and i think that's really what's happened here. there are poor that germany's former foreign minister who did trade cary grant share that template and twice over the past two years to discuss khodorkovsky fate what's in it for germany why is there such attention to this case in germany. i suspect will germany has a very very strong economic and political relationship with russia and i suspect that a lot of people in germany wanted to resolve this matter it was harder to get it out of the way so that they could continue with their relationship with with russia without this matter of being there to act as a sort of. a problem that we've all been activation if you wish only less interested in sending by really saying that mr hodder cost here thing well i come back to what i've said previously mr khodorkovsky applied for a pardon there was no compelling reason to keep him in prison for. for

the remaining eight months that he was due to stay there given that mr holder cos he was due to be released in august anyway so he spent ten years in prison for mr putin's point of view granting a pardon. resolves this question ends that you cos case. smith his relationship with germany which is important to russia as well and is reported to germany and it's important to russia and it enables him to move forward which is from his point of view an entirely good thing. that mr holder cost as we know was convicted of stealing billions of dollars in oil assets so why in the west was he seen as a prisoner of conscience. i think the simple fact is that in any conflict between the russian government and the businessman start the acts the reflex response of

the western media is to support the businessman beyond that of course mr holocaust he had lots of people involved in his businesses from abroad in foreign investors all sorts of people about car and he was the he was russia's richest man and he had connections with the united stated connections with germany so all of these countries all of the people in these countries were involved and of course mr holder because he himself ran a full month to be effective. public relations machine he had lawyers all over the place spokesmen all over the place who became involved in spinning his story if you wish. despite the fact that it's not just the russian courts that have said that he's guilty of that people consistently overlook the european court of human rights has repeatedly said that he's guilty as well but that never seems to get

reported its business rightly get expert on blogs alexander america thank you very much indeed for your time sir thank you. on they'll be plenty more news on me. to rob the day today with analysis both a on all see and on our website home so be sure to check it out. largest consumer of the seas and i see it with me in the country is the federal government to simply say this property of the united states government. is the united states somebody that it was going to public has to realize it can't just by

. you know 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 year it's not a waste of. my producers of these little i have to should be able to collect these i believe that this should be responsible for the products from cradle to grave. fatal to mexico comment on mental health up until subtle merge trying to cooperate are all but also belongs to the washington metro area plausible politi properties of a dentist aids patient and trademarks also. this is the work here on our to international welcome back with containing the u.k. government this week house knobs and also by the e.u. to help subsidize its food banks london told brussels such funding would be better

delivered by member states individually but there's provoked anger in a country where the use of the charity handouts is rising dramatically as laura smith reports. just a stone's throw from the seat of government in westminster is something that's becoming a more and more common sight in the u.k. this building's used as a food bank handing out emergency supplies to families so poor they can't afford to eat as the cost of living rises the number of people turning to food banks increases with its funding tighter all the time but nevertheless the government has turned down a potential twenty two million pounds in funding for food aid why because the money comes from the european union britain we've got a government with a very anti european ideology appears to be more keen to. warn europe to get credit for something than to get money which can how feed hungry

people if you are starving you need some food and you cry to die and this government's refusal to cry in the parish is literally taking food out of the merits of the hungry the european aid for the most deprived fund amounts to two and a half billion pounds but the position britain's taken means the country will receive just two point nine million and instead of using that for food aid as intended it's expected the government will spend it on helping unemployed people find work all well and good to say critics but there are people who need survival basics now and this money is meant for them. a look at some other news making headlines today we'll start with libya where there is side car bombing an army truck point outside been gars it killed at least seven people and injured many more a truck approached the sides and exploded one soldiers came up to examine the

vehicle no group has claimed responsibility yet troops in these two leave their regularly come under attack by islamist militia. crowds of anti-government demonstrators have punched the streets of thailand's compass all yet again the latest wave of protests against the prime minister has been ongoing for weeks protestors accuse the leader of the democratic system has tried to calm tensions by calling a snap election for the beginning of february however the opposition has to boycott the poll. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has apologized full time getting patients and medics during an assault on the country's defense ministry inside our earlier this month these statements blamed a renegade fighter for their trials that is adding that al qaeda had warned its people not to the tongue the hospital there sold into some of the troops killed augured fifty people and was the bloodiest in the country for eighteen months are kind of selling gehman has portrayed itself as fighting against outside

interference including u.s. drone strikes. they did their g.t. and it was repaid with second as servicemen with their royal air force was tasked with carrying out nuclear tests in southern australia at the height of the cold war and as artists are seen their reports polls for the u.k. government to compensate them are getting louder. just lydiard was seventeen when he joined the royal air force and was eventually posted to mari linger in south australia nuclear tests were carried out there in the fifty's with some publicity but minor trials reportedly continued in secrecy until the my nine hundred sixty s. run. being. we knew every or for every fortnight aircraft flew in with a nuclear flask. which we are loaded onto a lorry and it was taken away by the scientists who did what they were doing with

what he termed fifty illnesses he believes were caused by his exposure to radiation that mellinger started manifesting i started off with i had tb i then started having degeneration of my spine my daughter has gone pancreatic condition which can only be of traced back to genetic source so i have the question in my mind. was it many was it because i was there and many others are asking the same questions even before world war two radiation was a hazard the problem is measuring it in a meaningful way very very difficult indeed nevertheless there is undoubtedly i think contrition among the british authorities not to own up to any responsibility these people were experimented on quite honestly and it was disgraceful how those

soldiers were created and they've long been asking the government for recognition and compensation their service is part of history the warrior lies the future generations will not forget but for those who would actually serve the forgetting is not an option especially for those who feel that if the social they've made decades ago may have cast a shadow on their lives as those of their loved ones if you look out of the country's nuclear countries a treaty that veterans and compensate them and recognize them and we stand right at the bottom of the table that is wrong france the united states and even the tiny aisle of men have already done so but the ministry of defense maintains that while there is a quote huge debt of gratitude owed to the veterans the government rejects any link between veterans health problems and their military service citing a two thousand and ten health needs audit overall the range and severity of problems reported was typical of older people in the u.k.

in general and a veteran who believes they have suffered ill health service has the right to apply for a no fault compensation jeff knows the clock is ticking and while he's hopeful he has no illusions about how difficult the fight will be at the very least what he wants is this and so he found you we need cost money money to say thank you we're like goes. we don't exist does or sylvia r.t. london. business news with case of peel being in venture capital just ahead. big bucks but. they didn't go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

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to be a mom hold. on mom. drugs some of the sixteen percent we need you includes came from illegal fishing and. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. coupons but they enter our territorial waters because they fish. they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to do illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

you're watching but you can't do with me katie pope we both went to a christmas show they are going to be joined by the one and i mean that's kind of his views on the bankers bonuses and not small cuts so i went to a toy store to find out what we've had is a doing to compete with the eco was food aid rushed up the crackers all the way some fun stuff in fellas as well so you sit back relax with a couple bag knowable both want to try whatever is without the other one one of the spacing out just a minute i'll see what i tell you about the bankers' bonuses already a topic of frustration at every station well that's set to almost doubling i am managing directors at banks in london all set for a forty four percent rise in biases at least that's according to financial recruitment ask three miles down advice if we rewind back to february or remember the e.u. set out a law to control by expenses but you can't challenge this and if you had to be implemented it now one who is always brutally frank about his views on this particular topic yes i'm talking about the one on my re max card the from because

airport he's joining me from london though so much that despite all the attempts to rein in his bonuses i seem to be getting even bigger what is going on right now. what we've seen the past ten years or so innovation in central banking came in under byrne anky used to be when the fed printed lots of money he'd see prices of wages consumer items and assets go up in value but under bernanke he there's been an innovation in central banking where they print money and they put it directly into the pockets of bankers so wages don't go up so it's a beautiful new world where the central banks simply hand over billions of dollars to their cronies in the banking system and wages never go up so this is the new world order and i want to ask you is christmas and what about if you had to buy your favorite bank jamie diamond a christmas present this year what would it be why i think if i could

give jamie diamond a present for christmas it would be syphilis so that he could experience firsthand what everyone around the world experiences with his day to day banking terrorism what about don't believe that what we get from may. well for george osborne my first choice would be maybe a little polonium two ten but maybe not bad aggressive something along the lines of . some form of walk from a fog off farm in france to kind of personify what's happening to the world banks are being stuffed with all this cheap cash and in the end are going to be harvested and his liver along with a bunch of ducks will be exempt taken out and sold on the open market right. at the j.p. morgan christmas party entertainment what would you do. for the curse of party entertainment j.p. morgan that's a good question i guess we have to hire some. of the cast of

the soprano's to come in and reenact some of the famous scenes there where several people got a whacked i think that be very entertaining you could say been put on paper of you i think it's a fantastic way to extend the brand of j.p. morgan j.p. morgan major soprano's bankers get gunned down while you're cheering on the likes of tony soprano this is a great cross media opportunity even high that the staff fuld a christmas party for those will street bankers we're going to cook up. oh well i'm going to stick to. my think for christmas dinner for the banks there's again he have to give them a visual reference of what happens when a ducks like them are plotting the world economy their livers get extended in fat to the point where they must be harvested so twenty fourteen will be the year that the world harvest the bankers liver they take all that money that's been stuffed down their gullit and they break it up like

a pin yada and all that money is distributed to those who have been screwed and plucked in abuses by these horrible banks or so twenty fourteen is the year of the banker pin yada everyone should get a big stick and prepare themselves for this i got a lot of talking to about what's going to be inside those christmas crackers on the den a table. on the christmas crackers i think we're going to find many bitcoin because the bitcoin is going to be the gift that keeps on giving for twenty fourteen i myself purchased a lovely jacket from baker and soho using corn and this is a this is a roving phenomenon across the city of london merchants are realizing that a big coin or bust you don't want to do business with the banks or big coin is the future knife and what wildly you can be dressing up as a christmas cake. the christmas turkey this year on battle has got to be tony blair he likes getting naked he likes dressing up in strength bikini's he likes parading

around the ship flashing his moves these male breasts that hang down and he going to do this in the public i think it makes the perfect christmas turkey he loves that being stuffed from the bankers from behind that he's a guy that looks great on a plate nice. thing to write to open it to people you've got to do a baby. because the don't cave. well this year so to me is quite i think obvious the baby jesus is personified by nakamoto and bitcoin i think that's pretty obvious then the angel would be my co-host a servant of the cars or. makes the show special and then the donkey unquestionably would have to be reaching back into the past gordon brown makes a perfect on he's the guy who sold half of britain's gold supply at the absolute multi decade low so he's really the arse of the century thank you so much for that

in saw i have yourself a brilliant christmas oh my pleasure see you next year see you make. some christmas corporate news good things like the options well this year they want really old things in their stocking yeah that's right according to russian online ocean monitor. goes to the best someone says she is the most amount of things books doles silver dishes and christmas tree decorations in the last three weeks alone will the find thousand items and sells. in christmas time is all about looks something french it says energy giant rough draft in the u.s. made some i felt hot completed the creation of a joint venture that will spend up to three hundred million dollars on developing. western siberia and last that will have access to excellence projects in the gulf of mexico in the last. i don't know that a jew was quite looking about a festive spirit though brushes that gas from all over the amount to spend on

investments next year by more than twenty percent the gas giants twenty fourteen investment program will be more than four point three billion dollars down from the amount spent each year now the idea of christmas shopping on the little esteve high street is often much nicer than the reality of crazy crowds and miscues and stressful traffic jobs now this is exactly why online shopping is now big than ever so shops like getting creative coming up with ways to make the trip worthwhile and now the e-commerce is taking russia by storm department store attractions are getting bigger and better as i found out. like me you know what it really was it was something i thought that paper completely blown up with it taking the here you know cross it down was the name was it was like maybe we thought this was going to drop very low inflation may blow away from this

out. that we've been driving down. various something it was just so i mean that you know that was the things that kept up with talking very was that you may love to quote shout out that is it ok i'm going at it right. but well this all looks like great fun when it comes to e-commerce well it's a force to be reckoned with here in russia there are sixty million internet users also most in europe and that's why international companies like e bay and amazon they're looking at tapping into the market next is always already launched their online store and as we talk about money well this is the interesting part because by twenty eight forty russians will be spending thirty one billion dollars online by twenty fifteen that number will go up to almost. forty billion dollars now the reason why these numbers a co ming so far is because russians are changing their attitude to buying online

whereas in the past they've always like to pay five times in cast now they are getting more comfortable with using their credit cards so you can say that the tide is changing. now talking of shipping one of the reasons why russians have typically stayed away from internet shopping is because post of russia is notoriously bad for delivering sometimes this part of the process here the price of us could be the most annoying part because people can wait months on end for a parcel in the us if it ever arrives at all now post of russia they are getting better and they vow to improve the situation they're going to do so in a limbo right of ways including being more innovative being less they dependent as well as improving their online services as well and all of this is to become more profitable in the long run they've just introduced an app which you can use on apple and android as well as you can track your paso which is a brit way of getting to the way. oh you bet. on the

policies along with the pressure is piling up because fifty percent more piles are making their way to russia. sons elza hard work out the sheer personal reason is going to bar humbug on corporate christmas party plans in a speech earlier this month on the employees of state corporation should pay for their own office parties rather than using company funds. finally just a month was a victim target him for my opinion and why you should get him that mozart is a christmas party is what is going on i'm going to you know you tell me really disappointed because you know what corporation rush are the biggest corporate power yet or the other here you know what should we should rush again judge agreed to maybe it would be good to put that money in the pockets of the employees but there should be pressure opinion my opinion is on the far to go and i was thinking. stephanie champagne caviar i was thinking it was all going to go on i'm out as a disappointed although we don't have strippers chim people are killed here if i

had something you'd better look cool and green movement to the other t.v. we're. ok this could walk yes about very little plastic tree in buildings whatever it takes so we got to so this is of course a fun thing we will policy no matter what putin says this is of course let's say venture capital we will see you next time have a merry christmas and take care you shall. not. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others could use to know. things change the world right now. picture of today's you know tons of stuff from around the globe.

up to. 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 sophie 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 big 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. don't understand you correctly that you don't believe that adequate snowden performed a public service may be in the best interest of the united states but at least can be best interest of humanity countries don't want to turn over their play book to the other side and that's essentially what's happened here it is true that it is heard a big debate about the role of our intelligence services in the united states i

think that debate was coming in anyway after nine eleven but i don't think we've had sort. anything in the interest of humanity.

me how you hold says he's not interested in politics or business the form of oil tycoon who was russia's most high profile prisoner has been reunited with his family in berlin following his surprise release and were bringing life pictures from his news conference which is taking place right now in berlin. also this hour radical islamist rebels in syria allegedly massacred dozens of civilians during a battle in the suburbs of the competence of damascus. crowds gathering in central kiev where anti-government protests have raged for over a month as ukraine secures a fifteen billion dollars economic rescue geo from russia.