egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future by reestablishing relations abroad the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. tens of thousands of grieving north koreans have packed into the capital kim jong il is laid to rest. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the new it is reportedly with restricting cash flows and even closing borders also. controversial trial in russia prosecutors to a version of the main book the movement to be extremists i'll have more on how the

trial part out here in india and. world news and much more twenty four hours a day this is out. the new post revolution egypt is heading abroad and to mend its relations with other countries as part of that foreign minister is heading to moscow with the situation at home still very tense african nation will have to prove it's going to be a stable partner. has more. this meeting was actually supposed to happen around over a week ago but it was postponed due to the arab league's meetings on syria the organization sent as observers of a country is headquarters or inquire also egypt is it directly involved in syria is

expected to be one of the key issues down the meeting these talks in moscow russia and egypt both strongly criticized the violence in the country and stand against any foreign military intervention egypt as we wouldn't regional where also when it comes to the middle east peace process that's expected to be discussed here as well but what the situation in egypt this stuff is still quite complicated with the ongoing violence the protests around the country being in the middle of parliamentary elections with several islamic story and to parties aiming for power the muslim brotherhood for example and after the first round of the vote combined these parties have managed to gather around seventy percent of the vote sara and the second round is expected shortly since it's planned that the new column it will start working by the end of january so lots of issues are on the table here in

moscow will be watching this we know force will report on all the developments. that have. well ongoing situation in syria looks set to dominate those talks in moscow and the latest developments tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of syria's largest city of homs demanding international protection happened after the greeks used to be an observer that mission is to assess the situation in the country shore compliance hearing for plan to end the bloodshed and price. down seven nations nationality. to have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries in the shakhtar it's all our arm right outside of it these outside powers are basically from qatar and the emirates and we all of the arab league which is now called troll why did she see the go cooperation council to get themselves in this case we still don't know i d go into

investigating the need to call trolling to call and senator set up government in the uk near the border between turkey and syria in the skin there room which is very across the border basically from our live in to our army going to investigate that you are really going to hurt us to get into shipment smuggling weapons by the jordanian syrian border we still don't look good it's a tall order for the arab eco caesar in that these are not exactly democracies they are investigating one of their all but they are also implicated in the big picture . you know without coming to a head in the program. you know the president of iran is now the president that would. be noted name but a gender gap for. the u.s. presidential election that looming ahead we found out how much americans know about

the building blocks of a country's policies at home and abroad also. to try to force eventually to take us to a sort of a became base but time and sort of mid sentence just think oh my god i just can't brief anymore. when you are correspondents person reflections from greece looks back at twenty seven. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. tens of thousands of north koreans have taken to the capital snow covered streets to pay their last respects to their lately that a farewell ceremony that will last for two days with a funeral procession led by jong il's youngest son successor a long standing leader of the world's most reclusive country eleven days ago the

heart attack knowledge of his head on a shrouded in mystery but some are hoping his western education may seem more open country. to specialist only for dr bill thinks it's not entirely up to the successor to turn to his future. as far as we know he was educated in switzerland nazi that had an effect but letting go grossly overestimate the feedom of the action. part of the north korean system but also. in respect of the outside world and immunise fictionally the americans so it's not north korea and since don't want to open up it see americans and want. to trade. somewhat. like they want to contain china different differently but it's all part of the same like the same package so what kim jong un can do is in many respects fairly limited. again we'll have to see but i don't really

depends very much on the americans. just a click away at our website. moving on a russian the court has to decide if a russian translation. christian movement should be banned from being extremist the case followed by state prosecutors has caused a storm just living in the country as well as the political elite in india let's get more from our correspondents tell you. in delhi will not tell you it to you first what is this trial basically all about. well siberian court is considering banning aid translation. as it is which is considered to be the bible for the hari krishna move it movement here in russia now during the ninety's which were quite

soft on russia. the movements were seen as a religious cult as its members were roaming around wearing bright and colorful clothes listening to rock music doing drugs and spreading the book many teenagers were leaving homes do join the movement people were donating money to it so by many it was seen as a threat now this particular case was filed after prosecutors looks into the recent activities of the movements in siberia home russian foreign ministry insists that this particular case is there filed against this particular translation of the book into russian rather than their original text that is the secret for interest. to do so i mean it is clear from the available material that criticism from law enforcement officials is not so much of the text of the book itself which suffers from semantic distortions but as the comments by the author which can be regarded

as falling under the article thirteen of the russian law extremist activity. well meanwhile here in russia hindu and as well as political elites in india have been asking to stop the case calling it absurd. let's cross to reassure them that how is this case being viewed in india. well there is obviously massive outrage here this is been the top news on all the major news channels and all the top newspapers here in india there have been mass protests a lot of the russian consulates all over the country and even the indian parliament was actually stalled for a few hours on monday and some of india's alit politicians were saying that this was an insult to the lord krishna one thing that's important to note that natalie also pointed out is that this is a ban is actually for the book called as it is which is

a comment edition that was printed in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight by the international society for krishna consciousness which is otherwise known as the hari krishna movement now that's a different version of the book than the actual bug which is a very sacred and spiritual tax for the hindu people and obviously this has brought together hindu people from around the world and let's take a listen to actually what the head of the indian community in moscow had to say about all of this. through the time when this holy book is taken to the court and we're very concerned and of course we have very hopeful. that. the body of the verdict. but also you know that because of the practice. of the extremist which is that it is. senseless and it's absurd.

and while all of this is going on the book flying off book shelves here in india and even if you go to traffic signals anywhere in the city of new delhi i'm you're seeing people trying to sell the book so it's definitely caused a lot of dialogue here it's one of the most tweeted topics in india right now and there is the petition circulating around the country and we have tens and thousands of people who are threatening onto it but with a lot of sort of the outrage and the mass hysteria there is all lot a little bit as well a little bit of misinformation were guarding what exactly is going on in russia. the paper yesterday in new delhi in the telling over kerber and most die for us are here not to thank you but. now britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses in case of a euro doomsday u.k. treasury is said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees plans include

evacuating british ex-pats from affected countries and even the temperate closure of borders financial analyst says attempts by european the it is to avoid the worst case scenario making it would likely. european 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 what's really needed is 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 there's damage to 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 of having

people 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 of course have an orderly break up of the eurozone but greece still remains in the eye of the european financial storm twenty seven draws to a close r.t. has been looking back at what's been a year of despair and discontent for austerity greeks and correspondent sara firth witness to their anger boiling point she covered the protests in the country. 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 if that fight. became really the sort of the child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis became a social crisis and yet this does is 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 increase is exactly what happened. the first time in. forcing and they had a protest planned there remember in the morning. it was just still think cool in a very very close to central square as the euro is saying crisis rumbles on grief is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like

everyone had an opinion about it that you and i remember going off and finishing to . coming back and getting a phone call to say that we needed 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 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 family 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. and. people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and. it was absolutely. going off in different parts in time everyone was just sort of running around 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 we found ourselves right and i remember just saying just keep filming this is keep filming it and i made it very hard to even to pretend that it may not be that easy to spot china. and.

be. as the. people. there. trying to reports and eventually to take a sort of a became sort of mid sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore . and i remember seeing the fifth teaches. getting caught in the middle of the take us and just thinking oh that's just. saying coughing and spluttering in. being quite embarrassed about. then we realized that it. could 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're you witnessing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry. and very quickly also in 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 gear that 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. everything is. right now there's a chance you might lose everything that we know in this country you don't know what . i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis is a good mix of people. and it was great as well the final result was really were. it is if that was what was always important to us is getting. people in crates getting their opinion across because i think a lot of voices really have got lost in the whole political economic talk kind of forget what it's all about which is about you know the people talking and.

that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back they just say welcome . 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. now it's from around the world and we begin in gaza where a series of strikes q three and injured many a dozen more israel's air force carried out the assaults claiming it was targeting militants before they attacked part of israeli war the initial strike killed one militant after a rocket it was meant to. strike. air attacks have been relatively rare since the end of a three week israeli war against gaza years ago. former u.s. marine accused of trying to infiltrate iran's intelligence service went on trial on tuesday tehran contends that. marty received special training and served at

military bases in iraq and afghanistan before heading to iran vegeta intelligence mission marty admits to having ties to the cia claims you have no intention of harming iran he faces the death penalty if convicted. as u.s. presidential candidate stole the nation how they plan to lead it into the future some of been exposed as lacking basic facts and it seems the general public is following suit has autism is to see if you're going to discover. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce. education and the what's the third one there let's see he's looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate an entire cabinet level position he can even remember its name asked me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know it's not the fact that he doesn't know it's the fact that he doesn't think he should look it up you agree

president obama. basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired would be this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out see. what spec is heard of it. for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is the pakistanis know i do not know what the pakistan is backing for now . do you know the us is an airbase there. or do we know about libya watching you know dispel libya yes yes do you know the united states was involved in a war with libya. ok. you know why. i

know absolutely nothing about honestly about new mexico is that a state or a country but is that a. card every time you think i don't like you know. it's the old me under bush. while actually. come on it was not that long ago you vote cheney who is the vice president of the us. you know i have no idea i know it's. my time to. cheney so tributary and kindly to rice now we would be fools any. to ignore their purpose and their plan some countries are at the top of politicians list to attack her belief am literally but how much do people really know about those faraway places. with her. was the president was a. little music you know the president of iran is no capital capitol of iran

do you know the capital city of iran. negative do you guys know what iran is yes yes yes what's the capital of iraq. was the president. was president he just died but the capital of the capital yes i do but if you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret comes out always calling me. snow libya or. anything he guesses. is the president of iraq iran iraq all right you know his name but a jet a giraffe or so when it comes to picking a future for the u.s. choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present situation at her cheek. that's

cost the business desk now and join you. thanks carrie a very warm welcome to the program in your era as beginning for the russian economy the country fast apply for membership of the world trade organization but can mine to mine to three finally that long negotiations over and russia has been fully invited to join which was a gentle looks at the changes that 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. zero 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 that's 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 through 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 the 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. it accounts for at the moment. let's have a look at how the markets up the filming this hour is flat off to seeing gains in the previous session on concerns tension in iran might supply disruptions another driver was improving consumer confidence the is trading up off one hundred one dollars a barrel while the brunt is that one hundred nine dollars a barrel. not want to produce asian share as a mostly weak a feeling mild losses in the three days as exporters are low off to report showed

us housing prices fell. and finally in russia the market saw traffic asia low the archdiocese losing more than half a percent this hour. that's it from me for no more market analysis in about fifteen minutes time for you here on our.

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