illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our. breaking news an r.t. pussy riot member maria law leaves prison following a presidential amnesty while the punk bands in addition to lock on the cover is expected to walk free soon. while the new. steps into the media spotlight he pledged is to fight for the release of his associates we take a look at their cases and why they are still behind bars. the u.s. federal reserve marks one hundred years since its foundation conceived as a tool to stabilize the economy critics say there's little to celebrate about its century of money printing. and as we begin a look back at the big stories of twenty thirteen for a racket becomes the deadliest in the past five years with over nine thousand killed in bloody sectarian strife.

are working it's nice to have you company you're watching party international. pussy riot band member maria law has walked free from jail her lawyer says another member of the band. is expected to be released soon to the both been serving time following a stunt in moscow's main cathedral let's get the details from marty's there in the . you know this story and they're jailing cause a lot of controversy around the world but it appears they have their freedom at last well at least one of them does that is correct and there has indeed been released from her prison earlier on monday she immediately after her release she went in for a meeting with human rights activists and indeed that is was she's. said she's

going to do with her time after with her time now she wants to become a human rights activist as well now she said that if she had the choice she would have not taken taken on the which was allotted to her and another of. among others another member of the pussy riot punk band having said that it's important to underline the fact that whether she was being convicted under oath and insisted that be entire charges were unjust and her imprisonment was doubly so now when it comes to life is that. her husband who is also waiting her release from prison is it is said that he spoke to her on sunday and she has informed him that she is indeed to be released today so she is right there outside of her penal colony waiting for her for her to appear and he has also said that neither him nor his wife are planning to leave the country in the aftermath of her release so of

course we're continuing to keep a close eye on is the situation which of course started back in february of two thousand and twelve when there's a lot going to go you know with several other members of the pussy riot band have staged a performance in the main cathedral of the country that is crisis leverage at the draw in moscow and both of them have been serving time on charges of forgiveness of . keeping us updated. he says he won't engage himself in politics or business but will dedicate himself to helping his imprisoned comrades at his first press conference following his release he said he needs to pay back his debts to you still behind bars to all of the looked into one of the cases of holder. 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 number side to the yukos saga one that's not often heard. free after ten years this is that some of what of course these comments after his release raised eyebrows may have. 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 you cause 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 how to quote skis oil company you because he's currently serving a life sentence for five 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. he's 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 how darko ski should confess his sins and stop trying himself as a victim the court found no link between the murders and the prostate the higher court of course was jailed in two thousand and three for fraud and embezzlement he refuses to accept him killed for the crimes he was convicted of these are all over the live while responding to holder called spies' complaint his case was politically motivated the european court of human rights ruled it actually had nothing to do with the political activities of the applicants who were not

opposition leaders or public officials and it also stressed that charges were not related to political life and had a healthy course let's talk more on the controversies of the case with the political analyst dmitri babich dmitri thanks very much for speaking to a service afternoon i'm so horticulture skiis pledged to help the release of political prisoners and specifically his named alexi but to give you serving life for murder can he actually be regarded as a political prisoner because after all he is a convicted killer. well the problem is that the western media has sort of invested so much media capital into what are called ski there the western public is convinced. qatar costy no idea then you see a role in his life well the problem is that he was a typical russian oligarch or the ninety s. and not just the typical he was the reach of the person in russia are in two

thousand and three when he was imprisoned and certainly everyone knows whole big fortunes were made in the rush of the night yes of course there were murders of course there was there were some hostile takeovers all various companies and certainly. children and. the other partner of course the who is still in jail on labor day of they never did a neat human rights or political activity and they never criticized the state what they did was just dirty work of people working in a big oil russian company in the ninety's now because he was very politically active wasn't he before he was jailed and yet here he is pledging to stay out of politics why the change of heart. well i would say that it's a generalization to say that he was politico that he had been politically active before two thousand and three actually during most of the ninety's he kept quiet

even when russia was torn apart by various party as in one thousand nine hundred three we never heard from him he just accumulated all these billions of dollars you know he spent ten years in jail and i think it's a personal tragedy before he made no less than ten billion dollars so it's about divine year for one billion dollars not a not a very bad deal even by european standards and he became politically active all the usual vows and three and in a very strange way he simply bought state duma deputies he bought cominius he bought yardwork a member and he thought that he would be able to become the president of the country because he was the richest man in the country he miscalculated and he miscalculated when he thought that he would not be put in jail so what we see in his version is certainly a strong man someone who is a great risks involved he is not an angel he is not

a human rights activist and he is not a hero of the russian people ok thank you very much for that insight dimitri that political analyst immediately babiche thank you. for telling more about these first comments to the press after his release and to get opinions on his case and surprise pardon to head to our web page at r.t. dot com. has twenty thirteen rapidly draws to a close all this week we are looking back at the most significant events of the year. for the people of iraq that she has become the deadliest since two thousand and eight marred by deepening sectarian divide and more innocent lives being lost as a result more than one thousand people have been killed this year sectarian violence has claimed up to one hundred twenty seven thousand lives in the decade

since the us led invasion while seeking to undermine the shia government sunni insurgents have attack civilian targets in different parts of the country bringing the total number of suicide bombings to four thousand while the northern city of kirkuk is often caught in the crossfire lying close to al qaida strongholds am being claimed by both the iraqi government and the autonomy could stand. in or found out how people there are coping with the daily violence. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here in. this oil rich city has been described as a fault line a symbol for the country's most intractable woes escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting

there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take us in both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care coop and are sparring over control aside from the danger those entering from the kurdish side need special permission to get past the iraqi checkpoints we inhabit. road blocks and concrete barriers define the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household they're also frequent target of attacks for us is a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at war. inside your kook we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to look out for black b.m.w. apparently they've become a favorite for iraq's insurgents who didn't pick the best day to come to roadside bombs exploded here earlier that morning around the same time that baghdad was rocked by a series of deadly blasts but has been a flashpoint for years now and in the city center it's clear that life doesn't stop

just because of the threats we were expecting empty streets but people continue to go about their business as normal vendors and busy families did their shopping beneath the surface there are scars today kirkuk continues to be an incredibly dangerous place that took a bit after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks have happened at any time in any place in fact it's not really safe to stay here for too long so let's get inside. we need car want to his family there kurds who say they're happy that saddam is gone but their fear of political repression has been replaced by fear of the unknown. you know. we don't know who the enemy is or women next. but it's a daily fears we've got used to it you know i do small things to feel safer like driving all the car windows down that way if there's a blast at least the glass was heard. such precautions didn't help sixty year old mood who says that

a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle for somebody and if you. like this what benefit did the war bring democracy only explosions shootings and kill. people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that a job where i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back but soldier. no it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book the black the oil and behind this oil is the hidden interests of politicians pawns in the political game playing with their livelihoods and lives for conflicts not of their own making the iraqis we met didn't hate their neighbors or care about who controls the oil just like they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive to see captain of our team here in. the us led invasion

of iraq in two thousand and three marks a clear start to what would be a very bloody period in the country's history in this daily carnage shows no sign of stopping is the president of the arab lawyers association told us. the situation now is much worse than it was pretty two thousand and three because there was no security there was no infrastructure the total failure of the infrastructure of the society the health the education the teachers and their. daughter immigrated you have a situation where four million refugees outside the country almost two million displaced in the country within the country and the killing is continuing on a daily basis that it is unprecedented so the situation is much worse now. made by both the government of iraq and the western powers who created the

situation and they still want to say it was a success but it was. well r.t. has created a special online project on our website which brings together detailed reports on the scale of the violence in iraq so if you take a look at that if you get a chance for more of the big events of the year our series why twenty thirteen matches will be running all this week here on our take. these are. braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up the gulag of our time. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines.

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a new its most sophisticated robot which unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in group think this is why you should care only on the dog. choose your language. choose the consensus. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in life choose access to. welcome mat now today the u.s. federal reserve has one hundred candles to blow out on his birthday cake founded to

prevent boom and bust economics in his first century it has faced many challenges from double digit inflation to me depression so i wanted anniversary it seems the right time to ask how is the fed actually doing. looks for the answer. secretive powerful wealthy and now it's got a birthday america's central bank wields enormous and almost unchecked power over the world's largest economy further as your delusion independently change is not means basically brute. force in the middle the other agency of government which can overrule actions that we carry the country has seen as many as eighteen recessions since the fed was created leading many to argue it has singularly failed to end the boom and bust economics that it was designed to prevent it's been a abject failure it's been a dismal failure in promoting prosperity. sustainable prolonged prosperity and

raising the living standards of americans. for the past thirty years have produced the biggest growth of income inequality wages for the low and middle class have remained stagnant while the fed has allowed banks to double in size accounting for forty percent of the u.s. economy the fed has twelve regional banks and this one in new york is not only the largest it's also the closest to wall street as salaries profits and bonuses have all grown over the past century one thing has shrunk the value of the u.s. dollar has declined a reported ninety five percent since i'm erika's central bank was great at following the two thousand and twenty actual crisis millions of jobs in homes were lost. wall street went on to make record breaking profits courtesy of the feds want to see if easing program boards done is it's basically taking a lot of the credit that was on wall street's balance sheets and it's it's brought

it onto its own balance sheets and so it's playing this huge support function in the economy andrew starr who spearheaded the first quarter of q.e. has apologized to americans for what he calls a backdoor bailout for the banks most americans can't really get credit after the financial crisis still to this day even though wall street's been stabilized and so we have this long term decline in the economic prospects of the average american and yet a lot of our leadership both in washington and within the fed specifically are really focused on trying to put humpty dumpty back together again in terms of wall street and resists resuscitate a system that i think is a working less and less for for the person on the street for one hundred years america's currency and economy has been run by unelected and virtually unaccountable central planners and while the fed has helped the rich get richer the gap between the top one percent and the rest. is the

largest it's been since the great depression marina point i r.t. . remind every day americans have little chance to influence the federal reserve despite its enormous impact on their finances as professor of political economy jack person a says the way the fed is designed will hardly ever make it act in the papal even today it's very much the term and by the big banks themselves you can get a nomination and become the director of the new york fed without the ok of the big banks themselves and in fact people aren't aware that the banks actually paid for the upward in the expenses they did the federal reserve itself so it's always relative to to shoot for the bankers and. you know it's really a bit of a misrepresentation to say that the third is going to stimulate the economy pumping money into the economy what's happened is that money earns up in the hands of the investors and speculators but because that money is not getting into the real

economy mom and pop business you know stimulating the rule of verse with united states we don't see any real recovery in the real economy for real folks here in the united states and there are more stories for you just a click away including he may not be able to whistle blow on russian soil but edward snowden says he still thankful to moscow for the opportunity to walk freely and speak his mind for more details on his latest interview head see r.t. dot com and snowden snowden in read it back nature's extravagant gift to canadians who were almost left to celebrate christmas in the dark after a heavy winter storms battered the east of the country log on to our website full of pictures of this pretty stiff breeze. that was supposed to be the season of goodwill isn't it a local authority in the u.k. it's not exactly been getting into the spirit in fact as our sisera firth is been

finding out there are claims it's acting like the grinch. well it's the festive season that the tenants in one part of london and the talks mean not so much about his coming down your chimney but about what's come through your less about how dismissal for them council has sent this message out to seventeen thousand homes warning people to pay their rent and asking them not to indulge now the council have defended their actions saying that there's more than forty six percent of the tenants in rent to raise and that it's a time of year when people will be spending less and this is a straightforward message is part of a hard hitting campaign but with the cost of living quite this in the headlines in britain at the moment and others have branded this message disgusting we've been talking to some of the people who live in this part of london to find out what they think i think. i believe you go to. people are caught between

a rock and push you know they want to enjoy christmas and play you run. more impressed with people should obviously be paying their rent and it's pretty explicit he says if you're having trouble. presumably this is where you could cause you know i think that's actually quite a good miss to church you know you know it's christmas to feel you know charlie i mean pay your rent reading books and. you very i like clever with your money because you're going to have a bit of fun for like a day or two and then you're just going to have a whole year just so hard no. no i don't think that's fair i think they should get rid of those spaces so for us he. says have a look at some international news in brief nap in egypt three prominent secular activists from the twenty seven uprising have been convicted of holding an unauthorized rally and attacking police the move was the first use of a controversial law restricting demonstration in two or three activist received

three year jail terms and will find around seven thousand dollars be mine. the islamic coalition's announced it will boycott january's referendum on the constitution amended by the interim government which toppled president morsi in the capital of the central african republic thousands of muslims have marched against peacekeeping operations in the country according to locals the rally was triggered after three gunmen were killed in clashes with french troops it was the first demonstration since the african union and french troops arrived to end the sectarian bloodshed. and the crowd of around sixteen thousand took to the streets of stockholm to demonstrate against racism the police presence was heavy use the previous rally and you can violence a week ago when a group of far right activists attacks protestors twenty eight people were arrested and two were taken to hospital following the assault sweden has seen a rise of the far right triggered by a growing influx of migrants a recent poll gave the anti immigration sweden democrats party around ten percent

support ahead of next year's general election. and help bomb which israel has accused palestinians of planting exploded on a bus near tel aviv police say no one was hurt after they evacuated passengers from the vehicle before the blast israeli forces set up roadblocks at entrances to be occupied west bank and search cars for suspects in the west bank has increased in recent months and at least nineteen palestinians and for israelis have been killed since peace talks got underway after a three year break. up next take place here for the. wealthy british style. was.

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hello welcome to the all t. sport show i'm kate partridge and all the bringing you twenty six action packed minutes of the latest sport from russia and around the world and here's just a taste of it. cup upset host russia win just one of their three matches in sochi as the czech republic play in the china one cup and finland the overall euro tour with six weeks to go until the winter olympics. plus lord of the ring roy jones jr is in the night betting not to fight a unanimous decision to win the w.b. you cruiserweight title here in moscow. added alling saying we look at why russia all the world's best in synchronized swimming as champions past and present close another dominant season with a spectacular end of year show. but let's start with ice hockey as host

russia lost two of their three matches at the china one cup in sochi. finished third overall from four in the euro to the last tournament before the winter olympics at the black sea resort the red machine started well at the bolshoi i stone coming back from a goal down to beat sweden three two on thursday tom found out open for breakthrough not early in the first period a russia where level within four minutes through maxi should be enough one won it remained until the third quarter went to dino netted his and russia's second but sweden quickly bounced back to make it two to go with two minutes and eleven seconds left the youngest player of the tournament nikolai pluck walk and grab the winner three to. but russia lost to finland three two before also getting down to eventual champion china one cup winners the czech republic to one it was the hurry so opened early in the final period courtesy of an

alexander out of the last penalty shot but within four minutes tamasha north say and usually novotny made it a nightmare for russia and their fans to warm the final score one victory from three for the host at their last event and at their home limpy venue just over six weeks to go until the winter games. so a not the best preparation for russia ahead of the olympics but the team did get a boost after the charges of domestic violence were dropped against their first choice goaltender simeon belhomme of the colorado avalanche star was facing up to two years in jail after his model girlfriend claimed he attacked her last month but prosecutors said they had no proof beyond a reasonable doubt and the case was dismissed. while staying with ice hockey and russia's judea team are preparing for their opening game of the world championship against norway in sweden on thursday and before they headed off richard found.