it was. a long awaited reunion tomato what are called scheme meets his family in berlin after president putin pardons him on humanitarian grounds. washington is told to rein in unaccountable defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight point five trillion dollars since one thousand and ninety six. egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi faces new charges this time over a twenty eleven jailbreak while his supporters of all ages are being thrown behind bars. in the first time in my life that the child is locked up in the military prison for having a ruling party follows a story of an egyptian egyptian pardon me a schoolboy who was sent to prison over his shoulder support for the country's deposed leader.

thanks for joining in this hour i'm lucy catherine of the let's get straight to our top story me hell who has been a reunited with his family in the german capital he greeted his parents outside of the hotel where he's currently staying now the oil magnate had arrived in berlin just hours after his release from a russian jail this was for following president putin's pardon parties peter all over reports. on the cow holocaust the first full day of freedom was a day of reunification with family here in berlin his son pavel who'd flown from new york told us that the whole family had been reunited and that they were all very happy thrilled to be here in berlin germany today because my father is free. my family is finally going to see it and we're very very happy with me because he

and i think you can hear. me how to cause his mother and father had flown here from moscow now 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 infections shock to me as do come believe i'm going to see him now i feel like it's one of my regular they think it's the whole reason behind because of course he being granted the presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds was the the ill health of his mother so they have been reunited here in the hotel just behind me the press secretary of the russian president dmitry peskov 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 you 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 the ticket genscher missed again she seems to have been instrumental in making sure that we caught a cold see code come here he german chancellor in a statement from the chancellor spokesperson angle merkel spokesperson she pay. she paid tribute to the work done by mistake and share in bringing her to call ski it's a germany and she also praised the work done by the german government behind the scenes in making this possible and well could be called how to cope ski it's a germany. where he is just behind me in the outlawed hotel now enjoying his family reunion political analyst an expert on russian german relations alexander war was

one of the first people to greet the former oil tycoon on german soil speaking to r t war shared some of his impressions about their first meeting in ten years 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's going to involve in politics but it's my personal opinion. mr also told as it was neither a mystery nor a surprise that the one time all the dark chose to head to berlin the reason why i could of course he 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 happens mrs that of course 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 politician paul hamm both from the euro skeptic alternative for germany party told us why he thinks what are called ski enjoyed such a warm welcome in berlin. the people of germany do know very little about but. he was known as an older 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 and would have forgotten so quickly what has happened after the subject to 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 where most

influential in russia to president putin came and you know be criticizing today the influence of the other guys 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's to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy any more as into last ten years. he held her close he will be giving his first news conference on sunday at midday g.m. team will be bringing to you live on air as well as online at r.t. dot com i mean won't visit our live updates section on the website for the latest photos videos and analysis direct from berlin. well the pentagon has to curtis six hundred thirty billion dollars budget for next year even though it's failed to account for the money that it's received since one thousand nine hundred six now a whopping eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of

which have been audited the so-called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud as our team is going to check have reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government ovoid are seen best geishas 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 still 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 gloss 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 that 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 logs 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 just put a number in there that says it's there and we'll sort it out later i mean again this is this is the type of operating practice that if you did it in your own business

if you try to do it with your own taxes for the government they haul you off to jail what contributes to the massive waste is the fact that for two decades the pentagon has dug in on. it means nobody checked if the numbers in their accounting made sense congress has just passed the budget that allocates around six hundred thirty billion dollars to the pentagon roughly the same amount as last year how much of that will be wasted taxpayers will never know in washington i'm going to check out our. earlier we talked to retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor now he said that more and more taxpayer money is being lost amid a government in action we have been losing money in the defense business for decades it's gotten progressively worse with each passing year because there has simply not being any accountability we have legislation that requires an audit of the department of defense and each time we ask the department of defense to submit

the books for audit there are reasons given why it cannot yet be done this is an enormous problem and this is something that absolutely must be addressed and addressed in a forthright better at the ball that no one on capitol hill seems terribly concerned. here as intelligence expert gordon duff says that lawmakers have become increasingly corrupted by their ties to the military industry. we have so many defense entities that have gained so much power in washington over the past ten years certainly the i consider the phony war on terror as been an opportunity for the defense industry to buy congress the pentagon it works much like the federal reserve we have overt and covert policies we have so many black budget 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 just a few minutes here on our t.v. curbing the festivities. the loose it is not as capital works to keep public order during the holiday season introducing special patrols to help those taking their celebrations a bit too far. also three a limb pick titles ten world championship gold medals that's the record of the legendary ice hockey goalie bloodiest track and he's still in good shape as you'll see in the second part of our program will tell you about the important mission he has in sochi this weekend.

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pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm sure. welcome back new charges have been a filed against the egypt's former president mohamed morsy he's been implicated in a prison break and the killing of police officers during the twenty eleven mass uprising against hosni mubarak protesters meanwhile continued to be swept up in a government crackdown we're age it seems doesn't matter are true has a story of a fifteen year old boy who's languishing behind bars. mohammad buckra waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son credit jailed for taking

a pro morsy ruler to school teaches notify the authorities when they saw the four think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of citizens in support chips to present. 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 closs but even if they look my son up problem we're ready to keep fighting islamist supporters of morsi like mohammed say they are in hiding faithful of showing any allegiance to the ousted misnamed 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 activists 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 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 but government is determined to enforce new legislation banning protests without police permits so now leading secular activists are on trial to be jailed and then. again to let their 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 kafir shaikh.

now this is a photo of khalid in his classroom apparently shot on a mobile phone given the four fingered salute which you can see right there and it's happening for it for having that symbol on his stationery that he was arrested while on mohamed as a chairperson of the british egyptians for democracy group and she weighs in on this and other arrests. 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 with full fingers 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 but we're seeing is the military jame. 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. well back in the u.s.s.r. why not r.t. dot com we take a look at a study that suggests more than half of the people living in the former soviet states wish the union had never disappeared even two decades after its historic collapse also. the operators of the fukushima power plant are on high alert yet again line to learn what's behind record radiation levels in one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear plant plus. later this hour we'll be showing what's been called the wiki leaks road movie media scam but if you don't want to wait you can watch it in full r.t. dot com. the first to the first of two spacewalks to replace a broken cooling pump has been completed without

a hitch at the international space station it took a pair of nasa astronauts over five hours to finish the repairs patrick fuller the founder of the capital science connections explain the details and the dangers of that mission. the equipment involved takes heat from all of the electronic equipment inside the space station and transfers it outside the space station radiation away to space there are two units that can do that and one of them has failed. it's 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. on now to some other world news in brief and we begin in germany. was violent clashes have erupted in germany after thousands protested the addiction of a left wing cultural center and homburg demonstrators hurled objects at police force bombarded with water cannon and dozens were injured in the clashes the cultural center had been off occupied by refugees for over twenty years but the building is

now under the 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 anbar province 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 a mortar shells are keeping track of the violence in iraq in a special project you can view on our website r.t.e. dot com. hundreds of farmers who would wreak 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 had been introduced by the government as part of austerity measures the farmers who previously only had to pay income tax claimed it would put many of them out of business. all holiday season in the scottish capital even berg

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 to help those celebrating a little bit too hard i do use our firth explores. in the streets and pumps of edinburgh and the festive spirit is alive and well yet the rudest and with the city's sponsored hate tells filling up the holiday season provides a much needed boost to the local economy. that was. right. was the right way. to scottish new year is known as hogmanay and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world the big hot ticket. the tradition is that you're go round the houses and you take your take a glass of whisky and some cold cold to keep you warm and wished you 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 piss in place to try and provide support for the people here corson a little too mary safety zane's 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 those who suffered a minor injury or have simply over indulged so last the city gears up for a busy holiday season and does that midnight countdown is party goes here it is imbra to try and enjoy the spirit of the event just easy on the spirit. of r.t. edinburgh was. one of the most anticipated competitions at the winter olympics in

sochi is the ice hockey tournament what's definitely going to be key to the action is the parks which have been provided presented to the public by a man who even in his sixty's still knows how to deal with them better than most. this is how it goes. like this i'm ready to shoot. i haven't lost it. it's impossible to score one try checkers and game. as you can see the legendary goalie of law who won three a limping tournament on ten a world championship medals is still in good shape he was the black sea resort was a resort part of me helping to make sure everything is ready for a face off when the action starts including these products at the teams will have to get to know very well if they want to take the olympic gold come february.

up next as promised as the media stand movie on the risks and challenges faced by whistleblowers that's when our international but if you're watching in the u.k. george galloway will give you his views on the latest global events stay with us. there calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us would just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i'd probably check my email about seven times obama's place you 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. and. not even.

be through the right. these particular people we're working with. anything. why would they work with these chemicals why would they not work with these kind of mold many of them for money yes and this needs to be said they do this for the money yeah but the why they are why everybody is doing things well known what a liar it's why did you have doing this here i am having the fans who said that i was judging. and the man you are judging no not even with your stupid thing this movie is charging that it's ok i'm just saying any should be we need to be concerned that we are not going our own places saying we're better than you are because i've had this situation and i fucked off in years to that this is what i do i see this approach to the one where if you seem out of seeing that you you go to two people you know nothing there as you start out with them this earlier we can extend then when they have with us as

a strong reaction you're like strong reaction when they said they were promised the cables because they didn't know me going to the first place it was no no you have to know that who are you have you have one or then you get a slightly different opinion then you don't get that you only get the response they want to get as opposed to show in the audience what they will say about these things do you not think that it is an interesting question to see if media around the world will do this and who will and when i'm still working on thing well that is an interesting question if it's an interesting question no two they are too scared to publish you want to go he's on them in the morning with the rest of knowing or even if they see it there are many other great tears but miss ali what what what part what criteria are used to of an. interest newsworthiness know now that you can write a script every news organization that has a website it has a website developer who can just go. like that and they get free hits in google

is very very it is very very profitable to publish cables because you don't have to write cable it's free stories. the point as far as i see it is in the room. there are boundaries to free speech as in the same way as there are boundaries to our thoughts into our language and. when you speak when used to speak it is basically what we are dealing with and these boundaries get look differently in different countries but they are always exist in one way or another that is color sensors or conformism or self-censorship or whatever it may be and we have a very unique opportunity to actually just show we are these boundaries are was necessarily mean that these boundary is better than that boundary there with me after showing where i would ask your back buddy that there is but one thing is that

people usually are annoyed with people or if you are unaware of where the boundaries are the easiest way of getting a hold of them is by asking a person and it was a well i cannot write about looking for a kind of write about sex or whatever they are most often they like it will not tell you that there are only about the most popular is a rule we have no boundaries whatsoever yes and this is what you will get when you interview any journalist in the united kingdom or in brazil or in sweden or order it yet so what we have here is the tools in actually catching these boundaries if you push any organization they will have moneys enter into yes what i am what i write all of them including one not at all that. just think. oh are you coming up. with a starting point. well i'll scuffles years for pretty. suspicious.

with the guardian you got people that's been around nearly two hundred years. is completely sold the traditions of its international game it's the forefront of digital life with doing something that is almost anything times there's no one else that looks. very much stroke. that's just average that you're talking to me for a film which is documented. we're going to do there's a story don't you think i'll be well. ok this is. just me with all this is essentially your book e.g. you know. yeah sorry something.