that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so it's good to diversify some of the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar based like goal but of course together with. china would need to have a say in. the global financial situation right now. by your peers in the world. china has riveted to say in global financial matters and i think that we all have to change expression the u.s. and europe in such dire financial straits if china to participate fully in the global financial system i think you need to bring china into d.c. to organizations. nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow to check out

the r.t. world update and was talk with pakistan where gunmen have attacked a paramilitary checkpoint in southwestern pakistan it killed eleven soldiers and wounded a dozen and the troops did return fire but it's unclear whether the attackers suffered any casualties shortly after pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of militants along the afghan border killing up to thirty one suspected insurgents. two people have been killed and five more injured in senegal's capital during an opposition rally police there used to gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling allowing the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term the constitution was revised soon after he was elected in two thousand to impose a limit for the president argues that since he was already in office when it took effect it should not apply to him. mitt romney is in pole position to be the

republican nominee for president after claiming a landslide victory in the primary election in florida official results show him taking forty six percent of the vote compared to his main rival newt gingrich with thirty two the former massachusetts governor has been the front runner to take on barack obama for most of the campaign but did suffer a setback in south carolina last month when she claimed a women's congress bureaucracy. seventy nine people have died and hundreds hospitalized across the eastern europe after severe cold and blizzards swept the region the drop in temperature also caused power outages and blocked traffic the worst hit was ukraine where forty three people most of them homeless died after temperatures hit minus thirty degrees celsius weather forecasters say the deep freeze is expected to last into friday at least. the united states is home to the second largest jewish community in the world and many american jews

feeling increasingly alienated from their spiritual home in israel thanks in no small part to ad campaigns funded by the israeli government and saudis explains. the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. girl is israeli married to ball or an american jewish woman but it was saying is that my husband shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just out. this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and aid across the united states that evoked more than just an ouch from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily answers christmas instead of the jewish festival of hucker the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. american support you cannot the loads of

points to. this us and so for them. shows a toddler calling daddy daddy to his napping is really expected father who finally wakes up only when he son's which is to hebrew american jews felt insulted by the suggestion that israeli jewish identity was more pure than american jewish identity i think that that's really what bothered me about the ads is that they came from a place of almost fear mongering you know they were almost kind of trying to scare people who are living here israelis who are living here the ads were designed to encourage its radius living in the united states to come home but critics complained they smacked of arrogance ignorance and cultural disrespect for america instead of giving positive reasons for expects to return to israel they failed to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look to what going on in israel was developing in the parliament particular in the feeling strongly alienated from that and they say to

themselves this is not the israel that we fell in love with this is not israel that we want to defend american jewry has always been more liberal than israeli society they traditionally voted democrat and often open to a list off the docks practice of judaism then the israeli counterparts. for years a rift has been growing between the two much of it based on the aggressive policies of tel aviv towards gaza and the occupation these radio palestinian conflict still shows no signs of compromise and consecutive israeli governments have been unable or unwilling to reach agreement with the palestinians even many american jews feeling more and more alienated from israel does some of what's going on in the israeli public sphere troubled some north american jews troubled them very very greatly i have no question but that's the case since the late one nine hundred sixty s. israel has built hundreds of thousands of homes here in the west bank more than half a million people now live in settlements television onstott was issuing tenders four thousand more homes to be built across the green line evoking anger and

condemnation from the international community as many as a million one in eight israelis live outside the country in the last five years the number of people who choose to leave the holy land has outpaced those wanting to come and live in israel and although the ads are no longer on air the reasons that they provoked such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved policy or r.t. television or a part of the business the military joins us next. and one welcome to business in a further effort to crack down on corruption president at it has ratified the o.e.c.d. convention against bribing foreign officials in business transactions this is also a key step in russia's access to the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development or cd together details of this move i'm joined in the studio by business at isn't it paul so nick a new move what difference will it make what it means is that russian companies

that give bribes to public officials abroad will be liable for prosecution in russia now russia has got a problem with corruption we all know that the problem is not the number of statutes on the law books the problem has always been the application of the laws if these are implemented it won't make much of a difference to companies operating in the us and in europe because corruption is not that big a problem that when you look at regions like africa or other regions where corruption is endemic then clearly it's going to be more difficult to get contracts if companies are not allowed to use every meth the disposal what happens if people are called well if you look at some of the other countries the they've imposed on companies for offering bribes they've been quite substantial. bens for instance five hundred eighty five million dollars for giving twelve million dollars in fines so the two the rules have been sort of quite strictly applied elsewhere but where

they are here is remains to be seen for that means more restrictions for russian companies do you think there is point still in joining o.e.c.d. in that case well joining the o.e.c.d. is the next natural step after joining the w t o and the kremlin says it would like to get it done this year at the o.e.c.d. its function really is a talking shop it comes up with best policy for trade legal regulation. if. recommendations this helps transparency the rule of law becomes more firm and this is all good for the business climate which is here mission for this government right nick thank you very much nick paul of business at . let's now turn over to the markets and we start with europe where the footsie and the dax will still on the rise on reports the european central bank or the figures could help reduce greece's debt by returning gains on greek government bonds that it originally purchased at a discount. here in moscow the markets bounced back from early losses and are

looking pretty positive for your tears up more than one percent so it is the my sex segment of what's moving the my six gas market gazprom is high and snap profit rose over forty one percent in the first nine months of last year and predicts full year profits will be up twenty five percent oil pipeline operator transnet is gaining as well as preferred shares are up point nine percent the company plans to invest thirteen billion dollars into the infrastructure by twenty twenty and after as is bucking the trend is down more than two percent after reporting its russian sales fall twenty one percent during. the year is gaining versus the dollars in the currency has strengthened five percent versus the dollar since reaching a seventeen month low on the genuine thirteen getting the euro's declined about four percent since mario draghi took control of the e.c.b. on the first of november the russian ruble is. versus the greenback and the are.

so set to be the most hyped i.p.o. in years facebook is expected to file the paperwork for its public listing in new york as soon as today the social network will reportedly sell a ten percent stake to raise up to ten billion dollars this will be a record for a technology company but as with other high profile internet firms. out of market research has not capital says this one looks overvalued. this is a valuation probably based on future cash flow where as we are now more inclined to talk about present cash flow definitely facebook does not deliver in this much money right now so. might be a self-delusion or might might be deliberate exaggeration of market value but facebook definitely worth much much less than that amount. bad lines

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at least twenty people have been killed in at least two separate shooting incidents there is still a lot of activity there are still officers up above crouched high trees this enough police out there weapons drawn. going through the campus business but it's been like all maureen very chaotic very rushed through thirty three people killed here at virginia tech including the gunman this is your worst campus massacre in united states history but of course it isn't the first it's almost eight years to the day since the columbine massacre. have been able to confirm the ability of the gunman to the response the person is. sorry when. the gunman needed only to. i.d.'s and a credit card to buy the weapons and ammunition he used sadly for tat has just become an all time mass murder site and students here will never feel the same.

it was a normal monday morning and. also for my nine am french class. another class that day in both the campus and we were pretty late about five or six minutes late. and we both ran and sit down like normal we started hearing banging noises for the first time i had my teacher stop lecture and and as she went to the door to look a member teacher's face dropping in her expression she closed it again she came kind of back and said everybody so we called on one everybody generate their desks that's when i pull on nine one one and it seem only a couple seconds after that i ever seen bullets comes to the door. he started shooting everyone just jumped to the floor and i had kind of jumped underneath

a bunch of desks and here just constant gunfire just bang bang bang and then a clip would change and then just more gunfire and i'm him being just about at my feet yes for i felt a force of a bullet underneath my shoulder and flipped my whole body around and exposed my right hip where i was shot a force to my right hip and it wasn't too long after that it just got quiet again souza police came in they said shooter down i didn't know he had killed himself in the front of our classroom. it was shot four times in total and i have want to exit wound sorry of the bullets are still in my body in pieces above my knee and in my hips. put a cop on its leg and a cop on each arm and pick me out of side down and brought me down the hallway and down the stairs and out the front door. for class including the teacher i think was seventeen students and i think i'm one of seven

or so. this is a senseless brutal and fashionable tragedy i believe it could have been prevented i believe if there was a way that we had done a better background check on this kid this kid can go according to our laws right now can go out and even though he's on medication can get a weapon if he has no criminal history that's the same. they were doing a tech massacre has renewed debate on the passionate issue of gun control and the second amendment chosen we legally bought both guns in virginia which has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the nation critics say those laws need to be tightened

do you think these things are happening because there are too many guns in the united states it's too easy to get too high powered weapon rate in this country it's been eight years since columbine we've done nothing as a country it's been six months since the school shootings we've done nothing i wrote an open letter to the president of the university as well as times and in it i asked them to let me take responsibility for my safety legally licensed to carry a firearm anywhere in the state of virginia except for some very limited places and . when i come on campus it's not illegal it's just i'm subject to disciplinary action which means they'll expel me. i just couldn't help but think that had one person in that classroom been able to legally carry and defend themselves that things could have been very different. some people seem to think the. some sort of vigilante behavior or something like that and it's not that at all it's an awesome responsibility and sean mcquade is waking up in his own bed he is

the final victim of the virginia tech massacre to be released from the hospital a twenty two year old was shot in the face during that horrific incident and it is reignited that national debate over gun control the debate being led in large part by new york mayor michael bloomberg new york city's mayor michael bloomberg blames gun crime here on lax gun laws in other states congress should also be doing more to stop illegal gun sales before they occur and vince didn't want to contribute to violent crime in his city bloomberg decided to sue twenty seven firearms dealers in five states seven of them in for ginia mayor michael bloomberg is going after rogue gun dealers there this week they fought back with a controversial god giveaway. giveaway. we're going to have a drawing the drawing is to simply send a couple of messages which one is going to new york mayor bloomberg but if you're

going to come under for june you don't go around virginia law enforcement and the other message is that human life is sacred innocent human life and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem in fact you can't have enough guns of that type. the right to carry is exactly that it's a right it's not an obligation it's an important option that we all have as americans this is a semiautomatic beretta nine millimeter handgun it's a very dependable weapon it's currently in use by the u.s. army. while in washington today the supreme court took up a landmark case a case that could decide for the first time ever whether the second amendment guarantees americans the right to own a gun the second amendment says plainly the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed but that comes at the end of a much longer sentence giving states the right to keep

a well regulated militia. in one nine hundred seventy six the d.c. council in reaction to rising gun violence decided to enact a law basically banning the registration of new handguns and from one nine hundred seventy six on that has been the law. think clearly the washington d.c. law is out of sync with the constitution i mean you look at all the american history from the seven hundred nineteen it was unfortunate that it was an individual right you're looking at a landmark decision. a lot of elected officials for some time have used the second amendment as an excuse not to add up commonsense gun regulations are open the future is there places like d.c. and or have the right to do reasonable gun regulations. to carry important point guns or why america is the most opulent abundant wonderful country ever known on

the face of the early years morning america is the greatest country on earth you know seventy percent of the united states supports gun control seventy seven americans own firewall seventy percent support gun control and a lot of. looking at gun control laws in united states this joint and the only class of guns that are outlawed just are fully automatic guns. otherwise americans can own and you as you know just about any kind of gun they would like. there was an historical moment in the one nine hundred sixty s. when you had all these threats to gun rights because of the political assassinations in one nine hundred sixty eight pass gun control legislation that limited who could own a gun by age by mental health status how you can acquire a gun no more mail order guns and then after that nothing really came on the radar the federal level until the brady bill one thousand nine hundred ninety three.

the brady bill was named after james brady president reagan's press secretary who was shot and paralyzed during the handgun assassination attempt on president reagan it took twelve years for legislation to finally be passed in congress when a democrat bill clinton took over the presidency. what is that brady gun control act do all the brady bill does is let's make sure that at this moment right now we're not selling a gun to someone who's got a criminal history that's the thrust of the brady bill the instant background check system. a year later clinton passed the federal assault weapons ban which did criminalize possession of almost an entire class of firearms. the assault weapons ban expired a little fanfare in two thousand and four and democrats have not spoken about renewing it since returning to power. how did the n.r.a. the so-called assault weapons ban. finger been burning waiting periods

gun registration gun owner licensing and two generations worth of and i gun schemes and i gun schemers the n.r.a. is able to prevent publicly supported gun control legislation from passing because their members are so deeply committed and passionate about the i. that if you pass any form of gun control legislation it's going to eventually lead to the loss of all gun rights from my cold dead hands. i brought a brand new python never been fired. intra tech infamous tec nine. as long as people are fearful that their

government may take away their guns they're going to keep buying them as long as they can. over the years as a lobbyist in the pro-gun movement i understood the most effective lobbying america is when you can motivate and energise huge numbers of ordinary american citizens to call and write their congressman and let them know when no one certain terms what their views on a particular issue. and frankly no one does it better than the national rifle association of america. the newspapers have dubbed him the subway vigilante the man was riding the subway saturday when for use apparently began hassling him neatly dressed suspect pulled out a gun and calmly shot all for the rifle association so what's the.

right for citizens to obtain firearms lawfully the first day i ever ended up on the national media as a lead story was a pretty big news conference and that was kind of a fun high visibility day on citizens to prevent crime the thing about ridge is he took risks he took risks that. nobody it in or a war to take the greatest single deterrent to crime is an on citizen national rifle association was a group of basically retired military police who love to shoot holes in paper. they were like walking around on eggshells oh my goodness oh my goodness somebody is use the gun for self defense richie went in there he says look the guy is somebody we should defend. he's there became a civil rights issue the right of people who were victims to have the means to

defend themselves. after congress passed the gun control act of one thousand nine hundred sixty eight there were some in the in the national rifle association that felt that the group had become too complicit or too weak or should have fought against that legislation in one thousand nine hundred sixty and so there was a revolution of the n.r.a. and a group of hardliners took over that wanted to basically say we need to be political we need to be fighting against any gun restrictions these folks behind me on capitol hill they know that gun owners in this country are very well organized and there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of them that will vote for or con on the gun issue alone and that can determine the outcome not just of congressional and senatorial elections but it can alter the outcome of the presidency of the united states. i believe very strongly absent his anti-gun position al gore

would have been president back in two thousand and one. if you take nothing home from this conference but this next sentence please listen . you are one election away from losing your second amendment rights one election you look at the bill of rights to teeth in the bill of rights is the second amendment because push comes to shove you can't defend free speech with your mouth as chairman of the committee for the right to keep their arms and founder the second amendment foundation i really want to welcome all of you to the two thousand and seven gun rights policy conference nobody gives us permission to carry a gun we get there when we're born we live there i make my living pound on a keyboard in writing news and i don't have to run the government.