now i want to die young. iran considers a bill on 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 problems 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 competing is nice but winning trumps it all say athletes as they ready themselves for the sochi winter olympics stay with us as we report on one paralympic contender is using that gold fever to turn tragedy into purpose.

what you are going to live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program. iranian lawmakers have proposed a bill on boosting iranian richmond's to sixty percent if new sanctions are imposed on the country the motion is apparently a md at countering u.s. legislation authorizing tougher if iran breaches a historic deal reached in geneva last that agreement raised hopes of a rapprochement between tehran and foreign powers and marked a significant milestone of the year two thousand and thirteen. and let's now have a look at what the deal was about so iran agreed to reduce raymond richmond from twenty percent and seen us to close to bomb making capability to five percent for

the next six months and also to deactivate its advanced centrifuges inspectors will rinat or this on a daily basis and sanctions will begin to ease more what led to the landmark document in relinquished his 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 known a necessary. that sounds good too but not everyone believes iran could have changed so much new year's 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 recently

remade 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 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 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 a lot of us have very tied 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. limbers eighteen hour long talks in geneva seemed to have brought a final breakthrough iran agreed to significantly slow down literally in richmond clauses in return for easing off or sanctions the joy was short lived you have factors in the u.s. senate that. writing new sanction laws. governments. trying to side with this first examined and then we have the

media outlets the third in line. in the united states and that is trying to scare us and that is 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 not others live in peace and change in attitude that doesn't seem to be welcomed by the old school partitions in the west even to them. and although the nuclear deal is only a temporary fix and it will be renegotiated 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 do partly to its apparent nuclear ambitions a war of words threats of military strikes crippling sanctions and even cyber warfare were to follow analysts now say ron 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 in the united states on the foreign minister you know to be negotiating in good. brezhnev war 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 the 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 wished britons

a merry christmas and a constant vigilance the n.s.a. was a lower edward snowden made an appearance on national t.v. with a not so uplifting message on the emergence of western surveillance states but he added so on a cheerier note assuring viewers that it's not too late to find back or just plain boyko 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 existence 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 the real fairy tale

compared to the reality that we're living with right now with the 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 fought battle 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 can be hoping that they will have nigeria's 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 executive director of the open rides 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 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 from edward snowden is that they've changed 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 than using the excuse of terrorism to keep tabs on everybody so it is not the only one delivering a christmas message on liberty a u.s. civil rights group has had a say to releasing a comedy video of santa's poking fun of that and say watch it now. and maybe

the time for giving but it's also the time for standing up on our t.v. and over there was a festive spirit has taken hold of millions of brits horace said to be saddled with christmas dad 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 designated as terrorists. just over two months to go before the sortie olympics athletes are putting our thing they've got into training for a chance and gold that service for a victory is just as strong among the paralympic containers are just getting a caution or follows a story of one athlete found the loss of his legs was no match for sporting ambition. this is only 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 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 we spend some time to get ready and then we go and fight. but things haven't always been so crystal clear for him but team 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 of that i got into sport first i tried swimming but they're not let ix. 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 team snow conscious no experience but these guys managed to change that sassed and fearless just like the plea they gave before on the set to get the ball for 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 the debacle of the four patients commitment to training and outstanding determination you know these guys have it all to turn their lives around and become a fast lead to make it to the national team and that takes challenge and to be the best at sochi winter paralympic slash hockey has been a part of the prime. i'm thick since ninety nine hundred four but this is going to be the fastest year and russian team has competed and this year the competition on

the ice is going to be much tougher. we're going to let on that some miracle is going all 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 athletes we still cannot outdo their experience especially in the little things we're trying very hard at the. more attention competitive pressure but for ng assets and the team is no exception there is one thing that matters the most at them and picks. 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 him salute him for a while now and will continue to do so as he has to suffer but if you want to read up on his story or watch our previous reports on him it's all on our website. the search for the twenty fourteen olympics was this boy's life 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 what more sochi will bring you this is the moment they are reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stuff yet beyond the olympics what the. starting germ of the first on our team. and our report of the muslim brotherhood's fall from grace and egypt and a look ab britain's now on two healthy shopping habits next. back in two thousand and three the rules of the game were not very clearly defined and what what our cost was locked out for you know was probably being done by many are there only guards but now the state made it absolutely clear that it's not

going to tolerate breaking the law like they became rich as a result of drug violence and say she was breaking certain rules because the rules were very sordo who was a virtually nonexistent. to even bother pulse he was sent to a gun i guess everyone else should be in the same jail with it.

well welcome back you're watching r t international turkey gifts and a tipple or two by all these christmas pleasures come at a hefty cost one that many 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 two thousand and fourteen to get over the death bump but as laura smith reports nothing could be further from the minds of a credit card willing 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 rumanians and turks plus more plastic britons are also taking on more christmas debt in two thousand and thirteen than the year before which has prompted 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 being fueled by money other nations do have other forms of debt says i n. g.'s the mirror khana missed credit cards have particular pitfalls critic can soft be expensive the interest rate on it furthermore critical tends to get mixed up on various and t. take you take credit to do that and you also pay for more precise things such as a present 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. and coming up a layer of the sour on an international max geyser looks at how big time bank stores manage to keep out of jail. the united states we have over and over jamie dimon and j.p. morgan's critic 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 go like jamie is begging to be imprisoned some people 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 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 do a. little. now an explosion on a bus and front of a university in egypt's capital has wounded at least five people the falls to use a suicide blast which killed sixteen and left scores injured at a police headquarters in the north of the country that explosion has been blamed on the muslim brotherhood now officially branded a terrorist group by the military backed interim government however and the group

denies any involvement and is demanding an investigation based journalist here on name says things will only get worse from here. this is a new escalation in the long running feud between the security of the state and the muslim brotherhood what they are trying to achieve is to cross the psalmist all together. no 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 we couldn't is the real terrorism here and they feel that this is a return to plead 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. and on paper it's still the world's wealthiest nation but appearances can be deceptive working class americans are increasingly firing down they can't provide for their families and are being left behind by soaring inequality are just more important 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 you really can't do much on. 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 are earning are forced to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet the bottom line is that wages have gone up the 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 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 vast ques a computer engineer meijer continues looking for a better paying job it's hard to find employees that's for sure i can tell you that it's hard to find a voice over what i have is this

a decent lives that we can actually put food on the table for families and be able to at least pay some bills and get by a dream for the moons 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 a judge in saudi arabia has recommended that a leading blogger face the death penalty for rejecting his law but always has been behind bars since it was sentenced june to seven years term and six hundred lashes for making supposedly and islamic statements on these liberal web site the case has been linked to a wider crackdown with two of the country's best known political activists given jail sentences earlier this year. protesters 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 has announced a cabinet reshuffle after three ministers targeted in the probe said they would

resign one of them called for the premier to step down huge protests broke out in june this year after the want ordered a crackdown on demonstrators angry at plans to demolish a park in istanbul. the united nations has criticized the u.k. migration bill saying it is likely to stigmatize foreigners and create a climate of ethnic profiling. the agency says the initiative if passed would violate the rights of asylum seekers prime minister david cameron has proposed new measures to deter in the migrants barring their access to bank accounts private housing and free public services. coming out here in our team that's worlds apart with it's unavoidable going. 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 scandal 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 slippery 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 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.

there's the media leave us so we leave the media puzzle soon potions to cure the other your party visible the questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . hello and welcome to worlds apart some of russia's most famous prisoners for at least recently as part of a nationwide amnesty but rather than seeing it as an act of clemency critics accused the russian government of trying to manipulate public opinion on the eve of the sochi olympics so who is really beating the rap here well to discuss that i'm

now joined by tunnel option not the russian program director for human rights watch thank you very much for your time first of all let's talk about the release of. whose case really stands out because it wasn't part of the amnesty but rather he was released on a presidential pardon or what put him was humanitarian grounds i wonder if you read anything into it whether you believe that the grounds were indeed humanitarian well i think it's largely an effort by the authorities to boost russia's image in the run up to the olympics in sochi and which are just a few weeks away. possibly the g eight summit which is also in sochi in another few months so yes indeed i would actually agree with me how you how the cost to himself. it is a public relations project does it make of what's less well new not told because

indeed it means quite a lot for holder for his family it means quite a lot from those prisoners or if i may call them now out there is in charge what must say for individuals what individual victims of abuses means it means freedom but done for the state of the rule of law in russia i'm afraid it doesn't mean much while. no you just mentioned several other high profile cases that were part of the amnesty and again as i mentioned holocaust case is a bit different because it was totally up to put in the whether to release him or not it was his prerogative as president he could have chosen not to exercise it so if amnesty was going on anyway if twenty thousand people were going to be released including some of those very famous prisoners that if you just mention that's what have created this public splash anyway in the political goal that you're alluding

to would have been achieved anyway so why what of koskie well first of all most vocal who might be kidding because if you look into the amnesty it seems to be the call soviets toile traditional kind of an amnesty. to vulnerable groups of prison news pregnant women elderly people minors women with small children and so on and so forth and one of the last moment there is a month on to include into the amnesty a specific list such crimes as hooliganism and moss and i would like to stay on for just one more question his imprisonment imprisonment had a symbolic value it was always presented as a sort of reflection of how bad the human rights to sion in russia supposedly was i wonder if you attach the same symbolism to his release doesn't mean that let's say political climate in the country may be changing because simply.