has plans to boost its military there claiming it lacks operational experience and needs to police the thinning ice as it's replaced by fuel filled maritime traffic but that's not all i mean. actually u.s. submarines are deployed not too far away but off the norwegian coast it would take us missiles sixteen to seventeen minutes to get from there to moscow so we really hope that with all the things that have been happening in the world over the past few decades we put the cold war confrontation behind us in all five countries bordering the arctic sovereignty rights to resources within two hundred nautical miles of their territorial waterways but a growing op a type for a bigger slice of the pie is what many fear can inevitably spark a twenty first century cold war in the frozen waters there are also unexplored resources that we don't know yet to which country belongs which could be a source of interest to many countries i do think that. smaller things could spark

. tension and maybe more tension that we would like to see. new york. and when it comes to trade sea routes through the arctic is certainly an attractive shortcut for russia or in europe to asia thawing ice such a journey could take just twenty two days there by slashing transport costs it's almost twice as fast as the southern route through the mediterranean and across the indian ocean christopher parry a strategic forecaster and former british naval officer he thinks disputes are unavoidable in the race for the arctic. where i think we could have some disputes is there are a number of other interested countries such as india china korea japan all getting very interested not just in the northern sea route but also in the resources that exist up there in the arctic already the chinese are operating in greenland to

places like that and i think there will be a scramble by some of the other countries for some of those resources when the ice does recede to you're not just going to hurt the northern see route across the top or russia and the northwest passage across canada you're also going to have a route around twenty fifty straight across the top of the north pole now that means that the countries that in the past have faced each other across the north pole that icy waste they can have open water for quite a few months of the year and that will introduce different perspective different geometries and you're going to see canada and you know these states also entering into the arctic so it's going to be an interesting situation g.g. point of view probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty but people will be getting ready for that of course it in the years leading up to that and to paris we go away this week saw the announcement of a great tax u. turn by french president francois hollande he's worked long and hard to bring in new taxes but now he's backpedaled promising businesses will save thirty billion

euros that is maria financial reports lackluster approach to dragging france from its economic maya and certainly made him very unpopular with the public. think so just like this way better than this video clip mocks consol announced tax policies which are among the major reasons he's become the least popular president in france as more than history though he couldn't move the team or told to much more together with belgium that france's tax grab is the highest in the euro zone you don't want to do it but still it was a good way to head for. the last two hours french i had to fill in your taxes the other two thirds of the country's population feels top so i don't write eighty per cent look the president's economic polar so is misguided i don't inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was foolish to close his

business down after taxes became too big to bear to sell second if you're sick this is a vicious circle with my business has stopped working which means i can to provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development it's like everything falls apart right up to the current taxation policy was part of the finance strategy chosen by the french government to fight economic crisis but almost two years later critics say it simply hasn't worked the country's credit rating has been caught the unemployment level of those table recently is still at its highest in almost sixteen years and for twenty fourteen the european commission for costs just zero point nine percent g.d.p. growth in france against one point seven percent in germany and two point two percent in britain people and businesses alike of oh my god another tax and another it's not that they're too high but there are too many and a combination of all these taxes makes it really heavy taxes today really break an

economy it seems that's also finally beginning to dawn on the country's leader examples out of new rule all rule taxes big game having to have a the. usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address. sounded rather concerned at least civilly the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted that. this social east leader pledged some truly liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new or loaned and new hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they see longs plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late reef nationality from france or some other global headlines for you for the world update now starting with pakistan where at least twenty soldiers

have been killed in a blast from a security compound northwest according to police about thirty more people were injured raising fears the death toll is likely to rise pakistan's taliban has claimed responsibility and threatened further attacks that as the country's a secular system. the death toll from flooding that's been raging in southern brazil has reached twenty two at least five people are still missing more than three hundred were left homeless in a town south of the country's largest city sao paolo but the flooding was caused by last week's torrential rains which caused at least one local river to banks and the water destroyed several other complicating the rescue effort. and three children and nineteen adults have been killed in an attack on a convoy in the central african republic the group mostly muslim families were traveling in the west of the country when that truck was hit by a grenade launcher meanwhile the european union is expected to give the go ahead

for a thousand peacekeepers to be sent to the country monday to join african peacekeepers and french soldiers already on the ground the national parliament will also name a new interim president on the same day. riot police applied water cannons and protesters in the turkish city of. demonstrators flooded the streets to express new draft bill which would restrict access to the internet the government wants to keep records of online activity and banned sites for alleged violations of privacy without the need for a court order. internet service providers will be required to join an internet union which will fall under central control. strong winds and the scorching temperatures of fueling wildfires across the australian state of new south wales three homes have been destroyed with flames reaching forty metres high a raging out of control in the east of the state a small town there has already been evacuated emergency warnings are in place for

some areas with more than ninety blazes still raging. as the saying goes there's no place like home. there's no country they can cool by that name hundreds of. thousands of people in latvia have so-called alien passports even though they've never lived anywhere else the only way for them to get equal rights with full citizens is a naturalization test which is actually intended for immigrants artie's paul scott investigates you guys when you mean it but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights we can't vote can't occupy government positions or be policeman or lawyers in total there are ninety differences in november alexander invited un secretary-general ban ki moon to latvia for a congress on the issue the invite was politely declined. and you're going to have

any of them there are around three hundred thousand of us and i'm one of them here's my passport it's an alien passport. when the soviet union collapsed latvia only gave full citizenship to people and their descendants who had lived in the country prior to nine hundred forty when it became a soviet republic that was around fifty two percent of the population everyone else was classed as a non-citizen today one in seven people are considered alien canady is one of those affected he was born in latvia and although his mother is latvian because his father moved to the country after nine hundred forty eight was denied citizenship he eventually went through the process of naturalization when he was twenty two years old how did it make you feel having to go through that process despite the fact as you say you were born in this country well does your mother love you. right and that's the sign if she does that you feel good and if she doesn't you feel

a bit about and insulted the process of not you realize ation the tests noncitizens on their knowledge of lobby in history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the lobby and government are using them to avenge the past but it's not just a moral issue it could also be economic benefits to ending this policy if that three hundred thousand people will be back into political and economical life will be very good feel for the country too you know incident to finally move on further because we always look back into history who are trying to go further. into european union insecurities and so on but we still had its turn back those fighting for their rights acknowledged they have a long way to go before they win the argument to say they're prepared to take their case step by step for scott r.t. latvia and also internationals coming here live from moscow how the winter olympic preparations going in sochi

a live report coming your way along with the rest of the world's top headlines in just a couple. i know. tanya the lady well tell me how you are and my little grandson. i don't like i don't like. being cut off. except it doesn't mean. that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you she will come back i know it and i will wait but even if it means i must wait. until my

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there were millions of dollars moving from a company in saudi arabia called. a fruit company and they were sending money to. the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what. is allowing that in facilitating that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and causes i mean that's why it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each p.c. admitted to the department of justice to the world the. financing the enemy if you plead guilty to financing the enemy i don't think you should just walk with a fine. fine but. good

leverage sure. to build. mission to teach me creation and. why you should. only. we have corruption like we've never had in this country. this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich or we're trying to get wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life. if you're an average person in this country i would have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to take up on an earlier point that. i also thought was quite important and significant especially. provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the

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made internal disputes. serious national coalition finally agrees to attend geneva peace talks some key rebel fighting groups continue to reject. the reforms i'm proposing today should give the american people greater confidence that their rights are being protected the u.s. president assures americans that the n.s.a.'s use of wholesale private data will be reined in but critics say the long awaited announcement is seriously lacking in substance. beatings and even sexual assault british senior military figures are accused of widespread abuse during the iraq war which began in two thousand and three and they could end up standing trial in the hague.