china welcomes its next generation of leaders in crosstalk r.t. speech in the valley and his guest to discuss how the changes could affect the shaky diplomacy between washington and beijing the full program is up later today 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 growth 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 with tiananmen you'll see that the whole western media and the u.s. government turned suddenly sharply i do support their opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. shortly after the break r.t. special report on how a gold hunters dream turns into living hell coming in. texas wants to pull away from the usa effectively t

public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech r.t. sarah for reports. brits are renowned for their sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very right wrong there's a whole raft of legislation which stops. what you believe we don't have freedom of speech anymore and one piece of blue in particular is section five of the public order act one the suppose that's causing big problems while the slower has been used for two particular why use force to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam against christianity which are against the equality of homosexuals so people who say that sort of stuff can be arrested the second way it's been used by the police. to arrest if everything else fails they see being called house includes someone who insulted scientology by calling it a dangerous cult and wait for it someone who called the police. under section five of the public order

is to uphold its freedom of speech online. r.t. cyberspace. some other world news in brief now iran has unveiled to upgrade domestic submarines and. craft the latest part of tehran's efforts to improve its defense capabilities the upgrade is being made because it fears possible future attacks from the likes of israel or the us against its nuclear program is now planning a major naval drill. with two hundred people taking to the streets of china's capital sunday or go to protest against a new fishing law demonstrate this a new. on what they can catch directly threatens the livelihoods of independent fishermen and authorized rally ended in skirmishes as police who moved in to disperse crowds arrested at least ten people. of our world update this deadly floods in panama have forced more than six thousand people out of their homes at hundreds of houses were buried under water some roads have been washed away by massive landslides downpours have eased off since tuesday rivers banks damaging bridges and buildings. the man charged with the biggest se

r.t. . barack obama vows to fulfill his promise of change in a victory speech to jubilant supporters that's after securing a second term as president of the united states. what was predicted to be a close finish if a lot of time turned into an end lector old college landslide barack obama swept a victory in almost every battleground state to win a second term as president his republican challenger mitt romney has since conceded defeat saying he hoped the bomber could deliver this now cross to marina in new york she has more on the election aftermath. while president barack obama achieved an electoral sweep there is a much narrow margin when it comes to the popular vote of the twenty twelve election believe it or not u.s. ballots are still being counted as of wednesday morning it appears that fifty percent of americans voted for obama and forty eight and a half percent voted for mitt romney what this shows is that despite obama's victory america remains a nation that is deeply divided and some would say very polarized obama for his part defied history in the twenty twelve election the us lea

speech online. r t cyberspace. other world news in brief now for you here in r.t. iran has unveiled two upgraded domestic light submarines and overhauled hovercraft it's the latest part of terrans efforts to improve its defense capabilities upgrade is being made because it fears possible future attacks from the likes of israel or the us against its nuclear program it's now planning a major naval drill. deadly floods in panama for more than six thousand people out of their homes as hundreds of houses were buried underwater some roads have been washed away by massive landslides downpours of eased off since tuesday rivers overflowed their banks damaging bridges and buildings. in brussels what a major overhaul of spain's banking system but the country's four nationalized banks talk to slash the loans on their balance sheets by more than a half some of the banks already claiming that will cost thousands of jobs the measure is a condition of them receiving rescue payments of almost forty eight billion euros spain's eurozone partners are stumping up more than one hundred

r.t. today i'm rory sushi live in moscow barack obama has vowed to move america forward in a victory speech to cheering supporters after winning the us election to stay in office of course for a second. america's incumbent comfortably past the two hundred seventy electoral vote threshold in what had been a hard fought campaign republican challenger mitt romney conceded defeat after losing in a number of key battleground states. can has been following the nervous night that gave obama another four yes. well mitt romney has accepted his loss president obama is reelected and got his supporters very excited of course but this year one could sense that overwhelming euphoria that was there four years ago where president obama was running for his first term was not quite there anymore is that that his supporters are not excited they are we saw that at the democratic rally in the president's home city of chicago but with the rest of the country feels more like. relief rather than you for you there has been quite a bit of disappointment over the last four years the economy is not recovering as fast

the task crackdown on free speech a poet to get a life in prison for writing a piece considered insulting to local leaders details or at r.t. dot com. unfortunate and counterproductive that's how washington describes the u.n. general assembly historic vote despite more than two thirds of the world saying yes to palestine's bid for statehood israel's prime minister called the move meaningless and when the press didn't people their drive would bring no change their lives more formalities put us there in tel aviv. these ladies certainly are downplaying the significance of this vote although we have seen them would use the kind of rhetoric that they've been after enough of the past few weeks and months so they're no longer issuing the same kinds of threats that they were before presumably because they understand that this will only further isolate them in the international community the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly said that this vote does not change the reality on the ground the israeli position is that it is a unilateral step by the palestinians they accuse the resolution of being one sided both t

speech or. the brits for the right to protest as a public order. even the most. offended. international news in this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day israel continues to shower gaza with rockets from both air and sea with the number killed in the strikes almost doubling within the past day the palestinian death toll reportedly exceeds one hundred around half of them civilians including women and children. inside gaza tells us what he has witnessed. the building which roughly translates as the shut sunshine tower is home to various media organizations and i.c.t. organizations here in the gaza strip it's known as such as one of the two most principal buildings for this respect it was hit at the weekend already once and today just in the last two hours it's been hit a second time two palestinians were killed in that strike we're hearing too many instance of collateral damage here just a day in the last while we've heard of the total destruction of the palestine stadium israel which is a football stadium here in central gaza city we also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth and sport here in

qatar's one down on free speech we've got the story of one qatari poet receiving a life prison sentence for writing a piece that's considered insulting to local leaders had to r.t. dot com for more details. plus in solving the past dutch harlem prepares to scrap of blasphemy law seen as a longer relevant in the twenty first century. i hate tribunals verdict clearing casillas former prime minister of war crimes has been met with outrage in serbia amid claims the court was biased. could now return to politics with many serbs protesting on the cost of a border against his acquittal hardin and she was accused of the murder and torture of serbs during the brutal year slavia war at the end of the nine hundred ninety s. international criminal defense lawyer michael carneal says the hague support system appears on balanced. i think by and large this tribe you know was set up more or less the private service they had trying some on muslims bosniaks from bottles of rum bosnich of all the not color watts in of course when it came to color civil very very few i don't think it should be that surviving i think there is a political element to these international trials you kn

speech with. tongue tied in the u.k.'s conversational laws target people for saying anything which may be considered a fansub even if no one is actually insulted. this is r.t. going to live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program israel's escalating its a fans of in gaza the number of deaths has doubled within the past day and now exceeds eighty almost half of palestinians killed are believed to be civilians mostly women and children with manny more feared still trapped under rubble journalist an eyewitness harry fear brings us his account of what's happening in gaza well you should be aware that some of the images we're about to show are graphic. the death toll has risen he. writes that is excessive right so this is as israel targets who it considers terrorist militants the taking of the hamas hamas is militant wing here in gaza it's doing so in one of the most densely populated places in the gaza strip home to more than one point five million palestinians yesterday was the deadliest attack here since the beginning of operation pillar of cloud with a too far too high number of children being killed we heard yesterday of the al dillo massa