see you want to. tens of thousands of grieving north koreans have packed into the capital as kim jong il is falling laid to rest. egypt is working to shape its post revolutionary future by reestablishing relations abroad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the. reportedly to do street thing cash flows and even closing borders and. a call if your version of trial in russia prosecutors want a version of the main book of the hari krishna movement here for being extremists

i'll have more on how the trial part outrage here in india in china. broke arsing life in the heart of the russian capital you're watching 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 farewell ceremony that will last for two days started with a funeral procession led by kim jong il's youngest son and successor the long standing leader of the world's most reclusive country seven days ago the heart attack knowledge of his hair. is shrouded in mystery some are hoping his western education may see a more open country but a specialist on asia dr tim bill thinks it's not entirely up to the successor to turn north korea's future. because we know he was educated in switzerland not

see that's going to have an effect but i think that's crazy move this to me is freedom of action. part of the north korean system but also it will mainly. be outside world in any respect to believe the americans so it is not north korea and since not that scenario can say you want to keep it. contained. somewhat. like they want to contain china rather different you do differently it is all part of the same the same package so what hindu 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 by the journalist and war correspondent eric margolis shares that he has a chance of changing north korea due to the excessive influence of the military but

it's good speculation that is his uncle is and some other members of the family are kind of pulling his strings but i think more than one point one million man north korean army. for other announced can draw forty guys well over here go now to the new policy of militarized korea as it was insufficient and militarized. the whole country it's really as the quote frederick the great it's an army disguised as a country. and that's what's happening is great and the son military rule which to me says that it's unlikely there will be major western style reforms you because this means cutting spending on the military military so powerful it's well fed it has all the prerequisites and good position so does the communist party so that they will be a force against change rather than for. well to watch full coverage of kim jong

il's funeral service you can go online to our website r.t. dot com. now the new post revolution egypt is heading abroad in an attempt to mend its relations with other countries and as part of that cairo's foreign minister has been talking to his counterpart in moscow where the situation at home is still very tense author african nation have to prove it's going to be stable partner. joins us live with more on this you know what has come out of the meeting. well first of all this is a great time for egypt to start we gaining some was positions on the international border goal stage since syria is in the spotlight the arab league has been able to send observers into the country the organization's headquarters are in cairo so egypt is directly involved and of course syria was discussed at the meeting in moscow russian foreign minister said you know i would offer praise the fact that

observers were finally allowed into syria at the same time both russia and egypt once again strongly criticized the violence in the country but stood against any foreign military intervention egypt is also removed poured into a regional where when it comes to the middle east peace process that was discussed at the meeting here as well but all of this comes as the situation in egypt itself is quite complicated i'm in the ongoing violent protests and the country being in the middle of the problem entry election with several islamist oriented the political parties taking court including the muslim brotherhood and the first round of the election showed that all of these parties combined managed to gather around seventy percent of the votes the second round is expected shortly and it is planned that the new parliament will start working by awaits by the end of january so this is a good time for you. egypt to start regaining its international contacts. ok

for now you go off live from moscow thank you for that update. well 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 syria's the largest city of homs demanding international protection it happened after the arab league's monitoring team visited the area observers mission is to assess the situation in the country and ensure president assad's compliance regional plan to end the bloodshed asia times journalist. doubts over the mission's impartiality. they have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries and defectors all are armed by outside powers and these outside borrowers are basically from qatar and the emirates will the arab league we just now call troll 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 center set up in the uk near the border between turkey and syria in the skin there room which is very across the border basically from aleppo let's see two hours are you going to investigate that you are really going to convert us to. shipment and smuggle weapons via the jordanian syrian border we still don't look good it's a tall order for the arab league call caesar in that these are not exactly democracies they are investigating one of their all but they're also implicated in the whole big picture. you without and still coming up ahead in the program. now the president of iran is now running. you know it name not a gender gap and i thought. last presidential election looming we find out how much

americans know about the building blocks of a country's policies at home and abroad also. do trying to report and eventually to take a space of a became base but time and sort of mid-sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore and. just a few moments we'll bring you our correspondents personal reflections from greece looks back at twenty seven thousand headlines. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses in case of the u.s. doomsday u.k. treasury said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees the plans include evacuating british ex-pats from affected countries and attempt closure of borders financial analyst says a tense by your opinion is to avoid a worst case scenario making it more likely. leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having great agrees 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 looks 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 as twenty eleven that draws to a close r.t. has been looking back on what's been a year of despair and discontent for greeks now correspondent sara firth witnessed their anger boiling point as she cover the protest in the country.

you know 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 me very much on the frontline fight. it became really the sort of the child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis that became the social crisis and if 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 i remember in the morning. it was just. very very close to.

the year i think crisis rumbles own grief is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about it that you're. 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 is to take us going off on the other corner. almost immediately you just get a huge surge of people coming. 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 they feel to a point where they're having to turn out in 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 turning up

that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ourselves in the. side of one of the streets as. 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 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 just keep filming it and they made it very hard to. even to pretend that it may be that easy to spot.

and. the. people. there. and eventually to take a sort of a they came by and sort of mid-sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breath anymore. and i remember things in the car and getting caught in the middle of the take us and just thinking oh that's just. thing coughing and spluttering in. remember being quite embarrassed about. 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 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 a greek problem and this is something that was going to face everyone. and absolutely you know he felt when you're reporting to you with this thing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry they can't be back very quickly alston tightness. in the crowd we're not sure exactly what that thing off but everyone's just trying to get up to say you could see people by the riot where that was. true for. all of your left all of the national t.v.

and maybe tomorrow. right from the very beginning we wanted to see. the story from a different angle we were much more interested in getting the side of what was going on i hope for everybody to be calm 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 because i think a lot of their voices really have got lost in the whole political economic talk you kind of forget what it's all about which is about you know the people who were there and you talking to. him that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back they just say welcoming. we will continue to bring you personal reflections from our correspondents worldwide on the headlines of twenty there and they're available to watch right now it's r.t.

dot com. russian court is to decide if a russian translation of the main book of the hari krishna movement should be banned for be extremist the case filed by state prosecutors has caused a storm of on religious followers living in the country as well as the political elite in india while correspondents preassure in delhi and telling overcover in moscow or following the case and the reaction to it. siberian court is considering banning a russian jones lation 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 really just 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 exceeded

see 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 their regional text or its that is sacred for hindu. 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 war on countering extremist activity we call him two people here in russia and the indian political elite both have been asking to stop the case calling it absurd while 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 leak 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 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. now movement now that's a different version of the book than the actual bug which is a very sacred spiritual tax for the hindu people and obviously this is brought together hindu people from around the world are very hopeful. that. will bother to verdict they don't want to ban the bug but also you know that because of the practice you know. also the extremist which is that is. i can say. that it's absurd and while all of this is going on in the book itself

the bug is actually flying off the bookshelves here in india 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 regarding what exactly is going on in russia. and then forget our website has spread to more stories knees and commenting looting in the sky people all over europe have been baffled by mysterious flying objects on christmas eve the shooting star spaceship magical sleigh sold the christmas conundrum on our website. and lights camera and 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 he's been tipped to play the elite. u.s. presidential candidates tell the nation how they plan to lead it into the future

some of them exposed for docking basic knowledge of foreign affairs and it seems the general public is following suit and it's a see target discomfit. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce education and the what's the third one there was that he's looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate. level position we 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 to greet president obama live yet. the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired where did this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out

suspected heard of it. for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is a pakistani you know i do not know it because stan is pakistan. no do you know the us is an airbase there. or do we know about libya. 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 this so what about new mexico is that a state or a country what is that. i know you don't really think don't you think that it was my first or now. it's the old me under bush. while i 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 son. jamie so when secretary of state kindly serai stella now we would be fools and nice 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. far away places. with the president. you know the president of iran is now capital capital of iran do you know the capital city of iran. negative do you guys know what iran is. what the capital of iraq here's. the president. bush president he just died at 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 on boys call me. now libya or. anything. if 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 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 now a couple of other headlines from around the world we begin in gaza where a series of airstrikes have killed three people and injured nearly a dozen more israel's air force carried out the assaults and it was targeting militants to prevent an attack on part of the israeli egyptian border initial strike killed one man after rocket hit his motorcycle the second hit a masterpiece vehicle. the trial of egyptian ex president hosni

mubarak has set to resume after three months today and barack faces the death penalty if he's found to have been behind the killings of some eight hundred fifty people in protests that overthrew him in february the trial was postponed when the judge be replaced requests that a since been denied americans the first ousted leader in the so-called arab spring uprisings to appear before a court. or a mind of our top stories coming your way see before that it is here the distance. hello and a very well welcome to the business update a new era is beginning for the russian economy the country for us to apply for membership of the world trade organization back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three and finally if that long ago over and russia has been formally invited to join twitter to 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 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 to. 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 the world bank believes 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 yes 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 the markets now oil is flat after seeing gains in the previous session on concerns tension in iran might cause supply destructions and another driver is improving consumer confidence the w. is trading at about one hundred one dollars per barrel while the brant land is that one hundred nine dollars a barrel. and european stocks are down as easily prepares to auction as much as eleven in the billion euros of debt the taxes low will more than two hundred percent and the london support c. is flat supported by the energy sector. clearly in russia the markets are declining trading is the info by here at the holidays and mixed economic news out of the us and europe by the my six on the r.t.s. are losing ground even as oil sets another record high let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the might six higher oil prices are still lending some support to energy shares is gaining more than half

a percent gazprom there is what the company has been fined for the fix and politically high prices for diesel fuel and metals and mining sector is under pressure on the might six met chill is leading the decline losing under one percent . ok to search for more you up to date more market analysis in less than fifteen minutes for you here on our.

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