a day after his father was released from a russian prison the son of former. says the entire family has been reunited in the german capital. washington is told to rein in i'm accountable defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight trillion dollars since nine hundred ninety six. new charges of egypt's embattled former ruler mohamed morsi a prison break in two thousand and eleven as the latest show of dissent on the streets by police. the first time in my life that a child is locked up in a military prison for having a ruler while the own going political witch hunt in egypt knows no bounds we bring you the story of a schoolboy thrown behind bars for showing support for the country's deposed leader a top stories.

for most of you center here in moscow has just turned midnight this is international. because he has met his whole family in the german capital the former oil tycoon flew straight off to being let out of a russian penal colony on friday following a presidential run of the reports from outside the hotel where he's believed to be staying. well macau what it calls his first 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

thank you 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 of that was a fact the whole reason behind because of course you've 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 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 you said that he's he's free to stay here in germany should he want to as well it's is 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 because of how to close the code come here the 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 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 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 the former tycoon on german soil speaking to r.t. he shared some of his impressions of the meeting 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. mr also told us he thinks it was neither a mystery nor a surprise that the one time only god chose burleson as his destination reason why what of course we came to germany's 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 he was not here when the son 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's been debating what lies behind this release but politician paul hampel from the euro skeptic alternative for germany party believes there's no hidden agenda in president putin's pardon. the people of germany don't do 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 that the people in the west end would have forgotten so quickly what had 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 who has been in prison russia i think that to the first a better to the russian people as well that you have no influence on russian policy anymore since the last ten years and we can't go to costco you will be holding his first news conference in ten years on sunday at twelve pm g.m.t. we'll be in berlin to bring that to you so join us here in r.t. or in 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's received since one thousand nine hundred ninety six a massive eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of which has been audited this so-called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud has done a check on 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 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 expert steve miles here is 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 and 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 an odd. 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 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 shaped 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 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 isn't it nor must 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 the times 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 movie 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 on the international the festivities flu. the scottish capital works to keep public order in the holiday season introducing special patrols to help those taking celebrations a little bit to fall. also free and then pick titles 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 he has in sochi this weekend. please. please.

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look look look. applause. egypt continues to pile criminal charges on the else did president mohammed morsi is now facing trial over a prison break in two thousand and eleven journey 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 now on the story of one fifteen year old who suffered. mohammad buckra waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son ok that jailed for taking a pro morsi religious school teaches notified the authorities when they saw the fourth think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of citizens in support 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 closs but even if they look my son are probably ready to keep fighting islamist supporters of morsi like mohammed say they are in hiding faithful 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 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 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 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 change into the. again to let the crackdown on political activists is normal and natural because it's easy to accuse them of working for a foreign agency and charge them with treason or attacking people it in killing them is part of the 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. now this is a photo of khalid in his classroom apparently short on a mobile phone and if you look closely you can see him giving a four fingered salute a sign that cannot properly landed gyptian is in jail regardless of age or gender

or mohamed chairperson of the british egyptians for democracy group says 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 simple it's a simple was false and is on a yellow background and he's actually placed in an adult facility alongside subs 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 what is there in prison you don't get access to

a lawyer or medical attention. well back in the u.s. why not look at a study that suggests more than half of people living in former soviet states wish the union had never disappeared even two decades after its historic collapse. plus the operators of a. again i don't mind what's behind record radiation levels of one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear plant. also there are. documented their journey through central asia in search of media outlets willing to print u.s. diplomatic cables we can catch here the national right now on our website. strategic. undercover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents.

peer. pressure. 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 it took to nasa astronauts over five hours to finish the repairs to patrick for the capital science connections explain to me 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 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. now to some of the world news here not international hundreds of

farmers from the greek on and of crete marched on the country's parliament in athens outraged by you probably to a clash with police and threw oranges at them in defiance of new legislation which was introduced by the government as part of a sturdy measure the 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 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 cultural centers been occupied by refugees for over twenty years but the building is now under threat of collapse. all sort of world of. 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 open for a police checkpoint killing four officers while in the north two soldiers were

killed in their camp by mortar shells ortiz keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project that you can view on our web site r.t. dot com. well the holiday season in the scottish capital embrace his 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 a little too hard on the surface 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. it was. the. right thing it 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. basically we have the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take your ticket glass of whisky and some coal to keep you warm and wished you to have a drink and i think new year's eve was invented by the scots but it's not cause for celebration ambulances and police start it's a busy period and in edinburgh this year the number of steam sippin piss in place to try and provide support for the people he doesn't a little team every safeties aims and to say called these buses will be an operation to try to take the strain off the local services the scottish ambulance service says the buses will be there to treat those who suffered a minor injury or have simply over in. the city gears up for a busy holiday season and as 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 . r.t. 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 parks which have been presented to the public even in his sixty's knows how to deal with him 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 goal as you can see legendary goalie vladislav tretiak who won three months and ten world championship medals is still in very good shape he was at the black sea resort helping make sure everything is ready for the faceoff when the action starts including these parks that the teams will have to get to know very well if they

want to take a gold come february. twenty thirteen's major news stories including n.s.a. surveillance and the world wide anti fracking protests that is in breaking the sec coming up next and more news for in just over half an hour from now. the parliament of yemen has put forward a motion to ban drone attacks in the country the motion is now waiting approval by the president and it's probably impossible to enforce unless they could build a really big net or something isn't it strange that now after years of drone strikes in their country the parliament just wakes up to the fact their systems are getting blown up from the sky to be fair yemen doesn't have a ton of cash and i could see how having the well equipped and funded us military

to take care of the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really entices i mean it must be scary to be a politician with lots of power hungry terrorists about this would be the first time in history that a stronger foreign power fought a weaker states battles for them but the problem is that according to the huffington post a former u.s. state department official in yemen says that every year drone attacks create eight from forty to sixty new terrorists why they create terrorists because according to the human rights watch seventy percent of the people killed by drones in yemen are civilians you know if the yemeni government is really free from washington's grasp and really wants to deal with their al qaeda problem they'll have better luck doing it themselves with the good old rifles and bayonets pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion.

merry christmas happy kwanzaa happy belated hanukkah and happy best of it so everyone i'm abby martin this is breaking the cycle guys this is our last show of the year and given that news can be really 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 all. fission 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 rock that

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 zero 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 why which spends eighty million dollars a year on drug trafficking millions of dollars but here in the us so 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 legalized same sex marriage just yesterday new mexico supreme court gave same sex couples the right to

wed take back 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 now let's break the set.

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a quick look back at some of our favorite guests that have broken the set in season two. mr blair were removed as the so-called peace envoy which is the most inappropriate appointments and scully appointed to his horse as a protocol and so over all it's bribery it's legal bribery what what i was sure struck me. as. you know you bribe a candidate you give them money that's all you give them you know if you do that in the private sector you go to jail the idea of punishing the audience even if they're downloading music illegally i don't think an audience should be punished nor should like the our i a take litigious action against soccer moms we've evolved doing lots of things we do involves of being relentless sexists intelligence looks.