit ins in support of egypt's ousted president i think the first time in my life that a child is locked up in the military prison for having a ruler there is even and the rest warrants out for me for inciting my son to take the ruler to closs but even if they look my son our problem where ready to keep fighting islamist supporters of morsi like mohamed say they are in hiding fearful of showing any allegiance to the ousted missed him by the head president. since they cleared the sit in some men started shaving their beards and the women to go off their new. anyone who's against the coup does not sleep in their own homes they spend nights at friends or even in barmes they're not even arresting are to this

but normal people the checkpoints because they look like islamists with a beard even the simplest expression of support for mohamed morsi like a piece of stationery puts people in danger both from the communities and the state hundreds of morsy supporters have been arrested and many face trial after july's overthrow by the military security forces say the crackdown is necessary to secure the country but human rights organizations say it's part of a wider clampdown on for i the military backed government is determined to enforce new legislation banning protests without police permits so now leading secular activists are on trial to jailed under the new normal. again to let the breakdown of political activists is normal and natural because it's easy to accuse them of working for a foreign agency and charge them with treason or attacking people in killing them is part of a political game played by the state. the government insists on restricting and

controlling demos to keep the peace but egypt's dissidents are determined to keep protesting no matter the consequences. for our team after shake. from this is a photo of her in his classroom apparently taken on a mobile phone and you can see here he is making a four finger salute and at the moment in egypt that's enough to land you in jail in a matter what your age or gender while our mohammed chairperson of the british egyptian for democracy group says the detention of the fifteen year old is far from an isolated case. so this fifteen year old child along with many many children are now placed in prison just because they have things simple symbol it's a symbol was false and is on a yellow background and he's actually placed in an adult facility alongside suggs and rapists and criminals in fact this is actually outrageous but we're seeing is

the military regime. going absolutely mad because a child is reminding its of its atrocities and the clear violations of human rights are taking place and as as you know at the moment there are many many children as well some of them we know about some we don't know anything about because once they're in prison you don't get access to a lawyer or medical attention but i think we've got stories for you on our website too including another blow to gay rights this time in uganda where the parliament has ratified a bill that would land homosexuals in jail for a lifetime for more details on this measure you are to go home also their private e-mails and eavesdropping on phone calls wasn't enough more leap revelation show the n.s.a. paid millions to a leading software security firm to leave a back door open in its products so companies could be spied on with the small

details on the story just a click away. we reported on this ratio before debt to g.d.p. growth going back to nine hundred fifty there was almost one to one so merit there was you some dead and they get some some kind of g.d.p. kick as a result of it but requires more and more dead to. quibble in the same g.d.p. dollar of growth what we now have is clearly a case of zombie banks and zombie corporations that would not survive if they were being transfused with more debt continuously which means that good. businesses are being crowded out by zombies and it also means that you've got a. total loss of competitiveness this is the worst thing really that quantitative easing as does the american.

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let's have a quick look at some other world news now in the capital of the central african republic a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence has left at least thirty seven people dead the red cross official claimed most of the victims were either a short or half to death with machetes this comes after france which already has more than sixteen hundred troops on the ground appeal to its european allies to help violence between muslims and christians has left around a thousand people dead this month alone. i know. i got violence erupted in the greek capital is hundreds of farmers took to the streets in protest of the property tax they were confronted by riot police who they pelted with fruit before attacking them with sticks the clashes broke out ahead of a vote by m.p.'s and i'm popular bill needed to qualify for more international

money. dozens of righties have attacked a police station in the german city of hamburg after a demonstration over the wrecking division of the large squat protesters smashed police cars and windows while a number of arrests were made refugees and their supporters are expected to gather on saturday in front of the rota floor squads to demand open spaces and refugee rights about four thousand police said to be deployed. and makes him president and yet though has signed a controversial fuel law it allows foreign companies to drill for oil for the first time since the sector was nationalized seventy five years ago protests across the country denounced it as an act of betrayal by the government but the president says it will help attract investment boost falling apart. now it may be the height of the party season but some people will always celebrate just that little bit more than others in the scottish capital edinburgh patrols are

taking to the streets so the festive mood doesn't spill active control r.t. sarah ferguson joined one. in the streets and pumps of edinburgh and the festive spirit is alive and well yet the rudest and with the city's johnson he tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost to the local economy. was that it was the. right thing it was the right way. the scottish me year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world being the hottest ticket of all when. it's where basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take or you take a glass of whiskey and some cold cold to keep you warm and whiskey to to have

a drink and i think new year's eve was invented by the scots but it's not all calls for celebration ambulance and police start it's a busy period and in edinburgh this year the number of schemes have been put in place to try and provide support for the people here corson a little team mary safety zane's and she say called these buses will be an operation to try to take the strain off the local services the scottish ambulance service says the buses will be there to treat ses he suffered a minor injury or have simply over in. the city gears up for a busy holiday season and does that midnight countdown is party goes here in edinburgh i asked to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit . arty edinburgh was. there watching r.t. internationally thought the cars are a pole coming up next. i

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welcome to the kaiser report i am max kaiser in a surprise move to many brazil has awarded a four point five billion dollar fighter jet contractors of sweet in it was expected to bed boeing would receive the contract but and i quote the n.s.a. problem ruined it for the americans a brazilian government source told reuters on condition that anonymity. anonymity those brazilians sure have a wacky sense of humor anyway the reason this is a problem is that new research suggests that humans descended from jellyfish more specifically the related warty see walnut a lot in this blog of blogs and blog and blog and there's war you see walnut lives inside all of us but especially inside americans floating through the crowded space

seeking to soak up more debt to feed the pool of the ribs and fraud in which it floats and survives and whilst awarding america debt not can survive on very little room wealth creation it does need some real income to keep its pyramid of debt due from imploding especially these days of the fed trying to taper its ponzi and as weapons and hollywood are the only two sources of export income it appears this population of war you see walnuts may soon be going hungry stacey max yes saw the shares soared by over thirty percent on this news meaning that the markets had not yet priced in this collapsing us empire as a result of the n.s.a. spying scandal even though we have reported here for example that i.b.m. sales were collapsing and the likes of i.b.m. so this is part of that story and i think the reason why they hadn't priced didn't was because hollywood is still exporting this myth of. the american dream and the american superpower there to protect you all i had remarkable story and i

understand what you're saying there that the there was a delay in terms of pricing in the fact that boeing and american corporations are being shunned around the world because of the n.s.a. infiltration of products with spying technology that renders these products worthless as far as being competitive you don't want your products competing with somebody who's an affected your products with their spying technology it also speaks to how broken these markets are around the world so much of the price of stocks and bonds and currencies around the world is set by fraudsters using their algorithmic trading computer trading so it took a couple of days for a solid stock to really discount the fact the american empire is crumbling that these spy software is a classic case of diminishing returns that there won't be the same kind of profits made by these corporations that have been made by these corporations and the only thing left the only game left in town really is predatory lending in a war well you speak of diminishing returns and that's what.