play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy. tom watson r t baikonur. stay with r.t. for president putin's a q. and a media marathon after the break. richest soften enough knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine they just thought it was a forced breeder on the island of horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horses what they're sometimes it gets lonely here horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes big bites as well it's part of my every day like. i home suburban home to it make brats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land but cattle and fish. if my call is often called the pearl of siberia horn is said to be the pearl of by call it's all end of fake forests. and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i h

play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music you know be able to look down on her as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from last week sounding spacemen merry christmas. happy new year. tom watson r t baikonur. and we'll be broadcasting the launch live here on r.t. and also online so the lift off at twelve minutes past. e.m.t. and you can learn more about the mission on our website at r.t. dot com. also it's revealed that the british spent over one hundred thirty million pounds a year on phone calls to find out how much tax they have to pay. thousands of marched on the presidential palace in cairo egypt opposition continues to protest against the proposed constitution which is backed by the president and the muslim brotherhood the document has been criticized for being a virtually islamist which many fear could limit people's social freedoms whether the draft will prevail is being decided in a two stage referendum which kicked off last saturday and the results show most egyptians had voted in favor of the new constitut

play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from last week sounding spacemen merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur. well some retired olympians choose a coaching career others take a very different path this three time champion admits to taking part in a very different kind of athletics to make a living find out more online plus. with two thousand and twelve doomsday finally by those don't be so quick to plan for the future as our team dot com brings you details of how and when the ball might actually. with the clock ticking down to christmas festive shoppers are racing through decorated streets to pick up some last minute gifts for their loved ones but the season of goodwill isn't extending to some of those beneath the bright lights and ten so whose only holiday wishes for a hot meal and a place to sleep are he's married important has more from new york. imagine a country with no homeless people i know it's not the most.

play songs that are important to me you shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music to look down although as we celebrate so we seasonings preachings sweet son sweets merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur as extern. western states which are losing control over syrian rebels have no appetite for intervention in the syrians. civil war and that's according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov also say about the countries were apparently praying that russia and china carry on blocking them anywhere as they are simply not ready to use force both states have repeatedly vetoed this kind of resolution on syria are to spoke exclusively to the foreign minister i would describe as worrying the fact that the international community is failing to condemn rebel atrocities. groups of that position which several which which are not united on this single come month the whole series of acceptable methods absolutely contrary to international humanitarian law. they can cause the just. the staging terrorist attacks and that it's very disheartening that w

i feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy new year. tom watson r t baikonur does extend. by the couple of minutes the profits off apocalypse for him doomsday means payday stay with us. deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will cut myself am i going to tax my brother understand my contacts. going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. that upgrader well into the dome. two of the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model kill or be killed with colors matching the national flag. but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the violence they all made in america on the odyssey. one afternoon on the shores of the ocean blue. one of those days when it feels good to be alive on the planet earth. carefree humanity. maybe unthinking

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to open up my guitar and to play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on her as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy. baikonur. but next join us for a trip to the russian city of sochi as it prepares to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics. the rider that takes your breath away through eating across the sky as it was a mohnish could you know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds but also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world power weakens as well as other species of the monish who do low feed and face these words are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best cash for them is in a small area of the lake where the water is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salt of the month and the lakes getting salt every year the monish with the lows and all to fishel reservoir which wa

play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy. tom barton r t baikonur kazakhstan. will be broadcasting the launch live here on r.t.e. and also online so don't miss a lift off cosmic day g.m.t. and more about the mission at r.t. dot com. also on like a mega-star gerard deford your says he might consider russia search for a new one that is at the claims italy now says french citizenship center backs off from excruciating taxes. supporters of russian champion football teams and petersburg say they don't want any african or latin american players in the squad but claim it has nothing to do with racism dressed the clubs and management in a written manifesto where it's also stressed. that it will be tolerated. that was some insight on the story here which is what exactly is in this letter you see it. was part of the biggest point was just that they don't want any african players black players or

arms that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoy music or be able to look down on her as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding space merry christmas. happy. tom barton r t baikonur as extern. greece has ground to a halt with public sector workers walking out of their jobs in a twenty four hour nationwide strike in that putting pressure on the government over tough cuts well recent to good news such as the latest chance of bailout cash and a decision by ratings agency standard and poor's to raise the country's credit rating has done little to dissipate public anger a crisis a strategist comes out of the euro says the that he's in the uses of tangible benefit to the struggling population. the fact that the ratings agencies higher rating to be from the net there's a strike in the case what happened is that right now the international community i am not the c b a nice to have tours austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and so you see this strike going on of people a lot of people gett

play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur has extended. and a very merry christmas to you too the international news a brief first read in the. rallies have seen hundreds clashed with police in the capital protesters defied the government. which followed violence in the wake of the gang rape of a twenty three year old student on a bus police used tear gas and water cannons when crowds tried to bridge barricades in the central. time in the north of the country security forces shot dead a journalist covering a protest over a sex attack on. french arrange ruin christmas for many people not a kingdom was supposed to be the getaway weekends left many stranded as floods ravaged parts of southwest england cutting of communities and canceling trains home for the holidays it's not over yet either forecasters predict get more heavy rain while more than five hu

and play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music to look down on her as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings sweet sounding space merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur as a stone. and to pakistan now and a suicide bomber has blown himself up during a political rally leaving nine people dead these are the scene. of chaos in northwest pakistan after the blast the march was held by the awami national party part of pakistan's governing coalition more than twenty people injured in the attack were ferried to a local hospital a prominent local politician a member of the group died in the explosion the party supports secular ideals and has repeatedly been targeted by the taliban. presence across england have found themselves waiting through the streets after torrential rain their cars flooding the south west regions of devon and cornwall have borne the brunt of the severe weather emergency services have been overwhelmed as houses have damaged roads taken out flood warnings are still in place in the area. well i

and play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spacemen merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur. and there will be broadcasting the launch live here on r.t. and also online to don't miss liftoff past. and more about the mission and dot com. also a lot of moments it's revealed that the british spend over one hundred thirty million pounds a year on phone calls to find out how much tax they have to pay. regimes agency standard and poor's as raise the credit rating of greece's sovereign debt this comes just hours before a planned twenty four hour nationwide strike as people continue venting their frustration by a thousand cuts on monday athens received a french tranche of bailout funds from the e.u. and the international monetary fund however as one expert says despite the much anticipated cash the greek economy is far from salvation. the fact that the ratings agencies gave us a higher rating to be green bo

play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spacemen merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur. broadcasting the launch live here on r.t. and also online so don't miss the liftoff twelve minute past with a gnc and of course you can learn more about the mission r t v dot com. also online megastar gerard would you might consider russia his search for a new homeland as the actor claims elin down says french citizenship in search of excruciating taxes. supporters of russian champion football teams in the petersburg say they don't want any african or that an american players in the squad but claim it has nothing to do with racism they addressed the club's management in a written manifesto which also stressed that no man would be tolerated ortiz which had been portrayed gave us some insight on the story. i don't want any african players black players or latin american players and to be honest that's an absol

soyuz rocket which will take three men on their student to the international space station chris hadfield thomas marshburn andrew man and woman in co are the three crew who have been preparing for this moment an issue for four years now and throughout their careers they're going to be up there for months a lot of hard work to do letters stand back and watch the culmination of all the efforts go into this launch. the crew now face months of work up on the international space station thomas marshburn himself is a trained doctor and he'll be conducting many experiments among them examining the effects of weightlessness on the human body also experiments up there looking at medical technology arms on the i assess and a number of space walks to help conduct maintenance on that orbital space station it's been a difficult to years for the russian space agency there have been a number of accidents with various spacecraft in the past couple of years including a supply rocket that fell back to earth and a mission to examine one of the martian moons that never got further than earth's atmosphere they had a

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thomas. >> nbc's chris jansing reporting for us there. the host of "jansing & company" here on msnbc. chris, thanks so much. senator joe lieberman speaking on the house floor right now. talking about what this tragedy has meant to him. he's an independent. we'll listen in for a second. >> -- the act of a madman. or mad people. this time, they said it reflects a deeper problem in our society. and i believe what causes that change is that 20 of the victims in newtown, connecticut, were young children. and there is not only a heartbreak across our country about this, not only anger, but i think there's guilt. and we all ought to feel guilty because as a society, what the attacks in newtown said to us is that, we have failed to fulfill what would seem to be our most natural -- natural law. if you will. responsibility which is to protect the safety and lives of our children. >> senator joe lieberman talking on the senate floor saying they ought to feel guilty, referencing himself and his other colleagues, that americans aren't protected by stricter gun laws in this country. the senator the

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thomas and steven are typical of many in their generation. good jobs by day, obsessed with "call of duty" when they get home. dr. chris ferguson has conducted a series of multi-year studies of 11 to 18-year-olds to find out what violent games do to them. his conclusion -- >> there's no evidence to suggest that exposure to violent video games is associated with violent criminal behavior. >> reporter: he has a name for the outcry over violent games that sometimes follows a mass shooting. he calls it moral panic. >> whenever a new form of media that comes out that particularly older generations don't use and don't understand is very, very common for that new medium to be blamed for a variety of social ills. >> reporter: in the 1950s, it was comic books and a full senate hearing over the belief that they were making america's kids turn violent. >> what are we afraid of? are we afraid of our own children? do we forget that they are citizens too? and entitled to the essential freedom to read? or do we think our children so evil, so vicious, so simple minded that it takes but a comic magazine story of murder to set them to m

thomas boyd said, with federal help, the town will rebuild. >> seaside heights is never leaving. we're going to rebuild and we're staying. >> reporter: governor chris christie worked closely with the president. now he's going to washington to ask directly for help. >> with damage like this, stretching for miles, governor chris christie said, new jersey will need $37 billion to repair the damage. >> reporter: after meeting at the white house, christie met with members of congress to tell them what new jersey needs. new york's governor did the same earlier this week. they said the president is committed to helping. >> he knows that our work is not done any more than the work in the states is done. >> reporter: president obama is expected to ask congress for about $50 billion in storm relief. new york, new jersey and connecticut say they need $83 billion. the deans say they would be grateful for a straight answer. >> what should the federal government do? >> cut through the red tape. and get people in line with what they're doing. with congress in the midst of intense budget talks, communities like this know, they may have to fight for every dollar. r

> and all-state ceo thomas wilson joins us to explain how a decline over the cliff would affect the insurance giant. maria and i will see you at the top of the hour, the annual chrisighting at the new york stock exchange today and eye vanka trump will be along to help us out with that. >> wow. some of her own crystal there >> she is very beautiful, i have to say. >> i could say that, too, i suppose. but i won't. >>> iran says it shot down an american drone in the gulf. the navy is saying no. all of our drones are accounted for. what we do know is what kind of drone we are talking about. phil lebeau has experience actually with launching one? were you in the cia, phil? >> i wasn't in the cia, but i have launched, still -- >> you have to tell us. >> the scan eagle drone, don't like to call at a drone at boeing, made by boeing, subsidiary in oregon make it unmanned aerial vehicle. essentially, the navy, the intelligence, military, they have been using the scan eagle for a number of year, ten years they have been use it. costs roughly $100,000. here is the deal with this scan eagle it stays aloft for about 24 hours, continually circling over, monitoring and feeding ba

admiral mike mullen and ambassador thomas pickering spoke about the report they authored on the september 11 attack in benghazi, libya that killed u.s. ambassador chrisstevens and three other americans. the report cited systemic failures, leadership and management efficiencies and inadequate security at the consulate facility. state department officials, including eric boswell, assistant secretary of state had resigned in the wake of the report. next, senators on the foreign relations committee who received the report speak to reporters. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> my understanding is that the standard with which the accountability looked at people with very high standard called breach of duty. but there's no question that there were people within the state department that were remiss to did not execute an inappropriate way. there's also cultural issues and they would no doubt numbers of problems. i would just state that secretary clinton was unable to deal to testify tomorrow in an open setting. i do think they involved concerned in an open session by an attorney changing of the regime. i think it's important to really under