In moscow thanks for joining us this is. The fighters reportedly kidnapped and executed fifty two civilians from two iraqi tribes back in june this year the ethno religious group in the country which abide by their own moral code the revelations have emerged in a new report by Human Rights Watch witnesses claim the forces killed men women and children fleeing the fighting between government backed forces the victims were from tribes that had reportedly sheltered helped eisold militants and we talked to a Human Rights Watch activist. To try these are sunni arab tribes one told. The other hes a famous tribes from the area of the historical home. According to the izzy these two specific tribes were complicit with isis and the day that isis arrived in the area these tribes helped isis to round up his east turn women into sex slaves and to massacre other members of the z. T. Community since then i have spent much time with u. C. D. Elders who told me they had drawn up a list of individuals and of tribes and would target them and kill them if they had the chance heard of incidents where i what is now a group of u. C. B. Fighters you see the militia empowered on the payroll of the baghdad government that has targeted members of these two tribes but what we understand is that they are targeting anyone from these tribes women children men not because they were specifically involved in nice abuses and abuses against the c. D. s but just be care because they carry the name of this tribe according to top iraqi officials in twenty fourteen alone or almost seven thousand years z. T. People were kidnapped by i saw and as we understand three thousand are still missing. The men want to offer us and skiffs and in the evenings they would get together and treat the women and have their fun with us. It was indescribable funny laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldnt do anything not quite and as i saw loses ground in iraq volker severely again says the unlawful killings and torture of tribe members by years of the forces are yet another dark chapter for the water on country. Each week even in these battles against isis has been to end a horrific cycle of violence and erupt violence in iraq allowing groups of armed actors to target tribes to target women children men and we have had nothing to do with the crimes of isis with complete impunity allowing them to torture and execute with impunity really will spell disaster for the next steps in iraq in any hopes of reconciliation through community its. For the world gearing up for new years eve germany has come up with a new way to ensure security safe zones for women are being set up but burdens Brandenburg Gate party when it comes in response to a massive Sexual Assault celebrations two years ago in cologne he is gauging reaction in the german capital. Just like at new years celebrations the world over hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to this place here in berlin to see out the old and bringing the new you can see preparations are currently on to go in with keeping everyone safe without spoiling the atmosphere is a huge challenge for the authorities and these here organizers i go in one step further aside from usual safety berries and alcohol bans and socalled womens safety area is being set up its a zone where female guests who feel sexually harassed of just uncomfortable can get special help its been manned by members of german red cross and comes in response to events two years ago back then hundreds of women who were sexually assaulted a new year carnivals they were groped robbed intimidated and separated from their friends according to leaked police documents there were more than one thousand cases reported in cologne in hamburg alone more than two thousand men were possibly involved most of them Asylum Seekers the new idea of the womens safety area has received a mixed reaction thats a good idea many people feel like need help but they dont know who to ask to do and having this service is kind of nice i think Sexual Harassment was people who were in groups and you were so how do you get from here to the safe place i mean. It seems a bit far fetched i dont think its such a good idea its to me it sounds its a bit like an early be set up. After a freight but this is this is two eighths good if because its needed. In front of many its kind of interesting that they do it in a new years as events because id be better if its like a long long get to like tutor like that they. Just like want think that you do first pressure because i dont know you sounded a little commercial you know way to early in police has also issued recommendations for those who are planning to come here for new years celebrations including avoiding aggressive groups pain attention when someone gets too close and in case of any danger reporting to Police Review notion r. T. From the early if Tea Party Member in the Berlin Parliament frank council believes instead of socalled safe zones for women perhaps its the migration policies that need rethinking we feel that there is a new step of. Danger coming into our country weve seen it since we have to already build vols against our Christmas Markets this is a development we do not want to see really policy should change we should not continue to have this Mass Immigration of illegal Mass Immigration we do have we have to count and see who the people are who came to our country have to register them this is a process which has not been come to an end and we must close the borders in order to have a Stable Society you can go much further than the security for titians in germany goal so thats a problem and that i think this is not a good bit to come. Thousands of palestinians clashed with Israeli Forces in gaza and the west bank on friday. Rioters threw rocks and burned ties as they confronted i. D. F. Troops soldiers deployed to gas in response dozens of new treatment by paramedics mass demonstrations that would have become a weekly occurrence since donald trump recognized jerusalem as the israeli capital on december the sixth. Time an Israeli Court has sentenced a sixty eight year old bedouin man to ten months in prison and fined him more than ten thousand dollars for trespassing but he claims the land belongs to him who is a village elder at a keep is located in southern israel a bedouin tribes had settled there long before the state was established but israeli authorities believe they occupy their land illegally and send in riot police and bulldozers to demolish the village whenever its built up so far theyve leveled it to the ground more than one hundred times paulus leader reports. Im here in the nor the negev desert where there isnt much except a few dozen unrecognised bedwyn villages this is one belonging to the to retry but there are some two hundred fifty people who live here and they say that this land is they is going back generations but the israeli authorities insist they here illegally. Come here. The. It will take years until this fighting ends they looking to push out so will compromise and will give this land to the state. In my your duty if i was jewish the soldiers wouldnt come here at six in the morning on a rainy day they dont care this is just a bedouin house they dont think the bedouins are human beings they dont care that bedouins the citizens of this country they dont care that bedouins live on this land not the countrys land. The tribes says theyve lived here for seven hundred and fifty years. This document is from nineteen zero five in the autumn in the era of the second one with the red stamps is also from ottoman times nine hundred twenty nine and this third one doesnt have to do with the land its from nine hundred thirty six and these are receipts from taxes for the land. Everybody here is family father mother uncle aunt relatives only the alps henri family is buried in this cemetery no one else only el torito tribe and their relatives. Live. If you want to take the word of the Mainstream Media russia has had a very busy year in twenty seventeen especially when it comes to sowing discord and interfering in elections the world over although in his latest interview russias foreign minister had a word or two to say about it. He does all the billboard. Of what. We were at the goods. Office what youre doing you. Know that you post what i write. You mean you listen to the political news theres a sequel your those are words. Weve said you told us about the bill will go go go go go. So did you hear that russias foreign minister actually admitted to meddling in elections around the world i dont Pay Attention as a lot of i didnt know that it was actually a video. And. What do you think do you think that that actually i mean are you surprised by that that he would admit to actually meddling in the us election absolutely i think it definitely changed everything that the public was seeing right now and of course he would never meet if they did anyway right its quite surprising that he would admit something and even go further its actually its a prank video it was a comedy show that he did he was totally being a guy i mean this only i knew. He was being sarcastic ok much more sense youre saying hes joking yeah it was a Comedy Program yeah right but who knows that hes joking do you feel like people are predisposed to believe negative things about russia one hundred years ago and today i think that we have very negative connotation about people and yeah its the way versions are pictured than western countries. If you thought that installing the latest Antivirus Software will protect your. Being hacked think again even leading Cyber Security expert john mcafee has not been immune hes claimed his twitter account was breached and used as part of an elaborate cryptocurrency scam is what happened. Can who has hacked twitter has been notified the cone of the day tweet was not me. John mcafee is the creator of the popular mcafee Antivirus Software is also behind a wide range of other Cyber Security products and we spoke to him about his own recent Online Security woes and his take on the rise of cryptocurrency we rely on the number of people we will rely on our share is the telephone terrorist around twitter my father was hacked through my character eighteen prior to being hacked my phone was totally disabled you couldnt call in to it i got from it they sent to my phone number a special code so that i could get in but it wasnt me it was the hacker. This is something totally out of my control totally out of everyones control and what happened to me is not a threat but theres a great threat to all mind this is a great threat to our. Crypto currency most people do not change their currencies on their own while were living in a new. World of fashion and a new world of risks for all of us using the internet experts are becoming more and more efficient and more sophisticated in their hacking techniques this is going to happen to me and promised it can happen to anyone and still to come here on the program on t. V. We talk to the son of a french aid worker whos been held hostage by terrorists in mali for more than a year the story and more in about five. Point me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of Politics School business im showbusiness ill see you then. Manufacture consent to public wealth. When the ruling class is protect them so. When the crime. Nor middle of the room see. The big countdown the ball is going to drop new years starting resolutions will be created its all so very exciting lets check in. Its good to have you with us today it has been more than a year since a french aid worker who had gone to mali to help malnourished children was abducted sophie patrolling and is seventy two years old black and twenty sixteen she was taken hostage by local terrorists in july this year she was shown alongside five other captives in a socalled proof of life footage released by al qaeda we spoke to her son who says despite an Ongoing Investigation he has received no information whatsoever. We dont do it to the usual the parents prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation but it is still we are now trying to find new materials to restart it so that it will be apparent indeed to a lack of results when we are establishing contacts to try to trace her and seeking any information to establish with the shes alive and when she might be found so far we have no news nothing concrete be the from the kidnappers not from any contact persons and also nothing from the foreign ministrys crisis center. The number of those kidnapped by terrorists has been a rocketing in recent years last year the total number worldwide reached almost sixteen thousand people back in july the french president emanuel back wrong called for a full mobilization of all resources possible to bring sophia back however one year later she is still trapped in mali. He will be a little but the odds of he did today my thoughts are with our competitor its a few people nine who was abducted on Christmas Eve you know and you may be sure that all the resources of the state are being mobilized to find her and bring her back to her family would also be certain that as far as im concerned i will not give in to any provocation because that is precisely what our attackers want its good that they can be contacted for support but our family has been disappointed by the governments failure to make any decisions in this case yes its wonderful that we are being supported with the world you really need support is my mother we need to ask mr marquand about this he has the power in the situation he can decide on a course of action in must be admitting that so far no progress has been made in tackling this matter we were. Pretty fast here in moscow the first ship carrying russian produce to gas has reached the u. K. Under a new energy deal the liquefied natural gas is produced by a company which the u. S. Put on its sanctions list in a move strongly supported by london at the time the first round of washington sanctions were imposed in twenty fourteen in response to russias alleged military invasion of ukraine and us has always been critical of russias gas supplies to europe saying they undermined the continents Energy Security with moscow using fuel supplies as a Foreign Policy tool so view that britain has been supporting we have seen how countries such as pigeons russia used tear gas supplies as a tool of Foreign Policy threatening to cut off supplies or drastically increase prices its not in europes interests its not in our interests its also a political rather than a commercial undertaking and there is an existing framework in place for the e. U. To take more aggressive action on north stream two and similar projects if it wished to do so politically however the end of twenty seven to you now see in the u. K. Out in the cold and in need of russian gas at all. At around three weeks ago when the most important pipeline to britain was shut down due to a crack and then one of the biggest hubs in europe suffered an explosion which led to a spike in gas prices moreover britain has faced an unusually cold winter with some blizzards on freezing temperatures we discussed the story with oil and gas expert mum to celebrate bligh and the European Union but it them boruc us sanctions when it comes to their own needs they can put aside or a share of the sanctions for their own benefit and that is the situation with the United Kingdom now russia has is a liability lying out of fuel so i think that will continue of course the United States would like to be able to use euros dependence on russian gas out of Washington Oil but they come out they might try through sanctions doing theories that are self lies. Do you but if you look at it because he can and he is far more expensive than the russian gas. To professors from sign to go State University claim farmers markets in the u. S. Contribute to the oppression of minorities in the country the professors claim almost half of all markets are set up in wealthy areas which discourages poor residents and people of color despite the fact that markets are often established in the interest of promoting low income and minority communities but its not the first time this year the race card has been pulled on seemingly innocent things. When they planted those trees there they knew that they would be cutting off this community. College i worry too much twenty seventeen is nearly over the news continuous and half an hour. All see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so its at the back. In one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and im hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r. C. T. Recently ive had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that Peter Schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come on that story as well as three. Thousand zero zero zero zero zero i call russia. By strife. Left left left more or less ok stuff thats really good. How does it feel to be a share of the greatest job in the world its as close to being a king as any job there is a Good Business model helps to run a prison now we just do or dont like is there nobody you know visitation i dont know what comes in it well we dont have to sarge them anymore its Cost Effective thats what they want to do that at the moment they dont give a damn if you do the chores or not there are actually paying us to put it back into the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the u. S. N. Breach what secret is behind such success. Is that come to russia nor does it no one has ever heard of and never even had about most schools. The little little. The little. The elite or leave. Her little. Tense here were going underground ahead of tomorrows vote in both a very and revolutionary venezuela held in the shadow of threats from washington of strong and swift economic actions coming up on the show. And theyve broken economy we speak to actor and director nick moran about his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe play before was written by of and welsh on whether the real gangsters are in the city of london and while britains privatized British Airways faces yet more strike action could we learn from iran whose National Carrier just appointed a female c. E. O. Well ask one of the islamic republics senior care. Eggs of western sanctions benefit the nations they target plus who is and hes going to move anyway all the more coming up in todays going underground but first in the past twenty four hours donald trump and barack obama donor chevron the Oil Multinational release results to the New York Stock Exchange the company infamous for allegations that it is responsible for Water Pollution soil contamination deforestation and cultural up he will allegations it is these pictures of the ecuadorian amazon told an emotional story and its easy to blame a Big Oil Company like texaco for images like this. Theres just one problem texaco now owned by chevron already cleaned up its share paid by chevron to back up that claim with former u. S. Trade representative mickey can door and former bill clinton chief of staff and even in the past few days a Dutch Appeals Court has rejected claims against the company but his chevrons opponents just like the opponents of exxon mobil which also reported results yesterday with its c. E. O. Rex tillerson now go on to become us secretary of state big oil will always be part of a class war and class war is arguably at the heart of a new play premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe festival next week based on the one nine hundred seventy s. Film performance starring mick jagger the performers is a new play cowritten by dean cavalier in the author of trainspotting in welsh the play is directed by mick were around the star of lock stock and two smoking barrels and the harry potter films he joins me now nic welcome to going underground to tell me about the new play the performance when you start its as you probably know its written by a and then cabinet and i think its just sort of. A modern day waiting for god oh really the parent came up with this absolutely brilliant premise which is the nineteen sixty nine dont know camel film performance people may know that stars james fox and mick jagger dont care who had this idea of using real villains it was part of this new wave of of british cinema and so he he reached out into the underworld to get. As many connections with with real life gangsters and chaps easy as he could. And quite good friends with james fox he plays this devlin the gangs the character in performance directed him in the kid in my the movies i made and