Well welcome to new york watching the weekly here on r. T. International with me we care and. Now libya a peace conference has wrapped up in berlin yielding an agreement those hopes will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and ultimately an end to years of bloodshed on the countrys civil war which joins live now by our t. V. Correspondent peter all over whos currently in berlin for as a peter what does this all mean for libya. Well this conference the press conference for at the end of this peace conference is just wrapped up just a few short minutes ago the just from it is that these talks will lead hopefully to further talks the message coming from chancellor Angela Merkel is that as far as all of the sides taking part on sunday a concern there is no military solution to the anger. In crisis in libya that a political solution is still there to be found. Short she did say is in terms of things that have tangibly come from this prescott from this air peace conference i
Tonight from out moscow news headquarters where its just past 2 in the morning youre watching r. T. International welcome to the program. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved the candidacy of mikhail machinist and on thursday with president putin then sounding off on the appointment. More on how the day unfolded. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is mikhail so the result was 383. 00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the incoming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled
One minute. Pm and 8 in the evening right here in moscow on this the 1st day of the year welcome to our international. Mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital. To honor those killed in a u. S. Strike on friday. General. Money the crowds waved national flying flags of various shia militia groups chanted death to america the remains of the commanders body will be repatriated to iran for burial. But consider the 2nd most powerful figure in the Islamic Republic salomone was among 10 killed in the Early Morning raid following a direct order from the us President Donald Trump as the fended the assassination claiming it was necessary to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel another possible war in the middle east but its called profound both in iran and beyond. Solemn 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago we took action last night ju
Just turned 7 pm saturday the 4th of january live from the Art International world new center seasons greetings for me care for now and with this hours update thanks you company so the 1st thousands of mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital baghdad to one of those killed in a u. S. Airstrike on friday morning including irans top general has seen solid monied the crowds have been waving their National Flag the flags of various to around back shia militia groups and chanting death to america the remains of the commanders body will be repatriated now to iran for burial on sunday considered the 2nd most powerful figure in the Islamic Republic he was among 10 killed in the Early Morning raid following a direct order of things from the u. S. President donald trump whose defended the assassination saying it was necessary he said to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel. Oh and another possible war in the middle east but its cause profound anger both in
247 news live from moscow this is R T International my names you know real hello and welcome to the program we begin with breaking news several rockets reportedly hit iraq in close vicinity to the American Embassy in baghdad and a military base near the capital for more on that im joined by our senior correspondent. Rob what indeed is known at this stage while another. Tense day in. These protests now we have in the evening reports of guided missile attacks. As you mentioned which also houses a number of american troops it is important to caution everybody to take the you know this is a very fired. Mation has no official sources that have confirmed anything but apparently 3 missiles 3 unguided Rockets Hit Balad Air base one of them apparently impacting on the runway theres no evidence yet reports of civilian or otherwise casualties whether anyones been hurt or killed in this attack or material damage but we also see reports these these even less certain of a number of projectiles impac