free. free. download free marketeers video for your media project free media john darche dot com. panic markets lead america's plunge off the fiscal cliff while the republicans and democrats. pull the safety cord. as the number of dead in the moscow plane crash rises to five and investigators begin the painstaking probe into the accident we take you step by step through the sequence of events. plus from painful to stare a teen europe and he will across the arab world to the rise of political awareness in russia as the world turns a new page two thousand and thirteen r.t. recaptures all the twists and turns of the act giving you.

i. welcome you watching r.t. with me andrey far. now the united states has all but begun its plunge off the fiscal cliff at least on the markets and with last minute talks between republicans and democrats falling apart yet again america could be in for a hard landing wall street is in full retreat saying five straight days of selloffs is panicky investors jump ship on new year's day six hundred billion dollars worth of tax hikes and federal cuts are slated to come into force in america and a deal to avert that is still nowhere in sight though as artie's reports the makings of this crisis were there for all to see. the u.s. congress created this cliff situation when they failed to agree on a budget that would help the country reduce its deficit and its you monger's debt

and what they did was what they usually do they put off those important decisions until a certain deadline that deadline is now so they came up with this scary word cliff to create lots of drama around what should be the ordinary maybe somewhat boring working process of any congress or telamon that is to agree on a budget the need to deadlines so the cliff which actually describes the mode in which the congress is working their inability to make decisions until the very very last minute the cliff that u.s. lawmakers have artificially created could become very real for the american people the vast majority of them over one thousand government programs would be cut it would hit the unemployed very hard they would stop getting unemployment benefits there would be other automatic cuts and tax hikes that would mostly affect those who are financially insecure but everyone knows even if the lawmakers don't meet the january first headline they can pass measures retroactively and at the end of

the day they will decide something but congress seems to love the drama of the whole cliff situation they have all the attention in the world and literally the whole world the media of course help them hype it up and with the countdown they started two months ago and while politicians here are enjoying all that attention turning last minute trick scoring political points the hype around the scary word cliff is already hurting the economy experts say it's affecting business and consumer confidence if wall street is any indicator stocks have been falling for a fifth straight day on friday they called it a fiscal cliff slide other markets are reaching signals of certainty coming from the u.s. oil prices have soared in the asian markets ahead of a last minute effort in washington. to reach a deal on fiscal cliff that's what you read in the news so this whole charade in washington could have implications on many levels and the fiscal cliff which some

call a product of u.s. lawmakers imagination could become a self-fulfilling prophecy syrian rebels pressed on with the offensive in the north of the country they reportedly take over an oil pumping station after days of intense fighting calls for dialogue from russia and the international peace envoy. trying to find a way through a complex tax system wasn't enough in the u.k. millions have been paying through the nose for telephone services to help them navigate it that's coming up like. another crew member has died after a passenger jet crashed at one of moscow's busiest ports it brings the number of dead to five three others are still fighting for their lives in hospital the red wings playing skidded off the runway and plowed into the embankment of a major highway on saturday experts believe bad weather brake failure or simply pilot error could have led to the tragedy artie's reef an ocean and now looks at

how the events unfolded the twenty ninth of december the last working day of two thousand and twelve in russia. business is. forgotten until the next year families . jump into their cars and escape the busy capital. highway heads to the west of moscow region where most of the luxury estates and country houses are located traffic jams or karma but this time of the day and this time of the year but one of the road is almost. passengers come out of the car to see what the sound was a big sack to see anything but no fish. just minutes before that and similar to all four white number ninety six i think is

when the little i post the first times it's unsuccessful the plane makes a wrong over the airport and begins to send in for a second time when they sign the plane touches down but can stall the experienced crew at that moment very slightly knows already they will not make it the jets reaches the end of the runway runs into the fans but still continues moving it finally stops after overrunning the asteroid by four hundred meters the plane breaks into three parts that tail is lying over the whole year the road people can easily see its number or a fix for four seven the middle paul just bog misses the way the cockpit already partially damaged after the crash with a science falls right at the edge of the highway it's a miracle indeed the road is empty at that time this is at ten lane highway the wreckage is only on one of the lanes traffic continues on at least three here even

after the tragedy is passing by slowing down to see what happened in those years and less one culprit while on the run the very road they usually drive every friday and everybody sings as that moment was eve i'd have come minutes earlier or was eve i'd have been on that airplane people come out of their cars and try to help out those in the cockpit how pretty that. weather conditions technical failure and pilot error are among the investigators main causes of the incident was most likely a combination of reasons behind the fatal crash however a plane hitting. izzie highway in one of europe's biggest cities could have left a much more devastating trail of destruction there wasn't enough log for everyone on that saturday evening. and often are hearty moscow region well if you

want to some expert opinion on what caused may have caused the crash or more on the plane itself head to r.t. dot com or that much more is lined up for you there. fighting between syrian government troops and opposition forces has intensified with new clashes in the north of the country the rebels have also reportedly captured an oil pumping station that as the international envoy for peace in syria reiterated that dialogue is the only way out of the crisis this was fully supported by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov as the to discuss the matter in moscow. the editor in chief of the syria tribe in believes the rebels are preparing the ground for foreign intervention here all of the opposition to the michelle was never to win over the syrian army they were established to create chaos and the fear of the country for what in direction now for intervention is might have been and they not why the group of the militia came up where were the i think believe it was difficult for the syrian army and what is your government what should be moved is

a wide dialogue between all three of you but as we see some of the super powers in the world are still not ready to pressure the opposition for dialogue and this means more. of this going to violence the need to see for for a real there there is not the pressure to have prevent as i have. to leave their words everything. we will be able to control the situation and after they have they have to understand that there is no solution but with dialogue and with but with the best of the. us ambassador with a price on his head al qaeda in yemen for the killing. the life of america is a mystery to the country that's online for you plus. overweight maybe you should set a good example by having surgery and stop eating junk food that's what a new official report is expected to suggest we do about it at r.t.

dot com. now there are lots of things you might want to spend your hard earned cash on this holiday season but filing your tax return probably isn't among them however millions of people in britain are doing just that and having to pay a premium rate for official telephone helplines polly boyko has more. your annual tax return a process that many adults find utterly daunting and perplexing luckily for the british public the tax man has a whole array of telephone helplines to help and advise people on how to fill in the piles of forms needed for it getting through to someone might be a bit of a problem though britain's spending watchdog says that last year some twenty million phone calls went on answered by the government tax office and of those lucky enough to get through between the months of april and september over six million people had to wait for over ten minutes just to get an answer from someone

and i've decided to give him revenue and customs premium priced phone line a call to find out how long it would take me to get through to them. i've spent over three and a half minutes waiting for someone to pick up the phone. last year customers spent an estimated thirty three million pounds in call charges just waiting to get through to somebody at the tax department exposing what critics call a shameful level of service him revenue and customs have released a statement saying that they've lowered the cost of calls to one of their premium phone lines the most popular one they also say that they're aware that they weren't able to deliver the standard of service that they're committed to in the past however they're now on suing over ninety percent of the calls that are made to them but ultimately critics say that it's the complicated u.k. tax code that spans over seventeen thousand pages that british citizens find it so

hard to get their head around and it's the telephone providers that are responsible for the helplines that a cash in on all the tax confusion. with no use in just a few minutes time. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions and the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablished that allegedly hey of and constantine should shoulder from fear russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get a businessman on to their party's electoral lists giving him

a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilisation make but that's just my opinion. choose your language. because we can we know if somebody else is going to. choose the concert. choose. the great.

choose the stories get him to. choose access to. please. use today once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations a road that. led. you . to. go and.

go and. play. oh. hello again the beautiful ad from the arab spring together with the desperate for. europe plus heated presidential races both in russia and the us is the new year is knocking at the door we look back at be uneasy legacy of twenty twenty.

my critics have pointed out has reached its and along with the nine colander. but it looked more like this year a decade of war is a. good year for a new. well we're still here and when it comes down to it the world not only didn't end but very little changed in twenty twelve we have the same challenges facing the globe the same conflicts preventing peace the same policies hampering solutions and many of the same people in power as we come into twenty thirteen so what will twenty twelve be remembered for let's take a look back. at some in gaza their world did end when israel launched

a short but deadly campaign in response to rockets fired by hamas after one of their leaders was assassinated the u.s. solidly backed israel but critics claim the use of disproportionate force has become too common a practice for the israeli defense force journalists also being targeted and children becoming casualties it has the same policy if you like as the united states with regard to collateral damage that it's happy to injure dozens of palestinian men women and children as long as they can kill one person who might have helped fire a rocket into israel shortly after a cease fire palestine celebrated gaining u.n. nonmember status but it's still a long way from statehood as is the region from a peaceful two state solution between israel and palestine this while conflict continues to rage in neighboring syria you know that trouble possibly stay running his country. he has to go assad must go. after demands and predictions

that syria's president would fall in twenty twelve when unfulfilled he sat down for an exclusive interview with r.t. well into the year insisting he would not give up as the push for regime change continued and terror reigned in his country i'm not popular than me but with the with what's going on the country i'm sick and i mean. i meet in syria and i have to revisit him but it's deemed everything from civil war to sectarian fighting to terrorism to genocide syria stay the center of a media war through out twenty twelve with unconfirmed atrocities on both sides haunting the web and only one side taking the brunt of the blame for assad is crazy he's a brutal dictator reese killing his own people this is the same narrative that we've heard about gadhafi. but we didn't hear much about libya in two thousand and twelve on most networks or from western officials not until the aftermath of regime change

there and the terror that ensued went too far the u.s. ambassador and embassy staff were killed in benghazi in september the most significant event two thousand and twelve is the failure of nato to follow up on its on its libya momentum to create a force regime change through proxy. mercenaries in syria and the fact that russia and china and iran stood firm on. the entire time table that nato at that in mind to run this destabilisation. and now the entire arab spring scenario is. it's not disintegration it's becoming a nightmare one that spread to western allies in the region like bahrain where mass protests to arrest and even death haven't provoked much global media coverage or any push for democracy. instead provocations like the film the innocence

of a muslim made headlines and incited outrage across the arab world funded in the u.s. and considered highly offensive to islam the movie didn't go over well in states now run by islamist after post revolution polls in egypt and tunisia. u.s. embassies were left in shambles as flags burned and freedom of speech was back on the debate table tonight the film was banned in some countries like russia and defended by others like the states as a protected right of expression a right not awarded to whistleblowers like julian assange who had a busy year and. he was granted political asylum by ecuador after being released on bail while the awaiting a british court's decision on his extradition to sweden for most of twenty twelve assigned to remain under house arrest but still managed to find a way to leak and change the world tomorrow his groundbreaking exclusive interview show premiered on r t asylum sat down with guests shunned by the mainstream media

like has the last house on the stroller and internet freedom activists the cypherpunks the future of the internet i think if no journalist with the salt in the world working today has not used a wiki leaks cable whether it be at the lowest level of covering their local health center to the idea of schools education let alone geo politics still many journalists slammed the songes work on r t and he continues to be a man the west and mainstream media love to hate while he remains holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing u.k. officials will grab him the moment he steps outside. protests ripped across europe in two thousand and twelve as the euro crisis worsened leaving many no choice but to go out onto the streets so many people are becoming desperate people of god getting angrier and angrier spain had millions on

the street out of. was awarded a nobel peace prize in twenty trials. they ultimately if there are too many protests won't even be able to afford the policemen on the streets and therefore we could actually end up not so much with a violent reaction from government but there's actually a danger of an arche because government itself may break down but it is. not the case in the us where the occupy movement lost momentum of this year corporate back media and authorities managed to dull demonstrations demanding economic equality and responsibility is one of a party there you know you wait for occupy to expand from its needs and from that. you know usually you write it by the elites as a bunch of anarchy

a story or students who know how to see better to do it is to organize themselves politically something the group is promising in twenty thirteen with some predicting the old ws movement might have better luck in europe. russia saw protests this year leading up to and after vladimir putin was elected for a third time as president but not nearly as big as what we saw at the end of twenty eleven i think the demonstrations in russia were motivated by frustration the demonstrators had the care political goal which was to discredit the the reputation of president putin and the power to go to russia knowing that those that president putin you know russian were going to win the election they had no choice they had no possibility of beating him in an election so they tried to their strategy was instead to discredit used in the eyes of the west just before putin's inauguration a protest in central moscow turned violent for the first time since the recent

opposition movement began rallying arrests were made in both protesters and police reported injuries several demonstrators face court hearings on charges of inciting mass public disorder and a dozen more trials will carry on in the new year with opposition claiming this is all part of a kremlin clamp down on their movement but putin's reelection and protests didn't get nearly as much attention as this. it was the riots rock riot on the altar of christ the savior and the scandal that followed made world headlines took over the blog a sphere and had celebrities like madonna defending them or the russian orthodox church was outraged you know there is no defense in this case it's simple p.r. lawyers on cooking up on ali fear they're working towards the brand in order to capitalize on it in the future and it's worked some of the groups girls got two years in jail for the stunt which was criticized by the west as too harsh the story

made in the headlines for weeks on end leaving little room for stories like this. thank you very much the u.s. presidential candidate jill stein and her running mate arrested for protesting outside a debate for top party only candidates obama and romney the american system is designed to eliminate political opposition like some of the you know dictatorships that we criticize the debate makes a mockery of our democracy despite being on the ballot in a not states to technically when stein and other candidates were not allowed to debate and got almost no coverage in the lead up to elections on us networks instead third party candidates only chance to debate live on television was from artie's washington studio i think our founding fathers would be spinning if in their graves if they could see this. in line with polls and projections obama won

the election but his work is cut out for him along with other world leaders for the year to come a rough economy growing discontent and conflicts either standing still or raging wild and he's now a party. coming up next is peter lavelle and his guests who slug it out in the latest cross talked about show that after a short break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames for initially used

to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones in their shattered lives to go when professing desired his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novikov who operated on many of them it usually comes down to

a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right

to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most is mad at russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. you need to leave.