for the. last hour in flames the russian capital's rocked by two major fires with one striking the top of the business tower was elsewhere a park at a place kills seventeen. corruption at the top of the india's army sees a shake up of arms purchasing with russian suppliers in lines and still in high fired firms. and dishing the dirt on a high level flirt a senior f.b.i. official claims russian spy siren and chapman was extradited for getting troops close to someone inside obama's inner circle.

but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said no way it's four pm two massive fires struck the russian capital overnight the top floors of a skyscraper in moscow's business complex became engulfed in flames on monday evening that was followed by a blaze at a market on the city's outskirts which killed seventeen people are going to lose good reports from the scene of moscow's deadliest blaze in five years. seventeen people have died in a blaze which broke out in the warehouse on the outskirts of moscow the people who died in the fire also to be migrant workers who lived and worked here you know the causes of the fire are you sort of known it is presumed that possibly the fire started when the workers were trying to stay warm and using a makeshift heating devise another fire crew black elite last night on monday night

in moscow why not all of the buildings which are still under construction caught on fire what happened there was one of the batters caught fire on the lighting fixture which was providing life for the construction workers the firefighters have never of moscow firefighters never had to battle a fire that high up it's on the sixty sixth floor we're talking about the federation building which is supposed to be the tallest building in europe once it's completed of course you also have to understand the efforts which were put into this by the balls the firefighters. countless brigades for helicopters the hot to take in water from the most cool river took some four hours to put that blaze out of that blaze was seen from the entire western southwestern parts of the city thankfully no nobody died in that particular fire but you can find more footage and photos of the two fires on our web site r t.

the battle for india is look part of defense market is intensifying a scandal involving the country's military chief could see a reach shuffle among foreign suppliers india's defense minister has already banned for for and back to see russia help fill the gap more now from. new delhi for r.t. and now it's right to live what's prompting the shake up in india's military market tell us more. that's right and he's a major scandal here in india actually india's army achieve the casing has written a letter to india's prime minister is saying that the army's tanks are actually out of ammunition and that the infantry is short of critical weapons so this obviously is causing major security concerns what actually happened a little bit of background on. the defense ministry over

a weapons lobbyist who is supposedly bribing him and he actually came to the defense ministry with this information the defense ministry kind of looked the other way which is sort of highlighting one of the major issues in india that has been at the forefront throughout this year which is corruption but what this is doing is actually providing an opportunity for many countries and one of the biggest ones on that list would be russia to take advantage of the fact that india needs to renu its military technology clearly india is expected to spend ten billion dollars on military technology in the next ten years there already sorry i should say one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years forty billion dollars for the year twenty twelve to twenty thirteen russia actually was recently here for a defense exit patient that took place on friday and they're actually trying to

sell asked for one hundred surface air missiles to india just recently i was at the pollen air force station and i met the defense minister the russians have actually just sold a bunch of me v five seventeen helicopters to the indian air force russia has said that it could provide three build worth of weapons to india every year so we're continuing to follow this scandal and see how russia could use this as an opportunity to sell military technology here in india. or it argues for your reporting live from new delhi thanks for that update. well syria has a week to start implementing a joint u.n. arab voice peace plan kofi annan told the security council that the government has agreed to complete the troop withdrawal from towns and cities right. next tuesday opposition fighters then have forty eight hours to cease their fighting u.n.

peacekeeping planners are heading to syria to pave the way for a new monitoring mission cover saudi arabia and its allies have agreed to pay rebels fighting the syrian regime the money is part of a broader pledge by more than seventy arab and western countries provide non-lethal aid to the opposition many zana my father he explains what he thinks is stopping the ass from supporting the syrian rebels military. those who have started the. opposition in syria were predominantly belonging to the muslim brotherhood the american administration is very very careful in syria we are with principles of freedom democracy and human rights for the syrian people but the have their concerns that if when and if the will supply weapons to the rebels it might be used against them exactly as happened in

afghanistan when the support group. history made it and we ended up to september eleventh nobody wants to see that anymore. but he did leading political party the muslim brotherhood has named its presidential candidate for the upcoming election but despite previous promises of avoiding the race moves drawing all round criticism even some of its own members have resigned in protest other islamist groups condemned the nomination for putting democratic change at risk because the brotherhood already dominates parliament and the group which is drafting the country's new constitution well true whose of freelance journalist think cairo believes a muslim brotherhood monopoly in government will have a negative impact on egypt the muslim brotherhood have not been one see to push social train so i imagine it will be quite difficult for women or for minority groups including coptic christians who obviously quite important in this country i

think they have shown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces and i think this is where they maybe some issues of the revolutionary groups because they appeared to have been doing deals with discussed behind closed doors which could basically mean there isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the worry for the rest of the future of egypt. so good for you this hour here on our t.v. why it's time to get the party started in russia president medvedev signs a new law making it easier for parties to tom a part of big politics we asked why some opposition groups are still unhappy. but the stakes are high for it is lee which is combating a burgeoning gambling problem as people place more trust in the lottery than chance their lot with the government. but first f.b.i. top brass in america have admitted that russian spy and that chapman got

a little too close for comfort the counter intelligence chief claims the bomb style beauty tried to seduce a top official in president obama's administration let's get the latest details now from marty's ira bennett in london irish the spy story that certainly refuses to leave the headlines have been talking about this phase how for a couple of years now give us the details of this latest claim. i certainly don't think this was a thought we'd have heard the last one and chapman and the reason why she was suddenly deported from the us and these fresh allegations against the russian spy turned six symbol supposedly reveal the real reason as to why she was suddenly arrested and deported from america in two thousand and ten a top u.s. official claims that she was being used as a honey trap to ensnare and member of president obama's inner circle and supposedly she became she came actually very close to suggesting her target now is this come from an f.b.i. counterintelligence chief in an interview given to the b.b.c.

next week he doesn't actually mention any names but he does say and i quote that she became very close to disturbing us and hence why she was forty now if this were true certainly would go some way to explaining why anna chapman along with nine other and i and others were suddenly exposed as a russian sleeper agent and why the u.s. government hastily deported them in what was the biggest lie swap with russia since the end of the cold war and the suggestion that she was a honey trap being used the honey trap well that certainly is in keeping with the image that she's carved out for herself as this since returning to russia posing on the cover of playboy for example with nothing but a pistol for modesty and this isn't by any means the first allegation of a russian honeytrap only last year there were claims against the suspected spy kathy is absolutely yes as she is being used as a russian as a honeytrap to gain access to high level access within the british government that

was after details emerged of her an affair that she was conducting with him he amount three times her age and in that sense in that case the british government can actually prove its claims now when it comes when a chairman the u.s. government of course would have to prove its claims because it's already reported but either way i don't think anna chapman will be particularly bothered because certainly in the british tabloids this is only served to enhanced. reputation and somehow i never i think this is not going to be the last time we talk about her ivory bennett live from london thanks. we're report more online on a much more online upset at our to guard problem or facebook's founder was having trouble finding china sidespin spam there for three years and now mark zuckerberg eating habits are seen as stopping sites really entry to tell you why. also a big bang moment for american scientists say they're close to developing a new source of energy they say is the cheapest and the safest and cleanest ever

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here with r t y from moscow where it's just on the for four pm and thirteen minutes past the hour thanks for being with us it's no easier for political groups in russia to register as official parties president medvedev has put pen to paper on a new law which is the first in a series of major reforms to diversify the country's political landscape but more on this now he's peter all over who joins us live with the latest details peter just how much will the new launch change the dynamics of russia's politics. well the short answer is that it will have a significant impact on the political landscape in the country now it's born out of the wave of protests that we saw following the parliamentary elections and the

allegations of electoral irregularities there. know what it is what the law actually says though and the key things that it will change the number of signatories needed to start a political party in russia from forty thousand down to me a five hundred so it's it's quite a significant change in the air the amount of symmetries that will be needed now it also says that it puts in place a case of innocence until proven guilty when it comes to the role that the justice minister can play in abolishing a political party no previously even allegations of any irregularities could see their registration refuse to a political party now now how they'll have to do so troop said. only after that's been done that perhaps even education would be refused now it's hard said come in for some criticism though from the the opposition the non parliamentary opposition

those people that didn't get enough votes take a seat in the duma saying that well it will lead to essentially a toothless opposition that it will lead to too many political parties being established to be any real opposition forces against the government puts the those that have backed the state's laws there through it being a bill and now see it being signed into law into service say that it's part of the liberalisation of russian politics and it's really it's just one of several reforms that president dmitri medvedev wanted to put into place another one of those includes the the election of a regional governors something which the president elect want to be a pollutant is also throwing his weight behind so whether that goes to you. during made videos last remaining few days is the president so whether a lot of years putin push pushes that through when he takes over the big chair we'll have to wait and see. peter oliver five from central moscow.

both foggy aircraft in monday's deadly crash in western siberia disintegrated to pieces and one of the engines touch the ground investigators say the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing and rolled however only to the left thirty one people were killed when the plane hit the ground just minutes after takeoff and doctors are trying to say twelfth revivers technical failure is considered a likely cause of the crash but investigators are also looking into why plane's wings weren't de eyes before the flight but something aviation consultant and former pilot captain mark weiss says is vital. the icing is a very critical factor if icing conditions exist and there are certain parameters that will require. aircraft to be based it's a preventative measure that would allow the wings to maintain the lift. and for circumstances once you get the black box and determine what happened with the

engines what happened with the air force one would still. cockpit voice recorders will tell you a lot a transmission to be a traffic controllers whether or not there's such an emergency to been declared. you know through in you know terms like pilot error is very easy but not necessarily accurate. well to find further details on the plane crash in western siberia log on to r.t. dot com there you'll find a timeline and analysis on what could have led to this tragedy as well as more images and work by concerns over safety. in the field. it really has got a gambling problem the number of people getting addicted to scratch cards and honorees there is booming and it's the difference troubling a commie that's making it worse katherina the trover now explain. oh it's

all right. for eight years now marco has been selling his story over and over again to other members of gamblers anonymous but even that's not long enough he says to cure himself of the addiction book around being go to go away his parents wife and several jobs at one point he resorted to stealing money from his mother. perfect world of gambling. and good and then gambling is taking over. i go to a very good girl. i was there and you're probably. right if you go with me. marcos started gambling when he was eight bags then there were no t.v. a lot trees but there were beautiful movies and irresistible you were for potential gamblers. really a august i got me a thriller that i can't because i didn't have that desperate to win their fortune in modern italy are around a million gamblers

a figure growing rapidly juicer the economic crisis in. marketing has become very aggressive and sells gambling as if lottery tickets were daily groceries commercials promise it's a cool help overcome financial difficulties because of the crisis is not only men who gamble it's also their wives and their children who play poker online before gambling in italy was like an erotic movie. it's like porn. after the us italy has the largest law trance credit card market in the world last year alone eighty billion euros were up for grabs and while casinos and hit with drones have been losing clients mass gambling and gambling is the only thing people spend money on here they spend three hundred four hundred years then they one hundred years and are happy because they won when in fact they've lost two hundred this is one of the most popular ways of gambling any truly all you have to do is scratch

a strip on a ticket and you could win a fortune i wasn't that lucky today but for some the promise of becoming an instant millionaire is simply too much to resist on average ten percent of the family income any tilley spent on gambling it significantly helps the government feel its coffers of the health minister is beating the alarm. gambling will soon be included on the list of acknowledged diseases and it will change everything will work and prevention campaigns will offer psychological assistance to gamblers well also in large medical programs the health minister also proposes a man during the current law to take a lot of the television and seriously restrict gambling but before these happens for marco and his other fellows overcoming addiction will remain a question of self discipline and face. it seen a great show on our t.v. show. but later today for you max and stacey explain how it's the giant investment

banks that are training countries like italy dry in the kaiser report. time after time on the crisis report our articles have shown if you purchase some credit derivatives from goldman sachs from j.p. morgan look at the entirety of italy municipalities going broke all across italy why because they got credit derivatives from j.p. morgan goldman sachs you go to a country like greece they sell and call the bonds they cook the books so they can get into the euro then they collapse then greece and other countries go to goldman sachs to help of cure the problem of having dealt with goldman sachs of course the earnings are up it's a virtuous cycle what kind of drugs are they got these great people taking. a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour dozens of al qaeda

militants killed in southern yemen following three days of government airstrikes razor in response to the militant attack on a nearby army base last week islamist militants have used the past year anti-government protests to expand their influence in the country. argentinean protesters rallying against britain's control often islands clashed with riot police and going to sardi's demonstrators outside the british embassy hurled petrol bombs and tore down police barricades before at the same spot as a tear gas demo marks the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the falklands war which almost thousand people died. two drivers had a narrow escape in norway after their vehicle fell over the side of a snow covered cliff one truck was being towed by another before it lost traction on the snow covered road and barreled down a cliff taking the truck along with it amazingly believing truck driver survived

the fall while the other jumps out seconds before his vehicle. let's get the latest now from dimitri out of business that's in capital continues to flee the country it seems what's going on out there oh yes indeed some economists have said that this is the biggest problem for russia's economy last year eighty four billion dollars left the country the trend has continued into this year well speaking exclusively to business see the deputy head of russia's central bank has said this could quickly turn around but it's all up to the efforts from the new government with high consequence. hundreds getting a store. in this will be. balanced we were. up to now general agreement is a creationist we're comfortable but if the investors global investors would be quick happy with the new government the agenda of the government for the next say

several months in that case it probably will change the balance to start a close out forward. inflow. all right let's take a look at what's going on the the russian mafia it's and despite the global picture which is mostly negative russia's markets are continuing a positive trend a lot of buying going on the r.t.s. i myself putting on one point four one point three percent respectively and really actually playing catch up because most markets gained a lot in the previous session on expanding manufacturing in the united states which you will see economic factor cyclical it's moving d m i six and look or oil is seeing some nice gains of one and a half percent that's despite comments made by societe generale and the b.c. recap it's all that they companies plan to boost crude output don't want drupal dividends without increasing debt is quite unlikely gazprom is gaining point eight

percent despite lower oil prices will look at them in just a second and metro is up more the people said one of the biggest gainers excuse me on the higher commodities on the global market still driven by those expanding manufacturing in the united states. it's move on and in currencies the euro is regaining slightly some of the positions that it lost in the previous session whereas the ruble continues to gain against both currencies but as you can see by just. in the commodities the light sweet and brands are declining that's a correction now to yesterday's half the gays again on the manufacturing data because manufacturers are very big consumers of gasoline in one form. and in europe we're seeing right now is a correction after yesterday's gains of two percent to one a half percent on the dax and that is declining both indices with their office.

that's the way the markets look at this hour we will be back next hour of course and he said to tell you more we certainly will be looking forward to it thanks a lot for that update. a recap of our main stories are coming your way after a short break stay with r.t. .

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