reporting into the. not credible. i'll be bringing you more on this. 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 american culture. moscow and washington. treaty. through in russia as the country prepares to vote on its ratification. and business russia's biggest bank is reportedly

planning to buy the country's biggest investment house more in twenty minutes. in new york. welcome to the program turkey has condemned the findings of an israeli inquiry into the bloody storming of a gaza bound that happened last may the report ruled the operation by israeli troops did not violate international law the flotilla was trying to break the israeli blockade and so bring aid to the palestinians in gaza nine. killed in that assault. has more on the story. these radio 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 equally 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 acted did not break international law because it was like to have a stage that the gods of donald fertility intended to break these weighty gluck aid on gaza now these many 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 aren't member of parliament who belongs to an arab policy of one kenyans wabi she was there for telling she has come out in heavy criticism saying that it ignores the killings of nine to trish 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 photo of 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 leave 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 these to make sure of the commission 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. live reporting that now there are many more stories ahead for you this hour including a class of tolerance that's causing a stir. suggesting religious teaching to a school timetable but some say that would only divide students. the man accused of shooting u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the head will be in court for a preliminary hearing later today jared lee went on a shooting spree at a public event on the eighth of january in arizona six people were killed and about 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 two policemen injured after a man began shooting at them outside a department store in the state of washington that same day a gunman went into a police station in detroit and short for other officers violence has many

americans calling for tougher gun control laws but as aussies lauren lyster reports some see the weapon as a part of their culture and they say that taking it away goes against their history . you have to have as high as you can get ready. for the age of five for the right to bear. the target of debate in the united states can you sit down now 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 came here during the civil war and you're transported to kennesaw georgia. a world of the. order

where second amendment rights are exercising all the time everybody except. except whenever you 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 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 it's a law itself that got people in kennesaw take off it was performing coverage it received in what today we would call the mainstream press the battle with the mainstream doesn't end there issues in which people in kennesaw were 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 original claim uniform there except for the. correct is not are people offended when if 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 means that we had four years of destruction in this area here where we're trying to repair the invaders it's a historical thing and i have much respect and love for it and i think the racism of. the civil war it will have some. one from the air from or between states wasn't civil no civil war a civil war as a war when 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.

well you know we'll you know moderate 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 i think southerners view the last gasp of the citizenry against a and 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 they can't revolt could go and do what the government has planned but i won't call you come soon and so 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. just 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 them can you keeps criminals out i think that people you know would rather go somewhere else when you knew how to go 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. they stuck by their guy. mr r. t. kennesaw georgia. those of you who would like to read a bit more on the gun laws in the united states website. you can find out why and.

despite the financial crisis and how lawmakers in new hampshire change gun rules to appeal to quote liberty individual. famous nickname the lady more than three decades ago. this is the life in the russian capital now the pivotal nuclear arms reduction pact between moscow and washington is a final step away from being ratified by the russian parliament once again being debated before heading for its third and final hearing on tuesday russian. start treaty second reading last week in response to changes and reservations raised in

washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove all nuclear weapons from europe. also the other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear production in the treaty between president obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate now it needs a final say from the russian parliament deputy foreign minister. says there are several key points to be addressed by moscow before the deal is. and things are. outlined in these documents. is. believed in the. belief. the strategic offensive weapons defensive weapons secondly we thing that this so called non-nuclear arms 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 eve 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. and for more on the start treaty and the latest on issues over iran's nuclear program you can watch the full interview with russia's deputy foreign minister. that's coming your way later this hour right here on our. well two ice breakers in russia's far east have rescued the last of five ships that have been stuck solid in

ice for nearly a month once it refuels the u.s. will return to escort another of the rescued vessels to open waters a total of five ships with almost five hundred crew found themselves stranded at the beginning of january a rescue operation began but the thickness of the ice as well as severe weather progress on several occasions the mission had to be halted as the rescuers were in danger of being stranded themselves. well still ahead for you here at r.t. media manipulation find out how some say keeping up with the news in moldova might change the way you think. religious education has become a compulsory subject in some russian schools students are allowed to study one of the four major religions but critics say that instead of learning about tolerance and mutual understanding the experiment will drive divisions and society talks on

a bike or reports. it looks like any other class with quizzes home or being sad on an extensive syllabus yet it is the only one in this church and school where pupils on the web graded their studying the basics of islam the predominant religion here wishing you islam teaches respect kindness peace and tolerance. peace and tolerance on the top of their 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. first i think it was wrong to do right students so that some focus on christianity it will either study islam we all live in one country and we all have to know some basics about each other's feeds that divides in children this is not

a good idea at all. the organizers of the experiment said just got school should be able to provide classes and 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 mind central russia the children are well read about orthodox christianity if you are able to name all the religions practiced in russia. and you mind other faiths but i like orthodox christianity because it's a religion of our homeland. about three hundred thousand students just two percent of the total school population 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 if it's rolled out further first of all this is clear

discrimination against kids who are not religious so what are they going to do. they're going to be separated from the class or what and actually it's also a tremendous pressure to accept one or another for religion not because the blue 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 on the way to our theme. now i just turning eighteen minutes past the hour here in the heart of the russian

capital you with r.t. let's take a brief look now at some other world news and the palestinian leaders have denied allegations they made offers of territorial concessions to israel during middle east peace talks the details come from thousands of leaked documents uncovered by the al-jazeera news channel with accusations include claims israel rejected a controversial proposal allowing it to keep parts of occupied east jerusalem had a palestinian negotiator. dismissed them as a pack of lies. at least sixteen people have been killed by two car bombs on the outskirts of the iraqi city of karbala about twenty others were wounded police say the blasts targeted. to the holy city the bombings come on the back of three suicide attacks on the same route last week which claimed more than fifty lives. firing tear gas at demonstrators on the streets of the country's capital amid a new wave of unrest calling for all of the former leaders allies to be removed

from power that follows a month long uprising that deposed president ben ali killing almost eighty people on a sunday authorities detained two men allegedly loyal to the old people. 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 are still missing avalanches of mud and water ripped through mainly poor areas cars on the buildings and burying families alive as rescuers continue digging through the wrecked towns the death toll rises daily with estimates it could reach this week the disaster now ranks as the second worst in brazil's history. around fifty thousand people have marched through belgium's capital demanding a government there's been seven months of political stalemate in the country an official administration 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. divided between two with french speakers in the south and flemish speakers in the north. well a range of a new media outlets in moldova being accused of trying to influence its audience of politically critics say romanian sponsors or controlling the content of t.v. news publications to promote reunification with the country but others are simply applauding more diversity in the press. in. bester gets. 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 can check mate with an awful financial help in exchange for my website as he pulled the idea of reunification which we know gave up and romania or something three quarters. 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 data is 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 the first decision to grant russia the right to host the twenty eighteen for ball 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. in the synagogue a seventy five percent of moldova speak romanian and this is a fact as proven by the academy of sciences designed balanced approach to means something 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 the government when there. is constructed that way to make the integration possible chemical a think it 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 ax spurt in the middle. of an table of prices which brought costs russia's stations insert remaining programmes into the russian channels and time programmes which propagandized be caress wish to see about moldova they use russian stations to live 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 to alexi russia r.t. reporting from kish now moldova. are that business news is next with yulia. this is by. racing away heartened by interested in making.

the learn from stanford by just raised that made you do the schools gave as much as thirty percent because if you do a rise to six years oh my guess the country's second biggest blunder. which has previously expressed an interest in the answer before monday's. jump plank of moscow was valid nine billion dollars. and russia's biggest banks burbank may announce a deal to buy the country's biggest investment house troika dialog next month sources close to the deal summit on interfax say an increment has been reached but this still needs management approval. and a quick look at the markets now european stocks are mixed the solid the decks is down as to motive stocks were grossed early gains to trade lower shares and diana

and b.m.w. are falling one point six and two point three percent respectively in case footsie is up point two percent as losses for british bank stocks were pashto offset by gains from minus. and the russian indices a low of the sour there are chances losing about one percent in the market said it was dropping point seven percent it's a sea of red as investors taking profits most of the blue chips are losing whenever each about one percent this hour bucking the trend is porter's gold up about one point seven percent and pulling much old point six percent on high gold prices. and russian energy chips that traded moderately negative with oil majors look oil and cross net both profit over percent that's against the backdrop of the governor . and raising more legs or two to buy a nine point two percent from february and russia hydropower monopoly of course hydro is losing the most two percent after the authorities raised taxes on our

bonds and safe area. and world prices and makes this our bot v.t.i. losing almost ever sent prices up pulling as saudi arabia's oil minister says opec may boost oil supplies by two percent to see it to meet their covering to vaunt of the global economy. now one seat too many russian air companies are being forced to remove seats to avoid have to texas russia cancelled some judges on foreign made airplanes depending on the number of seats they have having done the math number of carriers have resulted to ferbey throwing out as many as two dozen chairs to qualify that savvy another plane has just lost three were rows there so you says this will save them a significant amount monthly basis will save substantially over a million u.s. dollars. in our cost base. would increases the number of creases.

we continue to hope that this is so usually a short term measure and not by. the high profit tomorrow. in the market that we can reduce all those twenty one seats and go about two hundred eighty seats. 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 as soon as the spring may raise up to five hundred million dollars for such gross first time temps took place last year the company sought to place around thirty percent of its shares in russia but finally postponed offering citing market volatility. ok about so have time for now but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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