a day after his father was released from a russian prison. says the entire family has been reunited in the german capital. washington is told to rein in defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight trillion dollars since nine hundred ninety six. charges of egypt's embattled former. prison break in two thousand and eleven as the . street is stifled by police. the first time in my life that a child is locked up in the military prison for having a. political witch hunt in egypt. as we bring you the story of a school boy. showing support for the country's deposed leader.

from a studio center here in moscow which just turned ten pm this is international. we met his whole family in the german capital the former oil tycoon flew straight to after being let out of a russian penal colony on friday following a presidential pardon of a report from outside the hotel where he's believed to be staying. well macau holocaust is first full day of freedom was a day for unification with family here in berlin his son told us this is son pavel who'd flown from new york told us that the whole family had been reunited and that they were all very happy he really appreciates all of the support that he has received through lee's years and all the people that have cared for him here

story over the past ten years his mother has been here in berlin quite a quite a lot in the recent past she has been receiving cancer treatment here and a bill in city hospital. they were one that was a fact the whole reason behind because of course he's been granted the presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds was the the ill health of his mother's press secretary of the russian president dmitry peskov who is the the spokesperson for the to me of food and now he said that khodorkovsky remains a russian citizen he is a russian citizen he's free to return to russia whenever he would like and live there should he want to also he said that he's he's free to stay here in germany should he want to as well it's pretty much as simple as that and no peskov also outlined the letters that were written by her called ski to vladimir putin he said there was to one of them was a personal letter to president putin the of the was the official petition to be to

be released from prison and that it was that petition that resulted in him receiving this pardon is released on humanitarian grounds to the former german foreign minister to again i must again she seems to have been instrumental in making sure that we got a hold of course he killed come here he german chancellor in a statement from the chancellor spokesperson angle merkel spoke close and she paid she paid her tribute to the work done by mr gained share in this a and bringing her to cope ski here to germany and she also praised the work done by the german government behind the scenes in making this possible and welcomed me how to cope ski head to germany. where he is behind me in the out alone hotel now enjoying his family reunion. political analyst an expert on russian german relations alexander rar was one of the first people to greet critical ski on german soil and speaking

to our sortie he shared his impressions of meeting the former tycoon his face didn't change in the past ten years i haven't seen him for ten years. i think he didn't lose his humor he. he still. in a very strong mood to i would say i don't know i don't think that he is going to involve in politics but that's my personal opinion i don't know but he has a lot to say a lot to tell not necessarily on his life in prison but on his thoughts of the future and the present state of russia and i think he's seeing himself already as a kind of philosophy or a second soldier needs and who has something to say and to whom lot of people will listen. mr also told us he thinks it was neither a mystery or a surprise that khodorkovsky chose lynne as his destination the reason why her

course he came to germany's very simple because his mother is here in hospital she's very very sick and this is not a secret and asked putin to release him because he wants to meet his mother before it's too late and. as it happens mrs of the course he was not here when the son there arrived but she's in germany. she left on a germany for russia but of course she's now with his son. while the western world's been debating what lies behind we can quote a consequence release but politician paul hempel from the euro skeptic alternative to germany party believes there's no hidden agenda in president putin's pardon. the people of germany don't know very little about what a ski i mean he was known as an audi guy who had been put on trial in russia and

send him to jail for the last ten years that is all you know the people in the west end would have forgotten so quickly what has happened after the subject of 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 power and were most influential in russia until president putin came and you know be criticizing today the influence of the only guy in the ukraine for example but we welcome somebody a representative of the group who has been in prison russia i think that to the first tibet it is to the russian people as well that you have no influence on russian policy anymore since the last ten years and we'll be bringing you more news and perspective on the concorde across his release throughout the day on r.t. and on our website dot com. the pentagon has secured a six hundred thirty billion dollars budget for next year even though it's failed

to account for the money it's received since nine hundred ninety six i was paying eight and a half trillion dollars of cap taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of which has been audited now this so-called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud. reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government ovoid or seemed best a geisha and 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 experts the mile serious here with me to help us crunch the these numbers eight and a half trillion 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. friends 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 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 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 dodged in all. which 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. washington needs to wake up and start cracking down on unaccountable overspending at the pentagon well that's the view of retired u.s. army colonel 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 year old to really 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 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 u.s. intelligence expert golden duff says lawmakers have become increasingly corrupted by the time aides 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

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 ohs of 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. in a few minutes from now here in austin international the. little group the scottish capital works to keep up with the holiday season introducing special patrols to help taking the celebrations just a little bit save for. the. championship gold

medals that the red gold a legendary ice hockey goalie and he's still in good shape as you'll see in the second part of a program where we tell you about the important mission he has and sochi this coming weekend. with. its technology innovation called the least of elements from around russia. the future covered. dramas to

be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. places change the world. so picture of today's. politicians from around the globe. egypt continues to pile criminal charges on the else did president mohamed morsi is now facing trial over a prison break in two thousand and eleven june the uprising against hosni mubarak's regime and any public show of support for morsi can lead to serious attention from the authorities however young the offenders will true reports on the story of one fifteen year old who suffered. 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 fourth think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of citizens in support of the troops are still present. the first time in my life that the child is locked up in the military prison for having a ruler resume and the rest warrants 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 fearful 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 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 mohammed 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 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 be jailed and didn't know why the initial again to let the crack down 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. 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 true for our team for shake. well this is a photo of khalid in his classroom apparently shot on a mobile phone i feel closer you can see him giving a four fingered salute a sign that can now apparently landed gyptian is in jail regardless of age or gender mohamed chairperson of the british egyptian for democracy group says that the detention of the fifteen year old is far from an isolated case. 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 for fingers on a yellow background and he's actually at least in an adult facility alongside suggs and rapists and criminals and 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 once they're in prison you don't get access to a lawyer or medical attention. back in the u.s. . we look at studies that suggest more than half of people living in former soviet states wish the union had never disappeared even two decades after its historic collapse. of the fukushima. radiation levels in one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear power. and also a lot of. documented their journey through central asia in search of. u.s. diplomatic cables you can watch the movie in full right now on the web site the.

street interesting. strategic. undercover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents. more pro-american they encounter fear. pressure. country blocks the way to information freedom. this is extremely interesting. strategically she told. a longer covert team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about.

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is profit. this golden rice. of the world news this pictures now from the international space station where the first of a series of urgent space walks to replace a broken coolant logical has been completed without a hitch it took two nasa astronauts have a five. pump in an external cooling loop shut down last week and if it's not fully fix the failure of the second what you'll month for three to be abandoned well the damage caused all non-essential equipment to be temporarily shut down and force a crew to hold several experiments. hundreds of farmers from the greek island of crete marched on the country's parliament in athens outraged by a new property tax they clashed with police and threw oranges at them in defiance

of new legislation which was introduced by the government as part of a sturdy measures farmers who previously only had to pay income tax claimed it could put many of them out of business. update this. hundreds of protesters attacked a police station in hamburg and threw stones at cars after a rally of the possible addiction of refugees from a nearby center a number of arrests were made and authorities declared the entire city a danger area warning of more demonstrations a cultural center has been occupied by refugees for over twenty years but the building is now under threat of collapse. and i want update this hour seventeen people have died in a series of attacks across iraq and senior military commander was killed during a search operation for al qaeda fighters in the western province also in the west government opened fire in a police checkpoint killing four officers while in the north two soldiers were killed in the camp by mortar shells on keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project they can you can view on our website right now r.t.

dot com the holiday season in the scottish capital enbridge is in full flow right now and so is the alcohol which accompanies it special patrols and so-called booze buses are being deployed to maintain public order and help those celebrating just a little too hard on the sort of first reports. in the streets and pumps of edinburgh and the festive spirit is alive and well yet the rudest and with the city's ponson he tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost for the local economy. was. a was the right way. the scottish new year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world being the hottest ticket . it's basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the

houses and you take your you take a glass of whisky and some coal to keep you warm and whisky too 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 steam city piss in place to try and provide support for the people here closer than a little team every safety sayings and t. 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 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 asked to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit.

of a edinburgh was. one of the most anticipated competitions of the winter olympics in sochi is the ice hockey tournament and what's definitely going to be key to the action is the pucks which are being presented to the public by a man who even in his sixty's knows how to deal with them better than most. well as you can see legendary goalkeeper. who won three elim pick tournament and ten world championship medals is still in very good shape he was at the black sea resort of make sure everything is ready for faceoff when the action starts including these punks the teams will have to get to know very well if they want to take a little bit gold come february. as

the end of the thirteen approaches artie's breaking the set looks back on the main events that shaped this year. almost in the international diplomacy stories of the year an agreement with the wrong and six world powers of the development of the country's nuclear program and while it's only a tentative six month agreement a warm relationship between iran and western powers is a much needed step toward stability in the middle east finally the most inspiring story of two thousand and thirteen has to be had worked snowed in this courage to come forward and reveal an out of control and unconstitutional global spying machine infiltrating all of our lives has changed the world as a result of snowden's actions we now have documented proof of just how severely the intelligence community has violated our fourth amendment rights and now we have the knowledge we need to fight back.

so stay with us for that coming up next here on the international but if you're watching from the u.k. george galloway will give you his views on the latest live events that will come back together again would you be more news in just about. 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 is a bit 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 that we fear yemen doesn't have a ton of cash and i could see how having the well equipped and funded u.s. military to cure the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really entice and i mean it must be scary to be a politician with lots of power hungry terrorists about this would be the first

time in history that a stronger foreign power for a weaker states battles for them but the problem is that according to the huff. 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 all right tools and bandits pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion.

merry christmas happy kwanzaa happy belated hanukkah and happy festivus everyone happy martin and this is breaking the cycle guys this is our last show of the year and given that news can be really effing depressing we thought would be quite appropriate to take a quick look back at some of the most up to lifting and encouraging moments of two thousand and thirteen incredible technological advances were made from ultra efficient solar power to prenatal d.n.a. sequencing perhaps most incredible was the advent of three d. organ printing yes for the first time ever three d. printing technology was used to build tiny bits of organs although we're still years away from fully grown organs that can be built from an individual's own cells this development means one day people will no longer have to wait on a transplant list now staying on the world of game changing technology last month nasa launched maven

a space probe that's being sent to mars to study the martian atmosphere and determine how the planet went from being rich in water to the barren red of. rock we know it is today the discoveries that maven makes may revolutionize our understanding about space and the atmosphere of planets but another story that shook up the status quo here on earth why is courageous decision to legalize marijuana amazingly the country's president. was able to see the complete abysmal failure of the world's war on drugs same quote einstein said there's nothing more absurd than trying to change results by always repeating the same formula that's why we're trying other methods whom he that world the new law could save which spends eighty million dollars a year on drug trafficking millions of dollars but here in the us we saw one of our own bigoted laws shot down when the supreme court overturned the federal defense of marriage act since then we've seen seven states legalize same sex marriage and just

yesterday new mexico supreme court gave same sex couples the right to wed take that all the countries out there with repressive gay laws moving on to one of the most inspiring international diplomacy stories of the year an agreement with the wrong and six world powers of the development of the country's nuclear program and while it's only a tentative six month agreement a warm relationship between iran and western powers is a much needed step toward stability in the middle east finally the most inspiring story of two thousand and thirteen has to be edward snowden in this courage to come forward and reveal an out of control and unconstitutional global spying machine infiltrating all of our lives has changed the world as a result of snowden's actions we now have documented proof of just how severely the intelligence community has violated our fourth amendment rights and now we have the knowledge we need to fight back.