back. during the. syrian conflict. forces thousands to flee. for reelection. and china wants washington to keep its nose out of the asia pacific.

it's a pleasure to have you with us today here on. live in moscow a forty year old man has been shot dead at election victory rally in the canadian province of quebec one other person was injured a suspect is currently being held by police at the shooting interrupted the acceptance speech. who was telling her supporters that needs to become a sovereign country a canadian radio journalist michael boyer says this will have consequences for an already divided society. it was where the victory speech was being held and. essentially was did what they call the pac tea cake was that was elected that they had been in opposition for quite some time and they were elected as the minority government that's when when the leader was made for victory speech she was hustled off the stage very quickly then we later learned from what we saw

on camera the night is that somebody was arrested somebody burst into the back of the building then sean somebody in the vestibule saw one man died another injured and somebody else was taken to hospital for a shot at sutter's dad because as he was being hauled away into the cop car as it's you know the anguish will are waking up and they are referring to you know the very defensive nature if you have not taken a question you know their years and years and years of confrontation about you know about the party and their ideas to separate fact from the rest of the country and then it's a very divisive. and the fact that they were elected as a minority as many see it as a defeat another threat. to come back and canada as a whole country the separatist party has said during the election campaign that they're not going to hold a referendum if the time is not right if not really what the population wants really what we're hearing is that it's only about twenty eight percent of the

population that would affect the border referendum if we were to have one so it is it is relatively low comparison to what we've seen in the path a lot of anger phones are our freedom is that they will see this as an attack from that the english on the french which you know certainly is the case you can take the actions of one person and it's right on down thousands and thousands of people there's a certain fear that there will be more more anglo hatred in the province. and the independent journalist a robot our neighbor leaves that the english and french speaking canadians will continue to grow further estranged. it would be nice to believe that the man is just a lunatic it's pretty clear email be a lunatic but he is motivated by the divisions in canada one has to remember that divisions go both ways. because the english canadians under the british empire always ruled the roost the french canadians began to become very bitter about this and inevitably over time that's caused many problems and they want autonomy and

i think that it is going to revive a national news of sorts or a way to put it that's putting it just a little bit emotional obviously it will and some english canadians feel very strongly about this as of course do something i don't think the. it's going to change us long term view of that situation of quebec in canada tactically obviously she isn't going to want to stir up passions in in quebec while we're certainly hoping are well clearly the people who feel passionately that quebec should remain part of a canadian nation and never going to trust her because she lost her party which believes in the maximum amount of autonomy for correct they can get a referendum through voting for independence at the moment and maybe in their hearts that's not really what they want but they have achieved the autonomy in

language and in other things which has been very important to them i don't personally believe if you ask me what i really feel. complete independence is on the cards but real autonomy yes definitely. well we bring in more analysis on the quebec shooting and the growing separate sentiment out of the later this hour here on our t.v. do stay tuned for that plus the later in the program where we take a closer look at the voters and methods behind the fame and infamy of the controversial russian punk band pussy riot. well clashes between government troops and rebels are continuing in syria's largest city of aleppo with assad's forces launching airstrikes on opposition fighters actually was to claim violence there was killed over one hundred people that was just one hundred people on monday the free syrian army claiming to be winning the fight the syrian government insists there will be no negotiations until security is achieved meanwhile the new york u.n.

chief ban ki moon has blamed the weapons and supplies to both sides of the conflict for spreading misery and turning it into a brutal war is more important as to. 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 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 stay. 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 debate begins in the next coming weeks. and our next hour here on out so you will be talking to a german journalist who has witnessed the conflict in syria firsthand. explains to watch for you why western media coverage of the civil war is deliberately

misleading. the mainstream media coverage claims that the mosque because 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 and all the city the government. wants 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 public takes and the big interests of 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 in 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. know of the russian president vladimir putin has given us here about see an exclusive interview on his first since returning to power he was pushed for his views on the case of russian punk band pussy riot of course three of its members jailed for two years after staging a punk prayer in the country's main cathedral. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration. i'm aware of the pussy riot case. not getting involved in any way. bloody or putin speaks exclusively to r.t. . but on the whole a scandal around the russian punk band pussy riot refuses to go away even weeks after three of its members were jailed and that's because an old and controversial video involving the group has been on earth the details in ottawa. they

are inherently members of the our group why not i and i'm talking about this you guys oh who seem to be concerned with making a political statement at least that's what they claim but they seem to be more concerned with the reaction that they get the message therefore becomes secondary and tertiary and the primary reason they're actually doing what they're doing seems to be to get a rise out of the public to get some sort of a provocative emotional response so this is exactly what the police at what the see right seem to have been doing for example one of course the latest in the loudest such performance was the punk prayer the so-called punk prayer the christ the savior procedural where they were jumping out by the altar on the pulpit and yelling things which were rather press trained to be held in church of course remembers off group was to write were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison now there was also another case which also made waves and was really comes the considered provocative by a lot of russians but it's not so well known in the west this of course involves

one of the members of the pussy riot group and you have to remember that there is almost a dozen girls and there one of the members performed a sexual act with a chicken that of course was rather provocative and wasn't quite clear what exactly they were trying to convey with that message that of course was also filmed and broadcast and also was supposed to carry some sort of a message and also there was a third incident which isn't so well known in russia or especially in the west and that was that was the incident in which it was just until a clinical one of those who work convicted of insight including ism and religious hatred and the crisis she was participating in and one of the stunts where they staged a mock hanging and one of the supermarkets in moscow where they were hanging it supposedly migrant workers and gays and you have to remember that the decision that were rather the reaction to the sentencing just three members of pussy riot. the

public remains that quo. right split some believe that they shouldn't have gotten those two year prison sentences others believe that they got exactly what they asked for and that is popularity and punishment for doing things which are considered offensive by a lot of people now of course all of the things considering pussy riot and much more will be covered in an exclusive interview that russian president putin has given to r t of course you can watch that interview on thursday. he is a really good reporting right now an attack on a military convoy has killed six officers in russia's southern republic of. the incident happened in the regions or rest of us and john district where several government opened fire on the vehicles. going off the latest on this story. the attack happened around one pm moscow time when this military convoy was moving and an explosive device detonated right under the first truck so the columns stopped apparently it was an ambush since the attackers then opened fire from the bushes nearby using automatic rifles and possibly even grenade launchers that's now being

established investigators are currently at the scene. and search operation for the attackers is also in full swing if you will look. here then unfortunately similar attacks on the authorities do happen there on a regular basis but not as often as in another republic in the caucuses in biggest on where just last week one man opened fire the police when they tried to detain him so he was killed when the returned fire and they also found items which resemble homemade explosive devices earlier in. the war terrorists were killed another two were detained but if you look at the chechen republic or in grozny where we are now the capital of the republic it's really difficult to believe all the atrocities that this police has gone through during the two anti terror campaigns things very. well much better here compared to well

unfortunately the republics in the caucasus most of the buildings have been going we reconstructed there's lots of completely new infrastructure a new buildings a new business owners a new mosque in the center of the good was in the new york schools and so on and it's a really a whole new city now and when it comes to anti terror operations the authorities have been quite successful here driving militants and terrorists out of the republic but since well unfortunately. the authorities in other republics in the caucuses haven't been successful than many of these terrorists are thought to be now quite active where much more effort is needed to battle terrorism now. they're going to put going to reporting that a quarter past the hour here in moscow and america the democrats are trying to drum up support for barack obama's reelection in november the highlight of his party's national convention in north carolina so far was

a rather emotional speech from the first lady other key democrats took a fool to think about criticism from the republicans and responded with their own attacks on mitt romney and his camp at the two kind of it's a more or less tied to our polls but one tally suggested obama had the lowest pre-convention favor ability for adding company president since the one nine hundred eighty s. and african political commentator ted rall told me the both men are a poor choice for voters looking for real change. 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 the 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 get worse the united states certainly affects the world meanly through its 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 here 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. because of the two party traps for a reason you know there's two terrible choices it's a lot like sitting down to a restaurant where they offer two meals and they're just terrible. live from moscow this is r t let's get back to our top story now

a deadly shooting during the victory speech of the newly elected separatist premier in quebec left one person killed another one injured we can talk about the subject live with the man the member of the belgian political party of lumber lying which i want independence of a flood it's good to see you today so just quickly to canada where the shooting suspect in canada reportedly screaming the english all waking up while he was being put into a police car what what do you think that means. what it means for a democratic solution will be more difficult if violence is committed during the election. or just after the election there's never a good cause for democracy when all the attack came around the same time as news that a spanish municipality in catalonia is proclaiming independence and you yourself want independence from brussels where do you think this growing trend seems to be coming from. well the trends are coming from the fact that always

greater and larger entities try to abolish the. reality and language is the cold for people it's a more normal you should be independent or should have their sovereignty that they are almost. always more and more abolished by a greater entities like european union etc and should be more modern in our view to knowledge that if you could smaller entities are a better way to deal with those things so you bring up the mention here of authority is of trying to abolish ethnic realities here some people are saying no no it's about economic problems others would say perhaps you're talking about immigration. well whatever the reason is when people are not hurt by the authorities or by their government they try to give signals through elections and these signals not be ignored and more if they are ignored by

instance for instance by the european union or any other entity well people in democratic elections will voice their the way they are treated by these institutions and these institutions should deal more with the realities and should not go on the way they are doing now. and a member of the right wing a belgian political party of i do apologize we've just run out of time here on our t.v. thank you very much for spending such short time with us here on the program thank you never mind that your service. from the russian capital this is r t the us is seeking to improve relations with beijing with the state secretary hillary clinton in the chinese capital for talks but her visit comes amid rising diplomatic tensions beijing has warned washington to stay out of the country's territorial disputes with several other nations of the chinese coast of the communist state of threatening to use force to defend its claims to

a chain of islands clinton says america's position is neutral but beijing has accused washington of meddling in the region's affairs. i should say from the remnant university of china think it's america's trying to take advantage of the conflict. in the past and so we see the national consigned to get. over the disputed. one and united states our souls are still. in the you know the with try and hold seize the words i don't want to learn the words are not matched to deeds. but he can sign it. as a matter of just a few depends on the bridge repair and. if you could just give us the chinese search number to me i could give you notice that he is

trying to sue the school. you should pursue our number one reason she and i just don't want to go to my teachers or to boston growing economy. cities and why it's not only you east asian but also the world are you nasty want to come. across a valid search against chinese in greece. these regions. are just a woman in the business with marina for now though a series of failures of course russia to reshuffle its top space exploration bosses and ultimately rethink the approach to future projects but despite the setbacks the country's space plans for the years ahead remain rather ambitious as are often the reports the russian president has dismissed the 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 prime 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 plagued russia 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 rushes for a 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 our teeth in moscow. either with use of money that is now with them or in a good to see you again though we understand the discussion is there will disputes over gas prices or gas promo trouble again from what i understand and again it is in trouble again in some analysts are saying that it's because of gas prices the high gas prices of course that it charges its european customers bought of course for those not sure what is happening with gas from justin then just to remind you of course the european commission is investigating the russian giant over its exhibit these in europe especially eastern and central and basically this comes just a year after brussels raided unexpectedly the energy giant's offices now just tell you more about what this involves in particular the antitrust watchdog in the e.u. will focus on whether gas from pushing up prices and hindered competition in their

investigation could actually result in heavy fines and require the company change its trade practices meanwhile gas from says it's prepared for the dialogue on the issue and reminds that the company is outside of the jurisdictions of brussels well oil and gas analyst aleksandr the most out of believes the motive behind the move is europe's like an economy. we should understand this simple fact that all interact so we were signed to by gas problem and by all european cars contras which consume gas from gas they are the same now last year and five years ago so basically the price form of the gas price for more is the same the difference is the nominal price that last several years while price and gas prices linked to the oil increased. enormously quickly so basically the problem is that now gas prices are too high for starving european economy while five years ago when gas

prices were low they were no problem at all. right now let's consider the markets in europe where we're seeing a little bit of a change there we see that the german dax is now well over four percent in the black and that's after everything that they group in central banks own buying program were involved quotes limits etc lines flying and also we had another positive report coming out from the u.s. and then on farm business sector but as we can see there the footsie is still down ever so slightly you would say it's pretty much flat and i'm sure that it will turn to pause the story by in the next hour but haven't we the shares are still dropping although that minimized earlier losses one point there were four percent in the red and all this comes after the u.s. department of justice said it will try to prove gross negligence or willful misconduct against the oil group the chargers are related to the two thousand and ten deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico. also greeks could soon be

obliged to work six days a week to pay off debts the guardian newspaper says that's one of the terms the country skirted demanding and that's the e.u. the i.m.f. and the european central bank the troika officials are due to arrive in athens on friday whether greece has done enough to earn the next thirty two billion euros of their bailouts. well i was going to talk about the u.s. and the national debt let's leave that for the next hour now let's focus on currencies the euro is still gaining in strength and against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble it's losing against both major currencies right now all the investors want to hear what will happen tomorrow that's on the thursday and of course what the europeans central bank will announce about his bond buying program now when it comes to the russian market still in the red both the r.t.s. and m i six are shutting over a half a percent there and that's how business looks the sound of course if you want to

hear more stories you can always check them out on our web site abouts. dot com slash business but for now it's back to you in the studio rory marina many things to you soon. just a moment when our two we've got the headlines are following very we're talking about heavily armed vigilantes patrolling the american mexican border especially reporting just a sec. i

had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't rich it was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker's society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us. these are long rows illegally flood legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and i mean it that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the laws i figure is here's one of the major trails in the united states. i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. bothers a little mean that cockroaches from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind it is pants dirty so i come out here you know

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