dozens of civilians are reportedly killed in a serious hama province with the government and the opposition blaming one another of the russian foreign minister exclusivity tells our t.v. we're moscow stands in the conflict. russia and india rubber stamp of billions of dollars worth of military megadeals of the two of the world's fastest growing countries boost their global clout influence which is making some in the west nervous. and while some celebrate others are struggling as borrowing costs of christmas leave british pensioners in a far from festive spirit. world

news live from our moscow h.t. brand new headquarters you're watching our team with me to see how often of. well syria's rebels say that at least sixty people have been killed in a government airstrike on a bakery in the central hama province state run media broadcast the denial instead of accusing the opposition of the killings designed to smear the authorities and the international peace envoy visited them ask us how much promise had a witnessed intense fighting in the past few days meanwhile russia's foreign minister has rebuffed speculation that moscow is looking to get asylum to the president of syria and that russia is shielding his government sergey lavrov spoke exclusively to our team more on that now from our correspondent in europe is going to. russia's foreign minister once again stressed that there could only be

a diplomatic solution to this conflict adding that moscow is not taking sides and has condemned the syrian authorities for using disproportionate force the security forces clearly were. prepared to face the public. protests and protests. and in the villages they have been threatening you know to comment for an 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 syria 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. you would begin to. qualify terrorist as. bad

terrorist and acceptable terrorist plot also ask them why you think the nato was so eager to deploy the six batteries the interceptor missiles on turkey's border with syria and whether iran could be the actual target here is 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 is cheap diplomats or outside players seem to acknowledge that it's the responsibility of syria enough or used 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 the moral political and financial support. of course we'll bring in more highlights from sergey lavrov exclusive interview later this hour and also available on the on line right now for

you at r.t. dot com. almost three billion dollars worth of defense megadeals have been signed between russia and india president putin is on a visit to new delhi cementing ties with fast growing economies as they continue to try and boost their global influence our desire for notional reports on how their improved global standing is worrying some in the west. russia and 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 this 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 you guys 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 hope the case and cooperation is to very high and russia and india remain very close allies 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 boosting their military presence in the backyard of china and by this visit by this gathering today here in india the role the increasing role and importance of group of brits that experts say actually is able to counterbalance the western dominance in the world has been stressed and outlined again and again to a political analyst william angle says the world's fast growing economies have many more reasons for partnership than rivalry. i think we will see out of necessity a cause or drawing together of russia and china simply because the challenges from

the ballistic missile defense and solutions of the u.s. both against china and against russia well it's not your usual mean that they're both in the firing line of potential. nuclear conflict with the united states and nato and that's no joke and that there's a here trigger for war by mistake because the reasons for operation are much stronger at this point than the reasons for conflict india is in kind of a but you your position and it's. a normal potential for economic growth and norms problems that backwardness the caste system and so forth that the interest that if we compared with say china or russia but the potentials are there and i think the synergies are there for the cooperation between china russia and india well more what russia selling to india through the defense deals in our business bullets and that's coming up at six thirty pm g.m.t.

. all right well in britain that's christmas week choice for many elderly people skyrocketing bills and curbed pensions mean that some are forced to choose between heating and heating our day is probably boyko has more. you better watch out you better not santa claus is coming to town and the shops are ready for the annual customer on this lot 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. and let her. family if they're not. make it if it now regularly bailiff. there's electric there's a there's a water i think. that or does things. that the attention person here inside of you bulb then and off to most energy firms

hiked prices is the winter months set in livy and people like her face a cold or dark a festive season according to south to buy a new boiler plate on in the bedroom still in the evening to wilna bedroom up so now they don't know if there's a big bill now that sounds like a rose or something. but nothing on a cabinet. that is a while right yeah yeah more and more britons are turning off their heating and then run up to a whole week christmas and they're using these hot water bottles instead according to hospital the money saving trend comes in the high price of it's own with soaring 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 champagne you can forget 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 why get hard up to the festivities getting more and more commercial gerri to read more to hear 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 pension the lady isn't just worried about the plight of the elderly she knows she's far from alone in counting down down costs december twenty fifth you know where they've been going out but their wages that are now and people without. a lot of people are. no benefit. 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 the u.k. is looking to beef up its military presence in the gulf on the way we have expert opinion on what might what might be behind britain's plans for strengthening its defense times with the region's royals. plus

a couple of hours where at a ski resort in the italian alps where thousands have gathered to the kremlin downhill at a mass of slalom festival at our team's weekly sports show. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you 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 with 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 when you call security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will cut myself chemical attack my brother

understand my contact immediately. going to eventually attack the cops of my anger and my frustration. that upgrade well into the dome. two of the most violent gangs in u.s. history. is just all model kill or be killed with the colors matching the national flag. but this country uses violence when it reaches its and then it legitimizes the violence they are made in america on the ati.

i. welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of. britain's government is under fire from human rights groups for planning to sell dozens of combat jets to the united arab emirates as well as other gulf states but a prospective deal is seen as a sign of support for a regime that the e.u. had earlier slammed for human rights abuses as well as torture in addition to the jets the prime minister. pardon me the british prime minister david cameron said that the country may station its troops in the u.a.e. this after pulling out of afghanistan the u.k. is also trying to prolong its military presence out of those two bases in bahrain and qatar two political analyst patrick henningsen says that it's not hard to see britons all teary or motive. justification for this massive buildup in the middle east specially in the gulf states area of the west is basically blaming iran saying

that because iran is pursuing nuclear ambitions though there's no proof of any of 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 in circle meant of iran is certainly a geopolitical scale if you build one priority and i think that they've achieved that you know militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or are we looking at it from a cold war situation where we just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years of speaking of conflicts the prospect of a military confrontation with iran doesn't seem to be fading anytime soon and one of tehran's closest allies of actually threatening to join the fray trying my recent visit to lebanon i set out to find out what exactly the militant group has a law head up its sleeve take a look

a red line should be drawn right in 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 hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah both israel and the united states would suffer a retaliation to any strike against tehran and. the response would

not be limited to the israeli entity the u.s. military bases in the entire region will serve as targets. so if israel targets iran even by itself that if. america will be held accountable for this death. israel's november battle with gaza was seen as a test for a possible confrontation with iran israeli airstrikes rained on gaza in exchange came a barrage of long range mortars and rockets most were held by israel's anti-missile shield the bunch of fun 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 walk its 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 the flow. was israel and hezbollah came face to face was in two thousand and six since then. hizbullah has now it collated around forty five thousand missiles off various ranges. the it's run of all. the range goes beyond the and but what's three hundred fifty kilo because we each 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 claimed military prowess captured israeli tanks and weapons are meant to be a reminder of the danger has blown. this is the only hezbollah tunnel now 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 ensuring that hezbollah stands ready to strike at a moment's notice lucy caffein of r t southern lebanon and that was one my stories from a reporting trip to lebanon well in britain those unlucky enough to be spending christmas in hospital have some worrying facts to contend with on line world court on the revelations of years of neglect as well as mistreatment of the u.k. patients some of them even reportedly starving to death. last looks like there's trouble or to whom we explain why tourists won't be able to pay a personal tribute to lennon for quite some time. the final result in egypt's divisive constitutional referendum is expected to be

announced on tuesday but the country's opposition says that it's going to keep on fighting against the islamist draft a document opponents of the muslim brotherhood accuse the ruling group as well as president morsi of massive vote rigging this after the early results showed the yes vote securing over sixty percent alcohol laurie from the store party told r.t. that some of the explained pardon me too are to some of the many alleged irregularities. this constitution and this around is is a disgrace to a nation that fox hard for its freedom and for its rights it's a document that strips rips out all the all the rights that we've earned and it's right 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 physically see tens and hundreds of schools tens and 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 flaws so that the people voting no the power was cut off the most about the night if movie asked judges and employees and that's cool shuts down the school over. in the front of the voters and the state with the ballot boxes not overseas for hours and hours we are not recognize any results unless we see a profit investigation and a proper digging through these evidence that we would and we receive a proper answer from the high committee of the election and we're closely following the developments in egypt and updating you on twitter that's part of our r.t. at underscore dot com and how there you can also read the latest posts from our cairo based reporter bel true we've been covering the political crisis in egypt on the ground for us. well more world news now an afghan police woman has shot dead a us security advisor at the police have borders and kabul

a female officer walked up to the victim as he left a shop in the heavily guarded compound firing at him once with a pistol she's now in custody and it's thought to be the first time that a woman had carried out what are called green on blue insider attacks hours earlier a police man shot five of those colleagues in northern afghanistan such killings have left more than sixty people dead at this year alone. the most fighters claim to have destroyed the remaining muslims in the ancient city of ten buck two in northern mali the rebels say they're defending the purity of their faith against people worshipping idols and locals meanwhile believe it's in retaliation to the un backed military operation to take back the is the most controlled north. a red alert been issued in chile amid fears of a volcano on the border with argentina that could soon erupt roads leading up to the area have been closed and scientists are warning people to stay outside of the fifteen kilometer radius. we had a breach of any possible mudflows or volcanic fragments smoke and ash have been

pouring out of the calling for more than a day forcing nearby villagers to leave the room has reached over one and half kilometers high. as promised artie's full interview with russia's foreign militant minister sergei lavrov in just a bit. as his day starts at five am in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of. the five years old it was. having studied accounting but he dition unfamiliar to that he would take home a can of peas on and off to his father. he just made camp there winter farmstead setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin his beastly back

amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably so on the survey i simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle going on with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd

and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countries and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a high a fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. to .

wealthy british style. that's what i've got in the. market why not gamble why not what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines join in to kaiser report on our. thank you. thank you thank. you.

thank you. thank you. thank. you dear law growth russia's foreign minister thank you very much for being with r.t. today my pleasure now your ending your ear with a visit to india russia has been clear in its support for india's aspirations to become a permanent member of un security council how do you think the much criticized joint security council will benefit from india's participation. first of all i would see.