mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. the u.n. security council doubles the number of peacekeepers in south sudan amid reports of massive alien deaths will look out whether the foreign clamor for the african states well is among the factors tearing it apart. three year old girl was killed and ten civilians injured in an israeli strike in gaza as the i.d.f. rolls out tanks troops and warplanes in retail against a sniper attack on the border. and ireland's crisis has been declared over but for homeowners it's and thing by. i couldn't do anything at all if you think i was this dish. i have no way i wish. to speak to the people whose lives have been shattered by the banks in a country where one of five mortgages are overdue. we have never evaluation how

much this is costing in the motional and health terms. ten am in moscow watching r t international i'm marina joshie welcome to the program the u.n. security council has unanimously approved a plan to double the number of peacekeepers in south sudan more than twelve thousand international troops and thirteen hundred police will be protecting civilians in the african state which has seen deadly clashes break out between rival armed factions over the past two weeks are reports from new york. the security council after a meeting also condemned the fighting and violence against civilians and ethnic communities that have caused hundreds of deaths across south sudan and raise concerns the world's newest country is on the brink of a civil war the u.n.

says that investigators discovered a mass graves in the rebel held city of to with fourteen bodies at one site twenty bodies at a nearby site but the possibility of there being either even a third site now tens of thousands of people have fled the country amid fighting between rebels that are supporting former vice president riek machar and president salva gears forces forces loyal to the president and vice president now clashing the fighting began last week in the capital juba and then spread to other cities in south sudan well you have to remember that south sudan is a young country and a civil war is what initially caused its breakaway from the north you know the united states campaign for it some experts believe about washington's enthusiasm for south sudan autonomy had less to do with humanitarian issues and more to do

about the south sudanese oil reserves now the irony right now is that no matter which way you slice it the international community has another crisis on its hands that may be costly and complicated the country's top u.n. humanitarian official said the death toll from the past ten days has surpassed one thousand but added that there's no official firm counts it may be more maybe less nobody knows what we do know is that the violence is spreading and spreading quickly apart from the un peacekeeping force washington is sending marines closer to self today and the state department says they will assist in the back you ation of american citizens from the area if needed by pan-african newswire at a terrible human. the u.s. needs to make sure this doesn't go any further. the problem is they're young country they have very limited infrastructure they're really not

a viable state in regard to. the scylla to its capacity provide services to people and i think it was an extreme tragedy that sudan was brought out it would possibly would have been better to have done as an autonomous region as part of a broader a republic of sudan but the united states as well as the state of israel purged the republic of south sudan to break away but the united states has to be very careful because if they enter on a broader level i think it very well be bogged down in a guerrilla war and a civil war and they can lose actual amount of troops as well as military equipment in the fighting and coming up a look at one of the stories that defines twenty thirteen. or simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for and we live in constant fear of another strike our

teammates the people who paid a devastating price for america's drone strikes a campaign that's supposed to be cleanly taking out terrorists and that's had here on our t.v. . all through the program the syrian government lashes out at the rebel forces foreign backers saying they're encouraging attacks on chemical weapons while the country struggles play by the rules and get rid of its toxic stuff while. at israeli air strike on gaza has killed at least one person a young girl and injured ten other civilians tanks and infantry were also involved in the attack the forces moved in in response to the fatal shooting of an israeli man by a palestinian sniper it was a civilian contractor working for the army repairing fans on the border with gaza are his cabin no one discussed the israel here. trikes with the u.k. based defense consultant. and he believes the army's reaction will only escalate

the situation. as usual it's disproportionate and overwhelming force being used against people who effectively live in a cage area the israelis they have a ratio figure for every one israeli killed i think the figure is about a thousand palestinians must pay the price of the hour or you know it is but they have a right do they to respond when one of their nationals is killed. absolutely but there are political means or there diplomatic means that they can use. to deescalate the situation rather than use disproportional force f. fourteen aircraft. combat troops are not a proportional response to a people who have no effective army and cannot fight back. with twenty thirteen drawing to a close we arity have been looking out the main events that shaped the outgoing year. these are called to be sour 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 young and just one of the front lines . welcome back you're watching r t well in the tribal zones of yemen and pakistan people will be hoping the new year brings some respite after nearly a decade of u.s. drone strikes despite repeated claims from the white house that these anti terrorist attacks are pinpoint the aerial civilian death toll seems to suggest

otherwise in the latest incident up to seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony and yemen are he's losing often of reports on the human price of the country the country's paying for america's war. it says no faith for the one who has no trust but both are now in short supply in this part of yemen for months the class has been without its mouth teacher and this pupil without his father this is the big show about a charity i didn't know. his name is still on the staff schedule but i leave hasn't been here since signing out of class on january twenty third the last could be the finality the father of three was killed by a u.s. drone alongside his twenty year old cousin salim a college student who drove them in a borrowed to yoda they picked up two strangers who turned out to be suspected al qaeda militants witnesses reported a whirring sound in the sky then missiles struck their car. the smell of death was

everywhere some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition of the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around. they found a part of something inside the car the rest was outside of the house we only recognised him by a piece of his trousers. you couldn't tell who was who if they were even human it was sickening. one drone change the c.b. farming village for ever less than an hour's drive from yemen's capital kabul lawn is far removed from al qaeda operations but without warning it was thrust into the war on terror. celine's mother shows me where her son used to sleep she can't bear to get rid of his things although she knows she'll never return home alive and help us i don't understand until the next day that an american drone killed my son why tell me may allah deprive them of their souls like they robbed us of our son that he was the only one providing for this family all we have left now is our tears we

only target al qaeda and its associated force and even then the use of drones is heavily can strike before any strike is taken there must be me. certainly but no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. accept there was a deadly failure yemen's interior ministry confirms the cousins had no links to terrorism in a country where tribal ties surmount all the loss was felt far beyond the family the white house has never acknowledged the deaths let alone the strike but mohamed shows me the evidence this is what killed them what's thought to be a fragment of a hellfire missile launched from a drone. the u.s. believes this is its best weapon against al qaeda although not officially out war in yemen the covert drone campaign has been dramatically ramped up here under

president obama. yemen's al qaeda threat is real it's plot attacks on international airliners and caused hundreds of deaths the cia described it as the most dangerous and active branch of the terrorist network the defense is that drone strikes have seriously damaged his ability to plan attacks but critics here say it's doing the exact opposite it does not. contain the growth of the facts that may have contributed to the growth and expansion of the at some point when i get off powerful enough to be able to inflict serious damage the u.s. war on terror has no borders often waged remotely with cruise missiles and drones it's an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines of fights against groups like al qaida in which ordinary civilians also end up paying a price. i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. all the kids at school have

their fathers but we don't. reporting income on in yemen. foreign policy ows phyllis bennis says the u.s. routinely turns a blind eye to international law whatever it stands in the way our government's goals. there is no justification for killing children old people noncombatants there's no legal justification there's no moral justification the fact that these are the victims these are the actual of the terms of u.s. drone strikes goes to the heart of what's wrong with drone strikes the idea that they are somehow surgically accurate is simply demolished that argument is demolished by the amnesty international report by the initial report of the un special rapporteur the reality is that in the u.s. says we have determined that it is legal to use drone strikes in afghanistan to use drone strikes in pakistan where we are not at war the fact that it may be

a violation of international law is simply dismissed as irrelevant international law in the united states unfortunately is too often only applied to other countries and not to ourselves. please speak your language. programs or documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the p.r.p. interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit or a big t.v. dog called. going to the. reasons he adds but there's already been plenty to celebrate this

december on this month's show we learn how the future depends so lazy set in stone cold to make movies with an instant messenger on their revolution exoskeleton makes likely a good heavy lifting. year on. the central. baghdad watching r t international the crisis may be just about over in ireland but for irish homeowners it's still tough keeping the wolves from the door up to twenty percent of mortgage payments are overdue with families across the country being

forced out when they are homes are we possessed one homeowner told r.t. says our cilia how she lives in fear of the banks. most people here remember the cold to tiger with this sense of known callie economic boom time for the mid ninety's up until two thousand and seven that went bust in no small way the arm for the structure behind me would have been the offices of the anglo irish bank one of the struggling banks it was effectively nationalized it was a stark reminder of the property boston the ensuing back in crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today and for some irish families though there is also a daily reminder of the threat or reality of losing their homes we had a mortgage was very high on the value the property was falling below the mortgage so i ended up with a cash offer five hundred passengers in two thousand and eleven and i was delighted but the banks refused to accept the offer because it wasn't more which was eight hundred i climb with the rears so instead they prefer to read of course and

repossessed the house while arlo may have officially exited its bailout it's still mired in debt and the end of september almost one in five home loans worth a total of twenty five billion euros we're still not being fully repaid homeless organization focus arland estimates that sixteen families lose their homes each month in the capital the banks have it have had a catastrophic effect on data activity that aren't on business to paralyze the entire nation they have failed to deal with the mortgage debt crisis but coming up a creative solutions we can measure how much the bailout has cost us in monetary terms we have never evaluation how much this is cost us in emotional and mental health terms i could barely push. one foot in front of the other because i just i just i couldn't sleep nights i couldn't think about things i get up at school run i mean and then go back to bed again and you know i couldn't do anything at all or think i was this dish and i had no way out and new law was passed in december which

would automatically discharge a person from bankruptcy after three years as opposed to the current twelve year term personal insolvency arrangements can also be made for those who want to just and other debt with this perhaps there's a glimmer of hope for people like julia i would be bankrupt christmas. you know it's bad luck and the reason why i'm hoping to be bankrupt christmas is that i can start again let me become what i was before does or so you're r t r l and fifty. and coming up in the program the freedom to ban american schools and libraries have blacklisted around fifty books this year mostly on race and sex issues and the censor is now have their sights on hundreds more titles stay with us for expert opinion that. wine and sinker japan's fishing industry is doing all it can to prove its catch is fit for eating almost three years on from the fukushima nuclear disaster.

syrian government says that foreign powers backing rebels are leaking information on the locations of chemical weapons sites and encouraging attacks on them opposition fighters aided by the link factions reportedly launched assault on two such facilities over the weekend the strikes were repelled by the army but calm and an easy time for syria as it struggles to meet international deadlines to rid itself of chemical arms and the rise of islamic extremist factions there is something that russia's top diplomat described as the number one hurdle hampering any political solution to syria's almost three year old war sergei lavrov spoke exclusively to r.t. . with a whole year to cover there were lots of things to discuss it brought russia several diplomatic victories including the chemical arms deal with syria he would tell you is the next step according to mr elaborate of preconditions from the syrian opposition remain among the key obstacles including the one for president assad to

step down something that the worst is now moving away from the threat of jihadists coming to power and setting up a caliphate is the number one problem and the realisation is dawning that regime change is not the way to resolve this problem oh western partners are becoming increasingly clear about this there are also changes in russia's relations with the west and apparently there are signals for more transparent and trustworthy times on both signs but a cold war mentality. it is still something that moscow has to deal with. some nato members have a phobia against russia which is really sad this leads to some of our european partners still wanting to keep the dividing lines within europe and even move these lines east would is that a country should either be with them or against them the comments for last november's nato drills near russia's western borders the largest in ten years six thousand troops from all member states as well as finland sweden and ukraine practice defending the baltics from an identified threat from the east while

president putin is question of what was the point of still planning to build an anti missile defense system in europe without a threat from iran still hasn't been properly answered by washington there aren't any firm guarantees the system want to be aimed at russia either you're going to. moscow and catch the full version of our exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister on our website of course that's r.t. dot com also online today were reported on the final preparations for the burial of a legend russia's mourning of the death he held kalashnikov the inventor of the a k forty seven the gun that changed the face of warfare for good or ill plus. find out how the english having metal band iron maiden has been cashing in on pirates by staging sell out concerts where there are songs were illegally downloaded the most.

japan's seafood industry says it's blighted by contaminated catches nearly three years after the fukushima nuclear disaster polluted surrounding land and waterways that can convince customers their fish is safe even though the authorities insist they're doing their level best to show they have got a grip on the problem kerry ports. work doesn't stop in the port of saumur despite being just a few kilometers from areas still ravaged by the twenty eleven tsunami and still contaminated by radiation seafood of all shapes and sizes lands here several times a day not only fish has traditionally been the integral part of the japanese culture but also one of its prized acts boards last year alone the exporting companies pocketed more than two billion u.s. dollars however there are serious concerns now this particular couch was made in the waters of the pushing my nuclear power station after it became known that he

drawling system at the fukushima nuclear power plant was severely radiated fears grew that the contamination could be spreading into the pacific. a significant contamination in the bottle sediment especially in the pong and the rebirth system so. very very high concentration of the right. fish factories around the fukushima prefecture now have to take radiation measurements but despite lab workers assuring us the fish was free of any harmful particles. were taken samples from every cage we make and if we ever find even slightest trace of radiation will destroy the whole couch so far there has been none of this species safe and even the nuclear plant operator tepco is standing firm that the nearby waters are clear of radiation this edition is pretty much on the control we've built fan says not to let polluted ground water as a leak into the ocean we were surprised to learn that most of the seafood we saw at the port of soma will never make it to the shelves of fish markets or restaurant

tables. most of the fish caught within the thirty kilometer radius is thrown into the garbage because it is radiated and tepco is paying local fishermen for it so they're happy and keep silent some of it though makes it to stools but only locally seafood firms here. the threat and there are five reflectors possibly affected by contamination of the sea accounting for almost forty thousand tonnes of fish per year but things may get even worse as the third anniversary of the fukushima disaster approaches south korea has become the first country to bear the japanese fish and seafood imports the next you are reporting from japan. now take a look at some other stories from around the world a bomb and a rocket have reportedly exploded in the center of ghana stance capital kabul killing three policeman local media say the blast struck near abdul haq square where there are a number of military and diplomatic buildings it's not yet known who is responsible

for the attacks. severe storms have caused a power outage at london's gatwick airport leaving thousands of passengers stranded on christmas day twenty six flights have been cancelled in the north terminal with many passengers complaining they've been left in the dark about when they'll be able to travel the south of the country's been the hardest hit with one hundred and fifty thousand homes left without power forty nine books have been banned in schools and libraries across the u.s. and twenty thirteen and that's up to fifty percent jump from the previous year the end one of the books mostly deal with racial and sexual issues or are written by minorities according to make half director of anti-censorship group project answered the trend is widespread and even targets some history textbooks there's a lot of different types of books that are banned and in fact twenty twelve there

were four hundred challenges since. in the united states they're going over eleven thousand challenges to books to try to get books out of classrooms and off of shelves and basically it's it's a simple issue in terms of censorship it's people i control information and trying to control access to not just in for me it in but attitudes cultures history context differences and there can sort of efforts and interest groups in society that would really really work to selectively enforce the first amendment by disregarding the first amendment rights of others and the right to read the right to know is a fundamental right that is in fact outlined in the declaration of human rights article nineteen. all next year on our terror national how whistleblowing really works the second part of joining us on his documentary is coming right up.

such was the country fourteen olympics what's this place like and the line is is so special as the russian resort prepares to local the world power the games should be in the city's present and future ludlow so it will bring you this is a momentary pause you from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tough yet beyond the olympics but what's a starting germ of the first on our team. told him a language of oh but i will react to situations i have read the reports and like to push the no i will leave them to state clearly to comment on your latter point i'm going to say it's secure yet they call it on the docket. they do no more weasel words. when you have a direct question be prepared for

a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle pretty speech and a little down the freedom to cost. i think i'm going to i got fired do because. because i wrote an article about. the year conditions of work since we did journalists have when they were going to israel by this time. and the year journalists that they interviewed they were very

frank with me and they told me about different things that you couldn't report to calm things than the good and the censorship that is experienced in there. at their workplace when the material that was published two of the six journalists that are tired of you they retracted their statements so you see the. face you see . that you do something in the dam or and you think out of a long text or something i think i am somebody does an interview i am with you and then you're entirely open frank about it. and then after a while maybe you realize that this is going to be shown on television and your boss is going to see this and your mother is going to see this and then you know you start understanding the consequences it's not just a conversation between you and your friends but in reality i just didn't talk about it because i think to an extent. i made

a very big mistake with them with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hard to get a very journalistic career. typical journalistic work. about its journalists and the standards for doing the journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred times higher because they were there. they were immediately you back fired and they will start to criticizing what you do in a completely different way than if it's a regular person because regular person doesn't have the power. to say no. it's not busy and. there's a cable marked secret no four and that means that not even i like it states are allowed to read it and it's about a meeting between the u.s. ambassador and the curate is foreign minister and it goes like this. then besler

and the curious foreign minister met that the investors residence midafternoon president bakiev that's the dictator that was kicked out of the revolution a few months ago told him that he was authorized to sign the agreement on the us military base but the agreement must be kept secret the foreign minister said that he needed time to work with public opinion in the parliament before he could roll out a new agreement publicly. for our assistance in preparing the curious public opinion pacifically by placing articles in the local russian language press. and then he was going to tell them that you didn't.