u.s. congress votes to pull the economy from the brink of sliding back into recession by approving a temporary bill that prevents the country going over the fiscal cliff. with tens of thousands in the u.k. converting to islam each year and a number of church go words in the quine some experts question whether it's time for britain to become a secular state. yeah we'll look at the ways palestinian farmer in gaza are handling the conflict with israel finding imaginative ways of producing food near the front line.

a day out of the russian capital you're watching our team with me marina joshua welcome to the program now the u.s. house of representatives has approved the controversial bill designed to prevent the country from potentially sliding back into recession the temporary fiscal cliff deal passed earlier by the senate will prevent nationwide tax hikes and spending cuts from coming into force at least for the time being. the house republicans wanted to amend the bill but then decided they didn't have enough support to make last minute changes to the motion the tug of war over the tax revolves around a democrat promoted increase in income tax for the rich for the first time in two decades but alice lawrence freeman says that in the long run this bill won't make life any easier for millions of struggling americans. in any way its whole

operation in a usually. in the fall or to work over the minds of the american population be no nothing in the book both good and bad any we perform well actually it's not the economy but with being right now again with twenty seven. and going to need to really get forty nine then the people of the hands of the people are going to read minds to the question of the big global economy and the wealth of the population is not a little for nothing it's going to be resolved we're going to rest and we can change the whole by means of them so that with the separation of the banks now will we come to their obama believe me nothing good so we can keep this.

now hand in hand with a british monarchy the church of england has been a symbol of the u.k. for centuries and while the church holds twenty six seats in the house of lords and enjoys some financial privileges its current state of the less than secure as art has probably boyko now reports. one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world with one official state religion to some it's a paradox i think any institute any faith institution like the church of england is going to have some potential threats on the horizon and those threats on the horizon are basically around its relevance to communities in general other faiths are significantly growing in their not only population but the voice in a social and political level so it's really important to have a plurality of opinion rather than just focus on one institution as being reflective of the nation yet the national church has twenty six on the elected

members in the house of lords the upper house of britain's parliament and it enjoys financial privileges courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer by the church's own admission the number of people coming through the doors of this and every other church in england has hard over the past forty years the very same report even warns that in the longer term the established religion faces fading away to virtual embellishments twenty anglican churches just like this one being closed down for worship each year entrepreneurial property developers a snapping them up and converting them to luxury housing or even light clubs while the number of church goers in the u.k. continues to fall some one hundred thousand britons have converted to islam over the past decade three quarters of those white women as you know broaden my knowledge about islam and compared with christianity i must tell you i followed

more logical you know i just resonates with me i like what the prince of wales but he wants to be if ever he becomes king he wants to be the leader of faith of all faiths that i think is a wonderful statement because certainly our society here in britain is very multi-core. very multi-faith so everybody should be included while other faiths enjoy popularity the church of england's recent rejection of women bishops and disapproval of gay marriage has reignited the age old debate on the separation of church and state people feel alienated if they're not part of that church and so few people are because only two percent go to church on a normal sunday so that's why we must i think make sure that the church is disestablished and the twenty six bishops that votes in the house of lords the only country in the world to have

a parliament where they have the right to do that should be extinguished britain now has one of the lowest rates of church attendance in europe there is a rule. in terms of religious opinions there is and that will grow and that future may actually become wider as time goes on and so i guess what we have today is is the church effectively being relevant to certain parts of this country despite centuries of tradition some question what will be left of the church of england in fifty years time though the statistics are very clear very clear almost disappeared with something i think the twenty fifty figures are one hundred thousand people in the pews on an average sunday out of a population of sixty million that's miniscule but the privileges and political influence afforded to it are far from trivial and that's what's fueling the calls

of those who say that it's fairer to separate the church from the state party boy r t london religion aside and it's health care that is at the forefront for some in the u.s. . it's disease that i understand can kill you. we find out how some veterans of the nine hundred sixty sexual revolution in california deal with the threat of hepatitis c. and why health officials there are ringing alarm bells over the disease. with israel easing restrictions to allow building materials into gaza the nation's blockade of the strip still affects mannie who live there one group bearing the brunt of the restriction are farmers many of whom had to leave their land in the buffer zones to grow food on rooftops but as policy reports with the recent assault on gaza still fresh in the memory some fear they may not see their next harvest.

there's not a lot of greenery in gaza at least not in the places you'd expect to find it like abu hafs arms farm which since the israel gaza war four years ago has laid a barren and deserted. look at the again i had a very nice plantation a lot of visitors came to see it also students from the farming school used to come and study at my place. they go nothing but workers from israel raining down on one of the most densely populated spots on earth meant i will have needed to find another place where he could grow his crops and so he looked towards his own home and upwards that. i needed no alternative so i made this plantation on the roof and started working again. creates a lot of things he has time and energy i can make fifty thousand suppling from these seventy meters on the roof. it's an idea that's taken root in farms along the

gaza israel border where much of the agriculture has been repeatedly destroyed by the israeli army many farmers are unable to access the land because of the buffer zone that's one of at least a third of gaza's farmland your. today there is no space to have a farm in gaza it is very crowded everybody is building new houses where i stand now used to be a plantation for oranges and lemons and if you look at it now you just see buildings. fall out of five people in gaza are dependent on food aid homegrown food projects like rooftop gardens can help combat malnutrition and severe poverty by allowing farmers to sell their produce marry anyone can do it i work with my husband and my daughters till midnight is that half a lot of farming should be on the ground but we heard that we can plant in volcanic rock on our roofs so i tried it. farmers grow wheat barley and a variety of fruits and nuts on these rooftops they also raise. and chickens

showing how a little ingenuity can go a long way ask anyone in israel and gaza whether they think the situation is stable and they'll tell you it's only a matter of time before the next israel gaza showdown they might be a ceasefire in place between the two sides but no one believes it will hold least of all the gaza farm is always the first in the line of fire. on the israel gaza border. on our website following the brutal gang rape that showed delhi to the core hundreds of indian women apply for firearm alliances and join the fans classes. plus a report reveals a number of japanese nuclear plants are ill equipped to deal with fire is threatening to set back their reactivation of the country's nuclear stations by years so log on to our to come to find out more.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. going to live from moscow ireland has taken on the six month presidency of the european council marking forty years of its e.u. membership prime minister and the county has pledged to bring the republic's vast experience of coping with financial difficulties to the table while focusing on the economic recovery alice robert oulds says that with too much power concentrated in the hands of brussels that may prove to be a tough task for the celtic tiger. well one of the key votes that people should have is a via to elect their own governments and for that to actually make a real difference but of course with the european union power has become too centralized amongst the into too sions in brussels and that just takes away power from ordinary citizens so the european union can tell us why it's that we have but of course we don't actually have the vital to make

a real difference elections because far too many decisions now are made at the supranational level made decisions being made in brussels away from the citizens whether they be the citizens of a violent or britain or spain or greece for that matter and that should really be restored their economic problems will not be resolved until of course it's recognised that the euro the single currency is the wrong current c. for these countries really we need to have a back of powers away from brussels to all the different member states and of course britain should of course have its own referendum on their membership as well and have their own say but it needs to be recognised that the european union is of course failing economically so it still is still there it still exists but the price of people are paying is of course no economic growth and of course massively high unemployment which is now reaching alarming proportions for many different eurozone states. now more international news stories in syria fresh fighting is being reported between ousted loyalists and rebels in the second city of aleppo and

in the capital levels international airport is under a militancy while insurgent positions in the suburbs of damascus are allegedly being shelled this comes after anti-government activists claim dozens of bodies bearing signs of torture discovered in damascus it's not clear who is responsible for the alleged atrocity the violence continues despite a stark warning from the top international peace envoy to the conflict zone and said syria faces a choice of political process or help. authorities in the ivory coast have the clay or three days of mourning after a stampede during new year's celebrations claimed the lives of over sixty people the tragedy occurred when a large crowd was leaving a city stadium after a fireworks show a similar incident happened in the go during new year's festivities leaving ten dead and one hundred twenty injured. at least four people have been

killed and dozens wounded after an explosion in the crowded area of pakistan southern city of karachi police say the bomb was planted on a motorbike and detonated when a political rally of the city's dominant party passed by no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the liberal party but police suspect militants might have targeted the rally prior to upcoming general elections. fifty years on from the hippie revolution mattie that to come up with a flight of sex drugs and rock n roll or discovering that there is a price to pay for their summer of love dubbed the silent killer health officials in the us are calling for all baby boomers to be checked for hepatitis c. as disease that's becoming increasingly prevalent for the age group. has more. i. california the sunshine state ones the center of the hippie revolution

a melting pot of music rock spouse actual freedom we did drugs that we didn't think about there was no process because everybody was doing for years dean made chill is a baby boomer born during the pos world war two years nineteen the forty six and nine hundred sixty five his generation now is paying for that lifestyle a life of things drugs and rock'n'roll all fueled by flower power and the summer of love they say few remember the sixty's you were intrigued there the baby boomers out of the sexual revolution may have lost some of their memories and they had the mists of time but there is one legacy of their past which is anything but harmless the centers for disease control has already named him patatas c s n and recognized health crisis according to their granny station car and he won in thirty baby boomers are in fact it with the virus the silent killer it can lie dormant for

decades that's what happened to dean mitchell's friend who died just two months after being diagnosed with the disease they're paying for the car consequences because there are now so that. they have to get medication. it's a disease that i understand can kill you and worst of all it's not just baby boomers who are interested maybe could have a knowing he contract with the virus through blood transfusions screening was on the aids crisis in the ninety's californians the area has been the hardest hit with more people dying than anywhere else in the country and is also a very costly problem for the bankrupt state costing billions of dollars last year the number of people. who pay to travel for the. little. bit there are folks who are insured in a certain system who personal things. in.

it or their. initial. caring for more widespread than h i v have to tide is seen kills around twelve thousand people in the u.s. after a year and with the baby boomers in the highest risk group the center for disease control has called for mass screening they say they could identify almost a million people now living with the disease and save many more lives but the question remains if the present generation will listen to the question archie reporting from las angeles california. space has fascinated generations as a scientific mystery but have you ever consider going into orbit for your next holiday well it appears manny people have an earlier are to talk to eric anderson a space entrepreneur about the part of the private orbital travel has played in

space exploration while the full interview is in there at six forty five pm g.m.t. but here is a quick preview. based tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had an in-depth scientific program whether it was material science or biological experiments or whatever it was they have participated they have paid their own way of course they have used themselves as part of the scientific community that many of them have gone to space with less than perfect health and have been great examples of how for example laser surgery on your eyes is affected by space flight they all want to participate in this they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of

those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact showing that there's a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well. it was a russian politics side kremlin return for vladimir putin and fresh anti-government protests in two thousand and twelve although in numbers smaller than the year before our political analyst watch developments in the heart of the rallies and he told my colleagues kevin i want to and at least now we earlier how he sees the protest mood in russia panning out. i would say it's kind of bleak but not hopeless ok we didn't come up with any new ideas new organization new faces in the pussy

riot is that we are of the opposition or it's pretty dreadful situation for the russian people and political development in general here and there is there was political change in this country in a positive change who does make up the opposition as we have. it's a very interesting question because i have gone to most of the major demonstrations and there were people there of goodwill in my opinion but then there were fascists there ok who were communists there. was are people there ok and it's your right to demonstrate i also for the actually of life for your ideas but they didn't accomplish anything that i could see they have no organization no unifying ideas except for i don't like but a mere putin which is not a very it's not a political agenda there were a few protests which i was out as well where it did seem like that was the method if you wanted to gain traction on this opposition movement do you see people coming out and take the train lost a lot of its novelty effect right now ok because political change takes years in

years and years that have to be local this is what happens in political changes with countries that were what they were carrying at one time it takes a long time to get people involved in the process and that is happening very very strongly there's some people who want to really fast and they don't want to do it through elections they want power because they want power because they believe they deserve it and what about the fact that we're not going to see any presidential elections of course that all led up to being elected a third term this protest and now they're kind of when i'm down now oh i would say to people i mean if you want to continue to protest in but you know join a political party there are forty four of them now you have a choice ok get involved see one of the things i saw with a lot of the protesters is that they want someone else to do all the hard work ok they want to go out and wave a flag and say you know give out a slogan we don't want to do the hard nitty gritty work of political change and that's what they need to do. well peter lavelle has been dissecting the russian and

global politics in his cross talk series throughout the past twelve months in r.t. dot com has plenty of editions of the show for you to watch on demand. twenty twelve something of a rise of the machines as drone warfare shot into the headlines they are killing of civilians abroad and use for keeping tabs of people inside the u.s. drew fire from abby martin host of breaking the set and she thinks things will get worse in two thousand and thirteen really when we're talking about drones actually a really serious topic because people are under this notion that drones are somehow precise they're the good way to fight the war on terror really they completely are counterintuitive big create in a harbor more terrorists they have a ninety eight percent failure rate i mean so why are we using and i mean it's just amazing to me that this president is rain on drones and taking on more and more drones and then not only that but i mean the surveillance drones are going to happen in this country in two thousand and thirteen congress passed

a bill to now authorize surveillance drones all over the united states so this is just not going to stop it's going to get worse aside from from the deaths and the double tap drones that we have in the middle eastern countries now is going to create a chilling effect where people aren't going to want to dissent as much and that's the real problem with the online privacy the online erosion of our civil liberties as well as people are going to speak out as much if they feel like they're being watched. well in just a few minutes we recap the end of two thousand and twelve apocalypse gear our special reports just ahead stay with us. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t.

any time anywhere. one afternoon on the shores of the ocean blue. one of those days when it feels good to be alive on the planet earth. carefree humanity. maybe unthinking humanity even . a few kilometers away a man has given us an appointment on a mountain summit. a place in keeping with what anatole calls his work.

he's been devoting all his time and energy to it for the last six years now. this former computer expert even quit his job to get ready for it for the end of the world. and the work i do will take me out of body i will ask to meet those super. beings who hold the keys for humanity already going to talk to them. to see what can be done for two thousand and twelve. by telepathic trip to get him into contact with mysterious superior beings beings who have announced to him the destruction of the planet on december the twenty first two thousand and twelve very precisely. it will be by fire volcanoes earthquakes and most importantly of course by water

floods as the plates will shift rise and lower the ocean bottom will lift and what will appear is atlantis so when atlantis rises out of the waters that there will be when the world ends she office two thousand and twelve is a giant plan for i could use a mean word but purifying for me that's what it is. purifying water consciousness if you're good or not and it's a rite of passage and that all is convinced that he will be among the survivors jesus himself told him by telepathy in the new era he's even going to change his name he will be called anton maya. integrating christ takes more than just five minutes. if over and have to know how to build your individual. self to be able to say frankly to someone so i'm told mark but in fact that's a hidden way of saying i'm jesus christ. obsessed by the end of the world anatole

has become irrational. to devote himself to his mission he has given up his career and his social life. and all over the world there are thousands like him getting ready for the worst. two thousand and twelve with more than five hundred million internet pages it's one of the most written about themes on the web about the day of reckoning there are internet users spreading the wildest rumors. from haiti to fukushima the news constantly provides new support. where the room is coming from who are these new prophets of the apocalypse. and who is making a profit out of the business of the end of the world. here the trees over there. and it's not easy to meet people who believe in the apocalypse the she's faced with skepticism from their familiars they usually prefer to remain quiet.