and out more visit. the u.n. security council doubles the number of peacekeepers in south sudan amid reports of mass civilian deaths look at how the foreign clamor for the african states oil is influencing the conflict. the three year old girl those killed and ten civilians injured in an israeli strike on gaza as the i.d.f. rolls out tanks troops and warplanes in retaliation against a sniper attack on the border. and arlen's crisis has been declared over but for homeowners it's anything but. a couldn't do anything at all if you think i was this dish. i have no way i wish we speak to people whose lives have been shattered by the banks in a country where one in five mortgages are in arrears. we have never evaluation how much this is cost us in the motional and health terms.

and welcome life from our studios in moscow you're watching archie international with me and he said now it's good to have you with us our top story 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 is seen deadly clashes break out between rival armed factions over the past two weeks are reports now 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 into 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 you hold forces loyal to the president and vice president now clashing the fighting began last week in the capital of 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 campaigned for it some experts believe that 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 it may be less nobody knows what we do know is that the violence is spreading and spreading quickly. 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 but pan african newswire editor about you know me as a kiwi 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. the scylla to

its capacity provide services to people and i think it was extreme tragedy that sudan was broken out it would have possibly would have been better to have done as an autonomous region as part of a broader republic of sudan but the united states as well as the state of israel encouraged the republic of south sudan to pork away but the united states has to be very careful because if they enter 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. coming up a look at one of the stories that defined twenty thirteen. or simple hooter's 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 picking out terrorists that's ahead. also the syrian government lashes out at the rebel forces foreign backers saying they're encouraging attacks on chemical weapons depots while the country struggles to play by the rules and get rid of its toxic stockpiles. but first an israeli airstrike on gaza has killed at least one person a young girl and injured ten other civilians tanks an introductory were also involved in the attack forces moved in in response to the fatal shooting of an israeli man by a palestinian sniper he was a civilian contractor working for the army repairing a fence on the border with gaza our chief kevin owen discussed the israeli airstrikes with u.k. based defense consultant knowing. if he believes the army's reaction will only escalate the situation as usual is disproportionate and overwhelming force being used against people who effectively live in a caged 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 with twenty thirteen drawing to a close we had r.t. have been looking at the main events that shaped the year. these are their goals to be here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants 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 again and is just one of the front lines. out there. now in the tribal zones of yemen and pakistan people will be hoping the new year brings some rest after nearly a decade of u.s. drone strikes spite 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 rural wedding ceremony in yemen archies loose accounts in

a reports now on the human price of america's war. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean a lot was on his way to work at a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling bored to death is above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean the law says the pain is still severe the

sight of his injuries upsets his core children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify it in the the americans should be able to tell an ordinary person from a television leader they should know who they're killing what did we do to deserve this. this is in my. own arctic it's a question echoed by now darren who lost part of his hearing his short term memory and nearly his foot to. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people attorneys out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people have gone isolated by geography and politics by simply call it a concentration camp that you have built a wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than

eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the country is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which u.s. is using to use and test its drone program in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners no evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these four smuggled two islamic body from the tribal areas they're believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles were treated from a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by norbu a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drones especially on children just images of the living and the dead for nor its personal . enemies. whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep that night the children here have been

traumatized by the drones the sound of a door banging shut is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying no drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you're just why did the conflict you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict . of course this is made me hate the americans we are angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effect at the top of it all this on. us. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims lucy caffein of

pakistan. and a drone campaigner nor mir believes the efficiency of the u.s. unmanned strikes is questionable to say the least. we're seeing actual legislative bands coming out of countries where drone strikes actually happen the yemeni parliament has asked for a ban on drone strikes the pakistani national assembly passed asked for about on drone strikes when we hear about the drone strike that happened in pakistan that did end up getting the second commander in chief. in pakistan and you know you see everyone saying well you know the drone program is great this happened but we also have to keep in mind that he's been proclaimed killed at least four different times by drone strikes prior to this one so who died in those drone strikes that happened before this one that finally worked i think those are the questions that we need to ask when we think retrospectively about the many times the drones have supposedly

killed people. coming up a belated christmas present for the arctic thirty as well as a crisis of fear sweeping arlen back and more after a break. we'll talk about language a little bit react to such a. liberal reproach but. no i will leave a comment on your. security any comments on the job to. do. what you did the right place. for a change. be ready for our. freedom of speech. and the freedom to.

dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to go to. sleep since changing the world right now. to picture a day. from around the globe. welcome back to our to international live from moscow eighteen of the thirty greenpeace activists arrested after trying to board a russian oil rig in the arctic have now been freed and all charges against them dropped the move as part of a massive nationwide amnesty which came into force last week all of the activists have been summoned to the investigative committee in moscow and are now being

handed their amnesty papers to greenpeace campaigners were charged with hooliganism but later released on bail all but four are foreign nationals and still require exit visas to leave the country. the crisis may be just about over an arvind 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 r.t. as tess are silly a house she lives in fear of the banks. most people here remember the celtic tiger with this sense a melancholy economic boom time for 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 the ensuing banking crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today now 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 and 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 arrears so instead they prefer terms 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 were 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 without and 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 the motional and mental

health terms i could barely push. one food for the other because i just i just i couldn't sleep nights i couldn't think about things i get up at school run and then i'm going to bed again and you know i couldn't do anything at all if you think i was this dish. 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 you term personal insult and see 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 you know. you know it's a lot and the reason why i'm hoping to be bankrupt christmas is that i can start again become what i was before does are still your r t r land. going out the freedom to bam american schools and libraries have blacklisted around fifty books

this year mostly on race and sex issues and the censors now have their sights on hundreds more titles stay with us for expert opinion on back. also hope on line and sinker japan's fishing industry is doing all it can to prove it's kept just food for eating almost three years on from the fukushima nuclear disaster. is there any government says that foreign power is backing rebels are leaking information on the location of chemical weapon sites and encouraging attacks on the opposition fighters aided by al-qaeda linked factions reportedly launched assaults on two such facilities over the weekend the strikes were repelled by the army but common an uneasy time for syria as it struggles to meet international deadlines to rid itself of chemical arms and the rise of islamic extremists 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 our chief. with

a call you took over there were lots of things to discuss brought russia several diplomatic victories including the. chemical arms deal with syria geneva two 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 west 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 ties on both sides but a called war mentality is still something that must go on 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 eastward as though

a country should either be with them or against them in 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 practiced 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've got this kind of arty moscow. gets the full version of our exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister on our dot com also online report on the final preparations for the burial of a legend russia is mourning the death of me actually called 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 iron maiden has been cashing in on pirates by staging sell out concerts where their songs were illegally downloaded

the most. india has downgraded diplomatic immunity for u.s. officials in the country potentially as collating an ongoing rao the move is retaliation for the recent arrest of india's deputy consul in new york for alleged reason fraud political commentator bramah twenty believes the us authorities are on the wrong side of international law in this case. and you sure as whether or not i experience wishes to conduct the supermarket relations according to international rules and regulations. in particular that when i could mentions paul rudely who was the group who are to maintain it's you let loose approach. in this sort of like use . mention on consonant relations was the broken by the united states that conventions pacifically states in the consular of who should is immune from

the rest of the attention except. for the cream of friends in this case there was a dispute. over all regions between the middle of march and i didn't meet. you reached this group or become a group of friends justifying their arrest search and gulping of a diploma. to ban seafood industry says it's blighted by contaminated catches nearly three years after the focus ema nuclear disaster polluted surrounding land and waterways they can't convince customers their fish is safe even though the authorities and says they're doing their level best to show they've got a grip on the problem. 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 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 bush a month 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. 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 case we

make and if we ever find even the 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 groundwater 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 a 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. are under threat and there are five reflectors possibly affected by contamination in 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 in japanese fish and seafood imports the next year a shift key artsy reporting from japan. we have liftoff in the northwest of russia . the russian rocket blasted off from the space center early this morning putting three military satellites into orbit is the fourth successful launch from the base this hear another rocket launch this time from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan is set for thursday. a look now at some more global headlines egyptian police have arrested a former prime minister who served under the deposed president mohamed morsy his detention was ordered after a court ruling in july sentencing him to a year in prison for failing to renationalise a textile company former premier was seized in a mountainous area where he was trying to flee to sit down with a group of smugglers. fourteen people have died after a bomb was set off near

a church in baghdad police say double that number were injured and that most of the victims are christians non muslim minorities have been steadily fleeing the country since the fall of saddam hussein amid relentless sectarian strife forty nine books have been banned in schools and libraries across the u.s. in two thousand and thirteen that's a fifty percent jump from the previous year the unwanted books mostly deal with racial and sexual issues or written by minorities according to mickey huff director of the anti censorship group project censored the trend is widespread and even target 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 the banned books week started as a project 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 its people to control information and trying to control access to not just in for me it can but attitudes cultures history context differences and there 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. up acts it's artie's the rachel crosstalk they were. this is a media lead us so we need to be. of the same poses to the other party there's

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. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. the phrase international community is often bandied about in western media as if its meaning was clearly understood by all in fact when western politicians and media invoke the phrase international community it almost always reflects the thinking and agenda of washington and its closest allies around the world used in this manner the

international community is in fact a very small minority. to cross talk to term international community i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in tampa we cross to ruff is a day he is a political scientist and president of the international american council right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it if i go to you in tampa when you hear the term the international community when politicians and evoke invoke it when western media says the international community says this or represents what it was that mean to you that's a great question peter i think you hear a lot of the politicians usually throw out the term international community and it's really very depends on the context you're using it but from my perspective the concept internat.