u.n. security council doubles the number of peacekeepers in south sudan amid reports of massive million deaths will look at how the foreign glamor for foreign clamor for the african states oil is influencing the conflict. three year old girl is killed in towns of millions injured in an israeli strike of gaza as i.d.f. rolls out tanks troops and warplanes in retaliation against a sniper attack on the border. crisis has been declared over for homeowners and i think. to anything at all if you think that was this dish. i have no way i wish. we speak to the people whose lives have been shattered by the banks in a country where one of five mortgages are for years we have never evaluation how much this is costing in the motional terms.

this is our team coming to live from the russian capital i'm marina welcome to the program the u.n. security council has an atom's lee 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 now 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 mass graves in the rebel held city of than two

with fourteen bodies one site twenty bodies at a nearby site 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 you hold more says a loyal to the president and vice president now. the fighting began last week in the capital juba and then tried 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 campaigned for it some experts believe that washington's enthusiasm for south sudan's autonomy had less to do with humanitarian issues and more to do about 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 it may be less nobody knows what we do know is that the violence is spreading and spreading quickly. and apart from the u.n. peacekeeping force washington is sending marines closer to south sudan the state department says they will assist in the evacuation of american citizens from the area if needed by patrick a news wire editor of a human as a q a says 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. its capacity provide services to people and i think it was extreme tragedy that

sudan was broken out it would possibly would have been better to have done as an autonomous region as part of a broader a republican. 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 could lose a substantial amount of troops as well as military equipment in the fighting. and coming up in the program i'll look out one of the stories that defined twenty thirteen. or simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for 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 ahead in

the program. and the syrian government lashes out at the rebel forces foreign backers saying they're encouraging attacks on chemical weapons depots while the country struggles play by the rules and get rid of its toxic stockpile. an israeli air strike in 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 move then response to the fatal shooting of an israeli man by palestinian snipers and he was a civilian contractor working for the army preparing a fans on a border with gaza artist kevin no one discussed israeli. airstrikes were the u.k. based defense consultant and he believes the army's reaction will only escalate the situation. as usual is disproportionate and overwhelming force being used against the people who effectively live in the 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 a how or you know if this is what 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 always twenty thirteen drawing to a close we had our tea have been looking at the main events that shaped the outgoing year. these are the ultimate power here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants share.

this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. well in the tribal zones of yemen and pakistan a will be hoping the new year brings some respect after nearly after nearly a decade of u.s. drone strikes despite repeated claims from the white house that these anti terrorist attacks are pinpoint the annual civilian death toll seems to suggest otherwise in the latest incident up to seventeen people were killed at a royal wedding ceremony in yemen are losing often of reports on the human price

the country is 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 ask 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 of the the final to be 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 and 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. i found a part of some of the men inside the car the rest was outside of the house but we

only recognised him by a piece of his trousers. you couldn't tell who was who if they were even he was sickening. one drone change the c.b. farming village for ever less than an hour's drive from yemen's capital 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 when 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 must there. the mirror certainly but no

civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. except 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 kills 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 at war in yemen the covert drone campaign has been dramatically ramped up here under president obama. yemen so quite a threat is real it's a lot of 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 ghosts of apply the facts that may have contributed to the growth and expansion of the at some point when i. get off the pot for the enough time 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 in school have their fathers but we don't. reporting income on in yemen and lucy catherine of.

our foreign policy analyst phyllis bennis the us routinely turns a blind eye to international law whenever it stands in the way of a 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 victims of us 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 if the us 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 i have were reported on a crisis a fear a sweeping island and strangely well coordinated rebel attacks on chemical weapons sites in syria that are more after the break. st augustine. strategic leadership. undercover team of journalists trying to release which leaks documents is about zero the united states is trying to yeah. made local media more pro-american

they encounter your ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our t.v. . welcome back you're watching r t international the crisis may be just about over an island bought 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 their homes are repossessed one homeowner told artist are

celia how she lives in fear of the banks. most people here with maybe the coal to tiger with this sense of known call the economic boom times of the mid ninety's up until two thousand and seven that went bust in no small way the young 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 be assuming banking crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today for some irish families though there is also a daily reminder 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 thousand dollars in two thousand and eleven. and i was delighted but the banks refused to accept the offer because there wasn't more which was eight hundred i climb with the rears so instead of a fraternity course. repossess 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 with 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 i go back to bed again and you know i guess i couldn't do anything at all or think i was this dish and i had no way i wish a 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 of course since you know. you know it's bad luck and the reason why i'm hoping to be bankrupt christmas is that i can start again that we 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 so blacklisted around fifty books this year mostly on race and sex issues and the censors now have their science and hundreds more titles stay with us for an expert opinion on that. and why. 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 power is backing rattles or leaking information on the locations of chemical weapons sites and encouraging attacks on the opposition fighters aided by the link factions reportedly launched assaults on two such facilities over the weekend drives were repelled by the army but no matter the easy time for syria as it struggles to meet international deadlines to rid itself of chemical arms the rise of islamic extremist factions there is something that russia's top diplomat described as number one hurdle hampering any political solution to syria's almost three year old war sergey lavrov spoke exclusively to our little girl who's 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 geneva two is the next step according to this elaborate 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 for the realisation is dawning that regime change is not the way to resolve this problem oh western partners are becoming increasingly clear about that. there are also changes in russia's relations with the west and apparently there are signals for more transparent and trustworthy times on both sides but it. is still something that has to deal with. let's go to 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 wood is that a country should either be with them or against the use of the commons for the 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. or catch the full version of r.t. explosive interview with the russian foreign minister on our website r.t. dot com also online today we reported on the final preparations for the burial of a legend russia is mourning the death of the al kalashnikov 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 heavy metal band i made moon has been cashing in on pirates by staging concerts where their songs were illegally downloaded the mall's . into the. reasons he says but there's already plenty to celebrate this december on

this month's show we learn how the future tense so lazy set in stone how to make movies with an instant messenger and their revolutionary exoskeleton makes life work a realistic. you're. right to see. first. and i would think that your. son army corps. instead. welcome back this is our team international kapan seafood industry says it's

blighted by contaminated catches nearly three years after the fukushima nuclear disaster polluted surrounding land and waterways they can convince customers their fish is safe even though the authorities insist they are doing their level best to show they've got a grip on the problem i searched at skinner reports. 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 food culture but also one of its prized exports 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 bush team on nuclear bombs station after it became known that he joined existed 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 and space sorry in the paul and the rebirth system so that we can find a very very high concentration of the righteousness in. the 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 case we make and if we ever find even the slightest trace of radiation will destroy the whole catch so far there has been 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 france is not to let polluted ground will those leaked 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 makes it to school but only locally seafood firms here are under threat and there are five reflectors possibly affected by contamination of the sea accounting for almost forty thousand tons 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 and. reporting from japan. take a look at some other stories from around the world and gyptian police have arrested a former prime minister who served under the deposed president mohamed morsy is attention was ordered after a court ruling in july sentencing him to here in prison for failing to renationalise a textile company the former premier was seized and mountainous area where he was

trying to lead us to dance with a group of smugglers. bomb at iraq a half reportedly exploded in the center of a galaxy as capital kabul badly wounding three policemen local media say the blast struck near abdul hakim square where there are a number of military and diplomatic buildings it's not yet known who is responsible for the attacks. here storms have caused a power outage at london's gatwick airport leaving thousands of passengers stranded on christmas day twenty six clients have been cancelled in the north terminal with manning passengers complaining they've been left in the dark about when they'll be able to travel again south of the country has 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. in two thousand and thirteen and that's a fifty percent jump from the previous year the young want to books mostly deal

with racial and sexual issues or are written by minorities according to make health director of anti-censorship group projects hansard the tran is widespread and even targets some history textbooks there's a lot of different types of books that are quote unquote banned and in fact in two thousand and twelve there were over four hundred challenges since then books week started as a project in the united states they're going to hear 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 to try to control information in trying to control access to not just in from it in but add it to cultures history context differences and there are can sort of efforts and interest groups in the 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. and i was way a little chair in breaking this had with abby martin who looks at the barrier stories that made up this here stay with us from here. we'll go to the. new seasons he heads for there's already been plenty to celebrate this december on this month's show we learn how the future of penn so lazy sets in stone cold to make movies with an instant messenger on the river lucia exoskeleton makes a life's work of heavy lifting. as you obtain your own on. the central . if you. know you've got no opportunity.

to start to construct your current. you don't want to be bad. give don't want to be gangsters in a lot of. drug dealers they don't want you that well we know the time that he came to be we can see. you just made some progress i was in my own problems in the hood and with some sort of it's really wrong. but i said this about the. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young. the the. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so here's some

interesting news coming out of ten downing street the british prime minister david cameron is taking heavy criticism after the purging of a decade's worth of speeches and videos from the conservative party's websites that's right i think there's a wave of historical revisionism sweeping cameron's government after all it's hard to prove that you haven't lived up to any of your initial promises if they're completely expunged from the public record now of course party members are defending the move saying that purging the content is a campaign strategy aimed at replacing old messages with new ones but cameron's former speech writer in burrell disagrees that this is just a campaign strategy that quote the use of sophisticated software to ensure search engines do not stumble upon these archives slightly just slightly undermines his claim is that as it turns out the party went as far as instructing websites such as an internet archive and google to fully remove deleted pages from their databases pages that these websites often keep for posterity usually with the went to

politician died out of their history or advised but now it looks like if you have the money and if you have the power it's as easy as going to divorce from the royal family. is that the submit was terrible they are legendary hard to make the second of the money or the plumber that he ever had sex with others make their lives let alone. lists lists lists lists lists .