to. the child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all edward snowden delivers a christmas speech a warning that too much spying could damage the way the next generation springs but there's still time for other people. for the struggle stakes there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured while the white house praises the drone strikes as a pinpoint a curious anti terrorist weapon also moves and they still growing number of civilian casualties the unmanned attacks have agreed. on a bailout exit leaves people there wondering whether the end justifies the means. i just i couldn't sleep at night so i could record things i get up at school run and

then i'm going to bed again you know i couldn't do anything at all or think i was this dish. speaks to some of those trying to keep a roof over their heads as buying swoosh to repossess how this is from struggling families. this is aussie international coming to life from moscow thanks for trying it's christmas comes but once again so for bows in the u.k. close it up in front of t.v. to watch 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 when you buy a car has 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 her grandson about the year's achievement spots channel four 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 trial 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 recorded on the last song he did end on a positive note saying that to gether the public can work for a better balance to end mass surveillance and the to remind governments that 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 and the questions that he's raised around democratic society so they're going to 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. and see america spokes have washington post journalist and pulitzer prize or paul salsa who was the first to interview snowden when he was granted temporary

asylum here in russia barton gellman shared his impressions are one of america's most wanted he is remarkably sort of at peace with everything he's a manager considerable pressure i must assume but he doesn't show it he is. he's 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 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 that. and in the cart 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 that 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 he pays attention to it as. snowden is not the only one delivery of christmas message only received a u.s. civil rights group had a say releasing a comedy video of santa fe fun at the end of say well shit right now at r.t. dot com. was less than a week to twenty four scene where something out of the most pivotal news of the outgoing year.

latest in our series the problem of drone warfare in the middle east indiaman a decade of america's war on terror has led the population fieri a strike anytime anywhere and on anyone they see is saw 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 terror attacks are pinpoint accurate and the latest incident up to seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in yemen he's lucid confident 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 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 the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around. i found a part of saleman side 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 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. salim'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. the mere certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set. out. 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'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 expression of the at some point when 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 in yemen and lucy catherine of. and foreign policy analyst phyllis bennis says that when 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 and we'll be continuing our series looking at the year's most significant events during twenty six days final days in the next hour of the bar is and breakthroughs between the wild and. these loopholes have been. braving the elements in order to stand up to u.s. oil giant chevron. this comes after

a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that's something dubbed the gulag of our time. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. out there. just a few months ago they held the reins of power in egypt today that considered terrorists thousand how the muslim brotherhood is officially we go to buy the ministry bank's interim government which has bonded successors his boss at home and abroad when i say she was blamed for tuesday's suicide blast in months were killed sixteen and wounded scores of the muslim brotherhood denies being involved does the mounting an

investigation in cairo based journalist issue here are men believes the government's debts again supporters of the ousted president morsi. world 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 psalmist group all together and not to leave any room any space for that group to enter into political life again. they see more defined the never they've already called for protests on friday saying we couldn't is the real terrorism here and they feel that this is a return to preach and you are 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. and so to come on our senior international a close friend of the ukrainian opposition is no longer welcome in the country report on why he would georgian president mikhail saakashvili ended up on a no entry list and who else will be cheering protesters in kiev in the near future . there's something fishy around figures were pulled from the plight of japan's seafood industry are the consequences of the nuclear tragedy leave with a contaminated catch despite all your thoughts they say. the face of what now the u.n. is doubling its peacekeeping mission in south sudan with some thousands are believed to have died in the recent unrest the u.s. is also sending marines closer to the country to help evacuate its citizens the world's youngest country only gained independence from the north two years ago but

is now on a brink of civil war a power struggle between the president and his socks deputy has inflamed deadly tribal tension america has been engaged in the region says the nineteen seventies when all joy and chevron dick discovered all that and it was at the helm for push of south sudan's independence author and historian gerald horne who was an easy asian in the sudanese civil war during the ninety's explains why the you are sworn to another country on the world. united states was basically the midwife for self sudanese independence united states in its real world posed to the khartoum base of 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's the china question the chinese oil company is deeply invested in south sudan and for

a way the chinese was also seen as a tool through which could be accomplished through independence and secession 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 and with oil let's say roughly at one hundred dollars a barrel you can see that this is a pretty penny. europe is showing tentative signs of improvement but they will start the sky was wrong for the nations who needed bailouts and became fast to prove that it can now go it alone but it's by gunning for home loan as pointed behind during a test on c.n.n. that some of the families living under threat of being tapped out into the street.

most people here remember the cold to 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 back in crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today and for some irish families though there is also a daily reminder of the threat or reality of losing their homes we had a mortgage was very high on the value the property was falling below the mortgage so i ended up with a cash offer five hundred passengers 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 the rears so instead they prefer terms of course. 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 had a catastrophic effect on data activity that aren't on business to paralyze the entire nation they have failed to deal with the mortgage debt crisis but coming up a creative solutions we can measure how much the bailout has cost us in monetary terms we have never evaluation how much this is cost of 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 i think there 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 since. you know it's bad luck and the reason why i'm hoping to be back up for christmas is that i can start again become what i was before does or assume your r t r loan and we all know where he's to keep our cash save but it's a different matter for bitcoins as one hapless owner has discovered a bloomberg t.v. host has found out the hard way showing his print of bitcoin on air to thousands of euros only to get digitally pickpocket and by how kids rolled out a story online. the brothers a bypass in britain called go away cameron lets people watch online porn by getting around and popular government filters the new number ten by a vial has been a bit overzealous even blocking out sex education resources their.

former georgian president mikhail saakashvili has been declared persona non grata in ukraine here has also banned such five other people from georgia the e.u. and the uighurs from entering the country all of them are suspected to working with the ukrainian opposition during their ongoing and to government protests his diapers color has. 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 independence square once in december and there are 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 also european union and u.s.

citizens who have been banned and treat brain ukrainian parliament member 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 hundred 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. time now for a look at some other news stories in greve riot police in turkey rubber bullets and water cannon on crowds protesting against government corruption and calling for prime minister and a one to resign instead though to one replaced almost all of this cabinet was shuffling ten ministers after three lawmakers quit amid a geisha is of corruption and bribery is the biggest scandal the pm has faced during his eleven year tenure he claims it's an international plot to undermine his government's credibility ahead of elections in march. severe weather in

britain has made it a chaotic christmas day for tens of thousands of people high winds and heavy rain have batters the country leaving many without power around us and homes were flooded following mass evacuations in southern and central part of the country as a warning that lives threatening storm conditions will persist. a series of attacks across are wrong have left at least forty four people dead and schools more injured one bomb exploded near a church in baghdad as christian that worshipers left a christmas service the president of the arab lawyers association in the u.k. believes the iranian government is too preoccupied with an internal power struggle to deal with sick terence trying. i think you is 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 politics of process which is really

a sham it is not a real political process because you cannot have a political process when 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 this is a he 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 to go via innocence to thousand and eight over nine thousand people lost their lives together with the investigative group iraq body count he has a database that gives you the stark numbers documenting the deaths and attacks that are ravaging the country that it's all at.

the store of thirty greenpeace activists arrested after an attempt to scale a russian oil rig in the arctic is drawing to a close almost all of them have had all charges against them dropped as part of a nationwide amnesty on prisoners in russia. has the 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 oil owned 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 a danger to people who were working on the. oil rig itself. all activists including the crew members of the arctic sunrise were charged with piracy or those charges were later graded to charges of hooliganism and all of those who were arrested and kept in prison for a while were released on bail 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. japan is famous for its seafood but fishing near the devastated by nuclear plant isn't perhaps such a bright idea local fishermen claim they're landing emeritus amounts of contaminated fish and do their best to keep it from consumers tables even the. tests show it's safe. explains.

work doesn't stop in the port of saumur despite being just a few kilometers from areas still ravaged by the twenty eleventh's 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 bush a month nuclear bomb 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 so we can find a very very high concentration of the right. fish factories around the fukushima

prefecture now have to take radiation measurements but despite lab workers assuring us the fish was free of any harmful particles were taken samples from every cage we make and if we ever find even slightest trace of radiation will destroy the whole catch so far there has been none of this fish is safe and even the nuclear plant operator tepco is standing firm that the nearby waters are clear of radiation this edition is pretty much on the control we've built fan says not to let polluted ground waters leak into the ocean we were surprised to learn that most of the seafood we saw at the port of soma will never make it to the shelves of fish markets or restaurant tables. most of the fish caught within the thirty kilometer radius is thrown into the garbage because it is radiated and tepco is paying local fishermen for it so they're happy and keep silent some of it though makes it to stores but only locally seafood firms here are under the. threat and there are five

professors 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. reporting from japan. and up next an aussie international it's techno a chap and if you're watching us in the u.k. is the final pasta wiki leaks road maybe to stay with.

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