one person has been shot down in quebec after a man opened fire during a victory speech of the newly elected separate us from your hole in more wa was rushed off stage unharmed. the one calls for an end to militarizing both sides of the syrian conflict with tens of thousands of people fleeing the escalating violence. and china warns the us to back off and let southeast asian nations resolve their own disputes as hillary clinton visits beijing. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with. a forty year old man has

been killed in go back after shots were fired fired during the new premier is acceptance speech one other person was critically injured inside montreal's metropolis concert hall from europe when more was rushed off stage one shots were heard and was not harmed a suspect a man in his fifty's was arrested while armed with two guns police say he shouted in english are waking up and french as they dragged him away a fire was also outside the building while local media reports say a truck filled with weapons has been discovered nearby more was victory could lead to a referendum to decide whether the province should become independent canadian journalist steward believes french and english canada are moving further away from each other . what we're seeing now is after nine years of liberal government the pro federalists party that's mired in corruption scandals that's tired it's time for

a normal change of government normally in the back you'll see a change of government about every ten years and traditionally power is switched between the party while the nationalist party. and the liberal party first in one thousand nine hundred and then again in one thousand nine hundred five whether we have in the back referendums on back sovereignty and certainly the thrust ration and the animosity in the right in fact hostility towards cuba without experience those experiences as continue to grow and some commentators especially on the right even say good riddance that they would like to leave the federation. there is a difference in political cultures traditionally is a lot more democratic left wing in favor of more state intervention in the economy well english canada has over the past several years especially since the election of stephen harper in the conservative government has been going recently to the

right diminishing the state's will in the economy and cutting social programs and acting and right running rough. over the rights of unions and working people want i can go to our tea dot com for more insight on the division plaguing cad. riteish go back more and more isolated we'll look at what it sags that the problem of the federation can mean for the rest of canada. and how the months of student protest in plans to vote after thousands clash with police outraged at the choice of heights and the tough economic times i go to r.t. dot com for all the details. now the un chief has called for an end to the militarization of the syrian conflict speaking at the general assam we ban ki moon said the crisis a state in a brutal turn has marina part i has the details from new york. the secretary general of the u.n. bonn ki-moon addressed the international body giving them an update on the crisis

in syria saying the humanitarian circumstances situation there is only deteriorating and getting worse by the day according to the u.n. chief he said that the humanitarian response on the part of the u.n. is getting harder and harder because the response plan that the u.n. has set up is only half funded and it's supposed to be fully funded at one hundred eighty million dollars so he said as austerity measures are being implemented by countries all around the world less countries are donating to a mission that is supposed to be helping out those syrians in need now the general assembly was very interested in eager to hear from mr lockhart where he me he is the new joint special representative for syria mr brahimi replaced kofi annan and he said when addressing the general assembly that it will be up to the syrians and only the syrians to decide the fate of their future mr brahimi will be traveling to cairo in the coming days to meet with the secretary general of the arab league and

then he will be traveling to damascus to meet with syrian president bashar al assad so clearly he has his work cut out for him in the coming days and weeks ahead but of course syria is staying a priority within the united nations general assembly and the security council weeks we can expect for a lot of more conversations to be taking place in the month of september when the u.n. general assembly did the guinn's in the next coming weeks now this is many are fleeing of the syrian conflict to neighboring states with over one hundred thousand leaving in august alone countries like turkey and jordan say they are feeling the strain of inflicts of displaced syrians or tease polish clear now reports. at least ten thousand syrian refugees for the easter week have been stuck on the syrian side of the syrian turkish border and this is because ankara is simply unable to process the growing numbers of people who are fleeing syria to turkey they are already

eighty thousand syrian refugees inside turkey and because of frayed that these figures could swell to at least a half a million has been complaining that the international community is not doing enough to help it and to this indeed it is calling for a so-called safe zone or a buffer zone to be created inside syria and what we understand is that such as zone would extend some twenty kilometers inside syrian territory but the problem is that to create any kind of humanitarian zone you need to have a no fly zone in which it certainly suggests foreign intervention and there has been a lot of criticism about this from the international community certainly the united nations security council has not given its nod when and where balkan stop in the past but we do understand that anchor is going to ask the u.n. security council later this month to create this buffer zone it is highly unlikely that russia and china will give its nod but certainly we are witnessing a growing humanitarian crisis at the same time and we know that the head of the

international committee for the red cross is in damascus they are meeting with syrian officials who are trying to find together some kind of way of assisting these refugees and resolving the situation has been quite some time in those camps talking to some of these refugees and i can back up from firsthand experience what they as well as what humanitarian organizations are saying what the refugees told me is that the sanitation is far from satisfactory that very often they are standing in queues for hours waiting for food there are not enough tends to go around people are sleeping on the streets i spoke to a number of women who were complaining of sexual harassment one person perhaps put at the base he told me that him and his family had fled syria to escape it did but here in the rift. they were dying a slow death at the same time there are concerns that you just need a spark she rocked into a flame there are concerns particularly from the jordanian authorities that they could be rioting there are also concerns that they could be further clashes so the

main concern at the moment is that the situation is so volatile you could lead to even bigger humanitarian catastrophe. they are reporting their mail later here in r.t. we talk to a german journalist who as witnessed the conflict in syria firsthand he tells r t why western media coverage of the civil war is deliberately misleading. the main media coverage claimed that the mosque has is what's at the time when this so-called battle of the mosque because they were saying that because it's on fire there are heavy fighting and they were saying that now the rebels are so close to the city center that they are a power to conquer the city the government will fall i want to incite the city and there was no war in the city of course there is some suburbs there are a couple of interest groups who benefit from such a politics and the big interests both the western governments who want to have the regime change there and who are supporting that the information you get from these

countries very much one sided or money that i spoke to a lot of people who are not with the syrian government but and this is i think the most important difference to the media coverage here they were all against this war which is now raging so they say that all of the we are not with our government right now we support our army in pushing back the foreign terrorists from our countries so then we can make the changes and the reforms. i can see the full interview was manteo ox rider editor of the german news magazine an hour here on our team well still to come this hour reshuffle for russia's space industry major changes facing one spiny or. space program which has suffered several serious mishaps in the past two years. and bellevue construction workers are laughed out of the cold as the continuing euro crisis makes cheaper immigrant

labor more attractive more details and adds just a few minutes. democrats in the us are getting ready to officially declare barack obama their candidate first lady michelle obama addressed the party convention urging voters to give her husband another term to fix troubled u.s. economy wrong you know obama are now running about even in polls ahead of the november sixth election but political commentator and author of the anti-american manifesto ted rall says both candidates could be a bad choice for americans. there is definitely a clear difference between misters romney and obama but that doesn't mean that either of them is going to reach out and do much about the pressing problem of unemployment underemployment and the stagnant economy mr romney's plan seems to be to bring us back to the 1980's and trickle down reaganomics and president obama has had three years trying to turn things around but he decided to bail out the banks

rather than the american people so i would say that for people who are worrying about work and being able to put food on the table things are not likely to get and . then my kid worse the united states certainly affects the world mainly through brother militaristic outlook we are despite the headlines that we hear all that we see all the time here in the states about how the wars in afghanistan and iraq are ramping down they are still is going to be a considerable forward aggressive strategy around the world particularly in the middle east i think whether you're looking at a romney administration or an obama administration i wouldn't look for the united states to have a different foreign policy in any kind of substantive way under romney than we have today because of the two party traps for a reason you know there's there's two terrible choices it's a lot like sitting down to a restaurant where they offer two needles and they're both just terrible so i

personally would rather eat somewhere else and i would say well because you know either a protest vote for a obscure third party for all show up at the polls and not vote for president i want them to know that i'm voting and i'm available to vote but i cannot endorse either of these two of them. and first exclusive interview with president vladimir putin speaks about america's war in afghanistan to watch the foreigner meal with russian president right here this thursday. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration. the u.s. and its allies went into afghanistan just i'm sure you know they're looking forward to getting out. speaks exclusively to r.t. now warning not to meddle in regional affairs welcomed washington's top diplomat to china head of her visit secretary of state hillary clinton urged southeast asian

nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea well we can now talk to mr chang from the center for china's it is not strategic studies at the ryman university of china thanks very much indeed sir for being here with us on the program first off the u.s. insists it's not taking any sides in the dispute in the south china sea so why is beijing still accusing washington of meddling in the region. i don't want to see the worst of must be matched by the deeds from the united states the past few months and we see the a nasty stage picking sides of it. over the disputed. land and united states also. you can be with china hold ourselves trying to seize we see a lot of deeds and we've also seen a lot worse. wars i'm not matched it be.

well of course when we look at the context that is as complex as it is in the region now we need to take a look at what media are doing and of course chinese media is washington are fueling tensions between the parties in the territory dispute how do you personally view this. i think we just cannot have tossed mass media told only by the we have to keep in mind these beauty is between china and japan it's between china and vietnam and if we to be in this not between china and the united states this is the first important since i have taken a stink. i think inside it as a matter of just a few depend on the bridge repair and. against against the chinese claim solver deplane. well it seems like the united states is trying to increase his diplomatic presence in asia at the moment so what are its

goals what sort of goals it's pursuing there in the region in your opinion. i think if you notice he is just trying to shift the focus on what you should pursue because of our number of reasons why i'm sorry your majesty is generous speaking nasty as it is i knew it was a little bit and the us needs to read books it's needed to relocate the source or resource use and energy use artists in pursuit because this is the want important new books. and want to take advantage of the past growing economy in pursuit and that's the stick an important economic reason. reasons that a single challenge to write ins turns the cities on why it's not only a unit he's a sum but all source of the work in mass they want to come and serve us a balance against chinese increase improvements regions.

and very briefly mr chairman hillary clinton was due to meet china's vice president who is widely expected to be the country's next leader by it's this meeting was cancelled without any explanation so what shall we read into this if anything at all. we just don't know that you can sack the reasons you. ruled out any emergency on the part of the xi jinping and he's kind of solutions of the meeting we missed mrs clinton. and you little jar. i think she's kind of she's kind of a kind of solutions rib you know number of things on the part of the chinese senior leaders once a strong disapproval of united nations. and trying to seize a signal as think and be more important you know she. did not bring.

any instance that. it's worthwhile for a meeting. all right thing to much indeed for your views here and i was visiting from a set of four tires at a national strategic studies at the ready university of china. to other stories now the e.u. has launched an investigation into whether or not russia's gas brahmas blocked competition in the natural gas markets and our business desk has the details. gazprom is under fire once again as the european economist in the challenges of us is the energy giant for possible anticompetitive practices in central and eastern europe to i made about five minutes time for the business but it turned up all the details. after several space related failures russia has fired up some major points for future success the most recent incident took place last month when russia carrier rockets failed to orbit two communications satellites are just

losing often of takes up the story. the russian president has dismissed lead even used to rove as the head of the space center following a series of mishaps in the russian space industry mr rove resigned after last month's failed launches of the express and the two and the telkom three communication satellites he had been in charge of the facility that manufactures launch rockets and satellites since two thousand and five no problem minister dmitry medvedev had pointed to the fact that russia had seven failed launches in the past one and a half years these resulted in the loss of ten satellites he warns that the high rate of failure marked a quote colossal difference with other leading space powers now russia space officials have blamed the failures on manufacturing flaws as well as engineering mistakes but experts say that the decline of a once proud space program is rooted in a post soviet industrial meltdown that has hurt modernization despite a steadily growing flow of cash and aging workforce and the lack of responsibility

at the very top have played space industries experts say that russia's technical problems are surmountable but what the industry really needs they say is fresh blood and new talent despite all these setbacks there are big plans in store for russia's four into the final frontier the country's planning to build research stations on mars before moving on to other planets and russian scientists are preparing for the next giant leap for mankind with plans for a manned base on the moon within ten years experts say that with ambitious goals like these a failure is simply not an option for russia's future in space and of r.t. in moscow now is take a look at some other stories from around the world and seven people have been the rest of the sixteen injured in clashes between protesters and police near the syrian embassy in cairo it was freighters were chanting slogans and throwing rocks at officers at one point. to break through a police cordon around the embassy to handing out free syrian army.

thousands of protesters gathered in the center of yemen's capital city of sanaa to demand. prosecution of the country's former leader ali abdullah saleh they want to see the former leaders stand trial for the murder of dissenters in last year's uprising stepped down from power on the terms of guaranteed immunity but has been accused of cleaning to power from behind the scenes. while the as president has announced a breakthrough agreement to start talks towards ending the conflict with leftist militant group fark the deal was reached after six months of talks in cuba with norway acting as brokers to the preliminary negotiations the conflict between fark and the colombian government has claimed tens of thousands of lives and as the longest running in the western hemisphere. french prosecutors investigating the death of palestinian leader yasser arafat's are seeking to exude his body in ramallah for examination according to his medical records he suffered a stroke but many palestinians believe israel poisoned him something the jewish

state denies horrified lead the palestine liberation organization for thirty five years and became the first president of the palestinian authority in nine hundred ninety six. tough economic times see people looking for ways to cut costs and that's were cheaper immigrant labor complaints part construction workers in belgium one of the better off nations complain of growing and unfair competition from polish builders and with no end in sight to the eurozone financial crisis the competition will only get tougher as artists are cilia now reports over here at a construction site where all the workers as well as the owners of the construction company are from poland belgium is seeing an influx of foreign workers from other e.u. countries and more often than not these workers left the belgian counterparts in the brig for example a province in flanders which has a significant construction sector thirty eight percent of all companies have lost bids to foreign firms ninety percent of them expect to lose boots in the future and

this is prompted fears that in the coming months one in five companies will have to lay people off the price is that or it's what we can call. they're using european rules to come over here or people who. need to work. but if that work is going to other companies who setting prices that are too low because they are not respecting its lesions. then we will have a niece who will go bankrupt or we will lose a lot of jobs in our. local firm say they are also losing out when it comes to speed of delivery our building sectors have lee unionized. to do good for strict working new rules but if you look at the foreign companies you don't have to adhere to that people work ten twelve thirteen fourteen hours

a day six six days out of seven and then of course for delivery speed of your project. is a huge advantage so the laws designed to protect local workers are keeping them out of work belgium is very expensive work for example and. about three times less. we have to pay for workers and is related to the price for only run the project. polish companies here. for the good. and for the lower price and more belgian clients are opting to try their services but i was looking for a solution which was not identical through heavy contractual parts which you have with. construction firms. and these people are much more flexible so that's

that's why if we if we try it and it was it was a success europe's debt crisis has dealt a massive blow to a sector that employs up to sixteen million e.u. citizens and with no clear signs of the tough times letting up tension is brewing especially when local firms feel they're getting the short end of the stick on their. own turf desser cilia r.t. antwerp in belgium. and the time of year a failed business news with katie of course winter is approaching we can deny that and that also means the gas squabbles have begun that's right marina europe is pushing to break russia's dominance on its natural gas markets european commission has launched an official investigation into suspected market if we buy gas probably the price of comes a year after brussels surprise the russian energy and its customers with unexpected raids at the offices. watchdogs will focus on whether gas pushed up prices and

hindered competition in eastern and central europe the investigation could result in heavy fines all require gas bomb to change its trade practices oil and gas are less broadly way for the its capital believes it's more about market control rather that about the high prices gas promise charging gazprom has a desire in a right to try to be as present as possible in its end user markets and the e.u. is trying to prevent monopolies from from controlling sensitive areas so it's not been the first time and i don't think it's going to be the last time this latest proposing yet fully played out at the moment i don't think it's a push on prices i think it's more a push back to gazprom total presence and desire to get more diversified supply i don't think we can say that the e.u. is pushing for a particular price per se but more does control over markets both sides have a very clear right to for gazprom to be in europe in large scale and for europe to

try to diversify its supply so i don't think you get a cut and dry conclusion to this right away. could reach ten percent of the company's cells in the country where the law has been violated fines could triple if breaching of the rules lasted for several years and talk of europe let's head into the markets and see what's happening because they've been open for about twenty five minutes now and as we can see it's a mixed start we've got the footsie down one on the whole five percent whereas the dax is up two tenths of a percent there's a plethora of meetings going on this week that's what investors are really there's a big one tomorrow with the e.c.b. expected to make their decision on the bond buying program if we go into the euro with the what's happening there because all this tension feeding into the common currency is still declining one twenty five thirty seven as for the ruble though it's still losing out to the basco of cars is in the morning session here most of

the equity markets is check out what's happening here moscow's vessels are holding on to their positions at the moment it's kind of a ways to see approach with central banks across the globe expected to intervene at some points we are looking at losses really taking their cue from asia so we'll see what the markets did in that region that this morning and as we can see fell for a fifth day that's as economic reports from the u.s. to china and australia are really stoking concerns that global growth is slowing we have the u.s. manufacturing contract take. asia was digesting that in the session today meanwhile the u.s. crude inventer is tumbled to a five month low mostly because of the hurricane isaac forcing the closure of offshore platforms of the gulf of mexico and refineries in the east as well as a good supply disruptions and really leaving supplies at the lowest level since the

end of march but right now we can see overprices out to climbing at this hour and that's how the market is that right now. they talked about fifty five minutes keeping track of the gas pump story to show you do that katie thanks so much indeed for now and later peter will bow and his gas discuss whether brock obama deserves another four years in office and that's uncrossed up coming your way very shortly after the headlines.

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