breaking news and also international prissy ride in a desert electronic about leaves a penal colony in cross najar risk as part of a prison amnesty after her fellow bond a man. walk free earlier today. while the new freedom. steps into the media spotlight it pledges to find where the release of these associates will take their cases and why they're still behind bars. israeli officials demand an answer about american allies spying on their leaders hot on the heels of revelations the n.s.a. was intercepting e-mails of the former prime minister. on the u.s. federal reserve the result of a hundred years since its foundation conceived as

a tool to stabilize the economy critics say there's little to celebrate about it same tree of money printing. this is all seen to national coming to life for most hello and welcome to the. and we'll start with breaking news on also international peace to ride bond. is free have found a member. that left prison today they'd follow it's been a serving time for carrying out a protest and in most cases the main cathedral. arena so they had chanting of course provoked a massive response around the world but now they're free that is absolutely correct they're free and it looks like they're actually planning to meet up in the nearest

future at least that's what has said earlier today she was the first to be released from prison mediately after her release she went on to meet with the a number of human rights activists and then she could have swayed for a little bit and then said that she is going to the siberian city of course and they are planning to do that and meet with the desert like when you go to afterwards both of them as well as those who are there to greet them are planning to go back to moscow and according to you know to spend their time doing. things connected with human rights and being active in that area now it's important to say that initially when. it was just announced of four. well you know was the one who called that just just both of them that when you said that both of them will be released. countrywide amnesty which has been announced by president bush and then said that she wishes she could have stayed in prison longer

until the end of her prison term instead of being released earlier but she couldn't do that now there's also been information coming from. his husband that it's neither him nor his wife are planning to leave the country and there have been some who have been asking whether that will be the case. also it's important to remind our viewers that indeed both. and the guys that are going to work in prison following a sentence that they have received ups are performing the so-called punk prayer in the countries that mean church and that is prized. in moscow that was seen as an act of hooliganism by a lot of people as well as why the russian court which has sentenced them all to two years in prison but now there's a crowd going to. be released. are going to live there irina thank you very much indeed for keeping us up to date. meanwhile pardoned

a former tycoon at me how holder says he wound engage 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 death to those still behind bars because i want to look now into one of the cases of what are called associates' 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 what some of these comments after his release raised eyebrows. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my

friend platon lebedev alexei protrusion 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 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 the children of ordering the shooting of lie 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 of that is 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 that should confess his sins and stop trying himself as a victim the court found no link between the murders and the you cause head. 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 peter all of a r.t. . and r.t. spoke to a key witness in the eucharist case on the acosta has said has not surprised him hell is calling himself and his associates political prisoners. spoke about a quarter of course he can act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible i'm of the third year this case could potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company security forces carried out their goal ski has no other choice he will continue to insist

people from his security department are political prisoners and he will pretend to be pushing for a picture against release responding to holder calls he is complaining his case was politically motivated the european court of human rights ruled eight actually had nothing to do with the political activities of the accounts who were not opposition leaders or public officials and also stressed the charges were not related to political life and a healthy core political analyst from the voice of russia dmitry babich said the associates of the hotel confiscate can hardly be regarded as political prisoners it . totally mistook the children and the other of the bad no father of course the who is due in jail a lot on leverage of they never did a nice human rights or political activity they never criticize the state what they did was just following dirty war of people working in a big oil russian company in the ninety's the children never was involved in any

political activity he never made any political statements he never ruled any articles in the newspapers you never talked about politics in public he was just heard all over i would say quasi military organization that helped russia's biggest oil company certainly its course and sometimes whole village to remove its opponents. and to the north about what of course case past comments to the press after his release and to get opinions on his case and surprise poddle at our web page that. israel's top politicians are demanding the u.s. stop snooping following revelations last week that america's spy agency intercepted the emails of the country's former top brass this is the first time tel aviv's it reacted in this way towards its closest ally however they prime minister office has

stayed silent on the issue honestly i reports now on why. the prime minister's office the defense ministry and the foreign ministry have yet to officially comment however one senior israeli government source has said that israel will not allow this announcement to pass without any kind of comment and that an understanding has to be reached at that these things one doesn't do among friends having said that though there is no visible outrage from the israeli side and this of course is because israel presumably is well aware that the u.s. is spying on other countries and so the assumption is there that israelis know that they too are being watched israel is quiet because it once its relationship with the united states to continue particularly in terms of intelligence sharing and in terms of the very large amounts of money that israel receives from the united states if you remember a few months ago there were reports that israel has sometimes joined the united

states in its electronic spying on others at the same time israel is on the receiving end of huge volumes of the controversially collected american intelligence we have heard from the israeli intelligence and strategic affairs minister you've all studied mit's and he has said and admitted as much that is walsh is all its intelligence with the united states the u.k. and germany he says and to quote him and these conditions it is unacceptable to behave this way of course that's a reference to the united states but having said that there's no way that israel is in a position to severely criticize the united states because it doesn't essentially want to jeopardize its relationship with washington and that is why steinitz has also said that we are extremely careful and take into account that not only arab countries but also the superpowers are listening to us. celtic on this aoun are saying to national a friend dub with the world's most indebted country marking the one hundredth

birthday of the federal reserve bank at a french troops condos and find out who gains from the most a financial bubble it created. wealthy british style some time to explain let's go. around the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. on your. face it's like you know.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm role researcher. you watching all seem to national it's good to have you with us let's move on as the twentieth scene rapidly draws to a close all this week we're looking back on the most significant events of the year . for the people of iraq this year has become the deadliest since two thousand and eight model by a deepening sectarian divide and more innocent lives being lost as

a result of the nine thousand people have been killed this year sectarian violence has claimed up to one thousand one hundred and twenty seven thousand lives in the decade since the u.s. invasion while seeking to undermine the sharon government sunni insurgents have a target civilian targets in different parts of the country bringing the total number of suicide bombings to of for flowers and the northern city of kuku is often called in the crossfire lying close to our kind of strongholds and being claimed by both the iraqi government and the autonomous kurdistan. found out how people there cope with the daily violence. right it is. 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 into your kook. 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 when have it. roadblocks and concrete barriers to find the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household and also frequent target of attacks for us is a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at your. inside your coop we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to look out for black b.m.w. use apparently they've become a favorite for iraq's insurgents who didn't pick the best day to come true roadside bombs exploded here earlier that morning around the same time that baghdad was

rocked by a series of deadly blasts but it's 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 even after the city without the help of the military escorts residents here say that a toxic happen 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 and. we don't know who the enemy is when the next bomb will go off but it's a daily fears we've gotten used to that you know i do small things to feel safer like driving 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 just to buy the. hype is what benefit did the your bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnappings people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back alive no it's not about the secretary and differences unfortunately it's book the black. oil and behind this oil is the hidden interest the politicians. pawns in a 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 u.s. 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 and this day take on it will continue as the president of they are lawyers association told us. this is much worse than it was two thousand and three because there is no security there is no infrastructure the there is a total failure of the infrastructure of the society the health education the teachers and their colonics have been either assassinated or emigrated you have a situation where four million refugees outside the country of 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. 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 wasn't. and he has created a special online project on her website which brings together detailed reports on the diet scale of the violence in iraq and from all the big events of the our series why twenty thirteen matters will be running all this week on our. these little tidbits it's our 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 jobs the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines.

is a big us federal reserve has a one hundred candles to blow out on his birthday cake founded to prevent a broom and bostic and all mix in the first century it's faced many challenges from double digit inflation to near depression so on it's on a vast saree it seems the right time to all how is the fed actually doing aussies were in accord not looks but the odds. 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 you're. under the change and i mean just basically put . her in the. other agency of government which can overrule

the 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. 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 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 america's central bank was graded following the two thousand and eight financial crisis millions of jobs in homes were lost. but wall street went on to make a record breaking profits courtesy of the fed's quantitative easing program board's done is it's basically taking a lot of the credit that was on wall street's balance sheets and it's onto its own balance sheets and so it's playing this huge support function and they calling me andrew sar who spearheaded the first quarter of q.e. has apologized to americans for what he calls a backdoor bailout for the bang. 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 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 merino. new york. meanwhile every day americans have little chance to influence the federal reserve despite its enormous impact on their finances as a professor of political economy crassness says the way to fat is designed will hardly ever make it in the interests of the people. even today it's very much determined by the big banks themselves you can get a nomination and become the director of new york's third without the failure of the big banks themselves and in fact people aren't aware that the banks actually pay

for the operating expenses they did day of the federal reserve itself so it's always relative the two should 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. into the economy what's happened is that money ends 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 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 there are more stories for you just a click away including he may not be able to whistle blower on russian soil but edward snowden says he's still signed for to moscow for the opportunity to walk freely and speak his mind the moodies house on his latest interview had to ask dot com. from snowden to smolder read about major's

extravagant gift to canadians who are almost left to celebrate christmas in the dark that's after having a winter storms of batteries the east of the country and i want our website for pictures of this pretty festive. japan is breaking its own radioactive records huge amounts of bees or a missing substances have been discovered in another way access at the crippled fukushima power plant the government says decontamination what shuttle to be completed by spring by actually take another three yeahs and alex carr an expert on japan says talk here has done too much to keep secrets hidden that is hard to assess the scale of disaster. entire system of management of tepco infected the entire nuclear industry of japan has been to rely on unskilled

uneducated un special us to be the workers the guys that pick up off the street and are brought in and paid a daily wage wouldn't have and some of them don't even realize they're going into a radioactive circumstance well it's not professional it's a comedy of errors and the attacks are just one of many many structures that were built originally without expertise without consulting him or national specialists it's fair to say that it's a big mess and it will get worse the real problem is that the government has but so much energy in hiding the information that at this point i could i think it's fair to say that nobody knows what's really going on and some other stories now from around the globe in age of three prominent secular assonance from the twenty eleven uprising have been convicted of holding an unauthorized a rally and attacking police the move was the first use of a controversial law restricting demonstrations all three x.

of us received three year jail terms and were fined iran seven thousand dollars and while the islamist coalition's announcement it will boycott trainer is their friend among the constitutional amended by the interim government to wish toppled president morsi. and 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 gun line with killed in clashes with french troops it was the first demonstration since the african union and french troops arrived to end the sectarian bloodshed that. it's supposed to be the season of goodwill but the local authority in the u.k. is not exactly been getting into the spirit in fact as far as has been finding out there are claims it's actually like the grange. what is the festive season that the tenants in one pass of london in the talk spain will say much about his coming down your chimney

a bit about what's coming through your letter box how dismissive for them council have sent this message out to seventeen thousand times warning people to pay their rent and asking them not to even into old age now that 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 it's part of a hard hitting campaign but with the cost of living crisis in the headlines in person 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 she understood what the reaction is although i believe you go to. looks like people are caught between a rock and push you know they want to enjoy christmas and play you run. more impressed with the people should overstreet be paying their rent it's pretty explicitly says if you're having trouble. where you could hold you know i think

that's such a course of goodness to church or not but it's christmas just has to feel you know charlie i mean ok over it really maybe boxing day. you bet i am 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 now if we assume you know i don't think it's fair i think that we should get rid of those places so for us he ended. up next to us he's very own hate to debate cross talk with people about.

he wasn't like the easiest person to negotiate ways i mean many people who've met him or even those who knew him briefly all say that he wasn't completely sane what was he like when you were talking to him and negotiating with him about the lives of these people you know he was very he was very. how can i say maybe on the drug store. but he was maybe it wasn't the right place said the right.

hello and welcome across all things considered i'm peter lobo q u.s. president elected to a second term in office leave the white house success even popular. it's a case in point his poll numbers are low his legislative agenda is in deep trouble and washington's friends and foes around the world do not take him seriously is obama already a lame duck president. whether obama is a lame duck i'm joined by my guests in new york chet why he's a democratic political strategist.