i finally gathering a day after being released from a russian prison reform oil tycoon and me what are called ski awaits every union with his loved ones in the german capital. washington is sold to rein in unaccountable defense spending of the pentagon amounting to eight point five trillion dollars since ninety nine to six. new charges of rove and egypt's embattled former ruler mohamed morsi over a prison break in twenty eleven while the latest shot of dissent on the streets on temple by police.

this is all seen to national coming to life from moscow and welcome to the program . the parents of the me here who have reportedly arrived in berlin to be reunited with their son after he was released from prison on friday the former oil tycoon flew straight to germany after being let out of the russian penal colony following a presidential pardon that's now getting all the details from peter on over who's outside the hotel where hotel confiscate is believed to be staying how the pieces that he was on a plank bed just yesterday today he's in a luxury hotel so things change pretty fast. they do indeed because of what a called ski has spent his first night. of freedom in over ten years he spent it we believe in the hotel just behind me the the high end hotel and along here in central berlin. we also understand from his press service that he's had

a meeting on saturday with his son pavel who flew in from new york to see us father also that his mother and father have made their way here to in order to to be with their son. no they arrived we hearing from the german newspapers today which is a term they arrived by a airliner rather than the private jet they brought because of how to cope ski here to berlin on their own for this believe they're also in the hotel now. being reunited with their son for the first time in ten years without it being in the visiting room of a of a prison in terms of status well we heard from to meet the press corps the spokesperson for russian president vladimir putin and he said that it's because of what it called ski has a is a russian citizen he is free to return to russia whenever he would want or he can stay in germany should he want he also reiterated exactly what took place between

in terms of the petition was put forward by how to cope ski he said missed articles he wrote two letters to war to president putin one of them a personal letter one of them an official petition for full release on those humanitarian grounds that he cited his mother is incredibly sick she has been here in berlin which previously for treatment for cancer and it was almost humanitarian grounds that this president putin granted his pardon at peace of course mr holocaust case looking forward to seeing all the members of his family but do we know anything about his plans when he chair. well he did release a open letter via his press service on friday that said that for now his main focus was family that he wanted to spend time with his loved ones and friends and that they were looking forward to spending the holidays together however what we may well see is as it goes on he's expected to give

a press conference at eleven am local time here in berlin on sunday and perhaps then he'll outline a little bit more exactly what he said what his plans are for the future whether he plans to stay here in germany or he may plan to to go back to russia we don't know yet one thing he may well do at this press conference is bank the former german a foreign minister hans dietrich genscher now missed again church seems was instrumental in bringing protocol ski here to lynn he organized the private jet that flew the former oil tycoon here he also aided with he's getting a visa very quickly now he was met at the airport by mistake again given this one year of these that allows him to to be here in germany and began to then came here to the center of berlin with him in a car the reason we believe the holocaust is here actually in this hotel is because again chill left there to go and give a an interview to a german television station in which he speaking on behalf of mr how to cope ski

said that. it. was grateful and thankful to the mercy of law to be a prudent for for pardoning him for letting him out of jail after those ten years so we can expect thanks there also we've been hearing from the from the german government a spokesperson for four german chancellor angela merkel said that mrs merkel mrs merkel welcomed because of what it called skeered to germany and she praised the work that. again shura done in in facilitating not and also the work that the german government had done behind the scenes in order to make this all possible. all of a line from berlin peter thank you very much indeed hadn't we appreciate it and let's discuss this more with a politician a poor poll from the euro skeptic alternative for germany policy mr humble thank you for joining us here on r.c. so how can we explain such a warm reception for mr holocaust many well first of

all the people of germany. who very detail about myself. i mean he was known as an audit guy who had been put on trial in russia and send him to jail for the last ten years that is or people in germany don't understand that mr cosby is not a freedom fighter or something like that that he was a businessman before he was imprisoned and that's not very much known to the german public and i would suggest that the german politicians should welcome mr edward snowden maybe in the same way in germany but there is very little the german put it to chance are doing for this person. i say has some human rights groups have called me hellhole or called a prisoner of conscience do you think he was president because if there's a big word. conscience of whom i don't know that sort of cause he had been a member of a liberal democratic party and in russia i don't know that he is

a human rights activist that he has been a human rights activist before so the question is difficult to answer what message do you think president putin was sending to the west by releasing and what are called skate now. well actually you know i think that the first message is to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy anymore since the last ten years and told the west it is a sign that russia is still open the for negotiations is still interested in good connections to the west and would do the european union as well as the united states and with such a generous generous. mr putin mr putin made his point in europe and in the rest of the western world just that just by the way the kremlin says that to me what are called skase free to return to russia any time soon do you think he will follow this piece of advice on this invitation whatever if he is more than

a businessman if he is interested in joining russian politics if he wants to establish a party in russia and being some kind of a freedom fighter then he should return to russia. western governments meanwhile have hailed their release of mr holder. because of pressure from the west sorry you know they actually have the release of mr khodorkovsky do you think this will help to improve russia's image abroad russians piece of what russia's image abroad. well it helped to improve russia's image i get is i got your point. i am not to i'm not you i think what i what i said before you know that the people in the west and would have forgotten so quickly what has happened after the break of the soviet union the fall of the soviet union i mean it was in times of boris yeltsin there were the all the guards which have taken over poland were most

influential in russia and to president putin came and you know be a criticizing today the influence of the other guys in the ukraine for example but we welcome somebody a representative of this group who has been imprisoned in russia so i'm not sure if it has something i don't i think it's a message to the that all the guys in russia have no influence on russian politics and to western world has to accept that maybe we should look in the west and would about the influence of all of the girls in our politics politico a polish politician a poor humble from the alternative for germany party mr humble thank you very much indeed for a time and will be bringing you more news and perspective on the held her coffee skills renesas rama day here on our sea and at our website.

the pentagon has secured a six hundred thirty eight billion dollar budget for next year even though it's failed to even account for the money it's received since ninety nine to six paying six point five trillion dollars of taxpayer cash have gone to defense programs none of which has been audited and this block budget has sparked concerns of a political fraud as granted to check on our reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government of 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 serious 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 go lost they had no idea where it was completely unaccounted 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 i found very interesting in this 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 treasury so they could write he knew 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. 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. motions and needs to wake up and stop cracking down on unaccountable overspending at the pentagon as the view of retired us on it cannot douglas macgregor 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 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 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 u.s. intelligence expert gordon duff says lawmakers have become increasingly corrupted by that ties to the military industry. 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 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 advances we know that were achieved during the strategic defense initiative in the eighty's and ninety's the those 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 is a general. and a human it's. calving the festival. his heart is kind of so wants to keep public order and during the holiday season

introducing special patrols to help those taking their celebrations away to focus on this story and much more after shall break. sigrid laboratory kirby was able to build a needs most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything change mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dog.

speak your language anything about the war not advance. music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a little eternity of angola's stories. here. in the spanish to find out more visit actuality. you're watching aussie international's good to have you with us let's move on egypt continues to pile criminal charges on the ousted president mohamed morsi is now facing trial over a prison break and twenty seven during the uprising against hosni mubarak's regime and any public show of support from will say can lead to serious attention from the authorities however young the offenders are ports now on this story a one fifteen year old who saw fit. mohammad buckra waits at home for the return of

his fifteen year old son that jailed for taking a pro morsi ruler to school teaches 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. 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 faithful of showing any allegiance to the ousted misname 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 is 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 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 turn force new legislation banning protests without police permits so now leading secular activists are on trial to jailed under the new law. again to let their 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 even killing them is part of a political game played by the state. that the government insists on restricting and controlling demos to keep the peace. egypt's dissidents are determined to keep

protesting no matter the consequences. for our team for shape. and this is a photo of khaled in his classroom on the mobile phone if you look closely you can see him giving a full thing good assigned a can now apparently land egyptians and trail regardless of their age or gender and homage to tread pattern on the british interruption for democracy a 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 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 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 i was there in prison and you don't get access to a lawyer or medical attention. back in the u.s.s.r. why not. look at a study that suggests most of harmful people living in former soviet states wish the union had never disappeared even two decades after its historic alliance. under also that prostitution with no limits the world's oldest trade gets official support in canada learned more about the unanimous decision from the supreme court that. on a group a week early exists a safe documented documented their journey through central asia in search of media

outlets willing to print leaks in u.s. diplomatic cables the move in for now website after the. strategic vision. of. a longer covert to move journalists trying to release which leads documents oh dear old united states its right. local media more. varying counter to your ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media style are today. and now to some other world news in brief and right now we're bringing you live pictures from the international space station where a flat space room to replace a broken coolant module is under way to nasa astronauts are carrying out the job

which will take receptor at spacewalks to be completed in the external cooling loop shut down last week and if it's not fixed the ice says would have to be abandoned. also hundred the song it's from the greek island of crete the country's parliament in athens outraged by new property tonks they clashed with police and threw oranges are banned in defiance of new legislation which was introduced by the government as part all still really matters to farmers who previously only had to pay income tax claim it could put many of them out of business. for the first test as i talked to a police station in humbug and threw stones at cars after a rally over the possible eviction of refugees from a nearby center and amber arrests were made under fire which has declared that the entire city as a danger area warning of more demonstrations the cultural center water flora has

been occupied by refugees for over twenty years but the building is now under threat of police. fifteen people have died in in in these series of attacks across iraq senior military commander was killed during a search operation for al qaeda fighters in the western province on bar also in the west a gunman opened fire on a police checkpoint killing four officers while the north two soldiers were killed in that county by mortar shells he's keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project that you can view on our website r.t. dot com. holiday season and this quarter. flow and so is the alcohol which accompanies it special but trolls and so-called booze buses are being deployed to maintain public order and hold those celebrating a little too hard r.t. safir has now reports. in the streets and pubs of

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 for the local economy. was. the. right thing by. the scottish new year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world of being a hot ticket. basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take your take a glass of whisky and some call to keep you warm and wish 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 he courson a little to marry safety zones and to say called these buses will be in 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 in edinburgh asked to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit. surfer r.t. edinburgh. max kaiser is up next with his latest attack on high flying financial scanners but if you're watching us from the u.k. george galloway will give his view on the latest global events stay with us.

there calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us would just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i'd probably check my email about seven times obama's place know i said most of us but the president isn't supposed to be like most of us because he represents all of us it's one thing when you're fourteen and too stupid to realize that selfie photos at the wake after grampa's funeral is a bad idea but it's another thing entirely when one of the most photographed and powerful people on the planet takes a selfie at the memorial service of someone he claims to respect although i might

sound annoyed this sophie is pretty much irrelevant this is just a big error of etiquette there are plenty of real concrete things with real consequences to be bad at obama over like our being religious wacko rebels in syria or signing into law the n.b.a. i wish with all my heart that we only had to be angry with obama over some minor etiquette errors but sadly they're just a drop in the obama bucket but that's just my opinion.

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 this warty 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 rivers and fraud in which it

floats and survives and whilst awarding america debt not can survive on very little real 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 said 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 isn't 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 in currencies around the world is set by fraudsters using their algorithmic trading computer trading so it took a couple of days for 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 what you speak of diminishing returns and that's what we're going back to here because you mentioned at the opening that boeing one of the major export.