moscow in flames hours after a blaze on top of business towers put out a major fire romps at a market warehouse killing seventeen people trapped inside. corruption at the top of india's army sees a shake up of arms purchasing with russian suppliers in line filling in behind fire for also making it easier to get the party started in russia president dmitri medvedev signs into law reform city political system some opposition leader is still on top of the. trend dishing the dirt on a high level flirt with a senior official claims russian spy siren after was actually valued for getting

too close to someone inside obama's inner circle. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now wait it's six pm here in the russian capital which has been struck by two massive fires within hours of each other 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 we're going to go to school reports from the scene of moscow's deadliest blaze in five years. turns young 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 works here now the causes

of the fire are you it's a 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 occurred blatta late last night on a monday night in moscow city when one 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 light 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 moscow firefighters. countless brigades for helicopters we had to take in the water from the more school river to come for our support that blaze out of that blaze was seen from the entire western and southwestern parts of the city

thankfully no nobody died in that particular fire. you can find out more footage and photos of the two fires on our website r t. syria now has a week to start implementing the joint un arab league and voice peace plan called the out and told the security council that the government has agreed to complete the troop withdraw from towns and cities by next tuesday opposition fighters then have forty eight hours to seize their five hundred u.n. peacekeeping planners are heading to syria to pave the way for a new monitoring mission over saudi arabia and half our lives have agreed to pay rebels fighting the syrian regime money as part of a broader pledge by more than seventy arab and western countries to provide non-lethal aid to the opposition these analysts are not fighting explains why he is starting the west from supporting the syrian rebels militarily those who have

started the. opposition in syria were predominantly belonging to the muslim brotherhood the american administration is playing it very very careful in syria these are with the 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 afghanistan when you supported the group. because to me that's and we ended up with supreme free love and nobody wants to see that anymore. well there's more to come on r.j. about the fall out of western and arab countries funneling money into the military arm of the syrian opposition in today's edition want to show at six pm g.m.t. . well it's no easier for political groups in russia to register as official

parties president made a difference 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 peter over explains. it's going to have quite a significant impact on the the political landscape in russia now the call for change really came about following the parliamentary elections in december of last year we saw tens of thousands of people out on the streets of russia unhappy with what they saw as electoral a regularities in that ballots one of the main points they were making was say that there was a lack of political options and that they wanted to see changes to the political system to allow choice to be there for that now what the small changes is makes it much easier for a political party to be great uses previously you needed forty thousand members

forty thousand signatories in order to to set up a political party this law is that number to five hundred so what we will see from this law is the parties will be created and it will also be more difficult for the parties to the tonight registration g two regularities the changes to the law is something that the opposition had been quite vocal about now that it's been signed into play though what we're hearing from some of the opposition is that they're not entirely happy with it but they say that the fact that it will lead to just too many political parties. the the power that's needed. to be a successful opposition no way to counter that the government is saying that the ability to establish new political parties much easier will be will allow a broader representation of the of the russian people. but this is just part of a series of reforms the president made yet have said he wanted to put into place

among those in the the direct election of regional governors in russia now that's something that also has the full backing of the president elect apply to me and putin so whether we see dots that political reform coming into play under dimitri made head of or whether we have to wait until the timea putin is inaugurated in may . so had for you this hour the final moments of the passenger plane which crashed in western siberia the aircraft came apart on impact during an emergency landing which left twelve survivors out of the forty three on board. the stakes are high for italy which is combining a burgeoning gambling problem as people place nor trust in the lottery and trans there along with the government. well the battle is for india's lucrative france market is intensifying but a scandal involving the country's military achieve could see a restart for all among foreign suppliers india's defense minister has already bad

for firms and that could see russia help fill the gap let's get more on this ortiz prius we are now going to join us live from new delhi what's prompting the shake up in india's military market. that's right any some major scandal has rocked india actually india's army chief v.k. singh has written a statement to the prime minister saying that the army's tanks in this country are out of ammunition and that the infantry is short of critical so obviously there's a major security issue here but many foreign countries are seeing this as an opportunity to capitalize russia being one of them india is expected to spend one hundred billion dollars on military equipment in the next ten years and russia has that it can provide three billion dollars of equipment in the next year one of the major pieces of military technology that the russians are trying to sell to the indians or the us four hundred surface air missiles and as you mentioned the indian

ministry of defense has just de barge six defense firms in the next ten years four of those being foreign defense burns and two being indian defense firms so hopefully russia is seeing this as an opportunity to sell military equipment here in india. right artie's prius trader reporting live on this latest development from new delhi thanks for that. now it's not the aircraft in monday's deadly crash in western siberia disintegrated to pieces when one of the engines touched the ground investigators say the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing and rolled heavily the last thirty one people were killed when the plane hit the ground just minutes after takeoff and doctors are now trying to save twelve survivors technical failure is considered the likely cause of the crash but investigators are also looking into why the plane's wings weren't d.-i before the flight something

aviation consultant and former pilot captain mark weiss says is vital to the icing is a very critical factor if icing conditions exist and you're certain parameters that will require. aircraft to be it's a preventative measure that would allow the wings to maintain the lift. for circumstances and once you get the black box and determine what happened with the engines would happen with the air for the wind itself the cockpit voice recorders will tell you a lot the transmission to the air traffic controllers whether or not there's an emergency had been declared. you know throwing you know terms like pilot error is very easy but not necessarily accurate. well to find a further details on the plane crash in western siberia go to our team dot com really mind this timeline and now with us on what could have led to the tragedy of

both more images and a look at concerns over safety on some of russia's mastic and. f.b.i. top brass in america have admitted that russian spy anna chapman got a little too close for comfort the counter intelligence chief claims a bomb style beauty tried to seduce a top official in president obama's administration bennett has the details. well i certainly don't think this was we had a thought we'd heard the last of alan chapman and the reason why she was suddenly deported from the us and these fresh allegations against the russian spy turned sex 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 a member of president obama's inner circle and supposedly she became she came actually very close to seducing her target now if this were true certainly would go

some way to explaining why anna chapman along with nine other and nine others were suddenly exposed as a russian sleeper agent and why the u.s. government hastily deported them in what was the biggest buy swap with russia since the end of the cold war and this isn't by any means the first allegation of a russian honeytrap only last year there were claims against a suspected spy cat is absolutely etter and she's being used as a honey trap to gain high level access within the british government that was after details emerged of her an affair that she was conducting with an m.p. a man three times her age in that case the british government can actually prove its claims now when it comes around a chapman the u.s. government of course won't have to prove its claims who's already deported her but either way i don't think and the channel will be particularly bothered because certainly in the british tabloids this is only served to enhance her reputation. long line for you we report on yet another scandal where facebook's founder is

having trouble china my friend dan there for three years and now mark zuckerberg eating habits are seen stopping his science free entry we'll tell you why in our team dot com. also a big bang moment for american scientists who say they're close to developing a new source of energy they say is cleanest safest and the cheapest ever details are. the. line in motion would be soon which bryson if you knew about song from phones to christianize. through stunts on t.v.

don't come. at all sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know what i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. on. more news today violence is what this again flared up to for these are the images rove world has been seeing from the streets of canada on shine corporations are rooted a clue. tell

me the official ulti allocation your choice of the i pod touch from the. geology life on the go. below. you. are a chance for now with the palm if you want. to. run from moscow egypt leading political party the muslim brotherhood has named its presidential candidate for the upcoming election that's despite previous promises of avoiding the race the nomination of el sartor is drawing all round criticism even some of its own members have resigned in protest or there isn't as groups condemn the brotherhood for putting democratic change at risk because it's already

dominates parliament and the group which is drafting the country's new constitution well true who is a freelance journalist in cairo believes a muslim brotherhood monopoly in government will have a negative impact on egypt the muslim brotherhood has not been one seat to push social trains so i imagine it will be part of court for women or for minority groups think using coptic christians who obviously are not quite important in this country i think in the midst of all that have shown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces i think this is where they may be some issues in the revolutionary groups because they appeared to have been doing deals with the sky behind closed doors which could basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the worry for the rest of the future of egypt. sixty minutes past the hour a look now at some other news from around the world the. militants have been killed in southern yemen following three days of government air strikes the razor in

response to an attack on a nearby army base last week islamist rebels have used the past year of anti-government protests to expand their influence in the country. argentinean protesters rallying against a group called off an island crossed the quiet when the saudis demonstrators outside the british embassy had played by tore down police barricades for officers longer than. the general marks the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the falklands war in which almost a thousand people died. two drivers escaped and i had a narrow escape in norway after their vehicles fell over the side of a snow covered cliff just one truck was being towed by another before it lost traction on the road and barreled down the cliff taking the truck along with it amazingly leading truck driver survived the fall all the other junk out just

seconds before his vehicle. italy's got a gambling problem the number of people getting addicted to scratch cards and lotteries there is booming and it's a deeply struggling economy that's making it worse. now explains. our. god. for eighty years now marco has been telling his story over and over again to other members of gamblers anonymous but even that's not long enough he says to cure himself albeit diction kolker ends being go to go away his parents wife and several jobs at one point he resorted to stealing money from his own mother and marg perfect world of. the king and the. worst taking over me i got a very good girl for a while i was earning a lot of worry. a growing market started gambling when he was eight but

then there were no t.v. a lot trees but there were beautiful movies and irresistible you were for potential gamblers. in august when i knew the money that i had that i didn't have. this spirit to win bear fortune in modern eataly are around a million gamblers i figure growing rapidly due to the economic crisis in america. marketing has become very aggressive and sells gambling as if lottery tickets were daily groceries commercials promise sensible 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 today it's like porn in a year after the us eataly has the largest law trans credit card market in the world last year alone eighty billion euros were up for grabs and while he's casinos

and hippodrome have been losing clients mass gambling. gambling is the only thing people spend money on here they spend three hundred four hundred euros 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 immediately only how to do is scratches free 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 in the telly spent on gambling it significantly helps the government feel its coffers but the health minister is beating the alarm gambling will soon be included on the list of knowledge diseases and it will change everything will work and prevention complaints will offer psychological assistance to gamblers or will 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 this happens for marco and his other fellows overcoming addiction will remain a question of self discipline and faith exuding look at our children our t.v. grown. well in the next hour max and stacey explain how it's the giant investment banks that are draining countries like italy dry. after time or articles have shown if you purchased 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 bought credit derivatives from j.p. morgan goldman sachs are going to a country like greece they sell in quality bonds a couple of books so they can get into the euro then they collapse then greece and other countries go to goldman sachs out of cure the problem of having dealt with goldman sachs of course the earnings are up then it's

a virtuous cycle what kind of drugs are they got these great people taking. the. time now for the business news with dmitri who joins us live on the grass to me through the battle looms for russia's largest airport tell me that of a new bidders on the horizon how star how it is how it's all working now well right now we have the two of russia's wealthiest men two of russia's wealthiest tycoons battling for the last of four demanded of airport and one corner of the freedom of the owner of alpha group who has the backing of the e bank bank which is ready to provide up to two billion dollars on the other in the other corner of is the head of so my capital's able within we're going to be out of it he's got a financial support from now they're both offering three billion dollars for the assets but the money out of his management is asking fifty percent more that

whoever is successful will still need government approval for the deal. all right let's now look at what's going on on the markets and of course we start with the u.s. which of open around fifteen minutes ago looks quite flat but the first minutes were negative until factory orders came in at a rise of one point three percent this has. fulfilled built some new optimism and investors has really been the united states so there's more buying in there was the even the fifteen minutes ago dow jones slightly down nasdaq still locked was supported by apple shares. over in europe the picture remains pretty much the same as we when we last looked at it to see how that acts correct thing up to seeing some hefty gains in the previous session but down around one fifth of a percent. move on to other markets now and in the currencies the euro is

barely changed versus the dollar as the ruble continues climbing against the bosket of currencies it's increasing around half a percent versus the euro and even more than that against the dollar of sixteen copecks stronger. over in the commodities light sweet and brant are still down they are correcting up to seeing a massive boost on manufacturing growth over in the united states in the previous session manufacturers overseas some of the biggest consumers of oil and gasoline and other world products and what we see right now is a correction in profit taking up the us from session because that's how despite lower oil prices the russian markets are seeing a very successful session pretty much ignoring all the gloom coming from elsewhere with the r.t.s. up and a half percent of my sex a bit more than two percent secular what's moving the nice and interesting stories

here lou poil among blue chips is strong it's up more than two and a half percent now there are reports from other sources of vision that i would be to the capital. but the company is quite likely to go ahead with some vicious plans to expand oil production and groups dividends without increasing the debt good so this is now happening investors are taking it as a positive session if this does. gazprom is up two percent as are the energy shares the spike lower oil prices and that shows one of the biggest gainers the mining company is up almost five percent on strong commodity prices and we've got around fifteen minutes still on the clock for trading and we'll update you on the closing bell of course next hour all right looking forward to it thanks for that update going to take a short break here in r.t. and i'll be back with the headlines stay with us.

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