i'm not planning to be involved in politics just. called ski reveals his plans for the future at his first news conference as a free man but some questions about his past are being avoided. people consistently overlook the european court of human rights has repeatedly said that he's guilty but that never seems to get through to. a suicide car bomb attack in syria reportedly claims the lies of up to seven children that comes amid allegations that is on this massacre dozens of civilians in a damascus suburb. you can't get into your home. apparently not many would especially after a report finds that cancer causing chemicals were found in water samples collected

near fracking sites in colorado. we're watching our table live from our moscow studios where you can find the latest developments on a look back at the top stories of the past seven days this week on our. mikhail khodorkovsky says he will not pursue a career in either politics or business the former oil magnate outlined his plans for the future at his first news conference since his release from jail. and you must speak. i'm not wanting to be involved in politics which i've already made clear in my letter to president putin and confirmed many times i'm going to devote myself to social issues but. the struggle for power is just not for me.

but it was a little despite the former businessman being flooded with question some aspects of his past were avoided by the media as peter all reports because of how to cope he entered into the press conference in a whirlwind of media hype into a room packed to the rafters with journalists many of whom were congratulating him on his release as a political prisoner however there is a nother side to the yukos saga one that's not often heard free after ten years is that some of these comments after his release of raised eyebrows may have . some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei protrusion says there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the u. cos case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which symbolizes that the efforts of civil societies can lead to the release of some

people who no one thought would be able to walk free. to choose again was the head of security for mr holder called skis oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sentence book by counts of murder if you have a court finding a person guilty of murder i think it's very difficult for anyone to then say well he's guilty but he's not actually guilty because he's a political prisoner i find it quite order in two thousand and seven a court convicted it too good of ordering the shooting of a law to me a bet you all of the mayor of a town in siberia and his widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. behind the murder of my husband he's a free man now it's painful for me to talk about this because nothing can bring my husband back the international community should know the facts for that of course q. should confess his sins and stop trying himself as a victim the court found no link between the murders and the you cause head

holocaust he was jailed in two thousand and three for fraud and embezzlement he refuses to accept any guilt for the crimes he was convicted of despite the conviction being backed up outside of russia to 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. peter all of a r.t. berlin. khodorkovsky was released from jail on friday after being pardoned by president putin on humanitarian grounds he flew straight to berlin where he was reunited with his family including his mother who was suffering from cancer earlier we spoke to jurgen i'll say this here editor in chief of politico magazine compact he says there are parts of the former all of our past the wild west prefers not to talk about. totally unknown in the west. is a big economic oh criminal. have her stolen

a lot of for money from the russian people and from the russian state that he is still a lot of oil not physically or by the by means of fiscal many police. every kind of businessman in the west had done the same would have all sought ended in prison by this story is untold in the west there are are speculations and there are a kind of pressure on him from the factions of the anglo-saxon oil industry to mingle into russian politics and to go all back into the game for it is unclear what will happen he will get more on the release of mikhail khodorkovsky at our web site r.t. dot com we have reports in-depth analysis and opinion. to syria now where a suicide bombing near a primary school has reportedly killed up to seven children in the province of homs

this comes after dozens of civilians were allegedly massacred by islamists in the town of adria arches arabic channel went there to talk to eyewitnesses. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town about drugs they saw panicked disoriented people running for their lives and they ran themselves they will never forget the despair in the eyes of those who were forced to stay behind we have no reliable way to communicate with the people trapped inside address but officials are saying the atrocities against the civilian population are continuing how people are being butchered and even burned alive and every bit of news coming out of the town is doing a new blow to those whose families are still being held by the militants and everyone working for the local authorities was to be killed regardless of their religion organon in a sion they were all taken to be killed and they took everyone that even those who supported neither the government nor the rebels they were all either tortured

killed or used as human shields the things being done in the drawer unthinkable they're slaughtering children and throwing them out of windows and no one's doing anything about it just the syrian authorities say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address sadat and will attack here and many other areas which remain under the control of the armed opposition the situation in syria has now deteriorated to the point that international norms of combat are no longer being observed. he's an industrial town with a lot of the us residents working both in the private sector and for government agencies horrifying crime must have been committed in this town the houses were set on fire without people. from the syrian army which is a position just outside the town that continues to carry out surgical strikes as part of their effort to liberate which is now the only hope of the families waiting for news of their loved ones inside the town.

western powers have indicated next month's peace talks in geneva may no longer involved calls for assad to be removed from power it's feared extremists could take control of the country if his government falls washington says it's willing to meet members of the newly formed islamic front group which is implicated in the bloodshed and we spoke with an adviser to the u.s. congress who wants extremists can't be trusted well first of all it would be a strategic mistake if the u.s. administration or europe or their allies would be engaging in a partnership and a partnership meaning they would be collaborating with organizations that are jihadi and have not committed to become moderates or recognize the fact that if they come to power or part of power they will recognize human rights that did not happen that would be a mistake of the size that was done in afghanistan and maybe done again with the party next year the number two if the united states will engage or has engaged some

of these organizations probably in the goal of very tactical engagement to make sure that those forces are not going to bring more foreign forces from the outside including al qaida but again i'm very skeptical so we have to have a better strategy to engage with the more moderates with the seculars and also with the minorities that exists in syria today. infertility birth defects and cancer are potential side effects of chemicals found this week near fracking wells in colorado but that hasn't stopped us energy companies from pushing ahead with their drilling operations as artie's guy in it you can report to residents living near the wells have almost no allies in their fight for a safer environment the local government in texas tells steve lipski that the water from his well water that he can set on fire is safe to drink and to use in his home . you can hear it in here. thank you but steve has the

assessment of other experts who say he's well is it ticking bomb in his backyard loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments steve claims that a fracking operation nearby contaminated his well and that texas energy authorities are shielding the gas company. they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents it could be that the fracking allowed gas from lower formations into the aquifer and subsequently into steve lipski as well the gas company denies the claim the lipski is sued the range resources corp but the firm counter sued and won in cause and effect evidence a ground water is incredibly difficult to prove my d.s.l. us are is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the state oil did with the gas corp agency that

derives its income in survival from oil and gas production issues really put him in charge of also regulating the protection of groundwater from going down swells and there's any parent. conflict of interest that determined to fight for his home father of three steve has been shipping fresh water from the city on trucks at a cost of five hundred dollars a month but the family now faces another blow from the fracking corporation of four point two million dollars lawsuit for defamation steve lipski is dream house and it's a beautiful property has become his nightmare several of his neighbors apparently have the same problem but they're reluctant to speak out after they saw how the gas company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either

why do you sell us are says the environmental protection agency has not put nearly enough resources into studying the effects that fracking has on groundwater but that didn't stop the p.a. from coming up with a report in favor of the practice. believes kids were advised to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas wells continues to frack despite thousand feet deep they were pretty much standing around on top of the one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some contaminant the border and they're able to trace it to this fracking and we've got the horses ted who cares invest in a few loss of feed for now it seems that the authorities at all levels are so fired up on fracking potential profits that households like steve leaves his family are left to fight alone to get a healthy environment in their homes going to check on our t.v.

parker county texas. meanwhile the u.k. government would like to see greater energy exploitation in the countryside and report is lay the groundwork to open up vast areas of britain to exploration including shale gas drilling now the light blue on this map shows how much land has been earmarked for that plan at this point the u.k.'s energy minister has hailed the report as the next step in unlocking britain's fracking potential but friends of the earth's helen rimmer believes it's time to stop before it's too late we've only had one hundred full of exploratory drilling sites across the u.k. but already we've seen huge local opposition whether it's in the south or just a little over northwest where we're seeing it now and i think with the government's new licensing round which is going to open up another two thirds of the country to the potentially so fracking we're going to see even more position and i think the government is going to have to put a moratorium in place like it had done previously and actually listen to the concerns of communities because there's

a very loud and clear message. a co-founder of the pirate bay website is being treated almost like a public enemy number one that's according to his lawyer who says he's in solitary confinement with a little contact with fellow inmates but after he was charged with hacking into a danish government website database. plus putin admits he's jealous of obama and explains why moscow is pouring cash into ukraine in the annual marathon q. and a session with the press but after a short break. the . technology innovation. developments. we. have heard.

if you. economic down in the final. they belong to the old and the rest because i would still be paid to believe every week. i'm. discussing the crisis in ukraine joking about the n.s.a. surveillance program and talking about his stance toward greenpeace activists these

are just some of the issues president putin covered during his annual marathon q. and a session this week r.t.e. corpuscles was there and brings us the details. never met personally but his revelations surely made an impact on the world. answering a question about edward snowden the president didn't reveal his exact whereabouts but he couldn't resist humoring his all relationship with barack obama and u.s. surveillance tactics. as ability you want to know how my feel about mr obama after snowden's leaks i feel jealous i feel jealous because he can do these things and get off scot free still there is nothing to be happy about but on the other hand there's no reason to be frustrated however tough the criticism against the us may be all these measures have always been aimed at tackling terrorism but there must be some clear rules and certain agreements including those of ethics ukraine was also discussed that actually set it right from the last few weeks with mass protest both in favor of against moving closer with the e.u.

moscow's giving kiev a fifteen billion dollar loan to help because of severe economic problems and according to putin integration is not the core reason behind the wave of unrest. those who are pushing forward the idea of signing an association agreement with the european union these people would govern in ukraine not so long ago. was a foreign minister also headed the parliament to machinegun is a former prime minister who was ukraine's president why didn't they sign these papers when they were in power no one was standing in their way so they could have gone ahead and sign them and there'd be no problem today i have legitimate downs that the current protests are about moving closer to the e.u. it's an internal political struggle and signing or not signing this document is just a pretext like the current amnesty which should affect up to twenty five thousand people coincides with the twentieth anniversary of russia scots dushan members of pussy riot and greenpeace activists from the so-called arctic thirty are expected

to benefit so obviously this issue was also mentioned including the president steps on the organization itself. this ship it entered our exclusive economic zone was not responding and they tried to scale the platform after an attempt to stop them the second boat started ramming our border guards is that a civil discussion about protecting the environment is just so p.r. or an attempt to blackmail racketeering or someone's order to disturb our work on developing resources what happened should serve as a lesson and unite us along with greenpeace in joint efforts to minimize environmental risks instead of just making a fuss. of course these are only a few topics touched upon which you also talked about recent diplomatic breakthroughs like the syrian chemical arms deal and the iranian nuclear program the conference was attended by over thirteen hundred journalists over four hours you go to school of our two you must go. well he's not a killer or

a terrorist but he's being held in conditions as bad as if he was online activists and alleged hacker god told him fargo is one of the founders of file sharing website the pirate bay has been accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers it's not the first time one of the pirate bay is creators found themselves in court at the website first came under fire back in two thousand and six when it got on the wrong side of hollywood it was taken down for several days when swedish police raided its headquarters several years later it founders were charged and eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations earlier this week artist polk spoke to smart home lawyer who told us her client just treated much worse than is warranted by the charges currently against him. it's got a little bit better since we talked of the last time he's been moved to a different facility. to be honest the first facility the first prison it couldn't

it couldn't really get any worse than that so now he's and different for certainly and he's been allowed to. be with another in mexico it's another inmate two hours a week but it's still not good yes allowed to go outside as well one hour every day . and during that hour he will you know by coincidence able to talk to other inmates he's certainly not giving giving given the conditions that other in the same case would be given believes very cautious about this case they don't really want anything to go wrong because it's a very sensitive sensitive case in denmark turkish police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in is time bob people poured into the streets to vent their anger over a massive government corruption scandal. that's after at least twenty four people forced

a prime minister heir to wanna were arrested on suspicion of investment money laundering and bribery that the turkish leader dismissed the case as a conspiracy to discredit him and his government john erian todd of the istanbul guys that told us he what he thinks is behind the unrest. in turkey going to scenes there is talk about the fact that this corruption scandal erupted because there is a struggle between the. originals party and the so-called usenet movement not befit to look into it. and so in the role of those who say that there is a legal struggle for the soul of turkey and in the in the in the political field between the me between those two is going. what for the moment i think doing this here to stay. because he is very steadfast in his. promotion is that he has nothing inside and outside forces who are trying to more turkish for turkish

progress and as a result use firmly entrenched interests not going to go anywhere however how this whole corruption scandal will play out when the people are going to cost their vote next year. time for a brief look now at some other news making headlines around the world in the capital of the central african republic thousands of muslims have marched against peacekeeping operations in the country locals say the rally was triggered following the death of three gunmen in clashes with french troops they accuse paris of only defending christians after islamic groups were disarmed it was the first demonstration since the arrival of african union and french troops to end the sectarian bloodshed in the country. a suicide car bombing at an army checkpoint in eastern libya has left at least thirteen people dead and scores more injured a truck approached the site and exploded when soldiers approached to check the

vehicle government troops in the east of the country regularly come under attack from armed militias they did their duty and were repaid by sickness servicemen with the royal air force were tasked with carrying out nuclear tests in southern australia at the height of the cold war and as artist tests are sillier reports calls for the u.k. government to compensate them are getting louder jeff lydiard was seventeen when he joined the royal air force and was eventually posted to marling good 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 do. we knew every or for every fortnight flew in with a nuclear flask in which we are loaded onto a lorry and it was taken away by the scientists who did what we were doing with what he termed fifty illnesses he believes were caused by his exposure to radiation

that barreling started manifesting i started off with i had tb i then started having degeneration of my spawn 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 and 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 i 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 and war you allies of future generations will not forget but for those who would actually serve the forgetting is not an option especially for those who feel that a decision they made decades ago may have cast a shadow on very lives and 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 island men have already done so with 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 say from q one we need cost money money to say thank you we are like ghosts. we don't exist does or sylvia r.t. london. coming up next on our team international the second half of the terra blight documentary on the hazardous legacy of computers that are thrown out along with the trash. summer break a time when all students rejoice and most importantly relax but in russia summer break for male students could change dramatically and involve lots of guns currently male russian citizens have to put a year into the armed forces but the ministry of defense thinks that they can make

things easier by having students spend their summer breaks in the military this training would tie in with their future professions such as engineering students being put into military engineering position now the question is does your summer break belong to you or another words of the government have the right to tell you what to do and make you serve in the army even if just for three summers during your college years i think the answer this really depends on your culture in places which haven't been invaded countless times or have a strong individual ism streak any form of conscription sounds barbaric and oppressive but if you come from a country that is less individualistic and has been attacked invaded by pretty much every country that possibly could like russia then having a draft makes more sense i think this program could work and if i was in college i would be pumped to spend my summer vacation with some heavy artillery but this is definitely not a universal idea for all countries i don't think liberals or libertarians in america would take too kindly to it and rightly so but that's just my opinion.

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