dipaolo, artie lange. turkey is what, the driest animal on the face of the earth? it lives on fiberglass and dirt while it's alive. then you deal with the tryptophan, the stuff that makes you drowsy. you ever look around your house after thanksgiving? it looks like there's a gas leak in the living room. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: everyone's just passed out. >> hey, what'd you stuff the turkey with, thorazine? i can't feel my feet. >> jimmy: artie, did you enjoy it? >> yeah, i like that part. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. that's what you love. you love that. >> i like getting high off turkey. i like rolling up the turkey. >> jimmy: you're absolutely getting high off turkey. >> this is good dark meat. >> i got one tip i want to find out for thanksgiving from martha stewart. i need one tip. dallas is giving five to the redskins. what does she think? >> jimmy: yeah, i know. you got to get that tip from you guys. yeah, no, exactly. but i just saw a picture of you. a little spaced out. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: i got t

talk radio show, "the nick and artie show," nick dipaolo and artie lange are stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: hilarious! they're hilarious. >> jimmy: talking the sports. and of course the one and only martha stewart is here. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: that's a gift for thanksgiving! >> jimmy: she's here all show. she's giving us some great after-thanksgiving tips. and if that wasn't enough, later on in the show, she'll teach us how to make the ultimate thanksgiving leftover sandwich. that's everyone's favorite. it's my favorite part. yeah. what do you love on your -- >> steve: turkey. [ laughter ] on my sandwich? >> jimmy: yeah, the whole thing. >> steve: okay, well start with bread. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> steve: then i'll put some turkey on there. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. that's enough. [ laughter ] hey, let's say hello to martha stewart, everybody. right there! oh my goodness. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ happy thanksgiving, martha. >> i saw you at the parade this morning. >> jimmy: oh, you did? yeah.

the british prime minister has embarked on a low key arms tour to the middle east but as artie's party boy explains of both the leaves being chazen david cameron sails page raising mold in a few eyebrows. in the past the british prime minister has spoken about how britain's interests line up holding the country's values but it was all interests and no talk of values this morning when david cameron touched down in dubai he's going to be trying to sell over one hundred. fighter jets to the leaders of the united arab emirates and saudi arabia that's despite concerns about person peddling fighter jets to regimes with questionable human rights records david cameron says he's happy to discuss human rights as well as lucrative bonds contracts with countries that he calls old partners but it looks like talk about human rights is familiar rhetoric to justify a long standing tradition of toys to less than squeaky clean gulf states sandhurst military academy behind me last year i accepted a three million pound donation from the kingdom of bahrain inside these gates sandhurst offices train in the

de-militarized zone between the two countries breaching a decades old cease fire more details from artie's middle east correspondent paul sr. what we're hearing from the israeli defense establishment is that they do believe that this syrian tank movement is linked to infighting in syria and is not an act of aggression against the state of israel she having said that though the i.d.f. has been on the lookout for precisely this kind of development for several months now it has since the syrian inciting approached the israeli border the i.d.f. has filed a complaint with the united nations over the ceasefire violation and at the same time it has raised its alert in the north of the concrete what it is now waiting for is for the united nations disengagement force to oversee the withdrawal of these tanks that into this demilitarized zone in the central golan heights at the same time we understand that the tanks were taking part in battles between syrian rebels when it was since the nine hundred sixty seven six day war the whole issue of the golan heights has remained a bone of contention between

when it comes to the outside world on the economy there's a deepening rift as artie's laura smith reports obama's victory is getting only a muted response and the old world. europe is very unwilling to commit any more troops to anymore battles abroad the problems in the middle east i think the us the us is having reflect hugely in europe and in fact in a poll published in desh biegel newspaper in germany we have that sort of almost foreign policy rating in europe has drop since his election in two thousand and you know i from eighty three percent to seventy one percent said people here are clearly worried about that and of course i think the major. moose pressing issue is the economy the u.s. economy and how it recovers has a huge knock on effects in europe in the u.s. appears to be in a much slower recovery than was hoped for many are worried that obama isn't doing as much as he could be to. be a little fall in unemployment and little increase in the size of the private sector and in fact this yeah the european countries in here the median and the u.s. entered into a sort of war of words

numbers hamas claims it came out of the window and some israelis now say the governments failed them as artie's policia reports. alyssa and rachel are packing for the us a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave if you spend very anxious living on air like knowing that at any moment besides like last time after going to a bomb shelter and like it's being scared on public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think it finished it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued we could have achieved a. better result from it's i do think th

dumb old freeboard just gone in video for your media projects and free media oh god artie dot com you. hid in sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them wealth. cut. also. you know. it wasn't. when i was. you can. certainly can't do it. only if there is social change you can be the afghans themselves afghan women. because. it's. people in the obama administration how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. do we speak your language or not of the. news programs in spanish matters to you. a little. kiddies stories. are you here. to. visit. welcome back you're watching live from moscow britain has joined france in recognizing the new syrian opposition unity group as a soldier them a voice of the syrian people the u.k. has also pledged more practical support for the rebels but the wider e.u. block and the us stopped short of giving full endorsement to the coalition with washington saying the body must first prove its worth after its predec

tough campaign most americans forget they actually have a bigger choice than just two candidates and artie's been reminding them of the alternatives. here it is the venue for the next presidential debate with the alternative candidates in this election our studio in washington d.c. though it's not very big as you can see will make sure there is lots of room for discussion on issues that somehow don't fit into the mainstream media discourse here alternatives to obama and romney have effectively been pushed out of the major national debates we ask how and why. pushed out and quite literally jule styne presidential nominee from the green party was arrested on the day of the second presidential debate between mitt romney and barack obama in mid october right outside the venue where it took place she was there protesting her exclusion from the debate we were tightly bound with plastic restraints and tied to chairs for eight hours for daring to stand up and demand open debates turn out of presidential candidates had their own debate in chicago they brought up issues which the big party candidates

was a matter of hours were earlier coie by as well as demands for more time to respond to proposals artie's polls leader brings us the details and last one is in the human system a key hamas spokesperson that the ceasefire would be in effect on tuesday night we are subsequently hearing from the israeli foreign ministry who say that they won't allow twenty four hours they say that this announcement of a cease fire was premature that the military operation is continuing parallel to all the efforts on the diplomatic front they are is trying to have a gaza the death toll there was more than one hundred forty people killed while the whole south of israel is in the state of lockdown and there have been five israeli deaths to date his ladies are saying that they do want a long term solution and they also say they will be a decision within a day where they will not this cease fire will go into effect the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has held a brief press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and what came out of bed conference with a lot of the same american with ric

into allegations that arafat's may have been poisoned his remains have now been reburied in ramallah artie's middle east correspondent has more. chouse day the body of the former palestinian leader yasser arafat was removed from it's more than where it's been for the better part of eight years since he died back in two thousand and four and since that time the question has never been on said to him exactly what exactly killed the five most palestinians believe that israel was behind his killing although israel has repeatedly and consistently denied this at the time of his did if there was radioactive material that was found on his clothing what we're witnessing now is an investigation that is seeing a team of international investigators take samples of these tissues they will believe any case against various countries around the world will be told that it will take several months but then hopefully once and for all we will be an answer to the question as to what exactly killed the former palestinian leader when we talk about the death of yasser arafat is a lot of behind the scenes political

over a billion dollars building an ambitious double towers skyscraper for its headquarters but as artie's mori and austin are reports it's already become a symbol of the e.u.'s doomed future. at a time when many europeans are unable to pay their mortgages and a kicked out of their homes and spain's forced to approve a suspension of addictions after a woman killed herself in desperation the european central bank is preparing for a house warming party the european treasury symbolic new building will be the tallest on frankford skyline when it's complete but so far it seems the projects faced sky high criticism first of all for its ten digit price tag. we think the project is to shoot an ugly we lost that you see b. to use its money more carefully chosen from taxpayers and trusted to them. stephen meissner from germany's party of reason doesn't see any reason to spend that much money on a piece of real estate but he says he sees a reasonable explanation of why the sky's the limit for the european union's economic monopoly they never run out of money it's just come to me and the other taxpaye

pursues the its asia focus china welcomes its next generation of leaders and crosstalk artie's peter lavelle and his guests discuss how the changes could affect the shaky diplomacy between washington and beijing for programmers coming up in the next hour but here's a quick look. for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. effort to reassure china it is not trying to do religious groups but to some degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine would you'll see it the whole western really u.s. government turned suddenly sharply to support their opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. i'll be back with the world news in just over half an hour before that it's sport with kate after this break. commission free accreditation free transport charges free the maint

into the arty world of there we go with a massive fire in a. town has killed eleven and injured many more five women and four children are among the dead well over five hundred homes have been destroyed in a densely populated area near the capital but the cause of the blaze is being investigated officials believe a cigarette or more scioto coil could be to blame. tens of thousand people have rallied across france protesting against the government's plans to legalize same sex marriage and child adoption demonstrators don't. paint colors in an alteration of the french flag they claim the draft law which will be debated in parliament in january would undermine traditional family values and the foundations of society. barack obama is in thailand on his first official trip abroad since being reelected his three country tour of southeast asia as part of a shift in american foreign policy with a deeper commitment to a region that seeing growing chinese influence obama is due to travel to cambodia next and will then become the first ever u.s. president

here artie. kaiser report is coming up here on r.g.p. after a short break stay with us. in this remote siberians in which people still sing the sounds which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers he resigned the area are a conservative community they're known as the simi skeer a word which refers to family. if i may believe there yet again i feel that i now am the first to tell you that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. yesterday i think. you know that. i did ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to

artie's the channel giving american voters a different perspective each day in the full choice of white house hopefuls to choose from monday the final debate between third party candidates live from our d.c. studios. two parties. keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power and. what if america changes. this election close monday nov fifth on our team. russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev says the pussy riot punk band should not have been jailed for their moscow cathedral stunt but expressed condemnation over their ethics ocean. it's you who these people are very unpleasant to me both on the outside and only in they filled me with extreme negative emotions so much so that i don't like talking about them but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough. three members of pussy riot were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing their so-called punk praye

lower join us songes again out of the headlines as a media speculates on the condition of his health artie's laura smith exclusively spoke to him ad they could dorian embassy in london where he has been holed up for almost six months. as any journalist working in london now is i'm pretty familiar with standing outside the ecuadorian embassy waiting for julian assange is to come out and talk from the balcony just to my right here but this evening i've been inside an embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written a book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet and that's what he really wants to talk about at the moment and we did talk about that we talked about how he sees this increase in state surveillance is hugely damaging for the entire fabric of society how companies and governments can minute the internet for data that is placed there willingly but unwittingly by citizens all over the world let's just listen into a little bit of what he said about that we all think of. some kind of rome where we can throw our ideas and communication with writers and books and t

suspicion and infighting formed a new block on sunday and now seeking full international backing artie's a middle east correspondent paula sphere takes up the story for us. six the gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people and the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set to set up a so-called government in exile if indeed this happens this will have the backing of western as well as arab states there are fears that this could set up a libya style scenario what we saw in libya was opposition fighters setting themselves up as an alternative government that got the backing of the international community and ultimately led to nato airstrikes and foreign intervention so there are concerns that that might happen here in syria there was also a number question about just how feasible the spa position group is really we're looking at a patchwork of various organizations here it is made up of the rebe

obama over romney because of his softer talk on foreign policy he doesn't quite walk the walk as artie's got it she can now reports. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are on american family and we rise or fall together as one nation out of the fiscal cliff thing for him right after reelection is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff is probably not the first issue addressed by the president. he also rise the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes due to reported heavy civilian casualties on the lack of transparency on the u.s. part we're in unch

and some measures introduced to avoid those breakdowns threaten the transparency of the process as artie's marrying up at night reports from new york. for the first time in history americans are embracing election day in the shadow of a deadly super storm that left behind a trail of devastation and voting disruptions here in new york city sixty polling sites have been relocated due to the unprecedented damage caused by sandy just one week ago city officials say military trucks will also be used as makeshift polling stations in areas still without electricity this is of course to ensure that citizens were all be able to cast their votes in their writing jersey millions are being allowed to cast their ballot by fax mail or online the last minute decision was made after a reported two hundred fifty polling sites in the garden state were damaged by last week's superstorm now as government officials along the east coast are scrambling to ensure that millions are not disenfranchised from the presidential election cyber security experts warn them online voting can't be verifiably secure and this

struggle this is as a rand take steps to increase its part in mediating the syrian crisis but as artie's reports taking sides could be an obstacle. to pay for. the conflict in syria sees no end but iran and here regional power and indicated ally of syria is continuing and intensifying its efforts for a peaceful resolution to undermine their diplomatic mission to find north violent and to the civil war on its doorstep that had offered to host representatives from all sides of the fighting in syria at a closed door today gathering no to violence yes democracy took his request for nate to missiles to be deployed on its border with syria drew the scorn of iran's foreign ministry who said all that would do is aggravate tensions across the whole region and violence has actually already intensified following the latest interventions from western and some arab diplomats when the syrian opposition formed the syrian national coalition as and see it quickly received recognition as legitimate voice of the people from the likes of britain and france which even backed its conviction by confirming it w

you're watching artie's weekly news review i'm carrie johnston but first tensions between gaza and israel have risen again as the two sides exchange rounds of heavy artillery fire massive explosions can be heard rocking the area at the moment dozens of palestinians were killed on sunday what was the bloodiest day of the campaign filmmaker and journalist eric fear in gaza. in the last few hours we've been hearing increasing noises from the gazan population and political analysts here saying that they do feel that a ground invasion is impending still a few hours ago and yesterday that was looking increasingly unlikely but now it's looking increasingly likely as things have really rescue later i mean west gaza city where most of the internationals are based and here things are better but if you leave this small radius safe zone safe zone things become extremely dangerous all of the cars here for the press international's drive with hazard lights on so that israel knows that these are civilian press cars most people are in their homes seeking refuge in the best way that they can i don't know

million euros worth of concessions for greece a hefty bill that will be footed by german taxpayers artie's peter oliver is in berlin. the opposition members of the social democrat party have merkel and her center right coalition that's the start is not merely a rubber stamping service and if they want to push through this latest package they're going to have to prove to m.p.'s that it's in the best interest of germany what this latest package contains is a bond buy back scheme low interest rates on the debts that greece has as well as the hunting over of profit from. what they see in chile means though is that for twenty thirteen germany is set to lose around seven hundred thirty million euros due to implementing these latest measures all of that of course not making great reading for chancellor merkel she said time and time again that the german taxpayer would not be hit financially by germany giving help to greece now they have to admit that that is going to happen and this is all happening on the basis that greece can pay some of it back by twenty sixteen where it should be back on its

both among politicians and the people about the costs the country has to bear for the rescue well arty's up into all of this now from berlin with more on this what does this say package essentially mean for the eaves biggest economy. well what it means is that germany will be giving more financial aid towards greece now we saw m.p.'s voting in the reichstag with four hundred seventy three saying yes to this aid package one hundred saying no and eleven stand shin's now what this does mean no and it's been talked about throughout the week is next year alone it could cost germany over seven hundred million euros but we are seeing the politicians at least giving their support financial support towards greece however that support isn't being particularly backed up by some of the electorate here people on the streets of germany suggesting that perhaps greece should be left to its own devices. that is enough because we won't see this money ever again. ok but. at some point it should be stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves we're ok for now but some day we could also go

laws and follow them ourselves the process and minuses there's no absolute answer to that i feel artie's results were inconclusive it seems whether you're the prime minister you're a skeptic a member of the public or just a reporter trying to judge the outcome of a possible future referendum is next to impossible right now the recent newspaper poll found more than half of these asked would vote to leave the e.u. in a referendum what's clear is that if britain is to remain a part of the e.u. things are going to have to change how do you keep everyone happy or that's the trick it's a trick and a magic keeping everyone happy is by treating them as individuals not true as nothing. whether it's the sums of money finally agreed upon in the budget debate all the final counts of the referendum should the u.k. have one when it comes to persist in the year a club numbers it's clear will play a very big part. and david cameron has warned he could veto the e.u. budget if the numbers are not to his liking but stephen wolf from the u.k. independence party says the whole euro project has already failed

was a matter of hours were earlier quassia by israel's demand for more time to respond to proposals artie's policy or brings us the details. the tonsils for ceasefire are increasingly elusive it's a far cry today wednesday what we witnessed from late tuesday when we were hearing that a cease fire was imminent at that stage a key hamas spokesperson said that the announcement would be made but now what we're hearing from hamas is that israel is to blame for delaying the whole process and thus essential he says that israel has not yet responded to proposals put forward on the table television however for its side says that the draft agreement is too much tilted towards the gardens it also says it wants to see a twenty four hour lull in fighting that would give it some kind of indication as to the sincerity of the gazans to actually enforce such a cease fire it's strange because you have all these discussions around a cease fire but on the ground you have a very different situation so at this stage it is still possible that a ground operation could be called on we in fact are hearing from the i

is not exactly enthusiastic if you use a bomb as flawed but moderate and the lesser of two evils artie's middle east correspondent paula samir reports. what we have seen from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that he has not shied away from making it publicly known that he would have preferred a republican inside the white house what we now witnessing and what we have seen in the past is sometimes very public clashes public spats between the obama administration and israeli leaders and these were often over the iranian nuclear program as well as the palestinians peace talks now there are commentaries at the moment circulating here in israel that say that netanyahu now has a very serious problem on his hands and there is no way that he can cover it up a recent poll put the support amongst israelis towards romney at fifty seven percent twenty one percent supporting a bomb or under the watch as of netanyahu and obama the relationship between the united states and israel has deteriorated to an all time low and the big question of course is the whole question of what netanyahu

and you can tune into watch artie's full exclusive interview with the syrian president later today or it's available any time online at r.t. dot com. all of you who have thought about all living it's a bold contribute thief or not so both of the only that we've been fighting us here i think for the president to still to leave is a popular issue if not both senators the only way to define this. through the ballot box thought it's not about what we hear bits about what we came to get through that box and that box with any president to stay or leave the shar our side didn't r.t. exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com iraq's defense minister has denied the country has cancelled a major arms deal with russia the four billion dollars sale has been put under review by baghdad and it concerns of internal corruption artie's sean thomas has the details there. certainly it has been a very curious and confusing as information and details have been coming out about this story throughout the day regarding the arms deal in the cancellation of this arms deal now r.t. has spoken with

he was sacked by president vladimir putin earlier this month following corruption allegations is artie's tomba. police searched eighteen holiday in recreational cottages outside moscow used by former defense minister and italy sergio colvin eighteen defense officials those cottages were rented by another defense official himself arrested in connection with the defense contractor. and the possibility that it was involved with corruption involving the defense ministry this all comes after you have guinea a vastly over a high figure within the defense ministry and a close associates. she herself has been charged with embezzlement she was involved with a defense contractor all the wrongs service and a few weeks ago the scandal broke that there possibly was alleged to have been a scheme to sell off eleven million dollars worth of defense property cheaply if she's convicted gania could face up to ten years in prison and unfortunately it goes beyond that as well possibly into russia's. satellite navigation system as well the company involved with building that russian space systems is alleged t

ok we'll leave it there polly artie's polly. the hague tribunal for war crimes has a quickie course of his former prime minister and two of his aides for a second time but i moved out of the match was facing numerous charges of murder and torture of surge during the war in yugoslavia at the end of the nine hundred ninety s. political analyst alexander pavitra says the quake will show us just thai predeceased the high court case. because the tribunal was that our might be man he really wanted was going to or united states was the all the country that really mattered in parallel with their own rules and so a tribunal would be going to quit designed to be much of the interview preserve to make sure that the servant declared the guilty party and all the war grew ninety instead of hard by a while by the way western intervention military and diplomatic i think made her little green men fear her going to have a chance to our actually when it came upon a reminder or memories bank that in fact the hague tribunal was the way was set up wa

but the truce had a shaky start with several rockets fired towards israel after a deal was reached artie's post leader has more from tel aviv. i in some of the fiercest fighting we've witnessed in years between israelis and palestinians if indeed the truce holds it will mean that roughly one point seven million gazans will have a spine now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with it to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant barrage of rockets but i say if it holds because it is perceived as being rather fragile it certainly is a truce that came by surprise it followed a day of deadly violence in which some twenty eight israelis were injured in the first bus bombing in tel aviv since two thousand and six and there were massive israeli air strikes over gaza so the sense on the ground particularly in the hours leading up to the announcement of the cease fire was that israel was going to go ahead with a ground offensive i don't know who has said that he is willing to give this truce

to see the current syrian regime toppled the new group was tasked with unifying rebel ranks but as artie's polis leader reports the plan may have been doomed from the beginning. this comes after days of political wrangling amongst the various syrian opposition forces they have been under pressure from both the united states as well as arab governments to form this unified body it is a sixty member assembly but it really brings together a wide array of people and organizations with very different affiliations it is essentially a patchwork organization amongst the new leaders are sunni muslims as well as a christian former communist and among the rebel fighters are those coming from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds with many asking the question whether or not that infighting and whether or not those ethnic and political differences can be put aside the goal is really to try and organize it beautifully and also potentially to send went to the syrian opposition within the country and we're already hearing from one opposition member such as bush and from germany the united states

own laws and follow them ourselves the process of minuses there's no absolute answer that i feel artie's results were inconclusive it seems whether you're the prime minister you're a skeptic a member of the. public or just a reporter trying to judge the outcome of a possible future referendum is next to impossible right now a recent newspaper poll found more than half of those asked would vote to leave the e.u. in a referendum what's clear is that if britain is to remain a part of the e.u. things are going to have to change how do you keep everyone happy. that's a trick it's a trick and a magic people everyone happy is treating them as individuals not treating them as numbers whether it's the sums of money finally agreed upon in the budget debate all the final count of the referendum should the u.k. have one when it comes to persist in the year or a club numbers it's clear will play a very big part. of the london despite the painful divide over the next budget any piece did manage to achieve compromise on defense and security in the european parliament has passed a resolution aimed at ke

warning gazans that if rocket fire doesn't stop within our sail be subjected to a ground operation artie's middle east correspondent policy or joins us now with the latest from tel and the of paula judging by what's emerged from peace talks in cairo so far is israel sending troops into gaza a far cry. well egyptian mediators are hardly trying to put together the general terms for a cease fire the idea is that both sides if they agree to a truce in theory then the specific details can be hammered out later why israel has said that if no ceasefire agreement is reached within the next twenty four hours it will go ahead with a ground offensive at a meeting late on monday night the israeli government decided to give cairo more time to try and reach a cease fire agreement and that is worth while today today tuesday they will be mediation talks happening in cairo those talks are expected to be decisive and what we're hearing from senior egyptian officials is that they're not fall from a breakthrough although they are urging the israeli side to show more flexibility at the same time however there

also accuses the western media of twisting the facts in its reporting of the civil war more from artie's a policy. of the russian. minister sergei lavrov speaking in the jordanian capital of amman has warned against western powers supplying syrian opposition fighters with illegal weapons he says that russia has evidence as well as information that the fighters are being supplied with high tech a face of equipment more than fifty stinger has a chemical in the hands of the bullfighters and that equipment is u.s. made now lavrov also said that he was very surprised to find out that the b.b.c. says it has information that russia is supplying syria with weapons of mass destruction he said it was amazing to hear from a correspondent of such a respected corporation such claims being made at the same time he did say that russia was finishing its arms shipment to damascus and that these were deals that were made and old contracts but that the distinction needs to be made that these are only defensive weapons weapons that are not being used in the conflict by comparison with the type of weapons th

artie's andrew farmer reporting for us there now an r k from the european partnership for independence explains that fears of exclusion from the e.u. are part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities as no there's not such stress of that that we would be out of the european union some a half million us people suddenly you know how that would be more difficult actually to manage who to order what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like it's cutline i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as you know us are going to suffer to the nation we talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like a dead mike economy that we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not that it should syria that country and more disun

through the streets of egypt the biggest cities as well as the expert comment on the crisis vailable in artie's website at r.t. dot com. the people of spain's maze prosperous and most tax region will choose a new parliament on sunday their choice could ultimately decide whether to cut the loony al will remain a part of spain or go it alone after being stricken by the financial demands of central government to andrew farmer has the story. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially aspirate independence is something people here have long felt in their hearts but now they're feeling it in their pockets. i think it's a good idea to be in the band them from. a country. which is. really really bad situation is a bargain for. it's a bargain for the good friday cats and i'm flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought

that will be with artie's abby martin and breaking news that. it's perched atop a jaw drop under view from the tobolsk prevalence stretches as far as that i can see up for a city that chilled all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers of them selves and blessid water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. there when you pull up on board them it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard church is the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the o

uncertainty during his acceptance speech obama assured americans that the best was still ahead but as artie's guy in a chicken reports the best may be more of the same with and the winner was i wanted. more to say to them this is like the you made your voice her you made it there for me romney has accepted his role. just as it will be. later victory. full on excitement in the president's hometown of chicago to president obama's daughters chanting four more years. survivor what do they expect in the next four years and are they so happy with the past four of his presidency congress hasn't been very cooperative the past two years but i think he needs these four more years to continue i'm very happy with what he's tried to achieve i really need to have the help of the health care that he's going to offer and like i said we need more time than the last four years the main pledge of president obama's campaign it's been to bring back the shrinking middle class and made the economy slow recovery and gigantic deficit at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is as high as ever in america i

game changer of twenty twelve america's election system had already been considered controversial artie's an assessor churkin explains you elected me to tell you the truth honesty is the best policy while maybe not in u.s. elections two words define why people hate america double standard on everything in this presidential election season these two words are back in full swing the basic definition of a double standard is a rule or principle unfairly applied in different ways to different people or group . let's find out if this is relevant to the u.s. election system from questionable voter id regulations to shortened early voting time slots to gerrymandering or rejoicing congressional district lines to favor certain party laws affecting voters' rights are passed left and right and vary state by state you have an eric holder this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required actually forgot my id. yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can effect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one ther

and there's more on europe's economic and legal turbulence in artie's business bulletin later this full update coming here dimitri that's right we've got the story of italian prosecutors basically buying a lawsuit against the stand and board and fitch rating agencies for manipulating the market during sovereign rating cuts and we're looking at how this could potentially change the way rates as well. and that's about twenty five minutes back to the present the syrian conflict continues to break its borders with israel now feeling the ripple effect the jewish state fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days in response to mortar shells landing in the golan heights is artie's pulis lier. a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of in his lady defense force a military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israel

suicide bombing in the flashpoint city of hamas activists suggest the target was an army checkpoint artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer joins us live now with more details paula the attack is one of the largest in recent months give us details as to what happened. will be the mission we have is that as sort of a side car bomb explosion took place near a military post in the central syrian government of hama now the authorities say that two people were killed although we hearing from the syrian opposite of a treat for human rights that at least fifty soldiers and progress fight has died at the post where this happened is near the center for rule development is the largest gathering place for troops and pro regime militia men fall in the region we are also hearing reports that up to one ton of explosives was used it comes as a six foot attack which takes place in the capital city of damascus now in that incident three women and excuse me heat children and. women were killed when they was hit by a mortar the show and this just yesterday even as people were injured in central damascu