a day after his father was released from a russian prison for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky says the entire family has been reunited in the german capital. washington is told to rein in unaccountable defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight point five trillion dollars since one thousand nine hundred six. the charges of egypt's embattled former. prison break in two thousand and eleven as the dissent on the streets is. the first time in my life that the child is locked up in the military prison for having. the ongoing political witch hunt in egypt. the story of a schoolboy thrown behind by showing support for the country's. top story.

live from our studios here in moscow where it's just past eleven pm this is international. has met his whole family and the german capital the former oil tycoon fu straight after being let out of a russian penal colony on friday following a presidential pardon auntie's peter all of the reports from outside the hotel where he's believed to be staying. well macao holocaust is first full day of freedom was a day of reunification with family here in berlin his son told us this son pavel who'd flown from new york told us that the whole family would be 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 for

two 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 treatments 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 tamir putin now he said that the 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 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 to call 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 hans ticket genscher missed again she seems to have been instrumental in making sure that make of how to cause he killed come here the chairman 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 genscher in this a and bringing her to call 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 here to germany. where he is just 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 khodorkovsky on german soil

speaking to r.t. 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 human or he. he still. in. 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 to look to say a lot to tell not necessarily on his life in prison but on his sorts of the future and the present state of russia and i think he's seeing himself already as a kind of philosopher or or as 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 mikhail khodorkovsky chose berlin as his destination the reason why

what of course he came to germany is very simple because his mother is here in hospital she's very very sick and to 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 happened mrs the he was not here when the son that arrived but she's in germany. she left only germany for russia but of course she's now with his son. well the western media has been debating what lies behind the concorde acosta's release but politician paul hampel from the euro skeptic alternative for germany party believes there's no hidden agenda in president clinton's pardon the people of germany don't do know very little 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 all you know that the people in the west end would have forgotten so quickly what had 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 they were the only 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 other guy in the ukraine for example but we welcome somebody a representative of the group who has been imprisoned in russia i think that to the first bet it is to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy any more it's into last ten years and will be bring you more news on perspective on the concorde across his release throughout the day here 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 one thousand nine hundred ninety six

and whopping eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of which has been audited and this so-called black budget is spot concerns over potential fraud is going to church can reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government ovoid it seemed best to 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 leaves for 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 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 house 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 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 dodged in all. 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 out our. washington needs to wake up and start cracking down on unaccountable overspending at the pentagon 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 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. u.s. intelligence says lawmakers have become increasingly corrupted by that time 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 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 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 ows 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 just a few minutes from now here an international the festivities. the scottish capital works to keep the public holiday season introducing special patrols to help those taking this celebrations just a little bit too from. ten world championship gold medals that's the record of legendary ice hockey goalie. and

he's still in good shape as you'll see in the second part of our program where we tell you about the important mission. this weekend. by the sea bush and secure. shoes that no one is with to guess that. this is from. politics. economic down in the final. and the rest.

a little bit every week. egypt continues to paul criminal charges on the else to president mohamed morsi he's now facing trial over a prison break in two thousand and eleven during 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 both true report the story of one fifteen year old who suffered. mohammad tucker waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son headed jailed for taking

a pro morsy ruler to school and its teachers notified the authorities when they saw the four think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of sit ins in support of egypt's ousted president. the first time in my life that the child is locked up in the military prison for having a ruler through seven 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 ousted missed him by the head president. since they cleared the sit in some men started shaving their beards and the women to go off their new 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 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 from the communities and the state

hundreds of morsy supporters have been arrested and many face trial after july's overthrow by the military security forces say the crackdown is necessary to secure the country but human rights organizations say it's part of a wider clampdown on for i the military backed government is determined to enforce new legislation banning protests without police permits so now leading secular activists are on trial to be jailed under the rule. again letting their brag 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 in killing them is part of a political game played by the state. the government insists on restricting and controlling demos to keep the peace. egypt's dissidents are determined to keep protesting no matter what the consequences. for our city after shake.

well this is a photo of khalid in his classroom apparently shot on a mobile phone and if you look closer you can see him giving a four fingered salute a sign that cannot apparently land egyptians in jail regardless of their age or gender where a lot mohammad chairperson of the british egyptians for democracy group says that 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 is a symbol was false and is on a yellow background and he's actually at least 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 he 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.s.r. and why not at all to dot com we look at a study that suggests more than half of people living in former soviet states wish the union had never disappeared in two decades after its historic collapse. plus the operators of our own high alert yet again head online to learn what's behind record radiation levels in one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear power plant . and these are pictures from the international space station where the first of a series of urgent spacewalks to replace a broken coolant module has been completed without a hitch it took two nasa astronauts over five hours well let's discuss the mission

now with dr patrick leahy's the founder of capital science connections patrick this is the first of three space walks it's taken over five hours it's been successful but just how serious is the damage. well it's a serious situation bill but it's not yet critical the equipment involved takes heat from all of the electronic equipment inside the space station and transfers it outside the space station radiating away to space there are two units that can do that and one of them has failed that means that the astronauts on board have had to shut down a lot of. operations there so the thing is functioning perfectly all right but of course if the second unit were to fail that would mean that they were into a really critical situation where they couldn't call the space station properly and they would likely have to abandon it so it's a serious situation but it's not yet critical what about the mission that they've

carried out so far is it dangerous to carry out a mission that seems to take really quite a long time doesn't it firebirds. what is a long time yes and i guess with sandra bullock and george clooney in gravity the film that's just being released right now all of our minds are on you know this kind of catastrophic situation with astronauts outside the space station floating off or whatever of course once you get outside the protective cocoon of the space station yeah it is potentially a very hostile environment there's no atmosphere the pressure is there for close to zero you've got the problem of cooling and heating the astronauts themselves and you may well remember that earlier this year in the summer an italian astronaut had a big problem with his spacesuit which started to fill up with water and according to the media reports at the time he nearly drowned what it was certainly the case

that when they got him back inside the space station he had a round about a kilo and a half of water in his spacesuit which was seriously hampering his ability to talk and possibly even to breathe so it's a hostile environment to operate in of course the risks are well understood and are as far as possible controlled but i know that nasa have had to use the same spacesuit that malfunctioned before for this. extra vehicular activity so there must be some kind of questions in people's mind about the hazards involved and you know could something like that go wrong again initially i think that what i've seen this time the the astronauts of the space suits of being fitted with a kind of snorkel that they can breathe from if they run into the same problem with water in the spacesuits as they did last time what about the space station it's fifteen years old isn't it how long could it last before it could become too dangerous for service. well that's

a good question i mean it is obviously scrupulously maintained and monitored piece of equipment and there is an argument to say that within reason the longer that something is functioning and functioning satisfactorily the safer it is so the risks here are are well understood and well controlled but clearly as the thing ages as the equipment on board starts to get older and older and potentially malfunctions there is inevitably going to come a point where the international space station will have to be abandoned and the question is really in everyone's mind i guess whether anyone would ever build such a thing again and just finally briefly it looks as if this mission could be successful so far it's looking as if they are going to fix this couldn't module just briefly it does yes absolutely it's been a successful walk today and there's perhaps even the possibility that rather than

leaving two more walks the second of which was scheduled for christmas day they may actually be able to finish the whole thing off on monday which would be really good because obviously if you can reduce the amount of exposure to being outside the international space station by a third then that decreases the associated risks as well so looking at the moment patrick thanks so much for explaining all this to us really fascinating to talk to dr patrick live from london thank you. now to some other world news this hour for you hundreds of farmers from the greek in the creek 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 you previously only had to pay income tax claim it could put many of them out of business. 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 dangerous area warning of more demonstrations and cultural center has been occupied by refugees for over twenty years now but the building is under threat of collapse. seventeen people have died in a series of attacks across iraq a 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 their camp by mortar shells and r.t. is keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project that you can view right now on our website it is r.t. dot com. now the holiday season in the scottish capital edinburgh is in full flow 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 reports. 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 he tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost for the local economy. was. that the right way to. the scottish new year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world being the hottest ticket . 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 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 a 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 please 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 over indulged. the city gears up for a busy holiday season and does that midnight countdown is party goes here in edinburgh i asked to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit . sarah firth r.t. edinburgh was. one of the most anticipated competitions at the forthcoming winter olympics in sochi is the 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.

this is how he stands. like this i'm ready to shoot. i haven't lost it. it's impossible to score one trick. one as you can see ledger to go to the slot tretiak who won three and then pick torments in ten world championship medals is still in very good shape he was at the black sea resort helping make sure everything is ready for faceoff when the action starts including those pucks that the teams would have to get to know very well if they want to take a limited gold in february. more news in just over half an hour from now. is next with his latest attack on high flying financial sky that's after the short break when i want to.

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be in the. 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 credit space seeking to soak up more debt to feed the pool of the ribs and fraud in which it floats and survives and whilst awarding america debt not can survive on very little 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 had remarkable story and i understand what you're saying there that the there was a delay in terms of pricing in the fact that boeing and american corporations are being shunned around the world because of the n.s.a. infiltration of products with spying technology that renders these products worthless as far as being competitive you don't want your products competing with somebody who's an affected your products with their spying technology it also speaks to how broken these markets are around the world so much of the price of stocks and bonds and currencies around the world is set by fraudsters using their algorithmic trading computer trading so it took a couple of days for stock to really discount the fact the american empire is crumbling.