the rush is an anticipation of the state of the union presidential address where is expected to be trim it that it will announce plans to change the country's political system. arab league observers are set to arrive in syria as part of a deal and the town playing bloodshed there while sanctions imposed on damascus by the organization prove inefficient by the people being the ones to feel the pinch. the u.s. relies on the drugs for use the next week and without them they're going to be stuck. america's controversial practice of death by lethal injection hits a stumbling block as a drug supply lines caused by the e.u.

. every business desk russian equity markets advance in early trading along with the price of oil with energy major lifting the indices join me for a full business bulletin in twenty minutes time. what you are going to live from moscow have a name here on marina josh welcome to the program well addressing changes in the country dmitry medvedev is expected to announce a plan to reform russia's political system in his fourth and final state of the union address that's about to begin any minute now and internal political issues are predictably anticipated to be the main focus off the speech following the post-election development so i disagree with her child is holding this for us and let's get the latest from her i got to read a hello to you now tell us more about this year's address and what can we expect to

hear a little bit where you will russian police go to stop the shipment it will be a full week but it's a test of the federalism beach county and we'll be looking for some sort of announcement that it's ongoing reform plans will be also. looking at clues that what may truly committed exactly is going to change the country's political system and maybe also the this will be and on conventional address the full and the final mission the better as the president since it will have to react to the processes which followed countries column enter the actions on december the so will these be an unconventional times uncomfortable to transport make sure that they probably like to address this question to russian journalist sic a big deal do you believe this will be the french way but it will. not because of the us. we need a visa which the second thoughts now is the president because you could say things

with the promise of the people's hearts what was the price of these bills such because it's the first bonds they keep these things when the movie was going to see was saying to me to believe that he. received. the money he would be. going to the. marks on their. civil rights now to see. some of the sites of the kind of political books in which this is tight expects that the political boss comes and cheekily that he's going to be a prey to something we call the expected to say things was. at the time so we're now talking about nothing not knowing about what was going to say but i think it's obvious that he's going to solve it all the time it seems and that is inevitable at stake in the stars and what he yesterday for the first fourteen day sit in that issue in the new term the speaker said that made him admit it has

like concrete plans to change to much more like i think about three things this may expect some direct elections. regional governments back to life. for a constitution and his. treatise is not population the constituency is limited to just. commentary. may be that with. the council federation which is the senate here which is again at the moment being appointed by regional governors and region every channel. legislature is whilst they see chance was to come back to the ninety ninety three arrangement where senators were directly. voted for by the by the electorate sergei's final attracts but mentioning that as it is president you. covered all of the fans with the president during these many years now he's covered that in the program

what you think mentioning that it will be remembered for in this country as. well as history charges politicians differently from the way we charge them i wouldn't be surprised. for a common citizen his main bridge delivers and will be the oppositional winds type of a time change. in winter months while this is something that people face in their daily life. politically i think i think it will be remembered it's probably firstly he will be a prime minister and in fact i think aspies has more than his asian innovation agenda as cancer has but better chances to carry it out being a prime minister. president articulate wide political agenda while the prime minister actually carries out things which have been articulated so he lives in all it's so i think i don't think i'm mistaken here that prime minister means better and he kept me private is that because the united russia party which he left to right the introduction of the majority it's an irrelevant majority with george in

the public the. prime minister is very if maybe in fact it's warm for the present. but i think his presidency will be remembered. as a presidency where a lot of things. it's about the necessity of political changes. not all of them were necessarily carry the votes but the several things which he articulated which he made. which are not working so far. which which may well work in the nearest future for instance hello the threshold for the parliamentary election from seventy five this will work from the next election. he gave the rights to the parties which is not cross the line to gets this one the two m.p.'s from the sort of minority opposition parties it doesn't work this time or may work in the future same sex being a lawyer. here to collate a couple of things theoretically. which do not look like practicalities for snow

boots which me may well be executed to see that it's all three or four years since the last speech determine if there is a president but all the eddies in the city just what relevance to t.v. coming they've got the chance for doing things you know exist so that make you very much for your insight city being built less than an hour left to be worked each image that it comes up with the state of the union address and many expect that he will drop some hints about how he believes russia's political reforms should be introduced. right israel thanks very much for bringing us this update after which our reporting their. arab league observers are due to arrive in syria on thursday as part of a plan to halt violence in the country that's after one of the bloodiest weeks since the beginning of the end rest 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 assad to step down warning of new international measures unless that withdraw security forces from the streets of syria is already suffering under a set of sanctions as artie's sara furthur accords if the ordinary people who are feeling the 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 sun so it seems like it's business as usual as one says the winds of change have begun to flow a little stronger the arab league's impose tough economic sanctions the effects of which have been felt even head in a poor area in the suburbs of damascus and her family struggling to make ends meet her son here has learning difficulties the beans for a living but he barely makes a hundred and fifty syrian pounds a day three dollars to support him and his wife now the fuel for his vending cart

has become harder to get hold of with the economic sanctions. there are less 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. economic situation in syria was one of the areas president assad had been faints be making progress be it. the for a population that it started seeing the results of economic opportunities a lot financial transactions. have blackouts become the norm. because of the economic sanctions people rushed to stockpile fuel and gas just taste 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 were full the government hands when it came to ending the violence in the country was inside

syria at that moment many feel it every day people are looking. they could be even financial times ahead share prices in our stock market sicker things to change. down affected by some lows for example the free use of the capital of. private banks in syria the increase of interest rate of the banks and affected in directly on the decision of the investors. from the arab league will be paving the way for an observer mission to at the end of the month. position they remain skeptical about whether that too will bring about any change. in the west of the conflict areas change can come and they meet tesing in paris if teeth families like finding life under the sanctions

increasingly desperate search. damascus. new york based author and political analyst even though 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 its 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 on board for those countries and their governments to be able to justify their actions to the people of their nations. 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 return to the place where the unrest the truth the our world started as we look back at landmark events of the twenty eleven through the eyes of our correspondents who witnessed and covered them. i was very very frightened and it was moments like that when you realize that the news in a place like tulsa square from one second to another changed dramatically from the

dangers of being a female journalist were born a promise front line to the frustrated hope some attention 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 our t.v. . the european union's imposed tough new restrictions on the sale of drugs used to execute people in the u.s. a move that likely to worsen an already short supply across the atlantic is aimed at fighting capital punishment and some of its controversial methods but there are fears that intrepid state 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 of to 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 the use in a three part lethal cocktail the n.-s. that it 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 but this fairly unassuming driving school buildings also shared by dream farmer a british firm exporting british drugs the u.s. 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 bottle 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 tests we cannot guarantee that nothing will get around to people who are 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 misuse. those we can quickly have a quick procedure to those to the list with you know the aside from lethal injection other methods like farming scored a still sanctioned in the us but in. these new restrictions may not choke off the drug supply completely but it will certainly. america's controversial.

by the bennetts. this money going channeling with american prisoners britain's pulling no punches with violence at home every old boy instead of a robber one there reports as you. use live ammunition against arsonists during a ride in the summer. also storing into space or russia so his rocket has been successfully launched from the baikonur cosmodrome with an international crew of three on board find out what he'll be doing on the final. now it's time for a special series of first hand reports on events that mark two thousand and eleven the egyptian revolution did not just change the course of a country's history but spearheaded the arab spring wave of protests that swept across the middle east. was reporting from there and shares what never made it inside her alive news reports.

i think my biggest impression from covering the story this is the status of betrayal and the 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 in radius is what people were saying to me was that they felt that they were part of the street they were crazy in your time to see a new future for egypt. and going back again in november when the states and there's a new show happened all the second part of the first revolution depending on 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 thousands of people who lost on prime time where as you can see many of them feeding. me and occupation it was dangerous covering the egypt story as a journalist and i think it was even more dangerous because when that as

a foreign journalist i remember when we get back from safety we we kept a very low profile we tried not to go too much into the crowd in tough to 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 temora so by and large you don't want to do the attention to them is necessarily the officers from which we were forecasting we took all the signs that say that we were media because this was also was inside some anger and frustration among the people. people often ask 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 move with you and i'm talking to men and women because you're a woman and you laced with me perhaps in a male colleague but i did feel fine and being a woman in tough experience people. they may even need to be replaced why not take

months remembering what not minutes i can tell me that anything i go through tough to square i walk through the mail trolley 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 knowing 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 completeness most in cairo and i remember doing a lot of reports of my talks. very high i'm not a. yes i'm 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 walking past apartment buildings and seen people coming in front of the apartment buildings that had formed a kind of night watch 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 that they were going to protect their apartments 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 was one going to go to particular where i was fully functioning we were standing on the outskirts of tusker square i was talking to a group of people and as always have to just speak to one person and then everybody comes to see what's happening and and people will be in the waiting room so it's not that they are listening to what's been stated often they just want to get a voice is exposed time to time. and in the moment and that's and that's the scary part is that these things happen in a moment in a moment the entire move changed when people started yelling and shouting not that they just wanted their voices to be heard but that they actually want to appear to us as journalists and egypt should come in and i was working with understood in egypt. what was happening he started screaming for me to get into the car i remember the drive it because we had

a driver that had been allocated to us came screeching down the road i mean looking pushed by the crowd and the journalist did a come in and was pushing me into the comedy getting into the car he kind of flying themself in off to me in the car was banging on the car as we squared away i was very very frightened and it was moments like that when you realize that the mood in a place like toughness square from one six into another can change dramatically. and i don't even know if that would revolution is the one i would but i don't think the resolution in egypt is over we've witnessed to save themselves perhaps the same revolution or two revolutions but again the anger the frustration the disappointment of hopes of not being realized is on the streets of cairo if you will when there is a saying 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 stance of no one not knowing exactly where and how and what ultimately these changes will bring. well as we will get other news from around the world the fear of paula and many women feel on the streets of cairo has come into focus and ten thousand marched for your square as they continue to show their outrage over the treatment of female protesters several women have been physically assaulted by soldiers during the recent government crackdown on activists were telling you you could have being pulled by their hair and beaten and stomped on while they lay on the ground and military council issued a statement of regret for water 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 rulers hand power to a civilian. story. now some twenty three people have been killed

and dozens more injured in a series of explosions that have rocked the rocking capital the deadliest attack was in the neighborhood where a blast appeared to target rescuers and officials responding to a previous explosion authorities say four car bombs and ten roadside bombs exploded in several locations throughout the city the blast are the worst violence to hit the country since a political crisis between iraq's sunni and shiite factions erupted this weekend. well it brings it up to date here on our t.v. and let's see what's happening in business with kareena. hello and welcome to our business update this hour thanks for joining me the podium of the global oil majors has witnessed a reshuffle as russians 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 and of those

say the output of the u.s. for him was hit by the arab revolutions which led to an eighteen percent loss of this war production in the region they have to increase itself with by two point seven percent with the majority of its oil of its all deposits located in russia market watchers believe the global oil market is deeply confused middle east tensions and eurozone recession are casting a cloud over the world economy investment banker a call from explains what investors are up to and how this will affect russia. you know what we're seeing. the market is a very confused regarding the future. of people. both of them on your options you said between. the moods you couldn't produce will produce substantial mix of the boring food which we. move recession proof. in a position to get us to believe those of those who. move

on to the pressure of expectation. meanwhile all has pared gains only if you choose roles half a percent to ninety nine dollars a barrel a sharp drop in u.s. court stocks overshadowed the system worries that the eurozone debt crisis would curtail global oil to mount likes where it is trading at over ninety eight and a half dollars per barrel while the brand is at one hundred and seven dollars per barrel markets in asia are in the red massive central bank lending in europe is adding to investors caution ahead of the year and european concerns hit some financial stocks across the region tokyo listed mitsu home group lost one percent while bank of communications is losing half a percent in hong kong and they were demoted traded down over half a percent after issuing a sales warning making it likely that the firm was lose its position as the world's biggest auto company i say. here in russia stocks are high in the first hour of the

trading session the r.t.s. is up over four percent of them isaacs is up over a quarter of a percent let's have a look at some. of my success and as you may just a stronger are gaining on strong of crude oil company percent while gas producing over texas point two percent higher banking stocks mixed with slightly the web. comic of fear has decided to build its own plans in russia with the deal expected to be signed in the country's leningrad. next year analysts say its initial production capacity will be around one hundred thousand cars a year only if you had planned to create a joint venture with local can make a solid plan later fell through. bureaucratic acrimony could leave the russians without alcohol beverages next year starting from two thousand and twelve every produced or important item let's have a new step over the precise details of how this will be put into practice has yet

to be confirmed market players say they will have to put a cork in production if the government doesn't approve the norms by the year end some producers have warned they will run out of war house alcohol by much well that's a business update for this hour but join me in about forty five minutes for more here on business. well going into the future new year's wishes on technology updates next generation

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