a controversial trial in russia prosecutors want to ban a version of the main book of the hari krishna movement here for being its statements i'll have more on how the trial part outrage here in india into your second. focusing 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 lately that the 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 died seven days ago the heart attack knowledge of his hair kim jong un is shrouded in mystery some are hoping his western education may seem 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 looking. because we know he was educated above the education switzerland logs do that and have an effect but i think it's grossly misleading making is a freedom of action. part of the north korean system but also will mainly. be outside world in respect to the americans so it is not north korea and since don't well not see americans we want to. can train. somewhat like they want to contain china rather different you do differently it's all part of the same like the same package so what one can do is in many respects fairly limited. we will again we'll have c. but i don't really depends very much on the americans. journalist

and war correspondent eric margolis a says that he has a chance of changing north korea due to the excessive influence of the military. speculation that is than some other members of the family are kind of pulling his strings but i think more is the one point one million man north korean army. father announced kim jong il forty guys well over a year ago now says the new policy of militarized north korea as it was insufficiently militarized. the 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 and the son military rule which to me says that it's unlikely there will be major western style reforms your business needs cutting spending on the military or the 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 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 a still very tense author african nation have to prove it's going to be a 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 go stage since syria is in the spotlight the arab league has been able to send observers into the country the organizations headquarters are in cairo so egypt is directly involved and of course syria was discussed at the meeting in

moscow russian foreign minister sergey lavrov praised 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 courtly to 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 egypt to start regaining its international contacts. ok now your pissing 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 sirius the largest city of holmes 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 sure 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 which is

now called true why did she see the gulf cooperation council interested gate 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 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 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 go caesar in that these are not exactly democracies they're investigating one of their all but they're also implicated in the whole big picture. here the tape and still coming up ahead in the program. the president of iran is now running. the know it name matter gender

gap i thought. 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 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'll bring you our correspondents personal reflections from greece as r.t. looks back at twenty seven's main headlines. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses in case of a 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 even attempted closure of borders financial analyst says attempts by europe a need is to avoid a worst case scenario making it more likely. you peon 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 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 has twenty eleven that draws to a close r.t. has been looking back over what's been a year of despair and discontent for greeks our correspondent sara firth witnessed their anger boiling point as she cover the protest in the country.

ok i think in two thousand and eleven we really sort of felt the world shift on its axis slightly we saw people's protest movement 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 yet this does 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 grief is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about it that you might 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 you hear 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 all the riot police started pushing back late at the anarchists and these guys just when backing down you know the people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and metal and just it was absolutely i was 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 we found ourselves right in the sense of and i remember just saying just keep filming this just keep filming it in the main street right now it's very hard to tell people to prepare him it may well be that it is

a difficult job to find out about it but. he. asked me. if. they're. trying to reports and eventually to take us to 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 fishes in the car and 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 about 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 and the way it was being reported that you know this is a problem that greece is having is a great 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 were reporting to you with this thing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry i get back very quickly alston tightness. 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 where there was

. almost you left all of that. 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 you know the people in greece getting their opinion across the case 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 were there and you're talking to and so were the lucky and that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back there just a welcoming. will continue to bring you personal reflections from our correspondents worldwide on the headlines of twenty

there and if you missed any they're available to watch right now at r.t. dot com. a russian court is to decide if a russian translation of the main book of the harry krishna movement should be banned or 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 where correspondents appear shredder in delhi and italian overcover in moscow or following the case and the reaction to it. siberian court is considering banning a russian translation of pi 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 sixty 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 over it's that is sacred for him 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 where you want the coherence of 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 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 that as it is which is a commented 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. now movement now that's a different version of the book than the actual 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 bend. but also you know that because of the practice you know. the extremist who it 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 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 were guarding what exactly is going on in russia with the forget our website has spread to more stories news 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. cameron 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 you know it's that he's looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate. level position he can even remember its name asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky 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 livia. 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. for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is a pakistani you know i do not know what the pakistan is pakistan. though do you know the us is an airbase there. nor 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 them honestly about new mexico is that a state or a country that is that. i gave it to me once it got me thinking 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. cheney so when secretary of state police arise step up 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 oh yes yes yes what's the capital of iran here's. the president.

bush president he just died at the capitol grounds 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. snow libya or pakistan 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 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 are pretty. well now a couple of other headlines from around the world we begin where a series of air strikes 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 national

strike killed one man after a rocket hit his motorcycle the second hit a masterpiece vehicle. the trial of egyptian 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 protest over threw him in february the trial was postponed when the judge be replaced request that the since been denied americans the first ousted leader in the so-called arab spring uprisings to appear before a court. top stories coming your way soon for that notice here in the distance. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update a new era is beginning for the russian economy they come true for us to apply for membership of the world trade organization but can one thousand nine hundred ninety three have finally 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 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 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 the markets now oil is flat off to see gains in the previous session on concerns tension in iran might call supply destructions and another driver is improving consumer confidence the w. is trading at both one hundred one dollars per barrel while the brundtland is that one hundred nine dollars per barrel. and european stocks are down as repairs to auction as much as eleven in the whole billion euros of debt the taxes low will more than two hundred percent on the london support so it is flat supported by the energy sector. in russia the markets are declining trading is the info buy here and holidays and weeks to come on the news out of the us and europe where 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 high oil prices are

still lending some support to energy shares is gaining more than one hundred percent gas from there is what the company has been fined for 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. from all your up to date more market analysis in less than fifteen minutes for you here on our.

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