a day after his father was released from a russian. oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky says the entire family has been reunited in the german capital. also this hour washington is told to rein in defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight point five trillion dollars. egypt's. prison break in two thousand and eleven. on the streets is. the first time in my life that the child. while the ongoing political witch hunt in egypt. we bring you the story of a schoolboy throw behind bars for showing support for the country's deposed leader

. not from a studio. international. he has met his whole family in the german capital the former flew straight to berlin to being let out of a russian penal colony on friday following a presidential pardon of the reports from outside the hotel where he's believed to be staying. on the calcutta coast is most full day of freedom was a day of reunification 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

to 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 timea putin 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 be 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 hands again amidst again she seems to have been instrumental in making sure that we gotta call ski code come here he german chancellor in a statement from the chancellor spokesperson angle merkel spokesperson 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 along 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 here in this 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 it's my personal opinion that mr are also told us he thinks it was neither a mystery or a surprise that mikhail khodorkovsky chose burleson as his destination the reason why we 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 of the it was not here when the son that arrived but she's in germany. she left on a germany for russia but of course she's now with his son. well the western media has been debating what lies behind of this release politician poor hampel from the euro skeptic alternative to germany party believes there is no hidden agenda in president putin's pardon. the people of germany don't do know very little about. 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 has happened after the top 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 being imprisoned 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 khodorkovsky will be holding his first news conference and ten is on sunday at twelve pm g.m.t. now will be in berlin to bring that to you so you do join us here in r.t. or of course on our website r.t. dot com to see what he has to say. other news now the pentagon is secured a six hundred thirty billion dollars budget for next year even though it's failed to account for the money it has received since one thousand nine hundred six and whopping eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of which has been audited the so-called black budget as part concerns over potential fraud has gone to church can now 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 were wasted on goods and services that were never delivered on over payments to contractors and many other things what does congress do about it nothing and national security experts the mile serious here with me to help us crunch the these numbers even 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 lead from 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 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 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. 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 stop cracking down on unaccountable overspending at the pentagon that's the view of her time and 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 gordon duff 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 earliest one nine hundred ninety one we have heard of none of the advances we know

that were achieved during the strategic defense initiative in the eighty's and ninety's the 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 altie international curbing the festivities. below the scottish capital works to keep public order during the holiday season introducing special patrols to help those taking the celebrations just a little bit too far. also still to come the free ten world championship gold medals that's the record of legendary ice hockey goalie. and he's standing a good shape as you'll see in the second part of a program where we'll tell you about the important mission he has in sochi this weekend.

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pleasure to have you with us here today. egypt continues to pile 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 are 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 could it jailed for taking a pro morsi ruler to school teaches notify the authorities when they saw the fourth

think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of citizens in support of the troops. i think 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 are probably ready to keep fighting islamist supporters of morsi like mohammad say they are in hiding fearful of showing any allegiance to the oust of muslim brotherhood president. since they cleared the sit in some men started shaving their beards and the women took off their new cabs anyone who is against the coup does not sleep in their own homes they spend nights at friends or even an barmes 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 morsy 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 tonight'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 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 the letter from 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 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 boccieri for r t how for shaikh. this is a photo of condit in his classroom apparently taken on

a mobile phone now if you look closely you can see him giving a four fingered salute to sign the can now apparently landed gyptian is in jail regardless of their age or gender allen muhammad chairperson of the british egyptians 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 simple it's a simple was for fingers on a yellow background and he's actually placed in an adult facility alongside suds and rapists and criminals in fact this is actually outrageous what we're seeing is the military jim. 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. as. we look at a study that suggests more than half of people living in former soviet states wish the union had never disappear even two decades after its historic collapse. the operators of fukushima. radiation levels in one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear power plant. and a group of wiki leaks associates documented their journey through central asia and . print u.s. diplomatic cables you can watch the movie in full right now on our website. undercover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents.

country blocks the way to information freedom. the first of a series of space walks to replace a broken coolant module has been completed without a hitch at the international space station two nasa astronauts to finish the repairs. the founder of capital science connections explained to me earlier the details and the dangers of the mission. 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 non critical apparatus there so the thing is functioning perfectly alright 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 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 satisfactory the safer it is so the risks here are well understood and well controlled but clearly as the thing ages as the equipment on board starts to get older. the 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. time now for some other world news this hour hundreds of farmers from the greek government of crete marched country's parliament in athens outraged by a new property tax clash with police and threw oranges at them in defiance of new legislation which was introduced by the government as part of history measures the pharmacy 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 over the possible addiction of refugees from a nearby center a number of arrests were made in the forty's 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 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 and bar also in the west gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint killing four officers while in the north two soldiers were

killed in their camp by mortar shells now r.t. is keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project that you can view on our website r.t. dot com well a season in the capital 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 or 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 fans and he tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost to the local economy. it was. the. right thing was the right way. to scottish new year its name is 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 ticket but glass of whisky and some gold to keep you warm and whiskey to to have a drink and i think new year's eve was invented by the scots but it's not cause for celebration and violence 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 he wasn't a little tea mary safeties aims and she 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 ses he suffered a minor injury or have simply aver 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. edinburgh was. one of the most anticipated competitions at the winter olympics in sochi is the ice hockey tournament and what's definitely going to be key to the action is the pox which should be 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. like this i'm ready to shoot. i haven't lost it. it's impossible to score one trick checkers and gold. well as you can see legendary goalie vladislav tretiak who won three and then picked once and ten world championship medals still in very good shape of the black sea resort helping make sure everything is ready for faceoff when the action starts

including these parks that the teams will have to get to know very well if you want to take a little bit gold come from. more news in just over half an hour from now in the meantime as promised the media stand movie on the risks and challenges faced by whistleblowers this is our international . 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.

yeah i got tired do their cars. because i wrote an article about. about the conditions of work since we journalists have when they were going to israel palestine. and the year the journalists there they interviewed the very frank with me and they told me about two different things that you couldn't report to calm things than the good and censorship that to be experienced in there.

at their workplace when the material that was published two of the six journalists that are tired of you they retracted their statements so you see the. face you see you need not that you need something new damn orange you think out of the context 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 in reality i just evolved about it because i think to an extent. and i made a very big mistake with them with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hired to do

a very journalistic very difficult journalistic work. about journalists and the standards for doing a journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred times higher because they were. they were immediately you know a backfire and they will start to criticizing what you do in a completely different way than if it's a regular person because regular person doesn't have the power to. to say now. 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 a meeting between the u.s. ambassador and the caregivers foreign minister and it goes like this. the investor there and the curious foreign minister met that them basters residence midafternoon

president bakiev 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 there remained 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 it was going to but i will hand it to you.

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