a rebellion within the e.u. as to member states sabotage an effort to save the euro from canada. as britain and hungary say no to any e.u. treaty change and the dream of a united europe appears to be standing on a shaky ground more details from brussels coming up in a few moments. israeli missiles are rained down on the militants but hitting civilians in the most dramatic escalation of violence in the. last three selection protests in russia based on westerns heart skip a beat with a brush uprising r.t.

explains why the sentiment comes two decades today. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow the year has been dealt a severe blow at eleventh hour talks in brussels as the u.k. and hungry refused to sign up to new e.u. treaties marathon even talks left the core euro zone states making further agreements while all the european countries join in it to work out budget rules and changes let's get more now from our city he's an absence for us tess of germany and france have been stressing the importance of getting everyone on board at this summit it's not looking great right now so what next. well in view of the lack of a unified e.u. treaty including the all the twenty seven countries it seems like the direction it's taking is there will be a two speed europe basically those who are on board the franco german plan and

those who aren't while the scoreboard right now is that it's seventeen a plus six or seven thousand euro zone countries plus six of the non euro countries are on board sweden and the czech republic said they will have to consult their parliament before giving an answer while the u.k. and hungary have been a staunchly against this now this is not unexpected as david cameron before this summit had been saying that if there are no guarantees that will protect british interests he's not going to be on board now they also have veto rights here and cameron had indicated that they may even go further later on and block the use of institutions to implement any fiscal reforms if again it doesn't protect the interests of the u.k. especially when big groups will club together to form a financial financial regulations as well as labor laws if it's not in the interests of the country so what's next if the agreement that will come out of this will have to be written if it's going to be

a new treaty and then approved and the timeline target date for that is march two thousand and twelve. years in power houses have been desperate to keep the single currency afloat what are the odds at this point. well right now of course the euro crowds actually are rather happy with the results saying that the leaders right now are finally acting fast considering that the last lisbon treaty it took eight years for them to negotiate something so they're happy that it's actually moving forward but the big euro krauts are saying will this need for speed would it be sacrificing democratic processes and they're still asking what are countries like greece italy portugal and maybe even spain with economies that don't fit this euro system what are they stood still doing in this group ing and the question that journalists have been throwing at leaders throwing out leaders is at this point is the euro safe and the answer all getting here is i hope so it's all talk talk and more talk even the politicians know it. oh no i'm not believe that you more because too

often we did not live up to our words. yet another d.-day for the euro another big question mark hangs over brussels do years and politicians have what it takes to hit the euro crisis nail on the head once and for all the diagnoses is that the euro which should inspire confidence is not inspiring this confidence if there is no deal on friday there will be no second chance you know but even if changes get through it wouldn't change anything you will never solve this problem as long as these currencies. these countries are within a currency that doesn't fit their economy this is what all the fuss is about the euro that's what's backers of represents a three grand idea of a single currency what some would call the united states of europe but now the problems of become simply too big to ignore the question being asked is are they also too big to solve the possibility of a euro collapse is now an actual threat and here's another question is the euro

even worth saving some say yes the alternative exists as a possibility that we're to break down but i think a lot of for most policymakers most citizens at large rapidly see that the breakdown will be more expensive than maintaining what we have today and to make the to undertake the necessary structural changes some say no it was always going to end it was pretty clear there was always going to end in disaster with very very bad effects even for those countries which are not members of it and the blame for that should be laid firmly and clearly with the european political establishment whose obsessive pursuit of a united states of europe has got us into this mess and if the eurozone does survive what will it look like economically and politically now if i knew also that i'd be a wise man. r.t. brussels. well the summit has been called a do or die moment for the year zero u.k.

your m.p. nigel ferrars says in order to save the single currency european states will have to sacrifice their sovereignty to brussels. i think in the next twenty four hours the seventeen politicians not peoples will agree that they are going to push on that they are going to give incredible dictatorial powers to i'm elected bureaucrats based in brussels the markets will remain extremely nervous and remember that even the package they're talking about today it will take until march to implement and i think in the meantime the eurozone in particular the mediterranean countries are extremely vulnerable indeed and i do not discount the a breakdown in the markets will overwhelm the whole euro problem and that the euro zone countries and the e.u. institutions will find themselves simply not big enough to cope with believe you me if we were to put this your aid package to the electorates of greece of portugal

ireland this really of spain they would all say no because you know the better solution is to have their own currencies back to have a successful competitive devaluation and then and only then to put in place the kind of austerity measures that are needed to get their borrowing back under any sort of control and really these countries now find themselves these electorates find themselves trapped inside an economic prison that is called the euro their democracy has been stripped from them and my fear is that the kind of civil disobedience and civil disorder that you've already seen on the streets of greece will multiply. their sharp escalation of violence in the middle east with israeli bombs raining down on at least one palestinian civilian was killed and twenty five wounded most of them women and children tel aviv stepping up its assault on hamas militants and the support of their reports by campaigns putting more innocent lives in the firing line. early this morning friday at least three israeli airstrikes

targeted a hamas training camp in the gaza strip now in some of the shrapnel from one of those bombs that hit nearby homes at least one palestinian civilian was killed this follows an israeli airstrike last night thursday in which two high ranking palestinian militants were killed while traveling in a car in a crowded area in gaza city that was the first israeli strike in a concentrated area since the israeli gaza border back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine now the palestinians have responded with a barrage of rockets there were five because some rockets and grad missiles fired on southern israel the south of israel is in a state of high and the residents have been ordered to remain near a bomb shelters throughout the course of today and this comes as various faction groups in the gaza strip point for increased revenge attacks against israel we also are hearing from hamas that it's ordered its operatives to keep a low profile so the this is the most dramatic escalation of violence that we've

seen between israel and gaza in civil weeks now with the israelis accusing the gazans the gazans accusing the israelis and the scene does seem to be suited for a return to violence the israeli palestinian peace talks have yet again stored despite international pressure and largely over the issue of israeli settlement building like we witnessing from tel aviv is an increase in settlement construction so much so that the united states which is israel's closest ally has actually criticized the israeli government for its moves in this direction and now the israelis for various sides have also by targeting these two high ranking palestinian officials and as a strike there is day resumed what seems to be a policy of targeted killings because he hasn't been any kind of targeted killings since two thousand and ten and this is causing many to say that there's an inconsistency in the israeli policy it was just several weeks ago that is rolled released more than a thousand pounds. in prison as in

a prisoner exchange deal with hamas now we witnessing it once again targeting militants at the same time we're hearing from various human rights groups that they particularly concerned that the israelis are again putting civilians in the firing line the relationship in the region is becoming more fluid all of this does set the scene for a real showdown professor honey our bosses of the islamic university of gaza billie's israel simply has no respect for international. has been targeting the got the story many times for the past many years. i think it's a continuous policy of those where the army to keep the situation as it is don't kill as much people as they can in the gaza strip. would like to try people the way they like this is not a way to deal with palestinians even if they were responsible for the killing of israelis it's not we all use it at all i think the israeli

army has killed thousands of palestinian people and no one has convicted them their israeli side saying now they are trying to accuse somebody to justify their actions it's a justification and up to this moment which people trying to believe that there has been a calm and a truce between palestinian factions and there's really a side what come to be is. approved there is rated military will keep its own action against the gaza strip and this would lead to more violence. so to have this our western media is slow on the uptake likening moscow's political rallies to the arab spring days now he's russian security concerns over the alliance's proposed missile failed to get the latest is gonna solve the situation. and find out why these occupy protesters in boston have a cause for celebration despite the threat of a fiction. well

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says parliamentary elections have been topping headlines in the west said sunday funnies al that's the the protests that have been taking place in russia's arab spring and he said oh it now reports say the comparisons are twentieth to late. dockery or. sky. u.s. senator john mccain tweets dear vlad the arab spring coming to a neighborhood near you but is it seems russia's so-called slavic spring came and went twenty years ago. mccain and hillary clinton really would like this to happen and you see it in their relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit the u.s. and of course they're pushing for this but don't think it will happen there we're talking here like protests during the collapse of the soviet union hundreds of thousands were out on the streets. people who are. always in the

ninety's they will. get. most of the few thousand out on the streets of moscow after these elections look young enough to either not remember or be unable to compare some of the story is funny how it worked out the middle class that exists today does so because of the politics of this government if they rebuilt the country four years ago there was a much smaller middle class if any. a middle class egyptians would dream of its revolution praised as democracy by the west saw the military take over. but we have only one demand that the military council and the army go back to their barracks and start protecting the country they've demonstrated they're incapable of leading the country over the last nine months to hooters certainly proved twitter and facebook are fierce tools when planning protests some thirty thousand have

already signed up for a moscow meet on the weekend but russia should have been a lesson to egypt but to rebuild from scratch can take decades tens of thousands of young people are preparing to come out onto the streets and voice discontent and that means millions won't it's a safe bet many of them remember all too well the turbulent ninety's what chaos means for such a large country and aren't willing to go back and start over and he said now r.t. moscow. orlow confidential e-mails show that washington's funding of russia's independent election watchdog. peyronie's order to discredit the polls results published by a russian news website life nis the correspondent describes payment fact it's reporting on voting violations one of that is this from the u.s. state department praising the safe seats work and promising further support prime minister putin slam washington for triggering protests in russia by calling the

elections you also want foreign powers against butting into the country's political life would you read more on the watchdogs deal on our website www dot com. you can also get an in-depth analysis and opinion pieces on russia's post and action if you find out in the last eight weeks of the u.s. secretary of state risk poising the reset relations with russia also see how long the american news channel betrayed antigovernment protests in moscow. prepared to be raked when boarding a flight in the us cuts off the f.b.i. revealed his definition of a crime or that some of the much more. is even.

the official location. called talk from the. lawyers on the. video. old girls. and street now in the palm of your. on the dot com. nato is refusing to address russia's security concerns on the thorny issue of european missile defense that's moscow's conclusion after talks with the alliance in brussels foreign minister said again our forces the u.s. led plan isn't ready to cooperate with the shield they taste of pointed antiballistic system near the borders with russia which most cases as

a threat to its national security the alliances rebuffed kremlin requests to guarantee it poses no danger washington claims the shield is aimed at iran and north korea but r.t. has been hearing from analysts who strongly doubt that there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you what it would be very difficult to imagine a country of that size aiming a ballistic missile the united states because it would be like marking the country for elia lived with a big x. is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't exist the worst thing to look like is that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield that some people said that why not do it that sort i think the idea is that political pressure to the home if they don't continue to push that way this administration will use it as weak and it doesn't want to be viewed as weak right

now from a strategic perspective going into a national election going to check out some more world news in briefly this hour and a deadly fire at a hospital in eastern india has killed at least seventy three people hospital staff are being accused of abandoning patients and fleeing on the blaze broke out most of the victims are said to have died from smoke inhalation while officials say the death toll could rise it took firefighters five hours to bring the blaze under control the fire started in a basement where flammable materials were being stored. a gunman who killed a police officer in a us university car park on thursday has reportedly been found dead police say they still have no motive behind the cop killing which happened during a routine traffic stop when the attacker walked up and killed a policeman before fleeing virginia tech as the site of one of america's worst ever deadly rampages when in two thousand and seven a student massacred thirty two people before killing himself.

an explosion has wounded at least five u.n. peacekeepers in southern lebanon the blast occurred in the city of tire with local media claiming a french patrol was the target there have been several attacks on peacekeepers in lebanon since the summer including last month's bomb explosion at a hotel based by u.n. style. renia state t.v. showing officially age of an american spy drone that officials claim was downed by the military last week the revolutionary guard says it was captured in an electronic ambush ungrounded near the afghan border iran claim six years ago the u.s. was sending survey ment's craft to spy on its military and nuclear facilities the pentagon says iran is unlikely to recover data from the drone. nancy corporate all protesters in boston have been given their marching orders while they please i'm yet to respond protesters are rocked into celebration at midnight to police that

they wouldn't immediately remove them from their encampment off there's no indication of when the eviction would take place elsewhere police interrupted a mass demonstration in washington d.c. arresting seventy there becomes a part of a three month long fight against corporate excess which has already seen thousands of arrests but many are still determined to stick it out however hard it's. the occupy movement are facing not only pepper spray but things like the sound cannon the long range acoustic device which can blast your cranium with one hundred forty decibels shaking your skull so hard even earplugs won't stop it this weapon has been tested on palestinians in the occupied west bank by the israeli army so civilians in the u.s. are now up against basically military style policing what's behind it is a mentality among our police forces our local police that views common civilians protesters as common criminals. now with the festive period rapidly approaching and

time to get your skates on and the moscow al team is feeling pretty slick in a few minutes. hello and welcome on this week's program we'll be taking a look at various activities you can enjoy over the festive period that's right christmas is just a few weeks away alyssa real much in moscow over the new year period i would bet it starts off and go ice skating here i'm at school i. live. on the mascots have in just

a few minutes for the first they get all the next to me. welcome to the program there's an east west divide on the markets today in europe because these are up that's after you summit which saw a majority of the bloc commit themselves to tighter fiscal rules to save the euro but here in russia the markets are sharply down and that's because of unique factors affecting domestic confidence in particular the prospect of anti-government demonstrations on saturday which is making investors more risk averse the sell off on both the r.t.s. and the my six appears to be speeding up in the mid session we are seeing the r.t.s. and my six down three and a half three percent respectively although we did see peaks of four percent in the red something like two hours ago we take a look at the main movers oil majors are down amid cheaper crude with ross now and lukoil down over around three and

a half percent financials are also under pressure is moving declining three percent it's now profit almost doubled during the first eleven months of the year reaching nine and a half billion dollars according to russian accounting standards now europe is positive this hour's strong zero point nine percent of doubts one point eight twenty three members of the e.u. have agreed to form a new fiscal compact to rein in their deficits there's also been the offer of more support for the most indebted nations. and therefore the euro's up in the dollar is down and commodities priced in dollars such as oil are also high on light sweet gaining sixty three cents the brant is just under one hundred nine dollars but about. two thousand level has not been the best in terms of mergers and acquisitions in russia with values far below that seen during a peak in two thousand and seven but global bankers predict that could pick up next

year with the consolidation at home and firms looking for bargains abroad. one would be in market consolidation so for example in the banking sector where you have thirteen fourteen hundred banks there is a need to consolidate in order to have both the required capital given some larger regulatory trends such as movement to basel two and ultimately basel three as well as the need to have sufficient liquidity to grow the balance sheets in market consolidation for some of the old economy sectors will continue second we expect to see outward investment by russian companies and shareholders into europe and the united states taking advantage of the situation in those markets to become more global in nature. russia's biggest investment companies have lost tens of millions of dollars in the first quarter due to the stock market collapse in august and september yachtie as my six fell by eighteen percent and thirty percent respectively during that period and according to very misty newspaper troika

dialogues losses exceeded one hundred million dollars in part because of a portfolio valuation of the end of summer the london arm of the t.v. capital which invests in russia as the losses of around sixty million dollars although some firms have done a lot better for instance metrical not on which maintained the level balance sheets . also in brief travelers to russia may no longer be able to buy duty free booze at the border the shops are not able to meet new rules on keeping their alcohol in warehouses due to tight control of and seaports this could be a big hit for duty free stores as revenues from drinks make up to forty percent of the sales. and life joint venture between china's thunder sky and russia's nano technology corporation has launched the world's biggest lithium battery plant in siberia and a four hundred million dollar project will provide power units for electric cars and buses and other green technologies are expected to take up to fifteen percent

of a share of the world's battery market by twenty fifty. more business stories on our website artie dot com forward slash business you can always go there and of course you can join me in fifty five minutes i will be here with an update.