the venezuelan supreme court rules delaying. legal supporting the government in the fight for stability therefore in the latin american state we've got the latest for you also the president of the european council. takes up the rotating new presidency well experts question whether the country will live up to the task of pulling them out of the financial crisis. walls closing all residential areas in russia. the sorties to declare war with deadly predator.

just joined us it's kevin owen here at the new center tonight our top story the postponement of the inauguration day prevent as well and present a good child which is legal according to the country's supreme court meanwhile the country's vice president has called for people to gather in front of the presidential palace to honor the ailing leader who said to be recovering from cancer surgery in cuba wherever gallager told me the country's opposition could use the president's projected options though to destabilize the country. article two thirty one of the venezuelan constitution does leave open to interpretation the issue of an occupation when the elected president cannot meet the date of january tenth before the national assembly which is the parliament what the article

specifically 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 that is right under which president chavez was authorized to leave the country for more than five days back in early december in order to undergo the surgery and that article allows him to be absent from the country for its ninety days which can be renewed for another ninety days the issue is whether or not he's now and incurring those first ninety days or is he under just the initial authorization now it's really way 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 around there already asking for the organization of american states and

the united states to intervene so 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 proud of progress with plans to the stabilize his government and try to create some situation where new elections can be can mean. european leaders the voice their support for a deal designed to reduce our lives banking the news comes as the president of the european council herman van rompuy held top level talks in dublin after the country took over the e.u. rotating presidency and some experts believe are must get their own house in order first that before taking up the challenge of pulling the european union out of the financial ditch to ireland has its own economic problems which are continuing it course has the economic problems which have been happening ever since the the euro which created high inflation there and then of course exacerbated the faster they 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 is that arlen when he says island is the reason that ireland's a poster boy for austerity means that the irish people and taking up there why it's a protest as people in spain and greece have done because we know that austerity at this time point 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 alarmingly 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 meantime the i.m.f. top economist a live shot admits he was wrong about earlier sturton for curse admitting failure to see the grave consequences which the financial measures brought on weaker you

countries such as greece and i.m.f. working paper says the firm significantly underestimated the potential increase in unemployment pollies a london based financial advisor wealth manager he told us regardless of the latest statements the people will end up paying for government mistakes. the reality is of course the most waste in 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. areas continued. accumulation of of sovereign debt. has to be tight for some point this was

a plan. through the european central bank through the germans and the european community but has imposed these these massive austerity measures on the southern european peripheral countries of course it's not the people's follow the government has overspent it's not the people's fault but the banking system has failed and needed to be held back but it's the people who have to deal with the debt through higher taxation and. enjoy these these massive austerity measures because the economic crisis continues to rage on 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 well the big decisions about the global financial future be made so these people of a found. have you ever heard the want about the bank is the billions and bars of

the 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 reining 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. 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 we think in that building just behind me peter all over r.t. basel switzerland. on the way eleven years old indefinite detention we discussed the patients of washington's solution to keeping the tories kuantan of a bad military prison open despite barack obama's long running pledge to shut down the hole so hailing the rich rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah try to overcome the differences we look at how israel's occupation policies may a brought the factions close together just a couple of stories one a lot more too but after this break.

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was. raj groups are calling on the us president to deliver on his promise made more than four years ago and shut down the notorious detention facility where barack obama recently authorized the military to keep holding terror suspects without trial or charges get motivated to business eleven years since it was opened money says the u.s. is trying to evade international law while some countries turn a blind eye to it. after eleven years has got immense symbolic power and all the things it represents to human rights campaigners people who believe in truth justice and the rule of law it represents injustice for 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 torch conventions has signed in geneva 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 is the problem 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. well we set to bring you more coverage of the eleventh anniversary of guantanamo bay on their web site r.t. dot com to. your 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. is up for discussion as the country's leader meets top american officials in washington howard causes talks with u.s. defense and state secretaries as well as the talks with u.s. defense and summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops that are set to remain of can understand the majority pull out in twenty forty and then possible

role if the state washington hasn't finalized its decision on the matter and doesn't rule out a complete withdraw now that's narrows a welcome blow by the afghan government whose positions are increasingly fragile and destroying the taliban insurgency i spoke to patricia did you know about this she's a politics professor of 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 are however i don't think the u.s. cannot afford that leader and the really has their start. violence going on there so i think the president will probably leave the troops there. but i would still president karzai is going to require that out because it gives him more. or it makes him look more powerful on the negotiating table. so it however you also need some protection so it will be a little bit of a catch twenty two situation for them i think probably that's going to situation

for them and you know a terrorist supporter for the afghan troops so they can maintain their own military and army if you well and the second is. continued to add monetary support in some development efforts there. the agreement allowing americans to adopt russian children will be valid until january twenty fourth the bill was recently passed bunning u.s. citizens from adopting russian children but this latest announcement means that families who applied to adopt before the bill was passed can still be given the green light to see the process through the news came from president putin's press secretary days after law came into effect russian lawmakers say it's a response to the lack of legal action from the u.s. government to numerous deaths of russian children from neglect and abuse at the hands of the american adoptive parents the law is named after a deal of live who was less than two years old when he died of his new american father left him in a car locked up for nine hours on a hot day. now there may not have the most conventional looks for

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choose the opinions that immigrate to mind. choose the stories get inside the life choose the access to your office. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new world most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care only on r.g.p. dot com. rival palestinian groups fatah and hamas are trying to bridge the divide the leaders of both parties met in cairo on wednesday to discuss implementing a unity agreement side two years ago the recent easing of tensions already brought

good results for one family in gaza previously torn apart by political strife and that his policies are found out they may have israeli policies to thank for it but you know it's been five long years since this family was together one thousand eight hundred days since i'm in a muslim last saw her son his crime belonged to a group the gaza government was opposed to except this time it wasn't the israelis who forced him into exile but hamas that another bouncer at that i left my family 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 that if 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 knives like other fatah supporters from gaza

mohammed took with future in the west bank waiting for the day we conciliation would come through they were going to look also denied i prayed to god to protect my son my harm and i prayed for his safety and asked god to bring him back home safe and now. now for the first time reconsideration 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 after his claiming victory after its president mahmoud abbas successfully upgrade a palestinian state has at the united nations as hamas and fatah move closer together the irony is that they getting help from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his right wing policies and rhetoric are winning the palestinian support and sympathy on the international stage it was on that one young who's watching that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood but demonstrated european unfailing support for israel has floundered it was also an attorney on his 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 us to think of as a cooperate again because otherwise they're they're running the risk that gaza on 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 calls for reconciliation if you work with them you know we think that of course. between hamas and the catastrophe it's proof for that doesn't mean peace etc etc but for this family nothing can detract from the feeling of gratitude and joy of a father and son coming home they tears and smiles echoed the hope that a new chapter is also about to open in gaza political life police here 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 it comes up like garber he said he does not see a place for president assad and the transitional government in visits by an international peace plan to ask this is retreated the decide will not step down under foreign pressure on friday bring the meal will hold talks with russian and u.s. officials to as the parties seek to implement a road map for ending the twenty two month long syrian conflict. three fever ovation dependance 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 in for arms struggle for separation from turkey forty thousand people have so far been killed in the twenty five year battle for him and and chris recently begun talks with the party's jailed leader to try and persuade the organization to disarm. scores of people have been left dead and wounded in two separate explosions in pakistan twenty one people were killed in the northwestern city of mingora where a blast struck crowds gathered here

a speech by religious leader that another explosion hit a security vehicle in the country's east killing eleven destroying a nearby marketplace pakistan seen similar attacks in recent months of rising islamist insurgency and sectarian violence. russia's republic of you kooks here has declared a war on ball the scores of the predators are reported to be closing in on several residential areas in the region posing a serious threat to livestock and then the artes tomball 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 foodstuffs 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're being 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 at all solution is as you might probably think relatively simple just step up a hunting of the wall sort of

a natural cole as it were of these planned cull of the of these wolves so that the president of the public has really has really gone for that and said rewards will be offered 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 starting in a in a few days' time and that hopefully will bring the numbers down to what experts say is a should be the natural level about five hundred wolves or not three thousand five . tom by the way our regular financial check in with laura lister in washington as our next program.

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you must be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world's hot spots that will be ip interviews intriguing stories for you. then try. to find out more visit our big teeth dog call. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines birth thursday january third two thousand and twelve economist nouriel roubini known as dr doom predicts it won't be long before there's another crisis in the west two months and back to seeing as this is when congress must deal with the debt ceiling and those seaquest ration spending cuts this shouldn't come as a major revelation so in the meantime from tax hikes to trillion dollar coin ideas

edward harrison is here to discuss what is likely to be the fallout from what he calls the fiscal cliff less and les miserables it is a hollywood blockbuster meant to show off a list actors singing chops or is it actually a valuable lesson in the economic misadventures of stated them very relevant today while jeffrey tucker argues the latter will hear why business week's cover feature is babies crying on capitol hill but what about a study that finds babies born during recessions are more likely to be delinquent teens no word on what happens if they get elected to office we'll have more in loose change plus we'll talk sped minutes an inflationary dragons' let's get to today's capital account.

nouriel roubini has an op ed in the financial times today saying the deal reached in washington on new year's day kept the u.s. from falling off the you know what however given a dysfunctional nature of the american political system it won't be long before there is another crisis cue months in fact well that's not exactly rocket science given that we all know in two months the new congress will be faced with raising the debt ceiling and dealing with the secret duration spending cuts that the last congress put off in this new years feel what doesn't define space and time though are seemingly crazy ideas being discussed about padding the treasury's pockets with a trillion dollar platinum coin or two couple of fantastical with the reality of tax hikes that were passed so when a few nuggets from the fed minutes which are out today and we have liftoff now make no mistake the lawmakers on capitol hill may be the babies but we want to know if we're going to be the ones left.