trial in russia prosecutors want to ban a version of the main book of the hari krishna movement here for being extremists i'll have more on how the crowd part outrage here in india in china if you stack in . their world news around the clock you're with r.t. tens of thousands of north koreans have taken to the capital snow covered streets to pay their last respects to their late leader the family all ceremony that will last for two days dotted with a view of perception led by kim jong il's youngest son and successor the longstanding leader of the world's most reclusive country died eleven days ago a heart attack on the edge of his pen kim jong un is shrouded in mystery but some are hoping his western education may see open country especially stone age to take bill thinks it's not entirely up to the successor to the terminals chris richard

got to do with you because we know he was educated above the edge in switzerland dogs do that and have an effect but i think that's grossly misleading it is a freedom of action. part of the more interesting but also mainly use if you go outside world even in respect to the americans so it's not north korea since don't want to not see americans we want to keep it. constrained. somewhat like they want to contain china rather different you do differently because it's all part of the same like the same package so. one can do is in many respects fairly limited. we will again we'll have to see but i don't really depends very much on the americans. journalist and war correspondent eric margolis shares the view there is little chance of changing north korea if the excessive

influence of the military. is good speculation that is than some of the members of the family are kind of pulling his strings but i think more than one point one million man north korean army. farther announced kim jong il forty guys will appear go now as the new policy of militarized korea as it was in seclusion lootera. whole country is it's really as the quote frederick the great it's an army disguised as a country. and that's what's happened to this great son military rule which to me says that it's unlikely there will be major western style norms your business needs cutting spending on the military military so powerful it's welfare it has all the prerequisites and good position so does the communist party so that they will be a force against change around for

a while live coverage of kim jong il's funeral services just a click away at our website r.t. dot com. the new post revolution egypt is heading abroad in attempt to mend its relations with other countries and as part of that the congress foreign minister is talking to his counterpart in moscow but the situation at home still very tense both african nation will have to prove it's going to be a stable partner not easy go piskun off as more. meeting has actually already started at the foreign ministry's state in central moscow to see behind me but actually it was supposed to be held around a week ago but was forced forms due to the arab league's meetings on syria the organization said it's observers to the country its headquarters are in cairo so egypt is directly involved it is expected that syria will be one of the key issues at these talks in moscow with russia and egypt strongly criticizing the violence in syria but standing against any foreign military intervention egypt is also very

important regional player when it comes to the middle east peace process that's expected to be discussed as well but the situation in egypt itself is quite complicated also with the ongoing violent protests and the country being in the middle for problem entry actions with several islamist oriented political parties aiming to take power including the muslim brotherhood and the first round of the election showed that all these parties combined managed to gather around seventy percent of the votes the second round is expected. that the new problem and will start working by the end of january so lots of issues are on the table here in moscow and of course we'll be reporting on all the developments. on the ongoing situation in syria looks set to dominate those talks in moscow and latest development tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of sirius the city of homs demanding international protection it happened after the arab league's

monitoring team visited the area for centuries missions to assess the situation in the country show president assad's compliance with the original plan to end the bloodshed but as asia times journalist pepe escobar says there are doubts over the mission's impartiality. they have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries and distractors all are armed by outside powers then these outside powers are basically from qatar and the emirates will the arab league which is now called true why did she see the gulf cooperation council exists to get themselves in this case we still don't know are they going to investigate the need to call truly call and senator said out in the near the border between turkey and syria in the skin there room which is very across the border basically

from aleppo let's say two hours are you going to investigate that you are really going to hurt us to get into shipment smuggling weapons via the jordanian syrian border we still don't know but it's a tall order for the arab league season that these are not exactly democracies they're investigating one of their all but they're also implicated in the whole big picture. well you know with r.t. still coming ahead in the program. you know the president of iran is now the president. you know a name not a jet a gaffe i thought. u.s. presidential election looming we find out how much americans now about the building blocks of that country's policies at home and abroad also. who is trying to report and eventually to take aspects of a became base better and sort of mid-sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore. just a few moments we bring you our correspondents personal reflections from greece to

expect at twenty seven's main headlines. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses case of a euro doomsday u.k. treasuries said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees but plans include evacuating british ex-pats with affected countries and even attempt we close our borders a financial analyst says attempts by european leaders to avoid the worst case scenario making it more likely. you opinion leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degree 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 body deficit but that really isn't the answer to the problems what's really needed to either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy to shore up their

economies was another option would of course to recognize that the single currency has hurt competitiveness in many nations of the eurozone 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. for greece still remains in the eye of the european financial storm those twenty seven draws to a close r.t. has been looking back at what's been a year of despair and discontent for austerity hit greeks our correspondent sara firth witnessed their anger reach boiling point as she cover the protests in the country. i think in two thousand and eleven we really sort of felt the world shift on its axis slightly we saw people's protests nathan sort of spread around the world and greece is certainly for me very much on the front line if that fight and it became

really this sort of produced a child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis to became a social crisis and you know this there's a saying that if you're a hammer everything looks like 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 i remember in the morning our hotel was just off the corner syntagma very very close to central square as 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 honor him and going off and finishing doing my first live shows and coming back and getting a phone call to say that we needed to do another one and at that exact moment we

could hit the noises that we just like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner syntagma. 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 angry that angry that they feel to a point where they're having to turn out and these sort of clashes abroad 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 turning up that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ourselves in the center. just side of one of the

streets as the riot police started pushing back late at the anarchists and these guys just went back into the people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and metal and just it was absolutely. five is going off in different parts in time and 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 north to one hundred in the space of sort of twenty minutes and we found ourselves right in the century and i remember just saying just keep filming this just keep filming it and the main street right now is very hard. even if you can get it may not be that easy difficult to find out about it but. as we. the people.

there. who are trying to reports and eventually to take us they sort of a they came by the time and sort of mid-sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore. and i remember seeing the fishes in the car my getting caught in the middle of the to you guys and just thinking oh that's just. thing coughing and spluttering in. do you remember being quite in virus the bout but then we realized that it obviously that clip caught 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 is a greek 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 a greek problem and this is something that was going to affect everyone. and absolutely you know he felt when you were reporting to you with this thing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry i get back very quickly also in tightness we got. in the crowd we're not sure exactly what that thing off but everyone's just trying to get out of the way you could see people by the riot that it was. almost you left all of that. and maybe. right from the very beginning we wanted to. get a good story from a different angle we were much more interested in getting the social side of what was going on i hope for everybody to become and. try to get out of

the crisis if that was what was always important to us is getting. the people in greece getting their opinion across to the kids 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 you know the people who are there in your talking today and who are the lucky in that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back there just a welcoming. well we'll continue to bring you a person reflections from our correspondents worldwide on the headlines of twenty them and if you've missed anything available to watch. now russian court is to decide if a russian translation of the main book of the hari krishna movement should be banned for being extreme ist the case filed by state prosecutors has caused a storm among religious followers living in the country as well as the political

elite in india our correspondents in delhi and the timing of the cove in moscow are following the trial and the reaction to it. siberian court is considering banning a russian translation of god as it is which is considered to be the bible for the hari krishna movement now this installation is being accused of sparking religious and racial hatred during the ninety's the movement's was seen as a religious sect its members were roaming around to wearing bright clothes listening to rock music they were spreading the book as well many teenagers were leaving their homes to join the movement of people who were donating money to it so by many was seen as a threat now the case was filed after prosecutors looked into the recent succeeded to over the movements in siberia how the russian foreign ministry insists that it's this particular translation of the book that the case is filed against not so there is no text or it's that is sacred for him to go through these and it is clear from

the available materials that criticism from law enforcement officials is not so much aimed at the text of the book itself which suffers from semitic distortions but at the comments of the author which can be regarded as falling under article thirteen of the russian law on countering extremist activity that prohibit people here and russia and indian political elites both have been asking to stop the case calling it absurd 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 on some of india's a lead politicians were saying that this was an insult to the lord krishna one thing that's important to note that not only also pointed out is that this is a ban is actually for the book called the gate that 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 harakah. krishna movement now that's a different version of the book than the actual which is a very sacred in spiritual tax for the hindu people and obviously this is brought together hindu people from around the world are very hopeful who. will bother to verdict they don't want to ban the bug but also you know that because of the. you know. also the extremist which is that is. i can say. that it's absolute and while all of this is going on the book itself. is actually flying off the book shelves here in india but with a lot of sort of. outrage and to damascus syria there is all lot a little bit as well a little bit of misinformation regarding what exactly is going on in russia. we'll

forget our web site has plenty more stories news and comments including a santa in the sky all over europe have been verified by a mysterious flying object on christmas eve a shooting star a space ship or a magical sleigh. find out what you know christmas. lights camera and plenty of action the sex scandal surrounding the former head of the international monetary fund dominique strauss kahn set to make it to the big screen and discover who's been tipped to play the lead started off. as u.s. presidential candidates tell the nation how they plan to lead it into the future some of them expose for the king basic knowledge of foreign affairs it seems the general public is following suit the saudis and associates are going to discover it . 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 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 so you agree with president obama vs. the 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. respect 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 it because stand back and. know do you know the us is an airbase there. or do we know about libya not much 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. what about new mexico is that a state or a country but is that. hard any time you think don't you know. it's the old me under bush. while i actually. come on it was not that long ago you know you cheney was the vice president of the us. you know i have no idea i know it's. the right. cheney. so with secretary of state lisa rice there would know we would be fools enemies to ignore their purpose and their plan some countries are at the top of

politicians with to attack verbal weak am literally but how much do people really know about those far away places. with her. with the president. 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 oh yeah yeah yeah what's the capital of iraq here's. the president. bush president he just died about the capital of around the capital yes i do but if you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret come. now libya or pakistan or anything. if the president of iraq iran iraq right all right you know his name but a jet

a giraffe or so when it comes to picking a future for the you was choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present situation are pretty. well look at other news from around the world now we begin in gaza where a series of strikes have killed three and injured then it doesn't move people israel's air force carried out this souls claiming it was targeting militants to prevent an attack on part of these maybe border initial strike killed one man after rocket hit his motorcycle second. piece vehicle air attacks have been relatively rare since the end of a three week as many war against gaza three years ago. the trial of a. ex-president hosni mubarak is set to resume after three today but faces the death penalty if he is proud to have been behind the killings of some eight hundred fifty

people dream protests that overthrew in february trolls postponed their dollars are asked that the judge be replaced the request that has since been to know it. is the first opportunity during the so-called arab spring uprisings to appear before a court. but we back out to recap the headlines in a few minutes before that the latest business news for you the book. everyone welcome to the program and here is beginning for the russian economy the country fast apply for membership of the world trade organization but conniving to ninety three and finally that long negotiation is over and russia has been formally invited to join twitter richard engel 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. 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 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 in produce 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 that. it accounts for at the moment. let's have a look at how the markets not be forming this oil is flat off just seeing gains in the previous sessions on concerns tension in iran might cause supply disruptions

had another driver is improving u.s. consumer confidence the w. is trading above one hundred one dollars a barrel well the brunt land is at one hundred nine dollars per barrel. now on to act which is asia as a mostly weak appalling mild losses of wall street the nikkei was lower point two percent off to u.s. housing prices fell and japanese factory output dropped that is saying. that slower growth in china and europe sovereign debt crisis will company earnings offset better than the estimate at u.s. consumer confidence. and european stocks are trading mixed this hour as most traders are back from christmas holidays the footsie is adding a quarter of percent while the german dax is down over point three percent. kind of in russia the markets are mixed trading is threatened by year end holidays and makes to economic news out of the few outs of europe let's now have a look at some of the individual share moves in the might so it's high oil prices

are lending some support to energy shares for us nafta is gaining more than one hundred percent gas bromance does more well though the company has been fined for fixing manifolds monopolistic lease or high prices for the. metals and mining sector is under pressure on the my six the metro is leading the decline losing under one percent. that's it for me from normal market analysis in about fifty five minutes here on our to you so do stay with us.

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