chris arrives in a digital or conical believes at the penal colony in causing a young risk as part of a presidential honesty just hours after a fellow band member. was also left. on the newly freed. steps into the media spotlight pledging to fight for the release of his associates we examine their cases and why they're still behind bars. sumi israeli officials condemn america for spying on the country's leaders while the government ignores the elephant in the room to preserve its relationship with the u.s. . the first in a series of reports of all the bones that marks twenty thirteen and today we look at least a confidence trip to rule iraq where the pulse chair will be remembered as one of

the daily fear and bloodshed. this is all seen to national coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. prissie rind band member and i dare to tell a cornucopia has been freed just hours after a fellow band member. was also released from jail they'd both been serving time for carrying out a protest stunt in moscow's main cathedral but while that as part of president putin's amnesty. has been following the story for us obviously they're very happy to be out of prison but they have expressed their desire to continue along the lines of working in what concerns he was rising in the country. i was very

well treated many women asked for my advice and support and human rights and legal issues and it's my purpose now to protect the convicts who spoke to human rights activists and as much as we can within the letter of the law protect their rights. you know there's not going to go as well said that she intends to keep a close watch on those who have remained in the penal colony where she was she's also intending to do humanitarian and she were rights work in connection with those who are in prison in russia but first and foremost both members intended to meet together we know that they have spoken on the phone already in fact is said to be thought to be going to cross new york city where there's the recording of a real long meeting with her husband now speaking to media before years ago according to his release her husband said that neither he nor his wife intend to leave the country both. were given

a two year prison sentence following this so-called punk prayer in the country's main church. hey emerged from prison straight into the limelight insist he won't return to either politics or business but i mean. he doesn't need to pay back his debts to those still behind bars and well find where his imprisoned comrades are based on her looks now at one of the people who of course kate has vowed to defend. the course 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 this is the sum of because of course these comments after his release the rings i bros. 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 society is going to lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free. to go and was the head of security for mr holt of course these oil companies 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 that quite order in two thousand and seven a. bit 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 of the there was no investigation about her that question is involvement in my husband's death he wasn't even interrogated both myself and other people who were analyzing this have plenty of facts proving that and that of course he was directly involved in the killing of my husband the co-author found no link between the murders and the cross-head the higher part of course he was jailed in two thousand and three for fraud and embezzle and he refuses to accept him killed for the crimes he did from victims of the trial of a. pry into what a cost is really is there were reports prosecutors were considering new charges against him that could carry another seven years sentence costs and they used to be an advisor to the former oligarch and suffered an attempt on her life after she fell out of favor with her boss just as it's not surprising his calling himself and his associates political president. spoke of the course and of course he can act

differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible and what the third this case could potentially be because there are further investigation into those murders and assaults which will convert the security forces carried out their goal ski has no other choice he will continue to insist people from his security department are going a little prisoners and he will pretend to be pushing for a picture against release or of course he is complains that his case was politically motivated was rejected by the european court of human rights it found no evidence that the political activities of those involved were relevant as many were neither opposition leaders or public officials it's wrong the charges were not related to political life and had a healthy core and political analyst from the voice of russia dmitry babich believes the associates of holocaust hardly political prisoners. joe donnelly used to be julian. the other of the bob you know father of course the who is doing jail

a lot on labor day of they never did any human rights or political activity and they never criticize the state what they did was just totally 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. all over i would say quasi military organization that helped russia's biggest oil company certainly scoffs and sometimes lead to remove its opponents. and to mourn and hire holocaust case first public comments after his release and to get opinion and analysis on his case and surprise padan had ta web page that started up. the latest n.s.a.

revelations claim among other countries america's been spying on a israel its closest ally but unlike some other targets such as germany which has been explicit in its outrage israel opted to sweep this kind of under the rug out its promised land now reports 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 there is no visible after rage from the israeli side in this of course is because israel presumably is well. on other countries and so the assumption is there that israelis know that they too are being watched israel is quiet because of 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 australian it'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. and soon on this

issue when are joined live by isaac lebannon former israeli ambassador to egypt and the yuan entry neiva mr lebanon thank you welcome to our seed nice to see you so at about snowden having revealed good afternoon wonderful r.k. i don't snowden has showed the world that practically everyone buying on everyone else it does true why the backlash. well first of all i think that snowden has published only five percent of what he knows or what the process we still have to see what there are in the ninety five probably there will be an earthquake following this information look. we know we know very well how the countries are behaving because we do understand that information is a strength and everybody is looking after the strength by seeking that information

but in these where we believe that this you should do it in front of your enemies probably you should not do it in front of your friends and more than that with allies this is why in israel we have been really hurt but we did not express it officially doing this behind the scenes because we believe that such kind of things should not occur between friends and allies why don't. you have a very deep complete strong cooperation on intelligence activities. israel's transport minister said systematic spying is no way for friends to treat each other so to what extent is that place where friendship and politics when it comes to national security. well i look i think that when you when you have an enemy any kind of any means a country is and. to understand to reach to and to to have information concerning

what what is his agenda what his intentions what he is prepared to do in order to protect yourself and sometimes also use this information with the united states we have for over a few years longears even that we have very good cooperation on the field of intelligence i mean by that that look we share with the americans the intelligence that we have and they say that we share they share also with us the information that they receive so we don't see any reason why to do this to our leaders and in that country remember that twenty nine years ago the americans were furriers when somebody did this on the soil of the united states and i mean by jonathan pollard. would you agree that it's a virtual certainty that israel spines on america. well

after the. what happened over jonathan paul i think that there were a commitment coming from israel and we stick to that commitment and besides really we have such kind of a deep corporation that would believe that everything that we should know we can know it through the americans and what the americans should know the israelis can help them in debt so we don't see any need for such kind of activities we do understand that we can cooperate we can divide the task between ourselves but definitely not to intervene in friendly countries and to listen or to spy on its leadership i think that here they have heard a certain degree of confidence that say that we used to have between both countries but i don't think that it will go beyond that because in his words we're understood very well that such kind of things happen it happened in the past between the

countries not necessarily with israel and i think that the. world where we're continuing to discuss this with the americans behind the scenes in order that this will not continue to limit such of let's say intervention in a friendly country. all right isaac lebanon live from tel aviv and mr lebanon thank you very much indeed. and plenty more news when we come back stay with out international. technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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our leg of the bands the tribes twenty first say. for the people of the rug this year was the deadliest since two thousand and eight marred by a deepening sectarian divide and more innocent lives are being lost as a result the very latest news from iraq is that a series of attire in the suburb killed at least four police officers and four soldiers are more than nine thousand people have been killed this year in total and six terror and violence has claimed up to one hundred twenty seven thousand lives in the decade since the u.s. invaded while seeking to undermine the sharon government sunni insurgents have attacked civilian targets in different parts of the country bringing the total number of suicide bombings to four thousand the northern city of kirkuk is often called in the crossfire lying close to al qaeda strongholds and being claimed by

both the iraqi government and the autonomous kurdistan. found out how people there cope with the deadly violence. right it is. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion in the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here into a kook. this bluish city has been described as a fault line a symbol of 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 a sin 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. roadblocks and concrete barriers to

find them you are wrong checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household and also a frequent target of attacks for us is a blatant visual reminder of the country still very much as you want. inside your boots we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to look out for a black b.m.w. has 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 looking after the city without the help of

a military escort 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 are 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 war but it's a daily fears we've got used to do small things to feel safer like driving the car when it was down about when if there's a blast at least the glass of. 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. daily life has become a painful struggle to buy the. benefit did that you're bringing democracy only explosions shootings and kidnap 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 i know it's not about the city tarion differences unfortunately it's book the black. oil and behind this oil is the hidden interest of politicians. 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. our team here who. investigates a group iraq body count has been collecting data on the casualties in the embattled country for years now and clearly how the otter is a leading research and that's it for the organization and she joins me now live from london. with the out a welcome to see so you've been researching the victims of terrorism and iraq for

a long time how credible is your information and. basically where do you get that. research is daily and what we do is we check many many media sources or any source that is made available to us either in english or in arabic and what we do is we collect any information we have on civilian casualties on any particular day and we have a very large database that contains names ages places where attacks have taken place as well as who the perpetrators were if indeed they were identified and ever to neighbors us to monitor the violence to provide some statistics to see whether it's increasing or decreasing in who is doing the killing

and who the targets are. is there something trivial public and don't know about the situation in iraq. what most people don't understand is that the violence in iraq is daily what we do is normally we would turn on the t.v. and if there happened to be a major attack it is reported and we hear about it but the daily violence we don't hear about so at the best of times in iraq three to four hundred civilians have lost their lives in the month that was it's quiet and that is completely unacceptable you would be unacceptable in the u.k. the usa or anywhere else in the world and yet we have come to disregard it or not be interested and who are the main target of your my work i have come to shore so the main targets especially in the last few years have been those that are seen as agents of the state so police security forces in general also

politicians and. in the past year attacks against the shia have tripled. yes and who is behind who is behind their time. who is behind them is hard to say because a lot of the time there is a car bomb somewhere and nobody knows nobody acknowledges it but more recently i can say that it is what they call al qaeda in iraq al qaeda in iraq has taken advantage of the discontent both in iraq and in syria against their government and they have directly attacked the states of syria and iran and this has been since april in iran from your point of view why this situation in iraq got so much worse case here. the

situation is this. after the americans left at the end of two thousand and eleven. the prime minister in iraq who had tried to be cross a tarion up to that point started to have to swing the policies and the soon as were more and more distrustful of the government and the end of two thousand and twelve the start of protest the got more and more frequent and of the twenty third of april of this year the iraqi security forces actually are tucked protesters and killed forty nine. people who were just protesting and that was when the violence started to increase and has now reached the levels of two thousand and eight. but in two thousand and eight that was a decrease the ten thousand civilians and now it is an increase so these this is definitely a government insurgency. all right and if there's one main conclusion to be made

about iraq in twenty thirteen what would it be in your opinion. it would be that there doesn't seem to be an end to the violence in iraq has become so fragmented than has suffered such a serious internal collapse with so many interests being. fought on this grounds internal interests of the shias the sudanese the kurds the religious fundamentalists the terrorists the insurgents also externally u.s. interests iranian interests syrian interests u.k. interests but this is a terrible legacy and a state that was already weak in two thousand and three has now completely gone ten years later. do policy. make the situation better in iraq. how to make the situation better. at the moment i cannot see

a way and i don't think those parties who are behind the violence would let it get this there are far too many. competing interests there is too much struggle for power on so many sites that i can't see it being a launch to get us and soon. lady who is a leading researcher and that it's a iraq body count thank you very much indeed for your time weapons. they support headlines over the past week of just a couple of minutes away state. will not talk about language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but i'm likely to put the no i will be back to state park to comment on

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hello welcome to the r.t.e. sports show i'm kate partridge and i'll be 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 when just one of their three matches in sochi as the czech republic play in the china one cup and finland the overall euro two with six weeks to go until the winter olympics. plus a lot of the ring that roy jones jr beat is in a in a better match truth by a unanimous decision to win the w.v.u. cruiserweight title here in moscow. and all in sync we look at why russia all the world's best in synchronized swimming is 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 that the china one cup in sochi to finish 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 ice time coming back from a goal down to beat sweden three two on thursday time bundle open for breakthrough not early in the first period russia were level within four minutes through maxi to the enough one one it remained until the third quarter went to develop netted his and russia second but sweden quickly bounced back to make it to two with two minutes and eleven seconds left the youngest player of the tournament nikolai plucked walk and grabbed the winner three to eight. but russia lost to finland three two before also getting down to eventual champ china one cup

winners it's. republik to warn it was the hosts who 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 about me maybe a nightmare for russia and their fans to warm the final score one victory from three for the hosts at their last event and at their home limping 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 so young 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 judaea team are preparing for their opening game of the world.