muslims feel threatened by what is test are sunni reports. bearded wearing a camouflage jacket and constantly surrounded by men fought a belt is hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sharia for belgium in september the group opened the country's first sharia court in antwerp to mediate domestic disputes among muslims with our own system our own belief. of the handing things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't. there is a judgement day if you if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this will leave or you will go to hell . any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it but videos such as these. have caused outrage. the freedom of speech and. the hatred incitement to violence starts we have laws about leadership here for him he openly. said.

i should be. i should be killed because i am an enemy of islam in january and work or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for about a seven for inciting hatred and violence against muslims that's in addition to fourteen police court convictions and criminal convictions for robbery defamation and violence if you would your bond of course just a few people maybe a dozen of people maybe two dozen of people dressed like me. middle age. and green flag. and this is a joke yet it has its repercussions on other muslims. this kind of group of course they are moved limbs but they have no religious background it is

a minority perhaps that in search of an identity but that's a big difference and the method they're using it's scary and it's freaking people out. unfortunately this kind of group shows about image of islam and most muslims condemn this kind of ideology this is a misinterpretation of her secret books. muslims comprise about six percent of the belgian population one of the highest rates in europe and is expected to rise to more than ten percent by two thousand and twenty the muslim who live in belgium they say. they are belgium from american origin turkish origin and the first declination of. mostly radical groups such as those of islamic fundamentalists comprise a minority and it's not representative of the muslim community in belgium. nevertheless politicians analysts and even the belgian muslims themselves acknowledge that the problem is what these groups symbolize radicalization the process it spreads and the allure of extreme views. just are still here r t

brussels. well some world news in brief for you now the sound two people including a three year old girl have been wounded by israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip both were injured after one of the strikes hit a house in the town of beit lahiya five other attacks targeted several tunnels and what israel claimed was a weapons one of faction facility the strikes happen only hours after the u.n. chief visited the controlled territory in a bid to kickstart is very palestinian peace talks. at least six people have been killed and more than twenty injured in colombia after a group using pickup trucks five who made water police station thirty five officers were inside the building when the attack occurred time the recount comes just a day after a motorcycle practice explosives blew up outside a police station and if you have to mark on killing eleven people police blamed

that attack on the left wing rebel bloc. the cold snap sweeping across eastern europe has now claimed the lives of more than one hundred thirty people snow was two meters high in parts of serbia leaving around eleven thousand villages stranded in remote parts of the country sixty three people have died in ukraine of the end of the temperatures plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius food shortages have been reported in the capital kiev with trucks able to transport supplies. the watchful eyes of webcams are about to be set up across russia ahead of next month's presidential elections the move was proposed by more than ten south of thousands of people took to the streets late last year calling for transparency in the election process. as well as a start. inch after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install

web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation but actually sometimes but i think if anything i ask the central electoral commission to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there how much twenty four hours a day. earlier. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand polling stations is the scale and around a half a billion u.s. dollars is the price tag. coming into this system is not been made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country. all cameras will be feeding the videos the thing called digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution

centers via cable radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals it's estimated that all together the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred ninety years of video information in good quality however there is still down to this technology will help make the vote more transparent. you'll get a story i'm sure the observers won't be able to check advance if these cameras work or not now. everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but this still doesn't stop robberies from happening. every ballot box will be monitored by two cameras one with the general view and another with a close up of the slot there are many ways to read and the cameras don't provide a hundred percent guarantee against them but using them should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes of course there is nothing new. or web cameras.

using them to monitor elections on such a scale is a first for any nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will be able to monitor the vote online and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot the war is going on moscow. but just ahead the people of those cross-talk this time looking at the coming november election face off in the us before that creating the business of. hello welcome to the business program here and i'll say russell isn't a parrot of political transition delegates at the troika dialog economic forum in moscow have been discussing the reforms the country needs to put in place following the march presidential election now in a culture of art is out of the event of business outing. also censored political

cycles it's important to assess the birds at the moment and form and in its understand want changes needs to be made and this of course will be one of the things i asked all the president was honest already offering their opinions and suggestions and to point out all those are no one wants to hear you don't think for much thank you for giving me the first person i don't. want. at the moment. thinking all the solutions are actually listed in the prime minister's article in the didn't with us last month they were here to serve it should move away once they get to capitalism improve the governance. fight the people systemic corruption build an independent judiciary all of that will help to improve business and climate in the investment climate bring back the capital that has led the country in bringing new foreign direct investment in i'm sure russia

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the father of murdered. examiner. says he regrets accusing the kremlin running up his sons to have. next speak about his guests discuss the presidential election race in the u.s. who are the republicans choose to take on barack obama cross-talk his next show. blowing a welcome across a computer will cause the u.s. presidential campaign become a horse race pitting incumbent barack obama against republican mitt romney if this

is really the case what are romney's chances in november obama may not be a president of substance but few doubt his ability to campaign and maybe even when . you. start. to cross out the u.s. presidential race i'm joined by john mchenry in washington he's a partner and vice president of ayres mchenry and associates also in washington we have doug there now is a senior vice president at s k d knickerbocker and in dallas we cross that katrina pierson she is the executive director at watch the vote dot org and a board member at the dallas tea party or at crosstalk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want between if i go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to

stay that way actually and what we are experiencing is this huge up and down roller coaster. you know newt gingrich is or seeming endorsements rick santorum is receiving endorsements i think this race is going to stay divided for quite some time i didn't see this going all the way to the convention as it should what do you think about that i mean there is mitt romney got the big mo is he going to be able to sustain this. well right now it clearly does but i think the next month it's going to be a challenging month for the other candidates because there's only one debate and we enter into the next contests three out of four of them are caucuses so you could you could see a situation was situation where someone like a ron paul who has a good organization does well and these are states that mitt romney did well in. four years ago but you know katrina's right only five percent of the delegates have been allocated were a long way from this being finished and i think if there's anything that we can you know that that this contest has shown us is you know anything can happen and you

don't count i don't think you can count newt gingrich out at any point he just kind of has you know he just keeps coming back to life ok it's interesting john if i can go to you i mean mitt romney has a lot of money he has a good war chest and newt gingrich is struggled in getting money but he's you surprised that sometimes is money going to be the be all important factor in this election for the for the republican nomination or as our other guests have said it could go either way still. well mitt certainly the favorite at this point partly because of the money and also partly because of the organization that he has he also has a very favorable schedule he's. you know like a football team that has a bunch of patsies waiting in front of them he's got nevada which he did very well and four years ago that has a high mormon population that we would expect him to win and he's looking at michigan this month which is a state that his father was governor of and he's got the organization to do well in

some of these caucus states ron paul obviously will target the caucus states and try to do well in those but you know as the other guests have said anything can happen this year the last thing you want to do is go out and try to predict this but mitt certainly has a lot of momentum heading into these february contests between for your political to. run the conservative enough for you. no absolutely not i don't even consider romney a conservative i consider him a moderate slash liberal who is running as a conservative which many tea party people have experienced in two thousand and ten and here's the problem that romney is going to face that he's never even grass any of the grassroots movement out there he has shunned that movement the republican party in some areas have shown that movement and unfortunately for him that's the movement that gets the vote out ok i mean that's one of the interesting things is that when we look at the demographics of all of it romney it's still very problematic i mean he's mormon and

a lot of evangelical christians don't i would say agree with his outlook and really religious outlook and in the katrina is absolutely right in many ways i mean the grassroots you know that's where the the the voters are is he is he's strong enough with his credentials and he's well but that documented flip flops will talk about the november election if he gets the nomination i mean what is it i mean what is his attraction and remember we have an international audience here what is the attraction that republicans have with mitt romney because personally i watch him and he looks like a piece of cardboard. yeah it looks like something out of central casting right and the reason why he's doing well and you know john knows this probably better than anyone he's a pollster but you know in the polls right now they're showing that he's the one that republicans believe can be you know is their best chance to beat the president and that's the top criteria for a lot of the primary voters but once you get below that when you compare mitt romney to the other candidates on leadership qualities on some character issues

views on issues as katrina pointed out and so you know conservatives are very concerned about his past flip flops you know he's very thin and i think for democrats heading into a general election you know we feel like we can contrast very well with the president and the president and mitt romney has taken different positions on health care on taxes on gay marriage i mean it goes all the way down the list and for voters in uncertain times i think they want someone they think is going to shoot straight with them and the other thing i'd point out is this long primary so far is really hurt him polls have shown recently with independents in his favor ability numbers have dropped quite a bit with that key voting bloc and the overall electorate as well so mitt while winning florida has taken some serious damage and some serious incoming to his overall standing with the electorate that's not something he can be rehabilitated but it's going to be hard for him ok john i'll this show my political has tasted

opinions ok and everyone can disagree with me if you want it's not even germane to the debate here but i mean he's doing well because the rest of the people running the other contenders the republican parties are borderline before. that might be a little bit harsh. but you tapped into something important us katrina is romney conservative enough and he may not be conservative enough for her but he is conservative enough for most of the republican primary voters in the sense that the appeal he has whether he looks like cardboard an out of central casting he seems like the safest choice and republican see this year is vitally important you know that the evangelicals you talked about with the mormon faith and questioning that they see the fate of the free world riding on beating president obama in the fall you know it's vitally important to them to override the health care law that was passed in two thousand and ten and they will do they will nominate whomever they

think gives them the best chance to do that and mitt romney despite his flaws in the has said he will not do the going to jump in. now i was just going to say that something that romney's said he can't do and he won't do i mean he's think about the health care bill do you can do you can you know debate whether you like it or not but for mitt romney to have a debate with the president on the health care reform bill it's going to be laughable because the bill that the president signed into law was based almost entirely on the bill that mitt romney signed into law in massachusetts the individual mandate was in exchange and slowly or i think he's not going to be able to make katrina jump and. you're right he's not even going to be able to make that argument and the question earlier is is a conservative enough i mean how could anyone call him a conservative when he himself has called himself a moderate the real deal here is the republicans are trying to get the conservative grassroots to support the guy who lost to the guy who lost to obama and so

there's this endless cycle of you know it's your turn that's being shoved down the grassroots throat he's been running for five years he already has organization set up in all the states plus the backing of goldman sachs and the republican establishment and the guy still can't break fifty percent i don't think he would do well in the general ok john if you for the for the sake of the perfectly positioned he's perfectly positioned to be a general election candidate though because he is a little bit more centrist now maybe that's not my flavor maybe that's not katrina's flavor but he is better positioned. to a lot of republican primary voters as the man who they think they can trust to run the campaign as rick santorum said in the debate about a week and a half ago you're not going to go out and pick up the newspaper and say what new do today you know mitt romney's not going to go out and say i think we ought to establish the fifty first state on the moon and let's have a moon colony with thirteen thousand people there so that's the thing that you know

you know this. is. i was just going to say the one thing that i've noticed in the last month or so is that mitt romney has not been as stable of a candidate as i think people had predicted you know he has made a number of verbal gaffes he was totally unprepared to release his tax returns he was called blindsided by his you know by explaining his experience at bain capital you can say what you want about that but his campaign wasn't prepared for it his campaign wasn't prepared for south carolina and the wapping in the in the defeat he took there from newt gingrich you know he lost iowa so if you look and if you look at jen and if you look at the current national polling in the republican primary. mitt romney is only up by four or five points on newt gingrich so you know the idea it's i think there is a chattering class inside of washington that wants to shut this thing down very quickly they don't think it so they don't want to they don't want to go on much

longer we are sensing that there's a lot of damage that's being done to romney but overall i mean i think if you look if you listen to katrina the grassroots doesn't want to shut it down right now let's listen to good training here. let me let me go to training or i should new drop out for the sake of the republican party or stay in to actually give romney. give him it's a test for him because you know i'm debating with and newt is hilarious ok because you never know what he's going to say and you sharpen your skills that way which way would you go newt go. oh i say new it stays in all the way to the convention what people don't understand is this is not a fight for our country against barack obama this is a fight for our country against the people versus the establishment elites and you see that when you have to drop eighteen million dollars into a state just to try to change public opinion of a different candidate and set of propping your own self up and i'll give you another couple of examples that most republicans don't want to admit that mitt

romney is going to have to deal with in the general and it is a simple fact that he is the poster child for the one percent in this country and judging by his latest gaffe yesterday about not worrying about the poor people that will haunt him in the general ok john you want to real quick before the break. well we've got a couple issues in there to talk about but the part about whether we should continue on for a couple more weeks a couple more days you know all the way to the convention before yesterday's gaffe i think it was pretty easy to say that mitt romney has been a much better candidate because of the hardening of the debates the fact that he really had to fight for to show that he really wanted to stand up to new push back on them a little bit he's really been a much more candid john i'm going to germany and we're going to short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the u.s. presidential campaign state.

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please please don't top t.v. dot com. and you can see. the. welcome back to cross talk i'm carol bell to remind you we're talking about the november faceoff. and you can see it's. ok katrina let's talk about the general election here let's assume on this program for the time being and i agree with you we've seen a roller coaster with this this campaign and with the republicans but let's assume that romney is the nominee ok number one well the demo the republicans come out and droves to go vote for him even if they don't like him too much he's with your case he's not conservative enough and if he's strong enough to beat barack obama what do

you think. well i'm not sure right now if the election were today it's possible but i think with mitt's recent behavior in the debates towards conservatives it's probably going to turn some people off we do have contended senate and congressional races out there it's been the chatter that i hear that people if mitt romney becomes the nominee they will go and support those other races so i'm not so sure he would get help in that side and if he did become the nominee we have to look at what are the differences between mitt romney and barack obama with the exception of brock wants to reform wall street and mitt romney wants to prop up wall street other than that they both support tarp they both support stimulus they both believe a manmade global warming they both agree and a timetable of troops withdrawal i mean i'm trying to figure out if i'm out there and i'm trying to figure out who to vote for next year i want to vote for the guy whom i already know and what he's going to do or do i vote for

a guy that's going to come in into a world where everything is in chaos civil unrest in countries all over the bashar al assad instead it is about to explode and do i really want someone in there with on the job training especially if the economy is taking up since mitt romney's one big trick pony issue is the economy when i support him the question is i simply don't know very articulate very interesting don't what it what about you i mean there is this is going to say is very very interesting that this similarities between the two candidates is that but at the same time barack obama if this is the case and i think it's a good analysis we want to vote for the real thing why not why vote for him pasta romney he's changed his opinion on so many things look at me were the same about four more years right. all right well i think the president is going to be able to make some very sharp contrast with with mitt romney i think you have a you have two candidates one can't.