ethnic killings mass graves and thousands dead across the country violence in south sudan as collates as some question whether there is more to the un rest than just an internal conflict. from the white house praises drone strikes as a pinpoint i curate antiterrorist weapon archie looks at the staggering number of civilian casualties young men attacks have wreaked. gardens happy ballot exit leaves people there wondering whether the end justifies the means. i couldn't do anything at all if you think i was this dish. i have no way i wish to speak to some of those trying to keep a roof over their heads as banks push to repossess homes from struggling families.

from our studios in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said no way our top story the u.n. is sending over five thousand more troops to south sudan almost doubling the number of peacekeepers there for the past ten days the country has been engulfed in deadly violence which the u.n. says has already claimed thousands of lives are reports. the un says that investigators discovered mass graves in the rebel held city of two 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 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 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 is no official firm count it may be more it may be less nobody knows what we do know is that the violence is spreading and spreading quickly washington marines to the horn of africa to help evacuated citizens from south sudan the u.s. has been engaged in the region since the one nine hundred seventy s. when oil giant chevron discovered oil washington was also one of the biggest

champions of south sudan's independence but one journalist covering regional affairs warns that this involvement may have gone too far. 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 up it would have possibly would have been better to have south sudan as an autonomous region as part of a broader a republic of sudan but the united states as well as the state of israel encouraged 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 they could 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. as we prepare to say farewell to twenty thirteen r.t.s. looking at events that made headlines this here. these a full supreme council 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 some have dubbed the gulag of our times. it's an undercurrent of global battlefield in which a young man is just one of the front lines.

a decade of america's drone warfare in yemen and pakistan has left the population in fear of a strike anytime anywhere and on anyone is irresponsibility and victims testified before the u.s. congress but their stories were waved away by the white house that insists these anti terrorist attacks are pinpoint accurate in the latest incident up to seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in yemen are confident reports now on the human price of 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 charity you 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 that the the final to

be the father of three was killed by a us 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 the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around. i found a part of saline inside the car the rest was outside but 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 this sleepy farming village for ever in 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. saleem'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 helpless i didn'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 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 most. 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 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 at 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 plotted 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 folks that may have contributed to the growth of expression of. at some point when i apply that we can slide enough 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 fight 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 any yemen. well foreign policy analyst phyllis bennis says the u.s. routinely turns a blind eye to international law whatever it stands in the way of the 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 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 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 it's not just the heavy civilian death toll that america's drone strikes have brought to pakistan people cannot even leave the area where unmanned aircraft are waging war our correspondent went to a region that has been turned into a walled off firing range for the u.s. military machine you can watch this report next hour. the irish banks may have managed to shake off the burden of an e.u.

bailout but at what price to the man on the street homeless organizations there estimate that sixteen families lose their homes each month in the capital dublin and tests are sillier finds out thousands more are still battling the banks to keep their homes. most people here remember the cold to tiger with this sense a melancholy economic boom times in the mid ninety's up until two thousand and seven that went bust in no small way the un for the structure behind me would have been the offices of the anglo irish bank one of the struggling banks that was effectively nationalized it was a stark reminder of the property boston the ensuing banking crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today and for some irish families though there's 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 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 terms of course. repossessed the house while arlen 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 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 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 and then i'm going 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 back up for christmas. you know it's a lot and the reason why i'm hoping to be back of christmas is that i can start again that we become what i was before does or so you're r.t.e. are aligned. just ahead for ukraine banned some high profile foreigners from entering the country that coming up. to the. seasons he adds but there's already been plenty to celebrate this december

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. back to arch international live from moscow ukraine has been thirty six foreigners including former georgian president mikheil saakashvili from entering the country those declared persona non grata are suspected of working with the ukrainian opposition to destabilize the situation in the country during ongoing and government protests more on this i'm joined by archie's daria pushed so daria you know who else is on the list and how did they get on it well obviously the most were. person on the list is the former georgian president mikheil saakashvili who is a well known supporter of the so-called color revolutions he's already visited kiev's independence square the center of anti-government protests in december and pledged his support to the demonstrators he was also there almost a decade ago as a vocal supporter of the orange revolution now there are allegedly another twenty

nine georgians on the list and among them is a man who is on international wanted list for being behind the unrest broke out during the protests in moscow in may two thousand and twelve really even recently acknowledged that. there was working with russian opposition on saakashvili his personal request besides georgians there are some european union and u.s. citizens who've been banned entry to crane and the official reason given to them is national security a ukrainian parliament member who initiated the move said that all these foreigners have been working with the opposition to destabilize the situation in the country however from what we know there aren't any high profile european or american politicians on the list while there were quite a few that we saw in the actual independence square in kiev they were cheering the crowds and holding talks with the opposition those people have already been

criticized widely in ukraine and even abroad for interfering into the country's affairs and to name just some of them victoria nuland for example the u.s. deputy said the deputy secretary of state who visited the protests twice and even handed out some cookies to the protesters as a sign of support now the e.u. diplomatic chief catherine ashton who held talks both with the government and the opposition and another person the u.s. hawks senator john mccain who is well known for supporting the regime chain. as worldwide he is he wasn't he of during the so-called orange revolution a decade ago he was active during the arab spring in egypt and libya and even clutched his supports to the syrian rebels so although so far there is no evidence that any of them made it to the black list of the visitors it's not clear whether

there will be any more names springing out the ukrainian authorities say that the entry ban is temporary and it seems to be already working with several people already turned down at the border however it's not clear whether it will stop anyone else from meddling into the ukrainian domestic affairs over certainly be watching closely guarded push covert thanks so much for those details. online for you today on healthy food but not for employees on aren't you dot com we've got the story of why mcdonald's is pushing its workers to choose a salad instead of a burger. piracy for good on our website we tell you how an iconic heavy metal band plans to use data from a legal song downloads to fill their concert venue. with the i. think it's

a. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. welcome back to our international story of thirty greenpeace activists arrested after an attempt to scale a russian oil rig in the arctic is drawing to a close twenty of them have already had all charges against them dropped with a nationwide amnesty that came into force in russia last week archies arena has details. the story of the so-called arctic thirty began in september of this year when several of the activists were warned board the greenpeace vessel have climbed on to a russian will own the oil rig in the northern seas now they said it was an action

of protest against drilling for oil in the arctic however they were arrested because russian authorities said that their actions posed danger to people who were working on the oil rig and to the oil rig itself. surely the activists all activists including the crew members of the arctic sunrise were charged with piracy off over those charges were later downgraded to charges of good ism and all of those who were arrested and kept in prison for a while were released on bail he couldn't leave the country but now because they fall under this amnesty which was passed in russia in the middle of december they are free to go whole. another world news today the iraq you competent capital baghdad hit by twin blasts killing as many as thirty seven people and injuring scores implosions explosions targeted an outdoor market in the churches worshipers were leaving the christmas service churches have been increasingly targeted since

the fall of saddam hussein and the population of christians has halved in recent years over nine thousand people in iraq have lost their lives in violence in twenty thirteen. hundreds of opposition supporters have clashed with police in thailand as they tried to enter a registration center for upcoming elections called for february after weeks of anti-government protest amending the prime minister stepped down the country's main opposition party promised more protests and said it would boycott the elections which the ruling party is widely predicted to. india has downgraded immunity for u.s. diplomats serving in the country meaning they have no protection if committing serious offenses immunity for their relatives has been revoked altogether breaking the rules in line with those applying to indian officials in the u.s. these are the latest measures imposed by delhi in response to the arrest of its deputy consul general in new york for alleged visa fraud for her staff. almost three years after fukushima nuclear tragedy it's still casting its shadows over the

japanese seafood industry local fishermen say they're doing their best to keep contaminated fish from the consumers' table because the biggest part of the catch is usually discarded who can say how safe the rest really is or. try to find out. 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 cat 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 there are significant contamination in the bottle sediment especially in the paul system it's a. very very high concentration. 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 catch 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 stores 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 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 next year a shift reporting from. now on arch international the second part of the wiki leaks road movie find out how a group of underground journalists test the impact of the documents as they travel through central asia.

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party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . for the us i think the least phrases superior people might even be sure didn't belong to us and for us i'm the trees this is the right place to propose that they call it or at just what i mean that rule just these particular people we're working with who the fuck all that you why why why do they do anything. why would they work with these cables why would they not work with these cables mold many of them for money yes and this needs to be said they do this for the money yeah but the i am why everybody has one thing well known what a liar it's why did you have doing this here i am having said that i was judging.

and the man you are judging no not even with yours or the ending this movie is judging that its ok i am just saying initially be we need to be concerned that we are not going our own places saying we are better than you are because i've had this situation and i fucked off in years to that this is what i'd like to see this approach to the one where if you seem out of seeing that you you go to two people you know nothing there as you start out with them there's only room here we can extend then when they have or this is a strong reaction you're like strong reaction when the settlement covers the cables because they didn't know me going to the first place it was no no no you have to know these who are you have you have quiet then you get a slightly different opinion then you don't get that you only get the response they want to get supposed to show in the audience what they will say about these things do you not think that it is an interesting question to see if media around the world will do this and he will and he went on stealing of thing well that is an

interesting question if it's an interesting question no to bad too scared to pull the u.s. government document in the morning with the rest of knowing or even if they see it there are many other great tears that missoni what walk walk right what criteria are used to of an. interest newsworthiness know now that you can write a script every news organization that has a website it has a website developer who can just go. like that and they get free hits in google. is very very it is very very profitable to publish cables because you don't have to write cable it's free stories. the point as far as i see it is there. and there are boundaries to free speech as in the same way as the boundaries to our thoughts into our language and.

music between use to speak is basically what we are dealing with and these boundaries they look differently in different countries but they are always exist in one way or another that's color your senses or conformism or self-censorship or whatever it may be and we have a very unique opportunity to actually just show where these boundaries are doesn't necessarily mean that these boundary is better than that boundary they're really showing where i would ask your back buddy that there is but the thing is that people usually are annoyed with people or if you're unaware of where the boundaries are the easiest way of getting a hold of them is by asking about it and it was a well i cannot write about the king kind of write about sex or whatever they are most often they like it when i tell you that there are only about most of you know we say well we have no boundaries whatsoever yes and this is what you will get when you interview any journalist in the united kingdom or in brazil or in sweden or it

ever is yes so what we have here is the tools in actually catching these boundaries if you push any organization they will have boundaries any organization yes what are right and what i write all of them including one not at all that. existing home. oh you know. from me discussing. what you'll see it's all pretty. suspicious. from the guardian you've got a paper that's been around nearly two hundred years is completely solid from tradition it's international trade it's at the forefront of digital innovation with doing something that is almost unique in times and there's no one else that looks kind.