i blind scott by the e.u. . which in our day coming to live from moscow ten am here on marina joshie addressing changes in the country is expected to announce a plan to reform russia's political system in his fourth and final state of the union address internal political issues are predictably anticipated to be the main focus off his speech following the post-election developments our days of work is going off as the details from central moscow. less is going to be the meter to me this fourth and final state of the union address since we do know he's not planning to run for a second term in office and day he is expected to focus on a set of political reforms in the country following the recent parliamentary election and public discontent over its results and to the way it was conducted to

december saw various protest rallies held across russia with the biggest one happening on december tenth in moscow and according to the most modest estimates that gathered at least twenty thousand people now the president previously has ordered to investigate all of the accusations into violations to during the elections and we know that over fifty criminal cases have been started already and the results from over twenty polling stations across russia have been canceled nevertheless with around ninety thousand polling stations across the entire country . the election in general has been deemed officially a success and the new stay duma has started working and that's one of the reasons why this particular state of the union address is being held so only in december since traditionally it was held in november and that's the reason so that the

president could address a working problem and ten also talking about the set of political reforms which the president is going to is expected to talk about me than he did if he's not planning to stay as the president of russia but he is planning to become russia's next prime minister a flood zone which in windsor the top job during the election in march so all the things that meet him in videos will focus on today are still definitely going to be quite relevant. purpose not performing now arab league observers are due to arrive in syria on thursday as part of a plan to hold violence in the country that's after one of the bloodiest weeks since the beginning of the unrest nine months ago activists say more than two hundred people have been killed in the last few days the u.s. has renewed its call for president to step down warning of new international measures unless it was draws security forces from the streets here he is already

suffering under a set of sanctions as r.t. sara first reports it's the ordinary people who are feeling pain. it's been nearly ten months since syria's uprising began the capital of damascus has remained largely sheltered from the conflict. in the bustling sense so it seems like it's business as usual as one says sets in the winds of change have begun subliminable stronger the arab league's imposed tough economic sanctions the effects of which have you felt even hid in a poor area of damascus and her family struggling to make ends meet her son is learning that he's full of the beans for a living that he barely makes a hundred and fifty three in pounds a day and three dollars to support him and his wife. now the fuel for his vending cart has become harder to get hold of with shortages and it's the economic sanctions driving the race up a bit and their last products available and the prices are pushed higher there have

been fights over gas we've been trying to manage by cutting back as much as we can but sometimes when we can't afford it which is don't eat the economic situation in syria was one of the areas president that had been seen to be making progress here . the for a population that it started seeing the results of economic opportunity a lot financial transactions. had blackouts become. more because of the economic sanctions people rushed to stop part fuel of gas just . people are a little bit afraid of the fact that water or gas might run out this is why you see these queues this in place by the arab league it was fake the sanctions which the government had and when it came to ending the violence in the country business side syria at the moment many feel it every day people are looking. and is that they

could be even darker financial times ahead share prices in our stock market securities to change. down affected by some lows for example the use of the capital of. banks in syria the increase of interest rate of the banks and affected in directly on the decision of the investors and it goes ping from the arab league will be paving the way and observe the mission to at the end of the month much opposition they remain skeptical about whether that too will bring about any real change so these coups up in the west of the conflict areas change can come and they meet tesing some periods of t.v. families like finding life under the sanctions increasingly desperate search. damascus. they are based author and political analyst eva gondor says the situation

in syria is not as clear cut as western media is trying to portray. most of the international media with the exception of a few stations have ignored the fact that the bashar al assad government is fighting armed groups internally and it's country groups that have been armed again by outside forces and they've instead tried to portray it as civilians peaceful civilians protesting for change in their country who are being massacred by the government this is an incredibly dangerous manipulation of fact that's occurring and and that we've seen in other countries like the case of libya that's been used to justify outside aggression military action and war and and political assassination of a head of state so i think that again this is an attempt to try to garner support from public opinion try to alter the perception of what's taking place in the country and also to get the support from other countries onboard and for those

countries and their governments to be able to justify their actions to the people of their nations i think that again we have to be very cautious about the information that's coming out of syria about what's going on in that there's no question that they're armed groups that are fighting against the government and that any government in any country in the world has the absolute right to defend itself against armed militia inside its own country we've seen it in the case of the u.s. we've seen it in the case of other countries throughout europe and it's happening in the case of syria. and later this hour we'll return to the place where the rest of the arab world started as we look back at landmark events of two thousand and eleven through the eyes of our correspondents who witnessed and covered down. i was very very frightened and it was moments like that when you realize that the news in a place like toughness where someone sneaks into another changed dramatically. from the dangers of being a female journalist reporting from the front line to the prostrated hopes of

egyptians in the second part of our special series in just a few minutes. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on r.t. they would be any unions imposed tough new restrictions on the sale of drugs used to execute people in the u.s. move that's likely to worsen and already short supply across the atlantic is aimed at finding capital punishment and some of its controversial methods but there are fears that intrepid states may find a way around the controls as our reports. they've tried hanging electrocution and most recently a drug used to euthanize animals but now american jails will find it much harder to kill prisoners on death row the main supply line for its lethal injections has been cut off after the e.u.

slaps new restrictions on drug exports i really think this will make a difference and we will see the effects of this this control order in the coming months that the the u.s. relies on european drugs for use of executions and without them they're going to be stuck and lives will be saved specific execution drugs are made in the e.u. but several american states have been importing sedatives instead drugs designed to help being used to hurt. exports of drugs like sodium thiopental will now be controlled to stop their use in a three part lethal cocktail the in a static was being used to put the condemned inmate to sleep as another drug paralyzed before the final heart stopper was administered without that initial numbing stage lethal injections are unconstitutional under u.s. law the usual supply for these drugs has been dwindling since the only u.s. manufacturer ceased production last year american prisons though found an

alternative source right here in west london at this fairly unassuming driving school the buildings also shared by dream farmer a british firm exporting british drugs the us prisons to kill people the u.k. government soon found out and banned its use so american prisons searched elsewhere r.t. reported in may now some states have begun using pen to baba told a drug normally used to put pets to sleep that's never been tested for human executions its primary use for humans is to treat epilepsy but it has no pain killing properties many feel its use on death throes tantamount to torture this can cause excruciating pain if something goes wrong and because we have no test we cannot guarantee that nothing will get around to people at risk of not just being killed being tortured to death following our report danish manufacturer impose their own restrictions to prevent printed barber tools misuse the new e.u.

embargo covers eight barbiturates in total including painted by. us stockpiles will eventually run dry but many fear it's only a matter of time before prisons try again with something else unfortunately the death merchants in the us can sometimes be creative in terms of what they put to use in order to put people to death and so i think what we need is a clause which said if other drugs should appear on the market and we discover the u.s. is is. misusing those we can quickly have a quick procedure to those to the list without you no way to know the year aside from lethal injection other methods like hanging in farming scored a still sanctioned in the us but in now really used these new restrictions may not choke off the drug supply completely but it will certainly talk the noose on america's controversial death penalty. by the bennetts london. despite going jandal a was american prisoners britain's point just with violence at home

a real board instead of a rubber one a report says u.k. police could have used a live ammunition against arson is joining the riots in the summer. also soaring into space a russian soyuz rocket has been successfully launched from the baikonur cosmodrome with an international three on board find out what they'll be doing on the final frontier at r.t. dot com. spain is facing a stare and costs of more than sixteen billion euros announced by the new prime minister it's hopes the measure will prevent madrid from following in the footsteps of fellow eurozone nations like greece and italy there are teetering on the brink of financial disaster because of their dance next hour we hear from a number from

a member of the european parliament who thinks measures taken by governments in those countries have come at a cost to democracy. last month we saw crews in two e.u. member states initially as in greece elected prime ministers were toppled would favor all europe respectively a former european commission member former vice president of the european central bank. yes they had what are called national governments but the governments that you put together for the sole purpose of pushing through an agenda that would be rejected at a general election so that we see the if you like the democratic tendencies that were always there implicitly in the eurozone we now see them explicitly apparatchiks brussels deal directly with apparatchiks in athens i did wrote the people and their representatives have been cut off altogether.

six more bodies have been recovered from the sea taking the number of confirmed dead from the weekend's oil rig disaster in russia's far east to seventeen thirty six are still missing after the calls for him capsized while undertow to port and sank within just twenty minutes fourteen people were rescued from the waters within the first few hours of the rig going down a breach of safety regulations is being investigated as the main cause of the incident. now it's time for our special series of first hand reports on events that mark twenty eleven the gyptian revolution did not just change the course of the country's history but spearheaded the arab spring the wave of protests that swept across the middle east and artie's paula's leader was reporting from there and shares what never made it into her alive news reports.

i think my biggest impression from covering the egyptian story this year is the sense of betrayal and anger that people in egypt still have when i was there back in january when the revolution started talking to protest as they the general consensus and really this is what people were saying to me was that they felt that they were part of history they were creating a new country and a new future for egypt. going back again in november when the second resolution happened all the second part of the first revolution depending who you talk to those same protesters told me that they felt that the trust that they had placed in the army had been misplaced there are hundreds of it wasn't people who are still not right now in times square as you can see many of them heeding quite. occupation it was dangerous covering the egypt story as a journalist and i think it was even more dangerous to cover that as a foreign journalist i remember when we have a better time so if you read we kept

a very low profile we tried not to go too much into the crowd in tahrir square we took all kinds of signage that we had on us that said we were journalists i mean of course a con tied to camera there by and large you don't want to call the attention she knew that is necessary the officers from which we were forecasting we took off all the signs that say that we were media because this was also was inciting anger and frustration among the people. people often asked me if being a woman is an advantage or disadvantage to going to dangerous areas as a journalist most of the time that is an advantage because we find that people have to shake things mode with you on twitter you can hear men and women because you're a woman and you list three thing perhaps in a male colleague but i did feel frightened being a woman in tough experience that people. they may even need to be replaced one dictator hosni mubarak one not one i can tell me that anything i'd look for tough

is square when i walk through female colleague whether it was an egyptian temperamentally russian cameramen and i always felt much safer putting my arm through his but people would still want possibly brush up squeeze a part of my body and look at me with this kind of leering that leaves you feel very frightened and very vulnerable as a woman. back in february when the police were taken off the streets there was a real sense of completely honest most in cairo and i remember doing a lot of reports of my talks it was. blaring out i mean i'm not out and i'm not a. yes i am certain that night i had to move back to the hotel because there was a curfew and there were no cars on the street and it was almost to go walking past apartment buildings and see people coming in front of the apartment buildings that had formed a kind of nightwatch group and you had people in their eighty's and their ninety's standing there with literally a kitchen knife or a kitchen broom and with that they were going to protect their apartments farm

these gangs that were patrolling the streets of cairo they were trying to steal what they could because as i say there were no police around this is your friend as if. there is one to go to particularly i was very frightened we were standing on the outskirts of tusker square i was talking to a group of people and as always have to speak to one person and then everybody comes to see what's happening and and people in the waiting room so it's not that they are listening to what's being said often they just want to get a voice is exposed on the telegraph and in a moment and that's and that's the scary part is that these things happen in a moment in a moment the entire mood changed when people started yelling and shouting not that they just wanted their voices to be heard but that the actually wanted to hear to us as journalists and of egypt to come in and i was working with understood in needed. what was happening he started screaming for me to get into the cockpit i remember the drive it because we had a driver that had been allocated to us came screeching down the road on him looking

pushed by the crowd and the journalist did the kemah and was pushing me into the comedy getting into the car he kind of flung himself in off to me in the car was banging on the cot as we sped away i was very very frightened and it was moments like that when you realize that the mood in a place like tucker square from one second to another can change dramatically. and i don't even know if the word revolution is there why would but i don't think the revolution in egypt is over we've witnessed to say zus of perhaps the same revolution or two revolutions but again the anger the frustration the disappointment the same sort of hopes of not being realized is poll people on the streets of cairo every week when there is a sense that this country is nowhere near where people had hoped and dreamed it would be back in february and i think this is the general uncertainty that is sweeping the middle east there is a sense that things are changing but another sense of no one not knowing exactly

where and how and what ultimately these changes will bring. well as we look at other news from around the world in the fear the paul and many women feel on the streets of cairo has come into focus ten thousand marched into squares they continued to show their outrage over the treatment of female protesters several women have been physically assaulted by soldiers during the recent government down on activists the brutality included being pulled by their hair beaten and stomped on laying on the ground military council issued a statement of regret for what it called violations against women and promised to punish those responsible protests began last week when troops cracked down on a sit in to demand egypt's military power to a civilian authority. at least eighteen people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of explosions that rocked the rocket capital the dad were all killed in

western baghdad when two roadside bombs exploded ambulances rushed to the scene of a third explosion in the eastern neighborhood of karada where a large plume of black smoke rose over the explosion site. parts of colombia are still in the water after unusually having rains battered the region flooding and mudslides have killed nearly two hundred people since rains began early september government officials have released more than five hundred million dollars to help those affected so when i said it's the worst prolonged rainy season in decades and is expected to continue through january. later today one of the world's most deadly disasters this time manmade is explored in our special report.

it was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in the condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution already. continued to be more than a hundred thousand people. walking in the back to children see their children popal to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects than children in the rest of the country. do you see as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong into these. unpunished. why was special interview and sports just had but first corina will bring you the latest business news.

it's twenty three minutes past ten am here in moscow welcome to business the podium of the global oil majors has witnessed a reshuffle as russia's rosneft became the biggest oil producer among public companies during the first nine months of the year it has produced one point six million tons more oil than the previous leader american exxon mobil analysts say the output of the u.s. brown was hit by the arab revolutions which led to an eighteen percent loss of its oil production in the region will snap increase its output by two point seven percent with a majority of its all with a majority of its all deposits located here in russia. market watchers believe the global oil market is deeply confused middle east tensions and eurozone recession casting a cloud over the world economy investment banker maxine shushing call from explains what investors are up to and how this will affect russia. you know what we're

seeing in the more the market is a very confused regarding the future on the wall. of people. hold of them on your options if you sit between. the moods you could increase will produce substantially . the boy which we. profile more so nobody can know in the position to guess where or for us who believe those are those who obviously affect the. pros will start to come move on to the pressure of a recession or expectation that could be very there could. be a while or as a pair gains earlier futures rose half a percent to ninety nine dollars a barrel a sharp drop in u.s. crude stocks overshadowed persistent horrors of the eurozone debt crisis would curtail global forms of light sweet is trading at over ninety eight dollars a barrel of brant as at one hundred and seven dollars a barrel. asian markets are in the red massive central bank lending in europe is

adding to investors caution ahead of the year's end give me and concerns hit some financial stocks across the region tokyo listed mitsuko group lost one percent while bank of communications is losing half the side. field of water trading down over half a percent after issuing a sales warning making it likely that the for a would lose its position of the world's biggest pot accompanied by sales here and russia stocks are high in the first minutes of trading the r.t.s. is up half a percent while the. is up just a notch. less than actual news coming out of europe these days tends to drive markets down but analysts say the latest move to strengthen the union's banking sector will boost investor confidence. news just came out about the c b providing you know almost i think a billion euros of debt over the next three years to us just for the banks so i think this news should be supported for the markets we continue to like the

russians still to pull very much oversold that said i mean the russian market is very much oversold it's very attractive valuations at this point however you look to still is best when the gold plays in a limited basis point look we saw we think it's a very good company that said the limit in the price will be under pressure over some orders and with their current cost structure the margins will shrink from the outstanding twenty three twenty four percent the the record for two thousand and eleven. italian carmaker fiat has decided to build its own plans and what the deal expected to be signed in the country's length grat region next year analysts say its initial production capacity will be around one hundred thousand cars a year early if you plan to create a joint venture with local car makers sollars at the plant later fell for oh. well that's it for now but you can always find more stories just log on to our website artie dot com slash business thanks for watching. the book.

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a clear plan it seems to be a revolutionary way to get rid of or growing moon fields and a long list of russian leaders. welcome back you're watching idea here is a look at the top stories brushes in anticipation of the state of the union presidential address where it's believed to be out of will announce changes to the country's political system its reform has been the most pressing issue since the outcome of the december parliamentary election led to rallies against alleged vote breaking. arab league observers are set to arrive in syria as part of a deal with of the country's government aimed at tackling bloodshed there and that's the sanctions imposed on the massacres by.