thank you understand it and then something else some other part of it and realized everything you thought. that would prevent americans from adopting russian children. russian officials. u.s. debates tightening gun control president obama backs plans for an assault weapons ban the wake of a deadly school shooting. six months. london embassy. christmas message by his plans for next year. and ready for liftoff crew is ready to blast off and. take their

place on the international space station. to the launch. and these are live pictures. you're watching. live in h.d. i'm like harry just now russia's state duma is in the second reading of a bell which if passed would prevent u.s. citizens from adopting russian children the action is seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act of russians under sanctions by washington when the bill is seen both support and criticism from the makers causing a rift in the russian political elite. from the state. just to remind us that a game of news given the russian lawyer who is suspected of large scale tax evasion

he died in prison before a court could make a decision on his case he's seen by many in the west especially in the u.s. as a victim to various human rights violations in russia and the recently america lawmakers passed to the so-called mugging in the act which allows sanctioning russian officials suspected in the us of being connected to human rights violations in russia in moscow by many of this law is seen as anti russian and a legislator syrian state duma had been working on what the sea will be a proportionate response and besides sanctioning american citizens for thought to be connected with violations of the rights of russian citizens mandela believes are pushing for the draft only to also include a ban for american citizens to adopt russian children adoption has become quite a heavy issue in the relations between moscow and washington due to be so many cases of abuse and sometimes even death like the story of twenty one month old.

russian boy who was adopted by an american couple and he died after his adoptive father left him in a locked car on a hot day or another case when an american adoptive mother put her child on a plane back to russia caring only north and underwear with him all this is causing outrage here in russia but not only because he says them but also a lack of a proper reaction from american up stories to prevent these people from reoccurring including. heavy jail sentences this draft has become a source of heated debate both in the public and among the political elite russian lawmakers have shown to be quite emotional on this issue when it comes to the exact nature of power was just heard from the president's spokesman d.b.p. school who said that it's understood why the deputies are being sold emotional due to the evidence and if you watch an arrest or a coming from the memory of the. international community but at the same time he said that the kremlin has

a reserved approach in the meantime it's clear that everybody understands all those responsible for the violation of human rights or especially children's rights have to be punished but it is causing debate whether or not a general ban on adoption by americans should be introduced and we've heard from several ministers including the foreign minister has also spoken against introducing this bag so the debate continues especially here in the state duma as a russian lawmakers continue reviewing the draft u.s. vice president joe biden new policies aimed at tackling wake of the newtown mass shooting at president obama voiced his support for reinstating the assault weapons ban and a tightening of regulations there also fears the potential move could see enthusiastic load up on firearms and ammunition report now has the details. when you consider the tragic events that unfolded at an elementary school last week in the us it is

not surprising that finally u.s. president barack obama is taking a position that would reinstate a ban on assault weapons in america now the last federal assault weapons ban which expired in two thousand and four prohibited the manufacturing of eighteen specific models of semiautomatic weapons along with the manufacturing of high capacity ammunition magazines that could carry more than ten rounds now according to white house spokesman jay carney obama would also support legislation that closes the so-called gun show loophole that has allowed some weapons to be sold without criminal background checks of the buyers since obama has been president for mass shootings have taken place but until now critics say that obama has skirted the issue of federal gun control last week's massacre at that elementary school in newtown connecticut claimed the lives of twenty innocent children ages between six and seven and also sixty members were killed the gun control advocates say it's

a shame so many lives have been lost before u.s. leaders finally got the ball rolling on legislation in real largest firearms maker in the u.s. also announced on tuesday that it's being put up for sale by its owner freedom group international is the maker of the bushmaster rifles the weapons thought to have been used in friday's connecticut massacre shares in publicly traded gun makers have been dropping for a third straight day there's also been reports of a large spike in gun sales in recent days because many believe that the federal government will in fact enforce stricter gun control. well despite having been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six months during the summer has not been idle he has. published a book thursday the whistleblower will announce his plans for twenty thirteen as he prepares to deliver christmas address reports it's been six months to the day

since julian assange thought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it will be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock police protection it's been a busy six months to deal in a sound we've had him publish a book. concerns over his health we think julian assange addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive interviews. and of course the ongoing protests in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian

assange will be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what. remains relatively unknown in the dramas on voting over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be predictable it's a little remote a lot of the. twenty thirty to leave the sounds running for the australians that it and forming his own wiki leaks political party although it will be the next steps and of course he is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. well transport grinds to a halt and services shut their doors in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strike sees people vent their fury despite a new challenge of bailout cash that story had feared. that in a few minutes time we watching a live liftoff to space russia so use rocket progress to take a crew of three to the international space station all that and more after this

break. which is laugh near enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of bike of his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is worthless sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes they bite as well it's part of my everyday life. i

holmes been home to it make the rats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land the cattle and fish. if my call is often called the pearl of siberia and horn is said to be the pearl of by. it's a land of fake forests. and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was cornish quickly becoming a magnet for nature lovers and curial seekers you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even run in water for most people tend is there on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. in journey to buy coal can be unique a trip of

a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it we'll be coming back again and again. this is our team broadcasting live in h.d. . now the latest orbit the bound crew is about to blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan a russian cosmonaut and his two american and canadian counterparts are now sitting inside the soyuz aircraft ready to launch the international space station these are live pictures from baikonur now the liftoff is due any moment now we hope that military and civilian aircraft and helicopters will see to the safety of the space

ships lights on the entire flight path that the temperature at the last site is absolutely freezing below minus twenty degrees but officials say the conditions have no or little effect on the soyuz but i can tell you that aboard the space craft our flight engineer is russian or man or woman anchor and nasa is tom marshburn along with canadian astronaut chris hadfield will become the first canadian to command i assess doing his mission to take the trio two days i think to reach orbit and join their. already aboard i assess don't you see some movement there commander kevin ford and flight engineers if gainey around him and i know it's going to air we go we can see some dramatic pictures here as it prepares to blast off let's see it go.

stick stuff where we can see the doc for friday and when you are assessed he will have a busy five months still more than one hundred scientific experiments and welcome several cargo space ships to space walks are also planned of course of the spending christmas welcoming new year on board the space station as well. and we understand also crew members intend to devote this bit time in order to

music all three are fond of playing the guitar apparently chris hadfield is going to record several songs no less performed at this it's some. great stuff with reports now on the preparations for this latest mission. of their well guitar music was in the air as the next cruise the international space station said last goodbyes to. two socially i assess his next commander chris hadfield and actually when we're sitting on the launch pad inside our soyuz there will be music playing both too to warm up our bodies and to warm our hearts while the music will be a comfort there was months of work ahead on the station preparing a launch is like a technical and scientific symphony should no rocket crew and an orchestra of engineers around them are churning up for the main overture. for the families this

time is as nerve wracking as it is exciting chris hadfield's wife say she'll still feel connected to what is up there again through music but like really if you're here if you like to be playing so much music that you are going to lie and you were right in life you know that they were sure that no play lots of repeat of the surveys that yes there's a spec or says trust to get tough. with being away from home that movie special time christmas show that is talked. when i'm up in space that i start to feel homesick i'll probably do what i do on earth and that is to. to open up my guitar and. play a song. arms that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoy music or be able to look down on her as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding space merry christmas. happy.

tom barton r t baikonur as extern. greece has ground to a halt with public sector workers walking out of their jobs in a twenty four hour nationwide strike in that putting pressure on the government over tough cuts well recent to good news such as the latest chance of bailout cash and a decision by ratings agency standard and poor's to raise the country's credit rating has done little to dissipate public anger a crisis a strategist comes out of the euro says the that he's in the uses of tangible benefit to the struggling population. the fact that the ratings agencies higher rating to be from the net there's a strike in the case what happened is that right now the international community i am not the c b a nice to have tours austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and so you see this strike going on of people

a lot of people getting very upset in greece while the best a community is relatively happy because there's more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned in the form of months so i think that you're going to continue to see this is exactly where yields go up and the people are happier but the investor community is left and then we're going to have work to do the right play you have more austerity making people more angry and more right at the more protests and more strikes and that investors feeling more secure in in the bombs that they buy in greece even money this crisis is far from over the europeans and yet to solve the basic problem that the european. countries are insolvent ace simply do not have the money to pay back all the money that they have borrowed and because of that which is incomparable we are going to come to a day of reckoning at some point you should become when is that day going to happen and how far will your p.m.c.

or crabs be who keep the can down for growth. now israel says it will press on with the building of six thousand more settlers in the west bank and east jerusalem despite international condemnation and settlement expansion seen as illegal under international law allows the palestinians upgrade at the u.n. let's now talk two hundred of director of the settlement watch project at peace now known as ation working to promote a two state solution or she travels daily in the west bank monitoring of lies in israeli settlements there thank you for joining us the palestinians went to the un to unilaterally us recognition of their state didn't they instead of sitting down at the negotiating table with israel isn't israel entitle to a response to such actions well maybe israel isn't trying to spawn but this is stupid to respond because it's against the israeli interest building settlements is going to prevent the possibility to get to peace and peace is in israeli interest

so if it's a punishment it's not a punishment to the palestinians it's a punishment to the israelis and we believe that as an israeli organization that the government is acting against the israeli interest by building in this incident but israel did say the settlement expansion would be put on hold as they waited to see if western powers could persuade palestinian president mahmoud abbas not to go to the u.n. he did just that so israel now doing exactly what it promised to do. as i said there is only interest is to go to get to peace with the palestinians and is the palestinians maybe they shouldn't have gone to the un unilaterally but if we look at what was decided in the un it was decided that there would be two states and palestinian state would be side by side with israel and that all the. issues of the

borders and the jerusalem and every issue on dispute will be solved in a negotiation and this is something that israel can support and there is no need to insist that they should be the first two to blink and then we will go to peace we need to go to peace no winter who is the first to do the first step but israel says i find it hard to negotiate with president about his authority doesn't extend to gaza which is real life and us so how do you see talks ever resuming under those kind of conditions. the power of hamas is coming from the fact that there is no peace if we negotiated with abbas. and go out to a palestinian state side by side with israel and then a bus would have been much more supported in the west bank and the hamas would become much weaker and because the bill situation today is that the palestinian

society says no hope. mahmoud abbas. saying that we need to talk to the israelis but then he gets no results well under hamas it is fighting by force and yet least you know they feel that they get something not that they really do they get more violence but but in terms of the feelings. hamas has a lot of power as long as there is no peace so as soon as we make peace with a bus he will be much much stronger ok we have to leave it there front director of the settlement watch project at peace now working to promote a two state solution thank you for your time here on r.t. today thank you. well an independent panel has concluded its investigation into september's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi concluded that protests sparked by national movie are not

behind the violence. in suggested it claims that systematic failures at the state department the highest security breaches findings have been backed by state hillary clinton on that dot com. also online today russia's president vladimir putin. a russian passport of the french to renounce his citizenship in search of a better financial future. supporters of two time defending a russian football champions. say they only want white non-gay players in their team the team's largest found club has written to the management stressing that their demands are all about respecting longstanding traditions and not to racism. it explains. i don't want any african players black players or latin american players and to be honest i'm going that's an absolute joke i mean because in it

fans i think forget probably the best player was born this way or which is latin america danny is probably the best russian inboard has come into play in the russian premier league over the last ten years or so and france is a bear manifesto was correct. to be submitted. but this player i mean they also say that they want to give preference to homegrown players russian based players often every team in the world would want to do that because it would be much cheaper but the fact is. russia don't use enough the players i mean even brazil or even top nations like argentina that you have to play is it's common knowledge and much like real madrid you don't have players from just romantic story madrid. this is way before this growth has developed i think what the problem is was a group of around one hundred two hundred hard calls needs and spoke fans who are racist and you get this around the world you'll get this in the u.k. you get this in italy you get this in germany you just can't change them for

education for whatever they will say the same the problem is you have a few thousand teenagers who go on to the matches and they don't know what they're doing so they copy what these. races fans are doing and what the club needs to do is try to educate these teenagers. the clubs the russian premier league the russian football union they need to get special players involved because the usual look up to these players and trying it's and the racism campaign is going. now let's take a look at some other stories making at the news this hour it was a starlet three more polio vaccination workers have been killed in separate gun attacks it brings the death toll to eight since monday's launch of a u.n. medical campaign there contradicting reports on who was behind their souls the taliban has previously threatened workers describing them as u.s. agents following the violence the united nations staff involved in even a zation campaign off the streets augustana maine's one of three countries in the

world where julio is still endemic. french judges have decided to press ahead with pimping charges against a former chief of the i.m.f. dominique strauss kahn the sixty three year old allegedly took part in sex parties who denies knowing that some of the women present prostitutes can says the authorities are trying to criminalize lust this is not the first such scan of x. finance chief has been brought it last week he reached a settlement for an unknown some with tell me greta drop her previous accusations of rape. that is where in president hugo chavez has a risk free infection courted during recent cancer surgery travers underwent an operation in cuba before the cancer treatment he spoke for the first time of his successor appointing a current prime minister as his replacement for anything happened to him this comes only a few months after he was reelected as head of state and. despite problems with his

health that chavez nor gratian ceremonies planned for the tenth of janet. but next abby martin takes on the mainstream media in breaking the set. wealthy british style. that's not on the title.

markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. russia would be soon which brightened if you knew about song from finest impressions. moves from stone totty dot com.

choose your language calling the killer though in federal court today still some. choose to use the consensus here to. choose to opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in high life choose to access to your office. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean. and i know that i'm still really really messed up. and we're all for it so personally apologize if that. worst you were going through the white house soup of

a. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone. i want you to watch what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. the low i mean martin this is breaking the set today i want to talk to you about co-leader el masri a german citizen who was kidnapped off the street by the cia on new year's eve in two thousand and three while he was vacationing in macedonia a monster was secretly held without any communication for twenty three days after which he was transferred to afghanistan under the u.s. government's extraordinary rendition program and there he was tortured he was abused for four months after he was finally released almost three tried to sue the u.s. government two thousand and six but the case was dismissed on the grounds of state secrets to show.