preliminary approval to banning american russian children is in response to washington so-called magnitsky act sanctioning russian officials. israel says it's pressing ahead with plans to build six thousand. in the west bank and east jerusalem in response to the palestinians u.n. upgrade. six months. london embassy. set to deliver his own christmas message outlining his plans for next year.

we have liftoff a new crew from the cosmodrome in kazakhstan to take their place on the international space station. hello and welcome to new. russia's state duma has given its preliminary approval to a ban on americans adopting russian children it's part of a draft nor seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act and list of russians under sanctions by washington the bill has seen both support and criticism from lawmakers causing a rift in the russian political elite. reports. it's really not clear at the moment

if this draft in its current form will indeed become an active war because this issue really has russia's political elite we have heard from several ministers including the foreign minister who spoke against introducing it the speaker of the federation council has also called on russian lawmakers not to russia where the. prime minister would need to be the video hasn't openly supported it but he did talk about the need to focus on improving the living conditions for. children without parents here in russia and when it comes to the executive power the president's spokesman has also said that due to the evident and the russian rhetoric coming from some members of the international community emotions of the deputies and some of them are showing quite a hard line approach these emotions are understood in the kremlin but at the same time the spokesman said that the qur'an winds approach to this will be more

reserved just a reminder sigma of the russian or foreign investment fund claims to have a review of the huge money laundering scheme allegedly russian officials he himself was suspected of want to steal tax evasion with died in prison before it could make decisions on his case he's seen by many in the west especially in the united states is a victim of human rights violations and just recently american lawmakers passed so much the act which. gives way for sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to well asians or human rights adoption really has been a huge stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to the so many cases of abuse and sometimes even deaths of russian children after they were adopted by americans and brought to the united states for instance. the story of twenty one month old couple of who died after his adoptive father left him in

a locked car on a hot day or another case where an american adoptive mother put her child on a plane back to russia carrying only some underwear and a note all of this has been causing outrage here in russia not only the case of themselves what the lack of a proper reaction from american authorities to prevent them from reoccurring. but israel says it will continue with plans to build six thousand more settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem despite international condemnation a settlement expansion seen as illegal under international law but as the palestinians upgrade at the un last month the general assembly granted them member server status israel sees this as a unilateral. stickle to resuming negotiations and settlement activists and it all friend says it's the construction of settlements that is preventing the possibility of peace. there is only interest is to get to peace with the palestinians

and 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 will be side by side with israel and that all. your issues of the borders and the jerusalem in every issue on dispute will be solved in a negotiation this is something that israel can support so if it's a punishment it's not a punishment to the palestinians it's a punishment to the israelis and we believe as an israeli organization that the government is acting against the israeli interest by building in this incident. u.s. vice president joe biden is to oversee new policies aimed at tackling gun violence

in the wake of the newtown mass shooting president obama voiced his support for reinstating the assault weapons ban and a tightening of regulations but there are fears the potential move could see enthusiasm up on the firearms and ammunition parties report now has the details for us now. 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 a so-called gun show loophole that has allowed some weapons to be sold without criminal background checks of the buy or sell 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 six staff members were killed in 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 but with the u.s.

now. with the potential ban many don't think any new regulations will help professor says the u.s. is turning a blind eye to the gun business due to their links to manufacturers and right. they have a message they have a narrative that narrative has to percolate through their delivery system which unfortunately are their anchors and reporters to set up the delivery system for the pundits for the host driven shows where you have the right wing. mentality come in and it's rehashed and then shot back out you know in these various media outlets where they're pundits feed into this is their message machine or the talking points coming from the n.r.a. the politicians that are in matched in the n.r.a. and in conservative causes i mean that's that's that's not speculation on my part that's politics and media one on one for the last fifteen years despite being a hold up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six months during the sun has not

been idle he hasn't let up on his wiki leaks work and has even published a book but on thursday the whistleblower with announces plans for twenty thirteen as he prepares to deliver a christmas address. reports. it's been six months to the day since julian a son sought 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 dossier on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock action it's been a busy six months to t.v. and we've had him publish a book we steamed concerns over his health who seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving

a number of personal calls police. say and of course we've had the on going process vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days today the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian assange would be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is that remains relatively unknown we see in the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be predictable it's a little remote a lot of talk at the moment that we could see in twenty thirty chilean a son's running for the australian senate and forming his own wiki leaks political party well those 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. transporter grinds

to a halt and services shut the doors in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strikes. fury despite a new challenge of cash that story ahead for you. and the so use a rocket blast off to. the crew of three aboard all the details on that and much more after the break. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian in the blink of an eye wrote one thousand nine hundred sentry anthropologist and those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to travel to.

a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia put them in soup with cabbage and making sure you can have many as a starter main dish. although it might draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by transport in the summer. and winter.

it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that migrated here before the russians. and this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years sober is still not quite like anywhere else. international news for you now here on out. greece has ground to a halt with the public sector workers walking out of their jobs in the twenty four hour nationwide strike aimed at putting pressure on the government over tough cuts recent good news is the latest tranche of bailout cash and the decision by ratings

agency standard and poor's to raise the country's credit rating has done little to dissipate public anger the crisis stressed this comes out of the era says neither he said the uses of tangible benefit the struggling population. the fact that the ratings agencies gave you a higher rating to be bombs and yet there's a strong indicator what's happened to that right now the international community b i am that's the e.c.b. and you see have wars austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and so you can see this strike going on and people a lot of people get very upset in greece while the best community is relatively happy because you know there is more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned to them in the form of bonds so i think that you going to continue to see this is exactly where you'll go up and the people are happier but the investor community is less and then you're going to have

a swerves to the right where you have more austerity making people more angry and more riots and more protests and more strikes and yet investors feeling more secure . in the bonds of a buying greeks even money this crisis is far from over the europeans have yet to solve the basic problem that the european. countries are insolvent based simply do not have the money to pay back all the money that they have borrowed and because of that fact which is incontrovertibly we are going to come to a day of reckoning of some point the issue becomes when is that going to happen and how far will the european europe perhaps even the can down the road. to egypt now where opponents hope the president must seize draft constitution have threatened to continue hunger strikes until he steps down demonstrates gearing up for more protests by the justice ministry probes allegations of widespread voting irregularities during the first round of the referendum on the document

a political analyst. in the eaves the ongoing dispute over the constitution is deeply dividing egyptian society. there is a very strong division within egypt today between a gyptian who are more of a group of egyptians that are more of who are the amec system the predominant islam equipages the hardline system in egypt and in another group of that it has also a lot of supporters in egypt that wants to have a democratic or more of a secular kind of egypt well president morsi is saying that he is presenting a democracy that he wants to lead the country and he wants to be that able to do a more democratic system but his actions so far have not proven to be compliant with it's leading to more tension you had a lot of violence in the past in the streets clashes on the streets out a large number of people were killed were wanted and the country's economy is marking up so it's getting smaller and smaller the whole system is collapsing the

government the public administration the infrastructure of the country is really suffering from shortages at the violence is spreading to other parts of the country and i think that this shows that that mr morsi and his administration do not have the potential to to provide the stability that is needed and on the other hand they do not answer the aspiration of for the groups of people who would talk to the three pts in the past and who are able to overthrow the previous regime so he's acting in a way that is very similar to the previous regime in fact. september's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi it included protests. behind the.

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welcome back now that such take a look at some other stories making news this hour. about the start of three more polio vaccination workers have been killed in separate gun attacks it brings the death toll to eight since monday's launch of the u.n. general count there are contradicting reports on who is behind the a so it's the taliban loosely threatening workers describing. one of the products the united nations staff involved in the campaign off the streets pakistan remains

at one of three countries in the world where it's true endemic. judges have decided to press ahead with pimping charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn the sixty three year old allegedly took part in sex parties denies knowing some of the women present was to cheat. says the authorities are trying to criminalize last this is not the first such scam the ex finance chief has been in broad it last week he reached a settlement on though some with a hotel maid agreed to drop her previous accusations of sexual assault. as well and president hugo chavez has a response infection during a recent cancer surgery travers underwent an operation cuba and the treatment he spoke for the first time of his successor pointing at current prime minister and his replacement did anything happen to him it comes only a few months after he was reelected as head of state in

a tight vote. problems with his health and the organization certainly has planned for the tenth of january. without supporters of russian football champions in need petersburg say they only want white and non gay players in their squad teams largest fan club has written to the management stressing that their demands are about respecting longstanding traditions not discrimination what is rich should event profit expense. 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 isn't it fans i think forget probably the best player was born in venezuela 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 that their manifesto was correct. but this i mean they all 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 good players i mean even brazil even top nations like argentina that you have to import players it's common knowledge and mentioned i did real madrid they don't have players from just romantic story madrid import because this is way before his growth and has developed i think what the problem is a group of around one hundred two hundred hard calls in it 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 to. come baines going. now the latest the orbit bound crew has blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan board the spacecraft of flight engineer. from russia and last is tom marshburn along with canadian astronaut chris hadfield it will take them two days to reach orbit and join their mates really poor but i assess docking a shuttle for friday with a new i assess team will have a busy five months in space carry out with one hundred scientific experiments and welcome several cargo space ships to space walks are also planned auntie's tom barton reports now on the preparations and goals for this latest mission. preparations and training for this mission have been complicated by the ferocious cold here don't be fooled by the lack of snow temperatures here regularly drop below minus thirty celsius and that has made some of the preparations a little bit more difficult here in classic stan the crew now face months of work

up on the international space station thomas marshburn himself is a trained doctor and he'll be conducting many experiments among them examining the effects of weightlessness on the human body also experiments up there looking at medical technology arms on the i assess and a number of space walks to help conduct maintenance on that orbital space station it's been a difficult two years for the russian space agency have been a number of accidents with various spacecraft in the past couple of years including a supply rocket that fell back to earth and a mission to examine one of the martian moons that never got further than earth's atmosphere there have been changes at the top levels of management of ross cosmos and they'll be some organizational changes to try and improve their record there must be said none none of those are areas happening with manned missions all of those including this one having gone well without any any hitches but these thirty

three crew on the way up to the international space station will be docking there in a couple of days' time and there they will start their stint representing humanity and their countries on the international space station. where in a few minutes we'll take you on a tour of saatchi is the black sea resort city prepares for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games stay with us for that. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain i'm trying not to. lay out to become the first. force call in the.

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