fred weir speaking to us from moscow. >> french doctors are expected to give an update on the condition of michael schumacher in a couple of hours. the german motor racing legend fell whilst skiing in the french alps. he had brain surgery. and is in an induced coma. >> he's one of the greatest formula 1 drivers of all time. michael schumacher is known to be an experienced and skilled skier. he was skiing with his 14-year-old son and others on sunday near the peak of solia close to a french ski resort when he fell and hit his head on a rock. he had been wearing a helmet. within 10 minutes the 44-year-old was airlifted to a hospital before being taken to the university hospital center of grenoble. >> translation: mr michael schumacher was admitted at 12:45. he suffered a brain trauma and was in a coma on arrival. he remains in critical condition. >> his wife and two children are at his bedside. supporters hope for his recovering. >> i'm like you. i heard the news. as i am from the region, i came to see him. as i can't see him, we'll see tomorrow. michael schumacher won the formula 1 champ

jim maceda reporting live for us from moscow. this is not the first time volgograd has been a terror target. october another bus was attacked by a suicide bomber killing six and injuring at least 2 dozen people. >>> other news, this was a huge story out of the "new york times" over the weekend. the article is casting doubt on much of what we knew about the benghazi attacks in september of 2012. the 7,000-word article claims al qaeda had nothing to do with coordinating the raid that left four americans dead and that a controversial anti-islamic video made by an american did stir up emotions that helped contribute to the violence. in the wake of the attack, u.n. ambassador susan rice appeared on "meet the press" claiming anger at the video was chiefly to blame. that assertion appeared to be discredited in congressional hearings. but now the "new york times" report says the video did play a role. instead of al qaeda the "times" investigation centers around a complex relationship with local militias and an eccentric militia leader wh

moscow. >> and at this hour there are conflicting reports as to whether that suicide bomber was a man or a woman. fred joins us now live from he's the moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor. fred, we know who is behind the attack, at least we believe we do. now comes word they are stepping up their efforts ahead of the winter games in sochi. so how concerned should u.s. citizens travel to go europe be? >> reporter: well, i think that it's an immense concern. it's clear that there is going to be a terrorist offensive to take advantage of the importance of the sochi games. you know, the president vladimir putin's prestige is riding on them. this is obviously a target of opportunity for them and they are going to go all out to do something spectacular. i think that is the consensus of experts. and so i guess people who worry about such matters should definitely worry about this. >> so would you take the trip if you were one of those holding the tickets to the winter games? >> reporter: well, i am probably the wrong person to ask because i have to go in a professional capacity. but i guess so. you know, if you s

thank you for joining us from moscow. >> new delhi police removed security barricades outside the american embassy in a dispute over an indian diplomat. u.s. officials say the indian consule general in new york was arrested and strip searched. the security advisor calls her treatment despicable and barbaric. kath turner has the story. >> outside the u.s. 'em basse in new dellie, police oversee the removal of concrete barricades. it's a sign diplomatic relations with washington are deteriorating. we feel extreme level of discretion. >> indian authorities asked u.s. consular officers to return identity guards and stopped them from flying out of the country. the incident is a top story in the indian media. tension has been escalating since india's deputy connual general was arrested in new york. indian official say she was handcuffed, strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting a $250,000 bail. >> more steps should be taken against the united states until an unconadditional apology is given. >> there are no indications that anything but appropriate measures were followe

here is our correspondent who joins us from moscow. good evening. what has the reaction been to these defiant words to the two members of pussy riot? >> well, most of the media is state sponsored and state-backed, so responses were not taking any stands against or for the band members. what we have seen from other media, social twitter, there has been a wave of support from lillibridge rat russia and abroad. there were local feelings of jubilation almost. a lot of people in this country feel this has been, as they have described it, a move that has somewhat backfired. these two members came out of their corner, so to speak, taking swipes at vladimir putin, turning this into a personal battle against him and his version of russia, which is not players, calling if a boycott of the olympics to shed ight what is going on in the penitentiary system in russia. they said they were subjected to some horrific treatment while in-run. this has caused a lot of response worldwide. >> is it fair to say that pussy riot is far from finished as a protest group? >> n

protein they don't see these games to be their games marcus graham thank you very much for joining us from moscow with that up. now in other news reader nancy ukraine where thousands of anti government protesters have monkey was the residence of president viktor yanukovich bearing the new flags protesters threw fifteen km north of the capital kiev. and he too was yanukovich whose homes are granted only riot police the singtel and tens of thousands gathered in ps independence plan to protest last week's attack on a prominent position in today's poll position leader and boxing champions italy klitschko told the crowd to the protest movement one win against the government the turnout was too noticeably smaller than that of the opposition protests over the last month and the united nations to monitoring force on the border between israel and eleven on says it has contacted the governments in both countries and urge them to exercise maximum restraint and is often an exchange of alkatiri fall and in a red flare up between the two signs. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu accused the lebanese gov

specialty or i carry many thanks indeed the best i have wanted to cut costs for the reporting to us from moscow. the united states as a train carrying crude oil has collided with another trying and d y o b the state of north dakota. as many as ten out of more than one hundred cars court file and about i feel the movement away from the site you can see that the spectacular flames up to the explosion paul thought he's pitched the twenty four hundred residents nearby to speculate this mortal because it on top was series of explosions that said flames and black smoke into the sky and the shelter has been set up for them about forty kilometers away there'll be no reports of any injuries heal because respond to a shale oil boom that produce nearly nine hundred and fifty thousand barrels of oil in a dye be an all timer. it also is a major grain producer and long accustomed to a high volume ofx world powers of told to get in geneva that enron's nuclear progress. the latest negotiations the man to translate the interim deal struck in november into a d style plan. according to iranian media. the teams ha

from volgograd. concern is mounting about security at the games, which begin in less than six weeks. >> for more, let's bring in our correspondent, joining us now from moscow what more can you tell us about these bombings? why the city of volgograd? >> russia's media suppose it is bobo grad, the city in the south of russia, with more than -- it is bobo grad -- volgograd, the city in the south of russia, with more than one million people, because of the traffic. it is easy to get there from the north caucasus. you don't have to get checked by police officers over and over again. that might be one reason. the other version is that this could only be a tactical maneuver by a largely terrorist -- by largely terrorist bombers to distract attention off of russia's security forces from their preparations and maybe even a more serious attack on a major city such as moscow, st. petersburg, or maybe even an attack on the olympic sites in sochi. >> what does this mean for the olympic games? what are security forces doing in order to make sure they are prepared for the tens of thousands of spectators that are expected when they begin in february? >> president vladimir

us from rather aggressive behavior. >> jill dougherty, one who pressed putin on that question, she's with us, joining us from moscow. d one of those seats there among many to talk and really to confront putin. what was that like? tell us about this event, to begin with. this is rather rare. >> reporter: it is. it's huge. it's his annual news conference, a gigantic hall, more than 300 journalists. you have to be prepared to sit there for four hours, actually you're there for five, because of security one-hour in advance. it's a very long thing. he gets through -- the estimate was -- i don't think i actually timed it but the estimate was he would be answering about 100 questions. it may be true. so he got into a lot of issues, as you can imagine. but one of the more interesting ones was he said that he kind of envies barack obama for being able to look at all of that information, let's say spy on all of that nsc information but ended up defending the use of it. here's how what he said about that. >> translator: my relations to obama following snowden, i envy him because he can do this and there will be nothing for him

joining us now for more on this is the moscow institute of international relations joining us live fromoscow. thank you so much for being with us here on al jazeera. i mean, considering the firm reaction that there was when the ukrainian leader decided not to sign a deal with the e.u. perhaps it's surprising when he does go to moscow, talks with president vladimir putin and co come out with a deal right away. >> the whole problem with the ukraine from the russian point of view is not only the problem of policy. it is a geopolitical struggle of who is going to take control of ukraine. any mass demonstration in kiev in ukraine is always seen as a general repetition before repeating the same thing. >> if i could interrupt you. you said the geopolitical struggle of the west over ukraine. but it seems that president yanukovych chose russia. so why do you think they don't have a deal. or do you think its just a matter of time. >> well vladimir putin, president of russia, is not going to make yanukovych's life any easier after being cheated by him personally and other ukrainians. yanukovych lo

the starting international you're watching us live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program fierce fighting continues in the syrian town of on the outskirts of damascus as the army tries to push rebel forces from several districts out of us again carried out by r.t. discovered the mass execution of civilians carried out by al qaida linked groups survivors described horrific scenes of brutal executions of people being used as human shields our colleagues from artie's arab channels spoke to an eyewitness of the massacre. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters entered the town of address and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. in the federal. strike and the army of islam seized control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly this is ation became terrible they were killings outrage and on into five on men ca

artie's sean thomas is also here with us joining us live from central moscow for more on the kremlin reaction to all this tell us what is the view from the russian ministration in light of this morning's developments well matt with two attacks within one twenty four hour period you can imagine that the federal government is certainly gearing up for action and in communication with local governments as well in fact the head of the f.s.b. alexander mcauliffe and the head of the interior ministry's what to call it. they have briefed president putin on the latest in fact they talked about the security operations in dhaka ston instead of a pole where they have disrupted terror operations that are down there and killed several suspected terrorists also the interior ministry briefed the president on measures that they are taking to maintain security in the region following these recent attacks now locally the volgograd emergency ministry is said that they have bolstered their troops in fact we've heard of another plane being sent to the region with people and supplies to help out in that asp

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she joins us from moscow. what did he say, jill? >> reporter: hey, carol. just a preface here.. this issue of values, moral values, sounds like in the way it is very serious here in russia, picking up steam, the president has talked about it a lot and a lot of the time in the context of gay rights. i did not ask about that part of it but did ask him why he is criticizing western values. here is what he said. >> translator: we need to find the most traditional values without values society becomes degraded and, quite clearly, we need to return to these values to understand the reason for this. the evaluations, appraisals of these values, and to move forward. >> reporter: so basically what president putin is saying is russia now is the bastion of human and christian values around the world. it's a very strong part now of their foreign policy. carol? >> russia is the bastion of christian values? that's what he said? >> reporter: well, that is what he has been saying and that really is the message that's coming from the russian government. you sound surprised. >> you've lived in ru

jim joins us from moscow. >> reporter: investigators are operating under the strong suspicion the latest tax were works of islamic insurgents from north caucuses region. they found links between the most recent attacks that the group or cell carry out, both the train and trolley bus bombings. explosives and components, for example, shrapnel used to maximize carnage, were similar as well. investigators are linking those two bombings to a public appeal made some muonths ago by cheche to disrupt sochi games. we ask, why volgograd, what's important for militantings striking that town? it's a major city. it's only 400 miles from the olympic venue. and it's certainly the proximity to sochi, happening so close to the games. that's been sending out a frightening message, really, that the militants can strike anywhere and at will. >> and u.s. security officials were saying they're in contact with russian security, saying they're willing to offer more help if need be to try to work closely to coordinate security for the olympics. >> it's the deadliest terrorist attack in two years in russia, a maj

and is leaving us with a great legacy absolutely adore thank you so much for bringing us this report from the moscow region where the funeral of the inventor of a k forty seven is about to take place. to other stories now the u.k. is on track to become the europe's largest economy with a new or poor predicting it will overtake the industrial might of germany by two thousand and thirty but unless you're part of a lead it may be a little early to celebrate if the rich including top bankers or set to reap the rewards but as our bully boy can now reports that's another way of saying business as usual. for many of those working here in the city of london two thousand and thirteen has been a year of prosperity thanks to a tax cut that kicked in earlier this spring the u.k.'s highest earners have been able to make even more money this year the rate of tax for people earning over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year has gone down from fifty pence to forty five so for every hundred pounds they earn over that fifty pounds used to go straight into the treasury but that figure has now been reduced and now

us. they are from moscow thank you. got back here domestically china's foreign ministry has urged the philippines to handle properly. the detained men of chinese citizens in the philippines. this comes after philippine immigration authorities stormed three chinese one markets and detained seventy eight chinese nationals on wednesday. he means if i'm down to what ill fitting suit but doubts it. china has launched a representation with a feather in size the seventies integration or start to set the pace. she is not aimed at chinese nationalist us has the legal immigration. some citizens from other countries also detained the three chinese detainees have been bailed out due to poor health conditions of the chinese detainees have been transferred to somewhere with better living conditions the chinese embassy would continue to funnel the issue has to put it inside to handle this puppy. another news on chinese national broadcasting is going to go market in argentina have been affected by a large wave of the ice when chinese n

message from that, president obama, the first lady michele, vice president joe biden about be absent it no high ranking incumbent u.s. official is going. >> jill dougherty is joining us live from moscow. good to see you. this does seem to be on many fronts an in your face move by the obama administration. are the russians responding at all? are they reacting to this? do they get it? >> well, they're not responding at least so far. but you could go back to what president putin already said which is that u.s. athletes or gay athletes of any stripe who come to the olympics should not worry. they won't be discriminated against. but i think it is definitely sending a message, but it's almost -- it's a strong but subtle message at the same time because after all, there are some people among gay activist who's said why don't we boycott what the u.s. should not even go to the olympics? the u.s. is going to the olympics but by sending these prominent athletes who happen to be gay is sending this signal as president obama himself said, represents diversity, determination and teamwork. that word diversity of course, is often used in the context of gay rights in the united states. so it is a mes

pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. it's all live from moscow thanks for joining us american activists are calling on president obama to pardon edward snowden who of course is in a rush to run a temporary asylum and u.s. authorities want him to stand trial for charges associated with his leaks that revealed details about the extensive surveillance of the operations of the n.s.a. in the meantime the plight of whistleblowers has been documented in a new film called the media stalin it's shot by a crew of wiki leaks journalists and it costs light on their dangerous mission to seek an outlet for their secret documents. reports. it's been described as a wiki leaks or road movie following the journey of a group of wiki leaks associates across central asia searching for media outlets to help publish secret diplomatic cables with making it. something which which i would like to call an acid test and our us interest was one of the u.s. state department cables where you give these cables to certain. publications and see how they react to it most of the pu

. >> diana joins us live from moscow. we know that first of all, these twin attacks come several months after a leader of a chechen separatist group pledged violence to disrupt the olympics. has anybody taken responsibility for the attacks? do we know if they're linked? >> there has been no claim of responsibility but authorities are saying they do believe they are linked because they've studied the explosives used, and they said in both devices, there was a shrapnel involved, which was identical in both cases. so it would appear as though these are linked. also in october two months ago in the same city, there was another female suicide bomber who detonated a device on a bus killing six people. she came from dagestan in the troubled north caucuses region i was just talking about there. it's, of course, highly likely these two did also. we don't know whether they're affiliated with the group of dak duh omaruf or simply autonomous working in smaller militant factions. we were told yesterday by authorities they believe that

that cash from somebody and i think what you're hearing from the prime minister today essentially is saying look if you don't want us to talk to moscow if you don't want to take a deal from russia then you're going to have to come up with all this money. you know and obviously the ukraine government would like that directly from the e.u. itself without having to deal with the i.m.f. because it simply doesn't want to have to agree to these fairly onerous terms that the i.m.f. has been talking about such as you know fairly sharp currency devaluation an end to fuel subsidies and of course massive austerity measures. the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukrainian authorities when the us secretary of state among those giving their strong worded opinions on he's going to church can report on what's being said. it's not often that you hear the word discuss that from a diplomat it's usually reserved for some horrendous events while john kerry just used it to describe the decision of the ukrainian leadership to dismantle protestors barricades in the center of kiev and here's what he said the united states expresses its

reporting then is get more now on the situation in ukraine from chris we've seen a partner of the moscow based consulting firm market advisor joining us live from copenhagen chris ukraine's prime minister we just learned this has asked the e.u. for at least twenty billion euros of a if they are going to sign up with this deal can the really afford that. no no i think that's absolutely out of the question as you recall at the at the vilnius meeting the e.u. table only six hundred million dollars or seven million euro's at that time so jumping to twenty pounds i would question what the e.u. will try and push ukraine of course is to engage with the i.m.f. and to look to the i.m.f. to to get that money but as of course as we know the ukrainian government very reluctant to deal with the i.m.f. because of the very onerous conditions to the i.m.f. will place on any money given to ukraine or they think the government is trying to trying to avoid that so just looking at the financial aspects in a way you had the e.u. dodged a bit of a problem by ukraine not signing up with this trade agreement in the long term well yes and no look you did the

men will helpless without him even when we broach that part of the conversation joining us now from moscow. victor and the day in re hab ski of the institute of world economy and international relations thank you for being this up from the russian capital. not just to remind people after he backed out of the eu deal last month ukraine's president said just how underwhelmed he was with its terms. so this has been doing a new six hundred and ten million euros easiest technical help for ukraine so starting in two thousand and ten with three using the rope they were showing us to scan the human eyes drop out and they were saying you get these when you sign an agreement with the imf loan holding one of them for them to it. i don't want to be rude but you don't have to unity a test like this the last weapon. you know who we are talking to children with me. when the wool evening when we cannot buy sweets. it was full of humor do you. six yanukovich wood and go along to vilnius with an eu summit is taking place nonetheless me with its leaders and trying to keep the door open trying to keep the doo

international live from moscow thanks for joining us today for the past six or so hours been showing you live pictures for independence square in kiev ukrainian officials are telling police to remove barricades after a couple of weeks worth of demonstrations that originally started as being pro e.u. integration anti e.u. integration perhaps pro-government and anti government as well and the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukraine you know authorities the u.s. secretary of state john kerry calling them unexceptable let's get more reaction from washington now across live to our tease guy nature can go a good to see you strong words from the u.s. secretary of state. it's not often that you hear the word discuss that from a diplomat you know it's usually reserved for some horrendous event so while john kerry just used used that word to describe the decision of the ukrainian leadership to dismantle protestors barricades in the center of kiev here's what he said the united states expresses its disgust with the decision of ukrainian authorities to meet the peaceful

us from. archies arena gulu show is live for us now in central moscow with more from the kremlin so irina what is the administration's view of the incident and this latest attacks in volgograd this is something that obviously the president the prime minister and the entire can say top of their government is keeping really close tabs on the radio this morning russian president putin has made with the heads of the federal security service the f.s.b. and the ministry of interior they have briefed them on the situation in the volgograd region also have been on the center on the several operations and terroristic operations which took place in the region and in the republic of dagestan all of these are in the south of russia and are known to be some kind of hotbeds of certain terrorist activities and now. there's also information that the federal the dea head of the ethnicity of the federal security service is actually going to fly to balls or ground as requests from president bush is going to keep tabs on the situation that will only go so it's important to note is that it was obvious situation wi

diana magnay joins us from moscow with the latest. >> president putin ordered his intelligence forceshten up security in russia throughout russia and the volgograd area where the two attacks took place. we're hearing from parliamentary officials that security around the olympics themselves and sochi is all taken in care. baskcally it is sufficient and that no extra security measures will be taken as a result of these attacks but as you said, there is a death toll, sochi around 400 miles away volume fwoe gr volgograd to the southeast. many of the terror attacks have emanated from dagestan and it's highly likely these emanated from them. they may be planning more. >> thank you. the two attacks in less than two days a major cause for concern. 28 minutes after the hour. ana cabrera, for the five things we need to know for our new day. >> good morning to you at home. number one this morning, severe weather forcing an us trailian ice breaker to suspenderts to reach a ship that has been stranded in ice in antarctica for about a week, 74 people have been stuck on this reseven vessel when it f

diana magnay joins us live now from moscow. what do we know about this latest blast? eporter: well, we believe from authorities or they're telling us this was also the work of a suicide bomber and they are analyzing now the dna of the remains of both the attackers to try to find out their identities. they also say when they've looked at the explosives used both of them included a type of shrapnel that was identical and, therefore, they believe they were linked and it's more than likely they are, therefore -- they originate from the north caucasus region close to volgograd, fairly close, also, to sochi, where the olympic games are due to take place in six weeks' time or a little under that. the north caucasus is where all the terror attacks that have taken place on russian soil in recent years have originated from and one of the main leaders threatened to unleash maximum force against president tu continue to try and disrupt the games. so, of course, this leads to concerns amongst people internationally that the games themselves won't be protected and also amongst peopl

very pleased to say wishing you a very happy new year wherever you're watching us happy new year from red square in moscow coming up i'll bring you all of the action happening at the center of the celebrations here in the russian capital. also all out here as well as light a very happy new year for all of us here in london hello from lynn wishing everybody in moscow and watching around the world a very happy new year greetings and happy new year from the heart of ukraine. independence square how i and happy new year from jerusalem i'm to the must say happy new year from start to see the city there will host the olympics and paralympics of twenty four t. . in washington i'm going to check and i wish you a happy new year let it be full of great news. well there's a go there is going to go of roads we're going to see the mall isn't it ok well before we begin i go by the twenty third and we'd like to first spend a moment of course to consider the poor souls of the russian city has been marred by tragedy this last week earlier this year to grow witness to suicide attacks on its public transport system as peopl

it's already international law from moscow i'm shy thanks for joining us straight to our breaking news for you this hour here on the program we are now getting reports that the e.u. is calling a halt to negotiations on a trade deal with ukraine. is now on the line for us from kiev alexi its rory here in moscow i hope you can hear me ok what's behind the decision what do you know sort of. what we do know for a product the official from the european union group responsible for argument especially in the ethan direction stuck on fuel a. word indeed going to the government regarding its. their arguments have no ground in reality. the prime minister of those of three days ago that. the discussion is conditioned on the only clear commitment by clinton to sign this. deal and they have received so far from the ukrainian side obviously. first of all comes only just three days after the delegation from the government. and brussels. to which way it looks very positive about. will be signed in the future in some future. which is what the president and the government have been saying all along that

cookies to take the cash coming in is government regulation from it the molding to destroy this moment kevin i would use to not see life from moscow right now just up to me like the animals and when you want to run well. right up top story the protest is in kiev of the given five days to stop disrupting government departments. opposition activists to be blocking most key institution for much of this house week. it's a topic that would've been tough to avoid against the country's president of cnn coverage. he met his russian counterpart in salty and hit the stands of these it over with economic revival. laurel everything is in with a ghoulish. there was a short story to easing and. the two presidents have discussed at pro lites leave the economic aspects it really is no surprise economy is something that is vitally important to set this up over flights for it. at the ukrainian president on his way back from it i know where he is meant it with his egg chinese colleagues and death. our carried on quite productive economic talks in fact he became president said that he has as scientists and a number of deals as amounting to roughly ei

us here on. live from moscow what i am this is all take this morning you cry you clarification from the e.u. for european commission says the trade deal talks with the country are on hold all the. government protests in the capital being cheered on by western politicians. also this week reported in syria with islamist rebel forces said to have killed dozens of civilians in the latest in a series of atrocities. breaking free of the e.u. is a program but the government warns that doesn't mean an end to austerity. and russia doesn't want to dominate the world but will stand firm in defending its values president putin delivers his annual state of the.

welcome back to archie international live from moscow julian us on the wiki leaks founder who's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over a year hiding from prosecution glenn greenwald the reporter who broke the n.s.a. scandal and whose partner was held in question under terrorism laws and jacob appelbaum the wiki leaks hacker detained a dozen times at the u.s. border border today they will be headliners at a major conference in hamburg on surveillance and privacy r.t.s. peter all over is there to. well as the thirtieth anniversary of the chaos communications conference here in how to get stronger more and more supporters people are made aware of just how fragile they online privacy actually is now i'm joined by michael ettlinger who is a online privacy campaigner michael thanks very much for speaking to me how people started to take more of a interest in looking after their online security you know a lot of people do it in a different manner some start to encrypt i.e. made something that we would like to support those people how to do it how to manage p.g.p. for exam

this agree just act like very good to hear your thoughts marc thank you for joining us live there from central moscow moxon about international relations electra at moscow state university thank you thank you. this is the weekly on r.t. international more news coming up after a short break break including how antigovernment protests continue unabated in bahrain stay with us for that if you can. cutler's right to see. her straight. and i think you're. more. instrumental. in the local. this week so a diplomatic difference is exposed by the historic deal between six world powers and iran over its atomic ambitions and the general cautious optimism hawks on capitol hill israeli hardline is indescribable shakes in the gulf states but just some of those who are angry looks at the political battles the white house faces to make this agreement stick today that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world. and flying in the face of president obama what was cute in the geneva. last night in small is sort of i mean. it's a story in state. it's not new a safer place in an environment where israel as well as many

this is asking to national coming to live from moscow for us to the tragedy that emerged just over an hour ago in southern russia at least eighteen people and to have died and dozens injured in a suspected suicide bombing at the main a railway station in the city of volgograd live. there you see we know about the blasts well authorities say that the blast took place right at the entrance to the social train station in volgograd right near the metal detectors usually this is where lots of people gather in the queue. for the latest reports it is believed that thirteen people have been killed and dozens of others have been injured in this explosion the national anti terror committee says that most likely the blast was caused by a female suicide bomber the whole train station has been blocked right now investigation is taking place in force we'll be bringing you the latest there as we get them. of course and it's just two days after another explosion in southern russia isn't please tell us more about the previous one and this iteration in the region in general all right just a few days ag

join us live from r.t. h.q. in moscow at ten pm it's kevin zero in with you tonight our top story political battle lines have torn ukraine's capital into one thousand strong crowds keep up their antigovernment protests that's the scene there now you can also see activists who gathered to support president victory on a covert as well earlier on today artie's paul scott reports from the heart of the standoff. you can see the close proximity between the two opposing rallies right behind me is independence square which has been the heart of the opposition movement for the last number of weeks now you can see the barricades that have been built by the protesters and reinforced in the last couple of days but if we pan around to the left hand side now this is european square and this is the scene of a rally in support of the president where you can get a sense of exactly how close the pro and anti government supporters are the line of police separating the two camps just here to my right hand side now if we take you through to t

us here on our t.v. today on researchers. here will showing all seem to national life from moscow is good to have you with us . he bolshoi and to the defendants have been found guilty of a brutal acid attack on the russian companies they had to direct the court handed down prison sentences for all three. reports now from moscow as bolshoi theater. a four hour sentence reading brought the curtain down on a month long trial and it has lofty basri feeder leading salo who is behind bars now probably preaching to has been given six years in prison and to his fellow defendants four and ten years accordingly now the judge has also given be relied to surrogate bilin so the lawsuit miter change to house to be three point five million roubles in compensation now this case has tarnished the reputation of russia's balsa the theatre that last year really opened up to the spectacular refurbishment but some of the light has been taking off to see it or why the scoundrel and i've been looking back so this happened in the rushes valley history let's have a look. at the final act in a case as dark as anything to grace the famous

from moscow it's r.t. international for you today. from all of us here thanks for joining us it's been a nervous night in ukraine's capital where hundreds of troops and riot police have been deployed around protest sites and there have been fears their presence was a signal that force was about to be unleashed but so far police moved in no need to dismantle barricades blocking government buildings while leaving demonstrators on kiev's main square in peace now let's look at this video here and you can see that police are not cracking down on protesters just pushing them back from walkways and civic offices where the work has been paralyzed the days of the opposition leaders however say they will stand their ground tensions are being stoked by the fact that some protesters with sticks of behaving aggressively and there has been even incidence of tear gas being. used against the police pole scott witnessed the night standoff. tensions have been on the increase all day ever since the riot police surrounded independence square which is about two hundred

using the. development of all of the tasks we. achieved success thank you very much thank you thank you i have. i. there we have it live from the kremlin in central moscow the russian president and you all state of the nation address thank you for joining us for an r.t. international for the. by the russian president of course as it is the state of the of the nation speech most of the issues all domestic however towards the end of president putin addressing some international issues that i'd like to touch down on very briefly for you right now one of the issues i put in talking about that of the so-called european or american missile defense shield that is essentially being peppered along russia's western border supposed to defend europe and america from rogue states such as iran however mr putin saying that that should be redundant now as a russia was one of the main mediators in accomplishing the historic anti nuclear missile deal with iran and yet for some reason the missile defense shield still being built across from western russia and eastern europe in fact president putin saying it's not missile defense its missile all friends the russian preside

us here today. international live from moscow welcome back and we're going back to our top story this hour we're getting reports me hail holder koskie has actually already left his penal colony and that's despite the prison officials say he could walk free by the end of the day let's get more from. what we can now talk to him on the phone right now but unfortunately been told that actually we lost connection with igor right now but of course will return to him as soon as possible. they european union's credit rating has been dealt a blow standard and poor's has downgraded it from triple a to double a plus the agency is sad that blocks financial profile has deteriorated on of are reports now from. standard imposed financial services agency have decided that the european union's credit rating of aaa was too good for it so they've downgraded it one point to double a plus now the reasons that they've given for this is they said that the financial profile of the e.u. deteriorated also that there was a lack of cohesion within the european union and if you look across the individual economies that make up the

us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. this is all saying to national coming to you live from moscow welcome back. a us all summation to assuage has yielded results with the flat out pine hideaway giving up on centuries of total confidentiality motions in a threatening fines and even jail time for any bank that doesn't share information on american citizens but they've thought that some will nevertheless stay defiant as a business present a case to pale being spoke with my colleagues on research about the possible ramifications of it all. appears to be a sense of almost concern and anger response this we know it's very much fundamental to the swiss of qana me to the heritage of switzerland i can tell you i've worked in the banking industry in switzerland and people there don't see as helping people of aid paying taxes they see it as privacy the protection of assets and that's why there's been this reaction of why does washington feel the need to go to work with sort of a peaceful coexistence between people and their banks as opposed to now it is when the banks are just taking advantage of women do

this latest announcement from the president was applause by human rights groups would be poorly came as a complete surprise to us and even his family members. live from moscow thank you very much indeed for that and the mother of. mary. joins me now live by phone mrs haller cosco welcome to r.t. havea spoken to your son recently what was his reaction to the latest news. i took to him. in august when he was in prison actually i came to see him when he was in jail so we don't know about his response. they are allowed to make phone calls once a week. with them and that is on saturdays. so i can't learn about his response before saturday actually. did the president decision come as a surprise to you. can't say that came totally as a big surprise for me. totally out of the blue because i don't know anything about this nothing no no details. why do you think it's only now that decided to seek a presidential pardon and to do what you can you. ok let me so we have some technical and problems i believe why do you think it's only now that me why you decided to seek a presidential candidate over and admit his guilt but you wonder if this is just you know presumably i

international live from moscow stay with us for more world news after the break. if you're thinking about an alcoholic drink associated with russia it's probably not going to be one that springs into your head but they've been making it here on the black sea coast for more than two thousand kids and there's an industry which really can compete with the best the rest of the world has to offer i've come to meet some of the people growing the greats and to see if i can find out the secret to the perfect. this week's all diplomatic differences exposed by the historic deal between six world powers and iran over its atomic ambitions and the general cautious optimism hawks on capitol hill israeli hardline isn't disgruntled shakes in the gulf states but just some of those who are angry well as he looks at the political battles the white house faces to make this agreement stick. today that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure and flying in the face of president obama what was included in geneva. last night in small store i mean. it's a story in

witnessing at the moment your call from slippery from a political or middle east correspondent the french be with us lose continues here now to live from moscow just minutes from rome. no. this christmas no no no the north pole has been virtually invaded season occupied and so now santa is living in the occupied territories of the north pole. and oil up there rudolph the red nosed reindeer has been read designated a terrorist. and a commie. n. word any word that sets you up and makes you see the need for the us military to occupy. oil rich homeland so while you may remember him as the street gift giving flying friends from now on folks is the commie terrorist all right reindeer so bye bye santa by by rudolph there is oil to be secured from those bad guys. again twenty nineteen moscow time now and kevin zero in the future of spin the number one topic in the media since the former russian old tycoon free after a presidential pardon from khodorkovsky plans to fight for his imprisoned comrades to putin's reasons for letting him out of jail the five days since the release of been full of speculation analysis marcus papa told us papadopoulos from t

the world's top headlines live from moscow it's international with me from all of us here thanks for joining. us rejected calls to hold talks with the country's president demanding the leadership steps down the same time the united states is now considering sanctions against ukraine over the government's response to protests as in many cases we can consider a range of policy options which were certainly doing in this case given events on the ground and thousands are still out on the streets in kiev rebuilding barricades around the city's independence square after a police operation failed to disperse the crowds there is more than one opinion being expressed in ukraine. as a look at the other side of the deaf ears. it's new it's hip it's exciting it's a revolution and like moths to a flame the bright lights of rebellion are drawing in western politicians political has beans to even homegrown rock stars all keen to breathe the air of change tasty pictures in a fashionable message the foreign media is having a blast to the chest is here feel they're fighting for the future of the countr

brings us to the missile defense system an issue which has been one of the key stumbling blocks in the relations between moscow and washington for years with the us giving this theoretical threat from iran as one of the main reasons behind the system's construction and now the russian president since there is progress there with the iranian nuclear program perhaps there is nor more reason to build that shield which moscow does see as a threat to its national security and one of the ways to. protect security is to further develop the military sector for further develop the army in general the president spoke on that as well you know when you look at what you do here in a city that was more sinister that no country should harbor illusions of achieving military dominance over russia we will never let it happen russia is ready to meet those challenges both political and technological that we got all the potential needed our military doctrine as well as our military equipment and i was without a doubt to ensure russia's security which now finally the president also spoke about russia's relationship with the europe and its former soviet allies or the c.i.s. now of course he said that mos

us from our washington bureau, pete, good evening. >> reporter: tamron, good evening. snowden talked from moscow to a washington post contributor and one of three journalists who have received his leaks of classified nsa documents. snowden says in the interview that he has no regrets. they met somewhere in moscow, the story doesn't reveal the location in a room where edward snowden kept the curtains closed. according to today's "washington post," snowden said, "i already won." in terms of personal s satisfacti satisfaction, the mission is already splished. snowden spoke for hours to the reporter for the washington post. >> he is very much at peace with his choices. he wanted to provoke and inspire and galvanize a public debate. he has succeeded in that beyond any reasonable ambition. >> reporter: snowden claimed that he first raised his concerns about the reach of government surveillance to nsa co-workers and supervisors more than a year ago. >> almost recklessly, if you don't want to get caught, he was asking them about what he called the front page test. what do you think the american people w

from the utah association path. how about the protesting crowd behind the barricades already made it clear that every step of ukraine's president and moscow will be closely watched. the next us ascii art scene reporting from kiev in ukraine. this gives them a perspective of world oil to each other the bruges group think i'm joining us hello my name into a robot the opposition here there were a bit at the heels of the goodies if you like that would negotiate today i've got to come with strings attached on that one he's found it a juicy. i think that by sipping tea on founded in it and bought difficult and she is reading the whole book from the get the union would cause enormous economic calm and russia. katie being afraid to play in that that money they get into line ukrainian homes and of course causing the price of gas. he's absolutely can get very helpful for the ukrainian economy whether it's the european union of women would have actually been causing the honeycomb. so the claim has been forced into an agreement with russia the phony. he has said many of the sources of gas it can extort is developing his own the gt speed gas leases taken a good deal and bought katie bein

from the new association path. how about the protesting crowd behind the barricades already made it clear that every step of ukraine's president and moscow will be closely watched. the next us ascii art scene reporting from kiev in ukraine. i have enough to sort out back on several american politicians haven't commented yet so they're keen interest in ukraine fake international affairs commentator because the sphinx the ultimate goal is to lure the country into nato it's important to realize is that the west has crafted a program for integrating ukraine into the warehouse which means not only the european union european union as the economic component of the arrangement the north atlantic treaty organization is the real you know. a goal of western policy the soviet ukraine so the intent is to use the lore of economic benefits trade benefits. your pieces start to soften the training and retraining of populist ultimately word's origin in the north atlantic treaty organization. nell has long wanted ukraine in its ranks because they get a call that sells membership plans in twenty ten at fault that the alliance extension to the east towards the russian border. not the moment as