even the grain like without cream cross it's part of the black or days of the me twenty minute time. ten pm here in moscow welcome you watching r.t. live with me kevin zero in and first thousands of north koreans were seen crying in the streets of pyongyang as they watched the funeral procession carrying their late leader kim jong il's youngest son and successor led the farewell ceremony which is expected to last for at least another day little's of course known about the here kim gone but some are hoping as western education may see a more open country now however asia specialist dr tim beal things external influence will decide north korea's future as much as the next can. start as we know it was educated in switzerland not see that it had an effect but i think it's

grossly overestimating is freedom of action. part of the north korean system but also mainly in respect of the outside world an immune respect to the americans so it's not north korea and since don't want to see americans we want to keep it. constrained some what's like they want to contain china rather 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. we will again will have sued i don't really depends very much on the americans. journalist a war correspondent margolis also shared his view that there is little chance of change in north korea because of the excessive influence of the military. there's good speculation that is his uncle as than some other members of the family are

kind of pulling his strings but i think more of course is the one point one million man north korean army for the father announced kim jong il before he died well over a year ago now says the new policy of militarized 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 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. lottie's managed to get some insight into the man who no holds the reins in north korea after record it was one of his former swiss school classmates his impressions of kim jong il on r.t.

dot com right now while you're there to tell us what you think you think will happen in north korea next year this is very telling supposed to getting all afternoon or by. putting out more than half of you think nothing will change at all in the reclusive state just under a quarter of you believe the new leader will hold little sway against an increasingly military might only nine percent of you think is going to be more openness and freedom in north korea is going to have it it was seven a few hours ago about the same number the. positive note believe that this will increase the likelihood of korea really for cation so plenty of time to have your say at r t v dot com. a tough period of post revolution uncertainty inside egypt meantime isn't stopping the country from strengthening its international policy the foreign minister has been meeting his counterpart here in moscow where they discussed the arab world turmoil in the frozen israeli palestinian peace talks but he got a peace can office following that meeting. first of all this is

a great time for egypt to start we gaining some was positions on the international political 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 sergei 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 totally 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 vote so this is a good time for egypt to start regaining its international contacts. the trial of egypt's ousted president resumed on wednesday after a three month break hosni mubarak's accused of corruption abuse and the killing of demonstrators during the january uprising and may face the death penalty if convicted egyptian journalist asama diab told this is an attempt to divert protesters attention from the battle against the currently this. well there is definitely a growing sense among especially among protesters that this trial is a mock trial basically designed to cool down the public opinion one of the reasons they are losing popularity is that there is. mainly that mr brotherhood did leave

the square because they're now moved busy with the elections and the muslim brotherhood strategy now is to bring change through the parliament for other than through the street at least squares quieter now so who really remains in the square now is activists with. a tendency. who did not do very well in the elections and they see they still perceive the street. the main lobbying. platform. the head of the arab league observers mission in syria has described the situation in the restive city of homs as reassuring so far just to warn you some of these images coming up a graphic the flashpoint city of homs was the monitors first stop as we've been reporting to investigate the government's response to the anti regime unrest opposition reports we will suggest that at least six people were killed in one syrian town by security forces on wednesday. london based middle east expert terry

alley he told me observers findings are unlikely to improve the situation i think. you see the syrians let in the monitors to show that they're not. thinking they'd find nothing but the arab league has been one of the most. in the arab world for a long long time doing nothing. doing nothing to prevent the war on iraq and now it's being used as a name shield by the west so the arab league is such too seriously so we shall see what happens. earlier i spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who said the assad regime should stop using force against its own people but the tally choky believes the country has no chance of carrying out promised reforms during a civil war pact with extremist. we believe that the syrian government should be

extremely prudent and should refrain from excessive use of force we believe that there has been there are been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force by those already is but also telling that the everybody must put pressure on. the destructive elements. of the opposition or various destructive elements which may have found their way into syria that they are violent acts are not going to be condoned by the international community this is this is i keep. finding a peaceful way out of the situation there are some reforms were announced. some of them we are pretty far reaching like changing the constitution and getting rid of the political monopoly of one party but of course are to expect that those reforms can be implemented in a situation when the crisis is sort of teetering on the brink of civil war even

under normal circumstances in any country forms of such magnitude are not easy to implement but all that in a situation when there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters one would see weapons being moved. illegally into syria all that of course becomes a theoretical conversation. full exclusive interview with russia's you and ambassadors on our website now where quizzed him about the major international stories of twenty eleven and how he thinks they're going to develop in twenty twelve to tell the chickens thoughts about the arab spring iran's nuclear program the middle east turmoil and but out. here in a few minutes the money and patience ran out in greece. trying to pull its eventually to take us to a sort of a they came they threatened through mid-sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore. well shortly tonight our correspondents person refer. actions from greece as our team continues to look back at twenty eleventh's main

headline. for the by putin says he's open for talks with the opposition which organize the parliamentary protest rallies places there's no one to talk to the premier reaffirmed there's a need for dialogue insisting there's always been a channel available between him and his rivals artie's a ridiculous could take up the story. the russian prime minister meeting with journalists earlier today when responding to their questions about the possible dialogue with the opposition he said that he's actually ready for that at seven forty at this point according to your logic which in their opposition forces do not have any concrete programs or any leaders and their motivation is not quite clear so it's really hard for them to understand in what form of the dialogue should take place. we've never been against dialogue with the opposition because we're in constant touch with them we're only against one thing and i am personally against it and that's any kind of extremism and there are a lot of different leaders in the opposition but they have to formulate

a unified platform single out a position so that we can actually understand what these people want he also mentioned that seeing his own close close people close to him and his relatives sometimes interacting with certain authorities that he sometimes wants to go out and participate in a rally on his own he also said that at the best president he would give to the russian people for new years would be fair and free presidential elections in twenty twelve of course all of this comes just days after a monumental rally which was held in the square in the aftermath of the problem entry elections is russia's state duma tens of thousands of people came out on the streets protesting what they believed were unfair elections. because they're not is across the changes in russia's political world of course it should be expected you can't be too far following a lot of coverage online at r.t. don't call for the kinds of movers and shakers there as well like these right now are blockbuster about important counted sounds but no not this one so ordinary

money man it's all about the women the power the scandal that sent the former i.m.f. chief into the tabloid gutter this year it was a big story wasn't it more online. on how the cia tops into your tweets we look at why it's snoopers play through billions of messages a day over social networks. the people of greece will be glad to see the back of twenty eleven a year of cuts riots and vilification brother european nations for bringing them to the brink of collapse first reported from the thick of it from the start she now shares her firsthand impressions in our continuing series reflecting the years events the change the world.

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 the sort of peace to child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis to 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 increased that was exactly what happened. the first time in. reporting and they had a protest planned i remember in the morning. was just off the corner syntagma very very close to central square at the euro zone crisis rumbles on greece 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 like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner sometimes. 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 angry that they feel to a point where they're having to turn out and these sort of clashes abrupt 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. one of the streets as all the riot police started pushing back late at the anarchists and these guys just one backing down you know the people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and metal and it is just it was absolutely i was 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 in the main street right now it's very hard to. even take them in it may not be that difficult to find out about it but.

you gotta. be. as we. keep. trying to reports and eventually to take us to a sort of a became both of us arm 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 and getting caught in the middle of the to you guys and just thinking oh that's just. this 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 in 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 angry we realized very very quickly that it wasn't just a greek problem and this is something that was going to affect everyone. 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 right now there's a chance you might lose everything that we know in this country you don't know what . you can you can't love your life 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 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're talking to. the lucky in that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back there just a welcoming. will continue to bring you more personal reflections from our team of correspondents worldwide as they report on the headlines of the year that we are just leaving and if you missed any of those stories you can join the available work to watch online right now without. oil prices have surged after iran threaten to block shipments through one of the world's busiest waterways if the western sanctions cripple its own exports and the country's navy a naval commander says the cut off will be easy to inflict to iran is currently conducting a huge war game near the crucial hormuz strait with some cutting edge torpedoes an

unmanned aircraft taking part in the drill spans than president lee and president of the larger area of international waters the u.s. also maintains a naval presence in the persian gulf to merely to ensure the passage remains free political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace on the line right now with its stubbornness about sanctions. that americans could probably force use in a military way which in the gulf could probably force or put in the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and was threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really challenging the americans and sensing the american weakness we know that from british sources that there are quietens to attack iran and israel is egging on america to attack iran over the question of its nuclear program but i think again in a comparison with iraq in two thousand and three iran is in

a much stronger position iranian nationalism should not be should not be underestimated even importance i'm with by rao it's a support iran given britain and america's history in iran there's a long history of unfortunate british and american intervention in iraq so i think we're witnessing quite a dangerous escalation and it's the sanctions which the west will talk are important to iran which is responsible for that situation developing and i think we should be clear about that is the west who have racked up this situation every step . the russian courts decided against buying a translation of the how to krishna's most holy text but group connected to the christian orthodox church had claimed it was extremist parties nataly never covers following the story paul started because of one of the translations of quote that as it is into russian which thought to have been sparking a reshuffle and religious hatred now the case was filed after prosecutors thought that the behavior of the harry krishna movements in the tourist region in sabeer

was suspicious and of course with those people the book is sacred but if you take a look back at the relationship between russia and the hari krishna movement it was never an easy one but in the ninety's there when russia was going through one of its most difficult and goon periods over history so far the movement was simply seen as a religious cult if you can imagine the grim images of russia in the ninety's and all those people just in bright and colorful clothes or listening to rock amusing reading to what russians thought it was suspicious literature and this is convincing the young people to join in and stay with them many saw them as drug addicts many believe that they were posing a threat to the society and so there was definitely a lack of understanding of the movement in the first place as this case was a lack of understanding of chance lieschen of the book intervention as the court has proved today in all this time russian ministry of foreign affairs has

a saying that this trial has nothing to do with their original book that is obviously sacred to hindu people but rather whether this particular translation over into russian was extremist or not. the italian overcall reporting for us a man is what a limp it meddles of all three types is set for his fourth games in a row more of it going to go spectacular comeback in our team sports but later still ahead this hour that is but let's get across the business now katie. hello there warm welcome to the business the russian ruble is once again falling victim to the global economic uncertain say it's lost one and a half percent against the dollar in the last twenty four hours and it's down thirteen percent since may however a presidential aide to fork over which does not believe the situation is cause for alarm. you could say we keep on widening the exchange rate corridor as there is

significant she song on the currency market but we don't think the ruble exchange rate will overrun the rational border said by the central bank the biggest impact at the moment is made by capital outflow which is due to many factors starting from situation in europe to a well known problems with corruption which is. turkey has given the green light to south stream to cross its part of the black sea the pipeline is intended to carry gas from southern russia to europe bypassing the transit countries of ukraine and belarus is planned to have a capacity of sixty breeding cubic metres a year and will cost around twenty billion dollars to build. fifty percent of the project while twenty percent belongs to islam is in a the rest is evenly distributed between france's e.d.f. is window all. let's have a look at the market now all prices are kind of for the first time in seven days but are still high and investors fears a possible sanctions against iran that may cause

a surprise disruption. and now let's see what's happening with the exit is u.s. stocks are pulling following on from the news from europe in reaction to the news that the european central bank's balance sheet expanded to wreck or often lending. and the european markets are now closed with both the docs and the footsie finishing off today's session in the red but that was the most affected by the c.b.s. news snapping three days of gates on the footsie also reacting to the news as investors work for the. realty appear once more. and in russia the markets closed in the red the office will subside while the my sides ended point two percent in the red and let's see how some of those individual got on the my sex and the majors i did mixed company blue cool guy and i represent gas not they gasp almost three quarters of those ads on banking stocks were among them a retreat is over the day it was bagged down point nine percent. a new era is

beginning for the russian economy the code you first applied for the membership of the world trade organization back in one nine hundred ninety three finally they that loan negotiation is over or russia has been formally invited to joy to make amends for danko 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 and that's all the business decent out of it back this time next all from all.

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. thanks for watching all of you are on the world this is out international these are all top stories one of the late north korean funeral. excess were overshadowed by concerns of foreign nations but actually want to keep the status quo. mubarak egypt seeks to shape its international ties. the russian court decides against banning a translation of a christian.