one person is killed and another injured in quebec by gunmen who opened fire during the victory speech of the newly elected separatist prime yeah. the un accuses foreign nations of escalating the syrian conflict by supplying arms to all sides as fighting in the main cities forces thousands to flee. and with barack obama pitching for reelection and the u.s. tries to mend strains ties with beijing china wants washington to keep its nose out of asia pacific. a sea of pride for the russian the markets why in about twenty five.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow i'm wrong received shine a forty year old man has been shot dead today separatist election victory rally in the canadian province of quebec one other person was injured and one suspect is currently being held by police or the shooting interrupted the acceptance speech of . who was telling us supporters that quebec needs to become a sovereign country 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 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 making her victory speech she was hustled off the stage very quickly then we later learned from what we saw on cameras outside is that somebody was arrested somebody burst into the back of the building then shot somebody in the vestibule so one man died another injured and somebody else was taken to hospital for shock very sad because as he was being hauled away into the cop cars that he said you know the english will are waking up and they were referring to you know the very defensive nature of if you have a question you know there are years and years and years of confrontation about you know about the party and their ideas to separate back from the rest of the country and it's a very divisive topic and the fact that they were elected as a minority as many see it as a defeat and the threat. to come back and canada as the 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 that's not really what the population wants

really what we're hearing is that it's only about twenty eight percent of the population that wouldn't 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 angle phones are afraid of is that they will feed is 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 spread it on the thousands and thousands of people there is a certain fear that there will be more more anglo hatred in the province and i mean time independent journalist robert are in a belief that the english and french speaking canadians will continue to grow further apart. it would be nice to believe that the man is just a lunatic it's pretty clear it isn't 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 has caused many problems and they want autonomy and i think that it is going to revive a passion of the way to put it that's putting it what little bit emotional obviously it will and some english canadians feel very strongly about this of course to some french i don't think. it's going to change long term view of that situation of quebec in canada tactically obviously she isn't going to want to stir up passions it in quebec why would certainly hope not 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 to a party that believes in the maximum amount of autonomy so called beck 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 good or complete independence is on the cards or go back but real autonomy yes definitely. and there are more moves for independence over in europe a municipality in catalonia has reportedly proclaimed its autonomy from spain's central government as a whole phenomenon is a member of the right wing belgian political party vlan belying which once independence for flanders from belgium he believes the calls for sovereignty came because people feel they very identity is under attack the trends are coming from the fact that almost always greater and larger entities try to abolish the ethnic reality and languages the culture and cetera from people that are more

normally should be independent or should have their sovereignty that they are all both always more and more abolished by greater entities like european union etc and it should be more modern in our view too to acknowledge that the smaller entities are a better way to deal with things when people are not hurt by the authorities or by their government they try to get signals through elections and these signals could not be ignored and as more if they are ignored for instance by the european union or any other entity well people in democratic elections will revise 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. well coming up in just a few minutes here on the pussy riot phenomenon i will take a closer look at the motives methods behind the fame and infamy of the

controversial russian. for now though clashes between government troops and rebels are continuing in syria's largest city of aleppo with assad's forces launching airstrikes on opposition fighters activists say violence that killed over one hundred people on monday with the free syrian army claiming to be winning the fight for the syrian government insists there'll be no negotiations until security is achieved meanwhile in new york the u.n. chief moon has blamed the weapons supplies to both sides of the conflict for spreading misery and turning it into a brutal war. 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 circumstance and 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 begin in the next coming weeks and the next hour here and i'll tell you we will be talking to a german journalist who has witnessed the conflict in syria first hand man will try to explain to r.t. why western media coverage of the civil war is deliberately misleading. the mainstream media coverage claimed that the mosque because this was a time when this so-called battle of the month because they were saying that because it's on fire they 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 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 of the western governments who want to have the regime change there and who are supporting that the information you get from these countries are 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 said 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. live from moscow this is our to you straight to our breaking news for you this hour several people have reportedly been injured after a fire broke out at the oldest nuclear power plant in france the first and home station is located in the eastern part of the country very close to the border with germany now there have already been several minor accidents at the plant which was

built in one hundred seventy of the concern of a safety course president to order it to be closed in two thousand and seventeen do stay with us your thoughts you for the latest on this breaking news story. for now president vladimir putin has given r.t. an exclusive interview 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 but i'm not getting involved in any way. bloodier putin speaks exclusively to r.t. . now the scandal around of 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

a controversial video involving the group has now been. artie's over nicholas guys details. they are inherently members of the our group and i'm talking about the 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 president what the see right seem to have been doing for example one of course the latest on the loudest such performance was the punk prayer in the so-called punk prayer the christ where they were jumping out by the altar on the pulpit and yelling things which were rather precious range of the church of course three members off from group to right were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison now there was also another case which also made waves and was really concerned 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 in there one of the members performed a sexual act with the 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 doesn't talk when you go to one of those who work convicted of inside including islam and i really just hatred and the crisis she was participating in and one of the stunts where they have staged a mock hanging and one of the supermarkets in moscow where they were hanging supposedly migrant workers and a gays and you have to remember that it's a decision that were rather the reaction to the sentencing of just three members of

pussy riot. the public remains a quo. 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. we're going to go reporting that well still ahead for you in this program by the ups and downs of russia's space program couple of minutes take a look at the recent past and far away future of the country's mission to expose space. in 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 the floor to

beat back criticism from the republicans and responded with their own a types on mitt romney and his camp are the two candidates are currently tied in the polls one tally suggests that obama has the lowest pre-convention ratings of any incumbent president since the one nine hundred eighty s. american political commentator ted rall told r.t. that both men are a poor choice for voters who are looking for a real change. there is definitely a clear difference between mr 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 in trickle down economics 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 might get worse the united states certainly affects the world meanly 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 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 in a bomb 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 trap for a reason you know 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. well in the meantime of the democrats have slammed mitt romney for his vehement rhetoric

against china is the obama administration seeks to improve relations with beijing state secretary hillary clinton is in the chinese capital for talks but her visit comes amid rising diplomatic tensions beijing is want washington to stay out of the country's territorial disputes with several other nations off the chinese coast the communist state has threatened to use force to defend its claims to a chain of islands that clinton says that america's position is neutral but beijing has accused washington of meddling in the regions of fans as you know he chang from the rehman university of china things that america is trying to take advantage of the concept. in the past few months and we see it's even as these it's taken sides are going to japan over that disputed that have you know you want and you know as these also are still poor and in there with trying to hold ourselves to nazis we've also seen a lot worse than learning of wars are not good imagine it d.

s. think these inside it as a matter of back just a few depends on the courage of japan and. they have against the chinese plane i think if you notice he is trying to shift these to. what you should pursue because of our number reasons you can ask and want to take advantage of all the past growing economies in. the include cities and why it's not only in east asia but also across the world are you nasty want to come fag and the surface of balance or against chinese increase in regions. they're watching are seeing an attack on a military convoy it's killed six offices in russia's southern republicans think shutting the incident happened in the region's rest of the district where several gunmen opened fire on their vehicles with more of their thoughts easy to go to this

cause. the attack happened at 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 working the search operation for the attackers is also in full swing if you will look. 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. four 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 are very. much better here compared to well unfortunately other republics in the caucasus most of the buildings have been completely reconstructed there's lots of completely new infrastructure and new buildings new business owners a new mosque going in the center of the good always in the 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 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. needed to battle terrorism now.

by just about to our breaking news for you here on r.t. the french officials are saying that or two people have been injured in a chemical accident of the country's oldest nuclear power plant earlier reports that a fire had broken out of the thrust and station have not of this point being confirmed sources say steam caused by a chemical reaction simply set off the far alarm and the situation was quickly brought under control they have already been several minor accidents at the plant which was built in one nine hundred seventy and the concern over safety there even course president to order it closed by two thousand and seventeen. oil into the r.t. world out there we go will start with east in yemen it's where a u.s. drone targeting a house by a senior member of the local branch of al qaeda has killed at least five alleged militants there since president hadi requested an investigation into another drone

strike that resulted in the death of twelve civilians at the weekend and the government is struggling to suppress militant activity in the country which has increased since february is uprising resulted in the ousting of the former president. our son lucy former spy chief and confidant of colonel gadhafi has been arrested in libya after being extradited from mauritania he was detained in march in a joint operation with french intelligence in a mauritanian airport to see is also sought by french authorities on the international criminal court for crimes against humanity. protesters are reportedly clashed overnight with police in bahrain this after a civilian court upheld a military ruling that found twenty opposition leaders guilty of plotting to overthrow the government of the program for movement against the ruling one of king originated in february last year with police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty people killed and scores arrested since. for a day before gets

a marina with the business for now a series of failures of course to russia to reshuffle its top space exploration bosses and rethink the approach to future projects but despite setbacks of the country's space plans for the next three years are quite. as artie's least accountable for pawns the russian president has dismissed leadin 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 on. 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 russians for a into the final frontier the country's planning to build research station is 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. as promised. standing by to tell you how the update i see i just read for the russian markets what's happened well we have a decline in oil prices which of course always have

a major effect on the russian economy and of course the news about gas from didn't help the shares that they dropped around two percent today and what happened with gas for of course the european commission has launched an official investigation into the russian energy giant over its activity in europe in fact the cause that market abuse now this comes a year after brussel surprise the energy firm and its customers with unexpected grades at the offices they use antitrust watchdog will focus on whether gas from pushed up prices and a hand to competition in eastern and central europe gas from says it's prepared for the dialogue on the issue and mines that the company is outside of the jurisdiction of brussels the investigation could result in heavy fines and require the company to change its trade practices. of believes the motive behind the move is europe's like in the economy. we should stand this simple fact that all interact so we were signed by gazprom and by all european countries 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 is the same the difference is the nominal price the last several years while prize and gas prices linked will increase. enormously quickly so basically the problem is that now gas prices are too high for starving european economies while five years ago when gas prices were low there were no problem at all. now let's take a look at international stock markets the second hour of trade for wall street and there was as with all of the losses right now it's a mixed picture as you can see and what we do know is that there was a report that showed for those divots euros was a better than expected for the second quarter while want to stay with the u.s. and talk about the national debt there which actually sixteen trillion dollars that's more than fifty thousand dollars of that for every man woman and child in

the united states and it also means that whoever wins the presidential election in november what have to raise the government's borrowing cap from the current ceiling of sixteen point four trillion dollars and pass in such legislation last year proved to be enormously difficult for the nation's credit rating so for this there's old. and then as the last few minutes of trade for the european markets and it's a mixed picture there as well the footsie is struggling to escape that negative territory because you have the concerns over the euro zone that everyone's wanted to go what will be announced tomorrow as the european central bank will be meeting and discussing the whole topic so for us now let's move on and take a look at currencies see where the euro stands the u.s. still gaining against the u.s. dollar and make spectra for the closing time for the ruble as you can see the. russian market decline in oil prices a sea of bread of course investors here as i just use contraction in japan economy

or is the reason why as well as china that's it for me for this hour for more stories on our to dot com slash business for a very very good morning you'll be dealing with mr. that's right. thank you. back with the headlines in just a moment and then i will be stepping aside for peter to stay with us for crosstalk .

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