that was artie's nicholas sanchez o'donovan. and if there is one man who got his fair share of fame this week it's. the man fake sign taking sign language at the memorial of former south african leader nelson mandela john jay was accused of signing in jibberish during the service afterwards he gave a number of peculiar stories as to why he couldn't affectively do the job for one he told news outlets that he had been suffering from schizophrenia had been hearing violent voices in his head and was hallucinating visions of angels flying into the stadium interesting when asked by the associated press how often he had become violent in the past he said a lot but declined to provide details well interestingly we now know a little bit more about his violent past according to the south african news website and ca dot com johns he has had a number of run ins with the law it says john who is being treated for schizophrenia has also faced rape one thousand nine hundred four theft in one thousand nine hundred five housebreaking one thousand

threat earlier this year from a chechen extremist group who has pledged to wreak havoc in the country artie's margaret howell is in volgograd and has the latest on this tragedy. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to be moving more slowly and 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 boulder god 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 which. with barely contain tears a lot of nellie vika clutches to the memory of his son who was the victim of sunday's attack at the train station sergei was a security guard. who 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 toward

thank you for that artie's polls. in kiev there thank you. well political commentator alexander nicastro of in london says the amount of attention western politicians are paying tea crane's opposition is unacceptable. maija need for any ukrainian or russian or any other diplomats or former politicians of politicians take part and then your demonstration against the e.u. in all across a very severely europe. that would cause an uproar that would probably even in the western countries going to the united nations and asking for a meeting of the security council because that is blatant come to feel this isn't nothing to do with people call or is the way some protections like to say about it under the rule of law does not involve foreign diplomats and foreign politicians interfering and basically provoking this violence like it's cup when you knew great . journalist martin see if you followed ukraine's recent history says that to divide among its people would only deepen if the. deal happened. i think it would be a nightmare come true in the long

list the labral things were finding the time to meet with us we have three channels here are spanish arty arabic and english. with a whole year to cover there were lots of things to discuss it brought russia several diplomatic victories including the chemical arms deal with syria geneva two is the next step and according to mr elaborate of preconditions from the syrian opposition remain among the key obstacles including the one for president assad to step down something that the west is now moving away from. the threat of jihad this coming to power in sitting at killie feet and the realization is doing that region change is not the way to resolve this problem our western partners are becoming increasingly clear about this. there are also changes in russia's relations with the west and apparently there are signals for more transparent and trustworthy ties on both sides but a called warming is still something that moscow has to deal with. some leader members have a through be against russia which is really said this leads to similar european partners still wanting to keep dividing lines wit

is looking into continues with a new week from edward snowden earlier in the morning artie's sam sachs reports on the latest. just when the n.s.a. thought the week couldn't get any worse a new edward snowden leak drops this one jointly reported in the guardian the new york times and dare speak will reveals that the n.s.a. and its british spying partner g.c. h.q. are using their global dragnet to spy on economic diplomatic and humanitarian targets in more than sixty nations specifically the secret documents revealed joint surveillance by american and british spies on charity and development programs run out of the united nations including unicef on the doctors of the world a french humanitarian group that provides doctors to conflict zones and on the trade union the economic community of west african states the documents also include joaquin almunia as a target of joint surveillance as the vice president of the european commission focuses on antitrust issues and has taken on several american companies including google and microsoft companies that were pushing for n.s.a. reforms at the w

better that even though it was created to help the economy it's growing power could be weakening it artie's parian boring reports. too powerful to secret too controversial one hundred year street one hundred years ago president woodrow wilson signed the federal reserve act into law marking a pivotal point in america's monetary policy no longer was congress in control of the u.s. dollar as the constitution stipulated had been delegated to a private institution it's been the most stupendous case of mission creep almost in recorded history of government the fed it was the united states the third attempt to establish a central bank andrew jackson abolished the second one saying it congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money it was given them to use themselves not to be delegated to individuals or corporations over the past century operating under a veil of secrecy the federal reserve has grown into arguably the most powerful of financial institution in the world the fed is not fully audited so there isn't much about it we may never now just a few years after its inception

is looking into continues with the new me from edward snowden just this morning artie's sam sachs reports on the latest. just when the n.s.a. thought the week couldn't get any worse a new edward snowden leak drops this one jointly reported in the guardian the new york times and their spiegel reveals that the n.s.a. and its british spying partner g.c. h.q. are using their global dragnet to spy on economic diplomatic and humanitarian targets in more than sixty nations specifically the secret documents revealed joint surveillance by american and british spies on charity and development programs run out of the united nations including unicef on the doctors of the world a french humanitarian group that provides doctors to conflict zones and on the trade union the economic community of west african states the documents also include joaquin almunia as a target of joint surveillance as the vice president of the european commission focuses on antitrust issues and has taken on several american companies including google and microsoft companies that were pushing for n.s.a. reforms at the white house

better but even though it was created to help the economy it's growing power could be weakening it artie's perry and boring reports. too powerful to secret too controversial one hundred years straight one hundred years ago president woodrow wilson signed the federal reserve act into law marking a pivotal point in america's monetary policy no longer was congress in control of the u.s. dollar as the constitution stipulated had been delegated to a private institution it's been the most stupendous case of mission creep almost in recorded history of government the fed it was the united states a third attempt to establish a central bank andrew jackson abolished the second one saying that congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money it was given them to use themselves not to be delegated to individuals or corporations over the past century operating under a veil of secrecy the federal reserve has grown into arguably the most powerful of financial institution in the world the fed is not fully audited so there isn't much about it we may never know just a few years after its in

violence in the lead up to the sochi winter olympics which russia is set to host in just six weeks artie's margaret howell was on the scene of the attack and brings us more. i'm here in the city of volgograd in the southern part of russia in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded this morning at eight thirty in the morning causing a massive deaths bodies everywhere it has been confirmed that there was a suicide bomber on that trolley bus that claimed these lives we have an eyewitness account of this event. was in my way from work to the u. turn and then i heard a blast i was already standing in a queue and one of the other drivers asked if there was an explosion there was no panic but i hurt screens so i drove by to save the children and help people but they told me that only the driver of the bus was injured and so i took the driver surrogate to the hospital surrogate told me that the conductor had died and also said that the cabin wasn't completely full but i saw around six corpses myself so the residue of. the producing at the moment of the explosion i was in a hole that's abou

have to see how those rehabilitation systems work or if the deadline is going to be punted once again artie corresponding remodelling now reporting for us in los angeles thank you so much you bet. well say goodbye to the iconic yellow school bus children have gone to school in for decades upon decades city council members in philadelphia approved a bill this month that would allow the school districts to raise money by selling get this advertisement on their buses and also on their school buildings the council approved the bill with only one no vote the cash strapped district is following in the footsteps of several other suburban areas with selling advertising space on its buildings and buses to help dig the city out of debt the move could raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and council members say they will not be allowed to advertise tobacco or alcohol products on the buses or the schools and the bill doesn't guarantee one hundred percent that the district will actually follow through on the us but here's our artistic interpretation of what the buses could look like one day in the fut

that was artie's sara firth. for most people facebook is a place where they can share photos or catch up with long lost friends however the social media site may have a darker side and a new study called the dark side of facebook swedish researchers found that status updates can indicate certain personality traits including psychopathy narcissism and machiavellianism to conduct the study did new low garcia and sverker six drum reviewed the status updates of over three hundred americans in combination with personality tests participants were asked to answer a personality survey then submit a number of facebook status updates which were analyzed with an algorithm that measured the significance of the words in their abstract researchers noted that the status updates of the people whose traits were identified as psychopathic or narcissistic had more odd or negative status updates with them often making reference to pornography pornography prostitution butchers and decapitation i was joined earlier by sverker six drum

the public protest in ukraine the protesters have three more days to decamp from government buildings artie's ball stuff is in cuba. the delegation met with opposition leaders and mingled with the crowd but they didn't meet any representatives of the government of course the government survived a vote of no confidence in the quake but despite this result it hasn't stopped the e.u. delegation backing coleus for us not election there are still you know discussion between the different forces or grow you know through your own paper under the conditions would be to go to the movies are included all sort of thing for which the whole civil society and democratic revolution in its claim to have possibility for the nation to express its will and follow it which means early elections well the opposition continue that blockade of certain government buildings where the deadline set by the government for them to be out expiring on tuesday on the delegation support for the opposition comes despite ukraine's prime minister calling for outside interference to stop and simple tenuously the e.u. delegation co

central bank accused of failing to prevent the recession and allowing inequality to rise more from artie's marina port. secretive powerful wealthy and now it's got a birthday america's central bank wields enormous and almost unchecked power over the world's largest economy your. underneath and that means basically the. other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take the country has seen as many as eighteen recessions since the fed was created leading many to argue it has singularly failed to end the boom and bust economics that it was designed to prevent it's been abject failure it's been a dismal failure in promoting prosperity. sustainable prolonged prosperity and raising the living standards of americans. for the past thirty years have produced the biggest growth of income inequality wages for the low and middle class have remained stagnant while the fed has allowed banks to double in size accounting for forty percent of the u.s. economy the fed has twelve regional banks and this one in new york is not only the largest it's also the closest to wall street salaries pro

public protest in ukraine the protestors have three more days to de camp from government buildings artie's pos god is in chaos. the delegation met with opposition leaders and mingled with the crowd but they didn't meet any representatives of the government of course the government the survived a vote of no confidence in midweek but despite this result it hasn't stopped the e.u. delegation backing calls for a snap election there are still you know it is caution between the different forces . for your own favor under the conditions would be to go to the movies or include all sort of things for which the whole civil society and democratic of will do you know you have possibility for the nation to express its will and which means only election well the opposition continue that blockade of certain government buildings with a deadline set by the government for them to be out expiring on tuesday on the delegation support for the opposition comes despite ukraine's prime minister calling for outside interference to stop and simple tenuously the e.u. delegation condemning what they describe as russi

isn't tangled in a complex legal battle accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers artie's peter oliver reports. abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a ghost for its walk home vog seen the inside of jail cells in cambodia sweden and now solitary confinement in denmark is just terrible as this man there to see that he is being treated like in this way like as if he were a terrorist hard criminal or violent criminal or some kind acquitted on computer hacking charges by the appeals court in sweden he now has to wait and see what he'll be charged with in denmark due to the intricacies of danish law there's no way forgot for it to know how long he'll have to stay in solitary if it was you know a decision or warrant that was made by a judge i was i was able to tell him you know for two weeks and then we we can go and see the judge but now because it's a decision made by the prison service i'm not able to tell him if there is i can't give him any deadline whatever case is brought against got fred for now he spends twenty three hours a day locked in

but that's not always been the case is artie's lower smith explains. almost every single newspaper this morning that is a picture of mandela passed across the front page it happened also thursday night was the premiere in london of a new film of nelson mandela's life a long walk to freedom and that was attended here in london by nelson mandela's daughter who learned of his death tolls way through the film it was also attended by the duke and duchess of cambridge said that started the royal tribute to prince william as he was leaving the film called mandela an extraordinary and inspiring man and the queen also paid a somewhat personal tribute to mandela saying that she remembered their meetings with great warmth and then of course political tributes came in from europe and from all over the world and here in this country they were led of course by david cameron who called mandela a towering figure a legend in life and now in death a true global hero and said that a great light has gone out in the world and then ordered for the flag to be flown at half m

touched upon at the meeting my colleague marina joshie discussed the deals and their likely impact with artie's venture capital host katie pilbeam. the end of the day it came down to a practical economic decision crane simply can't afford the e.u. deal at the moment and russia gave a fairly good terms its talk about that then so we've got the bond purchases which are fifteen billion in total added to that is the gas discount as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just that the problem at the moment is that their form reserves are dwindling and that's a real problem because at the moment borrowing costs are really escalating and that's where the risk of defaulting on your debt comes in and it was thought that they accepted the e.u. deal and not this deal that russia has now put on the table they may have defaulted in less than six months which is quite telling you asked about the e.u. deal so this unique approach we know he famously called it a humiliating and said it was a sum of six hundred ten million euros that were offered in order to receive that money they

most high profile prisoner is now in berlin where he was reunited with his parents and son on saturday artie's peter all of us has been watching the scene at the five star hotel where the x. tycoon is. and how to close he spent his first full day of freedom in ten years here in berlin and the out alone hotel just behind me now he met with his son pavol who flew from new york in order to in order to be with his father i'm thrilled to be here in berlin germany the day because my father is free. my family is finally going to see it and we're very very happy with us here and anything you can you hear people say to me how to cause he's 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 treatments here and a bill in city hospital in such a shock to me as didn't come believe i'm going to see him now i feel like it's one of my regular the things we hear 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 the

of dead following the terror attacks has risen to thirty four and dozens more are still in hospital artie's market how is in baghdad. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to me moving more slowly than 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 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 a mere nelly vika 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 or so 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

threat earlier this year from a chechen extremist group who has pledged to wreak havoc in the country artie's margaret howell is in volgograd and has the latest on this tragedy. it's also very somber traffic seems to be moving more slowly and i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard here is their story it's been one more an uneasy night for residents of russia's southern city of god 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. with barely contained tears. clutches to the memory of his son who was the victim. at the train station sergei was a security guard. for about a year. 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 staircase family mourned monday night with only the conviction

that was artie's nicholas centuries o'donovan. and if there is one man who got his fair share of fame this week it's. the man fake sign language doing fake sign language excuse me at the memorial of former south african leader nelson mandela was accused of signing in jibberish during the service afterwards he gave a number of peculiar stories as to why he couldn't affectively do the job for one he told news outlets that he had been suffering from schizophrenia had been hearing violent voices in his head and was hallucinating visions of angels flying into the stadium when asked by the associated press how often he had become violent in the past he said quote a lot but declined to provide details well interestingly we now know a little bit more about his violent past according to the south african news website and ca dot com john taylor has had a number of run ins with the law it says. who is being treated for schizophrenia has also faced rape one thousand nine hundred four theft one thousand nine hundred five housebreaking one thou

there earlier i spoke with artie's liz wahl just back from counting the crux of the capitol dome and i first asked her about the metaphor she drew between the crumbling topical and artifact of congress over the past year. yes there are only a lot of people think that congress is broken and one poll after another reaffirms that there's of very strong disapproval of the work and the way that things have been playing out inside of that capitol building and nine percent that is a historical low hopefully can't get much lower than that and that is not the only record low sam if you take a look so far there have been fifty seven bills and acted into law in the one hundred thirteenth legislature that is the least productive in history so a lot of records were set. not good ones this year but at the end of the year just a few weeks ago we did a budget deal we haven't had a budget. in several years is that a sign that things might be improving you know you had to give him props for that right that was that's an accomplishment that's showing some kind of a sign of being able to work together o

revelations artie's sam sachs has more. pat buchanan he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times and he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today that we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of the things that bother me most is the fact that congress is educated which war power and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in a fix if we don't want this war on syria and president obama realize it went to the congress and the people influenced congress to deny him the authority to take us to war but i agree with that point i mean the president on stage says all options are on the table with regard to iran he means a military option an option to attack iran where did the present in the united states get the authority to take us to war with iran if iran does not attack us were does not threaten us he doesn't have it the dish idea of drawing red li

artie. the cold blooded a soul tonight who was reportedly carried by the link a loser a front it's also suspect that some members of the newly formed islamic front group were involved to radical organizations apparently now forging ties with the united states meeting could even take place place later this week foreign affairs analysts a split over whether the u.s. should actually negotiate with this group it's very important that both sides now recognize that there should be a political settlement and that means talking to the people with guns as long as they have some agendas or to read there could be common ground if they're just jihadi fundamentalists who want to slaughter everybody who is not to the sunni or who agrees with the interpretation of islam then obviously it's impossible but that is not did majority view i think the majority view among the sunnis of syria is that there should be a negotiated settlement they don't many of them like this al-qaeda infiltration that's happened in

sanctioned under the new agreement meanwhile iranian round russian officials are meeting in tehran artie's maria cino she is there and she brings us more from that visit. this is the highest level russian delegation to visit iran since president hassan rouhani took power bringing with him an approach that has led to a real significant diplomatic movement after just several months in power at the breakthrough talks in geneva earlier. the new administration in taiwan agreed to either freeze or curb parts of its nuclear program the payback was limited relieve from the international sanctions which have severely hampered the country's economy already we know that a group of international inspectors has been allowed to visit the iraq plant here in iran which is at the center of suspicions about iran's motives for have a nuclear program it's been shut down so far for at least six months occlusion to geneva deal russia's massive is that goodwill is key to holding these together iran's foreign minister has already warned that if the u.s. senate decides to introduce new sanctions and this is someth

that was artie's maria cino shiina. russian president vladimir putin delivered his annual state of the nation address the today and he focused on the economy and said the main slowdown for growth in the country comes from internal factors he also addressed situations in ukraine and syria archies igor piskun office in moscow with more. it's traditionally become the place to be to find out the president's vision of the president and his plans for the future every year russia stop politicians businessmen economists and elites gather at the kremlin to listen to his idle address first head of just returned from there as well and here are some of the key points why the world had to make russia isn't looking at dominating the rules but that doesn't mean it has to stop protecting its sovereignty and traditional values . because we know that there are even more people around the globe who support our position in terms of ensuring traditional values these are the values of traditional family and the value of human life including

square but fears that the earth or he could move in any time is certainly keeping the situation tense as artie's arena reports well people were on the edge all throughout monday expecting the worst after reports of a numerous reinforcements. frightfully senator no military forces coming into the city that indeed was the case however the police were brought in not to dismantle the protest as was feared but rather to push them back from the main scope of the main streets in the city's administrative districts which for paralyzed by barricades and tent cities erected by the protesters all throughout last week they were sometimes just. between the police and the protesters when the police were just not in very case in pushing the protesters onto the sidewalks some of the protesters had mediately upon hearing the reports that reinforcement was coming in have armed themselves with iron rods and heavy wooden sticks in order to protect the independence square and the barricade places the mood continues to be held up in this upper henschel that we have been seeing over the past twenty four hours largely

most high profile prisoner is now in berlin where he was reunited with his parents and son on saturday artie's peter oliver is following events later on sunday he's going to be holding a press conference where he'll meet the world's media and outline perhaps what he's going to be doing next we're all looking forward to seeing what he has to say it is a paid press conference will be taking place at the berlin wall museum here in the german capital on saturday though one of those groups of people that were allowed in to see him and did get in to see him work his family his son powerful and made the flight from new york in order to to be at his father's side and a little later on saturday afternoon we saw his mother and father his father boris and his mother. coming here to be with their son now it what must have been a motional reunion it's such a shock to me. i still can't believe i'm going to see him now i feel like it's one of my regular visits. here and there with you today because there is free. my family is fine we go with it and we're very very. very it's really been a whirlwind of a stor

revelations artie's sam sachs has more. how do you can it he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times and he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of the things that bother me most is the fact that the congress has abdicated its war powers and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in effect said we don't want this war on syria and president obama realized that and went to the congress and the people will influence the congress to deny him the authority to take us to war but i agree with that point i mean when the president states says all options are on the table with regard to iran he means a military option an option to attack iran where did the president united states get the authority to take us to war with iran if iran does not attack us were does not threaten us he doesn't have it with this

as the president of the country thereby becoming an international icon of peace and reconciliation artie's policy or is in johannesburg and brings us more reaction from this historic memorial day was one of the most important days in south africa's history as tens of thousands of south africans an international dignitaries from all corners of the globe turned out to pay their last respects to nelson mandela it was one in a series of memorials that are being held throughout the week that will culminate with his funeral on sunday in his hometown of qunu in the eastern cape but as always on these sad and often tragic occasions world leaders use the opportunity for their own personal politicking not least of all the american president barack obama who raised quite a few are brawls when he shook the hands of the cuban leader now this is despite the fact that an embargo is in place between the two countries the bomber was also smiling alongside me british prime minister david cameron and the danish leader they actually took a self shot of themselves and this despite the fact that there has been

prosecutors now more than a dozen deputies have been charged with corruption and civil rights abuses artie's among the land-o. takes a look at the scandal rocking los angeles i'm outside of the f.b.i. offices in los angeles agents here are spearheading an investigation into alleged abuse and widespread misconduct inside l.a. county jails posting a list of indictments including charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice were handed down against eighteen former and current members of the l.a. county sheriff's department federal prosecutors claim that members of the department consider themselves to be above the law this indictment charges a sergeant and four deputies with civil rights violations related to illegal arrest and detention or detentions of people who are not inmates but rather people who merely went to the jail to visit inmates the federal investigation found that these incidents did not take place in a vacuum in fact examples of illegal conduct alleged and these indictments demonstrated that certain. the individuals and certain of that behavior had become institutionalized i

from china where he was hoping to secure an aid package for ukraine's economy let's cross live now to artie's paul scott who is in kiev poor what further details to we have about the meeting between the two presidents. well the details of those meetings are that meeting between the two presidents are slowly beginning to emerge now ukraine's under fire president viktor yanukovych stopped off as you say in sochi for a meeting with his russian counterpart on his way back from china now although the exact details of the discussion haven't been divulged it's believed that yana cove it was looking for close economic and trade ties with russia now ukraine's economy is struggling right now the country is heavily in debt and struggling to pay some of its gas bills to russia and it's believed that yanick over it was trying to secure some kind of deal on that front now this will be of little consolation to the protesters that you can see behind me who are continuing their demonstrations here in kiev now in defiance of the weather now the organizers are hoping for up to one million people to descend on k

also expected to take place just hundreds of meters away from the heart of the opposition protests artie's alexy or chef king is in kiev and takes a closer look at how the revolutionary mood is affecting every day life. the korean capital has been in the protest mode for more than two weeks now it looks completely different than a month ago people are living here cooking food. and definitely life has changed when the protests kicked off talking about food underneath the square of the protest you can literally chew on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale. thank you very much . and the taste delicious local fridge magnet manufacturers were quick to pounce on the idea of the protest and now you can purchase a very peculiar more ability from sending young to prison to localizing international brands it's no wonder that central kiev is the place of many restaurants and bars in their lives have been affected in one way or another we decided to pay a visit to one of the oldest pubs in the city center to find out. so we lost the pubs manager how the protest affec

is not exactly been getting into the spirit in fact is artie sarah has been finding out there are claims he's acting like the grinch. well it's the festive season but the tenants in one part of london in the talk spain will say much about his coming down your chimney a bit about what's coming through your letter box how dismissive fullam council has sent this message out to seventeen thousand homes warning people to pay their rent and asking them not to even into old age now the council have defended their actions saying that there's more than forty six percent of the tenants in rent to raise and that is the time of year when people will be spending less and this is a straightforward message as part of a hard hitting campaign but with the cost of living crisis in the headlines in britain at the moment and others have branded this message disgusting we've been talking to some of the people who live in this part of london to find out what they think i think. the reaction is will probably leave you go to. people are caught between a rock and push you know they want to enjoy christmas and pl

they only produce relatively small amounts of power compared to the conventional energy sources artie's peter all over reports now on the cost of germany's transition. disagreeing with germany's no to nuclear has become it to boot topic in a country that has set itself up as the world leader in renewable energy of can and for all their lives germans have been told that nuclear energy is bad but that idea has now filled up their brains so that there is no space left for any other thoughts the race for renewable wind and solar is being financed by rising electricity bills for consumers in twenty twelve the cost paid by households was three point six euros cents per kilowatt hour now it stands at five point five cents adding about one hundred eighty five euro to the average yearly bill that seen the emergence of groups who want an end to the wind and solar switchover and the return to nuclear this is not to those who have money who are the target audience of this green energy can pay everyone else gets left behind despite the ability of nuclear power stations like this one to generate larg

bomb attacks in less than twenty four hours at least thirty four people killed scores more wounded artie's margaret how well reports from a city in mourning is tense it's also very somber traffic seems to be moving more slowly than i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard one of two people who will be having a funeral today and here is their story it's been one more an uneasy night for the residents of russia's southern city of the loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks held vigils hospitals others mind. 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 study first they say with barely contained not a mere no he couldn't clutches the memory of his son who was the first victim of sunday's attack in the train station finn again it was a security guard. i 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 ma

up acts it's artie's the rachel crosstalk they were. this is a media lead us so we need to be. of the same poses to the other party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking on our t.v. . live. live. live live. live . hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. the phrase international community is often bandied about in western media as if its meaning was clearly understood by all in fact when western politicians and media invoke the phrase international community it almost always reflects the thinking and agenda of washington and its closest allies around the world used in this manner the international community is in fact a very small minority. to cross talk to term international community i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in tampa we cross to ruff is a day he is a political scientist and president of the international american council right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that

chemical weapons and production facilities the first stage of the process has officially been completed artie's explains what's next we 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 of the chemicals together that that stage 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 the there is the deadline for that and that was december thirty first but organization for broad vision 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. going to denmark norway and head over to ital

also expected to take place just hundreds of meters away from the heart of the opposition protests artie's. in kiev and takes a look at just how the revolutionary mood is affecting every day life. the korean capital has been in the protest mode for more than two weeks now it looks completely different than a month ago people are living here cooking food. and definitely life has changed when the protests kicked off talking about food underneath the square of the protest you can literally chew on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale. thank you very much . and the taste delicious local fridge magnet manufacturers were quick to pounce on the idea of the protest and now you can purchase a very peculiar more ability from sending young to prison to localizing international brands it's no wonder that central kiev is the place of many restaurants and bars and their lives have been affected in one way or another we decided to pay a visit to one of the oldest pubs in the city center to find out. so we lost the pubs manager how the protest affects the life of his res

conference following his release he said he needs to pay back its debts to those still behind bars artie's peter oliver looked into one of the cases of ski's associates mikhail khodorkovsky entered into the press conference in a whirlwind of media hype into a room packed to the rafters with journalists many of whom were congratulating him on his release as a political prisoner however there is a nother side to the yukos saga one that's not often heard. free after ten years this is that some of these comments after his release brings i bros i mean your property. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei pictures and there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the you cause case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which symbolizes that the efforts of civil society can lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free. to choose again was the head of security for midst of a quote skis oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sente

to quit their subterranean homes they claim there may be more behind the a vixen than meets the eye artie's lucic half an op has the details. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made not of famous for drawing visitors in but it's the city's plans to force out a group of residents from this very hill that's drawing controversy now it's a bit of an unusual kind of story we're in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains an area that's pockmarked with countless caves caves which people have called home for years now the residents are a colorful mix of characters we have been you know immigrants students people who don't have a place to call home as well as people who prefer the home to reflect a bit of an unusual kind of lifestyle and while several days ago we had seen a protest of about two hundred and fifty supporters coming out here saying that's simply not ok meanwhile activists believe that it's not actually about the dangers of living here but perhaps there's lots of motivation behind getting the residents out of course the views here as we mentioned earlier are spec

the army struggling to throw the extremists out of the area say the horrific scenes did take place artie's arabic channel trying to get a clear picture of what happened. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters and toward the town of address and massacred local civilians it's morning to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. militants from shabaab don't strike and they are you know it's one system to withhold the streets and profile sparing. the station became terrible there were killings outrage and fear on of them to find our men came to the city they carried out the slaughter the worst thing in their crime was when they shot people in the baker's opens they kidnapped people and many were beaten some of the kidnapped families have been transferred to areas south of the town they're now being held in strategically important zones which the rebels have been using as a b

but that's not always the case so let's talk more on that with artie's laura smith who joins us now from london laura how is britain reacting to the sad news. well of course there is a big reaction around half a million south africans living here in the u.k. and almost every single newspaper this morning that is a picture of mandela passed across the front page it happened also the thursday night was the premiere in london of a new film of nelson mandela's life a long walk to freedom that was attended here in london by nelson mandela's daughter who learned of his death hall's way through the film it was also attended by the duke and duchess of cambridge said that started the royal tribute to prince william as he was leaving the film called monday other an extraordinary and inspiring man and the queen also paid a somewhat personal tribute to mandela saying that she remembered their meetings with great warmth and she also said he worked tirelessly for his country and his legacy is the peaceful south africa that we see today and then of course political tributes came in from europe and from

breakthrough agreement they do still differ on what made it possible let's get more on that now here's artie's polyploid. it's a deal that saluted diplomats for a decade and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continue to enter the night details of how they were going for leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inch their way closer to in a storage breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat a deal had been done the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy including its right to nuclear enrichment on the condition that its program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. as we received word of the agreement we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent use us centrifuges while halting construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq. throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face in return he won for his co

as you prepared to say farewell to twenty thirteen artie's looking at the key events that made the headlines of the past twelve months. these locals to be. 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 summed up the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which a young man is just one of the front lines. well this exam in the tribal zones of yemen a decade of america's drone warfare has left the population in fear of a strike any time anywhere on anyone this year a source of alien victims testify before the united states congress but their stories were waved away by the white house which insists the anti terrorist attacks are pinpoint accurate indeed in the latest since nope seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in yemen on his lucy caffein off next to looks at the human price of america's war. it says no faith for the one who has no trust but both are now in short supply in this part of yemen for months the class has been without its mouth teache

refusing media claims that he has you agreed to join the union in return from the track to gas deal artie's pull scott has the details. quotes actor beauty to ukraine's prime minister barney under fire president victim and a covert stopped off in sochi on his way back from china for a meeting with his russian counterpart president vladimir putin in an attempt to strengthen economic ties between the two countries and in particular he was looking to strike a deal over gallus the state of ukraine's economy means that they've been struggling to pay their bills of late it was described as a roadmap to eradicating the differences between the two countries in the areas of trained and the economy while in defiance of the weather and the offshore it's a spouse and people remain here in central kiev continuing their demonstrations in fact a delegation of european officials have just been addressing the crowd including former polish prime minister. they addressed the crowd offering their support to the protesters and also they called for a snap election as for the protesters themselves or organizers a

oil giant chevron from drilling fish gas in the area we can go in live now to artie's lucy calvin off he was there for us to see things have died down somewhat now but what was the cause of the violence earlier today. hi there and i do apologize i'm having a bit of a hard time hearing you but basically i'm impinge actually right now this is the aftermath of the clashes that have taken place here we basically saw something like two hundred thirty protesters largely villagers who had gathered to demonstrate against chevron's plans to explore for shale gas in this area the protests have begun largely peacefully this is mostly villagers who had come here to express their frustration with this oil company's plans to dig. the area the situation had then escalated basically some people had run across the road towards the chevron property there was a bit of a commotion and we saw the protesters run into the property of the surrounding perimeter fence as were taken down the police had chased in after them we then saw riot police officers backed up units called in to the area this is when thing

he's blocking the city center with barricades and suspending the work of government institutions as artie's alexina chef skied now reports it's not only causing chaos on the streets but also taking a bite out of the country's economy. oh. the. key of sprawl just have ended its fourth week with no sign it will die down the recent attempt by police to clear the streets proved fruitless and have only hard into people's resolve it took the protesters only several hours to rebuild the barricades which the police i take it down in a matter of minutes and now they're even bigger than before the blockade has existed for almost two weeks now and not only creates something of a traffic nightmare for the locals but also as the government claims it cripples the country's economy because of governmental buildings being under siege ukraine's prime minister says the country is still without a said the budget for next year aggressive shows for it it was drafting the budget for next year and the parliament should have an opportunity to work on it the protests are distrust in many social projects like road c

called a last chance or going to organizers are hoping for at least a million protesters to show up artie's pull scott is in independence square for us . billed as the march over the million there's more people in the square behind me than we saw a any stage on the saturday but from the people that i've been speaking to there's a feeling that the figure of one million could be quite an optimistic target now the atmosphere among the protesters at the moment they're in good spirits and the atmosphere is quite jovial but there is an air of uncertainty hanging over the ukrainian capital right now there are so far unfounded rumors surfacing on social networks that you the ukrainian special forces are heading to kiev to help disperse the crowds later on sunday while another rima doing the rounds is that a state of emergency could soon be declared by president viktor yanukovych now the so far unfounded rumors are so far only really hardening the resolve of the protesters who are continuing to defy the weather as you can say on the off dorothy's as well and another thing boiling the demonstrators i

america says the fugitive former contractor is a traitor and wants to try him for espionage but as artie's are going to judge you can explains other whistleblowers have already paid the price for lifting the veil of secrecy edward snowden says george orwell's fictitious big brother is no match for the u.s. national security agency the types of collection the book microphones and video cameras t.v.'s that watches are nothing compared to what we have today snowden revealed that a secret court rubber stamps warrants for telecommunication companies to hand out the data of millions of their customers he also leaked the programs that the government uses to track virtually anything anybody does on the internet and also store that information and he showed how the u.s. government had light about mass surveillance does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans no sir while most americans think to edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor invited states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its v