a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all i agree it's not and delivers a christmas speech a warning that too much spying could damage the way the next generation spends but there's still time for a cure. for it is like a steak there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured while the white house praises drone strikes as a pinpoint accurate and a terrorist weapon he looks at this time growing number of civilian casualties that mond attacks have reaped. and olens happy bailout exit leaves people there wondering whether the end justifies the means. i just couldn't sleep at night so i could go through i get up. 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. he speaks to some of those trying to keep a roof over there has of buying spurs still represents homes from struggling families. this is aussie international coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the. christmas comes but once you get so for those in the u.k. cars it up in front of t.v. to watch the torch the queen's christmas speech it probably came as no surprise that it wasn't the only message on the box and alternative address was delivered by a man who believes there's no reason to stick to the rules. as a story. christmas day here in the u.k. is a sacred tradition it's all about the christmas turkey the family gathering and of

course getting around the teddy to watch the queen's speech with your family this year the queen was wishing brits a merry christmas she spoke about the birth of a grandson about the years achievement spots china for airing an alternative christmas message from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who of course revealed the extent of mass government surveillance programs in the u.s. the u.k. and other western countries and he was speaking today all about privacy and he said that george orwell's nineteen eighty-four was the real fairy tale compared to the reality that we're living with right now and he said that children born nowadays are really going to grow up with no concept of privacy whatsoever we have sensors in our pockets to track us everywhere we go think about what this means for the privacy of the average person a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all they'll never

know what it means to have a private moment to themselves and are recorded on the last song he did end on a positive note saying that together the public can work for a better balance to end mass surveillance and the to remind governments that's really if they want to know what the public is thinking they should ask and it's cheaper than spying channel four said that they chose edward snowden for this christmas message because of the extent of the revelations that he has brought to the public this year in the questions that he's raised around democratic societies so they can be hoping that they will have not just fear as towards questioning that status quo that little bit more by having edward snowden talk to them about privacy today. see america spoke to washington pas journalist and pulitzer prize or paul salsa who was the finest to interview snowden when he was granted temporary asylum

here in russia dawson gellman shared his impressions of one of america's most wanted he is remarkably sort of at peace with everything he's a man there considerable pressure i must assume but he doesn't show it he is. it is feeling like he did what he set out to do when he when he says that he's accomplished his mission what he means is that he's taking. a very important subject out secret world and and it to the public so that people can decide for themselves where they want to draw the lines instead of having to draw the lines drawn for them. and in the car in the article you mention that when interviewing him his guard never really dropped which i thought was interesting considering you're saying that he was remarkably calm and whatnot i mean did you get the sense that he was sort of constantly worrying work concerned at all about his future which is basically unknown at this point. he doesn't project concern about his

future he is what i mean by that he didn't drop his guard is. he has boundaries for one thing he's a very private person you know understands that he is in the news that he has done something very much newsworthy he wants the news to be about the policy the subject the documents themselves he isn't see that he's got any obligation to talk about his personal life and he has natural security concerns so it pays attention what is . snowden is not the only one delivering a christmas message on a u.s. civil rights group has had a state to releasing a college of vizier of sound poking fun at the n.s.a. well should now as i see dot com. with less than a week to twenty four seen where something out the most pivotal news of the outgoing year. and in the latest in our series the problem of drone rule say in the middle east in

german a decade of america's war on terror has led people relation fearing a strike any time anywhere and on anyone they see is source civilian victims testified before the united states congress but that tragic stories were waved away by the white house which still and says the under tara tonks pinpoint accurate in the latest incident go up to seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in yemen. for an office here 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 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 the day the

finality 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 and 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. they found a part of saleman side the car the rest was outside 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 sleepy 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. 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. can't help us 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 must be. near certainty that 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 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 ghosts 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 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 in ca law on in yemen i'm lucy catherine of. and foreign policy analyst phyllis bennett says that one it comes to international law the u.s. feels it has a free pass 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 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. as they have a civilian death toll that america's drone strikes have brought to pakistan people that can't even leave the area where the unmanned aircraft are waging war our correspondent went to a region that is now a walled off firing range for the u.s. military machine or shall report next. these loopholes have been sour here braving the elements in order to stand up to u.s.

oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. out there it's. just a few months ago they held the reins of power in egypt today and they're considered terrorists that's how the muslim brotherhood is officially regarded by the military banks interim government which has bond its x. have issues balls at home and abroad when i say she was blamed for tuesday's says sign last month that killed sixteen and wounded schools of the muslim brotherhood

denies being in gold and is demanding an investigation. journalist issue here a man believes the government of in debt again supporters of the ousted president morsi. this is a new escalation in the long running feud between the security state and the muslim brotherhood what they're trying to achieve is to crush the zionist group altogether and not to leave any room any space for that group to enter into political life again. they see more defined they never they've already called for protests on friday saying that the coup is the real terrorism here and they feel that this is a return to preach and you were twenty eleven return of the police state repressive measures being taken. all measures taken to silence any form of dissent so

i expect more violence more bloodshed and it served it's a vicious cycle. so it's a commonality international a close friend only ukrainian opposition is no longer welcome in the country or report a wife who would georgian president mikhail saakashvili ended up on a no entry list and who else will be chairing protests in kiev in the near future that's up for the break. e.g. . a longer covert team of journalists trying to release which documents about how the united states is right. there. made me more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure.

country blocks the way to information freedom. media style. wealthy british style it's time to. go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on. it will showing all seem to nationalise good to have you with us let's move on the un

is doubling its peacekeeping mission in south sudan with some muslims are believed to have died in the recent unrest the u.s. is also sending marines close to the country to help evacuate its citizens the walls youngest country. getting rid of the commanders from the north to get is a go at is now on the brink of civil war a power struggle between the president of he. has inflamed tribal tension that america has been engaged in the region says the seventy's when all giant chevron discovered oil that was at the helm for push sudan's independence author and historian gerald horn was amusing to sit in a civil war during the eighties explained why the us wanted another country and that while the. united states was basically the midwife for south sudanese independence united states in its real world posed to the khartoum government not least because it would seem as being anti israel and was perceived as being pro

palestinian not only that but there is oil in sudan and the oil in the south in this part i don't do that nor and then there is the china question the chinese oil company is deeply invested in south sudan and for allowing the chinese was also seen as a tool through which could be accomplished through independence and searching for south sudan chevron felt that it would be in their best interest if south sudan work to see because it would be easier to exploit the oil in a divided country as opposed to a united country that was a major reason driving the split do the math we're talking about hundreds of thousands of barrels produced in south sudan it would have oil look roughly at one hundred dollars a barrel you can see that this is a pretty penny. you're showing tentative signs of improvement but they also run deep for the nations who needed bailouts on and became famous to prove that it can

now. but it's buying seven gunning for homeowners who fall in behind during the. test and that some of the families living under threat of being out on the street. 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 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 boss to be is to be back in crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today over 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 and 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 climb with arrears so instead they preferred terms of course.

repossessed the house wall and 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 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 a minute 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 of

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 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 become what i was before does or assume your r t r l and. we all know ways to keep our cash safe but it's a different matter for bitcoin is as one hapless owner has discovered a bloomberg t.v. host on darby hardaway showing his printed bitcoin on a head to thousands of euros only to get digitally pick pocketed by hikers law that's online. on the browser bypass in britain called

go away cameron that lets people watch online formed by getting around unpopular government filters the new number ten box. has been a bit overzealous even blocking out sex educational resources. for one georgian president mikhail saakashvili has been declared persona non grata in ukraine kiev has also banned thirty five other people from georgia the and the uighurs from entering the country all of them are suspected to working with the ukrainian opposition during the ongoing and to god when protests die a push call for has that easy. well the most prominent person on the list is obviously former georgian president mikheil saakashvili a well known supporter of the so-called color revolutions he's already visited the key is independent square ones in december there are allegedly another twenty nine georgians on the list among them is

a man who is on the international wanted list for being behind the unrest that broke out during the protests in may two thousand and twelve in moscow besides georgians there are also european union and u.s. citizens who have been banned and treat in ukraine a ukrainian parliament member who initiated this 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 even american politicians whom we saw so many times in the end of independence square in kiev and to name just some of them it's victoria nuland the u.s. deputy secretary of state who visited the protests twice and even handed out some cookies to the protesters as a sign of support the e.u. diplomatic chief catherine ashton who helped talks both with the government and the

opposition and even the u.s. hawks senator john mccain who is well known for supporting regime changes he was he had been to key of the so-called orange revolution a decade ago he was active during the arab spring in egypt and libya and he even let his support to the syrian rebels so far there is no evidence that any of them made it to the blacklist of visitors in ukraine and although the ukrainian authorities say the entry ban is temporary it seems to be already working as several people have been turned down at the border. have a look at some other world news in brief this hour police in turkey have used rubber chicken on protesters against government corruption thousands of rounded in istanbul demanding prime minister added ones resignation on wednesday at a one hundred to reshuffle his entire cabinet after three key ministers resigned over allegations of corruption and bribery scandal is the biggest challenge the

turkish prime minister's face cheering his eleven years in office he claims it's an international plot to undermine his government's credibility ahead of elections and much. severe weather in britain has made it a chaotic christmas day for tens of thousands of people that high winds and heavy rave have battered the country leaving many without power around a thousand homes were flooded following muscle occupations in southern and central parts of the country as a warning that life threatening storm conditions will persist. the series of attacks across iraq have left at least forty four people dead and schools more injured one bomb exploded near a church in baghdad as christian wash has left a christmas as the president of the hour blows association in the u.k. believes the iraqi government is too preoccupied with an internal power struggle to deal with sectarian strife. so you have money accuse the new dictator in iraq and

you have other politicians who want to remove them so that they can stay in this place and what is there is what's called the political process which is really a sham it is not a real political process because you cannot have a political process where you are losing something like twenty thirty people a day this is a civil war the fault of the end of the day must lie with the government because the government any government anywhere has a duty to protect the people has a duty to protect the society has a duty to make the life of the ordinary people tolerable at least and this is what this government is failing iraq has suffered its worst t.-o. violence since to thousand and eight when nine thousand people lost their lives together with the investigating group iraq body count as a database a database that gives you the stark numbers that documenting the deaths and attacks

that are ravaging the country it's all at after dark. up next the second part awake in weeks where i had. to stay with it.

although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh i heard about the standoff involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this celebrity scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the eighty t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if the situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making pro l.g. p.t. statements then people who are currently defending any right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the star's freedom of speech think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott a closing of a and a forever very few people actually believe in freedom of speech for all they just

believe in freedom of speech for people who agree with them but that's just my opinion. they finished with the economic up and downs in the final at the moment they belong to the old shanghai and the rest that life is going be caking it will be a briefly come out they.

are going to hire do because. because there was an article about there. about your conditions of work that says we journalists have when they were here in israel by this time. and the year journalists there they interviewed the very frank with me and they told me about different things that they're good reports of home things that need good care the censorship that you experienced in there. at their workplace when the material was published two of the six journalists goods are tired of you retracted their statements so you see the. base you see. all the news some to do with them or do you think out of the long text or something

i think some of those names. 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 evolved about it because i think to an extent yeah i made a very big mistake with this with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hired to do a very journalistic very typical journalistic work. about journalists and the standards for doing the journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred times higher because they were. they were immediately you know a backfire.