core today the debate on gun control continues warren artie's gun debate special straight ahead plus a drone strike at a wedding looking to assassinate al qaeda operatives a u.s. drone hit a wedding envoy instead and yemeni officials say this latest attack was a tragic mistake more details on this coming up. it's friday december thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm amir david and you're watching r.t. and we begin today with news out of colorado where a gunman opened fire at a high school injuring two people the gunman is now dead this latest school shooting happened at arapahoe high school in the town of centennial beliefs are at the scene and students have evacuated rob a high school also shares the same school district with columbine high school and littleton the site of a shooting in one thousand nine hundred nine where thirteen people mainly students were shot and killed more details on this lady latest shooting and centennial have yet to emerge but we will bring you updates as we get them. and of course the shooting comes almost one year to the day after twenty six children

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 towards him and then there was a blast

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 the us

trying to stop the u.s. oil giant chevron from drilling fish gas in the area artie's lucy catherine or visit the site of unrest. we're here in this is just moments after a very tense clashes between protesters who are against chevron conducting exploration for shale gas drilling here in this area in northeastern mania what you see behind me over there is actually the chevron site now protesters had ran across the street they broke down the perimeter of the chevron location tore down the fences and entered the area there were actually inside the chevron test exploration area the police had to run and there weren't arrests made at the moment but then as you can see these units riot police officers had been called into the area this is when things very much escalated and we had several protesters arrested there were options between the police and the demonstrators and actually if we pan over here you can see people very upset about what's happening here with chevron and. these protesters who have been camped out here for over a month earlier that's the count was actually broken up by r

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 this week perhaps most embarrassin

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 within europe and even move these lines eastward countries should they be with

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 about one hundred fifty meters away from the bus the shock wav

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

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 would also have to enforce harsh spending cars also gas in

meanwhile iranian regime and 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 of the just several months in power at the breakthrough talks in geneva early. 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 good will is key to hold in these together it once foreign minister has already warned that if the u.s. senate decides to introduce new sanctions and this is something that is now b

members of parliament attempted to blame the guardian for national security breach artie's sarah firth has more. well what the hearing it was it was lively at times it got quite heavy handed i think it's fair to say the editor of the guardian newspaper managing to answer all those questions but some of the questions i think will of raised some eyebrows certainly we heard at one point and then p. i asked alan rusbridger do you love your country now that wasn't the only question that is going to be raising eyebrows we also heard one m.p. seemingly compare some of the guardian disclosures of the edward snowden files to the leaking of secrets to the nazis let's take a listen to that. if you. want to would you put it down to the british to the dogs now the question session all the more interesting if you compare it to what sixth place at the beginning of last month and there we saw the heads of the u.k. intelligence agencies and my five m i six g c h q and they've come before another parliamentary committee and they're questioning much calmer much more coordinated and so i think this is som

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 condemning what they describe as russian pressure on kiev where the protesters a

artie's peter oliver has more after ten years in jail. has now decided to do is need phone freedom and some of his plans have caused a few raised eyebrows. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei protrusion says there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the u. cos case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which symbolizes that the efforts of civil societies can lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free to chew good was the head of security for his daughter coasties oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sentence for finally counts of murder. in two thousand and seven a court convicted of ordering the shooting of blood in me a pet you call of the mayor of a child in siberia. heard clashed with you cross over his insistence that the oil giant paid taxes due to his tone the court found no link between the murders and the head of you cos however because widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. general

revelation to leak yesterday from the german magazine der spiegel artie's perry and boring has the details. their job is to get the un get a bowl unit of mostly young hackers are helping the n.s.a. break into computers around the world to access some of the toughest targets german news magazine der spiegel published a report over the weekend revealing the tailored access operations for the t.s.a. the national security agency's top hacking unit people did not disclose how they obtained the n.s.a. documents but has a history of publishing a fourth using edward snowden leaked material the n.s.a.'s t.a.o.'s hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon that began in one nine hundred ninety seven when the internet was in its infancy now it's one of the fastest growing units of the n.s.a. this is one of its central offices in san antonio texas the unit moved into this former sony chip factory in two thousand and five and is expected to have two hundred seventy fashola by twenty fifteen as operations include counterterrorism cyber attacks and as the an i wis

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 story from starting on thursday after a long press briefing from

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 they have been reunited here the press secretary of the russian president dmitry peskov now he sai

the discussions here integrand today. 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 religious life that is not

subjected to a national referendum. 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 thousand nine hundred seven

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 some kind of friction particu

nuclear disaster at fukushima artie's alexy or rush. as the report. work doesn't stop in the port of saumur despite being just a few kilometers from areas still ravaged by the twenty eleven tsunami and still contaminated by radiation seafood of all shapes and sizes lands here several times a day not only fish has traditionally been the integral part of the japanese culture but also one of its prized acts boards last year alone the exporting companies pocketed more than two billion u.s. dollars however there are serious concerns now this particular couch was made in the waters of the bush team on nuclear bombs station after it became known that he drawling system at the fukushima nuclear power plant was severely radiated fears grew that the contamination could be spreading into the pacific there are significant contamination in the bottle sediment especially in the paul and the rebirth system so we can find a very very high concentration of the right. fish factories around the fukushima prefecture now have to take radiation measurements but despite lab workers assuring us the fish was

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 because of a multitude of reports coming in fro

imprisonment in their home country as artie's and to see chalk and reports. at a glacial pace u.s. officials attempt to move forward with the limbo known as guantanamo with endless excuses and a web of bureaucracy allegedly getting in the way of just closing the place down in the latest attempt to take baby steps to figure out what to do with its detainees the u.s. has transferred two prisoners to their home country of algeria out of one hundred sixty four the majority of whom have long been cleared for transfer or release this sever petri you should was involuntary and took place despite the detainees pleas to not have this happen as the feared mistreatment or torture upon their return home the lawyers of the two men. and some have described the move as political expedience callous since the prisoners had made it clear they fear of persecution back at home while countries in europe had been willing to accept that the pentagon has stated however that humane treatment assurances had been made prior to this move this is the first transfer since two other men were sent to algeria wil

sending different signals throughout the course of the last few weeks and artie's looks. at the latest rhetoric. bret of sanctions if he goes to moscow and afterwards is why allowance then it might be interesting to know that. the bank accounts in general cannot be open to any more for some criminals to open questioning of the green government's credibility this government of ukraine has clearly discredited itself in terms of economic help from the e.u. the reaction of europe's officials to the dance of last month in ukraine has indeed made to reach cocktail they've effectively played pinball with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about any future dialogue with kenya we're lacking a decision by ukraine's leader in a situation when ukraine's president says the offer is not good for his country we need to take a break and think it over while others signaled there was still a whole political statements on twitter are not the best way to resolve the matter the best signal we could make is to tell you crave that our doors are still open for it. all this more explained t

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 italy where they will be transfe

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 kiev on sunday now some of the protesters anger has been caused by the for

government buildings artie's alexei has more from kiev. tensions are dying down here in the central capital although still it's pretty much at a knife edge ten twenty thousand protesting in the central square the city administration building was earlier taken over by the activist of a nationalist party they now describe it as the headquarters of the new revolution another boiling point here is the building of the administration of ukraine's president earlier during the day we saw enormous clashes happening at this building as a standoff continues with protesters and the police i went there and i saw the situation how it was straight after a huge huge brawl with the police the building of the administration of ukraine's president now under siege with several hundred riot policemen protecting the building the center buses so that the protesters cannot reach inside and these few a few meters basically maybe twenty meters between them and the protesters we've walked here we saw literally maybe several hundred of them over here we see shattered glass you can see probably over here some s

ideals of equality and reconciliation that he championed as artie's policy or reports. for many years south africans in particular have been asking themselves the question what happens when mandela pos is on and for a long time there was a war we that everything he stood for which was essentially bringing white and black south africans to give it would disappear when he dies this question has become less urgent as the years have passed on and a new generation of south africans has come to the fore but certainly there are pockets of particularly white south africans who are today afraid now i visited the community of plain fun tain which is a white on cave they you find only off the condos now these are white south africans who can trace the roots back to european cities who came in the sixteen hundreds you need special permission to enter the area there are security guards everywhere there are statues paying tribute to the founders of a party which was some africa's legal system of discrimination between blacks and whites people there justified the existence of such enclaves as

the danger here obviously the syrian government has seen it and said so from the onset well arty's arabic news team is trying to get more firsthand experiences from people in the city was apparently attacked by joe hobbists reports say dozens of civilians were massacred there if you missed anything or want to catch up on the story had to r.t. dot com to get more background. there are mixed signals over ukraine's possible trade deal with the e.u. which has been the source of massive protests for a month a senior e.u. official stated that all talks are now on hold while ukraine's authorities say they're progressing and in this hesitant atmosphere the u.s. seems eager to assume the role of decision maker as alexei yourselves reports. trauma care. bremer oh there's very few america is where you. remember john mccain's media conference in kiev was rich in loud statements thinly veiled warnings to moscow we need to make it clear. to the russian government and latin your putin that interference in the affairs of ukraine is not acceptable to the united states of america or to any other fre

stand artie's lucy caffein all found out how people back with the daily violence. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here into your kook. this oil rich city has been described as iraq's fault line a symbol for the country's most intractable woes escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take us in both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care kook and are sparring over control aside from the danger those entering from the kurdish side need special permission to get past the iraqi checkpoints when have it. roadblocks and concrete barriers define the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household they're also frequent target of attacks for us it was a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at war. inside your kook we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to

anger in a country where the use of the charity hand is rising dramatically as artie's or smith reports. just a stone's throw from the seats of government in westminster is something that's becoming a more and more common sight in the u.k. this building's used as a food bank handing out emergency supplies to families so poor they can't afford to eat as the cost of living rises the number of people turning to food banks increases with its funding tighter all the time but nevertheless the government has turned down a potential twenty two million pounds in funding for food aid why because the money comes from the european view. in britain we've got a government with a very anti european ideology appears to be more keen to. warn europe to get credit for something than to get money which can help feed hungry people if you are starving you need some food and you cry to die and this government's refusal to provide the carriage is literally taking food out to the merits of how great the european aid for the most deprived fund amounts to two and a half billion pounds but the position bri

every month in the capital dublin and as artie's tesser a seller points out next thousands more are still battling the banks to keep their homes to into the new year. most people remember the celtic tiger with this sense of knowing callie economic boom time for the mid ninety's up until two thousand and seven that went bust in no small way the young for the structure behind me would have been the offices of the anglo irish bank one of the struggling banks i was effectively nationalized it was a stark reminder of the property boston the ensuing banking crisis and the painful austerity that continues to today and for some irish families though there is also a daily reminder the threat or reality of losing their homes we had a mortgage was very high on the value the property was falling below the mortgage so i ended up with a cash offer five hundred passengers in two thousand and eleven and i was delighted with the bank's refused to accept the offer because it wasn't more which was eight hundred i climb with arrears so instead they prefer to me of course. repossessed the house while ar

attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people artie's correspondent margaret how is at the scene of the tragedy near the railway station. well i'm standing here in volgograd literally a short path down from the volgograd regional train depot just behind me where a bomb went off sunday december twenty ninth killing a fifteen people so far and a sixteenth person believed to be the suicide bomber over thirty five people in new to change now though it was originally reported that it was a female suicide bomber now believed to be a male by law enforcement officials possibly a male bomber at this point it's inconclusive they originally believe the suspect to be a female twenty six year old from the republic of dagestan however finding a male finger in the clip nade the suspect thought to be male by law enforcement officials the role of the female is the use of a bomb just twenty minutes past noon ripping through the corridor of the volgograd train station it was detonated around the security checkpoint this instantly killing the police officer trying to sto

tough questions were alternately asked artie's political commentators sam sachs analyzes the report as well as the blowback. sunday night a sixty minutes report which touted unprecedented access to the n.s.a. didn't start off so well full disclosure i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence seriously seriously they couldn't have chosen a different reporter someone who say i didn't previously work for the intelligence stated john miller has always had a very close that's his schtick is that he's got this close relationship still with all his national security people he used to work with and it basically meant you've got a national security insider preventing this you know presenting this so-called big scoop but the compromised reporter really is the perfect setup for what followed next the p.r. job for the n.s.a. and since it was a p.r. job the n.s.a. was spared tough questions and given a platform to distort the claims made against the agency by the edward snowden documents an essay can only target the communications of a u.s. person with a probable cause

people up to the stars and none other than a balloon artie's a mere david brings this stellar or should i say interstellar report. it's a voyage of voyages a journey that harken back to the movie classics around the world in eighty days starting in two thousand and sixteen one company will send passengers ninety miles high right to the edge of space and it will offer this service not on a rocket but rather on a helium filled balloon the arizona based company called worldview enterprises has plans to attach a balloon to a pressurized capsule that can hold up to six passengers and two crew members after lifting off the balloon would take approximately an hour and a half to reach a height of one hundred thousand feet and that's just high enough to see the curvature of earth. so how is it possible to take a balloon like this all the way up to space like came down to nasa and ballooning laboratory and wallops island virginia to find out this is where the magic happened nasa is one and only ballooning workshop it's home to a number of engineers and researchers whose sole focus is to ma

convincing brazil that they should open their doors to snowmen are already doing anything arty speaking to laugh at the brazilian government on snowdon half well i you know that ended in christ. i'm not really sure yet. that's going on right now in the background okay and now if that were milled i decide to grant asylum to let her son and how i can and can't shake the dynamic between brazil between brazil and the us. it would be payback for relations between us and brazil i would expect that politicians in congress will consider measures to punish brazil already taking action to protect snow and i also think that there would be a number of people here in united states citizens you and be glad that he was able to find a country that would protect them. people who celebrated the fact that you've taken time to blow the whistle and rubio surveillance that the government had been keeping secret the program that i think many people are glad that they know about now shore and again if he is now granted i've downed down the line that asylum in russia. how cruel even conceivably get there. it se

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 restaurant. but also how have the euro my don

eight pm this is artie international live from moscow and our top story nazi like atrocities are being described in war torn syria residents of a small town outside damascus have told r.t. they witnessed anti government islamists burning civilians in other things and using others as human shields well the army struggling to overthrow the extremists and get them out of the area says the horrific scenes did take place artie's arabic channel tried to get a clear picture. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters entered the town of address and massacred local civilians according 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 chabad only strike and the army with islam seize control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly this iteration became terrible there were killings outrage and fear on of them to find armed men came to the city they carried o

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 when he was arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion he and his business partner plateau never dead were found gu

. and the rats are rounding ukraine's mixed signals to be the focus of the latest edition of artie's crosstalk. there are voices in the european union and some prominent newspapers as well as probably some prominent european union officials are saying that the government now in ukraine is illegitimate which is rather strange isn't it because two weeks ago they were in negotiations with it lightly thoroughly as you say to talk about non-legitimate government and that's very clear to me and the signal of the ukrainian government was one that was of course slightly from the outside but was also based on very very you know through grieving in terms of its own survival. fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more and more enemies around the world the anger stems from the potentially enormous environmental dangers posed by the extraction method the most recent anti fracking rallies have taken place in romania and northern england and this party boyko reports it's a tough struggle for locals and activists. fracking and protests seem to be synonymous o