three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media. present video pledges the opposition will have a better say in the new parliament and reiterate that all claims of electoral violations will be investigated. the deadly attack in belgium is a man approached hand-grenades and opened in the city of killing at least three people and injuring dozens more. sanctions on syria and one sided pressure to work russia's foreign minister condemns the west for ignoring atrocities committed by opposition groups he says aim to create a humanitarian catastrophe in the country. and a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid because of a service is stopped at the border of the being blocked by police from moving

further into northern cause i'm a reporter is at the scene. international news and comment live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is. president dmitri medvedev has promised 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 which is the lower house of parliament. has more now from central moscow. we had mcdade of the pools addressing the concerns of the election violations he once again reiterated the old those claims are going to be fully investigated though we also heard him talking about the pa the opposition to going to have to play in the need to miss 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 already been talking about two milledge ing that they will have to work much closer with the opposition in the feature to boston who is in decisions that compromises will need to be made 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 all the material actions now so it's already turning so much to the presidential election season we happening in motion we've seen russian billionaire mikhail prokhorov throw his hat into the ring he announced his decision to run somewhat surprising he's been known in the polls much more his other pussy which of course being russia's third richest man that is not money and metals and. also the idea of an american basketball 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 cause in the some of the he quit that quite visibly in september we're seeing him now planning to return to the political spin now he's. had his spokesman of his company announced that he has plans to buy media a major media holding here in russia. again a very interesting the times decision because thomas sand has seen a lot of controversy surrounding it today also its decision to fire its. i'm one of the chief editor of the magazine now they were fired for publishing a pitch that depicted and seen language that was related to the parliamentary elections firing his kools a huge amount of anger and commentary mongst journalists inside and outside of russia but nonetheless apologized to the pitcher being published but that ongoing

at the moment that's. not raising some eyebrows certainly but he said things certainly keeping life in this post-election political debate. at least three people have been killed and up to seventy five injured in a hand grenade and gunnel sold on a crowd in the belgian city of leverage police said the attack was carried out by building citizen who died in the incident. has more details for us. as police continue to investigate the matter details are becoming clearer so what it what happened is at around twelve thirty afternoon here in. the that's about eighty kilometers from brussels in the crowded city center gunmen have thrown about three grenades into a crowd and also opened fire at those people and it's it was reported that he also had more grenades on him now the prosecutor has confirmed that this man has to serve time in jail for crimes related to guns drugs sexual abuse and he was on his

way for police questioning when he launched the attack and among the dead include the gunmen a fifteen year old boy a seventeen year old girl and an elderly woman and of course there were dozens injured the those numbers continue to change in a short. goes on now what this terrorism has been ruled out of this incident but of course any such attack of this nature in the city center in an urban area is thinkable unimaginable for people and it does draw memories of that recent attack in norway where a bomb explosions went off in the capital and also then a gunman had gone on a shooting spree on the island of utah where there were students gathering for a political meeting there were several dozens killed in this incident so of course such attack of this kind of this scale has rocked the country and of course it's taken the people off guard. when it's get more reaction on that tragedy in belgium from glen ford he's a former member of the european parliament joining us now live in brussels now both

in authorities have ruled out any terrorism links but given the attack took place in a crowded square in the middle of the day what possible motives could the attacker have do you think well we don't know but it would appear that the it's an individual incident earlier reports that there were three or four gunmen evolved not to be discredited. he wasn't seeing anybody in particular apart from the people in the if you will. marketplace so in a sense it's not a i'm not a replica of what happened in norway nevertheless it's a tragic event both for those that suffered injuries and for those the families of those that died he had reportedly a rifle a pistol and grenades of course questions will be asked on how he could build up such a deadly arsenal. absolutely particularly on the basis of his own and his own track record certainly in most european countries and i confess to knowing exactly the law in belgium if you had

a gun convictions years certainly prevented from legally having guns or any other form of. weapons afterwards so how have the belgian people reacted to this terrible tragedy today well we obviously. made responses. but something like this can happen in both into something like this happen and in the recent past early reaction in many senses seems to be rather racist i have to say there was a bloggers are saying he's not being identified as a belgian when he was a belgian citizen but actually because of his maghreb in origin the people are talking about kill the muslims and it's all the fault of the muslims are the new socialist government has been in office i think now for nearly a week is being blamed for being soft on if you're soft on immigrants and not reacting hard enough well talking about the racist element we are hearing that a government in the italian city of florence has killed two african traders and

then taken his own life after that is an incident just today of course our reporter also mentioned the tragedy in norway not the sort of incident you'd expect to be happening in europe at the moment what are we supposed to be reading into these terrible events of the night. i don't know i mean i think the. norwegian example actually house if you want a political background to written clearly there seems to be a racist element. here it appears to be from what we know we don't know very much at the moment to be a deeply disturbed individual who i presume about to face from fairly heavy priests questioning and possibly another term a term in jail actually went on the rampage killing is easy as you've just mentioned earlier to politicize events like this and try to hang some sort of reasoning behind tragedies of this sort but do you think the european authorities have good cause to be concerned about these sort of attacks and indeed what measures do you think they should take or even can take. well i mean absolutely

though i have to say that in a sense the european track record is far better than other than the united states the united states we have these kind of rampage attacks happening fairly regularly in schools and elsewhere i think it's the rather tougher gun laws that we actually have in the european union that's kept it down to the lower level it is because essentially europeans are no different from if you want to market is it's the lack of access to weapons that probably has kept this under control to a degree that's no consolation to the lost family or for those that are injured tonight. you're a member of the european parliament a politician do you think though that politicians in belgium will be taking some sort of flak or indeed any sort of blame for this sort of incident. well i think it's well the only blame they can take is the fact they took nearly two years to form a government so in a sense nothing very much has happened they now have a government they probably really should look at this but they should take the right reactions not overreact as far as we can tell at the moment there is no

evidence whatsoever that this is got any if you want racial origins in the terms of the south from the assassin side it should be treated as if you want control individual gun crime if you want blaming a community of course everybody's thoughts are those with who those who have been affected in the asian of course are all those in in belgium thank you very much indeed for your thoughts they're going for joining us live there from brussels thank you. thank you. well still to come here on r.t. crowds of the former cranium prime minister supporters have stormed the court building where the unit timoshenko seven year jail term for power abuse is being appealed. and as barack obama hails the coming into the war in iraq the people there say that after nine years of occupation of war the u.s. troops will leave behind is political infighting destroyed infrastructure and port security. 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 signatures of his 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 you know peace can offer as more. foreign minister lavrov slammed 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 but it's not at all the opposite our partners who are calling on us to be decisive don't want to condemn violence committed stream is 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 transports i think there's no doubt that their goal is to provoke a humanitarian crisis should have an excuse to call for outside intervention. so you have an offer added to that presenting these hostilities as the syrian opposition's 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 the un 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 well both foreign ministers including of course the i was eerie and f.m. with algeria being one of the keep where is in the arab league have also called for syrian authorities to allow monitors from the organizations to enter the country see what's going on there on the spot and actually said you are also said that if moscow's wanted then monitors from the bric countries could also join them meaning brazil russia india and china of course. the violence in syria that's plagued the country for nine months has recently intensified with the death toll now exceeding five thousand according to the u.n. latest estimates but syria's ambassador to the organization has dismissed the allegations that is quote incredible with some experts also questioning the source of the figures. and there are definite questions on the credibility of the syrian human rights or of atari particularly when it comes to the number of victims that

they allege shyer victims after the government atrocities. you can watch a full interview with the specialist on the region dr run your mastery of our web site r.t. dot com where there's also plenty of other expert opinion on syria's going unrest and all the latest news from there. russian trucks with humanitarian aid bound for serbs in kosovo have been blocked on the checkpoint by forces. has the details now on the phone from the spot there. this humanitarian convoy has become a little bit of a political hot potato and the crisis only seems to be growing it set off of from russia a week ago it doesn't carry anything controversial just basic necessities which i needed full. said and thought of course we've been struggling through the past few months with blockades and everything else and it was doing until it seemed to reach the border this morning at which point it was apparently some of the trucks in the

corner let through but then the whole control is stopped and they received information that apparently elects which is the e.u. mission and council which is manned mainly by albanians which represent their interests mainly want to see you at school this can really into the problem of course and this is something which is unacceptable to the serbs i think this was from the point of the serbs an attempt once again to try and sneak in their official back up as officials and that policeman in the serbian territory and the latest information which we received from the russian side is that now there will be no compromise to what connally will be it's simply the structure beaten back and we'll have to get all that i'd like to russia. live from moscow this is r.t. you can log onto our website r.t. dot com for more stories comments and analysis in addition to what you see here on screen here's what's there at the moment should you log on right now there's much western media hype over this amateur footage filled during russia's weekend

election protests but claims at least craft used for aerial photography was a u.f.o. or a government surveillance drone. plus bridges dramatic pictures of fire raging on this vital piece of infrastructure in russia's far east with hundreds brought in to help fight the flames more than that at r.t. dot com. 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 challenged you know to machine code is trying to avoid spending seven years in jail but couldn't be present in court due to poor health meaning the hearings were postponed until wednesday. he has more. 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 controversy 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. it's being 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 immediately because the stars you understand there's almost

a dozen other charges against her 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 but later this hour all business desk takes a look at the energy deals between russia and ukraine. but it looks like the ongoing gas this week between russia and ukraine may soon be resolved the sides have come to draft agreement on a new joint ventures and this will be in the process i guess access to the cranes gas transport network at the time gas price cuts war and how this will. sink arena will be with us in about ten minutes from now even before the u.s. troops are funny due to withdraw from the wrong by december thirty first the full month the end of nearly nine years of war u.s. prison barack obama reiterated that point to the joint news conference with iraq's prime minister on an official visit to. obama says the troops are leaving a sovereign and self-reliant iraq but as was 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 but we're still concerned because after the troops leave we do not know what will happen next meanwhile despite all the efforts by the u.s. there is doubt that anything significant has been accomplished in implementing a new form of democratic government but i think that's why they're. on. the old system is that. they have hope and they 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 and the problem of the with the u.s. forces but i know. for sure that the from the pick. up now the problem. why didn't you is that voted to cut. 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 that the political infighting and corruption is blocking any real progress the military is getting ready made for it and i think so but in the same time we're not seeing yet out of projects going to be thinking you know. this is the this is the security just as i thought about this again i think over and beyond the political challenges there has been an exodus of critical thinkers and educated talent in the country a much needed rest. source for any developing nation we hear of people working in

great to see you keep. everything so we need you still in america on the. golf course leaving iraqis in a position of continued reliance on american resources in baghdad sean thomas r.t. . and later we'll hear from a former indian ambassador to iraq and all through the book the ultimate prize he thinks that america doesn't plan a complete pull out from the middle east country that interview in full later this hour but before that is a quick preview. i don't consider this an american withdrawal i think it's just a reshuffling of the pack if you would draw from iraq completely you leave this why must go over to iraq in the hands of a shiite led government which means we're going on to counter this that the americans have now thought of withdrawing their troops but at the same time strengthening their position in iraq now the u.s.

embassy in iraq is going to be about almost twenty thousand strong it's going to have numerous. offices like training training of troops except for who will be. basically americans who would be military men but working for the u.s. embassy by agreeing to withdraw troops as per the agreement they are in no way coming back varying civilian clothes. in fact i don't see any lessening off american influence as far as iraq is concerned. than it is becoming a little later here in r.t. canada has pulled out of the nine hundred ninety seven and global warming kyoto protocol saying the treaty is not working the departure comes a day after further climate talks in south africa led to a new agreement which is set to replace kyoto by twenty fifteen. excuse me while piers corbyn the founder of the weather action foundation supports canada's x.

it and here's why. i don't believe in manmade climate change because there is no evidence for it in fact carbon dioxide is controlled boy world temperatures rather than the other way around so frankly i'm glad that. left the kyoto protocol process and i hope it heralds the collapse of the whole thing climate change is going on and the key aspects of the big very extreme events that happen in the last eighteen months were predicted boy asked whether action using solar activity carbon dioxide zero effect zero effect no effect whatsoever it is a complete waste of time it's a waste of public money it's. a gravy train for so-called scientists looking into things which don't exist and of course for governments to impose taxation and oil companies to increase oil prices on the back of increasing energy prices which is the thing demanded by the global warming just nonsense lobby. corbin talking to me

a little earlier here on r.t. time now for a quick look at what else is making news around the world in our world update you need a new president moncef marzouki has been sworn in the no leave the transitional government becoming the country's first leader after the popular uprising almost a year ago long time ruler president zene aberdeen ben ali was ousted after weeks of public protests election of the interim leader follows approval over the weekend of temper to god the nation to the new constitution can be adopted. footage is emerging china of a group of bystanders lifting a vehicle to free a young girl who'd been hit by a car and trapped underneath a security video shows a five year old sitting in the street just before the car drove over sixteen people work together to ensure the child was pulled to safety. the latest business news now with kareena is next stay with us live here in moscow .

thank you bill hello and welcome to our business update this hour there's been progress on the gas dispute between russia and ukraine says the deal will not be done by the end of the year media reports in kiev say the size of come to a draft agreement on forming new joint ventures this would effectively guarantee russian access to ukraine and the gas transport network it would turn for price cuts for gas supplies daniel bush has more. 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 to the cove which is pushing a hold to get as cheap russian gas as possible for ukraine but this may be a case of the will you know because on thursday. russia and 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 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. the looking at the markets now prices are surging our placing a broad rally in stocks has strong retail sales but a rather rosy glow. when black is trading at one hundred eight dollars. dollars a barrel stocks in the us are slightly higher and may day trading after the previous

day's big declines investors are reassured by strong participation by as. they were able to sell short term bonds at the much lower interest rate compared with. most european stock markets closed lower that's up to german chancellor angela merkel has rejected to raise the lending limit or bailout that also cause the dollar to go off against the euro and here in russia markets positive black tests and it over why have. sand hi adam isaacs closed over two percent in the black with four majors among them and guess now let's have a look at some individual samples album isaac's cross nest and the over three percent of precious metals mine a point is gold balls back from early losses at last three percent on monday after its main shareholder civilian and we hope. he would run for president and still make a seven style game after news of

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