iran considers a bill on accelerating its nuclear program if new u.s. sanctions are imposed as western powers are urged to fulfill an agreement brokered in geneva seen as a key breakthrough of twenty thirty. the turkish cabinet gets a major recession fall as the prime minister tries to restore trust in a government that's cracking under pressure of corruption allegations and raging protests. 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 airwaves giving an alternative to the queen's speech and wishing everyone a merry christmas. plus 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 was using bad gold fever to turn tragedy into purpose. my from our studios in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said no way. our top story 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 countering u.s. legislation authorizing to tougher reprisals if you're on breach as a historic deal reached in geneva last month well that agreement raised hopes of mom between tehran and foreign powers and marked

a significant milestone of the year twenty thirteen. let's have a look at what exactly that deal was about iran agreed to reduce iranian enrichment from twenty percent seen as too close to bomb making capability to five percent for the next six months well it also deactivated its advanced centrifuges inspectors would monitor this on a daily basis and sanctions would begin to ease more on what led to the landmark document. 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 as a wolf in sheep's clothing a wolf who thinks he can pull the args the wool over the eyes. of the international community israel the only country in the 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 that 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 but i must have very tight there his hands are tied that 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 rapprochement novembers eighteen hour long talks in geneva seemed to have brought a final breakthrough iran agreed to significantly slow down its really respond

process in return for easing of the non core sanctions the joy was short lived you have senators in the u.s. senate that. writing new sanction laws. is really governments. trying to side with this first examined and then we have the media outlets 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 not a tude that doesn't seem to be welcomed by media old school politicians in the west even going to school right. now although the nuclear deal is only a temporary fix and will be renegotiated next year reaching it was no easy task the

atomic wrangling over iran started to heat up about 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 follow 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 want the united states in the foreign minister here 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. and other news turkey's prime minister has replaced ten of his cabinet members or made a bribery scandal that's brought the government close to collapse but that's failed to quote massive anti corruption protests and opposition demands that the premier step down the same batch a professor of international relations at the mideast technical university in ankara thinks the scandal has dealt a devastating blow to at once reputation both at home and abroad it is the biggest political corruption in history and if it is the case it is more than one hundred billion euros. some sources say i think the turkish government is having difficulties to. cover the prime minister is the video hong by this and

i think the internal reactions and evan from the broad there will be more strong positions and the turkish government. somehow tried to defend the lost a lot of good in the eyes of the trait and also in the international public opinion . coming up a wave of terror in egypt a bus bombing injures five people are broke two days after a deadly blast in the north of the country the government blames the muslim brotherhood which has gone from ruling political force to an outlawed group within the space of a few months. one of the world's most wanted fugitives has wished britons a 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 cheery note assuring viewers that it's not too late to fight back or tease polly

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 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 i know 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 not just fear as towards questioning that status quo that little bit more by having edward snowden talk to them about privacy today. we talked to jim kellogg executive director of the open rights group he told us that if societies remained on file bear 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 by ease of course they're going to use a bail for people from time to time but what we found from edward snowden is that

they've changed the what they do you know twenty thirty years ago they would've 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. not is not the only one delivering a christmas message on liberty or u.s. civil rights group has had a say to releasing a comedy video. of santa poking fun at the n.s.a. you can watch it now at r.t. dot com. maybe the time for giving but it's also the time for spending coming up on r t an overdose of spirit has taken hold of millions of brits who are said to be

saddled with christmas debt for months to come. but just over two months to go before the sochi olympics athletes are putting everything they've got into training for a chance at gold that thirst for victory is just as strong among the paralympic contenders are demanding a question of a follows the story of one athlete who 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. 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 say 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 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 then not let ix. in two thousand and four he launched a sport club for disabled sports men 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 conscious no experience but these guys managed to change that sassed and fearless just like the plea they gave from a set 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 patience commitment to training and outstanding determination now these guys have it all to turn their lives their around and become a leaf 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 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 the way to get 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 assets 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. you know question one tool or region arty. farty has been keeping up with by teams that for a while now will continue to do so as he heads to sochi but if you want to read up on his story or watch our previous reports on him it's all available at our teeth dot com. sochi for the twenty fourteen olympics what's this place like why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome 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 bone

mixing starting germ of the first on our team. stay with us for more international news after this short break. back in two thousand and three the rules of the game were not very clearly defined what what are called schools locked out for you know was probably being done by many all there are only guards but now the state made it absolutely clear that it's not going to tolerate breaking the law. became rich as a result of the pilots association was breaking certain rules because the rules in a very sort of who wasn't virtually nonexistent. if it was. done i guess everyone i know to be in the same tailwind.

welcome back you're watching our two international live from moscow turkey gifts and a temple or two but all these christmas pleasures call 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 debt bump because laura smith 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 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 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 sleeping few borrowed money other nations do have other forms of debt says i n. g.'s seamier a condom ist credit card have a killer. critic can in soft be expensive the interest rate on it furthermore critic tends to get stop on various and t.

take you put it take credit card 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 not 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. at least five people have been wounded in an explosion in egypt's capital the blast ripped through a bus passing in front of a major university in cairo security forces say the bomb was planted at

a protest. another explosive device was found and safely detonated nearby egypt's government has blamed the muslim brotherhood for the incident and for another recent attack the bombing on tuesday killed sixteen people and injured scores more in the north already have officially branded the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist group however the movement denies any involvement in the bombings. shahira. egypt's efforts to stamp out islamists are likely to backfire. because this is a new as skill ation in the long running feud between the security state and the muslim brotherhood what they're trying to achieve is to crush 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 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. of violence or more news making headlines around the world dozens of armed men 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 allowed staff to leave the building the militias are demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister . or there's a similar armed groups occupy two government ministries offices calling for the removal of gadhafi or officials from power. a judge in saudi arabia has recommended that a leading blogger face the death penalty for rejecting islam rive badawi have been

behind bars since he was sentenced to a seven year term and six hundred lashes for making supposedly anti islamic statements on his liberal website the case is revealing to a wider cross john with two of the country's best known political activists given jail sentences earlier this year the. united nations has criticised a u.k. immigration bill saying it's likely to stigmatize foreigners and create a climate of ethnic profiling un refugee agency says the initiative if passed would violate the rights of asylum seekers prime minister david cameron has proposed new measures to tary legal migrants barring their access to bank accounts private housing and free public services. 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. 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 and 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 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 cut. the 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 meijer continues looking for a better paying job it's hard to find employed it that's for sure i can tell you that it's hard to find employment or what i have is this a decent living so 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. coming up next it's worlds apart with on a boy. although

i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh if 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 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 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. chill for violating the stars freedom of speech think 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 the 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 bring. these. here braving the elements in the wanted to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. oh.

hello and welcome to all the part of some of fascist most famous prisoners for at least recently as part of a nationwide amnesty but rather than seeing it as an octave clemency critics accuse 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 tom looks 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. this really stands out because it wasn't part of the amnesty but rather he was released on a presidential pardon or what put in 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 in which are just a few weeks away possibly the g eight summit which is also learned in sochi in another few months so yes indeed i would actually agree with me how you how they're costly himself. it is a public relations project does it make of what's less well new not at all because indeed it means quite a lot harder for his family it means quite a lot from those prisoners of bollocks if i may call them out there is protestant is in charge what most riots for individuals for individual victims of abuses means that it means freedom but done for the state of the rule of law in russia i'm

afraid it doesn't mean much well you just mentioned several other high profile cases that are part of the amnesty and again as i mentioned holocaust case is a bit different because it was totally up to put into 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 a few just mansion 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 political who might be kidding because if you look into the amnesty it seems to be the call soviets toile traditional kind of an amnesty touching upon the vulnerable groups of prisoners pregnant women elderly people minors women with small.