the opposition will have a. new parliament and. will be investigating. a deadly attack. in the city of course killing at least three people and injuring dozens more. sanctions on syria and one sided pressure don't work. the west for ignoring atrocities committed by opposition groups who aim to create a humanitarian catastrophe in the country. the former ukrainian prime minister supporters have stormed the building where yulia timoshenko seven year jail term for power abuse.

international news and comment live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is. present a. promise that all reports of violations during russia's recent parliamentary poll will be looked into he made the comments as he met with leaders of the parties elected to the state duma well for more let's talk to. live from central moscow sara what else is present event of said at the meeting and how has the post-election situation been developing in russia while he was talking with the other leaders of the party that made it into the dream of course. the communist party. and the liberal democratic party now we heard of of course addressing the concerns of the election. he once again reiterated that all these claims are going to be fully investigated now we also heard him talking about the part of the opposition again to have to play in the. saying that they should have

a best say in the team a committee of course we had all the elections united russia lost the parliamentary majority that t. says majority so you know it's russia two we're talking about two milledge in the thought they will have to work much closer with the opposition in the feature to boss important decisions that compromises will need to be made he also made notes of the need to continue political reform highlighting the importance of including social groups in the discussion say that no one is ignored of course all of this coming on the back of tens of thousands of people taking to the streets over the weekend to have their political voices heard amongst other things demanded a rerun of the parliament chair lections now so it's already turning some oats to the presidential election season we happening in march and we've seen russian billionaire mikhail prokhorov throwing his hat into the ring he announced his decision to run calling it

a decision that could be one of the most important of his life. somewhat surprising he's being known in the polls much more his other proceeds which of course being russia's third largest third richest man a very cool man as well third richest man that is money and metals and. he's also the i know of an american boss people to name for his exploits as rush's most eligible bachelor but is the political fail that he's been looking to play at the moment he was leading white schools in the some of the he quit that quite visibly in september we're seeing him now planning to return to the political spin on his registration isn't finalized yet that's expected to happen within a couple of days he'll of course join the other four candidates now he's also had his spokesman of this company announce that he has no plans to buy me. major media holding here in russia. again

a very interesting week time's decision because. it has seen a lot of controversy surrounding it today also its decision to fire one of the chief editor of the magazine now they were fired the publishing of pitch that depicted and seen language that was related to the parliamentary elections firing his kools a huge amount of anger and commentary among journalists inside and outside of russia and out of this as well a lot of concerns about the violation. of the freedom of speech that. the sun has said that they apologize for that picture being published no need. for the spokesman called the sun have links the calm the sun firings and pro quos intention to run indeed. entire approach to his plans for his political future and he's been very of base of about so not much known about that yet we'll have to

wait and see what happens in the coming days and weeks this certainly the place elections live in interesting as of ahead. thanks very much indeed for that. at least three people have been killed and up to seventy five injured in a hand grenade and gun assault on a crowd in the belgian city of police say the attack in the central square is not related to terrorism it was carried out by one man who died in the incident. has more details. this deadly attack did happen in that's about eighty kilometers from brussels here it happened around twelve thirty noon and that's around lunchtime this is in the city center of could get quite busy at that time now what happened. in our reports say that there was one carrying a kalashnikov that has to be confirmed exactly how the attack happened but then there were explosions and there are

a number of killed as well as injured and right now there are a lot of the police are there investigating their helicopters flying around the area all buses in the city have been evacuated to stop the services the shops have been closed in the center there are some people there who are stranded because they were requested to remain indoors of all people they are also requested to stay in their homes and not go out into the streets now this is a surprising especially this doesn't happen much less. in european capitals and it reminds people of the latest attack the recent attack in norway where there was an explosion in all slow and then a gun battle went to the island of toil where there were students have you joining a political meeting the total death toll there was seventy seven that rocked the norwegian capital there and this incident here in belgium certainly rocking the country again the details to come as we get them. that's reporting there still to come this.

activist targeted port trade hubs in america's west coast in defiance of a relentless police crackdown. on the record the coming into the war in iraq. after nine years of occupation u.s. troops will leave behind his political party destroyed infrastructure and port security. the story still to come first russia's foreign minister has accused the west of turning a blind eye to armed opposition groups in syria which aim to destabilize the situation there and create further calls for foreign intervention so he has repeated his belief that a one sided approach to resolving the country's crisis is wrong and wants both sides to hold dialogue to broker peace. has more. foreign minister lavrov

slams the west for what it says is a one sided approach by some western states to the situation in syria he says that instead of looking for ways to bring peace to the country more pressure is being applied on the syrian authorities while the atrocities committed by some of the problem western groups within the syrian opposition are being ignored and these groups use hostile and aggressive tactics which only rock the boat and worsen the crisis even further. our partners who are calling on us to be decisive don't want to condemn violence committed to the extremist groups which have become increasingly active in syria in the city of homes several blocks have been occupied by militants they regularly attack army posts as well as administrative buildings hospitals schools police patrols and public transport i think there's no doubt that their goal is to provoke a humanitarian crisis to have an excuse to coup from outside intervention. to go

off added to that presenting these hostilities as the syrian opposition its efforts to gain democracy by some western states is an inadequate approach at the moment he stressed that the libyan scenario cannot be repeated in syria and reminded that russia and china are putting forward their draft resolution on syria to be a u.n. security council which condemns the violence but does not give way for any foreign military intervention in the country and said that accusing russia of hampering the work of the un security council in these conditions is immoral elbow foreign ministers including of course the i was serious with algeria being one of the keep whereas in the arab league have also called for syrian authorities to monitors from the organizations to enter the country see what's going on there on the spot and actually said also said that if wanted then monitors from the bric countries could

also join them meaning brazil russia india and china of course. well to discuss this further i'm joined live from beirut by dr mark has something he's an ambassador for the universal peace federation so russia's foreign ministry once again criticize the western approach to syria as biased what about the sentiments where you are in the middle east do you feel one sided pressure and condemnation is actually aggravating the situation as has been suggested. it is true i mean the aggravation of the situation is only one side the source for which is the being pressured by the west and the nato alliance actually towards the syrian sovereignty and their own independence now the regime is under huge pressure by international organizations under the umbrella of the united nations and the european union and the united states for sure and in foreign policy so far has being download i mean

they are downloading all their efforts in order to put down the regime as soon as possible where their own strategic interests will be implemented through another regime that they are planning to take over after bashar al assad which is the president of the current republic of syria will be all stood by the oppositionists inside syria now the whole situation i believe there has not been so for a true peaceful dialogue as an as i am an a mass of the for peace i urge all parties inside syria to have a certain dialogue but it seems that the west and specifically the european union and the united states have been you know concentrating on the position that there is no dialogue with such a president dr bashar assad i believe there is still a gap between both parties i mean there is syrian regime and his counter let's say

falls or political foes inside and outside the republic of syria so i did all to be more pressure and more efforts being perpetrated by independent arab states that they haven't played a role so far in the arab league and major clout powerbrokers all the thanks for sure for the russian federation and their support for syrian regime so far so there should be a certain balance between both parties in order to have a certain dire political dialogue between conflicting parties inside syria. so you talked about the western interests there. says that sympathy with the opposition and destabilizing the situation is in fact an indirect way of making sure that any full scale intervention is justified as we saw in libya so do you do you really believe that is the agenda that the west has i believe it's through any foreign intervention i believe in i urge what the surrogate lavrov has mentioned the

foreign minister of russia this is true and this is according to us as i am a lebanese american i am a political analyst plus i'm an ambassador for peace i don't deny any intervention inside lebanon and whether it's also inside syria shouldn't be any international intervention inside the sovereignty or towards the sovereignty of the independence of of the regime of syria which is under the control of the president bashar assad no any foreign intervention needs to be a well planned for and through the diplomatic channels that under the international convention for diplomacy under the united nations or under the geneva convention this should be well planned and thoroughly planned by the west or any international power that deems itself as a superpower that would like to intervene inside syria and surely this is it has been could not a lot of this tension be diffused by the very fact of letting observers in they

would help to expose the atrocities committed by extremist groups which the syrian government is claiming if that evidence is secure then surely that would then. make the situation very different would it not. it is i mean this point this is a very good question sir yes at the point of all observers as being witnessed by both parties whether they are the regime or the opposition is so far the opposition is headed by ben had a deal for you and i mean the head of the of the opposition outside syria unfortunately is that inside the event they are they are pressuring through the arab league to put of servers as soon as possible on the ground in order for them to monitor any atrocity by the regime itself and these are the the regime wants well all observers to be included actually not only international but arab and even engineer or that are close to the syrian regime i mean this is their own interest

and i believe so so they would like to see independent observers to observe all the atrocities being perpetrated actually by the extremists muslims and the opposition is two words that is against the regime inside syria today so it's a balance situation between both part sure dr sun and thank you very much for your thoughts there ambassador for the universal peace federation joining us live there in beirut thank you. the violence in syria that's plagued the country for nine months has recently intensified with the death toll now exceeding five thousand people according to the u.n. latest estimates but syria's ambassador to the organization has dismissed the allegations as quite incredible with some experts also questioning the source of those figures. there are definite questions on the credibility of the syrian human rights observatory particularly when it comes to the number of victims that they lead sheriff victims after the government atrocities. you can watch awful interview with a specialist on the region dr daniel must. there's also plenty of other expert opinion

on syria's going on rest and the latest news from. hundreds of protesters have been storming ukraine's court of appeal that's where the country's former prime minister's conviction for abuse of power is being challenge you know tymoshenko is trying to avoid spending seven years in jail but couldn't be present in court due to poor health meaning the hearings were pushed until wednesday. as this report. the fate of ukraine's hold prime minister still remains in the shadows because we understand according to her lawyers that according to the iranian law the appeal decision the decision on her appeal cannot be taken without due to a shy girl herself presence in the court room and she is not here and there's also a great deal of control over see on that story as well so some sources say that she has a very serious blood disease other sources say that she has a ruptured spine and she cannot walk by herself that's why she was not delivered to

the court building as of today on the other hand. the medical crew inside the detention center report that to her condition is not as severe as it's been told and that in fact she can and she's able to attend this court session so it is a mystery why she was not delivered to the court building as of today now. he's been convicted to seven years in prison for abusing her power during when she signed gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine but even if the appeal court brings a positive decision on her appeal she would not be set free media the because as far as i understand there's almost a dozen other charges against her and this is only the first day of the appeal hearing and definitely this is not the last protest we'll be seeing over the next few weeks or even possibly months as some experts predict will lead to this are all business test takes a look at the energy deals between russia and ukraine. but it looks like the ongoing gas dispute between russia and ukraine may soon be resolved the sides have come to draft agreements on forming new joint ventures and this would mean that

russia gets access to ukraine's gas transport that work in return for gas price cuts more in our business bottom. occupy protesters in the u.s. have clashed with police as they state some of the biggest and most hopeful storming ports up and down the west coast thousands of activists took their frustration to major shipping hubs from california all the way to alaska hoping to disrupt trade and corporate profits but he's going to come on has more on the campaign. seattle police used flash bang percussion grenades to disperse protesters still blocking the entrance to a quarter of the adult facility where we've said multiple people have been arrested they did not specify how many of those those protests were part of a national effort to block west calls for trial thousands to go on boards to disrupt what they described as an economic machine that benefits the wealthiest individuals and corporations the protesters cared for in need managed to

disrupt the work of those major ports on the west coast in oakland the board there was almost entirely shut down same in portland in l.a. now a bit about why courts the protesters say they want to cling to the profits of goldman sachs goldman sachs own have one of the world's largest transportation and shipping out there for the occupiers it's a way to make a point to get back at this funeral bank wage has very much contributed to the financial crisis in new york occupier says marched in solidarity with their fellow protesters on the west coast they took their message to goldman sachs directly marching around the banks a little lower manhattan headquarters almost two dozen people got arrested during you know what looked like a peaceful demonstration there so far as already said being quite successful in cracking down on those peaceful protesters across the united states this man

killing their camps and making demonstrators more than five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months and those are as the only me he can be her live anymore that's what it seems like it seems to be hope to have become business as usual as occupiers are being forced out of there are two five locations in parks and plazas all across america members of the movement want to make sure that their message doesn't manage to get there when there was tense there . on the way to go. on to a website for more stories comment and analysis here's what's there for you right now. western media hype over this amateur footage filmed during russia's weekend. claims that the strange aircraft used for aerial photography was in fact u.f.o. a government surveillance trying to. bridge ablaze dramatic pictures of raging on this vital piece of infrastructure in russia's far east with hundreds brought in to help fight the flames.

u.s. troops are finally due to withdraw from iraq by december thirty first the end of nearly nine years of war u.s. president barack obama reiterated that point at a joint news conference with iraq's prime minister who's on an official visit to washington says the troops are leaving a sovereign and self reliant iraq has discovered many iraqis still wonder what america really accomplished. as two thousand and eleven draws to an end and historical chapter for iraq and the us is finishing as well the occupation is over . i'm glad that the americans are leaving who are still concerned because after the troops leave we do not know what will happen next meanwhile despite all the efforts

by the us there is doubt that anything significant has been accomplished in implementing a new form of democratic government and i think that's why they're not. destroy sadhana on. the old system is it. and they split the hoping to have a little think this thing which is more done from said down syndrome that's for generations iraq has been plagued by sectarian violence now moving forward there is concern whether different parties can agree to work together for the benefit of the country the problem of the with the u.s. forces but i know. for sure that the from the top to pick. up now the problem. why did securing that border to come. one of the problems here in iraq is that the infrastructure it was already crumbling but as the conflict progressed it was all but destroyed now the people living here say there's

a lot of rhetoric about rebuilding but the political infighting and corruption is blocking any real progress the military is getting pretty big foot in i tunes but in the same time we will not see yet another new projects going people here. to see the save the sikh community just need to look like that but this is a critical and beyond the political challenges there has been an exodus of critical thinkers and educated talent in the country a much needed resource for any developing nation we need people working in this a world of education. is there anything. we need. somebody to go to where you're. leaving your rockies in a position of continued reliance on american resources in baghdad sean thomas our team. brings us now to twenty four minutes past the hour here in the russian capital all be back to recap our top stories we are in just

a few minutes before that we have the latest business with kareen. thank you bill hello and welcome to our business update the south there's been progress in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine from says a deal will not be done by the end of this year media reports in kiev say the size of come to a draft agreement on forming new joint ventures this would effectively guarantee a russian access to ukrainian gas transport network in return for price cuts on gas supplies daniel bushell has been. on the face of it this is a success for all sides so supply transit to ukraine and european gas customers most importantly finally gets a say in the point line but politics are always just below the surface of any rush ukraine agreement current ukraine lead the code which is pushing to hold to get cheap russian gas is possible for ukraine but this may be a case of the you know because on thursday. this deal allows mosco to present

a solution to the gas tensions that we see every christmas in two thousand and nine and two thousand and six ukraine even cut off russian gas to european families european consumers were affected. the trouble for russia continues. russian gas to europe are also affected is that ukraine remains highly politically unstable ukraine's last prime minister yulia timoshenko is in court today fighting her conviction for being too generous with russia on a previous gas deal with many ukrainians still opposing closer ties with this deal could easily be affected if. returns to prominence in key of let's have a look at the markets now or prices are surging outpacing a broad rally in stocks strong retail sales the rosy glow of the u.s. economy and this trading at one hundred dollars the balance. is that over ninety

dollars a barrel now stocks in the u.s. cut games turn a negative and late morning trading on tuesday the decline comes up to media reports that german chancellor angela merkel has turned down the idea of boosting the. rescue of the euro. stocks in europe and spain sold four point four billion euros in government debt more than. banks remain under pressure on traders over the solving debt crisis german shares are getting a boost automaker rose over one and a half after the family member sales of its core passenger car brand. it was nearly fifteen percent of the year. there and here in russia markets closed in the black reality has ended one over one hundred percent higher than was expected over two percent in the black let's have a look at some individual shambles otherwise six oil majors among the main gainers with ross now have over three percent of all precious metals mine importers gold

bonds from earlier losses the last three percent on monday to its main shareholder a russian billionaire we had approached her over announced he would run for presidency and still make a severance not again after news of a possible merger with libel. now the ongoing shareholder tensions in russian british could see another twist b.p. is calling on the oil venture to file a lawsuit against the board members nominated by russian owners. according to newspaper bidding to see the british major claims they are new about b.p.'s plans to form an alliance with up in advance and did not inform the board they are eventually blocked the proposed arctic exploration shuswap deal on the basis that it violated the shareholders agreement with b.p. . well that's all i have for you this hour but stay with us for headline news with bill coming up right after this.

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