a row with stricter fiscal controls but concerns grow that now wants a bigger return on its investments. plus football fans around the world are counting down the days until the euro two thousand and twelve championships kick off in ukraine and poland but many skeptics question whether the benefits will justify the costs of hosting the tournament in the two economically struggling countries. and some news just in for you this hour here on our up to sixteen people have been injured in a blast at an italian restaurant here in moscow a preliminary report suggest it was a gas explosion the blast caused a fire which is now spreading fast and firefighters are at the scene tackling the blaze people are being evacuated from a neighboring buildings as a precaution the force of the explosion shattered windows and caused damage to the walls of the restaurant more details on that as soon as we get them here on out. or right where the last twelve months work characterized by political and economic

discontent ending in mass protests all across the world as we've all seen next we ask russia's foreign ministry commissioner for human rights for his assessment of what went wrong in two thousand and eleven. thank you very much for joining us today in two thousand and eleven we've seen a number of human rights violations taking place throughout the world and you want to serve the implementation of human rights a broad so today i would like to talk about those issues that caught your attention in two thousand and eleven but first of all i want to start with domestic issues and what is your view on the protests that took place in russia after the parliamentary elections in the country under some of the fourth does extremely important to stress that the reaction of the authorities has been a very responsible one and i will say very measured well unlike the reaction in

some other countries and we've seen even so not only in the united states but we've seen in the for instance last summer in the united kingdom obviously it was quite a serious challenge to the authorities definitely it was not to be ignored but also what was some sort of all we reaction and it is not to be ignored so some of our partners tried to teach us some lessons of democracy we tell them that we are absolutely ready to listen to good advice but we are not ready for some sort of lecturing some are saying that the us government's reaction to the occupy movement is going to result in further limitation limitations of the rights of the us citizens do you believe this so the reaction of the authorities to those meetings and manifestations there was a rather rude able to see and we've seen it in the united states i mean the famous no movement occupy wall street it also spilled over to some western european

countries and we've seen him c.n.n. and b.b.c. and other news channels who seem pictures of wild forceful disruption or those protests and meetings by the police have been quite a number of occasions into the. after the terrorist acts of nine eleven and the famous patriot act has been adopted and the next it's and there have been quite a number of limitations significantly make the limitations on good use then on the other hand the function's emperor operatives of the of the f.b.i. and some other annoying foresman agencies have been significantly broader so it is well known that the american human rights organizations are not satisfied with the situation and let's now talk about the so-called arab spring for a little while and how does russia going to react to the apparent abuse of human rights in libya will be raising the issue in different formats and unfortunately during the period of armed conflict in libya there have been quite

a number of aliens of international humanitarian norms and international humanitarian law both by the forces loyal to moammar gadhafi and by the forces loyal to the then opposition forces and also they have been careful to significant casualties among the civilian population resulting from the nato appearing it is not to be ignored and it is not to be hopefully condoned by the international game so the use is very much in the focus of the international attention the human rights council based in june u.s. has established a special commission of inquiry and it is mandated to deal with all human race wally actions in libya and we can create a rating as a rational going to be rating with this commission and other countries we are providing some information which we have on the facts or suspected human rights violations definitely the reason to national team of you has been mandated to deal with the situation in libya by the un security council resolution mentioned seventy

so it is also to please all we know that the levy and the newly been authorities have pledged to conduct f.r. investigation and certain steps have been undertaken of course by the leading of. so it is with welcome and we hope that this particular inquiry will be carried out in an impartial and professional way you know that quite recently this issue has been discussed in the u.n. security council. upon the initiative of russia and unfortunately some western countries members of the of the security council they are not in the mood. to discuss the if you will the responsibility of nato for the what the civilian casualties which have resulted in peace but a number of other members of the security council very much support our position that all whaley actions all transgressions of international humanitarian law

committed in libya are to be suddenly investigated and those responsible are to be brought to justice what about syria how do you assess the work of the monitors of the arab league there and i any closer to bringing the country to consideration as you know we do very much support the peace initiative by the league of arab states. it has several components. it is. very important elements dealing with the prevention of international interference in the syrian affairs. also another element is the need to immediately stop violence any way of us from whatever quarter it comes or might go. another element definitely use the need for the political down in syria we have submitted a draft of a security council resolution in new york in the security council which hooves for

the decision of violence by whom so ever in syria it is extremely important to stress that the violence unfortunately violence has come not only from the from the government forces from from the army and police but violence and significant violence has come also from all sorts of. extremist elements those who try to hide behind the backs of peaceful peaceful demonstrators let's just go back to the united states president barack obama promised to close shut down guantanamo bay and he still hasn't fulfilled his promise yet he is running re-election campaign do you think american people will forgive him for that and will he raise the issue again if you become president again there have been sort of discussions between the administration and the congress. there have been. some at least initiatives but. unfortunately the reason is still there.

yes fully agree that the administration has failed to close it down there are certain internal political complexities there but the but the fact is the effect of the present continues to operate on the as far as i remember. it's one hundred seventy one prisoners are still there kept there including by the way one russian citizen and. of course in terms of international law. the the continuation of. the existence of this prison. definitely a serious problem well in fact american prisons hold several illegally detained russian citizens how is russia going to address that issue and is there still hope for those people and. also has has been saying that there might be an asymmetrical

response to. this issue so is there any chance for those people to come back home we hope so it's not easy at all legal terms it's not easy unfortunately in political terms because of those. those cases have been politicized in the united states no doubt if you mean the cases of mr wood and mr. will in the case of both. the. be in there has not been i mean the the formal indictment has not been announced yet. so we've been obviously. reiterating our position on this case to american colleagues in the case of. we have expressed more than once our position that we consider the. sentence too severe we consider it i'm just in both cases unfortunately what we witnessed use transgression of international

law norms of international law by the united states authorities. russian citizens who have been basically kidnapped in the territories or third country transported to the to the united states without in you know if you will the russian authorities this is just another way allegiance of a leash and of the consular convention which exist between our countries and we are adamantly against. extraterritorial implementation of national laws and that's what unfortunately we know what the this practice is or this procedure is being practiced by the united states but are different not too many but there are certain legal instruments which are to be used. from. the council of europe convention which was adopted dimension to three. provides for

some opportunities to achieve this goal. as a looking into this definitely we as diplomats we continue to. stress at this point to the americans you know very very clear we thank you very much for it thank you very much thank you. wealthy british style stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

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three. two three. three broke in video for your media project free media. headlines on a day after the arab league called on all sides of a conflict in syria to. implement a peace plan still rages on its claim at least one person was killed on monday government crackdown on protesters continue despite the arab league. new year and a new worries for europe and the leaders of france and germany to kick start a rescue plan for the euro with strict fiscal controls and concerns grow the. return on its investment. plus football fans around the world are counting down the days until the euro two thousand and twelve championships. but many skeptics

question whether the benefits will justify the cost of hosting the tournament in the two economically struggling countries. and the news just in here on r t coming in this hour two people have been killed at least fifteen injured in a blast at an italian restaurant here in moscow is told a gas leak may have caused the explosion the dad thought to be employees at the restaurant now firefighters have arrived at the scene they are in the midst of putting out the blaze which started soon after the blast the force of the explosion shattered windows and caused damage to the walls of the venue more details to come here on monday here in the russian capital more on those stories in about fifteen minutes time now though the sports with kate.

thank you for joining us for some news what's coming up there it goes falls two thousand and eight we're not sure of the receipt in full for the upcoming australian open three russian women in the top sixteen but djokovic is the number one man. while second coming to area one reason poised to make a second debut for osman has got a lead in monday's f.a. cup third round tie. and tells the new york giants cruise past that one for twenty four to win the n.f.c. wild card game in the n.f.l. . but first to tennis and maria sharapova has been seeded fourth for the first grand slam of the season the australian open which gets underway in melbourne on january the sixteenth deadlocks while the long caroline wozniacki leads the women's field check the public at a bit of a tory as a rank of baton rouge beer is about to rise but it's russia's second time to run the mint in seven's thanking champion kim clijsters of belgium receiving twelve leads on st now at the top by becoming the first chinese woman to reach

a grand slam is this. more tennis not only mario enjoyed the perfect warm up for the upcoming australian open with a comfortable victory over these on the dog got pole of in the brisbane international final well. right from the start of the world number four showed his intention to clench his twenty second title and first under the guidance of new coach former world number one yvonne lundell the scot won his first free service goes without dropping a point on the way to a four one lead and faced little resistance from the ukrainian before taking the first set six one one of the world number fifteen did stir the crowd in delight in the second but it was not enough to stop murray from wrapping it up six three four an impressive first victory in eighty two season is focused now shifts to the australian open he's been beaten fall. i missed the past it's. gone wild canadian military on edge captured the second a.t.p. tour title of his career after coming back to be topsy blanco chips are of age six

seven seven six seven six in a neck and neck final channel hoping the twenty one year old who want all of you say to spin the tournament produced thirty five aces in this nail biting final and after more than three hours on court i am raised his arms joy relief after winning epic match to the spurs trophy of twenty twelve. football now interior on reset to make his second day before us on this monday night as the gunners i was leads in the third round of the f.a. cup while arsenal's all time leading goalscorer has rejoined the north london club and two months alone in new york red bulls thirty four year old frenchman has a good record against leeds stories eleven goals in five seasons against the championship club two teams match of the same stage last year when the gunners need to replace go through to the fourth round to start asking him in the strongest side or top scorer robin van persie get arrested for on sunday much to my side won a three to fill up at ten man rivals manchester city to know that the holders rooney had united in front after ten minutes and two minutes later city captain

vincent kompany controversially sent off a two foot attack on money which the club later and they would appeal rather united took full advantage danny welbeck voiding and off the hoff are now nearly headed in the rebound from his own pelosi to make it three known by home time as united to avenge city's six one league victory at old trafford in october but the home side fought back straight after the break through an exam the collect food cake and sophia whereupon back another falling in error for returning to substitute for scholes after sixty five minutes however despite a frantic finale with chelsea there's a better side and i think we're going to win. but i'll swear chelsea's got three times in the last five minutes as the blues won. and a time to portsmouth second off goals from sebastian dawson and james by famed at sunderland deteriorate quickly to work and chris o'grady snatched the late winner as week one sheffield wednesday be less time to take a penalty save wrong following always size

a draw for the fourth round as made announced tonight his reward for winning at city is a tribute on rivals liverpool and the pick of the sixteen times otherwise off or later is when i play tonight will host aston villa newcastle will go to either brighton wrexham stoke make the short trip to darby at the moment in an all new league fixture. elsewhere the winner of michael's building bolton with barry playing will host this one as it will either m.k. dons or queens park rangers will face six times as chelsea and after their one one draw at rangers sacked my engineer warnock q.c. is now the favorites to replace in the meanwhile birmingham all walls will go to sheffield united or there's a tasty ne davina sunderland well middlesborough nearby what food west want to take i'm not rich all those games will take place on the weekend of january twenty eighth and twenty nights. two american football now in the n.f.l. and eli manning's through three touchdown passes as the new york giants cruised ask the atlanta falcons twenty four two to win the n.f.c.

wild card game in new jersey the giants defense dominated the game one their opponents to score only those two points while late in the third quarter hakeem nicks grabbed manning's past ten yards downfield the race to the falcons defense to put to one side seventeen two up. and the giants put the game away on manning's third touchdown pass twenty seven wanted to marry a man and five minutes into the fools who trash johnson that travel to green bay next sunday to play the defending super bowl champions the practice edge than thirty eight thirty five last month. now let's continue our look back over some of the big events of last year and this time it's the turn of swimming in october american start michael phelps took just two goals from six races at the world cup stage here in moscow while russian world record holder you're going to perform to his best winning the one hundred meter butterfly comforting but apple was there.

despite moving to before where after below point his plan to use me for in tamil n.b.a. champion michael phelps pretty used almost an identical santa result on day two of the world cup in the russian capital in the two hundred metres freestyle the twenty six year old american was overtaken in the last fifty major on the world record holder paul be there month and had to settle for silver. and phelps converting in moscow for the first time failed to make it to the body i'm in the one hundred metres butterfly where world record holder eve again you can out the skin up first place to the delight of the home crowd. you mean you have all of that it was very important for me to win today so i can see i've won a battle and now my aim is to win a war and by that i mean the london olympics. however just as he did on the opening day selves showed his competitive desire as he bounced back to claim gold in the two hundred metres backstroke after being fourth for the first one hundred fifty metres the american found

a burst of power and managed to surge to victory as our hero some are starting to really get to the end of the year being able to tie together some of the killer starch turns on her waters tell thank you that her many times are they and living up in the will of a child and such an address. the london olympics are just nine months away and berber ations are well underway for this winning event however there are still four stages to go before the end of the world cup giving press bonbons and swimmers alike the opportunity to gauge who will be queen xing the gold medals at the twenty twelve games because they about are both party. and finally let's move to the golf course russia's only female professional golfer whatever china that was here in moscow last autumn preparing for a tournament in south korea but she took the time to talk to a busy correspondent comes at the top of that a colorful life on and off the course. is arguably one of the biggest

commercial attractions in women's golf since you turned professional in two thousand and six did you do any five year old muscular it remains the first and only russian playing full time on the ladies' european tour following an impressive amateur career that included victories in the russian austrian lithium and slovenian championships. because i got it i got on tour and i was the only russian player and i was there all the girls were half of them were english british and australian and it was quite tough to get myself like good mates and you know in the end of the day they're playing as me that you're michelle great improvement in her second year on the tour with her career best finished tied for fifth way since being enforced a degree a low round of sixty six and white as a result finished fifty fifth in the games in two thousand and eight still have been placing so far and despite having some injury problems she's doing dishes and has lots of goals to achieve with her new coach definitely play for another five

years because of my back i don't know how well my back will give me a chance to play golf by the way said sam gold twenty one so now eighty and hopefully get. down there with a major and i can go. professional golfer who spend most of their time travelling from one tournament to no other which can be the hardest part of their job however well in search of success in the ladies' european tour many funny stories have a reason. to make area i don't mind to say a few days in a cheap hotel and i put my pajamas on i went. to buffalo came back and my room was completely locked go inside so he had to go because it was going a way out so i went outside and all the guys are like oh of course we go through this now. despite bringing mourners to results over the last two years. the trauma stays optimistic and focused on golf however the one meter seventy six told

brunette directs a lot of attention not only with her performances on the way but obviously all to because of her appearance i'm not trying to attract more attention i'm trying to bring something more in go and that the girls who play females here and is again better and better now so many young girls attractive girls beautiful girls getting into gold there john no it isn't by any in a sport which is widely considered to be a hobby for wealthy people in the home and there is still a long way to go before being accepted as a mainstream sport in russia but with the likes of virtue and work the country couldn't ask for a better ambassador to lead the way. and that's what the sport i think.

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a day after the arab league called on all sides of the conflict in syria to cease fire and implement a peace plan of violence still rages on. nuclear power to bring some and sure iran launches a new uranium enrichment facility after threatening to shut down a vital oil supply route in the gulf sparking warnings of military action from the united states. and a new year and new worries of for europe as the leaders of france and germany meet to discuss the euro rescue plan it's all a big concern that bigger return on its investments right here.