you want. iran considers a bill on a celebrating its nuclear program if new u.s. sanctions are imposed as western powers urge it to fulfill an agreement brokered in geneva seen as a key breakthrough of twenty eight thirteen. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. and warns edward snowden as he takes to the british airwaves giving an alternative to the queen's speech and wishing everyone a merry christmas. and competing is nice but a winning trumps it all say athletes as the ready themselves for the torture winter olympics stay with us as we report on the paralympic contender is using that gold fever to turn tragedy into purpose.

the sergey coming to live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program radio lawmakers have proposed a bill boosting uranium enrichment to sixty percent of new sanctions are imposed on the country the motions apparently aimed at countering u.s. legislation authorizing tougher if iran breaches a historic deal reached in geneva last month now and that agreement raised hopes of a rupture between tehran and foreign powers and marked a significant milestone of the year twenty thirty hm mm. and now let's have a look at what the deal was about iran agreed to reduce or anyone richmond from

twenty percent seen as too close to bomb making capability to fire first sand for the next six months and also to deactivate its advanced centrifuges inspectors would monitor this on a daily basis and sanctions would begin to ease more of what led to the landmark document in a regular report me to iran's new leader. iran is the anchor of stability in the region he's trying to convince the west he's not out for blood. the iranian threat is imaginary and used as an excuse for others. and he thinks a nuclear free middle east is the key to peace and stability urgent practical steps towards the establishment of such is own unnecessary. that sounds good too but not everyone believes iran could have changed so much well honey is a war in sheep's clothing a war for thinks you can pull the odds the wool over the eyes. of the international

community israel the only country to middle east that hasn't signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty determined to push its point across to iran's minutes away from developing a nuclear bomb and blowing up the world with israel being first on the first of targets this rhetoric however may serve to cover tel aviv's real fears it's not about nuclear weapons not really it's about who's going to be the power in the gulf you've got three contending parties here you've got the saudis and the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council you've got israel with the united states behind it and then you've got iran really the only stable state in the region other than israel then there was the first time leaders of the u.s. and iran spoke to each other directly in more than thirty years the phone call that really rubbed a lot of people the wrong way particularly in the u.s. where the president had to deal with a lot of furious lawmakers both republicans and democrats who still think within

the brackets of the cold war era a bad bad bad interim deal iran is a threat to peace in the world and it's not only the issue of nuclear weaponry it is their entire behavior of spreading terrorism throughout the region but i must have very tight there his hands are tied there are people and lobby groups in the united states that do not want to see the united states and iran after thirty four years of demonizing the country to have relations are. eighteen hour long talks in geneva seemed to have brought a final breakthrough iran agreed to significantly slow down its really reached and process in return for easing of the core sanctions that joy was short lived you have the u.s. senate that. writing new sanctions was. the israeli government. trying to side with this first examined and then we have

the media outlets the third in line with the united states and that is trying to scare. the american people of the europeans about iran and about the iran's intentions but judging by the messages that come from the president the intentions are to live and let others live in peace a change in attitude that doesn't seem to be welcomed by many old school politicians in the west even going to school. although the nuclear deal is only a temporary fix and will be renegotiated next year reaching it was no easy task tomic wrangling hour on started to heat up a decade ago when the country was labeled an axis of evil power by the us along with iraq and north korea due partly to its apparent nuclear ambitions a war of words threats of military strikes crippling sanctions and even cyber warfare word of fault analysts now say iran is tired of all this and that's what

made the deal possible. the president of iran has made a very favorable impression on the west and on the united states the on the foreign minister appear to be negotiating in good faith there's a tremendous reservoir of hostility toward iran and i think the president of iran and the foreign minister have gone very far to dissipate that and to impress upon the americans the government and nation that this is a different government now this is a government that recognizes the things that have gone wrong in our relationship in the path show on both sides that we want to move back into a community with the world we want to do what we were elected to do which was and sanctions and bring iran back into the international community and into the international economy. now one of the

world's most wanted fugitives has wished britons a merry christmas and a constant vigilance the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden made an appearance on national t.v. with a not so uplifting message on the emergence of western surveillance states but he and it on a cheerier know it's assuring viewers that it's not too late to fight back or just bully boy the reports. 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 telly 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 all about privacy he said that george orwell's one thousand nine hundred eighty four was

a real fairy tale compared to the reality that we're living with right now with 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 recorded on the last song and i'm all for 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 knowledge of you as towards questioning that status quo that little bit more by having edward snowden talk to them about privacy today well area we talked to jim killick executive director of the open rights group here tell us about if societies remain docile there will be nothing to stop the rise of surveillance states. if we don't think about the consequences that we ask ourselves how we limit the power of the state in the face of this change that digital technology brings

then we are going to move into a surveillance society just by default because governments are going to use of course they're going to use a bail people from time to time but what we found for edward snowden is that they change the what they do you know twenty thirty years ago they would have targeted a few individuals they wouldn't have been trying to surveil the whole population not unless you were you know east germany or something what about what we know now is that that's what we're doing we're just gathering information on everybody indiscriminately of course we're not going to stop governments from spying on each other but that is a very very different to than using the excuse of terrorism to keep tabs on everybody. snowden is not the only one delivering a christmas message on the liberty u.s. civil rights group has had a say to releasing a comedy video sanda poking fun at the n.s.a.

watch it now at our dot com. i may be the time for giving but it's also the time for span day coming up on r t you know where there was a festive spirit has taken hold of millions of brits who are said to be saddled with christmas debt for months to come. and a story of riches to rags for the muslim brotherhood just months after holding the reins of power in egypt the group is now only banned from the country's political life but officially designated as terrorists. i was just over two months to go before the sochi olympics athletes are putting our saying they've got into training for a chance at gold that thirst for victory is just as strong among the paralympic contenders i just want to caution our falls a story of one astley found the loss of his legs was no match for sporting ambition . this is my second family thirty six year old by d.m.c.

lucan is the captain of the twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey paralympic team and this training base as his home which is here almost every day at this training base morning till night training and while the games are just around the corner the athletes are training even harder than africa well most. every day is the same we get up we have breakfast and we train on the days that we have a game to play we arrive at the stadium an alibi for we spend some time to get ready and then we go and fight. but things haven't always been so crystal clear for him when team lost both his lacks while serving in the military and changed man. i remember everything like it was yesterday i was completely lost i didn't know what to do next my friends from the army supported me i got into sport first i tried swimming then athletics. in two thousand and four he launched

a sport club for disabled sports man his daddy cation to slash hockey began five years later at that time slash hockey was barely known in the country and there were no teams no coaches no experience but these guys managed to change that sassed and fearless just like the plea they gave. it to work with it was strange at the beginning i remember there were very few of us at first training we tried the hockey sledge we could not handle it at first we were falling down constantly now the newcomers use us as an example. of what patience commitment to training and outstanding determination you know these guys have a whole different their lives their own and become a leaf as lead to make it to the national team and the next six challenge is to be the best at sochi winter olympics slash hockey has been a part of the prelim pick since ninety ninety four but this is going to be the

first year and russian team has competed and this here the competition on the ice is going to be much tougher. on the. back in canada the world sledge hockey challenge this year we played against the teams of canada in the u.s. they're very skilled at leats we still cannot do their experience especially in the little things we're trying very hard the. more attention competitive pressure but for ng assets and the dream is no exception and there is one thing that matters the most at them then picks. what every player thinks only about victory how to grab it and never let it go this is important. question a tool or region r.t. . r t has been keeping up with the team so the came for a while now and it will continue to do so as he has to sort. but if you want to

read up on his story or watch our previous reports on him it's all on our website r.t. dot com. the search for the county florida teen olympics was this boy's life and the law is so special as the russian resort prepares to local the world power the games should be the city's present and future ludlow sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tub here beyond the olympics with the bomb mixing starting germ of the first on our team. and our report on the muslim brotherhood's fall from grace in edge it and a look at britain's none too healthy shopping habits next after the break to stay with us.

these are the. reasons he adds but there's already been plenty to celebrate this december on this month's show called the future tense so lazy section stone cold to make movies with an instant messenger on their revolutionary exoskeleton makes it likely to get really take. your. interview.

welcome back to watching ninety international terror came gift and a tip or two but all these christmas pleasures common to have to cost one that manny families in the u.k. will struggle to pay back a new study says it will take the average household until almost the middle of twenty four to get over the death bump but as laura smith now reports nothing could be further from the minds of the credit card wielding consumers on the streets of london. people are in the grips of a buying frenzy last minute shopping last minute spending and last minute going into debt british families are more likely to start the new year buried under a mountain of credit card debts than almost any of the europeans only rumanians and turks splash more plastic britons are also taking on more christmas debt in two

thousand and thirteen than the year before which is granted fears about the wider economy the bank of england says a recovery has taken hold but these debt figures raise the possibility that the recoveries at sleeping few borrowed money other nations do have other forms of debt says i n. g.'s senior economist credit cards have particular. critic can soft be expensive the interest rate on it furthermore critical tends to get up on various and t. take you put it take credit card and you pay to do that and you also pay for more precise things such as a present which you are going to pay back over a number of number of months for example critic card it can be particularly useful for a number of people but we must be aware of the pitfalls if you don't keep yourself under control for now though the most to hear on regent street spend today and deal

with the consequences later or no in fact only one in four britons said they had any intention of paying the money back but the high interest rates on credit cards mean debt can easily spiral out of control and tough economic times potentially spell a less than happy two thousand and fourteen for the indebted. and coming up later nineteen a national next kaiser looks at how big time banks are managed to keep out of jail . the united states we have over and over jamie dimon and a and j.p. morgan is critical moment a crime it's a crime of crime they've they've paid a dozens of fines this year for various crimes so you've got like jamie is begging to be imprisoned some people i've i've had this experience when i worked on wall street myself a lot of people they beg to be wiped out financially and my role as a stockbroker is to euthanize their accounts jamie dimon is a guy who's begging to be euthanized and i think as a country is

a world we should get together and answer his wish he wants to become one with his maker he says look i broke the law please arrest me i want to go to jail and be abused by hundreds of thousands of inmates in some on godly way that's my goal in life i'm tired of being free put me in prison i beg you so he breaks more and more laws but unfortunately the law breaking becomes the basis of the g.d.p. for a country like america and they can't put him in jail because i need him out there breaking the law so they can pay themselves huge bonuses at the end of the year so he's really is an existential crisis that's as christmas wish but nobody will feel it's christmas wish oh it will get a. little. the muslim brotherhood has officially been named a terrorist group in egypt less than a year after its candidate mohamed morsi won the presidential election now the group is outlawed by the country's military backed interim government which ousted

morsi six months ago you were his ation is blamed for tuesday's suicide bombing at a police headquarters in the north of the country sixteen people died and scores more were wounded the muslim brotherhood denies any involvement and is demanding an investigation based journalist here on me and says things will only get worse from here. this is a new escalation in the long running feud between the security the state and the muslim brotherhood what they are trying to achieve is to crush these traumas. gether and not to leave any room any space for that group to enter into political life again but they seem more defined the 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 january twenty eleven the 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's a vicious cycle nature throws an unwelcome christmas party for the passengers operated ship the seventy passengers aboard were hoping for once in a wife to arctic adventure and got more than they bargained for when the sea ice closed and on the vessel read what happened on our website r.t. dot com. and relation fears force fisherman in japan's fukushima province to dump the most of their catch as contamination continues to spread more than two years after the nuclear disaster. on paper it's still the world's wealthiest nation but appearances can be deceptive working class americans are increasingly finding that they can't provide for their families and are being left behind by soaring inequality artist marina forty nine reports. luis vasquez is

a nineteen year old college student and his family's principal breadwinner he makes seven dollars and twenty five cents per hour working at mcdonald's a company that pays its c.e.o. over thirteen million dollars a year five siblings on a single mother. had i mean to be honest the conditions are not great i really can't do much on a week one thing for certain is we're actually on public assistance and the reason you know that's the only way we're surviving. the demand for fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry and the so-called ninety nine percent that serve and make the food live in poverty. income inequality and the widening gap between rich and poor is what galvanized america's occupy wall street movement in two thousand and eleven everything that inspired everything those people were out there screaming and yelling about

a few years ago is more painfully more true now more than half of all u.s. wage earners made less than thirty thousand dollars last year this as millions more are sliding down the economic ladder below the poverty line tonight let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works full time should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to nine dollars an hour. months after u.s. president barack obama made his promise. yet fast food workers in more than one hundred u.s. cities have been taking to the streets pleading for an increase in the minimum wage at seven twenty five a pace so low the majority who earn it are forced to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet the bottom line is that wages have gone up united states in forty years the middle class has been disassembled and this is increasingly a country that has a standard for

a third world or developing. distribution of income it's a winner take all society and if you don't win taking it all means taking it from you to make matters worse this situation is turning into a supersized problem you see low wage jobs account for the bulk of new jobs added during the so-called us recovery this while fast food and retail which mostly pay minimum wage remain among the fastest growing sectors and while vasquez a computer engineer major continues looking for a better paying job it is hard to find him but that's the short i can tell you that it's hard to find a boy or what i was this is decent living is that we can actually put food on the table for our families and be able to at least pay some bills and get by a dream for the millions of americans who work and struggle just to survive marina . new york now take a look at some of the stories from around the world and a judge in saudi arabia has recommended that

a leading blogger face the death penalty for rejecting islam rive but al he has been behind bars since he was sentenced in june to a seven year term and a six hundred lashes for making supposedly and statements on his liberal website the case has been linked to a wider crackdown was two of the country's best known political activists sentenced to ten an eleven year jail sentences in march. for pastors have been sprayed off the streets of the turkish capital by police as an investigation into corruption threatens to topple the government the turkish prime minister reject tapered of on has announced a cabinet reshuffle after three ministers targeted in the probe said they would resign one of them called for the pm to step down huge protests broke out in june this year after the one ordered a crackdown on demonstrators angry at plans to build on a park in ankara. the united nations has criticized a u.k. immigration bill saying it is likely to stigmatize foreigners and create

a climate of ass make profiling. the un refugee agency says the initiative if passed would violate the rights of asylum seekers prime minister david cameron has proposed new measures to deter illegal migrants barring their access to bank accounts private housing and free public services. the japanese prime minister has visited a controversial war shrine in tokyo drawing sharp rebuke from china and south korea it's the first time in seven years a leader has visited the memorial which honors people who died in the second world war including convicted war criminals this comes at a delicate time in relations between japan and china and the tensions over a small group of violence in the east china sea that they both claim as their own. now look at the latest breakthroughs and gadgets in the high tech world next in technology update here an international sales.

although have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh if i heard about the standoff involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti-homosexual 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 any 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 b 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 stars freedom of speech they cry the firing him would

violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott or closer to a n.d. 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. dear bank account how does that look today a bit more depleted than usual could be that the masters of the universe a lie the n.s.a. change your bank account balance that's what i've been up to. all those jokesters at the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for a father by the ads or game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technology stacy was to keep us safe. for the twenty fourteen olympics was this boy's life line is is so special as the

russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the city's present and future one more sochi will bring it this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountainous stuff beyond the olympics. starting journey with the first on our team. alone welcomes technology updates on today's show christmas comes early from moscow's union of a it's. a novel animation up brings films to the big screen. a moscow state university gives a whole new meaning to wearable technology but first new year may still be a couple of days off but they've already been plenty of festivities this month. and

something no one. takes no spock nano technology sensor was officially opened in the town of troy just south of moscow this sense that aims to become a launch pad. by bringing together all the facilities and know how to develop. while the. choice of location the poc received large investment. and the company's chairman was the money had been put to good use. twenty five startups should already be created this year there are twenty five startups alone in the year the center was set up then i expect tens or even hundreds of startups to emerge out of here in the near future and today you see in the creation of these innovation powerhouses with your own. lasers are a key direction for techno spark so we went to a festive project.