the rise and idea of the teller county companies at the penal colony in crossing the yard is part of a presidential amnesty just hours after a fellow band member. was also. under new free. steps into the media spotlight pledging to fight for the release of his associates who examined that cases and why they're still behind bars it's. also seen israeli officials can down america for spying on the countries the way leaders while the government enormous the elephant in the room to preserve its relationship with the us. and we have the funds to a series of reports about the runs that makes twenty said scene and today we look at least a couple of strip to rule iran where the past year will be remembered as one of the

daily fear and bloodshed. this is also international coming to a line from moscow hello and welcome to the program. the ride bond in the desert a cornucopia has been freed just hours after a fellow band member maria your haner was also released from jail they'd both been serving time for carrying out approach a stunt and moscow's main cathedral but why let it go as part of president putin's honesty he's really not going to has been following this story. because 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. but 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 but first the foremost. members intended to meet together we know that they have spoken on the phone already. does that according to were given a two year prison sentence following this so-called punk prayer in the country's main church where them have literally months left over in their sentences but were released fallujah now mystic i mean from president putin. said that she didn't wish to take a part of this amnesty and leave the prison but what she said that unfortunately those are her words she didn't have a choice here much from prison straight into the into the limelight to insist he

won't return to the politics of business but. says he does need to pay back his debts to of those still behind bars and will fight for his imprisoned comrades peter only looks now at one of the people her confiscate if. you're pretty much free after ten years but some of these comments after his release raised. 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 society is going to lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free to choose good was the head of security for his daughter called these oil companies you cos he's currently

serving a life sentence 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 ordering the shooting of a law to me a pet you call for the mayor of a town in siberia you call four hundred clashed with you can also be his insistence that the oil giant pay taxes due to his tone the court found no link between the murders and the head of you cos however you call this widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. there was no investigation about her that pushed his involvement in my husband's death he wasn't even interrogated both myself and other people who are analyzing this have plenty of facts proving that he did of course he

was directly involved in the killing of my husband. while on trial for the murder of pair of legs was already serving twenty years in prison for the attempted murder of former holocaust the advisor all good cos dinner after quitting her post with you cos she went on to work is the head of p.r. for the mayor of moscow it was then that a bomb was placed in her moscow apartment fortunately it detonated while no one was home because dinner sees the holocaust these comments about political prisoners as self-serving spoke of the hundred of course he can't act differently now if he ever recognizes what he is security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible for their coffee 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. being heaped upon this the holocaust years left some of those watching feeling that only half the story is being told to totally unknown in

the west. a big economic or criminal. stolen a lot of money from the russian people and from the russian state that every kind of businessman in the best who had done the same waterfall saw that in prison this story is told in the west despite his insistence that he was a political prisoner many in russia believe broke the law and that was why he was said to jail peter all over r.t. belin. holder of course he's complained 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 ruled the challenges were not related to political life and had a healthy core and political analysts from the voice of russia dmitry babich

believe their associates a lot of cops are totally political prisoners totally used to be children and other of the bad no father of course the who is doing jail blot on labor day of they never did a nice human rights or political activity and they never criticize the state of what they did was just pulling dirty war of people working in a big oil russian company in the ninety's never was involved in any political activity he never made any political statements he never ruled any articles in the newspapers you never talked of old politics and probably he was just tired 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 for most of the calls his first public comments after his release and to get opinion and

analysis on his case and surprise barton had tao web page that started out called. the latest and a savior of relations among other countries america's been spying on 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. and 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 each 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 statements and he has said and admitted as much that israel she 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 putting 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 eleven known or former israeli ambassador to egypt and they do want those only enemies should be monitored not long. when you have an enemy any kind of enemy 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. 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. meanwhile washington mall is they one hundredth birthday of the federal reserve and coming out will big banks send troops condos and financial scams in the wild country plus. 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 our correspondent heads to iraq to find out what it feels like to live in a country where dozen of them died from terrorist attacks almost on a daily bases and much more right after the break. wealthy british style. time to time let's go. to.

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combined. international today we're starting our luke barker of the rounds that shapes twenty thirty. for the people of iraq this year was the deadliest since two thousand and eight by a deepening six terran divide and more innocent lives being lost as a result the very latest news from iraq is that a series of attacks in about a suburb killed at least four police officers and four soldiers more than nine thousand people have fallen victim to violence this year alone and it's estimated around one hundred twenty five thousand lives have been lost in the decade since the u.s. invasion started while seeking to undermine the shia government sunni insurgents have a target civilian targets in different possibly country bring the total number of

suicide bombings to four finals and 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 kurdish authorities artie's loosely comfort of found out how people there cope with the daily viner. 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 a 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 we inhabit. 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 commute 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 for quitting even after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks the problem 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 karl 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 got used to it 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 that's heard. such precautions didn't help sixty year old newt 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 about the only do you. have to see 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 job 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 black. 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. investigative group iraq body count has been collecting data on casualties in the in bottles country for gas now and lately the outer who is the leading research of

all the organization had all thoughts on what the country is going through this year. what most people don't understand is that the violence in iraq is daily at the best of times in iraq three to four hundred civilians have lost their lives in the month that was it the script was invert is completely unacceptable iraq has become so fragmented and has suffered such a serious internal collapse with so many interests be. fought one is grounds internal interests of the shias the sunni is the kurds the religious fundamentalists terrorists the insurgents also externally u.s. interests rainy and interests you came trysts but this is a terrible legacy and a state that was already weak in two thousand and three has now completely corpsed ten years later 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 . that far too many competing interests there is too much struggle for power on so many sides that i cannot see it being allowed to get better and he has great to special online project on our website which brings together detailed reports on the dire scale of the violence in iraq so that online at r.t. dot com and for more on the bigger balance of the year our series why twenty thirteen matters will be running all this week for you here on r.t. international. founded to prevent a boom and bust economic the u.s. federal reserve is marking a century since its creation its face many challenges from double digit inflation to near depression but has served its purpose we're in a park and i ask the question. 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 for sure. and i mean basically the. other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take 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 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 created following the two thousand and eight financial crisis millions of jobs in homes were lost. to wall street went on to make a record breaking profits courtesy of the fed's quantitative easing program 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 in the economy andrew sar 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 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 ny r.t. . japan is breaking its own brain to actually records huge amounts of base here a missing substances have been discovered in a not the reactor the crippled fukushima power plant and the government has

admitted decontamination work shuttle to be completed by spring i actually take another three years and makes an expert on japan says talk here has done too much to keep secrets hidden that it's hard to assess the actual scale of the disaster. entire earth system of management of tepco in fact of the entire nuclear industry of japan has been to rely on unskilled uneducated and specialist d. the workers the guys they pick up off the street and are brought in and paid a daily wage wouldn't have been some of them don't even realize they're going into a radioactive circumstance but it's not professional it's it's a comedy of errors and the attacks are just one of many many structures that were built hurriedly without extra teams without consulting the 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 some agenor gee in hiding the information that at this point i can i think it's fair to say that nobody knows what's really going on. now to some other international news in brief this hour three key secular leaders the c twenty eleven arab spring uprising have been convicted in egypt holding an unauthorised rally and a targeting police officers under a new controversial law that restricts protesters the men were given three year prison sentences and large fines the government defends the legislation claiming is designed to bring peace to the country while human rights groups say it's actually being used to descend ahead of a general referendum on a new constitution. protesters in thailand try to blog the registration of candidates for election in the latest attempt to stop the vote thailand's current prime minister was forced to call the vote two weeks ago under

growing public pressure and large scale projects of his claim the leader he's being influenced by her older brother a telecommunications billionaire who was himself removed from office by a military coup in two thousand and six. with santo he's way one london authority is doing its best to dampen the festive spirit it decided that instead of wishing locals a merry christmas it would take the chance to remind them to pay their bills. our first reports they found a little insulting. what is the festive season but the tenants in one pos 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 fullam council has sent this message out to seventeen thousand homes warning people to pay their rent and asking them not to even into old age 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 is the time of year when people will be spending less and this is a straightforward message as 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 passage london to find out what they think i think to be honest reaction which will probably leave 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 the people should overstreet be paying their rent it's pretty explicitly says if you're having trouble. where you could go through no i think that's such a course of goodness to church you know if it's christmas you supposed to feel you know charlie i mean pay your rent really maybe books and. 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. no i don't think so i think that we should get rid of those spaces so for us the london. and next sophie shevardnadze talks to cecilia as he is the former first lady of france also a friend. summer break a time when all students rejoice and most importantly relax but in russia summer break for male students could change dramatically and involve lots of guns currently male russian citizens have to put a year into the armed forces but the ministry of defense thinks that they can make

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

helen welcome to seven kilograms. shevardnadze and where we are says in the ads yes work for the party led by her. and stood by his side as he successfully complained to become the french president but a few months into his chair of the couple divorced since then she has dedicated her life to the cause of women's rights around the world she's normally shy of being going to spotlight but now says silly assed pants and memoir calling it

a desire for truth and she's our guest today. she succeeded where others failed in libya. nurses from his prison the world longed to see a new princess diana. but she personally above. gave up her presidential marriage as well as her country. so why did wrong sleep one of its brightest. something happening in the country one see. europe. is front. and our guest today sicily at sea asked former first lady of france isn't your new book is called. every day the desire for truth and the autobiography the most remarkable episode in your lives as first lady as you've said it many times was the role you played in liberating the number of bulgarian nurses and a power.