international just to say thank you for joining us here for this breaking news here we're now going to get deeper into the story all of mikhail khodorkovsky with artie's and he said no. he may well be one of the most well known prisoners in the world but the idea of a pardon for former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky was unexpected to say the least a four hour q. and a and not one question about for the record ski and then this if you don't know who the kospi recently wrote a petition asking me to pardon him because he spent more than ten years in prison this is a serious punishment he saw as humanitarian reasons saying his mother is sick and i believe taking jus 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 the former c.e.o. and founder of the oil company yukos built a fortune that made him russia's richest man after the collapse of the soviet union snapping up state assets at a bargain price in often dubious circumstances other kosky fall from grace began in october two thousand and three whe

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today. if you are just joining us welcome to the program here on r.t. international the acid. the bolshoi has reached its conclusion a russian courts found a leading ballet soloist in his two a couple is guilty of the attack on the company's artistic director but in a culture about our life here on the program to give us the details on this subject you know the verdicts are in on a case that well just about everybody found utterly horrifying. right well rory as you just saw the bolshoi theatre leading soloist private has been found guilty and i must remind you the acid attack on the theatres artistic director research the fill in now the prosecutors earlier asked for a nine year sentence but such is the gravity of these charges that miter janko may face up to twelve years in jail and now the actual chances of being delivered as we speak as well as to the two other fellow defendants were also found guilty and taking part in this attack of course this case has tarnished the reputation of russia

from all of us here welcome. the ukrainian capital is braced for another turbulent day as thousands remain in kiev's main square in defiance of a court. at the country's largest protest since the orange revolution tun violent with the government buildings stormed and hundreds left injured most of them being police demonstrators now demanding the president's resignation following his sniping trade integration deal. with the latest. it is still pretty tense in the ukrainian capital the this not as many people now as it used to be at the beginning of the protest the protesters have managed to overtake the city administration building and they now describe it as the headquarters of the new revolution and several hours ago in fact the administration of president of ukraine building looked like a battlefield computer kalash a rupture between the protesters and the riot police and the protesters even used a bulldozer to break the police lines short while ago i went to the administration of president of ukraine building

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the pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm. staying with us here on r t twenty minutes past the hour now and we're staying with our breaking news events in volgograd this city had barely started mourning the victims of sunday's train station bombing when a fatal blast targeted monday morning commuters within the past couple of hours we know that twelve people have died in this latest terror attack to strike a trolley bus artie's margaret howell is live with us in the city of volgograd so any clearer about this latest suspected terror attack we have any new details. well as we understand it at eight thirty sometime around eight thirty this morning there was a nother suicide bomber reports are indicating that there are now twelve dead confirmed twelve dead and up to twenty three endured including a one year old baby now this happening on a trolley bus less than twenty four hours ago a separate terrorist attack happening on the train station of course here in volgograd and now this less than twenty four hours later a second terror

should have you with us here today i'm sure. we're moments away from the r.t. walt update for now here on the program at least seven people have died in argentina now wave of looting and robberies right in the midst of a police strike over pain conditions and the walkout began last week in one of the provinces before spreading to most of the country authorities say the under arrest is treason and have accused police of holding the government to run some spanish correspondent ignacio as the latest. looting is spreading across the country as people take advantage of a police strike to smash their way into shops and steal whatever they can they've been seen making up with all sorts of goods like mobile phones much receipts and even beer some people are locking themselves in their homes and businesses and trying to keep out of the street others are arming themselves for there are security forces have been sent into some areas where by a list has broken out and the government blames the situation on the looters he says they're trying to go before the thirtieth anniv

thanks for staying with us here on r.t. half past the hour now recapping the tragic developments in volgograd this monday morning a second deadly explosion that struck the city within twenty four hours space the latest happened on a trolley bus as it passed by a market during morning rush hour at least twelve people known to have been killed up to twenty three others wounded including a one year old child this the second deadly blast to strike the city in twenty four hours time investigators suspect a bomb was planted inside the bus and it's likely to be connected to the suicide bombing that happened at the main train station there sunday that explosion left sixteen people dead and dozens wounded. we asked dr you're on from the international institute for counter-terrorism what could be done to over such tragedies in the future with such attacks are not always not always easy to prevent it and as you know that takes place in other parts of the world just for the last several months ago in boston in america again by it we ju

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northwood university to discuss inflation past and present whole overture thank you for being here with us today now i first want to start off by asking you in one of your recent articles you draw parallels between germany's great inflation in the early one nine hundred and today's monetary policy here in the u.s. can you explain to us what you see is the greatest danger of such monetary policy. well the grid is danger is the one that has occurred historically whenever governments that fall of path of excessive monetary expansion that is the their economies are flooded with money the eventually the money percolate out to the population people in the society with more money in their pockets proceed to spend it to buy the things that they want and desire and wish to purchase and prices start rising. in the case of the great german inflation that began to finance the german government's war expenses of the first world war in one nine hundred fourteen to one nine hundred eighteen but then it continued for another five years after the war with the result that virtually the entire german economy

already in volgograd as we get them stay with us for all the updates here on r.t. . i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. and i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason they were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through her new guinea epic screaming grenade. explosion blew him will run his back he will. lose it and it was all over all. we know that our call on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're team. getting was a senior in his military trio. he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of just comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. these are very cold spend countless hours hammer braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giant 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 time

thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today the kaiser report soon for now though the unlikely pairing of saudi arabia and israel reportedly teaming up this in response to washington's middle east policies by representatives from the country's intelligence services apparently met for talks in jerusalem they are ultimately united in their disdain for america's reversal of the intervention in syria that of course followed by the agreement of a nice story nuclear deal with iran as delve deeper into this his auntie's guy nature can. the two countries saudi arabia and israel found themselves in one but in their frustration over washington israel and saudi arabia hate the nuclear deal that the u. was now the world power struck with iran and israel is very vocal about it the saudis are a little bit more restrained but the saudi intelligence chief said there would be a major shift in dealings with the us saudi arabia wanted the u.s. to go all in on syria the u.s. instead went along with russia's proposal and cut a d

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a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. dozens of civilians are massacred near the syrian capital damascus with eyewitnesses telling r t of mass executions and kidnappings carried out by islamist rebels. as the european union posts ukraine integration on hold u.s. senators joining the protesters in the capital kiev throwing their weight behind the opposition's pro western ambitions. mexico is gripped by mass anti-government demonstrations with protesters accusing authorities of stripping the state of its wealth and people of their future.

it's been a pleasure having you with us here on r.t. international today our role researcher stepping aside for your leadership of oliver coming up in half an hour but for now look at the breathtaking stance by children in the circus thank you for joining us. nelson mandela he is almost universally considered one of the greatest individuals of our time he was a prisoner of conscience and a living symbol conquering adversity however he was far more complex than most mainstream media are willing to admit mandela's legacy is so much more than merely being a figure of inspiration a reconciliation. i . l o. i'm seventeen and i live in the unit district of st petersburg this is my entrance. fellow. this is my district. a football field it's my old school in my nine story apartment block. so this is where i live. i used to take drugs and drink like a fish and i skipped school and was a real hooligan i stayed out all night and well you know. listen to me march superstar you come here sit down and have a chat all right guys i don't know what we

understand their specific characteristics the not use real money that they cannot afford to lose the is not alone in its position on virtual currencies here in the us the legalities of decline are still pretty big. well there you have it we'll be tracking all of these stories and keeping you posted on all the latest as usual. what are some nations prosperous while others struggle is a do or culture the weather geography well not quite now according to researcher darren o'dea mogul who co-author of the book why nations fail the key is inclusive versus extracted institutions earlier i spoke with professor glue and i asked him about the role of institutions in creating economic prosperity here's what he had to say. created these categories of extract of institutions to benefit so that inclusive institutions create. incentives and opportunities for prosperity. sitting in a framework in which people have secure property rights to a level playing field in which they can compete for different. different occupations or different businesses one is relatively free floating. trusted to extract of institutions which have been designed so as to exist

the heat is always too much sure but we can do otherwise would have brought us here today. from the government. all of us for possible water. nor for we did this is only better for the common see this they knew about coming to buy as drinking from a distant world. but of all what quarters to accommodate more stars so that they can improve their health status of the people. in. this growth reflected by the economic indicators does not seem to reach the public clinics of northern gala. the district director says that the government is doing its best and gives the free musky to net program as an example something he recently set up the government of an affidavit that ghana has of his had to wigan at lentulus war on malaria from several you know some points they realized that we need to actually fight a vector the vector being the most to the north of us to do and i saw recently and found just as recent as two we said. the government of ghana for them to get a house of his son in bed with. fifty percent of the population were given you know this hound and yes they can place recr

unrest halfway around the globe affects us here at home. america imports millions of barrels of oil from the middle east every week. but we don't have to. along with increased domestic development, the transcanada pipeline could stabilize the are import of oil, over 40,000 american jobs. let's beat the transcanada xl are pipeline. >>> cindy, what garnlts are there that -- guarantees are that oil will stay here and be used here, and not shipped off to china or india or elsewhere? >> great question. we tend to look at it in terms of energy security, when we reference all the options jane mentioned earlier. we are in support of all forms of energy. we just do not believe that any one form should be precluded over any other. we support renewables. we support you know, the ability to develop in our upper plain states as well as the ability to bring in canada's oil. you know we're already seeing canada's oil, the oil sands, make its way to the gulf, make its way to the other markets. so the question is, how efficiently you want that done. how for

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so happy to have you all here today and to join us for our ground breaking ceremony. i'm going to talk a little bit about what we are doing here and then make a few introductions. box 6 is a multifamily department in the south of market neighborhood. it includes a 32 story 409-unit rental apartment tower which will include luxury and regular apartments. i'm michael newman and president of our company. i'm here to represent the company as well as our partners all of whom are here today. doug shoemaker is here also representing housing which is making affordable housing on block six a possibility. today we'll hear from doug and we'll also welcome to the podium mayor ed lee and tiffany from ocii. i would also welcome the union representative today from trust fund northern california cal -- and san francisco tc and of course all the union workers helping to build. the care takers of union pension funds have invested in block six as our financial partners. the success of this project will support the pension funds and the pensions of the union workers as well as creating un

here. >> i do. i remember it was a day of joy for those of us that were here, we felt very very proud. i was standing on top of the apollo marque. and the motorcade was bringing mr. mandela up. i remember having binoculars in my hand, it really felt good. for a lot of us here it gave us a sense of hope, that finally something positive was being done in the world. that relates to us. i know some guys that got their life together just by nelson mandela visiting. they felt this sense of i have to get myself together, time is wasting. let me do my thing. and i think it was fitting that he came to harlem. where he saw his people. it was almost like a little reunion. nothing but blackness, he saw his people, felt good, gave some positive messages. he was at riverside church. it was a wonderful time. >> and only fitting that y'all put this marque up tonight in memory of nelson mandela, because when he was here, that marque was such a big part of his visit as well. >> that's true. when he came in 1990, he had just gotten out of prison, and we had up on the marque, welcome home mr. and mrs. nel

i want to thank you he thank our interpreter for being here and mayor ed lee for soobl us here tonight and reflect autopsying all that happened in november in 1978 and where we are today. i want to recognize in addition our public defender jeffrey is here. defense attorney george mukdz from your city college board of trustees and walt is here from senator will keenz office and a gentleman from nancy pelosi office. and the amazing teresa sparks as well >> so we are here to remember and to honor two extraordinary men mayor george moscone and supervisor harvey milk. who together literally changed the face of san francisco. we're here to keep the flame of their violation brp and their memories alive. or as ted contend would say the work goes on the cause endures and the dream shall never today. george and heather were two different people living two different lives who strangely found their fate historically intertweend but they found they had in common was a passion for justice. and a soulful commitment to fight for civil rights aid workings right and customer rights and at that particula

us. we'll see you at 6:00. >> hopefully, we'll both be here. our broadcast tonight, once again there's been a shooting at a high school where a gunman suddenly opens fire. jarring scenes from colorado tonight of students lined up and frisked at their school. we'll have late details. >>> stunning disclosures about an american who disappeared seven years ago in iran. we now know he was on a mission for the cia. >>> storm warnings. with with a gathering system across a huge part of this country, a travel mess ahead for 20 states from the midwest right on through new england. >>> and the amazing journey to the end of the earth for a british prince and wounded american veterans. the word is -- mission accomplished tonight at the south pole. "nightly news" begins now.

pleasure to have you with us here on our team. meeting with opposition member is one thing. that's interference in domestic affairs. calls for you politicians to stop meddling in business as police and. protesters a deadline from government building. tribute to the death of nelson mandela we look at his journey from ostracised rubble to a global symbol of compassion and equality. and. children my wife. my self-esteem. increasing numbers of brits hopes we discover bookies who keep the cash coming in as government regulations.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm always too short. oh oh oh oh european and u.s. diplomats stand side by side with ukraine's opposition while russia's foreign minister calls their reaction to the protests hysteria. to have one tunnel prisoners repatriated to a jury against their will fear of persecution and further in prison after being refused permission to reunite with their families that now live in different countries. gambling reforms fall flat in the u.k. despite deep concerns about addiction to batting machines and high street bookmaker shops and i was just calling and. that's when i lost the war probably. we hear the story of a man who lost his home job and family.

glad to have you with us here on r.t. international. from everybody here welcome to today's headlines the ukrainian capital is headed for another turbulent day as thousands of moved from the central square to surround the prime minister's office in kiev earlier the country's largest protest since the orange revolution violent government buildings stormed and hundreds left injured actually most of them this time around being police demonstrators demanding the president's resignation this following his snapping of an e.u. trade integration deal. witnessed the latest. it is still pretty tense in the ukrainian capital this not as many people now as it used to be at the beginning of the protest the protesters have managed to overtake the city administration building and they now describe it as the headquarters of the new revolution and several hours ago in fact the administration of president of ukraine building looked like a battlefield computer kalash a rupture between the protesters and the riot police and the protesters even used a bulld

making it into the marketplace and you know here in the united states that's really a pretty astonishing thing i mean in an organization like penn where used to doing work on behalf of writers around the world who are here to object to censorship or who self censor because they know that in china in iran you know they're going to be jailed for a right that a right we're not used to that here at home and i think that needs to sink in the courts and in the congress to recognize that we really are trading away some quite fundamental values potentially you know i think it's really interesting eugene because all through my life and i'm a child of the cold war we were never taught to be were wary and afraid of the state because we were always afraid of other states and and now it's seeping in somehow for very good reason that you know the state is not necessarily our friend because you you know if you if you are if you're a person under surveillance then you cannot be free at last and i think that that's beginning to make a connection with people. no i think so for sure i mean you know the state has certain interests we look at what's going on i

infrared imagery has been around for a while, but to transit those to us here, we can transfer them to a map and make it readily available invaluable. >> we're looking at the full-motion video from the mq-1 predator. in this picture right here, you can see how the smoke is masking the fire, so it's hard to determine where the fire line actually is. here he's now blended in that infrared on top of the day tv. now we can clearly see where the fire line actually is. >> captain, how do you feel about how this went? >> i think it was a huge success. i've seen some violent things, but i'm not sure i've ever seen anything more violent than how strong this fire was, how much it was crowning, how fast it was moving, and how difficult it was for folks to contain. i believe 100% that we made a huge difference. >> what has access to this technology brought to you firefighting effort? >> i'd have to give you the primaries of life safety. the ability to keep an eye on the men and women fighting the fire. in regards to firefighting safety and firefighting, ink we're scratching the surface as far as t

all of us here. for the. government protests in the ukrainian capital keeping the situation on edge but the main. building. but not budging the country's prime minister has accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup not just trying to lead peaceful protests. following developments. overnight. in the center of. quite a large. one and. all the way to the. opposite soule we are being told that there are several hundred people that's what it looks like who are heading towards the country's parliament the rod garren is saying that they in turn have heard rumors that there could be a possible temps to essentially take over as the protesters have been taking over the government buildings and in fact that is the goal of the opposition they want to take full control of all the government buildings and all the government offices in the country's capital what is important to keep in mind however is that until now the focus has been largely on the country's capital whereas in fact the country as of now seems to be

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it's good to have you with us here on r.t. international texas has been hit by eighteen earthquakes in the last month alone scientists are linking the track most to fracking or the relatively new process of extracting shale gas from the ground and while the earth is literally shaking under the free feet of nervous locals and you corporations on the government are run shaken and their decision just keep on drilling these guy in a chicken investigates the columns have shaken so hard it's actually pulled the tram if you look around here rebecca williams is showing me the cracks in her home after a series of earthquakes shook the area she has lived here for almost a decade and had never experienced an earthquake until fracking began in her neighborhood i never know when the next one's going to hear it i don't sleep at night because they keep me awake at night it seems like a lot of them happened during the wee hours of the morning or in the middle of the night to texas real world commission the local agency that regulates the oil

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are now fearing that classes at any minute it's actually quite hard to speak here because of all the tear gas which was used it's still pretty much felt in the air and the situation is still very very tense here. some opposition figures in ukraine openly calling for a revolution to overthrow the current government but professor mark almond a historian at oxford university he says the passionate speech is heard in kiev's independence square do not resonate well with all ukrainians i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people and i suspect that the tragedy is the greatest the great majority of people around the passive and certainly around the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a politics of two minorities and it may be that the group on the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of the work or new countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who were seen during one time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation a

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and we're very very happy with us here and i think you can hear people say to me how what a caused his mother and father had flown here from moscow now his mother has been here in berlin quite a quite a lot in the recent past she has been receiving cancer treatment here and a bill in city hospital in fact to shock to me as didn't come believe i'm going to see him now i feel like it's one of my regular visits the whole reason behind because of course he being granted the presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds was the the ill health of his mother so they have been reunited here in the hotel just behind me the press secretary of the russian president dmitry peskov now he said that the khodorkovsky remains a russian citizen he is a russian citizen he's free to return to russia whenever he would like and live there should he want to you also said that he's he's free to stay here in germany should he want to as well it's is pretty much as simple as that and no peskov also outlined the letters that were written by her to call ski to vladimir putin he said there was to one of them was a p

news team here thanks for joining us. government protests in the ukrainian capital keeping the situation on edge with the main square. but the authorities are not budging the country's prime minister has accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup not just trying to lead peaceful protests. following developments. well at this point we have had several hundred people actually staying overnight at the independence square in the center of kiev and i've just seen quite a large for session coming from one end of the square that's behind me all the way to the opposite we are being told that there are several hundred people that's what it looks like who are heading towards the country's parliament the rod garren is saying that they in turn have heard rumors that there could be a possible temps to this really take over as the protesters have been taking over the government buildings and in fact that is the goal of the opposition they want to take full control of all the government buildings and all the government offices in

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all of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. to kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. >> thank you, joaquin. he works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and small businesses have been wonderful. as many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of market street. we have shown some success, but we've always said and i want to emphasize this, you've heard me say this before, the artist in the community led this effort to begin with. they took a lot of risk. so we've never allowed them to escape from our mind about the future of mid-market. they have always been in our sight whether they are living here, working here, we want to make sure they are staying here. yes, rents are rising because of our success, but we still should take care of everybody. this is our city 100 percent. today we are announcing one special effort thanks to the can an foundation, wonderful organization, and their collaboration with the community

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joining us here in r.t. international thousands of state of violent protest in madrid venting their fury over a draft law that could enforce tough action against the un sanctioned rallies. two dozen people were injured about seven arrested when angry crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament activists condemned the proposal which would impose hefty fines for offenses such as burning the national flag calling it an attack on democracy and the bill is likely to pass into law with strong support from the conservatives who do hold a majority in the legislature but activist doris bennett gas says the protesters need to show they're not ready to give up without a. c. and they said this is only the beginning they need a lot of efforts to stop this fascist nation he didn't want this year to end without at least starting to demonstrate. and yes this is only the beginning because it will take some months to be considered and adopted yes and who will achieve what we want it's not the last time we need more pe

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a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. is a. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter all about syria in collapse western backed rebels have either been routed or on the run saudi has supported jihad it's now. veiled in rebel held territories civilian populations terrorized meanwhile assad remains in power with his military in town what's next for syria. to cross out the war in syria i'm joined by sonny who in london he is a contributor to al-jazeera and the guardian and in new york we cross to jason her he is a writer political commentator and contributor to counterpunch and dissonant voice sorry gentlemen crosstalk rosen effect it means you can jump in anytime you want so me if i go to you first in london it looks like western backed forces there rebels are basically dissipated they're on the run and the united states is talking about talking about dealing now with the national islamic front that's in syria right now i mean what do you think of that before. i mean i think it's dangerous because

here. marita, you were basically a very high tech firefighter for a week. tell me about this. >> i was on a story to tell us we fight the rim fire in yosemite. here it is. this is a very unusual piece of technology. it almost looks like an alien insect. they've got it in a hangar and they're going to fly it up to yosemite and going to be eyes in the sky to generate action from the ground. let's check it out. the size and scope of the wildfire burning in yosemite national park is astounding. larger than the city of chicago at a cost of more than $100 million. the fire that is destroying hundreds of square miles of sensitive ecosystem habitat, for assistance in controlling this inferno, firefighters are turning to the u.s. military for help. called into service and flying high above the flames and smoke of yosemite is the m 1 drone. following tours in iraq and afghanistan, the predator's eye in the sky, remotely piloted aircraft starts its mission east of los angeles. on first thought it's just a completely unusual piece of technology. it looks like a strange alien bug. it's extremely ea aerodynamic from almo