i want to die young young. iran considers a bill and accelerating 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 two thousand and thirteen. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. privacy is on the verge of extinction warns edward snowden as he takes to the british airways giving an alternative to the queen's speech and wishing everyone a merry christmas. and a competing is nice but winning trumps it all says athletes as they ready themselves for the sochi winter olympics and stay with us as we report on one paralympic contender is using that gold fever to turn tragedy into purpose.

it's let me out in moscow you watch and see international with me marina joshua welcome to the program iranian lawmakers have proposed a bill on boosting uranium enrichment to sixty percent if new sanctions are imposed on the country the motion is apparently aimed at countering u.s. legislation authorizing tougher reprisals if iran breaches a historic deal reached in geneva last month. that agreements raised hopes of iraq between tehran and foreign powers and marked a significant milestone of the year two thousand and thirteen. now let's have a look at what the deal was about iran agreed to reduce your anyone richmond from

twenty percent seen as too close to bomb making capability to five percent for the next six months and also to deactivate its sansa centrifuges inspectors would monitor this on a daily basis and sanctions would begin to ease now more on what led to the landmark document in ridiculous because 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 news 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 in the east that hasn't signed the recent 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 this list of targets this rhetoric however mase 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 but to cure early 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 a lot of us have very tight there his hands are tied there are people and lobby groups in the united states that do not want to see you know. after thirty four years of demonizing the country to have relations for. november's eighteen hour long talks in geneva seemed to have brought a final breakthrough iran agreed to significantly slow down the richmond process in return for easing of more sanctions the joy was short lived we have seen the u.s. senate that. writing new sanctions.

the government trying to side with this first examined and then we have the media outlets a third in line. in 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 and change an attitude that doesn't seem to be welcomed by me old school politicians in the west even to go to school. and all the nuclear deal is only a temporary fix and we'll be here she added next year reaching it was no easy task the atomic wrangling over iran 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 use apparently ambitions of war of words threats of military strikes crippling sanctions and even cyber warfare word of all

hours 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 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.

and one of the world's most wanted fugitives has west britons a merry christmas and constant vigilance and to say it was a lower average snowden made an appearance on national t.v. with a not so uplifting message on emergence of western surveillance states but he and it on a cheerier note the suring viewers that it's not too light to fight back or just plain boycott 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 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 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 in the questions that he's raised around democratic society 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 and earlier we talked to jim killick executive director of the open rights group and he told us that if societies remain docile there will be nothing to stop the rise of surveillance states. if we don't think about the consequences of ask ourselves how we limit the power of the state in the face of the 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 you know 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 liberty and u.s. civil rights group has had a say to releasing a comedy video of santa poking fun at the n.s.a.

watch it now at r t dot com. now it may be the time for giving but it's also the time for spending coming out on our team and over there was a test of 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 not only banned from the country's political life but officially does a designated as terrorists. just over two months to go before the sochi olympics athletes are putting everything of god into training for a chance the gold that service for victory is just as strong on the paralympic contenders i just would you know question of a fall is a story of one to ask that found the loss of his legs was no match for sporting ambition. this is one second family thirty six year old by d.m.c.

lukin is the captain of the twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey paralympic team and this training base as his home mortgages are 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 after well most of your every day is the say we get up we have breakfast then we trade on the days that we have a game to play we arrive at the stadium an hour before spend some time to get ready and then we go and fight. but things haven't always been so crystal clear for him redeem lost both his lacks while serving in the military and changing. progress i remember everything like it was yesterday i was completely lost i didn't know what to do next this is my friends from the army supported me go to the sport first i tried swimming but then not let ics. in two thousand and four he launched a sport club for disabled sports man his daddy kishen to slash hockey began five

years later at that time slash hockey was barely known in the country and there were no teams no conscious no experience but these guys managed to change that sassed and fearless just like the plea they gave before on the saturday before the court it was strange at the beginning i remember there were very few of us at first training we tried to hold the sledge we could not handle the thrust we were falling down constantly now the newcomers use us as an example. of patients commitment to training and outstanding determination now and these guys have it all to turn their lives their around and become a lead lead to make it to the national team and that challenge is to be the best at saatchi winter paralympic slash hockey has been a part of the. lympics since nine hundred ninety four but this is going to be the fast year and russian team has competed and this year the competition on the ice is

going to be much tougher. not on the absolute. 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 athletes we still cannot outdo their experience especially in the little things we're trying very hard the. more attention competitiveness pressure but for ng assets and the dream is no exception 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 arty. farty has been keeping up with buddies who can for a while now and will continue to do so as he has to sochi 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.e. dot com. such. as the country's fourteen olympics what's this

place like and why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games shaping the city's present and future a lot more so it will bring you this is a moment to everybody from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tough beyond dealing picks what to say starting germany the first on our team. and our report on the muslim brotherhood fall from grace in egypt a look at britain's to house a shopping habits next year nineteen or national after a short break. your bank account out is that looks and 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 fight is the system for a fall out of but if their game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technology stacy was to keep us safe. he survived the atrocities. to make a psychologist so she. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the lyrics work on.

welcome back you're watching our international terror kid gifts at a temple or two but all these christmas pleasures come a half to costs one that mattie families in the u.k. will struggle to pay back and this study says it will take the average household until almost the middle of two thousand and fourteen to get over the death bump but as laura smith now reports nothing could be further from the minds of the credit card wheeling 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 debt than almost any of the europeans only remain ians 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 recovery's actually being fueled by borrowed money other nations do have other forms of debt says i n. g.'s the miracle on a missed but credit card have particular pitfalls critic can soft be expensive the interest rate on it furthermore critical tends to get mixed up on various and she'd take you probably take credit for doing that and you also pay for more precise things such as a present which you need to pay back over a 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 you hear on regent street spend today and deal with the consequences later or you know 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 coming up later this hour here on r t international max kaiser looks at how big time banks are is managed to keep out of jail. the united states we have over and over jamie dimon and a and j.p. morgan's critical time at the 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 that i think is 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 they 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 be 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 the organization 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 cairo based journalist show here on mean says things will only get worse from here. but 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 cry. these traumas all together 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 of an australian operated ship sam many passengers of the world were hoping for a once in a lifetime arctic adventure and more than they bargained for when the cia's closed in on the vessel read what happened on our website r.t. dot com. radiation fears for fishermen in japan's fukushima province to dump the most of their catch as contamination continues to spread war than two years after a 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 loved behind by soaring inequality i 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. and i mean to be honest the conditions are not great i really can't do much on radios 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. to get my 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 of 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 country to. it's a wonder to call society and if you don't win taking it all means taking it from

you to make about as 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's hard to find employment but that's for sure i can tell you that it's hard to find a boy or what i was just a decent living is that we can actually put food on the table for our family and be able to at least pay some bills and get buy a dream for the millions of americans who work and struggle just to survive marina . new york. well now as you look at some other stories from around the world a judge in saudi arabia has recommended data leading blogger face the death penalty for rejecting islamic emirate but it has been behind bars since he was sentenced in

june to seven year term and six hundred lashes for making supposedly out islamic statements on his liberal website the case has been linked to a wider crackdown with two of the country's best known political activist given jail sentences earlier this year. for tacitus 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 or the one as 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 a park in ankara. the united nations has criticized a you came a gratian bill saying it is likely to stigmatize foreigners and crate. climate of athlete profiling the u.n. 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 rebukes from china and south korea is the first time in seven years leader has visited the memorial which are people who died in the second world war including convicted war criminals this comes at a delicate time in relations between japan and china amid tensions over a small group of islands in the east china sea that they both claim as their own. next next kaiser's looks at how corrupt bankers dodge prison and who help them do 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 and 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 stars freedom of speech thing 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 close 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. please speak to language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world's hot spots fifty ip interviews intriguing

stories for you. then try. to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max keiser happy boxing day boxing day is traditionally the day following christmas day when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts from their bosses or employers known as a christmas box and one of the masters of our universe left us in our christmas box today oh this doesn't look very good at all not even a lump of coal seams in fact i'm afraid to say they the masters of the universe have robbed us blind to twenty six million ounces of gold for example has been

drained from london gold vaults sent to china never to return again not in our lifetimes anyway and your bank account how does that look today a bit more depleted than usual could be that the masters of the universe online 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 fun and financial game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technologies tuesday was to keep us safe well remember they've denied that they were involved in corporate espionage but in this latest report investigating n.s.a. activities and what should be done about it something has emerged in one of the recommendations and that is report suggests n.s.a. and gage and financial manipulation changing the money in bank accounts the new white house intelligence taskforce issued some wreckage.