who's to rise not just to tell a corny covered leaves at the colony incur. a presidential amnesty just hours after a fellow band member. was also let go. on the new freedom a hail holder kolsky steps into the media spotlight pledging to fight for the release of his associates examine their cases and why they're still behind the. scene israeli officials condemn america for spying on the country's former leaders while big government ignores the elephant in the room to preserve its relationship with the he was. on how the first series of reports about the monks went to thirteen today will look at least account trip to iraq

where the past year will be remembered as one of the daily fear and bloodshed. international news and comment live from moscow you altering all seem to national with me you know and welcome to the program. the remaining two jailed members of the notorious bond priests who riot have been released they've been serving time for carrying out approach of stunt and moscow's main cathedral so i was led to go as part of president putin's amnesty. has been following the 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 and foremost. members intended to meet together we know that they have spoken on the phone already in the days of the according to were given a two year prison sentence following this so-called punk prayer in the country's main church with them have literally months left over in their sentences were released for all you know mystic i mean from president putin initially. said that she didn't wish to take a part of this amnesty and leave the prison but and what she said that unfortunately those are her words she didn't have a choice so now both members are free and intending to take it upon themselves to

go through with human rights situations in the country. another person celebrating his freedom leaves me high on how to confiscate the former russian tycoon emerge from prison straight into the limelight to insist a one hundred ten to either politics of business and his hands he will pay baghdad's. still behind bars and will fight for his imprisoned comrades piece on of looks not one of the people khodorkovsky has vowed to defend. free after ten years but some of these comments after his release of raised eyebrows. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei pushkov. 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 society

can 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 oil company you cos 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 in of ordering the shooting of flooding me a pet you call the mayor of a town in siberia you call four hundred clashed with you can also over 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 cause however because widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. there was no investigation about her that portuguese 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 of course he was directly involved in the killing of my husband while on trial for the murder of pair of legs the picture going with already serving twenty years in prison for the attempted murder of four holocaust good byes are all good cause dinner after quitting her post with you cos she went off to work as 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 the inner sees the holocaust these comments about political prisoners as self-serving. how to craft a hostage of his own past he can't act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible of butter i think now he fears that. you may start talking and what the third ucas case could

potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company security forces carried out a lot of crafts he has no other choice he will continue to insist people from the security department are political prisoners that are and he will pretend to be pushing for release the ideal ation being heaped upon mr holocaust years left some of those watching feeling that only half the story is being told. totally unknown in the west. is a big economic zero criminal. for stolen a lot of money from the russian people and from the russian state that every kind of businessman in the west who had done the same waterfall saw that in prison this story is i'm told in the worst 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. village hundred cos he's complained that his case was politically motivated it 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 was the charges were not related to political life and had a healthy core and political analysts from the voice of russia dmitry babich believes the associates of what of course highly political prisoners. certainly the children and the other part no father of course the who is doing jail blot on labor day of they never did a new 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 he never talked about politics in public he was just tired though. 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 who knows what of course his first public comments after his release and to get opinion and analysis on this case surprised padan head to our website that started out. the latest n.s.a. revelations claim among other countries america has been spying on israel its closest ally but unlike some other time get such as germany which has been explicit in its outrage israel opted to sweep this kind of under the rug because policy 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 it that these things one doesn't do among friends having said that though there is no visible operates 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 but in 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 prime minister benjamin netanyahu has now commented on the latest n.s.a. revelations calling washington's actions unacceptable we'll bring you more updates on this story in the next hour. isaac levin and a former israeli ambassador to egypt and they one says only adam is should be

monitored not a long time ally 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 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 in that country. meanwhile washington long as they one hundred bastow the federal reserve coming out bad they saw with the bank as

a son true of scandals and financial scams and the walls was the country plants. 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 has to has to iraq to find out what it feels like to live in a country where dozens die from terrorist attacks almost all have daily bases that are natural right after the break. sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build the needs most sophisticated robots

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for the people of the wrong they see it was the deadliest since two thousand and eight model by a deepening secretary and divide and more innocent lives being lost as a result the very latest news from iraq is that a series of attacks in a baghdad suburb killed at least food police officers and soldiers well the nine thousand people have fallen victim to violence this year alone and it's estimated around one hundred twenty 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 parts of the country bringing the total number of suicide bombings to fall silent the northern city of kirkuk is often caught in the crossfire lying close to al qaeda strongholds and being claimed by both the iraqi government and the autonomous kurdish authorities. found out how people that cope with the deadly 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 into a kook. which city has been described as. a symbol for the country's most intractable woes escalating violence the conflict among ethnic 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 cure kook 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. roadblock. 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 they're

also frequent target of attacks for us is a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much anyone. inside here who 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 but 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 one of the we don't know who the enemy is when the next bomb go off but it's a daily for years we've gotten 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 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 or so by the end of the. harvest what benefit did the war bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnappings people should feel free to go out and come by. where is that i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back alive no it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book black you

oil and behind this oil is the hidden interest 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. r.t. iraq. investigative group iraq body count has been collecting data on casualties in the embattled country for years now and. who is a leading researcher for the organization shadowstats on what the country is going through they say here. 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 of the sqlite invertors completely

unacceptable iraq has become so fragmented and has suffered such a serious internal collapse with so many interests be. fought on is grounds internal interests of the shias the sunni is the kurds the religious fundamentalists the terrorists the insurgents also externally u.s. interests raney 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 collapsed 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 worse there are 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 created a special online project on our website which brings together detailed reports on

the dire scale of the violence in iraq so that online at home and all of the big events of this year our series why twenty thirteen matters will be running all this week for you here on the international. founded to prevent a boom and bust economics the u.s. federal reserve is marking a century since its creation its face many challenges from double digit inflation to near depression but hasn't served its purpose. 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 as yours is an independent agency and that means 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 prolong 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 there across central bank was created

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 it's brought it onto its own balance sheets and so it's playing this huge support function in the 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. 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. new york. japan is breaking its own radio actually records in huge amounts of base here a missing substances have been discovered in another reactor have been crippled fukushima power plant and the government has admitted decontamination chauvel to be completed by spring may actually take another three years and to alex her 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 not. 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 de lay workers the guys in a pick up of 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. 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 teens 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 put some agenor g. 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 of bree for the three key secular leaders of the twenty eleven arab spring uprising have been convicted in egypt of holding an unauthorized rally and attacking police

officers under a new controversial law that restricts procedures the men were given three year prison sentences and large fines the opinion has urged egypt to reconsider the decision saying it comes from flawed legislation but the government defends the law clearly is designed to bring peace to the country while activists say it's actually being used to descend ahead of a january refresh and i'm on a new constitution. purchases in thailand to try to block the registration of candidates for her breweries election and the latest attempts to stop the vote thailand's current prime minister was forced to call the world two weeks ago under growing public pressure actually has claimed the leaders were you influenced by her older brother a telecommunications billionaire who was himself removed from office by a military coup in two thousand. not an expert on seem to national terra blight be hazardous legacy of computers that are thrown out with the rubbish but our london

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