golden rice. iran considers a bill on a celebrating its nuclear program if new u.s. sanctions are imposed as western powers urgent to fulfill an agreement brokered in geneva seen as a key breakthrough twenty thirteen. a child born today will grow up with no conception probably. privacies on the verge of extinction warns edward snowden as he takes to the british airwaves giving in and turn it over to the queen's speech and wishing everyone a merry christmas. p.t. 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 the one paralympic contender using that gold fever to turn tragedy into purpose.

the international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing brain 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 of reprisals if iran breaches or storage deal reached in geneva last month well that agreement raised hopes of a rupture smallmouth tweens iran and foreign powers 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 the reigning richmond from twenty percent and seen as too close to

a bomb making capability to five percent for the next six months and also to deactivate its advance to enter futures inspectors would monitor this on a daily basis and sanctions will begin to ease war and what led to a landmark document you know english has 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 remained 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 its list of targets this rhetoric however mase serve to cover television 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 a ron 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 their people and lobby groups in the united states do not want to see the united states and iran after thirty four years of demonizing the country to have relations are novembers eighteen hour long talks in geneva seemed to have brought a final breakthrough iran agreed to significantly slow down it's really respond process in return for easing of the non-chord sanctions that joy was short lived you have senators in the u.s. senate that. writing new sanction laws. is really government. trying to side with this first examines and then we have

the media outlets 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 media old school politicians in the west even going to school. although the nuclear deal is only a temporary fix our 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 due partly to its apparent nuclear ambitions a war of words threats of military strikes crippling sanctions and even cyber warfare were to fall 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 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 past 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. turkey's prime minister has replaced him out of his cabinet members amid

a bribery scandal that's brought the government close to collapse but that's failed to quell mass protest against official corruption and opposition demands that the government including the premier step down while we can discuss this now with hussein bagchi professor of international relations and the middle east temple university in ankara thank you so much mr buckley for joining us here on our team to discuss the situation in turkey well given the latest developments in the country do you think anyone's government can recover from of what's happening. it is the expectation that this government reshuffle the brink of political stability to the government on the other hand the opposition as you mentioned is demanding that the government should resign but i do not expect that the government is resigning because of this demands the question is how from now on the government can cover all the accusations concerning. corruption

a position. this prime minister is going to master this political challenge he never ever before faced such a big corruption a position as it is the case today while we have to gauge his economic winds areas there and in fact the corruption probe has implicated the relatives of top officials top government ministers and courting prime minister who want him self so what's big about how deep corruption is in our the turkish government and also what's important what will it take to change a situation. it is the biggest political corruption in our history and if it is the case i think the turkish government is having difficulties to. cover this i mean the prime minister is the video hong by this and the i think the internal reactions and evan from the broad there will be more strong

accusations and the turkish government the real somehow tried to defend in this case but the fact is that the four m.p.'s resigned three of them the ministers of course this is a very serious very serious the situation in the history of turkey it is more than one hundred billion euro. as some sources say we will see in the coming days how the prime minister is responding to do so. and they gave the fact is however that lost a lot of credit in the eyes of traits and also in the international public opinion and what about anti-government protests taking place i mean what will it take to call mog the protesters. i think the anti-government protests yesterday in particular have been important but the most the strong as it was the case the protest in may and june this year. the protests

probably will continue. tomorrow on friday there will be certainly a little opposition not only from political parties but also outside of the parliament this is why the prime minister is going to have a very difficult election period in the two thousand and fourteen local elections presidential elections and two thousand and fifteen local generalizations truck is entering. the highest political instability i say in the last twenty years are dr of saying back to professor international relations at middle east university thank you so much for explaining to us the situation in turkey at the moment. of the world's most wanted fugitives has wished britons our merry christmas and 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 ended on a cheer and out assuring viewers that it's not she white to fight 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 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 the 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 not all 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 nigeria's towards questioning that status quo that little bit more by having edward snowden talk to them about privacy today earlier we talked to jim koch 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 that and 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 surveil people from time to time but what we found for edward snowden is that they've changed 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 liberty a u.s. civil rights group has had a say to releasing a comedy video of santa's poking fun at the n.s.a. watch it now at r.t. dot com. now it may be a time for giving but it's also the time for spending coming out on our t.v.

and over there was a sense of spirit has taken hold of millions of brits who are set to be saddled with christmas dad for months to come. and with just over two months to go before the sortie lympics athletes are putting hours in they've got into training for a chance and gold that thirst for victory is just a strong among the paralympic containers are just a question of follows a story of want to athlete or found a loss of his legs was no match for sporting ambition. this is my 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 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 of your every day is the

save 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 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 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 but they're not let ix. 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 team snow coaches no experience but these guys managed to change that sassed and fearless just like the plea they gave for the city to work with 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 i believe guys have it all to turn their lives their around and become a leaf as lead to make it to the national team and the next six challenge is to be the best at saatchi winter for olympic slash hockey has been a part of the prelim pick since nine hundred ninety four but this is going to be the first year and russian team has competed and this year the competition on the ice is going to be much tougher. on that's americans going out and 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 outdo their experience especially in the little things we're trying very hard. more attention and competitiveness

pressure but for ng athletes and the dream is no exception there is one thing that matters the most at them then packs. what every player thinks only about victory how to grab it and never let it go this is important. question i went to a region arty. farty has been keeping up with that he was in the can for a while now and will continue to do so as he has to sort you 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. one of the country's fourteen olympics what's this boy's life why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to logan the world power the games should be in 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 tough yet beyond the olympics with the bomb

mixing starting germ of the first on our team. well stay with us for more international news after the break including workers and the u.s. struggling against a slide into poverty and a deadly bomb attack hits the egyptian capital we have more on this and plenty more to stay with us. your bank account how does that look today a bit more depleted than usual could be that the masters of the universe 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 but it's a game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technology was to keep us safe.

see good lumber tory was able to build most sophisticated robots which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything toons mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the. welcome back you're watching r.t. international turkey gifts at a tip or two but all these christmas pleasures common to have to cost one many families in the u.k. will struggle to pay back and his 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 the credit card will 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 debts 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 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 firmly 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 dad says i n. g.'s senior economist credit cards have particular pitfalls critics

can soft be expensive the interest rate on it furthermore critical tends to get mixed up on various and she's taking part take credit card to do that and you also pay for more precise things such as a present which you need 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 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. nature throws an

unwelcome christmas party for travelers on an australian operated ship the seventy thousand tourists on board. hoping for a once in a lifetime arctic adventure and government. more than they bargained for when sea eyes closed in on the us find out what happened on our website r t v dot com. and radiation fears force fishermen in japan's fukushima province to dump the most of their cash as contamination continues to spread more than two years after the nuclear disaster. paper it's still the world's wealthiest nation but appearances can be deceptive working class americans are increasingly finding that they can provide for their families are being left behind by story inequality are just more in a board not 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. that 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 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 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 winner take all society and if you don't win the 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's hard to find employment that's for sure i can tell you that it's hard to find employment or what i have is a decent movies 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 porton i.r.t. new york. now is to go with some of the stories from around the world dozens of armed man have blocked a port in libya's capital tripoli as well as the entrance to the central bank headquarters they drove up to the building in trucks and let the staff flee the building the militias are demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister . and he has been on the table to restore stability in the country which has been

plagued by violence and unrest since he was ousted from power. a challenger in saudi arabia has recommended that a leading blogger face the death penalty for rejecting islam bright as been behind bars since he was sentenced in june to seven year term and six hundred lashes for making supposedly islamic statements on his liberal website 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. the united nations has criticised a you came a gratian bill saying it is likely to stigmatize foreigners and create a climate of ass nick 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. well next on r.t.

to national next geysers looks at how corrupt bankers dodge prison and who helps them do it don't go away. although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never see 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 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 a.p. 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. people who are currently defending a nice right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the stars 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 close to a anti 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. this is a media leave us so we leave the media. by the same bush and secure the. party years ago. it seems that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our t.v. .

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 of a zero. for 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. changed 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 fun and finance a game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technologies to see 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 task force issued some recommendations on how to reform the n.s.a. and recommendation number thirty one max read government should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system.