free. and free broadcast quality video for your media projects free video r.t. dot com. egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future by reestablishing relations abroad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro and reportedly restricting cash closing borders. controversial trial starts in russia as prosecutors seek to ban a version of the main krishna movement being extremist group that was an outcry among india's political elite.

watching r t welcome to the program the new post revolution egypt is heading abroad in attempt to mend its relations with other countries part of that foreign minister is heading to moscow where the situation still very tense the north african nation will have to prove it's going to be a stable partner. joins us live now for more on this you know what can we expect from this visit. good morning and this meeting was actually supposed to be held a week ago but it was postponed due to the arab league meetings on syria the organization saying it's observers to the country and. it's observers to the country and its headquarters are in cairo so egypt is directly linked to it. syria is definitely going to be one of the issues discussed at this meeting in moscow as well with both russia and egypt. criticizing the violence in the country and

standing against any foreign military intervention there are going to egypt it's very important regional where also when it comes to the middle east peace process so that's another issue to be discussed however the situation in egypt itself is quite complicated still violent protests are continuing the country's going through parliamentary elections and some islamist oriented bodies are aiming for power including the muslim brotherhood and after the first round of the election the managed to gather around seventy percent of votes the next round is expected really soon since the newly elected poland should start working by the end of january so. quite a lot of issues are on the table here for this meeting in moscow of course we'll be monitoring how it goes and we thought right after it happens. ok your life from

moscow i thank you for now. while the situation in syria looks set to dominate the talks in moscow and it will come tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of syria's third largest city of homs demanding international protection happen. to be area observers mission is to assess the situation in the country in a short. time to end the bloodshed asia times journalist pepe escobar says there are doubts over the mission's impartiality. they have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries and distractors all are armed by outside powers in these outside powers are basically from qatar and the emirates will the arab league which is now called troll why did she see the gulf cooperation council interested gate themselves in this case we still don't know.

are they going to investigate the need to call truly call and senator set up in the near the border between turkey and syria in the skin the room which is very across the border basically from a little let's see in two hours are you going to investigate that you are really going to hurt the stinging shipment of smuggling of weapons via the jordanian syrian border we still don't look good it's a tall order for the arab league go caesar and these are not exactly democracies they're investigating one of their own but they're also implicated in the whole big picture. power a phony from a brussels based think tank specializing in political analysis told r.t. he doubt safety observers will be too damning in their conclusions usually these kind of missions are necessary in order to appease a little bit the spirits on either side and try to negotiate behind the scenes so i

do not think and i do not expect that the final report would be too harsh on one side or another and certainly a knowledge of the events of the day you see but it wouldn't give any hint towards the real solution to stop all of this. well you know without a still coming to a head in the program. that we found ourselves right for a century and i meant the same training just keep failing it's just you feel you may feel like. a different. we bring you our correspondents personal reflections from greece as r.t. looks back at twenty seven's main headlines also. the president out of iraq iran iraq. you know it name metadata jaffery thought.

us a presidential election looming ahead we set out on to the streets of new york to find out how much americans know about the building blocks their country's policies at home and abroad. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses case of the euro doomsday u.k. treasury said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees plans include evacuating british ex-pats from affected countries who find themselves unable to withdraw cash or financial analyst robert awls says attempts by european leaders to avoid the worst case scenario only making it more difficult. leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degrees of centralization and more having countries like france and germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets of those e.u. member states that have excessive budget deficit but that really isn't the answer

to the problems what's really needed is either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy to shore up their economies was another option would of course to recognize that the single currency has hurt competitiveness in many nations of the eurozone and the damage to economic growth meaning that the economies can't grow their way out of the debt crisis that they're in and they're just in this debt spiral of having deeper austerity measures forced upon them which then means they still cannot pay back the money that so to various financial institutions around the globe particularly french and german banks so really there's a number of options either to transfer farms from the north to the struggling south or course have an orderly break up of the euro zone. but greece still remains in the eye of the european financial storm as twenty seven draws to a close r.t. has been looking back at what's been a year of despair and discontent for steady hit greeks our correspondent sara firth

witnessed their anger reach a boiling point and she cover the protests in the country. you know i think in two thousand and eleven we really sort of felt the world shift and. we saw people's protests nathan sort of spread around the world and with the year a crisis reaching fever pitch i think all of us had concepts north woods and locusts in the west really meant and greece is certainly for me very much on the front line of that fight and it became really the sort of the child the financial crisis it turned into a political crisis to became a social crisis and yet this does a saying that if you're a hammer everything looks like a nail if you push people into

a corner then they're going to come out fighting and i think increased that was exactly what happened. the first time in. reporting and they had a protest planned they remember in the morning. they call in a very very close to central square as the year i think crisis rumbles loan greece is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about it that you and i remember going off and finishing to . getting a phone call to say that we needed to do another one and that exact moment we could hit the noises that would just like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner. almost immediately you just get a huge surge of people coming policy i mean you can barely me. this is a really intense experience and you sort of when you're right in the center of it i

can't tell you what it's like to be around people. that's. the angry that they pull to a point where they're having to turn outs and these sort of clashes and i mean it's really scary because it's not just a small hall cool. these people you know old people young people completely normal families that are turning up that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ourselves on the. side of one of the streets as all the riot police. people sort of running at them and throwing. absolutely. going off in different parts in time everyone was just sort of running around very very lowest and we were just stunned to be honest i mean it just going from one

hundred in the space of sort of twenty minutes and we found ourselves and i remember just saying just keep filming this just keep filming it and that made it very hard to. even take that shit either he didn't feel. bad. because. he. was the. people. who were trying to reports and eventually to take a sort of a became sort of mid sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore . and i remember

seeing the fitch is. getting caught in the middle of the take us and just thinking oh that's just. staying coughing and spluttering in. to remember being quite embarrassed about. then we realized that it only see that clip quite a lot of people's attention. and i think it actually felt good that it was striking a chord with a lot of people because at that time still there was very much a sense in europe in the way it was being reported that you know this is a problem that greece is having a problem and we were all sort of witnessing what was going on and i think when we were increased we realized very very quickly that it wasn't just. something that was going to face everyone. and absolutely you know he felt when you were reporting that you witnessing people passing their breaking point they were just so angry.

and very quickly alston tightness. in the crowd we're not sure exactly what that thing off but everyone's just trying to get up and you could see the pictures of the riot. almost you left all of that. and maybe more. right from the very beginning we wanted to see. story from a different angle we were much more interested in getting the. what was going on me . everything is. right now there's a chance you might lose everything that we know in this country you don't know what . i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis

a good mix of people. and it was quite as well the final result was really were. with it because if that was what was always important to us it is getting. the people in crates getting their opinion across because i think a lot of their voices really have got lost in the whole political economic talk kind of forget what it's all about which is about you know the people who are there and you talking to a. really lucky in that's amazing people i mean every single time i've gone back there just a welcoming. of course we'll continue to bring you a person reflections from our correspondents worldwide on the headlines of twenty men and if you've missed any available to watch right now at r.t. dot com. now a moscow court is to decide if a russian translation of the main book of the hari krishna movement should be banned for the extremist case followed by state prosecutors has caused

a storm about religious followers living in the country as well as the political elite in india well let's get more from our correspondents that are in the cove in moscow and preassure in delhi well that's how they are to you first what is this trial basically all about. well first of all just to make it clear that the idea as it is is the translation into russian. which was made in the sixty's all their regional taxed all over the book that was considered to be sacred by the hindu is now the translation into russian give a start to the hari krishna movement which was very controversial here especially during the nineties when russia was going through a rather difficult time and i personally remember that those did people who were running wondering on the streets of moscow very very bright clothes listening to loud talk music doing drugs convincing people to join them and just reading the book and many teenagers were actually leaving home their homes to. be

a part of the movement and people would donating their money to their movements as well so that's that was seen as a somewhat a verb really just sick here in russia in the ninety's and this trial of full lose the prosecutor's office looking into their c.v. sees all of the movements in siberia. and russia you search for nefarious ones to make it clear that the case doesn't have anything to do with the book itself but rather with its installation into russian. computer p.c. when it is clear from the available material that criticism from law enforcement officials is not so much of the text of the book itself which suffers from semantic distortions but as the comments by the author. should be regarded as falling under the article thirteen of the russian law extremist activity. in the bastards of russia has this case absurd and he interests around the world

has been asking to stop the trial. to the fourth time when this holy book is taken to the court and we're very concerned and of course we're very hopeful. that the who will bother to verdict the don't know and the better to ban the bug but also you know that because of the practice you know. also the extremist which is that is. you can see it's senseless and it's absurd. and there how is this case being viewed in india. well as you pointed out it's really caused a storm here in india it's been breaking news in all the major newspapers in all the major t.v. channels here in india over the past couple of weeks but i think what natalia pointed out is a good point this edition of the bug it's the buggy to as it is which they're

looking to ban is actually a nine hundred sixty eight version that was made by the international society for krishna consciousness or the hari krishna movement so that's there's a lot of confusion here in india and most of the people that are actually protesting this whole court trial actually don't really understand that there is a difference between the traditional. and the bug with the ether as it is obviously as you guys have pointed out the bug with you is a very holy scripture to the hindu people and a lot of the fundamentals of the hindu religion are based off of that book but there have been protests over the past week on the indian parliament actually shot down on. monday there were several indian politicians who said that they will not take for any insult against the lord krishna there is also twenty thousand signatures in a petition that's been circulating across the country and it's been one of the most

tweeted about topics here in india and while all of this is going on the book itself. is actually flying off the bookshelves here in india you're seeing people and on traffic signals handing out the book so there is there's a lot of people in india whether there are protesters or politicians that are following this whole trial very closely still continue to monitor the situation and keep you guys posted on that. ok chris sugar in delhi in the time of a covering most thank you both very much for that. now a two day ceremony which will finally see north korea's leader they to rest their started in pyongyang after the days of national mourning meanwhile the world remains in the dark about what to expect from kim jong il's youngest son and successor as the secrecy surrounding his future spawns all kinds of speculation while some hope his western education like harold opening up the country other experts predict there's little ground for change. loose good speculation that is

his uncle is and some of the members of the family are kind of pulling his strings but i think more important is the one point one million man north korean army for the good for other announced can draw me a little. well over year growth now it's the new poles militarizing nation of north korea as it was institutionally militarized. the whole country is it's really as the quote frederick the great it's an army disguised as a country. and that's what's happened is great and the sun military rule which to me says that it's unlikely there will be major western style reforms he believes this means cutting spending on the military in the military so powerful its wealth bed it has all the prerequisites in good position so does the communist party so that they will be a force against change rather than for. the forget our website the more stories

news and comics including santa in the sky people all over europe have been baffled by the stillness flying object on christmas eve a shooting star spaceship or a magical slain christmas conundrum on our website. lights cameras and plenty of action the sex scandal surrounding a former head of international monetary fund dominique strauss kahn set to make it to the big screen. to play the lead that call. as u.s. presidential candidates tell the nation how they plan to lead it into the future some of been exposed as lacking basic points of information and it seems the general public seems to be following suit and is to say found out many americans don't know what's going on. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce education and the what's the third one there good city. he's

looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate cabinet level position he can even remember its name and asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know it's not the fact that he doesn't know it's the fact that he doesn't think he should look it up see you agree president obama libya. when the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired would be this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out six suspects. for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is the pakistanis know i do not know it because stands back and. you know the

u.s. is an airbase there. nor do we know about libya watching you know dispel libya yes yes do you know the united states was involved in a war with libya. ok. you know why. i know absolutely nothing about. what about new mexico is that a state or a country what is that i didn't i mean i think i don't know you know. it's the old man under bush. actually. come on he was not down on the boat your boat cheney who is the vice president of the u.s. . you know i have no idea i know it's. my son. cheney so we're prepared to take kindly to rice now we would be fools and nice to ignore

their purpose and their plan some country. at the top of politicians with to attack her belief am literally but how much do people really know about those far away places. with her it. was the president was it. was it the you know the president of iran is now capital capital of iran do you know the capital city of iran. negative do you guys know what iran is yes yes yes what's the capital of iraq. was the president. was president he just died but the capital of the capital yes i do what is it you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret come or is color me. it's not libya or. anything. if the

president of iraq iran iraq all right you know his name but a jet a giraffe or so when it comes to picking a future for the you want choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present instance it should not be or. that to recap our top stories just a few minutes off the latest business news now with you. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update a new era is beginning for the russian economy the country first applied for the membership of the world trade organization but ninety three finally thought long ago. russia has been formally invited to join which madrid danka looks at the changes this will bring. becoming a member of the world trade organization is both a political and economic milestone the fact that. for such a long time russia now

a top ten global economy was outside the trading club that unites ninety eight percent of the world's population sounds pretty ridiculous under w. zero rules the average duty on imports of goods will be reduced to seven point eight percent for agriculture it will be lowered to ten point eight from thirteen point two percent and that's from manufactured goods the decline will be to seven point three percent from the current nine and a half the parliament in russia still needs to ratify russia's exception to the w t o but obviously these changes will not happen in one day only a third of newly set import duties are expected to come straight after the ratification basically those which will not do any harm medicine for example will become cheaper gradually over three years to give local producers time to adapt to new market conditions and when it comes to the weakest or sensitive sectors like cars imports will be cut inch by inch over the next seven years for years the

government protected farmers and car makers and will continue to do so through subsidies although the funds will drop significantly over time and perhaps the definite winner in this whole situation is the consumer has regulations become more transparent and tariffs are slashed more companies will be coming to russia's market and competition will force producers to reduce prices the economic development ministry therefore expects to see an average reduction of around ten percent the world bank believes that that the total effect will amount to an extra four point three percent of the gross domestic product as spending will grow seven percent but yet again this whole process may take quite a while and in the end russia is expected to finally improve the disproportional two percent of global trade volumes that it accounts for at the moment. let's have a look at the markets now oil is flat after seeing gains in the previous session on concerns tension in iran might cause supply disruption. another driver was

improving u.s. consumer confidence the w. is trading at one hundred one dollars a barrel while the brunt plant is that one hundred nine dollars per barrel. and now on to act which is asia shares a mostly weaker following my losses on wall street the hurt signing is losing more than half a percent while the nikkei is flat true positive and in hong kong quarter to the linked forum so are among the main losers china coal energy is down more than two percent gold miners are also lower after gold fell below one thousand five hundred ninety dollars and choke investors are digesting disappointing output data for them but it also included upbeat forecasts for december and january and some exporters are higher with toyota up almost one percent. and its last until i was ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets closed low on tuesday the r.t.s. was down of one percent while the white sox finished a quarter of

a percent in the red. that's it for now i'll be back with another business update in less than fifteen minutes here on archie.