up to here its energy future presidents present to meet e.u. leaders in his first trip to brussels since returning to the planet. talking terror on trade routes were pulled from the drone campaign dividing yemen and why the country's leadership seems to be quiet about it and. has already over a million documents being prepared to be released. today that sounds promises to reveal secrets concerning every government in the wild ass he lays out his battle plans for twenty thirteen and a christmas address from his embassy hideout atlanta. international

news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me thanks for joining us. on continental on injury issues are set to gather steam with president putin in brussels for talks with european union leaders russia's the largest oil and natural gas exporter the twenty seven nation blog but such a big pull the ship rarely comes without hurdles as an executor explains. the media and the analysts are expecting a very interesting russia in brussels with the russian president attending it personally obviously the talks between. we will focus on the energy issues we know that russia has built already built several gas pipelines which will deliver the russian gas to the european continent but still there are some contradictions

remaining between. brussels with the latter of course accusing gas of breaking the rules of the market and now the very interesting part of the summit will probably be dedicated to the accusations from the european union of human rights violations in russia in particular. case and the recent law which was adopted in the united states and of course the law which was adopted in russia just recently just a couple of days ago as a starting response to the magnitsky law in the united states what is particularly interesting about this summit from the economic point of view is that it's happening i mean a financial crisis in the eurozone and some analysts the media have already been speculating whether this summit may eventually show if europe wants to see russia as a strategic partner in the very dark times it is going through right now or it wants to stick to rather difficult and difficult position on many issues with russia as we are as well as the media and the analysts are expecting that putin will

reconfirm russia's stance on the syrian conflict that it must be resolved at the negotiation table in full accordance with the international law this is something that has already touched upon during his annual press conference in moscow on thursday. we're not concerned about the fate of assad's regime we understand what's going on there the family has been in power for forty years in undoubtedly there is demand for change. but we're concerned about what happens next in the country we just don't want ongoing strife between today's opposition if it takes power in the current government if they become the opposition it can't go on forever so obviously will be in for a very long and interesting day and we'll be bringing up dates and all the latest information as we get it here in brussels a never ending civil standoff in syria and possible ways to end the violence there were raised by russia's foreign minister an exclusive interview with d'arcy sergei lavrov warns that they refuse

a western states to condemn violence carried out by the rebels would lead to a dangerous fall out but he also said that russia will never support that push for regime change in syria we also asked the foreign minister why in asia was so eager to deploy patriot missiles and take its border with syria and whether iran was the actual target here's what i have to say. well that's what that's what some people say. the configuration as it is being presented in the media. really looks like it could be used against the room. so you can watch his full interview with sergey lavrov here on monday. yemen's u.s. bank president has assumed control of the country's ballistic missile also after purging the military of rivals or his leadership it was feared that the army would refuse to go along with the move assuring him more turmoil in

a country called between uprisings drone strikes and al qaeda. now and what's at stake in yemen. as washington continues to make a moral case for its covert wars on terror yemen is presented as a place that is full of terrorists getting ready to attack america but very few think of yemen as a chokepoint of vast economic interests yemen is the poorest country in the middle east but it's sitting on one of the most important trade routes in the wall the bubble mendip straight most people have heard about the southwest canal world war three almost broke out over the canal right that's how important it is but bob amanda doesn't instantly ring a bell although it's basically an extension of this west canal and is a similar strategic importance almost all of europe's trade with china japan india and the rest of asia passes through babel mend up every day that's how important it is. some argue that washington sees terrorism in yemen as

a problem in the sense that it could have an adverse impact on economic interests at stake the united states wouldn't be engaged in such a conflict in yemen if it didn't hold very specific geo political and strategic necessity for the us i think most importantly of course access to the strait which is one of the highest trafficked waterways in the world. the u.s. already has a vast military presence in the persian gulf to secure a key oil shipping lanes under the banner of chasing terrorists the us is setting up new drone bases on the arabian peninsula including one in djibouti which is on the other side of the strait of babylon and that the arrangement of the united states government has with the yemeni government is basically one of bribery we bribe them with money and weapons and in exchange we get to bomb their country with impunity. but it may be

a dangerous proposition for the yemeni government because of the op for the strikes have caused among the population. in america. the place i killed seventeen people they were in a cynic they did not deserve to die. wanted so late to go protest in the year for it to happen he left column what we have now of americans are coming to our land to kill us because of the secret that is of america's growing war it's difficult to verify d. exact numbers to do in depth more than seven hundred people were reportedly killed by drones being yemen in the last four years the obama administration refers to those killed as militants usama ministrations adopted a controversial method of counting to the casualties which basically says that there are those. if any military age males gets killed in a drone strike they are presumed to have been militants unless they are

posthumously that is after their dead proven to be innocent that is that is an affront to every legal rationale the journalist who shot these images of a two thousand and nine drone strike in yemen that killed fourteen women and twenty one children is now in jail abdul a high to shine was accused of aiding terrorists because it was about to deal with the yemeni government to reverse this decision after a call from the white house. because of the secrecy surrounding the program there was no way of knowing when the administration is out of target and some fear washington might continue the bombing to maintain controlling the waging the challenge here is something similar to what happened in. former yugoslavia when when they were looking for targets to bomb serbia prior to the dayton accords and the military. planners came to to richard holbrooke and they said well you know honestly we've run out of targets we bombed everything and he's in holbrook so we

have to keep this bombing up and they said well before we've already had before you said bomb them again. secondary target because they needed to keep up the pressure now my fear is the order to keep up the pressure on al qaeda or its associated organizations united states will explain you know its definition of who is a legitimate target washington is helping the current yemeni government you know order for it not to fail and to be friendly to the us friendly enough to allow the us to bomb them as washington see fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade route but historically that kind of a prop by the united states has often led to eliminating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to check our version is sounding the retreat as the cost of conflict become too much to bear in

a few minutes to approve of the u.k.'s rush to pull its troops from afghanistan because the bill's pretty indefensible on the home front. plus lessons for germany where more than seven million people are struggling with basically tricity would be those who are sharing the country success. crap but on balance we can legs as a jew that our son says his whistle blowing web site is ready to reveal more game changing data next year headrest his supporters and the media who gathered outside the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been and for six months. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he mocked his six month in the embassy by talking about it saying that he entered the building and it's become his home and his office right to the principles i could dorian's as he called it who had taken him

in and then he said that he is able to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he. documents to wiki leaks and he said he saluted. what can i do because.

mation that he says relates to every single government around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate so the message here is he might be cut cooped up inside the at the door and embassy based certainly not resting on his laurels. and you can more true in a sundress christmas address and followed dot com we can also get norm the top level exposures his planning. i'm gonna start is proving to be a problem britain can ill afford with the government revealing a seventeen billion pound bill for the war so far what makes it even tougher to sell a home though is the massive us devotee regime that's under way and leaders cutting costs wherever they can pull a boy or girl has a story seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that's

been the cost of that so far eleven years of war in afghanistan now it was a very deal that the same time as a clear timetable was announced for troop withdrawal from the region we're going to have u.k. troops slashed by about a half by the end of next year down to five thousand two hundred and then another large tranche of troops will be leaving by the end of twenty fourteen but it's those seventeen billion pounds that are being spent that have been spent on it for the war on top of the existing defense budget which means the estimates for the final price tag for the afghan war might be something around twenty billion pounds and of course the u.k. is going to keep sending money to afghanistan after twenty fourteen they're going to be sending something like seventeen million pounds for aid towards the afghan national security forces after twenty fourteen and this is all at the same time as the government announcing prolonged all series here at home that's going to continue until at least twenty seven hundred twenty eight hundred and the chancellor announcing that they're going to sleep extra welfare cuts and an extra

ten billion pounds slashed from the welfare budget along with cuts in every single other government department now i'm joined by john hillery the executive director of anti property charities more on want seventeen billion pounds down the line about money have been better spent elsewhere you could hardly really think of any worse way of spending the money. as you pointed out here in britain we're seeing an enormous cuts to government spending and to the welfare budget it's about twenty five billion pounds in total which actually it's almost the same as been spent in the war in afghanistan but in afghanistan itself the impact of the war has been absolutely disastrous defense spending can be just after this is seventeen billion pounds over. the fence but you even before the austerity program it was clear that over seventy percent of people in britain wanted the water be ended immediately or very very soon it's

a completely unpopular war people in britain want to the troops out people in afghanistan also want the troops out and now we're being faced with these massive cuts on top of that people are really angry about the fact that the waters continue for the british people want to still try to destroy the horrible legacy of invasion and occupation which they've lived with for the last thirty years now already the defense secretary has said that parts of afghanistan won't be under government control and so that means a lot more questions from the british taxpayers about the eleven years spent fighting the war and the twenty billion pound price tag for at. former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky might seek freedom earlier than expected being trailed all monday night and his partner found guilty of money laundering talks about asian and bustle and that the prison terms can't apply to jazz as well puerto life. plus to trigger happy in the u.s. how that's from shootings are expected to outpace casualties from car accidents in

the not so distant future that is housed on the take off call where you. hundreds of antique cars protesters have filled madrid streets as lawmakers passed a new also to budget for next year tension has been increasing in the days leading up to the deal to make savings of around thirty nine billion euros is the focus of people's frustration our car to health care and education as well as on get the government to breaking its promise to raise pensions in line with inflation spain is still holding out from asking for aid from its neighbors and trade that felix marina del occur of us as a bailout could lead to the breakup of the eurozone. if it had managed to do all that are taking a look here people would have understood. doing it.

and you so much and everybody in the blamed for the first year you could actually bring the previous government. free from the boy to the spanish bailout because they know that it's too big to bail out and if we have to rescue it in that the euro. shamus would be really risky i'm. just playing time and wish to do it on the road to bankruptcy. and eventually break up of the euro. so greece is the largest banks could be in line for bailouts of their own after a pause in huge loss. this year together they'll need about thirteen billion viewers worth of loans to stay afloat and this is just days after the country's credit rating was raised six not trist from selective default to be miners the view which has been urging greek citizens to tighten their belts has already issued eighteen billion euros to keep the country's lenders afloat in its second bailout package in may. as resurgent i'm going to egypt this time after

the country's top prosecutor was during his resignation to lot where he pressured judges not to release protesters opposed to present nor see his fate will now be decided by the justice minister it was preparing for a second round of voting on a controversial draft constitution which has split the country into its opponents saying gates hasty and aimed at creating that islamist state. firefighters are still battling a massive file on the outskirts of the nigerian capital after an oil pipeline exploded there on monday it's sort of thieves trying to siphon up fuel caused the blast the head of the nigerian national petroleum corporation which others the pipe side the recent rise of that's because seriously disrupt energy supplies to some parts of the country. areas where you might want to head to if you are expecting the world to end it's

a small town in southern italy which an indian guru believes will survive any mild apocalyptic predictions do mongers have also descended on guatemala to mark what they think will be the end of the world in a few minutes were poor and how people around the world are preparing for the end of the calendar with some turning the supposed final hours into profit. divine power in action activate. i. will need these we are under the control of those governing us before we're at the service of a space mafia i found on that day the magnetic field of the sun will be for us

to create to support the stuff. after the second coming it will be a beautiful place it will receive its paradoxical glory it will be a renewed world and it will be a beautiful place. full of the best. will stop this type emulation. it's good business for us it's kind of like being a doctor you know if there's a disaster businesses. better unfortunately. to become one of the world's industrial titans you need a walk a workforce that's ready for anything but the grim statistics in the heart of europe show millions of adults are being left behind because they have trouble reading and writing his piece all of. germany and engineering giant

a footballing colossus a nation at the very forefront of modern european civilization and this if you are when i was younger and my friends asked if i wanted to play football i was awaiting it even though i wanted to i was afraid that i might have to read something and that would reveal my problem that i couldn't read or write properly statistics from the ministry of education suggest around seven and a half million germans are functionally illiterate and that means that they can read or write single sentences but nothing more complex than that tim taylor fellner left school without the skills needed to get by in the world he turned to adult education and now works to help others. on the toughest part he says is getting people to confront their illiteracy it cloud there are plenty of people who realize that they have problems you notice that in yourself but you try to hide it many are in denial they think they're ok and are able to keep it covered up always

making excuses not to come out of the closet or tim says large class sizes coupled with parents too busy at work to spend time reading at home has allowed some kids to slip through the cracks also under the radar as an estimated three hundred thousand adults who cannot read or write at all the government is running programs to try and tackle this but the numbers in rolling and courses is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions affected yeah i know you think no one should leave school without the minimum required skills to function as a member of society this is a major issue and something we hope not only able to make sure doesn't happen in the future like it also help those who have problems now one program that is looking to help functionally illiterate adults in and around the city of cologne has got employers involved. from small local businesses to huge manufacturing giants they have. to give stuff with literacy problems flexible working hours so

they can attend classes dog plots it has been a very successful way of getting education to people who perhaps don't have the time to attend regular classes it benefits the employers as well they get to contribute to the local community and in return receive employees with more skills . if a bit is. despite the good work being done by programs like this one out of the estimated seven point five million functionally illiterate people in germany. only five percent are receiving any kind of education peter all of a germany and after the break i promise to read those making a quick buck on the back of apocalypse hype.

well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. grid laboratory kirby was able to build on the most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog.

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one afternoon on the shores of the ocean blue. one of those days when it feels good to be alive on the planet earth. carefree humanity. maybe unthinking humanity even. a few kilometers away a man has given us an appointment on a mountain summit. a place in keeping with what anatole calls his work. he's been devoting all his time and energy to it for the last six years now. this former computer expert even quit his job to get ready for it for the end of the world. and the work i do will take me out of body i will ask to meet those superior beings

who hold the keys for humanity already clear that he went to talk to them. to see what can be done for two thousand and twelve ordered. by telepathic trip to get him into contact with mysterious superior beings beings who have announced to him the destruction of the planet on december the twenty first two thousand and twelve very precisely. it will be by fire volcanoes earthquakes and most importantly of course by water floods of comedy as the plates will shift rise and lower the ocean bottom will lift and what will appear is atlantis when atlantis rises out of the waters that there will be when the world ends she office two thousand and twelve is a giant plan for i could use a mean word but purifying for me that's what it is.

purifying water conscience if you're good or not and it's a rite of passage anatole is convinced that he will be among the survivors jesus himself told him by telepathy in the new era he's even going to change his name he will be called and told me they are integrating christ takes more than just five minutes i mean if i ever have to know how to build your individual. self to be able to say frankly to someone so i'm an told mark but in fact that's a hidden way of saying i'm jesus christ. by the end of the world anatole has become irrational. to devote himself to his mission he has given up his career and his social life. and all over the world there are thousands like him getting ready for the worst. two thousand and twelve with more than five hundred million internet pages it's one of the most written about themes on the web.