i would international. every green lawyer killed in talk. turkey slams israel's record in the raid on the gaza aid flotilla where nine turkish activists were killed and her says the findings are not credible and television's military action was it legal. i'll be putting 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 american culture. plus moscow and washington's nuclear arms treaty is getting its final read through in russia as a country prepares to vote on its ratification. and a russian prime minister will be chairing a meeting to discuss the country's banking sector and the strategy for his

development business archie will be bringing you live coverage from the event. this is our take on here live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program turkey haskin damn the findings of an israeli inquiry into the bloody raid on a gaza bound aid flotilla last may the report ruled that the storming of the ships by israeli troops did not violate international law nine turkish activists onboard the flotilla that aims to break through the gaza naval blockade were killed during the raid has more. these weighty report of the soldiers acted in self defense examined one hundred and thirty three cases and found that in one hundred twenty seven the soldiers were equally justified in the way they acted it's as 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 acted did not break international law because it was quite clear they say that the god of donald fertility intended to break these weighty blockade on gaza now the israeli 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 one pennines wabi she was caught of the fatality she has come out in heavy criticism saying that it ignores the killings of nine 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 weapons 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 and forth. 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 submissive to 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 he should be the typical 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 the selection of decommissioning and also the limited authority it had this was not a public commission of inquiry from the outside it set up a committee that could only reach conclusions that were effectively conclusions that they wanted to reach in the first place. fall asleep you're reporting there

and more stories i have for you this hour including a class of tolerance causing a stir. russia is getting russia suggesting to add religious teaching to school timetables but some say that would only divide students. and the man accused of shooting u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the have will be in court for a preliminary hearing later today jarred lee loughner 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 cases just one of a string of incidents involving gun violence in the country on sunday two people were shot dead and two policemen 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 as artie's lauren lyster imports some see the

weapon as part of their culture and say taking it away goes against their history you have to have it ready. for the trigger of the. fire the right to bear arms the target of debate in the united states did you think that . just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain thank 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. follow the same well worn tracks taken here during the civil war and you're transported to kennesaw georgia. a world of the. ordinary where second amendment rights are exercised all the time everybody except for one

ship will never be. go to be a it's a way of life in the south a gun is just part of the household just like a hammer isn't a tool box and in the town of kennesaw. it's the law may first one thousand nine hundred two they passed that law requiring all heads of household to own a guy you heard him right everyone here must own a gun it was a rebuttal to most wrong grove illinois play call it more ago 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 the foreign coverage it received in what today we would call the mainstream press the battle with the mainstream doesn't end there issues in which the point kennesaw or through a lot of the south would have the i exactly opposite viewpoint 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 there except for the topic of land correct is not a people offended when if people i don't know whenever i ask them why would you be offended if you play pranks. on. 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 much respect and love for the thing to racism with. this civil war it will have some. and going from that air for more between states wasn't civil no civil war a civil war as a war then one country we had to come to a confederate states of america united states from there and it's not over either or anything eight hundred ninety before but how to. deal you know modern with a. 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 bought a boat on through nazi germany under hitler certainly the soviet union under stalin first thing they do is take the guns away from everybody so that they can't revolt could go and do what the government has planned but i won't call you comes in and i think where some of the emotion comes from it's not just that you know you can can shoot a rabbit with it during hunting season. as 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 to most of you keeps criminals out 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 there. lifestyle was one they stuck by their guns lauren 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. find out why more americans buy weapons despite the financial crisis and how lawmakers in new hampshire are opting to change gun rules

to appeal to liberty loving individuals. plus we'll reveal just who gave the former u.k.'s prime minister her famous nickname the iron lady more than three decades ago. at a pivotal nuclear arms reduction pad between moscow and washington as 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 last week in response to changes and reservations raise 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 medvedev and obama last year as already been ratified by the u.s. senate right now needs a final say from the russian parliament russia's deputy foreign minister sergei ripped off says there are several key points to be addressed by moscow before the deal is rubber stamped. it took a while before the u.s. and the threat of the resolute from our parliamentarians. use the period to start at least study the american red resolution through their conclusions three zero four especially important things are. outlined in these documents by the state duma. is our firm belief in this separate inseparable link between the strategic offensive weapons and strategic defensive weapons secondly we definitely thing that this so-called

non-nuclear. strategic offensive weapons of growing importance they have a growing impact on the overall strategic stability thirdly we think that. in this very situation it would be only possible for russia to stay within the parameters of the treaty even if nothing happens on the part of the u.s. that infringes national security interests of russia to an extent that. you know continues implementation of the treaty becomes questionable. offer more on the start treaty and the latest on the issues over iran's nuclear program watch the full interview with russia's deputy foreign minister sergei ripped off later this hour. now two eyes breakers in russia's far east have

rescued a fifth and final ship that had been stuck solid in ice for a nearly a month once refueled the ice breakers will return to escort 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 and immediate rescue operation was launched but the thickness of the ice is well severe weather conditions hampered progress on several occasions the mission had to be halted altogether as a rescuers themselves were in danger of being stranded. also have. this hour here in r.t.e. media manipulation why are they keeping up with the news of dover might change the way you think. a religious education has become a compulsory subject taught in some russian schools the students are allowed to study while for major religions and learn about tolerance and understanding but

critics say it only divides the society r.d.x. on a boy who 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 were on the top of their agenda when 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

other studies slam only even one country in will have to know some basics about each other's faiths dividing children is not a good idea at all the organizers of the experiment said just that schools should be able to provide classes on any religion no matter how small the group being taught the shortage of financing often means that only one or two classes are offered. here in the town of cost and central russia the children are well read about orthodox christianity if you are able to name all the religions practiced in russia. i don't mind other religions but i like orthodox christianity because it's the religion of other home and. 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 clearly discrimination against jews kids who are not religious so what are they going to do . going to be separate from the class or what and it's also a tremendous pressure to accept one or the other for religion not because the blue of this religion but all of the go there too 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 a 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 it's a work of art c. . and alice take a look at some other stories from around the world and 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 in the same route last week which claimed more than fifty lives. police are firing tear gas ad demonstrators on the streets of the country's capital and a new wave of unrest crowds are calling for all the former leaders allies to be removed from power it follows a month long uprising that deposed president ben ali killing almost eighty people on sunday authorities detained two men allegedly loyal to the rule. around fifty thousand people have marched through belgium capital demanding a government there has been seven months of political stalemate in the country and an official ministration has been in place since last year's elections produced no

outright winner politicians have been unable to reach an agreement over how a new 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 through mainly poor areas tossing cars into buildings and burying families alive as rescuers continue digging through. the death toll rises daily that's in that it could reach a thousand this week the disaster now ranks as the second worst in brazil's history . and palestinian leaders have denied allegations they made offers of territorial concessions to israel during middle east peace talks had palestinian negotiator dismissed the accusations as a pack of lies the details of the offers are said to be in thousands of leaked

documents uncovered by the al-jazeera news channel some of the confidential records suggest israel rejects the offers which include keeping parts of occupied east jerusalem. at a range of new media outlets in moldova are being accused of trying to influence its audience politically critics say romanian sponsors are controlling the content of t.v. news and publications to promote reunification with the country but others are simply applauding more diversity in the press. 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 freer 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 connected me and offered financial help this is in exchange for my website as he pulled the idea of reunification which we moldova and romania or something three quarters of. 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 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 fifth as decision to grant

russia the right to host the twenty eight hundred foot ball world cup. it is the first full color paper in moldova and it is published in the romanian language rather than moldova in its deputy editor in chief says this is not an obstacle to popularity here. in this really go to seventy five percent of moldova speak romanian and this is a fact proven by the academy of sciences designed balanced approach to news is something new to this country opposition politicians believe such strong media influence from a book or. could threaten moldova's sovereignty the campaign that is. being run by the local press that is as i told you supported it with government when there. is constructed that way to make the integration possible camera flitting through the so-called european integration those promoting women

a zation of moldova have not been shy of using rather underhand methods according to one political expert on the middle. of incapable of crisis 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 join to raise their influence alexy russia skeeters r.t. reporting from kisha now moldova and brings us up today here in r.t. time now for a business update don't go away stay with us. hello

and welcome to of business update bank of moscow says a racing away after russia's alpha bank announced it was interested in making a takeover bid the lender which was founded by the disgraced former moscow may. gained as much as thirty four percent its biggest intraday rise for six years the bank will likely have to bid against the country's second biggest lender vici b. which has previously expressed an interest in the assets before monday's show jumped bank of moscow it was dollars wronged nine billion dollars. and staying with the sector later on monday prime minister putin will hold a meeting on how russian banking should be modernized the government wants to raise capitalisation to increase competition and improve services. let's have a look at the markets european stock markets are high in early trading monday helped by mortars against the mining sector and most retail and automotive stocks

banking stocks are seeing losses lloyds banking is down one and a half percent and world bank of scotland is dropping two point seven percent barclay and h.s.b.c. are both slipping into red point two percent. foundered russia of the r.t.s. in the mind six a slightly lower losing the same number of points about point three percent is the see or read most of the blue chips are losing more leverage by one percent that's solid bucking the trend is for those gold up one point seven percent and corning mittal forty six percent on higher gold prices. russian energy chips are traded moderately negative with the oil majors lukoil and russell have both dropped me about half a percent that on the backdrop of the government raising that oil exports to ship by nine point two percent from february and the person hydropower monopoly was hydro is on just. via losing a third set of losses sparked by authorities raising the terror charge runs in

siberia. now one see it 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 them are the number of carriers have resorted to throwing out as many as two dozen chairs to qualify their savvy another plane has just lost three rows their c.e.o. says this will save them a significant amount. on a monthly basis will save substantially over a billion u.s. dollars in our in our cost base obviously that would increases as the number of aircraft increases. and i think we continue to hope that this is so you for your short term measure and not by the summer when the high profit to mom is there in the market and we can reduce all those twenty one seats and go about two hundred

eighty seed across russia's largest sugar producer who saw growers once again trying to hold an initial public offering and insights thoughts claims the company is going to list in london as soon as the spring may raise up to five hundred million dollars per side cross first i.p.o. attempts took place last year the company sought to place around thirty percent of its shares in russia but finally postponed offering citing market volatility. that's your business update for now let me remind you that you can always find more stories on our website our two dot com slash business. good.

close up team has been to the on screen. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times some from now wattie goes to the center of russian defense production to quit christianity and shamanism existed side by side for centuries. people in remote villages a cut off from the basics we take for granted the completely and republic russia close up on r.t. .

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