findings under attack and israel are for clears any wrongdoing in the raid on the gaza aid flotilla which killed nine turkish activists last may but turkey slams inquiry and says military action was illegal. i'll be bringing you more on this controversial announcement that has many in the international community shaking their heads in just a few moments. violence spreads across the u.s. with more shooting sprees recorded in different states while many are calling for tougher gun control laws some refuse to abandon what they call me arrogant culture . moscow and washington are just one step away from fighting out of their nuclear arms treaty will come to life as russia and the file stage of deliberation.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching our. welcome to the program and israeli inquiry into last year's deadly raid on a gaza bound a flotilla has ruled the actions of the country's naval commanders illegal nine turkish activists were killed when armed forces stormed the vessel's stamboul has rejected the findings saying they've got no value or credibility. as more. these when the report says of the soldiers acted in self defense it examined one hundred and thirty three cases and found that in one hundred twenty seven the soldiers were eagerly justified in the way they acted it says in the six other cases it simply does not have sufficient information now the primary point that these weighty took a commission is relying on is that the way the soldiers the commanding unit after did not break international law because it was quite clear they say that this god

of donald for to let intended to break these radio blockade on gaza now these weighty defense minister ehud barak has praised the findings of this report he says it proves that israel is a law abiding country but many activists and one of them being an israeli member of parliament who belongs to an arab party had one. she was part of the fratellis she has come out in heavy criticism saying that it ignores the killings of nine to activists eight of them were turkish citizens and one was a turkish american citizen and we expect more international criticism as the day progresses we also know though that the first turlough the incident of course which happened on the thirty first of may has already received international condemnation no commission of inquiry in the world can justify deliberately restricting the passage of people and goods in order to paralyze the economy and prevent normal life from taking place in gaza and i'm sorry to say that's exactly what the israeli policy did we think that the lesson from the flotilla incident should be that

israel has a right to prevent robyn's from entering gaza but it doesn't have a right to do what it's still doing which is to prevent purely civilian goods from coming in and out in order to punish the population you have to remember israel controls gaza's borders and that control creates obligations when you control a civilian population you're responsible for their rights and the law of occupation says that even under circumstances of security risks you have to allow people to lead normal lives so students need to be able to travel from gaza to the west bank in order to study families need to be able to travel back and forth in the. to be reunited with each other and merchants in gaza have a right to sell their goods outside of gaza israel can certainly inspect the goods and make sure there's no security threat but that's all it can do and i'm sorry to say that that's not the case right now and the commission made a disturbing finding when it said that those civilian restrictions could be illegal under international law that's what we disagree with the turkish national inquiry submitted its findings to united nations back in september last year and of course now it is up to the u.n.

secretary general to examine both the israeli and the turkish reports and release its own conclusions we have no indication as of yet when that will be but the turkish commission did come out publicly for the first time yesterday sunday when the israeli report was issued saying and i'm quoting from a statement that it was surprised it was appalled and it was dismayed it said that is to be the turkel commission exonerated the israeli defense forces the turkish prime minister has also said that this report has no credibility and no value to the criticism is also being leveled by political activists they say that these to make sure of decommissioning and also the limited authority it had this was not a public commission of inquiry from the outset set up a committee that could only reach conclusions that were effectively conclusions that they wanted to reach in the first place. closely your reporting there and here's a glance of a story that still i have for you here. educational experiments in russia leaves many divided on the possible threats and advantages of teaching religion at school

we explain why later in the program. before that the man accused of shooting u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the have will be in court for a preliminary hearing later today darlene you are went on a shooting spree at a public event on the eighth of january in arizona six people were killed and thirteen others wounded this high profile case is just one of a string of incidents involving gun violence in the country on sunday two people were shot dead in two policeman injured after a man began shooting at them outside of the park and store in the state of washington that same day a gunman went into a police station in detroit and shot four officers the violence has many americans calling for tougher gun control laws but as artie's lauren lyster reports some see the weapon as part of their culture and say taking it away goes against their history you have to have just as you can get ready. for the. fight for the right to bear arms. the target of debate in the united states can use

it. just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain think you can carry a gun in chicago. and in my world everybody on the bus could have a gun like making liberal shoot guns i just don't think we should be allowed to bring them home. to travel more than six hundred miles south. of the same well worn tracks he can hear during the civil war and you're transported to can assad george. a world of the. ordinary where second amendment rights are exercised all the time everybody except for. except whenever i believe. it's a way of life in the south a gun is just part of the household just like a hammer is in the tool box and in the town of kennesaw. it's the law of

a first one thousand nine hundred two they passed that law requiring all heads of household to only. you heard them right everyone here must own a gun and it was a rebuttal to mo wrong grove illinois play call it more or go we call it moron grove who passed a law banning firearms and i think with the law itself that got people in kennesaw take off it was performing coverage it received and what today we would call the mainstream press the battle with the mainstream doesn't end there issues in which people in kennesaw or through a lot of the south would have the i exactly opposite viewpoint and appear to reach much further back than the gun law my name is dennis myers the name my storage wildman show up here past meets present. the taboo regional plane uniform except for the plan correct is not our people offended when they feel i don't know whenever i ask them why would you be offended if you're

playing pranks. the confederate flag has a home not far from the american one and is praised it means that we had four years of destruction in this area here when we were trying to repair the invaders it's a historical thing and i have very much respect and love for it and i think the racism of. this civil war it will have some. going from that era for more between states wasn't civil no civil war a civil war as a war then one country we had to come to confront it stays american united states of america and it's not over either or anything eight hundred ninety before but. we feel you know modern world. lot of people here i think the civil war is still a current topic not a historical topic in kennesaw the us civil war is never far away and fact there are three has storage battlefields like this one within

a ten mile radius of the town. and in their modern day battle gun owners' rights it also seems to be connected to this southern history so i think southerners view the last gasp of the citizenry against a. an oppressive government as it is to revolt because. we lost the war so we get blamed for everything from foreign invaders about a boy in through nazi germany under hitler certainly the soviet union under stalin first thing they do is take the guns away from everybody so they can't revolt could go and do what the government has planned but i won't come soon enough i think where some of the emotion come from it's not just that you know you can can shoot a rabbit with it during hunting season. for the gun law itself not everyone here abides by it i'm not personally going to have a gun oh of own plenty it goes but i don't quite have any right now but they do have opinions about it i think to go along. with the new keeps criminals so i think

that people you know would rather go somewhere else when the new news out of the law enforcement says that may be true or violent crime rate is extremely low property crime is still less than half the national average and for the small southern town this may be their victory over the north that one hundred fifty years after a civil war changed everything in the south as a result of that war their lifestyle was one they stuck by their guns more in mr r. t. kennesaw georgia. and those of you would like to read more on the gun laws in the us log on to our website r t v dot com now why more americans buy weapons despite the financial crisis and how long. makers in new hampshire are opting to change don the rules to peel to liberty loving individuals. in plus we'll reveal just who gave the former your taste prime minister her famous nickname the iron lady more

than three decades ago. and the pivotal nuclear arms reduction pad between moscow and washington is a final step away from being ratified by the russian parliament it's once again being debated before heading for its third and final hearing on tuesday russian lawmakers a man of the start treaty in the second reading glassed week in response to changes and reservations raised in washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove tactical nuclear weapons from europe the house will also call for other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear reduction the treaty signed between presidents viet and obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s.

senate it now needs a file say from the russian parliament russia's deputy foreign minister sergei lavrov cough says there are several key points to be addressed by moscow before the deal is rubber stamped. it's a huge boost for. our joint efforts to establish a more stable and constructive fundaments in our relationship with the us it took a while before the u.s. senate threat to fly the resolution our parliamentarians. use the period to sara lee study the american red cross resolution they drew their conclusions three o four especially important things are. outlined in these documents by the state duma. these. are firm belief in the separate inseparable link between the strategic offensive weapons and strategic

defensive weapons secondly we definitely thing that the so-called non-nuclear. strategic offensive weapons of growing importance they have a growing impact on their overall strategic stability thirdly we think that. in this very situation we would be. only possible for russia to stay within the parameters of the treaty. nothing happens on the part of us that infringes national security interests of russia to an extent that. you know continues implementation of the treaty becomes questionable. more of the start treaty and the latest on the issues over iran's nuclear program can watch the full interview was russia's deputy foreign minister sergei rip off

next hour here on our. two eyes breakers in russia's far east have rescued a fifth and file ship that had been stuck solid in ice for nearly a month once for a fuel to the ice breakers will return to court another ship to open waters after it was taken to a safe haven following its rescue three ships found themselves stranded on the thirtieth of december with a combined crew of around four hundred less than a week later two more vessels became stuck at immediate rescue operation was launched but the thickness of the ice have hampered efforts to break through strong winds low visibility and shifting ice floes adds to the problems well said i have still had here on our team media manipulation out how safe keeping up with the news and moldova might change the way you think. and some russian schools have undertaken an experiment of introducing religious classes to

their students gadgil but with a country be multifaith debates raging as to whether it will succeed in teaching children about tolerance of mutual understanding or drive divisions in society arches of santa boy girl reports. it looks like any other class with quizzes home or being sat on an extensive syllabus yet it is the only one in this chechen school where pupils on the web graded their studying the basics of islam the predominant religion here. islam teaches respect kindness peace and tolerance. peace and tolerance one on the top of that agenda on russia's ministry of education began testing religious subjects as part of the secondary curriculum last year the experiment allows students to study one of the major religions or concentrate on secular ethics yet while trying to provide room for all it's also putting pupils of different religious backgrounds in different classrooms. but i

think it was wrong to divide students so that some focus on christianity while others studies land only when one country and will have to know some basics about each other this is a dividing children is not a good idea at all the organizers of the experiment said just that school should be able to provide classes on any religion no matter how small the group being taught the shortage of financing often lands that only one or two classes are offered. here in the town of costume mind central russia the children are well read about author of christianity if you are able to name all the religions practiced in russia. i don't mind other allegiance but i like orthodox christianity because it's the religion of other home and it's not about three hundred thousand students just two percent of the total school population are taking part in the

project and while most of the schools involved would prefer to keep spiritual subjects on the timetable experts say the initiative needs a thorough revision before it's rolled out further first of all this is clear discrimination against jews kids who are not religious so what are they going to do . they're going to be separate from the class or what and it's also a tremendous pressure to accept one or another for religion not because the believe of this religion but all of because they have to because everybody has to belong to some religious community which is again. democratic. the line between teaching religion and not indoctrination is fine and a subject which for many families should stay at home this educational experiment hasn't yet been declared either success or failure of some theory that instead of

promoting really just tolerance and cultural understanding it may actually foster ethnic bias and social segregation that's in the work of r.t. . and or some take a look at some other stories from around the world at least six people have been killed by a bomb on the outskirts of the iraqi city of karbala thirteen others were wounded police say the blast targeted shia muslims on a pilgrimage to the holy city the bombing comes on the back of three suicide attacks on the same road last week which claimed more than fifty lives. in tunisia hundreds of demonstrators have staged kennel protest in spite of a nighttime curfew and that a new wave of unrest crowds are calling for the country's interim prime minister to step down. has already vowed to quit after fresh elections are held within six months the political chaos follows a month long uprising that deposed the country's leader killing almost eighty people on sunday police arrested two allies of ousted president ben ali.

around fifty thousand people joined a rally in the belgian capital demanding a government for the country following seven months of political stalemate and unofficial administration has been in place since elections in june last year produced no outright winner politicians have been unable to reach an agreement over how the government should be made up belgium is divided between two regions with french speakers in the south and flemish speakers in the north. the number of those killed in last week's heavy floods and landslides in brazil has risen to at least eight hundred more than four hundred others remain missing avalanches of modern water ripped through mainly poor areas tossing cars into buildings and burying families alive as rescuers continue digging through wrecked towns the death toll rises daily with estimates it could reach a thousand this week the disaster now ranks as the second worst in brazil's history . video driver with

a dashboard camera has captured the dramatic moment of the truck smash through a central reservation add into oncoming traffic the vehicle was carrying thirty tons of soil when i went out of control and crashed through the safety wall amazingly no one was injured sudden blizzard has caused hazardous driving conditions the truck driver said to have been charged with careless driving. a range of new media outlets and are being accused of trying to influence its audience politically critics say remain in sponsors or controlling the. of t.v. news and publications to promote unification where the country but others are simply applauding more diversity in the press i just ask investigates. the most press seems to have has undergone something of a make over in the past year with new t.v. programs airing different opinions so is the media becoming stronger and free year and this country after years of domination by only

a few outlets it may seem so on the surface but some like internet journalists vitale and dear ski say the idea of a new dawn is only an illusion. when my website gained popularity some people from romania conjectured me and offered financial help this is in exchange for my website as you pull the idea of reunification which we gave up and romania or something three quarters of relations rejects. before nine hundred forty five moldova belong to romania after the war it became part of the soviet union before independence on the collapse of the u.s.s.r. since then however some politicians in bucharest have been wanting it back and the e.s.q. says now they can use the media as a platform as most of the new press is sponsored by bucharest one of the most recent additions to moldova is media market is the quality paper i divert all the truth which is also one of the leading national dailies in romania. the very first

edition of this romanian newspaper had some really sharp articles it speculated whether moldova was a toy between brussels and moscow and it also questioned fist decision to grant russia the right to host the twenty eighteenth football world cup. it is the first full color paper in moldova and this published in the romanian language rather than moldova in its deputy editor in chief says this is not an obstacle to popularity here which we can all do on this really go to seventy five percent of moldova and speak romanian and this is a fact proven by the academy of sciences designed balanced approach to news and something new to this country opposition politicians believe such strong media influence from a book arrest could threaten moldova's sovereignty the campaign that is. being run by the local press that is as i told you supported it with the government already there. is constructed that way to make the integration possible

chemical a thing and through the so called european integration those promoting womanize ation of moldova have not been shy of using rather underhand methods according to one political expert on the middle. table of prices which broadcasts russian stations insert remaining programmes into the russian channels and time programmes which propagandize be caressed wish to seize back moldova sleaze russian stations deliver ideas moscow would never agree with the opinion polls suggest that number of moldovans wanting to reunite with romania has tripled over the last twelve months from just five to fifteen percent whether that's down to the media is difficult to say for sure but those who promote reunification certainly see this sector as a key target to increase their influence alexy russia skeeters r.t. reporting from kisha now moldova. well breezes up today here on our team after they

have lined spittle of alan his guest discuss american exceptionalism but before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with us don't go away. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update one seat too many russian air companies are being forced to remove seats to avoid have to texas russia council some doozies on foreign made airplanes depending on the number of seats they have having done the math a number of carriers have resorted to throwing out as many as two dozen chairs to qualify this seven on the plane has just lost three rows that c.e.o.

says this will save them a significant amount. on a monthly basis will save. us dollars. in our cost base obviously that would increases as the number of increases. and we continue to hope that this is essentially a short term measure and not by someone in the high profit tomorrow or in the market that we can reduce all those twenty one seats and go about two hundred eighty cedar grove. let's have a look at the markets asian stocks a mix the nikkei close tie led by auto makers often the more holdings raised its rating on honda motor to buy the company's shares climbed almost four percent and after general electric beat earnings x estimates china sank sang as low a point three percent as concerns persist over beijing's further tightening measures last week state from chinese media reported the first rate hike this year could be asked soon as early february. pound and russia the r.t.s.

on the my success slightly lower losing the same number of points about three percent most of the blue chips is down bucking the trend is called is gold. russian equity funds have been given a vote of confidence from international investors last week they have attracted a record seven hundred million dollars that's despite money flowing out to other emerging markets it's the eighth consecutive week of investment in poland russia worth a total of around seventeen billion dollars among factors boosting the demand is a multi-billion dollar deal between b.p. ross nafta which spurred russian energy chips plus that's growing interest of international mutual funds and russia's russian i.p.o.'s which has added to market stability according to. and investors are anticipating another action packed five days from the russian stock market that's according to the director of equities saying of the discrete investment bank michael stein this week we're

likely to. i see a lot of interest in the russian market especially since we did see a consolidation towards the back end of last week investors are going to pay a lot of attention to ongoing earnings releases in the united states we've had a history of the u.s. corporates beating consensus in six out of the last six quarters and we're optimistic that we'll see this continue this week investors to be viewing close attention to the third quarter for us results from gas prices in addition we expect trading updates from a number of companies in the retail segment including dixie and ross into. russia's largest sugar producer is once again trying to hold an initial public offering and insight source claims the company is going to list in london us soon as the spring in may raise up to five hundred million dollars per song grows fast typing at temps took place last year at the company so to place around thirty percent of its shares in russia but finally postpone the offering citing market volatility. that's your

business update for this solved but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. culture is that so much time in which of course he's right on it comes out here today in american exceptionalism goes to the very foundation of all most american see the

country's history and place in the world is there any truth. to close up taking as being to the home stranger to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times. now watty goes to the center of russian defense production. with christianity and shamanism existed side by side for centuries. people in remote villages are cut off from the basics we take for granted the complete muti and republic russia close up on r.t. . in moscow all she's available in first marriage grand hotel ritz carlton royal marital ruins renaissance cook yacht bon marriott profiles a holiday inn circle new kids holiday inn holiday inn the social ski roller rhydian national the meridian country club suborning shirton finest peter.