i'm not planning to be involved. mikhail khodorkovsky 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 look the european court of human rights has repeatedly said that he. never seems to get. a suicide car bomb attack in syria claims the lives of up to seven children that comes as amid allegations that islamics massacred dozens of civilians in a damascus suburb. you can't get into your home. if you think it apparently not many would especially after a report found that cancer causing chemicals were found in

a water samples collected in your fracking site in colorado. you're watching our t.v. live from moscow today we've got the latest developments and a look back at the top stories of the past seven days this is the weekly on r.t. . says he will not pursue a career in either politics or business the former oil magnate outline his plans for the future at his first news conference as his release from jail. there's a new month's supply. i'm not planning 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 in the in this to the struggle for power is just not

for me but it was a list of where you are now despite the former business spending flooded with question some aspects of his past were avoided by the media as peter all of our reports mikhail khodorkovsky 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 this is that some of these comments after his release of raised eyebrows i mean. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei patrician 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 quote ski's oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sentence booked 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 that immediate bet you all of the mayor of a town in siberia and his widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. that of course skis 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 of our cause q should confess his sins and stop trying himself as a victim the court found no link between the murders and the u.

course had a higher court of course 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. couric asked was released from jail on friday after being pardoned by president putin on humanitarian grounds he flew straight to berlin where he was ringing reunited with family including his mother who was suffering from cancer earlier we spoke to jurgen else a seer editor in chief of political magazine compact he says there are parts of the former all the dark past the west prefers not to know about. totally unknown in the west the. big economic oh criminal.

have her stolen a lot of for money from the russian people and from the russian state that he has still a lot of oil not physically you're barred by means of fiscal many police. every kind of businessman in the west who had done the same would have all sought ended in prison this story is i'm told in the west there are are speculations and there are a kind of pressure on him from the corrections of the anglo-saxon oil industry to meddle into russian politics and to go all back into the game it is unclear what will happen if you get more on the release of mikhail khodorkovsky at our web site r.t. dot com or we have reports in-depth analysis and opinion. to syria

now where a suicide bombing near a primary school has killed up to seven children in the province of arms this comes after dozens of civilians were allegedly massacred by islamists in the town of hadera archies 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 and 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 organ aman ation they were all taken to be killed they took everyone 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 because the syrian authorities say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address sadat latakia 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 where houses were set on fire with 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. r.t. . western powers of 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 it is implicated in the bloodshed. we spoke with an adviser to the u.s. congress who warns 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 taliban next year the number two if the united states will engage or has engaged

some of these organizations probably in the goal of a 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 exist in syria today. meanwhile a key syrian minority group is looking to capitalize on the chaos the kurds have taken up army's arms to fight for autonomy and are now and demanding a seat at next month's international peace conference all the details in a few minutes. 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 pushing ahead with their drilling operations is gonna teach you can reports residents living near the wells have almost no allies in their fight for

a safe 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 your home. thank you but steve has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is a 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 lips 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 use of us are is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the state oil and gas regulator sided with the gas corp yeah you can see that the rights seen come 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 an inherent conflict of interest in 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 so why do you sell us our 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 e.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 well continues to frack is alive thousand feet deep or you were pretty much standing around on top of the one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some contact being at the border and they're able to trace it

to this frack him and we've got the office ted who cares invest in a few last three 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. parker county texas. meanwhile the u.k. government would like to see greater energy exploitation in the countryside a 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 these plants u.k. 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 a handful of exploratory drilling sites across the u.k. but already we've seen huge local opposition whether it's in the south easterly wind or the 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 have 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 public enemy number one that's according to his lawyer who says he's in solitary confinement with a little contact with fellow inmates that's after he was charged with happening in to a danish government database. but if you want to know how much i feel about mr . jealous. he is jealous of obama and explains why moscow is pouring cash into ukraine in the annual marathon q. and a session with the media that's after a short break. technology

innovation all the developments around russia we. have heard. economic down in the find out. that the old shanghai and the rest would like to be paid every week.

i'm. discussing the crisis in ukraine joking about the n.s.a. surveillance program and talking about his stance towards greenpeace activists these are just some of the issues president putin covered during his annual marathon q. and a session this week are to say corpus can all was there and brings us the details. they'd 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. 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 said it right from the last few weeks with mass protest both in favor of against moving closer with the e.u. moscow's giving key of a fifteen billion dollar loan to help to cope with 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. it was a foreign minister also headed the parliament to machinegun is a former prime minister you schenker was ukraine's president why didn't they sign these papers when they were in power no one was standing in their way 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. 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's stance on the organization itself. this ship it entered our exclusive economic zone was not responding and they tried to scale the platform after attempt to stop them the second boat started ramming our border guards is that's a civil discussion about protecting the environment it's just 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 but. 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 of r.t. moscow. meanwhile the opposition on the streets of ukraine made chant slogans but it seems that some activists remain a stranger to europe's mostly liberal values that's after these sexual orientation of the former german foreign minister got in the way of him meeting one far right nationalist leader report on that later this hour. he's not a killer or a terrorist but he's being held in conditions as bad as if he were online activist and a legit hacker godfried told is one of the founders of the file sharing website the

pirate bay has been accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers and that's not the first time one of the pirate base creators found themselves in court. 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 a ted quarters and several years later its founders were charged and eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations earlier this week r.t. spoke to spark a whole virus lawyer who told us her client is treated much worse than is warranted by the charges against him it's got a little bit better since we talked over the last time he's been moved to a different facility. beyond the first facility the first prison couldn't really get any worse and so now he's and different facility and he's been allowed to. be with another inmate to talk to another inmate two hours a week but it's still not good years allowed to go outside as well one hour every

day. and during that hour. you know. you can talk to other inmates you certainly not. given the conditions that other in the same case would be given leave. very cautious about anything and don't really want anything to go wrong because it's a very sensitive sensitive case in denmark. bad news for beefcake says american scientists develop muscles from. there a thousand times stronger than their human equivalents but if your about here are concerned about the rise of the machines head to our website for the full story. china is planning to construct a new aircraft carrier because of washington the growing military presence in asia you can get the latest on what's behind growing tensions in the pacific at r.t. dot com. turkish police have fired tear gas and water

cannon to disperse demonstrators in istanbul people poured into the streets to vent their anger over a massive government corruption scandal. that's after at least twenty four people close to prime minister ariel sharon were arrested on suspicion of embezzlement money laundering and bribes. but the turkish later dismissed the case as a conspiracy to discredit him and his government john arum tahn of the istanbul good guys that told us what he thinks is behind the an arrest thirty behind the scenes there is talk about the fact that this corruption scandal erupted because there is a struggle between the occupy the originals party and the so-called usenet one can not be fit to look united. and so in the role of those who say that there is a need to struggle for the soul of turkey in the in the in the political field between

the me between those two things and what for the moment i think i did on this here to stay. because he was very steadfast in his. promotion is that he has nothing inside and outside forces were trying to turkish for turkish progress and as a result he was firmly entrenched in news funding to go anywhere however how this whole corruption scandal will play out ran that people are going to cost their vote next year. the u.k. has snubbed an offer by the european union to help subsidize its food banks the move prompted accusations that the conservative led government's anti e.u. sentiment is getting in the way of aiding the poor that'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 caught i 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 provide the parish is literally taking food to 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 by any standard it's been invented for here but how will it be remembered as new year approaches are to text look back on the news that dominated the headlines that's on our why twenty thirteen matter show starting from monday. these are called spin counts hour here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giant chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up dubbed the gulag of our times.

is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. more news in just about fifteen minutes time but now kitty pilgrim takes us on business and finance ventures with venture capital just ahead.

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you watching but to counter with me katie paul we both went to a christmas show under to be joined by the one and i mean that's kind of his views on a bank was going to save a lot smallpox so i went to a toy still to find out what we've had is a duty to compete with the the call was made in russia for practice all the way some fun stuff in venice as well so you sit with a couple back noble want to try whatever is without the other one one of these missing out to somebody else who was tell you about the pillows bankers' bonuses already a topic of frustration at every station well that's. almost. managing directors at banks in london are set for a forty four percent rise in bonuses at least that's according to financial recruitment firm asked three miles down anyway so if we rewind back to remember the e.u. set out a lot control bank expenses but you can't challenge this and it's yet to be implemented in london now one who is always brutally frank about his views on this particular topic yes i'm talking about the one and i max kaiser from because report

he's joining me from london now so much despite all the attempts to rein in bankers' bonuses they seem to be getting even bigger what is going on right now. where we've seen. ten years or so in innovation in central banking came in under used to be when the printed lots of money you'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 one of you is christmas and all of that if you have to buy your favorite banker 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 have that what we get from a. 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 fog walk from a fog off farm in france to kind of personify what's happening to the world of banks they're 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 gay people going christmas party entertainment what would you do. for the course of party entertainment of j.p. morgan that's a good question i guess we'd have to hire a.