out of egypt he 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 a 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 able to future. energy. it will be less expensive which is how important. from political. appointee we were we should be less dependent on the. import of four. but it's not only israel laying claim to the reserves greek cyprus and lebanon also say the oils there 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 what 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 i don't know that the us will have its own version or the but they're not in the agreement 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. 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 is the major

political actor in lebanon. and strongly supported from the earth. and it would seem if we take statements in public positions seriously which we are to be really interested in form and to really creating turn. israel has the upper hand for now it's already struck a deal with cyprus and is preparing to start extraction while lebanon 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. television and capitol hill insiders any you ass are using out of using their positions to make some extra pocket money according to the wall street journal many are taking advantage of the or knowledge of markets the often have direct influence over as art is going education 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 their first 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 advisor to the senate majority leader harry reid nearly doubled his bat when his boss helped pass legislation that wand up benefiting the fir after his staffers name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his eight. because of course. my tams 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 are illegal and ways that are hard to detect congressman baird says annual 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 finance 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 it's perfectly legal for the country's lawmakers why would they want to change it as it is now a public servants stock market activities 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 in the spotlight are just the tip of the iceberg

and i stepped on our to washington d.c. and bruce being from michigan state university's college of law says the u.s. is make irruption legal and you can have more of this in crossed out where the gas decide there is only one way to be corruption democratically elections. has had its hands completely into this financial crisis in the late ninety's. there is no doubt that they're not going to the only thing you can do to a congressman or a senator is not elect them i mean. we're marveling at the fact that there's almost one hundred seats available that are contested well i recall that there are four hundred thirty five seats up every year what what is it what do we call it when three hundred thirty five of the guys are in serious contests we don't call it corruption but in this country there's no doubt that we have legalized what in

other countries we call corruption. the institutions are set up to accommodate the congressman and the congress and make the rules. russia has the highest rate of juvenile crime in europe and that's according to a world health organization report which says it could be prevented by offering more tidies to keep children busy other experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids as i call them now reports. i mean i think please 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 pee is 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 at ect a four in the king youth i saw the guys 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 our 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. there is juvenile crimes take 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 this situation among mine is is actually slowly improving incisional me 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 living wage to exploit so 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 those generation dairy pushed over our tea moscow. in membership is not the only or best way to regulate relations between european states and that's the view of dr lee rather i'm from the britain's taxpayers alliance pressure group who thinks that for some countries membership costs more than it's worth watch the full interview next hour but here's a preview. the cost of the regulations and red tape in this is based on the commission's own officials their commitment commission's own osa testing the cost of the regulations is for the in terms of the u.k. is greater than the actual value of the trade that it's meant to regulate that's one perspective the second thing is if you just look at the not the the cost of the

regulations but the simple physical cost and the membership fee that is the equivalent of forming a chain along appear and dumping a block of gold off the end of it every one hundred seconds. it's a gold ingots every hundred seconds just crashed into the water depths. the remaining u.s. troops in iraq are there to train local police to provide security in the troubled nation and in kurdish controlled kirkuk the result appears to be less violence and more stability but the non kurds living in the city fear once u.s. troops are gone the ass make mix will lead 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. police dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they have 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 other submerged wrong place we're not worried about but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown they're going to live with her charity target are you with their own historic claim of the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq a true melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions the 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 and then this will in terms of security when the u.s. leaves there will be no independent security force right now the security is from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the u.s. leaves things will get worse it will be conflict arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with the mayor and this will. by god for a bit but words will begin between us. 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 terrorist nest 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 turkoman alike the consequences of the u.s. led war have left the future of kirkuk very much uncertain sebastian meyer care cook for two. campaigner carol turner is has

a rockies would be forced to deal with a new post war reality very quickly if the us left the kurdish regions in the north always regarded all the governments. the regional governments always regarded themselves as having an interest in aligning with the united states they thought that was the best chance to pursue their own particular interests. and interests in helping the us present 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 suppose that if things. will that be the case in the future then 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 iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn. the reason they're doing it now and that you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for me to the user is to divert attention policy 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 cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues 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 zs 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 watching are to live from moscow there is much more for you in our website or to dot com just log on and explore here is a log at what my cats or i. as such a power forward whether it's twenty fourteen winter olympics preparations the massive construction work reveal secrets of russia's ancient past had to r.t. dot com to discover why archaeologists not our friends are racing to the site. and going against tradition find out why young couples in india face family farms for

taking money to put off parenthood. other stories from around the world now and locals in haiti city of same are trying to storm doctors without borders camp set up to treat cholera patients if you're in its proximity to school would contaminate the students stones were thrown at the camp side and the road block to stop patients from arriving you had peacekeeping forces had to intervene as ngo staff negotiated with community leaders around three hundred people have died so far in the color outbreak. twin disasters that tsunami and a volcano eruption have hit indonesia telling about one hundred fifty people more than twenty five died when. that forcing thousands to flee and seek refuge in

shelters scientists have warned that pressure building beneath that will cain as lava dome could trigger one of the most powerful blast in years elsewhere at tsunami triggered by an earthquake swept away hundreds of homes scores of people are still missing. now despite ongoing protests france's senate gave its final approval to a bill to raise the country's retirement age from sixty to sixty two in the yard of unionists organize a demonstration in front of the waters of french president sarkozy's ruling u.m.p. party in paris students chanted outside the set of building as riot police student body unions have called for another nationwide day of protest and thursday even if all the parliament action on the bill is over. 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 tap but six police were destroyed and a new police station opened just three days ago was left pockmarked with bullet holes. and a wealthy motorist in moscow had a miraculous escape after destroying his luxury sports car. in a high speed crash a quarter million dollar aston martin which can top speeds of three hundred kilometers an hour reared off a busy moscow street on a slippery road to speeding car left the ground smashed to kiosks and ended in a pile of scrap metal amazingly no one died and only two people were hurt the driver will get off relatively scot free the worst punishment he faces on the russian law is the temporary withdrawal of his license. about ten minutes time here in r t the magic of modern metal and how it's changing our lives find out more in technology update. my.

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plants and the moscow region to supply can manufacturers with process to you 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 boost capacity over them but over here we're going to put into words 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 and by another twenty percent the year after our aim is to restore the pre-crisis output recent changes in tax law will have made it more profitable for russian companies to sell processed mazal to domestic consumers rather than exporting it in addition the state has over it tax breaks to foreign carmakers if they buy supplies from russian producers it's a policy of the government's plan to encourage manufacturers to produce cars from. i want to finish with locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering

has recovered and of enough strength to year to consume all finished 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 it 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 and see russian companies listing on the world stock markets all but dried up during the financial crisis now there are signs the trend is beginning to reverse among other severs star mail dot are you have announced their intention to go to the lark it told what call managing director of communications says the success of these deals will get

a clear indication that conditions are improving. for the first time really since the crisis averted for a number of years you've got a number of deals that are on 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 the majority of those get away i think you'll have an ounce of that will show something about the level of investor demand and appetite for russian issues it's no secret that russia had a fairly challenging story in the last few years most of the companies that have listed have severely and reformed well below the markets and so this is maybe as a turning point if these deals get away into a reasonable price and 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 proven. now looking at the markets asian stock markets a lower investor's concern that the size of the expected u.s. federal reserve stimulus measure may be smaller than expected to ban sneakiest trading flat this hour investors are looking ahead to there were nice of results

from major japanese later this week. now the russian markets will open in about an hour and here are today's closing figures most stocks finished in the red on lower oil and metals prices and that had a negative effect a most energies major banks were also under pressure of b.b.b. was down one point eight percent and bank finished point eight percent lower. now all staff has posted a one hundred twenty percent increase in net profit for the third quarter compared to the same period last year russia's largest oil producer heard just over two point five billion dollars from july to september beating analysts forecast growth of crude oil production as well as high crude oil and petroleum prices were the main factors putting proof results is also revealed its plans to participate in oil gas and refining projects in ecuador. now energy efficiency was a top issue at the presidential commission on modernisation to be treatment of told

the meeting in the russian republic of tatarstan why he believes it's essential to reform the country's economy. 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 all 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. have a look at what's happening in the car industry global car production two thousand and ten could see pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the number of cars to be produced this year could reach sixty nine point nine million but his own production this year could rise to one point seven million if the current black okinawa tendencies continue watches industry and trade ministry stated in september

that russia could make up to three point six million cars by two thousand and twelve. and that's your business update for this hour we're back with more at twenty past the hour show so i hope you join. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse

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economy cause a report on. the back to business join us you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories eastern mediterranean oil reserves are the latest point of tension in the troubled region a four way race is on with israel and lebanon resorting to threats of war to stake their claim. insider trading illegal for the average american but not if you are senator the wall street journal says many are taking advantage of the your knowledge of markets they often have their work influence over. russia has come top for us violence and knife crime in the world health organization study experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids. and american

support for a kurdish only police force causes interethnic tension in iraq's cultural my. in padang kurds in the city of fear that a u.s. bullied to bloodshed. well next we'll tell you all about the most important vance's in science and technology on the planet the hidden power in everyday matters to be revealed in today's technology update that's coming up on r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to technology update this month the show goes mental only without the head banging we're to.