this is why you should care only. a long awaited reunion. meets his family in berlin after president clinton pardoned sam on humanitarian grounds. plus the pentagon fails to account for an eight point five trillion dollar black hole in its budget as washington seems unable to rein in defense spending. 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. the first time in my life that the child is locked up in the military prison for having a real look at all r t follows a story of an egyptian schoolboy who was sent to prison over his show of support for the country's deposed leader.

thanks for tuning in this hour it's five am here in the russian capital catherine of and thanks for joining me on r.t. international well to our top story now. has been reunited with his family in the german capital he was greeted he greeted his parents outside the hotel where he is currently staying the former oil magnate arrived in berlin just hours after his release from a russian jail following president putin's pardon artie's peter all of our reports . well macau 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 even today because my father is

free. my family is finally going to see it and we're very very appealing because he . really can hear us and also. 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 the main function shock to me as to come myleene i'm going to see him now i feel like it's one of my regular things 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 to again amidst again she seems to have been instrumental in making sure that because of how to close the code come here he german chancellor in a statement from the chancellor spokesperson angle merkel spoke person she pay. she paid tribute to the work done by mistake and share in 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 well could be called how to cope ski it's germany. where he is just behind me in the outlawed hotel now enjoying his family

reunion while political analyst and expert on russian german relations alexander rar was one of the first people to greet the former tycoon on german soil speaking to our tier or 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 is going to involve him in politics but it's my personal opinion that well mr rohr also told us it was neither a mystery nor a surprise that the one time all of our 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 sun never arrived but she's in germany . as she left only germany for russia but of course she's now with a sob. politician paul hampel from the euro skeptic alternative for germany party told us why he thinks her joined such a warm welcome and belin. the people of germany 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 and would have forgotten so quickly what has happened after the subject to the brink 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 with most influential in russia to 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 in prison russia i think that to the first to better to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy any more it's into last ten years. will be getting his first news conference on sunday at midday g.m.t. we'll be bringing you live on air as well as online and r.t. dot com you can check out our live updates section on our website for the latest photos videos and done for us from berlin. well the pentagon has secured a six hundred thirty billion dollar budget for the next year even though it's failed to account for the money that it's received since then a whopping eight and

a half trillion dollars of cash payers tox has gone to defense programs none of which has been audited the so-called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud as r.t.s. cat reports now. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government the 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 expert steve miles 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. spends what they found was about fifty billion dollars of the money the u.s. spent there was wasted about sixty billion. last i 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 the report is that the pentagon appears to be 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 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 audit means nobody checked if the numbers in their accounting made sense congress has just passed a 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 team. well earlier we talked to retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor he said the majority of americans don't realize the amount of taxpayer money that's actually squandered in the defense budget. if americans were actually aware and most american citizens simply are not aware if they understood how many trillions of dollars have been lost in the defense budget how much of it has nothing to do with defense how much of it in no way supports the

soldier sailor airman or marine who is actually organized trained and equipped to fight for the country they would be furious because if we could recover those losses we could probably reduce the national debt rather substantially again it's a function of the people on the hill the people in congress the president they have to be pressured by the electorate and the electorate can do that and the electorate can demand accountability but the electorate hasn't well u.s. intelligence expert gordon duff says lawmakers have become increasingly corrupted by other 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 a 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 have 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 here our take herbing the festivities. of the scottish 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 olympic titles ten to world championship

gold medals last the record of the legendary ice hockey goalie vladislav tretiak he's still in good shape and we'll see in a second part of our program will tell you about the important mission he has in sochi this weekend. largest consumer of the season and i see it with me in the country is the federal government to simply say this problem until the united states government look at this the united states suffered image and it wasn't done public has to realize you can't just buy. your own just throw it away there's a problem for instance belongs to the united states environmental protection agency

and i found this on a dump site here this is in the future it's not a waste of aluminum producers of these little i have to should be able to look at these and i believe that this should be responsible for the approval from cradle to grave. fatal for mexico department of mental health for up until south america incorporated but also belongs to the washington metro area transit authority properties of a dentist aids patient and trademark office. welcome back new charges have been filed against egypt's former president mohamed morsy he's suspected of involvement in a prison break and the killing of police officers during the twenty eleven uprising against hosni mubarak protesters meanwhile continued to be swept up in government crackdown we're age it seems doesn't quite matter true has the story of

a fifteen year old boy who is languishing behind bars. mohamed buckra waits at home for the return of his fifteen year old son headed jailed for taking a pro morsi religious school teaches notify the authorities when they saw the fourth think it symbol which commemorates the bloody august dispersal of citizens in support the troops asked it was. the first time in my life that a child is locked up in the military prison for having a ruler resume and their arrest 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 faithful of showing any allegiance to the ousted muslim brotherhood president. since they cleared the sit in some men started shaving their beards and the women took off their new cabs anyone who is against the coup does not sleep in their own homes they spend night 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 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 the. again to let you know that 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 in 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. for our city after shake. well this is a photo of khalid in his classroom apparently shot at a mobile phone giving the four fingered salute which you can see right here it was for having that symbol on his stationery that he was arrested meanwhile mohamed is she's the chairperson of the british egyptians for democracy group and she weighs in on this arrests as well as other ones. so this fifteen year old child along with many many children are now placed in prison just because they have things simple symbol it's a symbol was think is only a yellow background and he's actually placed in an adult facility alongside suggs and rapists and criminals in fact this is actually outrageous but we're seeing is

the military regime. going up so be a man 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 and you don't get access to a lawyer or medical attention. all the secrets of f.b.i. interrogations are now available to the public and after an agent who literally wrote the book on these techniques tried to submit his work for copyright protection find out why he wanted to make it public on our website. also our t. dot com cast what's been called the wiki leaks road movie media standards about the trials and tribulations of getting leaks out into the press. and you're going to come i want to thank you ali i just like to.

thank. you to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. the first of two spacewalks to replace a broken cooling pump has been completed without a hitch and the international space station it took a pair of nasa astronaut over five hours to finish there were pairs patrick fuller the founder of 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

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 upper races 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 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. well time now for a brief check on the world headlines and we begin in libya this news just in a car bomb blast at an army base in eastern libya has left at least six people dead injured more than fifteen it's reported that all those killed in the explosion were soldiers no group has yet claimed responsibility we'll of course bring you more on that as we get it. in germany clashes have erupted between police and protesters thousands reacted with anger when officers moved into a victim from a left wing cultural center in hamburg objects were hurled at police who responded with water cannon the violence left dozens injured the cultural center had been occupied by refugees for over twenty years but the building is now under the threat of collapse. well new details have emerged about the crash last

month of an airliner in namibia that killed all thirty three people on board investigators claim the captain locked himself in the cockpit before intentionally bringing the plane down his motives remain unclear and a probe into the incident is still ongoing. thailand's main opposition party has announced it will boycott february snap elections in may and a deepening political crisis in the country earlier this month the prime minister called for a vote in a bid to end weeks of mass anti-government protests demonstrators demanded her resignation accusing her of being a puppet of her brother the controversial former leader. holiday season in the scottish capital into burgers in full flow and so as the alcohol which accompanies it special patrons and so-called booze buses are being deployed to maintain public order and to help those celebrating a bit too hard artists are for ports. in the streets and pumps of edinburgh

the festive spirit is alive and well as the rudest and with the city's bus and he tells the holiday season provides a much needed boost to the local economy. was. the better way to. the scottish its name is hawkman and the celebrations held in the city of renowned around the world the big ticket. basically we have the tradition is that you're go right and you take your ticket but glass of whisky and some gold 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 simply stuff it's a busy period and it is a break this year

a number of schemes have been piss in place to try and provide support for the people he posted a little too mary safety to say these buses will be able to ration to try to take the strain off the local services the scottish ambulance service says the buses will be there to treat those. suffered a minor injury will have simply. gives up for a busy holiday season and does the mic night countdown it is not she goes here it is a bra to try and enjoy the spirits of the event she is easy on the spirit. of . edinburgh. one of the most anticipated competitions at the winter olympics in sochi as the ice hockey tournament and what's deafening going to be key in the action is the parks which have been 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 i would. like this. left wing cultural center. i haven't lost it. it's impossible to school when trajectory. as you can see in legendary goalie vladislav to track who has won three hundred tournaments ten world championship medals for the soviet team still in good shape he was at the black sea resort helping to make sure everything is ready for faceoff when the action starts including these pucks that the teams will certainly have to get to know very well they want to take home the olympic gold on february. up next an international we have tara blighter a film which explores the talks like legacy of computers that have been thrown in the trash but of course if you're in the u.k. it's the weekly leaks movie media stan about the risks faced by whistleblowers to

stay with us. 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 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

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