shipped it took a wrong turn on his way to the promised land bringing them to the one spot in the middle east that has no oil but that punchline might need to change because it seems that moses might not have been so wrong after all in two thousand and nine israel announced the discovery of the first major natural gas field off its coast but the most recent reports from the giant natural gas site off the coast of haifa point to a potential for billion barrels of black gold we will be. future. energy . it will be less expensive which is how important. from a political. appointee we wish we will be less dependent on the. import of foreign oil but it's not only israel laying claim to the reserves greek cyprus and lebanon also say the oil spill is and while the international law allows a country to drill in the so-called continental shelf of its coast the fact that

israel and lebanon have never agreed on maritime boundaries makes it unclear when israel in and lebanon begins i know the club about how its version of think the border line will pass if and when they will have a negotiated and i know that they will have its own version of the empire but they're not in the agreement on whether and because the two countries are enemy states there's unlikely to be any agreement anytime soon both have threatened to go to war over the issue obviously this is an israeli company. and it's really a company. will not be. allowed to enter into lebanese territory or will have any further connection with. a lebanese gas lebanon filed a complaint with the united nations after israel placed floating markers extending two miles into the sea and weighing in on the conflict hizbollah was the major

political actor in lebanon. and strongly support from the syrian you around. and it would seem if we take statements and public position seriously which we are to they have an interest in form and. creating tension israel has the upper hand for now it's already struck a deal with cyprus and is preparing to start extraction while living on still needs to sort out the boundaries of its economic zone with cyprus and syria and it will be years before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend into lebanese territory police here are t. tell of a have capitol hill insiders in the us are using and abusing their positions to make some extra pocket money according to the wall street journal many are taking advantage of their knowledge of markets they often have direct influence over and as artie's guided to can found out it's not even illegal. the annual salary of

members of the united states congress one hundred seventy four thousand dollars the profit they can make by trading on inside information priceless. a number of u.s. lawmakers and dozens of congress staffers several portably traded thousands of dollars worth of stocks of companies they or their boss is wrote last for under the u.s. law there is no conflict of interest here they're just plain cheating and it's not fair what they're doing currently all u.s. lawmakers and their highest paid staffers have to do is to disclose information once a year on their finances by the analysis of the wall street journal u.s. public servants have been phenomenally successful trading stock at the peak of the wall street crisis senator spencer backus made tens of thousands of dollars betting against the market that he's committee helps oversee and he's the ranking member on the house committee on financial services. chris miller

a top energy policy adviser to the senate majority leader harry reid nearly doubled his bat when his boss helped pass legislation that wand up benefiting the fur after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his aide. pocono's because christmas. my attempts to talk to some of those involved were time consuming and unsuccessful. we talk a lot about exporting democracy one of the bedrocks of a successful democracy i believe is freedom from corruption the sense that elected officials are elected to serve the public not to and hence their own wallets or that of their friends or cronies or family congressman brian baird offered a bill that would ban insider trading on capitol hill years ago but the act

received the support of phone the nine out of four hundred thirty five members in the house of representatives and none in the senate and in this case you've got. the possibility of making great amounts of money in ways that aren't illegal and ways that are hard to detect congressman baird says and you'll disclosure reports are not enough to my knowledge there is no human being employed by the congress of the united states who has looked at our financial reports with a with an eye towards possible conflict of interest now there is no initiative to change the rules what for the rest of america is cheating it's perfectly legal for the country's lawmakers why would they want to change it as it is now a public servant stock market activity is are hard to track there are no investigators here on the hill doing that and some believe those senators and staffers who have recently been caught in the spotlight are just the tip of the

iceberg vanished on r.t.e. washington d.c. now russia has the highest rate of juvenile crime in europe and that's according to the world health organization report which says a could be prevented just by changing the approach to public health other experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids as artie's diary of a scholar reports. many of every police show us on the dole where exactly you stabbed him with the knife it was here how many times. i don't remember roughly seven or ten times. in this reconstruction the suspects showing police just what happened when his gang carried out a brutal murder the main perpetrator would soon join his peers in one of russia's sixty two young offenders institutions i live close enough has already served more than half of his sentence for committing a racial murder he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both him and his friends attacked

a foreign looking youth i saw the guy's knife lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into ice event passed it to my three friends each night him stabbings account for almost half of the homicides carried out by youngsters in the european and central asian region according to a report by the world health organization and it puts russia with the highest rate of violence among the surveyed age group from ten to twenty nine. a change in psychology morale didn't even moral values all this contributes to an extremely high crime rate went up by the activities of religious sex and i'm sorry to say this by all media including television which stories full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred miners are currently serving prison terms the majority are either from a one parent family or an orphanage and one man who's seen it all the head of

a juvenile correctional facility knows the prime reason love and a lack of. we grownups parents often too busy earning a living maybe we should simply love our children we remember our kids when they're already behind bars and that is the last place they should be experts say about eighty percent of syria's juvenile crime steak place in the evening or night when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents however in reality many children often end up on the streets searching for their own entertainment. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's youth crime nevertheless the situation among mynahs is actually slowly improving in the i'm dealing with the underage crowd and in the past five years i have seen a considerable decline of juvenile crimes however grim statistics among those who are of age to exploit south while many of these young boys hope they will be able

to survive crime free in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the barbed wire to ensure they don't become another of those generation gary pushed r.t. moscow now there are many u.s. troops in iraq are there to train local police to provide security in the troubled nation and encourage control care cook the result appears to be a last violence and more stability for the non kurds living in the city fear once u.s. troops are gone the ethnic mix will be to bloodshed. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk we're in the suburb of duck cook and the police are just a few minutes to get into position before sunrise. daybreak's in the raid begins police under the supervision of the u.s. army go door to door searching rooms and checking residents against lists of unknown terrorists the turku police dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they've cut terror attacks by over fifty percent in the past

few months these guys are very good they are very good and they're very good at intelligence and develop they are gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the overseer version from police who are not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in the downtown area to live with her charity target due to their own historic claim of the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq the two melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions that. two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong unfair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw. in terms of security when the us leaves there will be no independent security force right now the security is from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth where the u.s.

leaves things will get worse it will be conflict arabs will stand up and created and we should say with this will. god forbid both wars will begin between. us and we are not an example of this violence wasn't long in coming no more than five minutes after we finished the interview a roadside bomb targeting the police detonated in the center of the city. luckily for the police the terrorists missed it appears that despite the gains that the police are making the american troop withdrawal could easily lead to a return to sectarianism in kirkuk for kurds arabs and turkmen alike the consequences of the u.s. led war have left the future of kirkuk very much uncertain sebastian meyer care cook for r.t. . campaigner carol turner says iraq east will be forced to deal with a new post war we already very quickly if the us left the kurdish regions in the north always regarded all the gulf. the

regional governments always regarded themselves as having an interest in allying with the united states they thought that was their best chance to pursue their own particular interests. an interest in having the u.s. presence because it doesn't want to see itself in conflict with other parts of iraq it's looking to the united states to defend it is this a positive thing or will that be the case in the future and i would say it's very unlikely i don't think it's particularly positive i think the presence of the united states anywhere in iraq is preventing the citizens of that country coming to terms with the problems they face and dealing with it in a way that's appropriate to them in the society. i don't think in that sense i don't think america in the north of iraq is

a positive thing and staying in iraq where saddam hussein's former deputy terry because he is has been sentenced to death the decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the latest we can leaks revelations showing the rocky government's alleged involvement in torture of one of the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn. the reason they're doing it now correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks suit because wiki leaks if exposed to torture that is going on systematically i think the death sentence pronounced to be sorry to the user is to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it would mean nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three counsel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death and instead look at least use of human

rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir sees any more than executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutalise what is already a very brutal situation the death penalty does not work. what are you going to live from moscow down from the other is much more of even our website which is our t. dot com so you can just log on to an explorer but here is a look at what might catch your eye as such you cowards forward whether it's twenty fourteen winter olympics preparations massive construction work reveal secrets of russia's ancient had to r.t. dot com to discover why archaeologists not halfway it's hard racing to the site. and going against tradition find out why young couples in india face family fallouts for taking money to put off parents.

human rights groups are outraged by u.s. federal court decision to keep information on captives of ghana stands program for isn't secret the prison reportedly housed up to eight hundred prisoners captured during america's war on terror critics call it the new one title devore suite of the world can't wait organization says there have been numerous allegations of torture and abuse in belgrade. there's allegations of secret prisons of harsh interrogations much worse in fact the people that were held in guantanamo and since released. have said that those those that were held in bagram the conditions there were much worse so we simply the world wants to know who is being held there and why are there charges is there any mechanism to get out the argument as i

understand it that the obama administration is making in afghanistan is this is an act of war zone therefore we don't have to give rights that anyone on u.s. soil would be guarantee barack obama himself has floated the idea of preventive detention which of course has happened all over the world but not never by law in the united states before our people haven't been held by law a preventive lee by the united states these are huge changes in u.s. law and they are absolutely in contradiction to the message that we're told the that the u.s. is trying to spread democracy and keep americans safe both in iraq and afghanistan these occupations are fundamentally unjust immoral illegitimate occupations and they have within them every kind of war crime

imaginable. and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and the locals in haiti city of same are trying to storm doctors without borders camp set up to treat color of patients they fear its proximity to school would contaminate the students that stones were thrown at the camp side of the road walk to stop patients from the arriving peacekeeping forces had to intervene as n.g.o.s staff negotiated with community leaders around three hundred people have died so far in the cholera outbreak. twin disasters that tsunami and of ok an eruption have hit indonesia killing about one hundred fifty people more than twenty five died with. it forcing thousands to flee and seek refuge in shelters scientists have warned that pressure building beneath the volcano is lava dome could trigger a one of the most powerful years else word tsunami triggered by an earthquake swept away hundreds of homes scores of people are still missing. so the

entire police force of a small town in northern mexico has resigned it comes after the police precinct was attacked by suspected drug traffickers nobody was injured in the tab but six police the poles were destroyed and a new police station opened just three days ago was left mark was full of holes. that are wealthy motorists in moscow had a miraculous escape after destroying his luxury sports car in a high speed crash the quarter million dollar asked marden which can top speeds of three hundred kilometers an hour careered off a busy moscow street it smashed to chaos and adopt a twisted raft of mangled metal amazingly no one died and only two people were hurt the driver is thought to be a prominent restaurateur from st petersburg it's not known yet whether he faces prosecution. asked our on our team the magic of modern metal and how it's changing

our lives find out more in our technology update. you can. see jolie's continued intentional bacteria strike him it's just see it's like middle age old magic has better players in the sky seeds of hope to protect our lords the other sleeve we can provide such accuracy to many forms. including the g m d's here and. we've. covered. the west of the program in a little more than an hour next it's the latest business news with. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

and i welcome to the program good to have you with us to process still produces are concentrating on domestic consumers to profit to boost profits recent changes in tax law and other government incentives have made the market more attractive this is also giving a competitive edge to russian companies over the european and asian peers but in the courts now reports. top russian natural producers severus now has open to new plants and the moscow region to supply it can manufacturers with precise steel is just one of a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic

demand is upgrading its plant in that we're all mountains while i am m.k. plans to invest up to three billion dollars and the country to its capacity over them but over here we're going to propose we are planning to produce ten million tons of metal this year we're going to increase the output by some twenty percent by twenty eleven by another twenty percent the year after our aim is to restore the pre-crisis output recent changes in tax low have made it more profitable for russian companies to south process nozzle to domestic consumers rather than exporting it in addition the state has over the tax breaks to foreign carmakers if they buy supplies from russian producers it's apology of the gulf. ments plan to encourage manufacturers to produce cars from start to finish with the locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering has recovered and love. here to consume more finished feel and therefore make the russian still makers even

better positional competitor compared to the global store maker's selling process still in russia can be three times as profitable as sending it abroad but the market is being destroyed by government intervention worldwide the demand for still has yet to recover from the financial crisis and prices remain weak so producers here have little reason not to take advantage of the situation i do not question the business on scene. and russian companies listing on the world stock markets all but dried up during the financial crisis now the recovery is taking hold there are signs the trade is beginning to reverse among others severstal and mailed out or you have announced their intention to go to the larkin told blackwell managing director of communications says the success of these deals will give a clear indication that conditions have improved. for the first time really since the crisis averted for a number of years you've got a number of deals that are out in the market that are being marketed and there are

seven companies that look into this six of them are in london one to moscow and if if the majority of those get away i think you'll have an ounce of that will show something about the level of investor demand an appetite for russian issues it's no secret that russia americas have had a fairly challenging story in the last few years most of the companies that have listed have civilian reforms well below the markets and so. maybe as a turning point if these deals get away in a reasonable price you might find that suddenly the mood around russia my peers is considerably improved right now as of today it's a bit skeptical and its investors need to be prudent. and now let's take a look at the markets asian stock markets and down with investors concerned that the size of expected u.s. federal reserve stimulus measure may be smaller than expected japan's nikkei is down point thirteen percent in wednesday's trading session investors are looking ahead of the release of results from major japanese privacy later this week. now the us is ducks finished in the red on tuesday on lower oil and metals prices most

energy majors were in the red as the price of crude fell banks also sell for its d.t.b. was down one point eight percent it's a bad bank finish point eight percent lower. are all snafus posted a one hundred twenty percent increase in net profit for the third quarter compared to the same period last year which is the largest oil producer earn just over two point five billion dollars from july to september meeting and those forecasts growth of crude oil production as well as high crude oil and petroleum products prices were the main factor as well improved results well snap also revealed its plans to participate in oil gas and refining projects in ecuador. and edgy efficiency was the top issue of the presidential commission on modernisation and the treatment of aid of told the meeting in the russian republic of tatarstan where he believed it was essential for the for the for reforming the country's economy. the problem. energy efficiency is paramount to the modernization of our economy and

social sphere by achieving these goals we create the shape of a new economy and increase competitiveness of our goods and services create new ventures new branches improve environment and quality of life the whole project is difficult and frankly speaking we haven't done much yet budget allocations need to have opportunities for attracting private investments that's why we need to get rid of the barriers for using energy service contracts will cover car production two thousand and ten going to pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the number of cars forecasted to be this year could reach sixty nine point nine million russia's own production could rise to one point seven million cars this year if the current macroeconomic tendencies continue there as an industry and trade ministry stated in september that russia could make up to three point six million two thousand and twenty. that's all the business news for now thanks for being with me on the back with another business update.

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americans support for kurdish only police force causes interethnic tension in iraq's cultural melting pot and on kurds in the city fear that a u.s. pullout will lead to blogs. now how much does it cost to be an e.u. member state and is it really worth said dr lee roth a room veteran from behind the scenes of u.k. e.u. relations shared his thoughts in an interview to r.t. . i'm talking to dr rolls or a man who for many years has been an advisor to the government on european affairs and he's also a member of the bruges group which campaigns for a europe of links not chains dr rather and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the e.u. well that's both a very important question and a very tricky question to answer in the first instance the treasury avoids the trick to.