preliminary approval to banning americans from adopting 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 more homes in the west bank and east jerusalem in response to the palestinians upgrade. in six months. london embassy. is set to deliver his christmas message to his plans for next year.

two years you're watching. now russia's state duma has given its preliminary approval to a ban on americans adopting russian children it's part of a draft seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act this to russians under sanctions by washington the bill has drawn both support and criticism from lawmakers causing a rift in the russian political elite. it's really not clear at the moment if this draft in its current form will indeed become an act in the war because this issue really has with 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 wounds approach to this will be more reserved for just a reminder sigma these people the russian or foreign investment fund claimed to have revealed a huge money laundering scheme allegedly russian officials he himself was suspected

of war still tax evasion with died in prison before it could make that decision on his case he's seen by many in the west especially in the united states as a victim of human rights violations and just recently american lawmakers so much hate the act which. gives way for sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to. 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 a twenty one month old yacob who died after his adoptive father left him in a locked car on a hot day or another case one 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 cases themselves but the lack of a proper reaction from american authorities to prevent them from occurring. now israel says it will continue with plans to build six thousand more settler homes in the west bank and east jerusalem despite international condemnation the settlement expansion seen as illegal under international law follows the palestinians upgrade at the un last month the general assembly granted them non member observer status israel sees this as a unilateral it's an obstacle to resuming negotiations with settlement activist or friend since it's the construction of settlements that's preventing the possibility he's. there is only interest is to get to peace with the palestinians and the

palestinians that maybe they shouldn't have gone to the un unilaterally but if we look at why it 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. of the border areas and the jerusalem in every issue on disputed 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 the settlement out of spite having me holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six months during the sun it has not been idle he hasn't let up on his wiki leaks workers even published a book on thursday they were so bear with announces plans for twenty thirteen as he

prepares to deliver a christmas address hotties surface reports. it's been six months to the day since julian a son's 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 so 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 that julian assange and we've had him publish a book we've seen concerns over his health who seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive interview. and of course we've had the ongoing protests and vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website

and in the next couple of days the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of monaco but in this case julian assange to be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is that to come remains relatively unknown 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 the moment that we would see twenty thirty killing innocent running for the australian senate and forming his own wiki leaks political party although it will be the next that sort of force r.t. is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. now in egypt present mercy's draft constitution have threatened to continue hunger strikes until he steps down demonstrators are gearing up for more protests the justice ministry probes and a geisha of widespread voting irregularities during the first round of the

referendum on the document a political analyst omar the shopping believes the ongoing dispute over the constitution is a deeply dividing egyptian society there is a very strong division within egypt today between egyptians who are more of a group of egyptians that are more towards islam make system the predominant islam equipage a hardline system in egypt and another group that you has also a lot of supporters in egypt that want to have a democratic or more of a secular kind of egypt well president morsi is saying that he is presenting they want to see that he wants to lead the country and he wants to be that evolution towards a more democratic system but his actions fall far have not proven to be compliant with this it's leading to more tension you had a lot of violence in the past when in the streets clashes in the streets of a large number of people were killed were wounded and the country's economy is not

picking up for it's getting poorer and poorer the whole system in the lap of the government the public administration infrastructure of the country is really from political front to the violence spreading to other parts of the country and i think that this shows that mr morsi and his administration do not have the potential to provide the stability that is needed and on the other hand they do not answer the escalation of the group of people who took to the streets in the past and who were able to overthrow the previous regime so he's acting in a way that is very similar to the previous regime in fact. well transport grinds to a halt in say mrs shut their doors in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strike sees people vent that fury despite a new trial of bailout cash that story ahead for you. and russia's so used to rocket blast soft soap it from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan with

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find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on our. talk about this is. us president barack obama has been chosen by time magazine as a person of the year for twenty twelve he beat seven other contenders among them he's a chip count i mean a pakistani women's rights activist and apple c.e.o. tim cook with north korea's kim jong un who won the magazine's online poll of the most influential people didn't even get onto the list while the live now to

journalist martin summers he joins us from bristow left thanks. what i like is he says obama is worthy for quote finding and forging a new majority for turning weakness into opportunity and creating a more perfect union do you think the u.s. president deserves the title. well it's a bit old isn't it i think he's only been given it because of the fact that he won the election in november if he hadn't won the election in november i very much doubt whether he would have been given is what about came john on that i mean why did he miss out despite getting to the top of the online readers and why did the editors go with the readers do you think. well it's hard to guess isn't that i mean these kind of awards aren't given by in an open way i mean obama was given the nobel peace prize some years ago when you hardly been in office its all in fact hadn't actually taken office very strange at the time and strange in retrospect why why shouldn't the editors have the final pick then it is their magazine isn't it i

suppose it is but therefore it's not really a news story in that case i think that the bomber who was given the nobel peace prize before it even taken office hopefully to encourage him to to be a peacemaker in his affairs and on the topic i think you know actual fact we've seen the withdrawal of the u.s.s. enterprise and the u.s.s. as it were from the eastern mediterranean yesterday as reported an artsy perhaps that is a peaceful gesture by. barack obama but it's hard to read these things isn't it well as you say about her also won the prize back in two thousand and eight after being elected u.s. president do you think it's symbolic he got it again so soon after being reelected pretty repeat that i'm sorry i just i just lost contact with yes how symbolic is it that he's got this again our car still can't hear you clearly all

right if you can hear me let me ask you this that i mean won the nobel peace prize and the person of the year awards two thousand it before even had a chance really to do anything in his presidency he's won this is a board for his work in his first term is it preemptive like the other two that's why i'm asking well i think it's hard to see what's why he should have been given the award now and i can understand why people are asking questions about him so it's but i think actually now he has been elected for the second so i mean it may be that he's going to have some more power to deliver on some of the things that people have been expecting him to do perhaps for example showing a less belligerent attitude towards other countries particularly say pakistan and russia. ok we'll leave it there journalist martin summers talking to us from bristol in the u.k. thank you. greece has ground to a halt with the public sector workers walking out of their jobs in

a twenty four hour nationwide strike and putting pressure on the government over tough cuts were recent good news such as 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 a crisis strategist a concern of the euro says neither piece of news is of tangible benefit to the struggling population. the fact that the ratings agencies gave us higher ratings to be green bombs and yet those must indicate what's happened with that right now the international community be ironed out the e.c.b. and you see have two 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 the 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 laws 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 simply do not have the money to pay back all the money that they have borrowed and because of that fact which is uncomfortable we are going to come to a day of reckoning of some point the issue becomes when is that day going to happen and how far will the european and europe perhaps be able to keep the can down the road. an independent panel has concluded that since best occasion to september's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi it concluded that the protests sponsored by a controversial movie were not behind the bombings as had been suggested instead it

claims that the systematic failures at the state department were behind the security breaches the findings have been backed by a second your state hillary clinton. had to r.t. don't come. also on line french actor gerard defend you could move to russia saying the country's president than at putin has sent him to russian possible if he decided to end. his citizenship search of a better financial future. divine power in action activate the shock runs. i am and she says we need these we are under the control of those governing us before at the service of a space mafia i found that on that date the magnetic field of the sun will be for

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it was. out of sight to look at some other stories making news at this hour. in pakistan three more polio vaccination workers have been killed in separate gun attacks it brings the death toll to eight since the launch of the un. you're contradicting reports on who was behind the assault the taliban has previously threatened workers describing them as u.s. agents performing the violence the united nations called all staff involved in the

isolation campaign at the st augustine remains one of three countries in the world where only restrained. french 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 know some of the women present with prostitutes pass a car says the authorities are trying to criminalize the last it's not the first such scan the x. find out chief has been brought in last week a settlement for an unknown with the town made with rita drop her previous accusations of sexual assault. but as well in president hugo chavez has a risk richer infection quarter during recent cancer surgery underwent an operation in cuba before the treatment he spoke for the first time of his successor appointing current prime minister madeira as his replacement should anything happen

to him it comes only a few months after he was reelected as head of state and a vote was quite problems with his health and i know when he's planned for the tenth of january. supporters of russian the football champions and the petersburg say they only want white and non gay players in their squad it seems the largest fan club has written to the management stressing that their demands are about respecting longstanding traditions and not discrimination. richard vanpool fleet explains. i don't want any african players black players or latin american players and to be honest i don't but it's an absolute joke i mean because in 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 a bear manifesto was correct. but i mean they also say that they want to give preference to homegrown players russian based

players every team in the world would want to do that because it would be much cheaper but the fact is. russia don't produce enough good players i mean even brazil even top nations like argentina where you have to import players it's common knowledge and mentioned i do real madrid they don't have players from just one man just told madrid they import players because this is way over football has grown and has developed i think what the problem is a group of around one hundred two hundred hard calls and it's in pittsburgh 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 speech teenagers

will look up to these players and trying it's and the racism campaign is going. now the latest so orbit bound crew has blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan both the spacecraft our flight engine is on an inker from russia and masses tom marshburn along with canadian astronaut chris hadfield it will take them around two days to reach orbit and join their crew mates already aboard isis docking as shuttle for friday new i assess the team will have a busy five months in space to carry out more than one hundred scientific experiments and welcome several cargo space ships to space walks are also planned ati'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 period kazakstan 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 we've 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 to years for the russian space agency there 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 and 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 up on the international space station. indeed the people of l. and his crosstalk guests debate whether u.s. government welfare could be replaced by private charities just ahead a few off the shopping. the sun rises over what seems like and list forest but here in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mortgages both illegal and those finding

ways to outsmart the system are falling down the forests of the more secure region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off. xander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers looks of sorts easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there's twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare

them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government. isn't doing enough to stop it just do what should we do it because no one tries to stop them in just five years divorce will be gone what will the people who live afterwards do it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony says nature. leave me.

alone welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle there is no greater gift than the gift of giving as the u.s. deals with his great fiscal woes should tax cuts be lowder even denying to non-profits and charities particularly at a time when the list advantaged need all the help they can get or is this a false debate the real problem is gross income inequality. not the politics of charities i'm joined by richard land in nashville he is the president of the southern baptist convention's ethics and religious liberty commission in new york we have stephen pimp ere he is a professor at columbia university and in bloomington we cross to leslie when koski he is a professor at indiana university school of public and environmental affairs are a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that mean.