by lethal injection hits a stumbling block as a drug supply lines caused by the e.u. . every mob business desk russian equity markets a vast minority traded along with the price of oil with energy majors lifting the indices joining 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 an internal political issues are predictably anticipated to be the main focus off the speech following the post-election development so i disagree with your child is holding this for us and let's get the latest from her we've got to read a hello to you now tell us more about this here is

a dress and what can we expect to hear hello greta will russian police go to step in and it will be full we mentioned that but it's the trust of the federal assembly count fully and we'll be looking for some sort of announcement on mitchell but that is ongoing with or implants will be also looking at lose it what nature of the move it is exactly is going to change in the country's political system and many also believe this will be an unconventional the trust the will and the final mission that betty as the president soon see will how to react to the procedures which will loot country's parliament elections on december the so will these be an unconventional and uncomfortable the transport nature of it i would like to address this question to russian journalist says he would you do you believe this will be different than we would be better. because of the risk that. we easily lead to the. second thoughts is the president because it would say things

in the promise of the people's hearts what kind of the price of these little such things are going to be russia bonds they can keep these i think it was when the movie was going to see the size of the state media believe that the. legion received no it's not meeting the. go people think it's funny or like something that was. civil right now but if it saves. some of the sides of the kind of political book from which this is tight expects that the political boss constitutionally then it's going to be a great fit that all the stuff we call the expected to say things was written at the time so we're now talking about nothing but the not knowing about what was going to say but i think it's all this that he's going to sort of that's what it is and that is inevitable but stick to the stuff and what he yesterday in the first

forty day said in that if you continue to misspeak or said that made him it made it past like concrete plans to change it to a more light i think that three things this may expect some direct sun election these. regional governors back to life. for a constitutional constituency is no postulation but constituencies would be sure to there's a. complementary election. may be that we. all be counsel for the ration which is the senate here which is again at the moment being appointed by regional governors and region every channel. legislature whilst plays a child's cost to come back to the ninety ninety three year range ones where the senate his words were actually. 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. for years now he's covered that in the program

what do you think mentioning that it will be remembered more in this country as. well as history judges politicians differently from the way we charge them i wouldn't be surprised that for a common citizen his main delivers and will be the oppositional wintertime of his 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 firstly he will be a prime minister and in fact i think as high as his modernisation and innovation agenda is his 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 delivers in all its time i think i don't think i'm mistaken here that prime minister much better that he can't be prime minister because the united russia party which he left to right the introduction of the majority it's an irrelevant majority with george in

the parliament. prime minister has very few maybe in fact. for call the president. but i think his presidency will be remembered. as a presidency where a lot of things were said about the necessity of political changes. not all of the were necessarily carried. but there are several things which he articulated which he made law. which are not working so far. but which may well work in the nearest future for instance below 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 get this mana so in peace from the sort of minority opposition parties it doesn't work this time around it may work in the future same facts being a lawyer. yes you collates couple of things theoretically. which do not look like

practicalities thorson the bits which we may we'll come back to cali to see that it's all three or four years to the last speech the bit that's the president but all the eighty's in the cities what relevance. you got the chance for winning since you know you actually think you very much for your insight so give me a little bit less than an hour left before each with 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 tributes. all right thanks very much for bringing us this update that revenge over reporting there. an arab league observers are due to arrive in syria on thursday as part of a plan to hold while it's 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 assad to step down warning of new national measures unless it withdraw its security forces from the streets 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 sets in the winds of change have begun to blow 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 interests and her family struggling to make ends meet. has learning difficulties for the beans for a living but he barely makes a hundred and fifty syrian pounds a day three dollars to support him and he's white. and now the fuel for his vending

cart has become harder to get hold of with the economic sanctions driving by ice up . 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 we just don't eat the economic situation in syria was one of the areas president of that happening seems to be making progress here. the for a population that it started seeing the results of economic opportunity a lot financial transactions. have blackouts become little more than ongoing actually because of the economic sanctions people rush 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 because

inside syria at the moment many feel it every day people being punished. they could be even darker financial times ahead share prices in our stock market securities to change. down affected by some lows for example of the three years 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 the first ping from the arab league will be paving the way for an observer mission to at the end of the month which opposition they remain skeptical about whether that too will bring about any change to these coups that in the west of the conflict areas change can come and they meet tesing some parents have. the families like. finding life under the sanctions

increasingly desperate. 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 mood in

a place like toughness square from one second to another and changed dramatically from the dangers of being a female journalist were born a promise front line to the frustrated hope some exceptions 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 flying capital punishment and some of its controversial methods but there are fears that intrepid state may find a way around the controls as it is i've abandoned 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 interstate 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 at this fairly unassuming driving school the 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 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 that if other drugs should appear on the market and we discover us misuse. those we can quickly have a quick procedure to those to the list with you no way to know the year aside from lethal injection other methods like hanging and farming scored a still sanctioned in the u.s. but in now rarely used these new restrictions may not choke off the drug supply completely but it will certainly target the noose on america's controversial death

penalty. 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 i reports as u.k. police news live ammunition against arsonists during a ride in the summer. also doring into space and russia's so he's rock it has been successfully launched from the baikonur cosmodrome with an international group of three on board find out what they'll be doing on the filed here at r.t. dot com. now it's time for a special series of first hand reports on advanced up mark two thousand and eleven the egyptian revolution did not just change the course of the country's history but spearheaded the arab spring wave of protests that swept across the middle east r.t. supposed leader was reporting from there and shares what never made it into her live news reports.

i think my biggest impression from covering the egyptian story this 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 big 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 or 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 thousands of people who lost on arriving here in times square as you can see many of them heeding. occupation it was dangerous covering the egypt stories of journalists and i think it was even

more dangerous to cover not as a foreign journalist i remember when we go back and say do we 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 ican tied the camera there by and large you don't want to do the attention she then 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 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 frightened being a woman in tough experience people. they may even they simply replace the one

dictator hosni mubarak one not one i can tell me that anything i'd look for toughness square i want to female colleague whether it was an egyptian cameramen away russian cameramen and i always felt much safer putting my arm through his but people would still 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 completing the oneness most in cairo and i remember doing a lot of reports of my talks it was. blaring out i am not now not an. attack 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 sunil walking past apartment buildings and seeing 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 following 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 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 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 being said often they just want to get a voice is exposed on the camera 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 and people started yelling and shouting not that they just wanted their voices to be heard but that they're actually wanted to hear to us as journalists and egypt should come in and i was working with understood the need to. 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 i remember being pushed by the crowd and the journalist at 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 the one i would but i certainly don't think the revolution in egypt is over we've witnessed to say uses 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 the fear of paula and many women feet 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 could have being pulled by their hair and beaten and stomped on while they lay on the ground the 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 rule hand power to civilian authorities.

now some twenty three people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of explosions that have rocked the iraqi 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 raises 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 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. for him was hit by the arab revolutions which led to an eighteen percent loss of his war production in the region we also have to increase its output by two point seven percent with the majority of its oil of its all deposits located in russian 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 maxine 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 substantially. more so nobody. in the position to get us to believe those of those who.

move on to the pressure of. patients who could be very. 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 a barrel while brant 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 had a motor 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 the mosques this hour and as you may just a stronger gaining all strong of crude oil company percent up while gas producing over texas point two percent higher banking stocks mixed with slightly and so where . the taliban carmaker has decided to build its own plant 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. bureaucratic acrimony could leave russians without low alcohol beverages next year starting from two thousand and twelve everybody used imported item let's have a new excise 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 more 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.

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see. welcome back here with a look at the top stories rushes in and this is a patient of the state of the union presidential address where it's believed retributive will announce changes to the country's political system most pressing issue in the aftermath of the parliamentary election. arab league observers are set to arrive in syria as part of a deal aimed at tackling bloodshed there while sanctions imposed on damascus by the organization prove inefficient with people being the ones to feel the pinch plus.