from behind bars to a former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky isn't germany looking forward to being reunited with his family follow his bargain and release from prison but i'm here outside of the hotel where because of what it calls believe to spread freedom yes we'll be bringing you all the latest on this story as it develops. defense enterprise eight and a half trillion dollars goes out accounted for in less than two decades as part of the effort to keep the pentagon running. and another charges slapped on egypt's toppled leader mohammed morsi over the twenty eleven prison escape as police crackdown on his supporters who were protesting against a law or restricting demonstration is that.

international news and comment live from moscow you're watching aussie international with me. and a very well welcome to the program just hours after being released from prison guard recall ski's 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 and flew to berlin and is now in a five star hotel and then my colleague andrew farmer spoke to our correspondents following the story in 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 the 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 it that prides itself on its its discretion and it does have several entrances which you can't 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 called the airport and gave him is. that 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 holocaust the 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 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. sort 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. live in france he's in moscow for us. family are expected aren't they to join him in berlin shortly german media is reporting in that. i have been 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 has 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 so. looking forward to spending the christmas holidays with his family however political commentator eric margolis believes in terms of his plans for the future it will be hard for him to launch a political career. what i wonder is he might be a little chased by his lip and not started rants against google career for a while but it'll be off putting after ten years in prison will he be mandela or will he turn out in really started last thing with the crown let loose the core of the gloves he was. trapped in a brilliant man but he really did no not arouse any sympathy i don't think it russian certainly not in the west. no none of them saw it even over in some part or there was little. love lost on the russian oligarchs months before filthy should

have been in jail and had their my confiscated so he's lovely really got away with some money into a boarded no longer jail since. the decision was guided by the principles of humanity however there's been much speculation in the western media that there were nice was an attempt to boost russia's image ahead of the winter olympics in sochi but legal expert and blogger alexander and that creates believes it was fast and foremost because of holocaust case plea for clemency. it's got anything to do with nobody was going to stay away from salty because of bristol 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 of how many there are which is said unequivocally that mr holder of course he is guilty of massive tax evasion on a simply

a normal scale now he has been punished he's been in prison for that for ten years what what has changed the situation and has led to use 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. kharab a day were closely following the latest developments in the story and here are live pictures for you from outside holocaust is hotel a team from artie's these are agency ruptly is watching this scene and feeding us the latest footage. eight and a half trillion dollars that's the figure one hundred by the u.s. congress to the defense department since the nine hundred ninety six and it's remained accounted 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 it's even lead to active duty personnel and war veterans being underpaid artie's again there chitra katha investigates. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government the 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 of 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 years here with me to help us crunch the these numbers even a tree lead 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 lost they had no idea where it was completely unaccounted for 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 i found very interesting in the report is that the pentagon apparently using a standard operating procedure to enter false numbers or so-called blogs to cover lost or missing information in their accounting in order to submit a balanced budget to the 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'll just put a number in there that says it's there and we'll 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 dug in on. and it means nobody checked if the numbers in their accounting make 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 on our team. i would talk say we're time to us on the colonel douglas macgregor allen the pentagon's failure to keep track on its money have things given the seriousness of a issue big government doesn't seem any way near concerned and. 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 year 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 paid to me 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. on the syria does it for the veterans today newspaper gordon duff believes the vast expenditure goes on. goes on financial 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 the. i consider the phony war on terror has 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 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. now draining every inch of the festive spirit out of the grass. roots. but with the holiday season getting underway special based patrols gutting the scottish council to take

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simpsons changing the world. to picture a day. from a struggling. doctor. you're watching also international welcome back egypt's deposed president ronald morsi is set to go on trial once again this time for a prison break and twenty eleven there is a misleads that will be tried along with more than one hundred thirty other defendants and a continuing crime down against the muslim brotherhood and away from the courtrooms and on the streets it's people on all levels who are suffering from the political witch hunt about true now reports. mohammad buckra waits at home for the return of

his fifteen year old son credit 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 citizens 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 arrest warrant out for me for inciting my son to take the ruler to class but even if they look my son our problem we're ready to keep fighting islamist supporters of morsi like mohammed say they are in hiding faithful of showing any allegiance to the ousted 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 activists 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 in their 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 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 crackdown on 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 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 our team after shake.

and this is a photo of can lead in his classroom apparently shot on mobile phone and if you look closely you can notice him showing. a salute here and this is a sign which can land you in jail in egypt no matter what your age or gender and the chairperson of the british egyptian for democracy group says the detention of the fifteen year old is far from an isolated case there. 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 only 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. and our web team has plenty more stories for you including another blow to gay rights this time in uganda where the parliament has been to find a bill that could land homosexuals in jail for life time for more details on these tough measure we're going to call. and a phrase in private emails and eavesdropping on phone calls wasn't enough more nixon revelations a show the n.s.a. paid millions to a leading software security file to leave a bunch of open and its products so complaints could be companies rather could be spied on with ease more details for you just technical right.

right there seems to. be first rate. and i think that your take. on our reporters would. be in the. despite the vigorous attack and so whistleblowers to expose government wrongdoing it's often difficult for them to find media outlets willing to publicize the truth . is there wasn't a road movie by a wiki leaks team of journalists who embarks on a trip across central asia and highlights the difficulties they face there and all the showing the film here on r.t. in about ten minutes time but you can always watch it anytime at our website.

under cover to move journalists trying to release which documents. it's right. for your ignorance to pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media star. and time now for more world news in brief in the capital of the central asian rip african republic a fresh outbreak of six current violence has left at least thirty seven people dead a red cross official claimed most of the victims were either short or death with that machete this comes after france which already has more than sixteen hundred troops on the ground appeals to its european allies to help violence between

muslims and christians has left around a thousand people dead this month. violence erupted in the greek capital as hundreds of farmers took to the streets in protest at a new property tax they were confronted by riot police who they did with fruit before attacking them with sticks the clashes broke out ahead of a vote by m.p.'s on an unpopular bill needed to qualify for more international bailout cash. dozens of rioters have a town to a police station in the german city of hamburg after just ration over the threatened addiction of the large squad protesters marched 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 road florist want to demand open spaces and refugee rights about four silden police are said to be deployed. mexican

president pena nieto has signed a controversial fuel nor will it allows foreign companies to drill for oil for the first time since the sector was nationalized seventy five years ago protesters across the country denounced it as an act of betrayal by the government but the president says it will help attract investment and boost falling out. 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 to the festive mood so the festive mood doesn't spill out of the control. joint one. in the streets and pumps is edinburgh and the festive spirit is alive and well as the rudest and with the city's bars and he tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost to the local economy. that.

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 big hot ticket. basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take or you take a 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 zones 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 that the city gears up for a busy holiday season and does that midnight countdown is party goes here it is imbra past to try and enjoy the spirits of the event just easy on the spirit. of. edinburgh was. and news just in the parents of a hellhole or cost have arrived in berlin on a private jet local media is reporting the extra could himself arrived in germany last night after being released on pardon following a decade behind bars. 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 entices 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 or the good old rifles and bayonets pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion. i think. i got hired to do

their cars. because i wrote an article about. the year conditions of work since we journalists have when they were in israel palestine. hands the year the journalists there they interviewed the very frank with me and they told me about different things that you couldn't report to calm things than the good and the censorship that the experienced in there. at their workplace when the material was published two of the six journalists that are tired of you they retracted their statement so you see the. face you see you need that you need some good news cam or do you think i don't think long text or something i think if somebody does an interview with you and then you're entirely open frank about it. and then after

a while maybe you realize that this is going to be shown on television and your boss is going to see this and your mother is going to see this and then you know you start understanding the consequences it's not just a conversation between you and your friends but then you get just informed about it because i think to an extent. and i made a very big mistake there with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hired to a very journalistic very difficult journalistic work. about journalists and the standards for doing the journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred times higher because they were. there will immediately you backfire and they will start to criticizing what you do in a completely different way. then if it's a regular person because regular person doesn't have the power. to say no.

he's got to see. if there is a cable marked secret no four and that means that not even i like it states are allowed to read it and it's about the meeting between the u.s. ambassador and the care gives foreign minister and it goes like this. then besser and the curious foreign minister met that then buster's residence mid-afternoon president that's the dictator that was kicked out of the revolution a few months ago told him that he was authorized to sign the agreement on the us military base but the agreement must be kept secret the foreign minister said that he needed time to work with public opinion in the parliament before he could roll out a new agreement publicly. for our assistance in preparing the curious public opinion specifically by placing articles in the local russian language press that maybe was going to tell the man within it to you.

was. was was. was. was a thing with and bill introduced to quote les who.