the further creeping encroachments of the state prying eyes and ears into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. how the news looks are we back with the headlines in about ten minutes but first santa claus is coming to town the moscow team takes an inside look at the vinyl getting ready for a unique christmas in the russian capital. welcome merry christmas. taking a look at some final preparations for the christmas holidays it's along. here but still some people leave everything. including that one crucial the traditional the good old festive buttery. another year has flown by and the new year period is here again. this happens much later as christmas in the country's most widely celebrated on january the seventh cooling calendar new year's day january the first precedes the christmas celebrated as a more important holiday and is the day when we can really give presents. it was. ten fifteen years ago. almost celebrated christmas day. weekend for. catholics here soul. expect rest. christmas day. by a trade the choice is online companies shops and. houses like this one for the demand. come

the further creeping encroachments of the state prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. news will be back with the headlines in about ten minutes but first santa claus is coming to town the moscow team takes an inside look at the final preparations for a unique christmas in the russian capital stay with us for the. welcome merry christmas. to the christmas holidays it's along. here but still some people everything. including that one. the good old. tree. another year has flown by and the new year is here again. this happens much as christmas in the country's most widely celebrated on january the seventh cooling calendar. day january the first christmas celebrated as a more important holiday and as the day. presents. its. fifteen years to go. no. dear soul. expect. christmas when. you buy a tree the choice. online companies shops and. houses all greenhouses like this one for the demand. comes to choosing a christmas tree as it's called and people are increasingly divided between those who opt for a convenient artificial tree. each has its advantages and is much ch

calling it a staggering invasion of privacy and claim people's rights will be violated artie's laura smith has more. in oxford surveillance cameras everywhere and now in a city council scheme taxis will become the latest targets of state bugging operations over the next few years license cabs will be required to install equipment monitoring both driver and passenger it's a fact of life in towns and cities across the u.k. that you'll being watched wherever you go on the high street in shops on public transport the surveillance along this stretch of street will only record images but the systems in taxis will record sound to effectively eavesdropping on the conversations of private citizens who fear for their security late at night or reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think is good idea i think it will make people feel a bit safer it's amazing and pretty same advice you have to talk enticing just like chatty friends and not be recorded you've got to get. a lot of pressure on people. day and night recording will stop when the car engine switched on and end thirty m

further creeping in creech meant that the states prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith that. a russian soyuz spacecraft has docked with the international space station bringing a replacement crew to the i assess the docking took about three hours in the space made from the rocket only i assess how finally met out the outgoing crew is busy giving the new hammers a tour around the station all the crew members are holding a video conference with families and top russian space three new members will spend five months in orbit conducting dozens of experiments but it's not all good news today as a russian satellite has plummeted back to earth after failing to reach orbit friday a soyuz booster blasted off from a cosmic home in central russia but it didn't take the meridian military communications probe to orbit official suspect a rocket failure to blame in that instance. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of egyptian protesters gathered in cairo's tahrir square to rally against military violence demonstrators demanded security forces

further creeping encroachments of the state's prying eyes and ears into innocent people's lives laura smithoxford. a russian satellite has reportedly plummeted back to earth after failing to reach orbit friday officials suspect a rocket failure to blame an investigation is underway a soyuz booster blasted off from a cosmic roam in central russia but couldn't take the meridian military communications probe to orbit the accident could cost the russian space agency about six hundred million dollars but there are many more space excesses than failures and most successful soyuz launch has reached its target docking with the international space station crew members up to the i.s.a.'s will spend five months in orbit conducting dozens of experiments and if you're lucky and have a clear enough sky you can actually watch the docking from right here on earth. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of egyptian protesters gathered in cairo's tahrir square to rally against military violent demonstrators demanded security forces step down after soldiers were caught b

deport them for their offenses by using the legal loophole that allows them to stay as artie's laura smith reports the right to a family life is not an absolute right and it must not be used to drive a coach and through our immigration system. article eight an innocuous sounding element in the human rights act but which means having children can stop illegal immigrants being kicked out of britain no matter what they've done pull houston knows what it's like to have your family destroyed his twelve year old daughter amy was killed in a hit and run by an iraqi who was banned from driving as she was crossing the road . the driver of the car the runner or. encourage on the corridor in the apollo the car and. she became trapped under the wheels of the car. you basically for saying a letter to a guy trapped under the wheels a little car amy's killer asso mohammed abraham already had a string of minor convictions even before he moved her down and fled but because he subsequently fathered two children by a british woman he still lives in the u.k. it's article eight that keeps him here oddly enough

correspondent in london laura smith of there's more testimony to come about the world's big events of the year brought to you from our reporters throat twenty eleven if you missed any of them they're also available our web site r t v dot com . updating you know on a story we brought you a couple of hours ago massive fire of one of russia's biggest nuclear submarines has been successfully put out earlier on the vessel called a cut through bore caught fire earlier on thursday while undergoing repairs in the northwest will demand screen officials say there were no casualties and no radiation leak at all nuclear missiles and conventional rockets have been removed before the maintenance started it took eleven firefighting crews though and navy fire boat to battle the ten meter high flames at its worst the emergencies ministry also says the sub had to be partially submerged to extinguish the biggest fire it's not known exactly how it started but investigations underway one twenty one am moscow time arguably the best place to turn for insight about the events that made headlines this year is

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the further creeping encroachments of the state prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. now plenty more stories for you on our website here's what's online for you right now at r.t. dot com. a ship loaded with american missiles disguised as fireworks gets busted into finnish forward with a shipment believed to be on route to u.s. ally south korea. and the man who changed the world the way we listen to music is to be posthumously awarded a grammy find out what revolutionary treatments led to steve jobs getting the top honor the u.s. music industry has to give. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan to kill twenty four soldiers a report by the u.s. government said the alliance was retail using against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack in a van were put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close the border routes

the further creeping encroachments of the states prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. all right before we get to katie with the business news let's start with the world update here at c n n when we begin in the czech republic it's where world leaders have gathered in part to attend the funeral of former president. who died on sunday age seventy five the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton former president bill clinton and several a group of european heads of state are also among the mourners at one time a dissident writer turned politician and let the czech republic's transition to democracy and overstored split from slovakia thousands of people turned out on thursday to pay their last respects during a state funeral procession. chinese or riot police have fired tear gas to break up nasty cross tests in a small town in southern china is the fourth day of rallies against the construction when you were stationed activists also think an existing coal fired power plant has contributed to a rise in cancer cases as well as what we see pollution in a crowded demon

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article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughter's immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . now at twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow as you bear in mind you can always find more stories on our website dot com let's see what's lined up for you there right now. helping out find out how to groups of crack computer whiz kids known as anonymous and poison joining forces to steal from the banks and give to the poor or. the head of russia's parliamentary elections or you can begin your battle for power in an online debate the way to wield influence in such a hands. the people prepared to speak. in duma elections eleven. in-depth coverage of this one the hearts and minds of the russian people. watching r.t. now european leaders are planning what's being described as a budgetary intervention in the running of e.u. member states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of eurozone countries it would mean the financial policies of e.u. nations would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries which break the rules o

with laura smith there's more testimony to come on the world's big events of the year from our reporters who cover the stories to you online or to dot com we want to catch more of that series arguably the best place to turn for insight about the events headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council and just yesterday a managed to talk to russia's envoy to the body batali churkin who shared with us. his thoughts about tackling the world's divisive troubles pilot interview coming your way next. the big. un security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya but a members avoiding it or there's simply a case of ongoing conflicts and i wore important. well you know first of all it was not rejected the fact of the matter is that a number of security council delegations intuiting the russian delegation raise the need to have some clarity about civilian casualties as a result of nato bombings because for months we heard from made from nato that they are adopting all those measures in order to make sure that there can no

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they're going to take it to you looking like it will be mood strikes and that was our things on laura smith at the latest from london and as we just saw the government in the u.k. wants workers to pay more for their pensions and retire later unions are saying no way now union certainly faced similar challenges in the u.s. but we have yet to see anything close to the backlash we're seeing abroad why not labor journalist might help with here a little earlier to talk more about this looking across the pond for the u.k. i asked him why can't americans come together for a collective day of strikes here's what he had a sec. well i think the big issue that you look at here is that you know the response of american labor leaders to even concessions that they're asking like that is not going to strike it's good to give in and accept shared sacrifice so i think the biggest problem is that we've gotten this kind of stockholm syndrome really really does are free to take on their captors a lot of the bit boxes and poor's public officials and so i think that's the first problem the second problem is obvi

fanfare left thousands of schools shut down employees at the airport walkout are the correspondent laura smith is on the ground and london. it started with twenty thousand people out on the streets of london process to get caught in the public sector pensions and it ended like this a small group of processes from the ok by the london stock exchange treatment have reportedly poky pike this building behind me it seems that the reason they've got to fight is because one of the finest paid c.e.o.'s in the country what numbers of police have turned out to protect the building and we headed there trying to get the occupy processes ouse as we speak now we've seen huge rally in london state twenty thousand people turned out to protest against cuts in public sector pensions that's two million public sector workers have been on strike today that's the biggest strike to be seen in the paper round about thirty years it has had a massive impact i reports leave nothing out of ten schools in london what closed today a half of all schools across the country that meant that millions of parents take time off wo

others from archbishop desmond tutu to dr cornel west have called for his release all together laura smith takes a look at the case and also at the international appeal of movie abu jamal. three decades behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit it's a dubious anniversary for moon abu jamal a black man who's always maintained he didn't kill the white police officer he's supposed to have shot and what's more hundreds of thousands of people around the world believe him people who have read and understood the situation within the united states and having on the having an understanding of. people could see clearly that the justice system there has to move here and feeling miserable that what purports to be a justice system in the case of withdrawal turning or nothing more than a congo rule court a former journalist and influential black panther organizer has won prizes for his activism at the time the black panthers were greatly feared by the police in philadelphia and his message that the american system of justice is rotten to its core racist sexist classist was inconvenient the murder

laura smith there's more to come on the world's big events of the year from our reporters who were there and if you missed any of the series as well join you're able to watch as well online. just after twenty nine minutes past the. very shortly as promised exclusive interview with. the u.n. that's all for a quick look at this hour's top stories in forty five seconds from the. lines palestinians face a new year nightmare israel wants another deadly onslaught against. hitting the region with strikes. iran says it's ready to strike ships. following its threats to block passage of the west insists on tough sanctions. also firefighters and put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine of a dockyard in northern russia it happened when scaffolding around the vessel called .

laura smith a little trust me to come on the world's big events of the year from our reporters who cover the war brought you those stories if you missed any of the series as well for joining it was plenty more to see at our two dot com. italy's currency christmas present its borrowing rates of plummeted in recent days alone the cheaply raised so much needed but it just so was it but. the problem is really it was not popular champagne called just yet he says more is needed to be done the calm the markets and that means more cuts bulging business journalist you're one of the euro zone economies got a gloomy prospect still out of it. the intention was to raise eight point five billion euros italy could raise something like seven billion which is not bad but which is in any case below the target that were set and secondly the price the interest rate on those seven billion was seven percent now given the fact that italy has already a government there equal to one hundred twenty five percent of g.d.p. and given the very poor growth prospects of the economy this is an interest rate that. can le

state and britain's secret services have named it the new training ground for terrorists or his laura smith explains why london sees somalia as a threat. in the words of prime minister david cameron somalia is a failed state that directly threatens british interests his solution options ranging from humanitarian aid right through to military intervention and reports suggest that in the new year following the perceived six acts of the libyan campaign in government circles somalia could be the next target for u.k. forces newspapers as saying that the royal air force could be sent to help african union troops to support the weak u.s. backed transitional government equipment and money other main nations despite a tough economic situation. there around one hundred thousand somalis living in the u.k. making up one of the largest muslim groups according to m i five somalia is the latest terrorist training ground british residents from a variety of backgrounds pakistan baghdad dash yemen. jihad the risk is that they then come back to the u.k. and carry out terrorist attacks there's also the threats

article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughter's immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . and here's a look great novelty else is making news around the world nation says a roadside bomb has killed three troops in eastern afghanistan this comes as the u.s. state department's top official robert blake says washington is considering setting up a military base in the country after nato coalition forces withdraw so the statement was made during his official visit to drink it's done and there are around one hundred forty thousand international troops in afghanistan and afghanistan due to withdraw by the end of twenty forty. two people were killed and more than fifty injured after a stampede at a clothes factory in the bangladeshi capital dhaka thousands of workers rushed out of the building after of rumors of a fire start and ran for the exits many were trampled. they couldn't find any trace of the fire labor rights groups say safety standards are inadequate in many other countries for. clashes between rioters and police in southern peru i've seen one person killed and a

article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughter's immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . remember you can always find more stories on our website r t v dot com let's see what's lined up there right now packing in helping out you can find out how to groups of crack computer whiz kids known as anonymous and teen poison joining forces to steal from banks and give to the poor. or so online at the moment a brand new cosmodrome called is said to be built in russia's far east discover the astronomic amount to be spent on the cutting edge space shuttle launch site all that and plenty of all figured out to dot com. russia's independent election monitoring organization is becoming brawled in scandal on the eve of the country's parliamentary poll the company says it's going to sue russian television channel n.t.v. for violation of privacy the role began when the channel's journalists went to the offices of the ngo to ask questions about the fact it received funding from abroad but the reporters were forced out and told they didn't have permission to film and t.v. says it's pu

sides worst under arrest in decades and several cities descended into riots looting and are sent laura smith witnessed the five summer days of chaos. we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of august that had been localized just on saturday the six but we were tracking the news and we literally couldn't believe what we were hearing we decided that this was a story that we had to go and. we went initially to the. field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of us saw. a group of around two hundred. running across the retail dressed mainly in black colors with topsoil and so you couldn't see their faces and gradually we realised they were smashing everything they could find. for me as a journalist it was an incredible story we were out on the streets every night wearing what i've come to call my riot. black jackets with everything i need in the pocket so that i can get away quickly if necessary it's an uneasy relationship. these. between the people who was in the police it's people say states you know. we really felt two

buildings torched and streets trashed police struggles to contain the worst violence in decades laura smith who watched events said the unrest was unprecedented. blew up seemingly out of a very small chill for a young black man who was allegedly shot by police in north london a grief from the big chill and it turned into nationwide rising essentially out of control that the violence was particularly in those first couple of days with an escalating all the time eventually it grew from london and into burning the manchester all the cities but only in england interesting not in scotland all the way of the police response was i think very slow certainly in the first couple of days the police literally didn't know what to do they turned up at a scene where people had set fire to cause all to shops along the street they would charge in vos numbers and then not knowing what to do when they got there they would retreat as fans of the government so much of the government was on holiday of course because they go on holiday and say prime minister david cameron eventually came back from his holiday as