you know. what's going on. concrete monarchy. egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future by reestablishing relations abroad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. thousands of syrians demand international protection on the streets of the country's most turbulent city of the arab league observers visit homs to assess the scale of the government's bloody crackdown amid doubts their impartiality. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro reportedly restricting cash flows and even posing borders. a controversial trial starts in russia as prosecutors seek to ban a version of the main book the very christian movement being an extremist group

that's caused an outcry among indians political elite. broadcasting live from moscow you're watching r t welcome the new post revolution egypt is heading a broad attempt to mend its relations with other countries and as part of that foreign minister is heading to moscow where the situation still very tense the north african nation to prove it's going to be stable partner. can offer joins us live now more what can we expect from this visit. this meeting was actually supposed to happen around a week ago but it was both fall due to the arab league's meetings on syria the organization sent its observers to the country its headquarters or in cairo egypt is it directly involved. syria is expected to be one of the key issues dominating

these talks in moscow russia and egypt both strongly criticized the violence in the country and stand against any foreign military intervention egypt is the prudent regional where also when it comes to the middle east peace process that's expected to be discussed here as well but the situation in egypt itself is still quite complicated with the ongoing violent protests and the country being in the middle of parliamentary elections with several islamic story and parties aiming for power in the muslim brotherhood for example and after the first round of the vote combined these bodies have managed to gather around seventy percent of the votes and the second round is expected shortly since it's born that the new column it will start working by the end of january so lots of issues are on the table here in moscow who will be watching this meeting and of course we'll report on all the

developments. that happen. ok for now we go piskun off live from moscow thank you. situation in syria looks set to dominate the talks in moscow the latest development tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of syria city of homs demanding international protection it happened after the arab league's monitoring team visited the area. to assess the situation in the country and show president assad's compliance with the regional plan to end the bloodshed. and times janice says there are doubts the missions. they have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries in the sector all are armed by outside powers and these outside powers are basically from qatar and the emirates will the arab league which is now. control why did she see the gulf

cooperation council interested gate themselves in this case we still don't know are they going to investigate you need to call truly to call and senator said out in the near the border between turkey and syria in the skin the room which is very across the border basically from aleppo let's see in two hours are you going to investigate that you are really going to convert the stick into shipment smuggling weapons fire danger of the syrian border you still don't look good it's a tall order for the arab league season and these are not exactly democracies they're investigating one of their all but they're also implicated in the whole big picture. here without he was so coming to a head in the program. who is trying to report and eventually to take aspects of a became base but time and sort of mid sentence just thinking oh my god i just

can't breathe anymore. we bring you our correspondents person reflections from greece looks back at twenty seven's main headlines also. you know the president of iran is now running. you know it's name not a gender gap for. us presidential election looming ahead we set out on the streets of new york to find out how much americans know about the building blocks of that country's policies at home and abroad. and in business a new era has started for the russian economy after it successfully finished its eighteen year effort to join the world trade organization more in business in about twenty minutes. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses in case of a u.s. doomsday u.k. treasury is said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees plans include evacuating british ex-pats mythic to countries who find themselves unable to

withdraw cash financial analyst robert oulds says attempts by european leaders to avoid worst case scenario only making it more never able. you opinion leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degrees of centralization and more having countries like france and germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets of those e.u. member states that have excessive budget deficits but that really isn't the answer to the problems milt's really needs either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy to shore up their economies course another option would of course to recognize that the single currency has hurt competitiveness in many nations of the eurozone and has damaged economic growth meaning that the economies can't grow their way out of the debt crisis that they're in and they're just in this debt spiral and having deeper austerity measures forced upon them which then means they still cannot pay back the money that so to various financial institutions around the globe particularly

french and german banks so really there's a number of options either to transfer funds from the north to the struggling south or course have an orderly break up of the eurozone. or greece still remains in the eye of the european financial storm but as twenty seven draws to occur as our team has been looking back at what's been a year of despair and discontent for austerity greeks are correspondent sara firth witnessed their anger reach boiling point and she covered the protests in the country. ok i think in two thousand and eleven we really sort of felt the world shift and. we saw people's protest movement sort of spread around the world and with the yearly crisis reaching fever pitch i think all of us had concepts north

woods and locusts in the west really meant and greece is certainly for me very much on the front line. and it became really the sort of the child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis to became a social crisis and yet this does this saying that if you're a hammer everything looks like a nail if you push people into a corner then they're going to come out fighting and i think increased that was exactly what happened. the first time in. reporting and they had a protest planned there remember in the morning. it was just off the corner a very very close to central square at the year i think crisis rumbles on greece's once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about it that you wait an hour and then going off and finishing to. getting

a phone call to say that we need to do another one and that exact moment we could hit the noises that would just like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner. almost immediately you just get a huge surge of people coming policy i mean you can barely me. this is a really intense experience and you sort of when you're right in the center of it i can't tell you what it's like to be around people. that's. the angry that they feel to a point where that having to ten outs and these sort of clashes and i mean it's really scary because it's not just a small hall cool. these people you know old people young people completely normal families that are tunning up that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ourselves

on the. side of one of the streets as the riot police pushing back. these guys to. the people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and metal and . it was absolutely. going off in different parts in time everyone was just sort of running around thinking very very lowest and we were just stunned to be honest i mean it just going from one hundred in the space of sort of twenty minutes and you know we found ourselves right and i remember just saying just keep filming this just keep filming it and i made it very hard to even to pretend it wasn't even a difficult time that i had to. be. as we.

the people. there. trying to reports and eventually to take us to a sort of a became time and sort of mid sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore. and i remember seeing the fishes. getting caught in the middle of the take us and just thinking oh that's just. saying coughing and spluttering in. to remember being quite embarrassed about. then we realized that it only see that clip quite a lot of people's attention. and i think it actually felt good that it was striking a chord with a lot of people because at that time still there was very much a sense in europe in the way it was being reported that you know this is

a problem that greece is having a problem and we were all sort of witnessing what was going on and i think when we were increased we realized very very quickly that it wasn't just. something that was going to face everyone. you know he felt when you were reporting that you witnessing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry. and very quickly alston tightness. in the crowd we're not sure exactly what that thing off but everyone's just trying to get up and you could see people by the riot. it was. almost you left all of that. and maybe more. right from the very beginning we wanted to see. the story from a different angle we were much more interested in getting the sale of what was

going on me. everybody needs. right now there's a chance you might lose everything that we know in this country you don't know what . you're like i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis it's a good mix of people. still and it was great as well the final result was really were. because if that was what was always important to us it is getting. the people in crates getting their opinion across because i think a lot of their voices really have got lost in the whole political economic talk kind of forget what it's all about which is about people talking and. mazing people i mean every single time i've gone back there just a welcoming. will continue to bring you person

reflections from our correspondents worldwide on the headlines of twenty seven and if you've missed any they're available to watch right now at r.t. dot com. there are two day ceremony which will finally see north korea's late the the laid to rest started in young after eleven days of national mourning live pictures of the ceremony here on r.t. meanwhile the world remains in the dark about what's next for the most reclusive country the attention now on kim jong il's youngest son and successor let's discuss the possibilities with the author of the search dr tim bill who's a specialist on a she joins us live now from new zealand not to be a funeral ceremony as we've seen is shrouded in secrecy just like any knowledge about the new leader really kim jong un so what's expected of him do you think. well because we don't know how he's going to inform you surrounded by older people

especially an uncle. looking at that. person i think we can see business as usual certainly for some time. and so the process is helped by this long mourning period . funeral. and after that people go back to work and. they will cope with the fierce winter and. we will see watch what happens now many say his western experience might affect his role and even pave the way for open the country up how likely is that to happen. well i mean if. it's not as we know he was educated in switzerland obviously that's going to have an effect but i think it's grossly overestimating his freedom of action. part of the north korean system but also mainly in respect of the outside world and in respect to the americans so it's not north korea since don't

want to open up and see americans and want to keep it. constrained. somewhat like they want to contain china different differently but it's all part of the same club the same package so what kim jong un can do is in many respects fairly limited. and we will again we'll have to see but i don't really depends very much on the americans of course straight after his father's death and there were fears it would spark instability in the region eleven days after how grounded are those concerns well i'm not sure if they were really concerned i think they will hope some wishful thinking especially will start creating south korea will solve this as an opportunity a possible opportunity to take and can. it's was also predicts that instability and . she could riots and start and we know the

south koreans and the americans have all these plans. operational plans for for for invading remorse so there was a hope i think that things would collapse up north and opportunity to move in that hasn't happened you can see the reaction in the future there goes that your management so. i think the the talk of instability was not so much concern and not the sudanese concern i guess from russia and china but from the point of view and career it was more wishful thinking and as we look at these extraordinary live pictures of the ceremony how do you expect this new beginning to affect the regional balance particular with south korea. well again i don't think there's much. to change in the short term there are very interesting things

happening in south korea. we have a lame duck. lame duck president now party is in disarray. north korea policy. and soon will be in the hope that there will be some sort of collapse of kim jong il so i think we're going to see a certain amount of reassessment down and start but nothing. particularly particular naija. really has not a year or so to go. and then perhaps if we get a new ministration. we may get some. by which time. it will be one presumes more confident. we can get some real dialogue game between the two sides ok we'll have to leave it there dr tim bill thank you very much for your insights here today live on r.t.

. there waving on the moscow courtis to decide if a russian translation of the main book of the harry krishna movement should be banned for being extremist a case filed by state prosecutors has caused a storm of one where they just follow is living in the country as well as the political elite in india our correspondents are pressured in delhi in the tone of a covert moscow have more on the controversial trial. this day a siberian court is considering batting a russian translation old pug-o. odds as it is which gave a start to a controversial movement to hari krishna movement which was very controversial here especially during the ninety's when russia was going through a rather difficult time and i personally remember that so those the people who are violent and wondering on the streets of moscow very very bright clothes listening to a loud talk music doing drugs convincing people to join them and just reading the book

and made the majors were actually leaving home their homes to. be a part of the movement and people were donating their money to their movements as well so that's that was seen as a sound that's a verb really just sex here in russia in the ninety's and this trial of fool lose the bullshitters off is looking into their t.v. sees all the movements in siberia. and to russia you can use your foreign affairs once to make it clear that the case doesn't have anything to do with the book itself but rather with it's a translation into russian. field piece and we have this clear from the available material through that criticism from law enforcement officials it is not so much being with the text of the book itself which suffers from semantic distortion but as the comments by the author can be regarded as falling under the article thirteen of the russian law on connery extremist a controversial. one into embassador to russia's cool this

case absurd and he interests around the world has been asking to stop the trial. to be the first time when this holy book is taken to the court and we are very concerned and of course we're very hopeful. we'll get the body to verdict they don't know and the better to ban the bad but also. you know that because of the. also the extremist which is that is i can see since listen it's these absurd well as you pointed out it's really caused a storm here in india it's been breaking news in all the major newspapers in all the major t.v. channels here in india this edition of the bug it's the buggy fat as it is which they're looking to ban is actually a nine hundred sixty version that was made by the international society for krishna consciousness or the hari krishna movement so that there is

a lot of confusion here in india and most of the people that are actually protesting this whole court trial actually don't really understand that there is a difference between traditional. and above with the as it is obviously as you guys have pointed out above it is a very fully scripture to the hindu people and a lot of the fundamentals of the hindu religion are based off of that book but there have been protests over the past week and while all of this is going on in the book itself the bug the gate that is actually flying off the bookshelves here in india you're seeing people and on traffic signals handing out the book so there is there is a lot of people in india whether there are protesters or politicians that are following this whole trial very closely and don't forget our web site has plenty more stories news and comments including sun to in the sky over europe have been

fooled by mysterious flying objects on christmas eve a shooting star a space ship or magical sleigh and so christmas conundrum on our website. it's lights camera plenty of action the sex scandal surrounding the former head of the international monetary fund dominique strauss set to make it to the big screen discover who's going to play the lead so if you don't. like this business news now with you. thanks care available and welcome to the business program a near it is beginning for the russian economy the country fast applied for membership of the world trade organization back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three finally that long ago over and russia has been formally invited to join in richmond virginia looks at the changes this will bring. becoming a member of the world trade organization is both

a political and economic milestone the fact that for such a long time russia now a top ten global economy was outside the trading club that unites ninety eight percent of the world's population sounds pretty ridiculous under w t o rules the average duty on imports of goods will be reduced to seven point eight percent for agriculture it will be lowered to ten point eight from thirteen point two percent and as for manufactured goods the decline will be to seven point three percent from the current nine and a half the parliament in russia still needs to ratify russia's exception to the w t o but obviously these changes will not happen in one day only a third of newly set import duties are expected to come straight after the ratification basically those which will not do any harm medicine for example will become cheaper gradually over three years to give local producers time to adapt to new market conditions and when it comes to the weakest or sensitive sectors like

cars imports will be cut inch by inch over the next seven years for years the government protected farmers and car makers and will continue to do so for you subsidies although the funds will drop significantly over time and perhaps the definite winner in this whole situation is the consumer has regulations become more transparent and tariffs are slashed more companies will be coming to russia's market and competition will force producers to reduce prices the economic development ministry therefore expects to see an average reduction of around ten percent of us the world bank believes that that the total effect will amount to an extra four point three percent of the gross domestic product as spending will grow seven percent but yet again this whole process may take quite a while and in the end russia is expected to finally improve the disproportional two percent of global trade volumes that it is. at the moment. let's have a look at how the markets up of forming this our oil is flat after seeing gains in

the previous session on concerns tension in iran might cause supply disruptions and another driver was improving the u.s. consumer confidence is trading at one hundred one dollars a barrel while the brunt plant is that one hundred nine dollars a barrel. now on to aqua to say asia shares a mostly weak of all the losses on wall street and hong kong commodity linked farms are among the main losers china coal energy is down more than two percent gold miners are also low after gold fell below one thousand five hundred ninety dollars in tokyo investors are digesting disappointing output data from the firm but that also included forecasts for general and december. and it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets closed lower on tuesday as you can see the arching us will start of one percent while the my six finished a quarter of percent in the right. russia's equity markets lost around twenty

percent this year in the first half was actually very good and even saw some successful listings the big fall started an organist with the u.s. credit downgrade and since then hasn't been able to regain its voice. it was a huge as a result the future flight to safety. the the. people went to the casual to the. u.s. treasuries you know you'll be in the war two percent although this is the only sign of. diversion it's more about the the record the surprise with which happened starting from august and trust anybody european bearings you know the u.s. dollar is liquidity people get money from the bearings the business is afraid to invest money the banks therefore do not invest with the businesses and then. they create of themselves the problem when the little boy this is very dangerous thing we not sure yet what call it will continue in developing next year. that's all we

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