you know in terms of tone of only seen here not just in the west well a lot of the you know so-called liberals and so-called protest electorate their nominee huge fans and i'm not a huge fan of them politically in any normal political traction that i'm asked about to say that you needed normal political situation of all it would probably be my ideological enemy for god's sake the guy wanted to outsource police work in the city to private security firms that's in his in his you know in this program that to me that's a complete anathema but anyway the point is this is about the return of competitive politics people voting for and of only are not even the silly voting for him it's not a cult of personality quite yet bang gadd a lot of people are voting for a return to actual street level politics why not give any people that meaning to the polls kind of we saw so much motivation so much political activism well. you

know let's remember that this is the kind of outreach that he was mad that he managed to do without access to television and with an unfair disadvantage in terms of you know access to. words as we all know just i'm not saying these are decisive factors just keep them in mind as well what. he was i mean it was all over moscow certainly and also about the time. i have to say i mean here i mean use grassroots methods i mean to be out into wasn't doing much campaigning so in it when you look at the two he should have had the upper hand here because he did have a lot of campaigning he went out he spoke to people and even with that people still didn't know he who he was so maybe that was the problem maybe there was a lack of the knowledge of the men only to the fifteen percent of the people in general but the engendered by you know years upon years of pre-determined election results do you agree well if we look at the actual facts

just several years ago for example a kind of from just russia won't be elections. so there were precedents when people won elections even. but you know these were not exactly the people that the west would picture their representatives these were people from just russia which is a socialist party these are sometimes nationalists so this is the first time that they leave has made a relative success your i want to jump in london there mr make sure you wanted to jump in the what did you want to say. well i have think the important thing to well i wanted to say was that on the third turnout one can't speak of enormous motivation to vote to vote here. i think the important point to remember is that mr navarro he has lost he he got i estimate around nine percent of the top total

moscow electorate voting for him which is actually if you look at the opinion poll data before the election around what the opinion polls were saying that about nine percent of the moscow electorate were saying they would vote for him he was able to get his vote out mr sabean in wasn't to the same extent mr sabean in didn't campaign very much mr novell needed that i think is what. in the end determined the result of. michael talking about t.v. . paine because i think like you were saying this grassroots method it's so new to russia and in terms of television coverage i'm assuming you were talking about the federal the national channels they did cover him they focus more on the trials right and this is the man but there are other options here in russia that there's

t.v. reign in which you've got hour long interviews and send you some check with five hundred thousand followers on twitter so certainly he was out there and i think that i mean i agree that once you get everybody preaching to that demographic group this crime he didn't have an institutional chance to get. out of that demographic that's a root fair question we don't know yet if you had to view coverage we would find out but unfortunately most people in russia their first exposure to of all me was as a defendant in a criminal case well i have a very dubious privilege. every of the early in the morning and late at night late at night or the cost. of that i rolled. out with the. newspapers you know praising him which i'm going to have to read because we be sitting here speaking about nirvana and it's an election for the whole day but i

think all of i guess so for being here. that is alexander curious in london who is a legal expert in. the editor in chief of g q magazine here in russia dmitry babich who is a political analyst from the voice of russian of course and he said no way for us here. from me it's goodbye we'll see you in about half an hour for more international news here on our team. fans of the shocked your football club and kind of gonda kazakhstan believe that a certain special ritual help them achieve victory against the world famous scottish team celtic this ritual was sacrificing his sheep at the stadium as someone who lived in kazakhstan for two years i know there's a real meat eating country with deeply rooted traditions in life stock racing so

this news is unusual but maybe it's not completely bizarre for the culture of course defenders of animal rights who don't seem to realize that the sheep would be turned into people of the next few days anyways demanded that you a full officials punish the shock to a club for the actions of individual fans this is the same logic as if someone wearing a sexy tim kirby t. shirt went around robbing liquor stores i am not responsible for the actions of people like this program and it's not like i'd ever advocate robbing liquor stores and i doubt the shocked your management secretly arranged for fans to slaughter the sheep at the stadium when the slaughter of animals is acceptable to you or not well that's one thing but we don't need to regulate the morality of individuals in other countries via soccer especially if that regulation means punishing the football clubs who are responsible for the actions of individuals but that's just my opinion . wealthy british style. time.

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a bit of a. right of way back again here at r.g.p. for more international news we just want to catch you up in terms of what's been happening around the world in one corner of berlin that christmas has been cancelled and centuries of celebrations are being swept aside for the well played a neutral winter festival it's not only christians muslims who lost their right to public a maka ramadan instead they god some a fist fight all of our reports on how few and sharing in the changes. we may just

be approaching the start of autumn here in germany but already minds are turning towards christmas and in particular the traditional german christmas market these markets which pop up all over the country that sell handmade christmas toys and mulled wine generally regarded as fun for all the family and they've become a major export from germany popping up as well all around the world however this year in berlin they could be in for something of a change of name in one particular region in the quite area of the capital councillors there have ruled that the public celebration of religious festivals isn't allowed which will see the christmas market become the winter festival market now this rebranding has ruffled a few feathers but it does have its roots and it decision made earlier this year the islamic community in this part of town had wanted to hold public celebrations to mark the end of ramadan they were told that they couldn't and now next year's

celebrations may go ahead under the name of the summerfest to go alongside the winterfest in a move that critics are saying could just end up upsetting everybody. what we've ended up doing is not just prohibiting ramadan celebrations we are prohibiting the celebrations of all religious holidays under the pretext of equality but i think we are forgetting that some of our cultural traditions are based on christian traditions i'm interested to see if they're also prohibit the jews from celebrating hanukkah i wonder if our multiculturalism will go far. so over the coming months we're just going to have to wait and see how locals and tourists alike take to the rebranding of a centuries old german tradition. so unicef it's a vibration in the defense ministry to balance out its losses may have been in vain a stack of management mistakes have been revealed which have caused the u.k.'s military over one and

a half billion pounds dot com tells you where the money's biting blunders were. and we used to seeing russia's armed forces parade through red square but for eight days. into military officers from around the world check out our gallery of the brand which has just concluded in the capital. right seat. first for you and i would think that your. orders would. be in the. some of the world's other headlines now romania's witnessing a mass protest against plans to build europe's large open cars goldmine thousands

have marched nationwide to voice their criticism over a draft approval for canadian company to mine for gold and silver in western transylvania an environmentalist say the mine could become an ecological time bomb a project would mean the deal shushing of historic sites dating back to the roman empire and four mountains in the area hundreds of families will also have to be relocated. a match for human rights on the fortieth anniversary of the coup which abroad former dictator use of premiership to power has turned violent crimes of thousands attended the rally in san diego honoring the victims of regime fighting broke out when i heard it mob you stones and sticks to attack police who responded with tear gas and richard cannon. there been a series of suicide bombs attacks a targeting an intelligence headquarters me the afghan capital at least four officers i did the taliban of with the string of assaults on local government

officers in the town of made in shah which also left more than one hundred others wounded there is a key problems for the groups the insurgents and al qaeda fighters because they use it to launch attacks on nearby kabul province. about one hundred suspected muslim rebels have clashed with troops in a coastal philippine town and taken up to twenty people hostage one soldier was killed during the flight and another six injured members of the more national liberation front are believed to be behind the attack and we've been signed a peace agreement with the government in one thousand nine hundred six but some guerrilla fighters remain active the what we're expecting a news conference just a shortly with the russian and syrian foreign ministers here in moscow which we hope to bring to you here on r.t. do stay with us.

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to our top story here on our t.v. russia's foreign minister is hosting his syrian counterpart in moscow to discuss the diplomatic developments surrounding the ongoing conflict in the middle east and state will bring be bringing you the news a conference shortly but meanwhile in syria itself islamist extremists have a rest of the army out of the ancient christian village of molyneux law which has been besieged since last wednesday the village was seen as a beacon of tolerance in syrian society and one of the oldest christian places of worship arches maria from national has just returned from. we so what more lulu looks like right now this is a very sad picture would used to be picturesque a village surrounded by mountains in the central part of syria where you feel like time has almost stalled where people train in numerous churches all across the village in make the language over jesus christ in greek in arabic and in french

what also is home to dozens over. most of these now looks like a battlefield and i want to know how to take a look at what we saw. in the row militants and my little now and our. hotel this is the mountaintop hotel which was. right above. but as i said the militants first of all. exploded the car at the checkpoint to enter the village and after that they took the mountain tops i feel. they are firing from this position and this is the highest point in the village and also the army to find that. their position is

very strong and a very good no one can say for sure now for how long it will last my little is a very symbolic place it's reflects how the entire syrian society used to be a very secular society and eventually very tolerant society and right now we can see that this society is shaken and this is exactly what is happening within thai syrian community so it is a very symbolic and. recently we saw video posted on you to our people who call themselves jihadist mujahideen who invaded malula they are in marlow in this video this saying that they came to my lula to protect people from brutal regime of bashar al assad how cynic is this we were in mali last year in spring and i have to say that i haven't seen any place even here in syria where

life is so calm and is so peaceful. of course cynically is that they they came there to protect people with guns with mortar bombs and with. grenade is which actually contradicts the whole the entire idea of protection. with iraq obama's finger firmly on the syria intervention trigger u.s. lawmakers will convene later on monday to debate going to war but the white house has made it clear it is still has a say so on whether to bomb damascus regardless of what capitol hill things congress is skeptical over obama's case against assad as even administration officials admit they lead undeniable proof to implicate the syrian government in the deadly use of chemical weapons u.s. senators almost evenly split in two days for and against intervention with half of the chamber still undecided while the lower and more populated house has most

lawmakers are firmly against or leaning towards turning down the war crime then it has the latest from washington and you may find some of the images in her report distressing. the upcoming vote in congress might not be as slam dunk as many thought it would be considering the support for military action in syria that congressional leaders have previously expressed members of congress admit that they are being bombarded by calls from their constituents ninety nine percent of whom demand that they vote no to the administration's plan to bomb syria now two hundred seventeen votes are needed to pass or to fail the administration's plan all representatives who are leaning no right now actually vote no president obama's plan to attack syria will fail at least in the house this is ministration has failed to show me the direct threat to the united states of america we have absolutely no guarantee it will expand no guarantee of peace in the region the cia has prepared a video presentation that shows the aftermath of the brainless attacks in syria

it's a collection of gruesome videos that were previously posted on you tube it's designed to sway members of congress to vote yes on bombing syria but the videos as gruesome as they are do not offer proof that the assad government has carried out the attacks nor does the four page on classified report released by the administration earlier members of congress are supposed to get the proving classified hearings but as congressman alan grayson said they're being given intelligence briefings without any hard evidence to support of ministrations claims that the syrian leader has ordered the use of chemical weapons here's another members of congress are not allowed to discuss the classified hearings so we have no way of knowing what the administration has actually provided as evidence lawmakers are unable to discuss the evidence the classified evidence even among themselves unless they are inside an approved reading room and as congressman grayson says questioning the official account of events is quote actively discouraged is that the obama administration is

doing what it calls flooding the field in other words trying to monopolize the conversation dominate the discourse and provide only information in favor of an attack to members of congress and to the public i think that's unfortunate. there's always two sides to the story when you talk about war and peace the public and congress definitely here deserve to hear about both sides the obama administration has not put forward any other options but bombing syria which by so many accounts will extend the misery of the syrian people will undermine international law and will steer more hatred toward the united states in the muslim world not only does the obama administration refuse to take your supposed classified evidence to the u.n. security council which is required under international law but it seems it also keeps u.s. lawmakers in the dark about the details of the evidence they have and as far as the administration's response on whether or not the president will go ahead with a military action in the absence of a congressional approval but with the president's aides are saying that he will listen to congress the president himself is hinting that he might not listen to

congress which of course begs the question why this charade in congress then. the alleged deadly use of chemical weapons in syria was most likely a publication by the rebels according to a prominent team of former u.s. intelligence officials they're now appealing to the white house to scrap its war plans saying president obama is being misled into believing assad was responsible say veteran ray mcgovern is among the group he told kevin irwin why he thinks the case for intervention is politically motivated. yes friday kerry went before the cameras and said we got to do this and here's the not intelligence assessment mind you but the government assessment meaning the white has white house had a chance to massage it had it edited ok it is the s.f. and it didn't hold up to scrutiny or apparently the military got to the president and i see some evidence of this next thing we know that the president has changed

his mind on saturday afternoon and the only thing that really intervened was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey telling the president look you know it's going to be really hard as we're going to be really hard to explain what we have to do this now we could do this tomorrow or next week or next month we don't really have to do it now and the president said that in justifying his delay now what's more evidence lindsey graham and john mccain the next day just took off after the joint chiefs of staff chairman in a very personal and vindictive way because they know that finally the military leaders went to the president said look you know we know we know you've been told that this is going to be easy and limit all our stuff but these guys and these gals don't know a thing about war we do how do you think the congressional votes going to play out in the upcoming vote which way is it going to go i talked to a congressman last night for five minutes and it was very clear that he pledged to

house leader nancy pelosi that he would vote according to what that what the president says because we have to protect the president and are you could have are you going to say that the president is why you don't have to say the president is lying when you do need to say according to our information is that the president being given cooked up intelligence because john brennan the head of the cia and james clapper it can be confessed perjury or have thought it in their interests to to cater to the wishes of the white house which have been very clear this time we want to strike syria. as i mentioned earlier russia's foreign minister is currently hosting his syrian counterpart in moscow let's cross i live a teary a bad news conference out right now police on the background of an increasing complain. in preparation of a military strike against damascus we are taking active measures to prevent such

a devastating scenario. he said. that he can see what he wanted. to. do that how do you. deal with. it what you say well you know the. situation was that it's not. supposed to be there are increasing numbers of. responsible governments who speak against supporting terrorism in syria and in neighboring countries they're saying that a military strike could result in massive outflows of. refugees from syria.

just. so you know. in. the. shape. of the city. which we are concerned with the fate of the middle east which has suffered enough and of course we cannot but be concerned for the fate of russian citizens who are in syria and whose lives may be in danger right now. i had nothing when he. was young. and it is the. case that this is why we believe it is important to do everything that we can to prevent such a scenario and implement the arrangements of the leaders of the group of eight

taken in july this year during this summit in ireland. and we need to consolidate the efforts of the government in the opposition to evict terrorists from the territory of syria. and that is. what. it was. and what he. was. in the midst of this was the significance of our counterparts today have confirmed that damascus is ready for a positive agenda of for negotiation. and. signature throughout our deliberations we rely on an

absolute necessity to respect international in the arrangements in agreements that have been achieved. most of this goes for the necessity to close the study every single report relating to the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria . because i would like to remind you that the leaders of the g eight have agreed that there. all of these reports must be investigated in the most meticulous and professional way and their findings that must be presented to the united nations security council. will. leave.