tonight the venezuelan supreme court rules delaying or good chavez is no gration is illegal supporting the government in the fight for stability in the latin american state. president of european council herman van rompuy visits are limits it takes of the rotating e.u. presidency while experts question whether the debt in country will live up to the task of pulling the block out of a financial crisis. plaxo walls closing in on residential areas in russia's republican difficulty of forcing authorities to declare war deadly predators.

well over a good evening for me kevin owen if you just joined us your staff to rate now here at the new center not top story them from moscow tonight the perspire most of the inauguration date for venezuelan president hugo chavez is legal according to the country's supreme court meanwhile the country's vice president's call for people to gather in front of the presidential palace to honor the ailing leader who's said to be recovering from cancer surgery in cuba lawyer told me the country's opposition could use the president's protracted absence to destabilize the country though. article two thirty one of the venezuelan constitution does leave open to interpretation the issue of inauguration when the elected president cannot meet the date of january tenth before the national assembly which is the parliament what the articles pacifically says in a second clause is that in the case of unforeseen circumstances then the president elect will be sworn in before the supreme court but it doesn't give

a date for there is another article in the constitution venezuela under which president chavez was authorized to leave the country for more than five days back in early december in order to undergo surgery here and that article allows him to be absent from the country for it ninety days which can be renewed for another ninety days the issue is whether or not he's now incurring those first ninety days or is he under just the initial authorization now it's really way is it is going to be determined sooner as well because it's there's no question that the president has now been out of the country for more than a month he's been absent from the spotlight there's not really a crisis at this time the opposition is trying to say there is a crisis and there is no doubt they're calling for national strikes all kinds of protests as there are already asking for the organization of american states and the united states to intervene that's going to be ongoing and yes the longer that chavez is away the more time that will give them to prepare and to further prior

progress with plans to the stabilize his government and try to create some situation where new elections can be can mean european leaders voice their support for a deal designed to reduce our lives by the news comes as the president of the european council have a report told top level talks in dublin after the country took over the rotating presidency and some experts believe that all of must get their own house in order before taking up the challenge of pulling the european union out of financial ditch . island has its own economic problems which are continuing it course has the economic problems which have been happening ever since the euro which created high inflation there and then of course exacerbated the fast survey had ready to take on the presidency of the european council is of course a very large piece of work not just for the senior politicians in the government but also for many of the civil servants and they would be better off spending their time really trying to address arlen's economic difficulties rather than trying to solve the problems within the european union which are very great indeed of course

unemployment now in the e.u. is alarmingly high and of course the thing is that arlen when he says island is the reason that ireland supposed to boil for austerity it means that the irish people are not protesting and taking up their white to protest as people in spain and greece have done because we know that austerity at this time can't actually work last year in the euro in the single currency it will create more economic problems and that's why we see unemployment across the eurozone rising quite alarming lee so he's very happy that arlen is getting on with the e.u. policy of austerity but actually it's actually the wrong policy this time we want the i.m.f. top economists all of a blind shot of it see it was wrong about an earlier austerity for curse admitting failure to see the grave consequences which the financial measures brought and we cure e.u. countries such as greece and i.m.f. working paper says the fund significantly underestimated the potential increase in unemployment market petra pollies

a london based financial advisor and wealth manager he says regardless of the later statements the people will end up paying for government mistakes. the reality is of course the most waste western government which includes most of the southern european countries the level of state involvement in the economy has grown substantially over the last few years and what happens is of course that any significant austerity measures will have a massive impact on the only economy being is debt accumulation that's the same in the us and most of most of your memory is continuing massive accumulation of sovereign debt. and asked me for some point this was. through the european central bank through the germans and then the european

community has imposed these these massive austerity measures on southern european peripheral countries of course it's not the people's from. the government. it's not the people's fault. the banking system has failed and needed to be but it's the people who have to do you read through taxation and. enjoy massive austerity measures as the economic crisis continues to rage on the regulators are coming under fire for making banks lives easier rather than the people's and it appears the wider public knows little of how where the big decisions about the global financial future being made peter all of the reports. have you ever heard the want to the bank is the billions and bars all chances are you probably haven't but six times a year central bank heads from the u.s.

europe asia and everywhere in between representing around three quarters of global economic output gather in the swiss city to talk shop behind closed doors i personally also don't like these secretive meetings because. you never know what in effect. is discussed in these meetings it's something that has a tradition that's put there play i mean bankers have always talked to each other in a more secretive way the whole business of banking is not really built on transparency but rather on trust and confidentiality the continuing global financial crisis has seen the banking sector firmly in the spotlight with more than a few accusing fingers pointed in the direction of bankers it's the job of the secretive bars all committee to set regulations on banks the chairman of the group says he wants the public to be better informed about the work they do it's not that

many years ago since this was basically a group of central banks it's expanded its membership considerably and in the process of that the whole governance arrangements of have changed as well and i think this is an attempt to explain to you in the world in general what those changes amount to and whether critics of the group are scathing in their criticism of what they see as an old boys club looking out for the needs of banking bosses as opposed to keeping the industry in line bezel three has failed to meet any objective any you know faint hope of reigning in banks this this is what we talk about today the banks does have to be reined in because the banking system in itself as a general rule has left its you know bottom sense despite mervyn king saying that he wants. people to better understand what the basel committee actually do the very nature of the banking industry and its need for a certain level of secrecy means that the big decisions that will affect people all

over the world will continue to be made by a small group of people meeting in that building just behind me peter all of a r.t. basel switzerland. all the way eleven years of indefinite detention we discussed in rome for case of washington's decision to keep. a military prison open despite barack obama's long running pledge to shut down the facility. sealing the rift his rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah try to overcome the differences we look into how israel's occupation policies may have brought the factions closer together just a couple of many stories we've got lined up for you after this break. download the official. yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your

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human rights groups are calling on the us president to deliver on his promise made more than four years ago to shut down the tourist detention facility but barack obama recently authorized military to keep holding terror suspects without trial or charges get the remains in business eleven years since it was opened earlier says the u.s. is trying to avoid international law or some countries turn a blind eye to it one time of day after eleven years has got immense symbolic power and all the things that represents a human rights campaigners people who believe in truth justice and the rule of law it represents injustice before the americans it gives them a raise and it gives them a system within which an extra legal system within which they can continue their. illegal detention arbitrary detention torture drone attacks all the other bits of

the parcel that we've seen over the past eleven years from the american administration so the united states which has signed a torch conventions has managed any of the conventions but is trying to work outside of them by calling torture enhanced interrogation and by calling their prisoners of war enemy combatants is trying to create a completely new structure which in some part it has succeeded in doing over the past eleven years simply because almost the rest of the world the so-called international community is quite happy to play along but that doesn't mean that the united states or anybody else is above the law it's not just washington's problem it's the problem of the international community is the problem of the countries that facilitated the journeys and the travel of these men to guantanamo bay in the first place when everybody was in afghanistan or pakistan or fighting the americans at all the united states doesn't seem to have a very credible position but unfortunately it's not just united states that has failed on this issue it's the whole international community through their collusion in continuing to keep guantanamo bay open. and we're bringing you more coverage of

the eleventh anniversary of guantanamo bay on air and on our web site out can't. beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business marty looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. the future of afghanistan is up for discussion as the country's leader meets top american officials in washington and with karzai as talks with the u.s. to friends and state secretaries as well as his upcoming one on one summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops set to remain in afghanistan after a majority pull out into the fourteen and their possible role that washington hasn't finalized this decision on the matter and doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal but scenarios unwelcome though by the afghan government is positions increasingly fragile amid the strengthening taliban insurgency a split appreciated you know she's politics professor from new york university she

says it's in no one's interest for the u.s. forces to leave right away. there's a lot of talk about not leaving any troops there at all however i don't think the u.s. can afford that leader in the region because there's still quite a bit violence going on there so i think the president will probably leave some troops there first on tie but i would assume that president karzai is going to want that out because it gives him more. or it makes him look more powerful on the negotiating table and within the context of his own constituents however you also need some protection so it will be a little bit of a catch twenty two situation for that and i think it probably helps to achieve a few things the one his continued military support for the afghan troops so they can maintain their own military and army if you well and the second is can only continue to. add monetary support and some development efforts there. the

agreement allowing americans to adopt russian children will be valid until january fourteenth bill was recently passed banning u.s. citizens from adopting russian children but this latest announcement means that the families who applied to adopt before the bill was passed will be given a green light to see the process through the news came from president putin's press secretary days of the law came into effect russian lawmakers say it's response to the lack of legal action from the u.s. government to numerous deaths of russian children from the blacks and abuse at the hands of the american adoptive parents the laws to deem a vehicle flipped who was less than two years old when he died after his new american father left him a lot of nine hours in a hot day. now this may not have the most conventional looks for government but looking on the left to make a mark in check politics find out more about that online from us tonight also talking about clothes most famous architect mark two is literally on shaky ground discover what's causing the tremors under the world renowned cathedral in the heart

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the news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only dot com. you're watching our take rival palestinian groups fatter and hamas a trying to bridge the divide the leaders of both parties met in cairo on wednesday to discuss implementing a unity agreement signed two years ago the recent easing of tensions already brokered results for one family in gaza previously torn apart by political strife and us policy a found out they may have israeli policies to thank for it. it's been five long years since this family was together one thousand eight hundred days since i mean a muslim last saw her son his crime belonging to

a group the gaza government was opposed to except this time it wasn't the israelis who forced him into exile but hamas and other brands or other with their money and house in gaza and headed for the west bank but it was only after the negotiations began that seventeen of us were given approval to go back home. it was back in two thousand and seven in a surprise coup that a must to control of gaza from wyvil faction group fatah one hundred sixty one people were killed and more than seven hundred injured when the dust settled the palestinian people were divided a mass was in charge in gaza fatah called the shots in the west bank hundreds fled their homes from both in fear of their lives like other fatah supporters from gaza mohammed took with huge in the west bank waiting for the day we conciliation would come. all denied i prayed to god to protect my son muhammad i prayed for his safety and asked god to bring him back home safe and now for the first time we

conciliation between the two sides looks promising each feels boosted by recent successes and is more willing to compromise her muscles capitalizing on the recent conflict with israel despite the heavy cost for fatah who's claiming victory after its president mahmoud abbas successfully upgraded palestinian status at the united nations as hamas and fatah move closer together the irony is that they getting help from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his right wing policies and rhetoric are winning the palestinian support and sympathy on the international stage it was on that on yahoo's watch that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood bid demonstrated european unfailing support for israel has floundered it was also an attorney a whose watch that u.s. is revelations reached their lowest ebb and now it's on his watch again that palestinian unity seems plausible. for her it's a long term interest of her for starting to cooperate again because otherwise

they're running the risk that the west bank will be and probably part of the same political structure which defacto right now is the case leaders from both sides have a new day course for the conciliation if you think that of course. between hamas and catastrophe it's proof for that doesn't mean peace etc etc but for this family nothing can detract from the feeling of question cheat and joy of a father and son coming home a tears and smiles echoed the hope that a new chapter is also about to open in gaza political life policy r.t. on the israel gaza border. in brief tonight the syrian foreign ministry slammed the top international peace envoy to the conflict zone is flagrantly biased is like saying does not see a place for the president to sound a transitional government in visaged by an international peace plan damascus is reiterated the decide will not step down under foreign pressure on friday agreement

he will hold talks with russian and u.s. officials as the parties seek to implement a road map for ending the twenty two month long syrian conflict. three female kurdish independence activists have been found dead from gunshot wounds in paris one of the victims was the co-founder of the kurdistan workers party known as the p.k. k. who are an arms struggle for separation from turkey forty thousand people have so far been killed in the twenty five year battle for independence and chris recently began talks with the parties jailed leader to try to persuade the organization to disarm. at least thirty two people have been killed in two separate explosions in pakistan and one of the blast struck a security vehicle in a crowded part of the city to quit the bombing destroyed a nearby marketplace and surrounding cars is the capital of what's considered pakistan's most deprived province suffering from separatist insurgency and sick tarion violence. russia's republic if you code here has declared a war on wolves scores of the predators are reported to be closing in on several

residential areas in the region posing a serious threat to livestock and other artes tom van explained to my colleague why the region is currently in a state of emergency. it is a very serious situation. here is a vast territory with a very low payment population but a lot of the people who live there rely on reindeer for their for their livelihood and on the horses they used to travel with those herds of reindeer and those reindeer what the wolves are desperately trying to get to driven there by hunger because they are normal food stuffs are like hares and rabbits are a lot more scarce this year so these some of these pictures show this is a wolf in a zoo but some of these other pictures show wolves in the wild in siberia usually they would stay well away from these reindeer herds but they've been driven there by hunger it killed sixteen thousand reindeer last year that's simply too much the numbers of wolves have reached three thousand five hundred new kuti now and the president of the republic says that's too much that the attrition rate as it were

on the reindeer has reached it now too expensive they're losing too many reindeer and that's become a serious problem sure it does sound like a serious problem and like you said it probably happens because there is an imbalance of other animals in the forest and that's why the wolves are driven out of the forest and exactly closer to the people so what is the solution to the problem under the circumstances is there any and all solution is as you might probably think relatively simple just step up a hunting of the wall sort of a natural coal as it were of these planned cull of the of these wolves so that the president of the public is really really gone for that and said rewards will be offered to hunters six figure awards for the top three hunters the aim is to kill three thousand of the three thousand five hundred wolves. in the next three months is starting in a few days' time and that hopefully will bring the numbers down to what experts say

is it should be the natural level about five hundred wolves or not three thousand five. my cousin make mincemeat out of the global bank has said tonight because her poll coming your way just a couple of minutes and right after this break in fact. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. of

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to the kaiser report max kaiser to be austere or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the austerity sandwich about ray just stolen fortune or to take arms against the city of banks there's no well since moving to london i have of course been enjoying the austerity sandwich let me demonstrate here this is a slice of bread and of course this is

a slice of bread now the austerity sandwich is when you fill this with a slice of bread you say this would be then the austerity sandwich all wrong. that's really really good now scientists in the u.k. say that this is by far the cheapest sandwich available they did a study or go they did a study and they found that this was the cheapest sandwich now speaking of doing his part for austerity george osborne the chancellor of the exchequer is giving up his monthly welfare check yes it seems the chancellor of the fricken exchequer has been collecting child benefit for years he makes over one hundred thirty four thousand pounds per year and some hardworking taxpaying joe pint of lager has been paying for george's children's. safety or. max this reminds me of world war two when so many brits sacrificed for the good of

the nation i'm giving up my child benefit from today so that my children and yours aren't saddled with our debts forever by chancellor george osborne this week my family will not receive the child benefit we've been getting every week since our children were born any household where at least one member is earning more than sixty thousand pounds will be in a similar position where i saw i was born is a welfare bum parasite on the state and whose job is to help other parasites like it just b.c. barclays royal bank of scotland and lloyds similarly collect corporate and banks through welfare from the state the u.k. economy is shrinking why because of scroungers like oz born cameron and the banks now i might add he's been.