from behind bars to live in former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is in germany looking forward to being reunited with his family following his pardon i'm release from prison. here outside of the hotel where because he's believed to have spent his first night of freedom ten years we'll be bringing you all the latest on this story as it develops but 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 egypt as police dispersed supporters of the president who were protesting against a law restricting demonstrations.

casting twenty four seven live from moscow you're watching international. now just hours 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 well earlier i spoke to our correspondents following the story in both russia and germany. we don't actually know who's paying the bill for the the room in the other lot hotel where we believe he's staying here where mikhail khodorkovsky spent his first night of freedom the most recent pictures of because of course he appeared to show him relaxing it's believed that that is a hotel room in the other lot a hotel just behind me now the reason that we don't exactly know if he's there for sure all not is because well he is in the as a lawn it's

a hotel if that prides itself on its its discretion and it does have several entrances which you can tell you can't see people coming and going the reason we believe he's here is because hans dietrich genscher the former foreign minister of germany who met mr what it calls give the airport and gave him is his. visa it allows him to to be here in germany well he was seen leaving the front of the hotel to go and deliver an interview to german television later on on friday evening so he was with mr hodder coastie so we believe that he must still be in sight now. to touch on who missed again she is and what he's done as part of this well he's the former foreign minister of germany he was there the foreign minister in the the eighty's and ninety's and he has been instrumental it seems in securing this deal that saw me khodorkovsky leave prison in russia and come here to live in he sorted out the private jet in which we start of course he flew he also sorted out his visa

i don't know anything about it called skis current wealth however he clearly still has friends in very high places in order to allow him to travel in such a way and stay where he is but if he does come out of here we are expecting him to at some point in the air then the coming hours then we'll be bringing you right here on r.t. ok thank you crossed live in france he's in moscow for the family are expected and they can join him in berlin shortly german media is reporting in that. i have ban in berlin. it was a reason that khodorkovsky had wanted to fly there is soon as possible in fact she has as far as we know at this point is still at her home just outside of moscow now she had recently sought cancer treatment in germany and in fact her failing health was one reason that president putin cited in considering this clemency now we spoke

with her earlier today about her travel plans. for when we're on which flight i still don't have the tickets i hope we will meet today you know his daughter anastasio had also spoken to the media of expressing her surprise she says in the last ten years i got used to living in a reality where my dad is in prison to realize and accept that i'll be able to see him every day is unreal so the family including the son who was just recently residing in new york the family is all sort of converging on berlin on that hotel where all the journalists are camped out and in very rapid succession russia's most famous former tycoon went from being in prison to being released landing on german soil and facing his first family reunion in a decade. looking forward to spending christmas with his family however political

commentary to eric margolis believes in terms of his long future it will be hard for him to go into a political career. what i wonder is he might be a little traces by his lip and not started rants against google career for a while what little you know of cutting out for ten years in prison will 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 is not a rouse and he simply i don't think it russian certainly not in the west. no none of them saw it even early in some part or there was a little. love lost on the russian oligarchs months before philthy should have been in jail and had their my confiscated so he's lovely really could have got away with some money into a boarded no longer jail since well the pardon to hold a call of the state the decision was guided by the principles of humanity however

there's been much speculation in the western media the release was an attempt to boost russia's image ahead of the winter olympics in sochi but legal experts and program alexander mccall it is believed it was first and foremost because of horticulture ski's play the clemency. i don't think it got anything to do with nobody was going to stay away from sochi because of vista holder koskie being imprisoned 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 cos he is guilty of massive tax evasion on a simply enormous scale now he has been punished he's been in prison for that for ten years what has changed the situation and has led to his release is that mr

holder koskie 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. and of course throughout the day will be closely following the developments in this story these are incidentally life pictures from outside horticulture hotel waiting to see if he will emerge eventually into the daylight and when he does of course we'll bring it straight to you. 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 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 and it's even led to active duty personnel and war veterans being underpaid. investigates. the pentagon 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 over payments to contractors and many other things what does congress do about it nothing and national security expert steve miles here is here with me to help us crunch the these numbers even their really dollars on it can only be 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. where they found was about fifty billion dollars of the money the u.s.

spent there was wasted about six billion dollars was completely go last we had no idea where it was completely unaccounted for but 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 on the couch one thing i 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 a 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 are more sorted 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 any 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 team. but we also talked to retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor on the pentagon's failure to keep track of its money he things given the seriousness of the issue the government doesn't seem anywhere near concerned enough. i have actually been in this position when i was the director joint operations that shape headquarters for reasons that i did understand my pay was suddenly reduced and it took a year older at least straightened out and 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 and 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 a senior editor at the veterans the newspaper gordon duff and ethos expenditure guys and 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 earliest one nine hundred ninety one we have heard of none of the advances 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. that training every inch of the festive spirit of the glass. the holiday season getting underway special trials get going in the scottish capital to type of overindulgence we've got this story coming up children.

with economic downturns in the final months they. sang night and the rest because i think will be a prickly thing. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today.

welcome back now egyptian police in cairo. take gas on a series of protests clashes started when crowds of supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsi took to the streets after friday prayers. takes a look at the brutal police crackdown through the eyes of the egyptian pay paul. mohammad buckra waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son did it jailed for taking a pro morsi ruler to school teaches notify the authorities when they saw the fourth think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of sit ins in support of egypt's ousted president. the first time in my life that the 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 class but even if they look my son up we're ready to keep fighting

islamist supporters of morsi like mohammed say they are in hiding fearful of showing any allegiance to the oust of muslim brotherhood president. since they cleared the sit in some men started shaving their beards and the women to go off their new cabs anyone who's against the coup does not sleep in their own homes they spend nights at friends or even in barns 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 often lies overthrown 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 free 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 be jailed under the new normal. again and 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 attacking people even 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 r.t. after shake. well this is actually a photo of khalid taken in his classroom apparently by a mobile phone you can see here is four finger salute and that is enough for the moment to put you in jail in egypt no matter what your age or gender well alan 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 sore fingers 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 what 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 it is 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 what is there in prison you don't get access to a lawyer or medical attention. all the team has plenty more stories for you too including another blow to gay rights this time in uganda where the parliament has ratified a bill could land homosexuals in jail for

a lifetime but more details on this tough measure log on to our t don't call also there if waiting private e-mails and eavesdropping on phone calls wasn't enough more leaked revelations show the n.s.a. paid millions to leaving software security firms to leave a back door open in its products so companies could be spied on with more details on the story in just a click away. right on the scene. first for you and i think your take. on our reporters with my instrument. i. am. on my. despite the big arrest attempts of whistleblowers to expose government wrongdoing

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let's have a brief look at some other news now in the capital of the central african republic a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence has left at least thirty seven people dead a red cross official claimed most of the victims were in the shot or hacked to death with machetes this comes after france which already has more than sixteen hundred troops on the ground appealed to its european allies to help violence between muslims and christians has left around a thousand people dead this month alone. i was interrupted in the great capitol is hundreds of farmers took to the streets in protest as a new property tax they were confronted by riot police same day pelted with friends before attacking them with sticks the clashes broke out ahead of a vote by m.p.'s in one popular bill needed to qualify for more international bailout money. and dozens of prizes have attacked a police station in the german city of hamburg the demonstration of the bread and

eviction of a lot of the large squalled protesters smashed police cars and windows while a number of the rest were also made refugees and their supporters are expected to gather on saturday in front of the ross a floor squad to demand open spaces and refugee rights by four thousand police a set to be deployed. and mexican president pena nieto has signed a controversial fuel or 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 demands this is an act of betrayal by the government but the president says it will help attract investment. for lng ports. it might be the height of the party season but some people will always celebrate just that little bit more than others while in the scottish capital edinburgh those patrols are taking to the streets the festive mood doesn't spill active control

r.t. sarah firth joined one. in the streets and pumps of edinburgh and the festive spirit is alive and well as the rudest and with the city's bars and hay tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost for the local economy. was that. right it was the right way. the scottish new year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world the being a hot ticket. basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take your ticket but glass of whisky and some gold 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 cause for celebration ambulance and police start it's

a busy period and in edinburgh this year number of schemes have been put in place to try and provide support for the people here corson a little too mary safety zane's and to 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 those who suffered a minor injury or have simply overindulged so last the city gears up for a busy holiday season and as that midnight countdown is party goes here in edinburgh asked to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit. surfer r.t. edinburgh was. up next as promised the media stand moving on the risks and challenges faced by whistleblowers.

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