u.s. congress votes to pull the economy from the brink of sliding back into recession by approving a bill that from vannes the country going over the fiscal cliff. and that mass conversion to islam fishel religion dwindling some experts in the u.k. question whether it's time for britain to become a secular state. and it's with a shaky cease fire with israel in place palestinian farmers in gaza have moved from land to route hoping for a safer place to grow their priorities near the front line.

it is not yemen the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing the u.s. house of representatives has approved a controversial bill designed to prevent the country from potentially sliding back into recession the 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 man the bill but then decided they didn't have enough support to make last minute changes to the motion a tug of war over the text revolved around a democrat promoted increase in income tax for the rich for the first time in two decades but analysts lawrence freeman says that in the long run this bill will make life any easier for millions of struggling americans. without objectionable unity and anyway this whole operation has been

a manipulation. and a farce to work over the minds of the american population be great there is no nothing in the book old world that any way shape or form will actually help the economy what we're thinking right now government twenty seven the people on board missing for a way get forty nine point seven million people living in poverty you have tens of millions of people going through a bread line get their food so this question of the big global economy and the wealth of the population is not a good little for nothing it's going to be resolved we're going aggressively to change the hope by means of fulfilment so that with the separation of the banks now will we leave them with their obama in the living nothing good for the american people. hand in hand to the british monarchy the church of england has been a symbol of the u.k. for centuries and while the church still enjoys matty unique political and

financial privileges its current state is less than secure authorities probably boys all found out. 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 years 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 hogged 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 are 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 found a 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 you

know of all faiths but i think it's 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 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 the church is disestablished and the twenty six bishops that vote in the house of lords the only country in the world to have a parliament where they have the right to do that it 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 oh 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 fuelling the cause of those who say that it's fairer to separate the church from the state party boy r t london. religion aside it's health care that is at the forefront for some

in the u.s. . well 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 now with as row easing restrictions to allow building materials into gaza the nation's blockade of the strip still affects those who live there bearing the brunt of the restriction our farmers mannie of whom had to leave their land in a buffer zones to grow food on rooftops but as policy your reports with the recent assault on gaza still fresh in 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

her thumbs farm which since the israel gaza war four years ago has laid barren and deserted. the year again or 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 an alternative so i made this plantation on the roof and started working again. creates a lot of things if he has time and energy i can make fifty thousand suppling from these centimeters 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 farm land your. today there is no space to have a farm in gaza it is very crowded everybody is building new houses. 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. out 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. whether they think the situation is stable and it's only a matter of time before the next showdown they might be. between the two sides but no one believes it'll hold least of all the. always the food. on the border. on our website following the brutal gang rape of a core hundreds of indian women applying for firearms. plus a report reveals a number of japanese nuclear plants are ill equipped to deal with. their reactivation of the country's nuclear stations. to find out more.

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welcome back you're watching are going to live from moscow island has taken on the six month presidency of the european council marking forty years of its membership prime minister and the county and has pledged to bring the republic's vast experience of coping with financial difficulties to the table while focusing on the easy 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. 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 vite to make

a real difference to the 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 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 carbon 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 our membership as well and have our own say but it needs to be recognised that the european union is of course failing economically so still it's 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 aleppo international airport is under militancy insurgent positions in the suburbs of damascus are reportedly being shelled this comes after anti-government activists claim dozens of bodies bearing signs of torture were discovered in the capital it's not clear who is responsible for the alleged atrocity the violence continues despite a stark warning from the top international peace and one syria says the country faces a choice of political process or help. sorties 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 angola during new year's festivities leaving ten dad and one hundred twenty injured. at least four people have been killed and dozens

wounded after an explosion in a 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 suspected militants might have targeted the rally prior to the upcoming general elections. as well as leader chavez's conscious following a cancer operation in cuba that's according to the country's vice president. however stressed the president's condition remains delicate and it was earlier reported that chavez was suffering complications caused by respiratory infection under the constitution socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term on the tenth of january really. dopped the silent killer health officials in the us are calling for all baby boomers to be checked for

hepatitis c. at disease that's becoming increasingly prevalent for the age group as artie's medina caution and i reports fifty years on manny in california are paying a high price for their summer of love. i. guess. california sunshine state one's 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 the reverse dean made chill is a baby boomer born during the pos world war two zero nineteen the forty six and nine to sixty five his generation now is paying for that lifestyle a life of things drugs and rock'n'roll all fueled by flow of 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 have the mists of time but there is one legacy of their past which is a new thing for the harmless the centers for disease control has already named him petard as c s n and recognized health crisis according to their grannies ation current he won in thirty baby boomers are infectious 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 but worst of all it's not just baby boomers who are interested many could have a knowing he contract with the virus through blood transfusions screening was on improving the aids crisis in the ninety's californian's bay area has been the

hardest hit with more people dying here than anywhere else in the country it is also a very costly problem for the bankruptcy state costing billions of dollars last year the number of people. who say they are all for the. head with. it there are folks who are insured in a certain system who are working for a single. piece of. it or their. initial injury caring for more widespread than age i have to tide is kills around twelve thousand people in the u.s. after a year and with the baby boomers in the high stress 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 saves many more lives but the

question remains if the present generation will listen to the question archie reporting from los angeles california. well space has fascinated generations as a scientific mystery but have you ever consider going to orbit for your next holiday while the peer is a man a people have an earlier are to talk to eric anderson a space entrepreneur about the part that private orbital travel has played in space exploration the four interviews on air at six forty five pm g.m.t. but here's a quick preview. base 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 as 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.

russian politics ikram the return for a lot of reporting and fresh anti-government protests and twenty while the although a number is smaller than the year before our political analyst watch developments in the heart of the rallies i'm told my colleagues can and i want to at least now we earlier how he sees the protests 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 and if pussy riot is that we are of the opposition that's pretty dreadful situation for the russian people and political development in general here and there's 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 and then these are people they're ok and it's your right to demonstrate i for the actually i'd like 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 that 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 we're going down now oh i would

say to people i mean if you want to continue to protest for 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 we need to do. peter lavelle as been dissecting the russian and global politics in his cross talk series throughout the past twelve months and r.t. dot com has plenty of the dishes on the show for you to watch on demand. well it's been a tough twelve months for the world's top whistleblower join a sun show he spent half of two thousand and twelve under house arrest and the remainder in the ecuadorian embassy in london our correspondent there for us has been following his ups and downs through the year a lot of you say wiki leaks in jail is like did more in a year old t. than most media organizations have done in decades we've really had

a front seat view of everything that's been going oh we've had him at the beginning of the year the fighting that sedition to sweden we saw his the pill rejected we then saw that dramatic twist in the trial when he went into the i could do it embassy seeking asylum we've been learning judy and it's certainly the british media we see a lot of the coder who quite viciously especially during the course of this year with movie huge events happening surrounding julian assange a lot of people who would put that done plain and simply to jealousy and then just a few minutes we'll recap fiann of twenty twelve apocalypse scare our special report is just ahead stay with us.

well good. for you it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future of covered. it's a job but it's also a religious vocation that's pushing her to constantly find new ways of developing her business. today she visited this cave in the denver area. it's a more than three kilometer deep maze the spot is for sale and robin is thinking about buying it for the construction of more underground shelters if somebody was to light a fire someone in here what about the ventilation with the smoke or something like that you probably would want yourself back in a small room with a fire or anything like that but when something like this we're close to an

entrance there's a lot of here we're going to probably be all right ok. you think it's a good survival but it's not because i do a cave like this we could easily howls a thousand or so people and me so it would be a great project a great resource to have a good base for robin it's the perfect place but her family seems a little less enthusiastic would you like to be going to cable news if it was like mandatory. but if i trace. according to robin the girls will surely not have the choice because according to her the end of the world science is already well and truly visible starting with the crumbling of christian values in our modern societies if you go one bookstore or one movie store for instance how many of those books and how many of those movies do you think that jesus christ himself what's. and that'll tell you how many things are going to get burned those things need to be cleansed out of the world

for him to be a part of it again so he's going to come back there's going to be a cleansing process the millennium for so that tells you how bad the world could possibly be. living quarters for a large family in a bunker being sold up to two million euros. to meet the demand real estate projects like these are sprouting up all over the united states. just a few months ago larry hall was building skyscrapers but today in the middle of the kansas plains in a spot he means to keep secret this businessman has decided to devote his time to a project would be of the pharaoh's. heights sixty meters deep this was formerly a launching ramp for nuclear missiles. larry bought it for next to nothing. about

it level seven you were never in a residential area when it was at the surface in the ring beam that goes around this facility. twenty feet to post. a concrete sarcophagus designed to resist nuclear attack. behind these three metre thick walls larry is going to build a totally self-sufficient complex. you're standing in what will be the hydroponics in the halter we're going to have stated the organic food in vegetables and fish when supplies will have at least five years of food for every person that's in here that's in addition to whatever we grow burgers from the garden hydroponics in the fish far. behind this pragmatic sounding argument larry is stressing the commercial potential of his project. there's a mechanical floor here there's a.