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i'll be speaking to olli ollie rennon.ck to you. >> and his desire to -- we spoke earlier, his desire to move to europe. why do you think he wants to move to the european parliament? >> i think he warchts to consider he has a role to start there. the austerity versus growth debate. they have an issue with seeing him at the head of the commission. we'll see. >> yeah, we'll see what he says. talk to you later. thank you. that's the latest from brussels. congress is in a dash to the finish line trying to get several key pieces of legislation before heading out of town. house and senate negotiators are putting the final touches on the budget deal by friday's deadline. the plan on the discussion doesn't significantly reduce the deficit. reports say it's still in effect for a cease fire. it could be another costly deal. we'll speak about it at 10:40. on the agenda state side, there's no economic data today. a trio of officials speak. just a few earnings reports, clothing maker pva and pet toys and veil resorvail resorts. >>> the

. >> after 10 years behind bars the freed russian olly garth mikhail khordorkovsky said he will not enterolitics. he has no plans to receive product. he'll enjoy the first day of freedom in germany. >> this is the moment days ago. they must have thought was impossible. a family finally reunited. a day after mikhail khordorkovsky was released from a russian gaol, he was back in the arms of his parents. then in an interview he gave more details about conditions in prison. >> because for a year and two months and then in seg -- i had not much contact with family. >> mikhail khordorkovsky had been russia's richest men, a powerful group of oligarchs who had their wings clipped. vladimir putin's decision to pardon mikhail khordorkovsky surprised many. it came weeks before the start of the sochi winter olympics. for western public opinion it's an enormous event. it's a big step in order to soften a negative attitude towards putin's russia. the civilized society, that was the main motive. >> during his time in prison, mikhail khordorkovsky's image was transformed from that of a ruthless businessm

international. 50-year-old mikhail khordorkovsky was once the one of the richest men, known as the ollyash's. his company yukos was broken up and sold off to state oil company ros nest after an arrest on fraud and tax evasion. his surprise release seen as an attempt by the president to brush up his image. >> at a time when he is referred to as bad, as an evil leader, he is suddenly attracting the world to himself as a merciful leader who can pardon. >> on thursday at a marathon 4-hour news conference the russian president announced an amnesty freeing 25,000, including the punk group pussy riot and the arctic 30. vladimir putin's surprise decision to free mikhail khordorkovsky shows how serious he is about trying to silence his critics in the west over russia's human rights record, at a time when his country will be under microscopic examination as tv crews and journalists arrive for the start of winter olympics in six weeks time. >> tajikistan has strict rules on how and where people can pray. the government says it's necessary to combat extremism. many feel the laws to control religiou

up to be noted that the rate of warming for me kevin ollie in most of the seventeenth. up top story. christmas comes but once he is super those of you britney. maybe tell you the proof of the tv set it to what the queen's christmas picture probably comes as no surprise that that was the only message on the ball hits the evening an alternative address was delivered by a man who believes there's no reason to stick to the rules on people to boycott the store christmas day and the uk is a sacred tradition for about a christmas cacti that i'm the battery was getting around town to watch the queen's speech with your family. this is the a the queen was bracing for a merry christmas to think about a grandson that he isn't even a spot tenfold by adding an alternative christmas message from a whistle that ended with six days and here of course revealed the extent of months this is a men's prayer that is in the us the uk and other western countries and he was speaking today all about privacy he said that george orwell's nineteen eighty four was a real fairytale compared to the ant

that's all for now and this is is ollie me with a check on my kits the eye. when streams and rebels in south sudan are keeping up their attacks on each other soldiers loyal to the president are trying to beat a key towns. a un spokesperson in the capital juba told nhk more and more people are fleeing the violence. he was very cool card that has one. julio to prison sullivan care and support as some form of bias present we must all be plenty for all but ten days. a unit of the show into the house as the troops and rebels to either pass or pull off the country's ten states. he says more and more citizens are fleeing their home why i continue to rise. it is a source of great concern to the dish. i believe that something of the order of nearly thirty thousand civilians. from sean will it stay. have crossed into a neighboring state. over the past five or six days through it fine. displaced people flooding into using bases across the country japanese and other union peacekeepers of the main town in july. i didn't want to answer the station over fifty thousand civil

ollie was jump shots with people. vying for attention and hoping to get a spot on the stage participants have three minutes to present the idea of charts investors and move on to the next round however one name that crops up in a presentation about the messaging up stood out from the rest. is the founder of the film production company and if that doesn't ring any bells he's also the director of the hollywood film and many of the star studded flicks the path from concept to big screen is no walk in the park and pre-visualization plays an important role in getting the movie off the ground action parts modern pitches require more than the traditional. sketches three d. animation give a frame by frame idea of how the finished product should look pre-visualization is also help direct to tweak camera angles stage direction and lighting and in an industry where time costs lots of money they help everyone know who's doing what where and when on sets despite saving money even the previews are very costly and time consuming a f

to knit those wells ranks miles three km in earthquakes have been linked to frank eight months old ollie this comic she can't explain. or the local government in texas tells us the extent that the water from his well why didn't he can set on fire here. it's safe to drink and confusing his home. you didn't hear. you make it. but speed has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is a ticking bomb in his backyard. loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments. he claimed that if tracking operation year by contaminated he's well and that taxes energy authorities are shielding the gas company they don't want the world to know that it really isn't that big a one in official documents. it could be that the franking allow gas from lola formations into the aquifer and subsequently to steve leach is well the gas company denies the claim that this gets to the range resources corporation but the further counter sued and won in costs in the fact that we can see groundwater. it's incredibly difficult to prove. my sauce i as an engineer who worked with the f

on thursday, who has turned from olly gashing to political prisoner is in germany. he applied to vladimir putin for release and was granted it. in a written statement mikhail khordorkovsky said: >> president putin did not stop with mikhail khordorkovsky. in a surprise announcement he pardoned 20,000 prisoners, including two members of the pussy riot punk rock band and detained greenpeace activists. the pussy riot members were sentenced to two years in prison in 2012 amid an outcry after staging a saucy anti-putin protest in the church. members of greenpeace were taken into custody. what is behind vladimir putin's decision to let the prisoners go. kremlin watcher mark hollingworth said putin has an eye on the winter olympics and the bad publicity he's been receiving over russia's attitude towards gay athletes. >> i don't think it's a coincidence that we are six weeks away from the olympics. the olympics is a show case. >> vladimir putin didn't concede much. mikhail khordorkovsky and pussy riot were slated for release in if a couple of months. mikhail khordorkovsky st

and she was like oh, olli, that would look so cute. you should definitely get a mohawk. what should i call you, then? >> jimmy. >> jay? >> not jay. >> you have been living in new york because you're doing a play on broadway right now. >> yeah. >> and then you get to -- >> very conquered. there is only one week left, please come to see it. >> are you dark tonight? >> we are. >> that works out beautifully. you have the movie premier right across the street. >> i came all the way to see you. >> have you seen the movie yet? >> no. i'm looking forward to it. it's always a treat with peter jackson. the magic he creates when he walks on set and i'm hanging upside down with wires and things and i wonder what this is going to turn out like. >> are you one of the guys who read the books? >> i read the hobbit. i got part way through the lord of the rings. >> you were too handsome to read. i read the whole damn thing. so, from what i understand, your character is not in this particular book, but they took some creative license and put your character in this movie? >> it's true. >> d

the last decade in detention, and he had been russia's richest man, one the all powerful group of olly garks. who had their wings clipped. >> the president's decision to pardon mikhail khordorkovsky surprised men. it comes weeks before the start of the soech yi olympics. >> it is an enormous event in the run-up to the olympics m it's a big step. i think that was the main motive. during his time? prison mikhail khordorkovsky's image was transformed. from that of a ruthless businessman to political activist. even behind bars he was an outspoken critic of the creme line. it's unclear how loud the voice will be now he's on the other side and out of russia. >> he was 10 years in different areas, and that means he has to learn what it means to live in a modern society. it's very, very difficult. >> the kremlin will be watching every move that mikhail khordorkovsky makes. some day we expect him to come and give more details about the future. and how it involves russia. >> 30 people have been killed at the central african republic rebels stormed the capital. among the dead is a peacekeeping so

please ollie.bviously it is nothing official and whoever put this up on the day the 911 tapes were played is not speaking but you get the whole point. in newtown connecticut over the last year, the town has taken pretty extraordinary measures to try to take care of itself as a community, not just in terms of handling their own grief for what they went through, but also handling the additional burden, the additional pain that has been caused by the intense national interest, the intense national concern for that town and for it's families and those kids. as we approaching december 14, which will mark one year since the massacre at newtown, the public has twice now organized events for the media to say, in essence, set up your cameras now, get whatever it is you need to meet the demand for information about newtown and this anniversary, but let us do this on our own terms so we have some control over our inundated with media requests a and with the physical presence of thea and with the emotional tol

. >> to remind some of you listening, brendan sullivan beforented ollie north the committee in congress and said, "what am i, a potted plant?" he also represented ted stevens, and 10 steve -- ted stevens was convicted, but the attorney general through that conviction out. he is a $1000 an hour lawyer in this town. >> yes, he is and jeffrey thompson can afford it. i think we are in for the long haul with this. known, ifllivan is you want to charge my client, we will go to trial. >> you say in your article that vincent gray's attorney is bob bennett. >> yes. yet another big-time attorney. the interesting thing about bennett is that vincent gray's daughter is a very good attorney and she is kind of like a, i guess, one could call her a protÉge of bennett. so there is a relationship there that he has had with fencing great. when gray ran into this issue, he retained mr. bennett. >> let's catch everybody up on this. i know this is a d.c. thing. but i if this book before show some video, how much does the american taxpayer have to do with the district attorney of columbia? if you are far away

ollie get on until the implications of manifestations of that and and fights through the french bureaucracy and a great thing is that as we all know he eventually proves the line to be just that and dreyfus says he's confident he doesn t want is ranked at the top is the visit but it's just me a wonderful story about a whistle blowing it's in a tunnel a tunnel to see it and of course in the build up to him that is taking place one hundred years ago this year and computers. world war one the aptly named book to sleep walkers how you're going to war nineteen fourteen by the cambridge historian christopher clark of absolute must reading. um this is the story of how multi polar problems that political leaders say they have a handle on. we ran the cheddar. have a way of analyzing and one violent eruption. and the sleep walkers to get the aptly named sleep walkers is. a parable for what might also happen. for the next guns of august. let's hope it's a cautionary tale cricket peters said wanna thank don't think patrick smith christopher dickey religious and to thank you for joining us for this edit

ollie. it was critical of the christian doesn't make too much to me. at two am sure. what kind of thing. i let you know when the wind at all. it's always some of the title and patrick smith is with this the editor in chief of the africa report his new issue hits the stands. next week and could double if you know beyond a film the action and that was on the cover. that's awesome. i know we we got it in any way we knew mind was going to be impornt if you go to a website you'll also find it. it's sixteen page is all about mandela and his legacy. and i do recommend because some great writing that i met rob bell one of his fellow prisoners the robben island senate a token too often it's the most interesting things to reach their targets in the after report which hits the stands would take next week it's been so good. we owe them a comment from one of viewers on twitter here. from sew so she says the piece has its benefits. here she also taught it to the eighties is some of the topping father like figure all french presidents have on african leaders i think that the young f

. >> roland olly fant, a correspondent with the telegraph there. >> al qaeda was not involved in the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. that attack, you might recall killed ambassador chris stevens and three others. some arguing that al qaeda planned the attack and the white house covered it up. the attack carried out by militants. it was following the death of muammar gaddafi. benghazi residents joined in, fuelled by the release of an anti-islam video. here are key points from the report as we mentioned. the attack was not carefully planned or spontaneous either. there were warning signs. a report citing a diplomatic cable, citing groiing security concerns. focussing on al-qaeda it distracted from more serious threats inside the country. >> jim walsh specialises in international security, saying the approach was flawed. >> we sort of assumed the bigger groups would control the smaller groups or give us advance intelligence. at the end of the day they had more aleemance than us, to be did not control them. >> gunshots were fired before a checkpoint. soldiers in libya took

you can ollie's reach out to us on twitter.n the lab become a utah, j is on our line for independents. good morning, accountability from choices should have consequences, they always do. they may be turned out over a long. of time -- over a long. bang -- over a long. bang of ti -- over a long period of time. stop doingent should that. for us to be finding out that our phones -- for us to find out our phones are being tapped and all the powers they have in a roundabout way -- they are lying to us. do you believe the united states should give amnesty to edward snowden? bass -- a gets a free free pass, he's done? if he has the possibility to have more information -- i think the information should be scrutinized by a group of american people. they can have access to all government files and make a decision for the american people instead of having always politicians that have been there their whole life making all these decisions. we are being toyed with. war on terror is another joke. but get a hold of our emotions, america. bridg