everything you. are. speaking exclusively to our russia's foreign minister says that as on the subject of all to have good and bad terrorists in syria referring to some states refusal to condemn rebel atrocities. the noose tightens around the wrong on as british troops are ready for the gulf war the united states conjures up yet more sanctions on tehran. to pour for christmas with businesses creaming the profits off the festive season with pensioners are increasingly frozen out by the holidays i spiraling costs.

me as life from a brand new headquarters and of and you're watching our tape well around one hundred people have been killed in syria's volatile province in what opposition activists say was a government airstrike the attack happened as around a thousand people were lining up in front of a bakery but also coincided with the arrival of u.n. and arab league envoy lakhdar brahimi in syria meanwhile the means that both sides have resorted to in the civil war have come under fire from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke exclusively to our team and our own has the details. russia's foreign minister once again stressed that there could only be a diplomatic solution to this adding that moscow is not taking sides. and has

condemned the syrian authorities for using disproportionate force the security forces clearly we're. prepared to face the public. protests and the protests in the cities and in the villages they have been trained you know to counter foreign aggression not to keep law and order a civilized manner however the minister also said that this doesn't rule out the fact that the rebels continue provoking syrian authorities and he criticized the west for failing to condemn the actions of some groups within the syrian opposition who sometimes go to the most extreme measures like taking hostages or even terrorism it's absolutely unacceptable if partners in the west would start would begin to. qualify terrorist as. bad terrorist and acceptable terrorists will also ask the minister why he thinks

the nato was so eager to deploy the six batteries of the interceptor missiles on turkey's border with syria and whether iran could be the actual target here's what he said that's what some people say. the configuration as it is being presented in the media. really looks like it could be used against iran and other vital issue concerning syria is that stockpile of chemical weapons going to russia keep diplomatic or outside players seem to acknowledge that it's the responsibility of syrian authorities to keep it safe and that it would be unacceptable if the rebels got their hands on it but then it makes very little sense of why some states in the west continue persuading the rebels to continue fighting by giving them moral political and financial support. now of course we'll have more of those highlights from. the interview with r.t. in the next hour but for those of you who just can't wait you can check it out on our website it's already there r t v dot com. the united arab emirates just said to

be close to ordering some sixty combat jets from the u.k. and may be getting a contingent of british troops to sweeten the deal british prime minister david cameron told soldiers that they may be headed to the gulf state as they pull out of ghana stand rights groups though aren't happy saying the dealings with the emirates which the e.u. called on to stop the mouse torture of political dissidents sends all the wrong messages geo political analyst patrick henningsen says that there is an ulterior motive behind the sale. the justification for this massive buildup in the middle east specially in the gulf states and. the west is blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions well there's no proof of any that their weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the encirclement of iran is certainly

not a geo political scale number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years. but with iran all but surrounded the middle east is looking to be to be taking sides the lebanese militant group hezbollah long joined the fray vowing to range missiles on israeli and american bases hoping to attack iran over its nuclear program. opposition to cries of fraud after a referendum on egypt's draft constitution and early results suggest the heavenly is the most charter hospital room but some claim that could only be possible with massive breaking. ok well for many at

this time of year it certainly seems that it's the size of your wallet that dictates just how much festa fun you can enjoy while the shops are reaping the benefits of a commercial boost elderly people in the u.k. are surviving on just their pensions and they're left priced out of the christmas spirit or just by boycott takes up the story. santa claus is coming to town and the shops are ready for the annual customer onslaught eighty two year old lady isn't in the festive spirit she's worried that she can't afford to be anything other than a scrooge this christmas that. goodness on there isn't enough to lead on like it is and not with zoe bales the. electorate. as a local i think. that or does things ok. for

the a pension person inside of you but then and off the most energy from hike prices is the winter months set in lady and people like her face a cold or daca festive season calling us out to buy a new boiler plate on in the bedroom is still in the a.v. into a well known bedroom up so now they all know if there's a big bill is not out something with the rose bowl or something and i thought that by now not a cabinet. that is a while right yeah yeah more and more britons are turning off their heating and then run up to a week christmas and they're using these hot water bottles instead but according to hospital the money saving trend comes on the high price of its own with flooring numbers of buttons and injuries it isn't just the cost of fuel christmas essential

will soon be worth their weight in gold the average price of turkey has risen seven percent since last year a family bird setting you back a whopping fifty five pounds on your christmas cards an average pack of twelve costs ten percent more this holiday and with printer ink now pricier than. get about making your own to save money besides postage doesn't come cheap now at thirty percent more this christmas first class post in every sense of the term there's not a shop in the land that would risk missing out on a christmas promotion right now it's not sure what you hurried up to the best seventy's getting more and more commercial but as austerity great britain you what can she afford to take god we've talked to many families about christmas time and it's something that they really struggle with a time when all the families are celebrating we've got rises in fuel prices we've

got rises in food prices in the benefits and the support mechanisms that people have got. that they've got is all being cut back it's going to be really really tough for people this christmas pensioner lady isn't just worried about the plight of the elderly she knows she's far from alone and counting down to a down costs december twenty fifth you know where they've been going out but their wages haven't gone out and people without. a lot of people are. no benefit. no and with the bank of england's less than glad tidings of a triple dip recession on the cards struggling britons will be wishing for nothing short of a christmas miracle. see london. well egypt is getting ready to announce the results of a referendum on a new constitution that's after early tallies suggest that it won

a majority of approval in the final round of voting the draft was hastily put together by the muslim brotherhood dominated as seen by many as a shallow way of cementing as honest power in the country in the fall had been accompanied by smoldering unrest across egypt with sporadic violence resulting in dozens of deaths as well as injuries the country's opposition is accusing the muslim brotherhood of massive vote rigging. from the al to store party believes that there's no way the constitution could have passed otherwise. this constitution and this referendum is is a disgrace to a nation that fought hard for its freedom and for its right it's a document that rips out all the for all the rights that we've. tried to constitute a dictatorship and it has been taught by a referendum that was a massive massive rigging for the ballot boxes massive rigging for the voice of the people basically see tens and hundreds of schools tens of hundreds of schools where

the ballot boxes and the referendum process was taking place at a convenient time when the voices were very all the pull so that the people were voting no the power was cut off the. judges and employees in that school shut down the school over. the front of the voters and the state with the ballot boxes not overseas for hours and hours we do not recognise the results unless we see a proper investigation and a proper digging through this evidence that we've put and we received a proper answer from the high committee of elections. well u.k. pensioners may be struggling but india is going shopping with a billion dollar christmas list to delhi pick some prussian military aircraft and commits to a shared scientific research project starring the president put. that full story for you ahead after the break.

what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection so the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist ridiculous security feels

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strategic partners and fellow greeks working very hard to wards growing nations have a. fair say on the world stage and seeking to counterbalance the increase in american and european dominance in the world both financial and political russia india have signed around three billion dollar worth of military contracts today and many experts have already said that that is very important and that is very symbolic why the thing is that today it is number one one point importer in the world and russian made equipment accounts for more than seventy percent of the indian supplies but recently india has signed many contracts with us and israel and some have started saying that russia is losing its role its position in this particular region region and especially on the indian military market with all these contracts signed today we can say this complication corporations to very high in russia and

india remain very close allies and sure this is something wagner putin has already outlined to the indian people ahead of his one day visit to india in the article been published in one of the country's most influential english speaking newspapers the hindu you can see vladimir putin is on the front page today well in this article russian leader has side that has stressed that defending and strengthening friendship and cooperation with india is today among russia's foreign policies top priorities and speaking about work with india with the brics he has sad that we have a common goal to make the world we live in more just democratic and secure well i have to say that this group reeks of five growing states is bakin countries like america quite nervous because they have their own interests. in this particular region especially defense interests while they're pretending to carry out peaceful policy peaceful strategy at the same time boosting troop presence in the backyard

of china and by these visits by gathering today here in india the role the increasing role in importance of this group of brits that experts say actually is able to counterbalance the western dominance of the world has been suppressed and outlined again and again. all right maria certainly a lot on the table there thank you so much for keeping us up to date i'm sure we'll be hit back with you shortly. or will it seems that lance armstrong's fall from grace is almost complete british paper the sunday times is suing the former world champion cyclist for more than one million dollars in that are to dot com for all those details. also for you there monkey business and the future of this pet seen loping around the toronto car park doesn't look so rosy find out what happened to him on our website.

as washington mulls fresh sanctions against iran israel seems to be clear that it is ready and willing to strike but tehran's chief ally in the region has been law has made it plain that it will take sides in case of war so what exactly does the militant faction have up its sleeve that's something that i set out to learn on my recent visit to lebanon take a look. a red line should be drawn right here the line beyond which lies war with iran netanyahu would like to be able to communicate to the world that the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the

full support of the united states threat or bluff whatever the case and the tap it all but guarantee our rapid response from another nemesis of the jewish state has moema. the lebanese shia paramilitary group has evolved from a ragtag militia to a military and political heavyweight it's part of the so-called axis of resistance against israel referring to the lions between hezbollah hamas syria and iran and according to has been was leader hassan nasrallah both israel and the united states would suffer a retaliation to any strike against tehran but. the response would not be limited to the israeli entity the us military bases in the entire region will serve as targets so if israel targets iran even by itself that. america will be held accountable for this that.

israel's november battle with gaza was seen as a test for a possible confrontation with the law on israeli airstrikes rained on gaza in exchange came a barrage of long range mortars and rockets most were held by israel's. the fuck you're fighting a rocket threat from gaza the war may have showcased newly acquired weapons by palestinian militant factions but hezbollah's arsenal is thought to be of higher quality and quantity and experts say that it could launch four times as many markets per day as hamas the details of hezbollah stop all are secret but the group's willingness to use it is not. israel was shaken by a few fragile five missiles which could be counted on the fingers of one's hand i want to be able to withstand the thousands of missiles that will land on television and else way if it attacks. i am israel and hezbollah came face to face was in two thousand and six since then i

am hizbullah has now accommodated around forty five thousand missiles off various ranges that is run of all part of that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred and well it's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of. the south of the country this museum in the south of lebanon is designed to display has been proclaimed military prowess captured israeli tanks and weapons are meant to be a reminder of the danger has a lot can pose provoke. the tunnel and open to visitors but a network of secret passageways just like this one stretches across lebanon they're used to move fighters and weapons across the country and showing that hezbollah stands ready to strike at a moment's notice lucy caffein of our southern lebanon. underworld update now an afghan police woman has shot dead a us security advisor at police headquarters in kabul the afghan officer was the

man before shooting him this according to a senior police official it's not to be the first time that a female officer has killed about nato forces the type of incident raises questions about the state of afghan security when troops finally withdraw at the end of two thousand and fourteen. is the most fighters have destroyed the last muslims in the ancient city of timbuktu in the north of mali the answer d n a group who claims responsibility say that they are defending the purity of their faith against people worshipping idols this comes just days after other islamists in the north announced they have cut off the hands of two people. a red alert has been put out by chairlift at the copa who way of volcano on the border with argentina could soon erupt scientists are warning people to stay outside of fifteen. door volcanic fragments

for more than a day forcing people in nearby villages to leave the area the plume had reached over one and a half kilometers high. high. will be here with a weekly roundup of the latest news in sports stay with us. it's perched atop a jaw drop under view from tobolsk prevalence stretches as far as the all you can see up for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance siberian railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center.

this. week. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. i. was there when you pull up our border it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil

of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians are their own to moscow is one of the most popular places to send people to go to santas not any people were exiled that once a giant bell that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led a revolt against the tsar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hare and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they were fairly comfortable existence this

was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or gartside themselves leading this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of a scape but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always go with a glorious past and it will likely provide the livelihood for some habitants in the future. hello welcome to the r t sports show with me take partridge and here are the week's

top stories. triple crown yevgeny malkin scores his first hat trick in the k h l descent top of the constant conference. while double dutch the i actually think out of me will hold the kids training camp near moscow this summer aiming to bring total football to russia. and golden curls we meet the swiss coach who's led the russian women's curling team to european gold after just six months in charge. and let's go straight to the ice where russia star you have got e-mail can back his first trick as metallic magnitogorsk one five three it's striking out plans to go temporarily top of the east roberts more than yann house the pick

on wednesday the still makers long five three and gene up with his brilliance on the show once again being both impressive with his outstanding puck control and effective q four points and his first head trick in the league so far. struggling that plant was a day out again on friday dropped there from two levin's with one of russia's most gifted new generation of players. netting twice and ending one more goal to give his side a shootout win. time to have a look at the now most skilled going cup holders are still top of the league with an x. on their ovation having scored sixteen goals so far however this one against his nets he's probably the most beautiful. meanwhile to score still on the road to their full capacity performance quite a lot so keeps good.