from moscow breaking news just three policemen have been killed in an explosion near a traffic police headquarters in the southern russian city of. information still coming in the sorties have been ruled out the possibility it was a terrorist attack to bring you more but in the coming minutes also headlining tonight as the first stage of syria's chemical disarmament is to clear the success we recap of the diplomatic achievements that prevented a u.s. strike on the country and look at how the civil conflicts transformed through the year. tests and police a gathering in the heart of istanbul as a high level corruption scandal takes the turkish government to the brink of collapse. and they u.k. government tax lowering drive seems only to be stuffing the wallets of the highest

earners leaving no reason for those on a basic wage to celebrate this festive time. just join us for good of your company this is not international coming. here we're starting with breaking news as mentioned and it's been coming in in the last hour or so we're now hearing three policemen have been killed tonight in a blast in russia's southern city of pierre to go a car is reported have exploded next to a traffic police headquarters there. joins us now live with more details dana we broke the spot half an hour ago so just over what more do we know now. well police authorities consider eight terror attack to be the main cause of this incident now according to the latest reports of three policemen were killed and the blast and it

was a very powerful explosion as it basically tore the car into pieces and also shattered the windows out the near of bhaiya buildings now in the incident happened a late in the evening on a friday car pulled over outside a police station and exploded at the blast happened in the city of pizza or school which is located and the staff up a region that borders to the north caucasus area that is considered to be very volatile ok thanks for the update there will become a virtue later as more details come through. it's been thirty three months of bloody civil conflict in syria and twenty's thirty's but no relief either to the people of the war torn country due on the contrary from the conventional stand off between the government and opposition the conflicts grow multi-dimensional by infighting between various rebel groups.

this year the opposition is growing more fragmented with many rebel groups increasingly dominated by radicals study by a defense consultancy shows that out of one hundred thousand opposition fighters in syria more than half are extremists made up of this an islamic hardliners the rest are more moderate but their voices are increasingly being drowned out by the radicals this year in syria was also marred by a growing number of attacks on christians too we've been reporting on it with the ancient tone of. becoming a front line in the arab r.t. crew was right in the midst indeed of a standoff between the government forces an islamist rebels is that report from our correspondent riffle found at the height of the fighting. that's the job. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out. but some of them were

killed some of them escaped. locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense but the terrain here is very difficult with mountains and caves but we know the area better so we are carrying on with the operation we come across one grocery shop owner who we have filmed back in two thousand and twelve then he told us that the armed rebels hasn't come to their village and why would they this time he's armed with a gun and one syrian soldiers and he has some questions again syria syria is a land of history and of love they sent terrorists here from all corners of the world to kill syrians and each other why i asked the world why if a european citizen is so much just slapped across the face they'd be

a scandal while in syria how many victims how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered why will it stop would quickly find out that it won't be today held by the militants for a week it seems that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was to liberate them push onto my tough climb on a street but we couldn't do it the snipers are everywhere my lul is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the eretz now added to these we see black jihadists flags. it's time to had back. but while in the car something goes wrong. we take cover in a place where we find dozens of army soldiers hiding from enemy's bullets.

the main road is being targeted and it sees our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets heat. much. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can to wait to minutes more. ok much of a shock when i was stuck here in this corner and went out trying to get out of here feeling this was. no no no no. that was. the worst had been anything there aren't back then they go clear a lot. more

focus off the boots did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we've reached safe area. the fire and you're behind this new three hundred toll that this is because there are no men here to be careful you don't know what there is too much so you gotta play. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for marla village which despite the claims remains under siege. nasty reporting from syria. of course the syrian conflict could have taken an even more dramatic turn this august when the u.s. were bombing raids on the country it followed a major chemical attack near damascus that killed hundreds washington blame the

assad government for the atrocity but failed to produce any evidence end of the day the airstrikes were shelled only after moscow intervened helping to negotiate that landmark chemical disarmament deal that led to a u.n. resolution that kickstart the destruction of syria's chemical weapons and production facilities the first stage of the protest process rather officially being completed artie's explains what's next. well you can see the first hurdle or rather task at hand which is destroying the facilities where the chemical weapons were stored and produced and then gathering all the chemicals together that has been completed now we are at the stage two and that is the transportation of all chemicals to the port of latakia and now. there is a deadline for that and that was december thirty first but organization for provision of chemical weapons is saying that deadline is most likely not to be met because you don't have to transport the chemicals the route they have to go via the

route from damascus to a talkie which of unfortunately is rife with various armed gangs populating the area so that could present some danger although russia is helping out in that regard by sending its special heavy duty armored trucks and lorries in order to transport these chemicals now after they reach the port of latakia the chemicals will be boarded on several vessels belonging to denmark norway and head over to italy where they will be transferred to another vessel this one belonging to the united states there is also of course the issue of the actual destruction of the chemicals and there are two ways that could be done and the details are being figured out today. by all parties participating in this rather difficult and very sophisticated task and according to the russian there presented to the russian history of foreign affairs there are some kinks that they need along the way when talking to the representatives of the united states but again russia is remaining

very hopeful that the talks today will be very productive and of course they're saying that they're smoothing things out along the way as they go. through the major international of course peace talks which are expected to place of the end to join records whether the syrian government of the opposition. about negotiating table together and whether that would help bring the conflict to an end of the twenty four teams going to tell. these are. braving the elements in order to stand on u.s. soil giants. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines.

of. riot police and protesters gathering on taksim square tonight in central istanbul ahead of a massive anti-government demonstration protest was spoke to after a high level corruption scandal is already forced the prime minister's replaced ten of his cabinet ministers. joined us a bit earlier from istanbul. well the political drama continuing to unfold today in prime minister looking increasingly under pressure as he tries to stem the fallout from not corruption probe targeted dozens of his allies now on the back of that we've seen a number of resignations among which cabinet ministers one of the team called for the prime minister himself to resign now for his part one of his responded to pensively cooling the corruption crackdown an international smear campaign that's

done little to restore credibility though you know wednesday we saw anti-government protesters clashing with police and again tonight we're expected to see at large scale demonstrations protests gather to cool for the prime minister to resign we're going to be following that closely but of course protests not an unfamiliar cyclists stumble street for the past year but is he protest movement of bold. has the threat the prime minister leadership and what you're seeing right now that so interesting is that not just coming from the streets and from these protesters but from within his own government as well just to update you right now. the activists are gathering for the mass anti-government demonstration along with the protesters right police have crowded into the square that's the latest should be joining us live all the details hopefully next. to a speed of it as well that all the time on twitter feed. well probably

destroyed it once been praised by the international community for trying to create a country where european and muslim values were integrated but historian and professor of international relations mark owen told me earlier on he believes there was never held secular views. he's always been regarded by many of his son his opponents as being mockery or secularist or his job sensibly accepted the secular constitution of turkey because you have to do that in order to stand for election but as he's been reinforced in power three successive elections we've seen shifts towards also seems all season to more endorse in a more islamic ossie for instance restrictions on sale of alcohol is alcohol when it's about having a strict a morality code the universe does not and some people. who level turkey has been almost immune to the world economic crisis and one of great support was that his government seemed able to produce economic growth through loan question and of course without allegations of corruption multiple there who. now we have the

allegations of corruption who also see more generally who. are in many who in the past who say well whatever's wrong is better and i'm better off. coming up with our seeds of national julian assange is now the big names in the world of freedom of information they get ready to talk at a major hacker conference in hamburg on the future of how to protect yourself online i will stay with me kevin are in for that. economic down in the final. day. and the rest.

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a news of the day then and the british government spending over backwards to slash taxes and raise living studded sorts people the result rich individuals and big business has a stuffing their pockets with more cash while the public pays the price it seems but spike criticism from pays the tax authorities aren't willing to change the status quo. more. for many of those working here in the city of london two thousand and thirteen has been a year of prosperity thanks to a tax cut that kicked in earlier this spring the u.k.'s highest earners have been able to make even more money than yeah the rate of tax for people earning over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year has gone down from fifty pence to forty five so for every hundred pounds they earn over that fifty pounds used to go straight into the treasury but that figure has now been reduced and now they're only paying forty five pounds to the tax man from every hundred now all these save five as

a rounding up in the u.k. is authorization labor party has done the math they say that collectively the u.k.'s highest earners have saved almost one hundred million pounds thanks to the tax cuts you have seen the longest fall in living standards on record you've got half a million people using parents now you've got i think homelessness is up by around since two thousand and ten these are serious problems why is the government choosing to cut taxes at a time like this when the government's made such play of the need for seriously bizarre and there's little evidence that it's benefited the u.k. economy so most people. have had their taxes cut you know they're not investing that money this investment storm before they're just going to you basically langton isn't called a millionaire's playground for nothing you have more super rich individuals living in the capital than anywhere else in the world you have the world's most expensive

houses here and butlers a back in fashion but away from the glitz and glamour thirty million brits are going to be starting the new year living in poverty u.k. prime minister david cameron has been fighting off claims that his political party only represents the privileged few but this latest. cut only benefits the richest one percent. artsy lungs and. the rich are getting richer in the us as well the revolt of it too with wall street setting aside nearly one hundred billion dollars for new year bonuses and activist fighting corporate dominance told us that cash will be coming straight out of the taxpayers' pockets. these big wall street banks pay their employees a very high base salary usually in the range of like one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand but then on top of that they get this sort of performance bonus and the way that they're tallied is there's a number of surveys they basically at the top us banks how much money they had set aside for bonuses in two thousand and thirteen and that's how we arrived at the

ninety one point four four billion dollars it is crazy right especially when you think about earlier this year there was this bloomberg article about how the government there is like a government subsidy of eighty three billion dollars so it's almost as if all of that government subsidy is just going right back into bonuses but this is just way that wall street has worked for a really long time before say we're going to continue to see these problems and that's why we're saying listen you shouldn't get to take these big dollars that you've gotten in this bill gotten ways and give them to yourselves you should give it back to the people that you've harmed. if you right now if you don't call the arctic food to greenpeace side was just a step away from leaving russia we've got the latest dropped all charges against them for trying to pull that offshore oil rig we should exit visas to you get full story. also it turns out that are you politicians hollywood big shots even the vatican officials that don't always practice what the preach when it comes to piracy is it emerges downloading huge amounts of illegal content

the story we've got it. right. first right. and i think the true. julian assange is the wiki leaks founder whose of course holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over a year no hiding from prosecution glenn greenwald the reporter who broke the n.s.a. scandal and whose partner was held in questioned and terrorism laws jacob appelbaum the a wiki leaks hacker detained a dozen times at the u.s. border today they will all be headliners at a major conference in hamburg on surveillance and privacy peter all of us there to

. it's the thirtieth anniversary of the chaos communications conference here in how strongly more and more supporters people are made aware of just how fragile their online privacy actually is now i'm joined by michael ebeling who is a online privacy campaigner michael thanks very much for speaking to me have people started to take more of a interest in looking after their online security you know a lot of people do it in a different manner. some start to encrypt the e-mail is something that we would like to support those people how to do it how to manage p.g.p. for example as iran's reducer communication on the internet whatever this is going to be a big impact for everybody's life and i think we're just looking at the beginning of a big saying to somebody like myself who's barely computer literate is there anything that i can do it to look after my own online security. of course start to encrypt the e-mails start to use open software start to change your system on your computer

not microsoft not apple but use linux are you going to and anything like that people away a year ago before these leaks from edward snowden just how would risk we are online . normal most of the people didn't realize that some few people always were talking about it on events like this once here by accident normally they haven't been a big voice in the media now would you like to see edward snowden here perhaps next year as a speaker i would like to hear from today it's as fast as possible and i would like to have a german government to give him a safe place and a secure place here in germany i would prefer it that thank you very much that's michael ebeling who say privacy online privacy activist here talking about the thirtieth chaos communication conference back here in moscow let me thank you stories in brief three people dead over one hundred twenty arrested in

a wave protests of protests. that is sweeping through egypt in cairo police fired tear gas at protesters who killed stones at security forces as clashes followed the arrest of twenty three activists from the muslim brotherhood and accusations of inciting violence just days of course after being declared a terrorist organization the brotherhood are promising more rallies they say. a taliban suicide bomb attack on an international military convoy in afghanistan has killed three servicemen and wounded six civilians on tuesday rockets were fired at the u.s. embassy in kabul followed by another attack that injured three police officers the recent spate of violence comes as president karzai considers allowing u.s. troops to stay in the country beyond twenty fourteen. thanks for being with out see a quick reminder of that breaking news story again three policemen killed tonight we're hearing an explosion near a traffic police headquarters in the southern city of p.r. to god's grace for investigating what's happened there we will bring up to speed on it as well the next news twenty three minutes sorry thirty three minutes from now

coming up abby martin after the break explore the challenges facing injured u.s. war veterans as they readjust to civilian life thanks for choosing r.t. . to the. new season is here as well there's already been plenty to celebrate this december on this month's show will and how the future events so lazy set in stone fall to make movies with an instant messenger under-privileged to take so still it's amazing like work of a real estate. g'day year on a. yugo. that

you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across silicon we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing or not define ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. jamie dimon is a guy he's begging to be euthanised and i think as a country as

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 of qatar person 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. the beginning of the moment both to the monks and the free it's from my island life . in sin now enough temptation. to douglas last for six months. as the people.

and it's as easy to hide the rifle as scrutiny. because the other do so in a spiritual or an indigenous people but there are others who do choose this frozen life. this is could be right about. if you are in the conducting. search of the twenty fourth gene olympics what's this place like the one i think is so special as the russian resort prepares to local in the world how are the games shaping the city's present and future ludlow so it will bring you this is a momentary pussyfoot look very cold and snowy when did mountain stop beyond the olympics but come. on are.

the the. what's up people all those i'm not a modern and this is breaking does sets all veterans day came and went last week a day full of empty gestures and baseless rhetoric of course the main unaddressed concern during all the pageantry was the dire state of american veterans today and see just days after the holiday a shocking new report revealed that almost one million servicemen and women have been injured in iraq and afghanistan that's right one million wounded soldiers have visited v.a. hospitals and the start of these wars compare that to the vietnam war despite the draft the number of wounded warriors total just over three hundred thousand and one million might sound extreme what's more disturbing is that it may even be more you see as of march the department of veterans affairs actually stopped publishing their statistics on injured better. that's why or according to report by

international business times the v.a. cited reasons of bashful security so on top of the already and adequate health care for vets now are being censored from the eye opening up to six of the true reality of the war on terror not being able to see the truth prevents us from understanding why there's been such an exponential growth in wartime injuries and vietnam so if you want the v.a. to explain this trend to and join me and let's break the set. of the book. it was a really very hard to take a. picture. that you ever had sex with her right there. that leap.