president bush in ri writes his new address pledging to fight terrorists until they're fully defeated falling to suicide blast in volgograd bush claimed thirty four lives. also the sound of the machines are watching the n.s.a. is reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spyware malware before they reach their destinations. and relations and breakthroughs are approached as edward snowden spy scandal a long awaited nuclear deal with iran global run is against g.m. foods and fracking a look at the stories that shaped twenty thirteen. and

a very warm welcome to our seem to national twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you'd actually power it on main story now russian president vladimir putin has changed his new year address and pledged to fight terrorists until they're fully defeated as follows two deadly suicide bombings in volgograd in just two days let's get more details now from the screen of a young girl please tell us about this statement from the russian president. well the president changed his traditional new year's address location from the kremlin to the russian far east where he's currently on an unexpected visit reading the new year with those affected by major floods which happened in the region last summer and led me to put in more of the things he talked about spoke about the challenges that russia had to fisa in two thousand and thirteen including the latest terror attacks in a blog about the president voices his condolences to the families of the victims

pledged to provide all the necessary support and help and also promised to continue fighting terrorists until they are completely defeated the statement was made seven hours before the new year in moscow that's the time difference between the capital and. traditionally the president's new year's addresses are watched by the majority of the population. live from central moscow hugo many thanks indeed. and while families in the russian city along the ground have started burying their loved ones who were killed in two successive a suicide bombings that tanks within twenty four hours of each other so understood this is his main train station and a crowded bus the number of dead following the terror attacks has risen to settle for dozens more are still in hospital and she is not great how it is in the grad. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to be moving more slowly if i

was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard but here is their story it's been one more an uneasy night for residents of russia's southern city of volgograd loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks here held vigils in hospitals while others mourned. he was a good man a good father a good son a good grandson or not so many of such good ones around the good ones die first they say. with barely contained tears of blood amir levi koch clutches to the memory of his son who was the victim of sunday's attack at the train station sergei was a security guard there. he had this job for about a year i saw how it all happened on the video footage he was standing by the railing during the security check and then there was this man coming in and he just barely made it towards him and then there was

a blast and it was over and no more footage he stopped that man who was trying to get through the security gate as he had to yes that's what the camera showed i saw him doing his job smiling he did what he had to do that it was his duty. sergei's family mourned monday night with only the conviction that he carried out his responsibilities to bring them any small comfort for others in volgograd the night brought fragile relief in the knowledge that loved ones were spared but they woke up the next morning to a second suicide bomber this time on a city trolley bus. this was i can't remember anything i was deafened by the blast we had almost reached the bus stop when the explosion went off it was like an electric shock all over my body i can't remember i didn't see anyone i was sitting and looking out of the window when it happen. and i think i was the last to be carried out of the charley bus now no doubt any of the people of the southern

russian city expected to have two suicide bombers factored into their new year's eve celebration shopping and travel plans volgograd is still reeling after two terror attacks within the span of twenty four hours we met batali in his home just hours after his friend was killed in monday's attack munition official i was shocked you had a family a young wife and a small child it's very sad to realize that a young man died in such a tragic incident with. stories like these two are poring over all the great city limits with the residents there hoping for more time to mourn their family and friends and to rebuild their lives in volgograd margaret how will our t.v. . for more reaction on dialysis will be translated as well as the latest on dates of the investigation has a website to. throb the yeah

approach has had gripped countries worldwide with the public easing it as an effective method of getting that message across to the authorities but as all season maria for national polls this kind of freedom of expression is now under threat in some states which claim to be bystanders of democracy. world. from the us. canada i presume. the tourist far is thailand. and much of europe basically the large group of protesters people protest they're furious with the stereotype allah says in europe the n.s.a. surveillance and drones in america and a wide range of concerns like freedom of the press and the loss of the secular state in turkey. disenchanted disagreeing and desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy they just have

a feeling that the governments aren't representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the government cannot ignore them and the governments haven't ignored them there is certainly a problem in many of these places in some sort of gap between popular feeling and the way government triac many of the protests sparked on different continents and in different countries these here and of these clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government has is that people will feel protesters fashionable is that people will feel that democracy is fashionable some decided to use the law to protect themselves from these risks in chicago and come back and in spain and to protest laws that heavy fines or even jail sentences for demonstrating oprah dissipating in allegedly violent protest and democracy is

not just having an elected government it is also being able to accept listen to and incorporate many different voices. and it seems a democracies are under threat what's being passed off as representative democracy but which is actually. government by corporatist global worse some minor concessions hoping that the protests will dissipate and then they can continue business as usual but was probably just now becoming a more poor performer dialogue with authorities it will hardly be an easy thing to do. those different things to protest what they see is a police state if it's against the persecution of whistleblowers you know. look i know exactly that that it would. reach national r.t. . and attempt to rescue a ship trapped in frozen and toxic hasn't exactly gone to plan the chinese icebreaker center vacuity the russian vessel academic sure is now trapped

previously on australian ice breaker failed to reach the ship which has been stranded since christmas having to turn by because of poor weather conditions china's vessel the tsunami i was sent to the airlift truck to scientists by helicopter but has barely moved for a day and is waiting for the weather to improve and now an americanised break of the palestine is currently on route from seattle but won't be there for another week the seventy four scientists tourists and crew aboard are in no danger and have all they need to welcome in the new year including enough ice for their train. have a want to do on your laptop because the latest revelations of n.s.a. spying suggest america's spy is maybe logging every case truck you make an article in the german magazine claims the agency installs a rigged cables allowing it to see everything displayed on the p.c.

monitor is plugging in to multiple disguised bugging devices also magically send and receive data using radio waves and journalists david seaman believes these revelations will bind file global tech company. my understanding of it is that this is extremely widespread but is not so much the company's cooperating with the n.s.a. as it is the n.s.a. pouring tremendous amounts of money and talent into developing these hacks we're talking about complete orwellian control of innocent people's phones and innocent people's computers and laptops and i think that it undermines the basic faith and confidence in american tech companies this is going to lead to a massive loss of revenue technology has the power to lift all of us up to provide more innovation and transparency that ever before in human history and that's the path that the internet was already on you see the explosion in online media and everybody has a voice an opinion in this global society but the n.s.a.

has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. had for you and all seem to national league come to stories and revelations of what shapes went if that's how the n.s.a. honks they want to coast edward snowden to expose it as well as winds of change in iran and you can't break through do you and a historic resolution on syria and of course much more variety after the break. so choose more of the county fourteen olympics what's this place like. this is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future ludlow sochi will bring you this is the moment they repose you from a very cold snowy windy mountainous tough beyond the olympics but . tomorrow on our team. it was the year these

whack jobs introduced the belt is to buy debt debt and more debt the never ending list of fines for crimes to which j.p. morgan will never have to admit obamacare or that corporate espionage surveillance state the bedroom tax the housing bubble. the ocean nancy international is great to have you with us let's move on now and as twentieth said comes to an end we'll look back at what history will remember from

the last twelve months spy scandals breakthroughs in international diplomacy drawing contrasts is on the bitter fruits of the arab spring season eastern hour of years now the biggest stories of the outgoing year. i would describe this man as an american hero he's a hero but each node is a hero the whistleblower sent a world wide wake up call with the ultimate revelation of twenty thirteen the former n.s.a. analyst told it all america was spying on citizens world leaders friends and foes alike and the man has broken the laws and i damage the country i think is a traitor snowden quickly became the most wanted man of the year with the us ready to stop and search a president's plane just in case. my first thought when i was forced to land was how can your opinion countries obey the will of the us i imagine these nations

would defenders of democracy snowden made moscow's airport his home for weeks before finding a way out that it was not his plan to end up here and there was the united states made him stay with us by revoking us passport and russia to its credit actually recognized international law and granted him particles are the whistleblower remains in an undisclosed location in the russian capital we exist for just this one last. issue why to others want. to suck a. person. told the truth snowden promises to keep the leaks coming through twenty fourteen together we can find a better balance and mass surveillance and for a mind of the government that if it really wants to know how we feel asking is always cheaper than spying.

the u.s. government can and will shut down it came to a standstill for over two weeks in what's becoming an annual tradition grand america. took a beating here lawmakers couldn't agree on raising the debt ceiling and came very close to defaulting on some seventeen trillion dollars ok then surely the markets going we don't want to play this game anymore we're not ulit you money at any price the i.m.f. and world bank warned of dire consequences while china called for the world's d. americanization given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america eventually a deal and thousands of federal employees could go back to work parks and war memorials reopened and protests die down but the shut down side effects lingered on

this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that is downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen so low. with a new president a new mood iran's hassan rouhani broke the ice on over thirty years of frozen ties between tehran and washington the rouhani is nicknamed the shift diplomat he will not be the one to back up from diplomacy first a phone call with obama while on his maiden visit to the un then the nuclear deal of the decade the iranians have shown time after time that there is no evidence that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful is something that has been ignored by the western media and western governments but this despite all that iran's real cillian is has forced these countries to accept. enrichment and again the russians and the chinese have played

a very constructive role iran agreed to restrict and regulate its nuclear program but maintained the right to peaceful energy in return sanctions and rhetoric eased russia held diplomacy for sealing the deal the west said its harsh sanctions secured the breakthrough. ten years on and iraq still reels from violence a decade since the u.s. led invasion but twenty thirteen was also one of the bloodiest years. the united states employed a classic divide and rule strategy pitting people of different sects against each other and in inciting violence that is completely unprecedented in that country this is a billion deaths continue to mount. at the time of the occupation the us i could prior's favored certain groups in the population against others demolish the

state that existed and so they're put in its place we are going to give you something new and better democratic and wonderful. the message to assad is he has the most phenomenal amount of blood on his hands assad didn't go nor did the rebels. meantime the syrian civil war reached a hundred thousand deaths well it's still not resolved as to who was behind august chemical attack which killed some fifteen hundred people appear on. to our investigation that that was used by opening so anybody who reads the facts and puts the dots together which is easy to do and they made it easy to do. understand. what those facts mean those facts weren't revealed yet brought obama very close to direct military action against a mascot he was committed to launch

a bombing campaign but then a breakthrough for there's a historic resolution is to force the whole for dualists on syria in the wrong time russia and the us let it deal which saw president also agreed to give up syria's chemical weapons the slow disarmament process began but still no sign from the fractured rebel factions of a willingness to unite for peace. the arab spring is still not blooming it's actually quite shameful to see countries in the leaders of western governments who hail themselves because of democracy supporting the slaughter of democracy and its supporters in into it the only may have pulled the trigger yes but it was the west that loaded the gun mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood didn't survive long at the helm of egypt he spent most of twenty thirteen behind bars when he was removed by the military after mass protests hit again we have seen the german. government

overthrown. is shameful that the western leaders are around. whom this is an old sanction military coup in tunisia and libya the chaos continues people are desperate to try and put a cover all of what has been created by the libyan disaster in the fall of gadhafi . one time in most not going to the guards strap it it down to a chair then they put a mask over his face so that they didn't intend to move bite or spit then the nurse snakes the feeding tube into a nasal cavity a mass hunger strike refocused global attention on the prison at one point most inmates were refusing food the prisoners has not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured refused very

tied. to the chair they shackled our legs to the ground they put a struggle across and they forced in a tube into our noses for said twice daily routine for many of the prison which president obama pledged to close over five years ago. drones targeting terrorists but killing more civilians how many people are we going to have to kill before we can finally say ok that's it objective achieved war over we can call this thing of terrorists in yemen and pakistan but also wedding parties and family dinners entire communities being shattered so you may have one or two or three intended targets be killed the bad guys but then you have one hundred two hundred three hundred completely innocent people being killed america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people.

ahrendts is back mass protests has returned to kiev almost a decade after the aren't revolution because ukraine dropped out of an e.u. trade deal and plenty of politicians from around the world joined in the us in the e.u. talk a lot about european values and western values but is it a western value to allow a foreign country to come in an influential electoral process to influence politics on the streets of course it's not the east once to go east the west wants to look west and everyone in between wants to say what a look at the rhetoric that was emanating from brussels in washington when ukraine failed to sign it became clear that it was very much directed against russia and that it was good for the ukrainian people. space rocks pack a punch a flaming meteor streaked across the sky and slammed into two lab and skin central

russia with a shockwave equal to twenty nuclear bombs though so many rumors from a jet down to a satellite and even to the start of the end of the world it damaged dozens of buildings injured hundreds of people but took everyone by surprise no one saw it coming. viral videos of its final moments helped r.t. to a billion views on you tube the first news channel ever to do so. you might have hit or miss an online gold mine because i. absolutely triumphed as a dollar has crash and ninety per cent i guess a bad guy as bit coy is set to take on the world and root out the bank's stirrers the world's most popular digital currency stirred up supporters and cynics cyber criminals love it drug dealers use it terrorists are looking into it the risks are

clear but bitcoin snapping at the dollar's heels and the banks are getting nervous if they were complete with the monetary system if they felt it was. then they wouldn't be looking for an option like that point it's a sign of where the society is going but it's old money that troubled greece anti austerity crowds weary of years of financial life support from abroad or the government crackdown on the rising right shouting the openly fascist golden dawn party which was connected to the killing of an anti rightwing rapper. people are ready to go after go lions chemical companies are feeding us and our families now sort of laugh already to table rather than farm to table protest against food giant monsanto peaked in two thousand and thirteen with activists trying to spread awareness about what they say are the dangers of genetically modified foods while sandu has been continuously voted as the most evil company on

the planet year after year with stiff competition most media outlets didn't cover this growing global movement nor the one gathering steam to fight the likes of chevron and the energy giants fracking projects. the controversial process to release oil and gas deep underground ignited global campaigns against its damning environmental potential irrefutable evidence of contamination air pollution water contamination battle between big business and the interests of the people. putin proves hard to predict but you don't know who the coast recently wrote a petition asking me to pardon him he spent more than ten years in prison this is a serious punishment he sighs humanitarian reasons saying his mother is sick and i believe taking jew account of all the circumstances it's possible to take a respective decision and in the near future i will sign a decree to pardon him mikail her dark of ski was released along with members of

pussy riot and greenpeace activists in a nationwide amnesty international a the relations with the rest of the world have been deteriorating rapidly ever getting worse and worse and perhaps a person with this is trying to put a stop to that or a marker and to slow down the process but inside russia there are many questions about how their course ski and the fall of the oil giant yukos the russia will be able to know where is the money all the people who are well russians to of course cheekily feel the call of course he got what he deserved the movie has been called everything from priya limbic p.r. to simple logic and continues to puzzle many in and outside of russia most are waiting to see what mikhail khodorkovsky will do with his freedom in twenty fourteen and beyond. the new year is just around the corner and make sure you join in on

a scene to national from seven pm chanting fall special coverage to welcome in twenty four. twelve months of chasing. the moment which will you find the world we live in. charge you was there to bring you the full future clash with the police the police are full of employed to close a camp that is a dark spot on their field the barricades which the bodies i take it down on new year's eve to guard little team of reporters and contributors revisit the key events of twenty three jeep and outlining what to expect next join canossa now we and kevin owen for our annual two hour news special. sky twenty four team with archie. coming up next breaking the set with host on being hot in.

i'm middle school kind of guy i like tradition and heritage and all that stuff when i look to the past i see that there's a lot that we could learn from our ancestors however one thing we don't need from them are debtors prisons which according to a fox news report are somehow on the rise in the united states in the twenty first century the a.c.l.u. and the britain center for justice claim that the local courts have been sending individuals with unpaid fines and fees jail which the courts may not even realize is illegal these courts are locking up people with fines that have exploded in size due to interest imposed on the initial amount and for the representation they had when they were in court which i always thought was supposed to be free but worst of all some are still in prison for fees they occurred while being in prison like having the audacity to use toilet paper hey that's taxpayer money down the toilet the kicker to this all is that throwing people in prison for their public debts

costs more than the debts the prisoners have to pay off that's right the local governments lose money doing this someone please resurrect the founding fathers america is running out of time if you aren't worried about this comeback of debtors' prisons are you think those rednecks deserve it so let me ask you something how's it going with paying off all your loans and bills i hope for your sake you don't miss a payment a fascist my opinion. speak your language not advance the. programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. a little too negative angles stories. spanish. visit.