he's invested in reportedly hitting bingo underground we're still talking about the largest amount of oil average to be discovered in the state of israel there's a joke in israel that when moses led the jews 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 live ethan natural gas site off the coast of haifa point to a potential for billion barrels of black gold we will be able to. 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. but it's not only israel lane came to the reserves greek cyprus and lebanon also say the oil spill is and while international no allows a country to drill in the so-called continental shelf off 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 i don't know that is what has its own version or the impulse but they're not 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 israeli 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. they were an interest in fomenting two very creating tension 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. tell if they have the un has urged an investigation into the alleged torture in iraq in prisons details of which were leaked by the whistle

blowing website wiki leaks also among the documents is a report expressing concern that kurdish controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw and us best in may are found and kerik roku many in all kurds living in the relatively stable region fear they will become targets. 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 have 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 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 of gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the

other submerged he's not worried about what others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown. like the cherokee turks are used to their own historic way with kirkuk is a unique city in iraq the true melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely. ethnic tension is a 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 all of the miss 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 us leaves things will get worse there will be conflict arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with this will. god forbid but worse we will begin to. see.

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 or turn 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 our two. campaign carol turner says the rockies will be forced to deal with a new post-war reality very quickly if the us left the kurdish region in the north. always regarded all the governments the regional governments were always regarded themselves as having an interest in allying with the united states they thought that was the best chance to pursue their own

particular interests. and interest in having the us present because it doesn't want to see itself in conflict with other parts of iraq and 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 tariq aziz has been sentenced to death that it certainly has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the way as we can all beaks revelations showing

iraq government alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn. the reason they're doing it now and the 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 peter it is very easy it is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it will 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 disease 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. russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe and that's according to a world health organization report which says it could be prevented by offering more activities to keep young people busy other experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids that are calling their reports. 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 speeches 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 four in the king youth i saw the guy's noice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i used to do into ice even posted 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. no 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 serious juvenile crimes take place in the evening or a 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 minors is actually slowly improving in the league 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 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 gary pushed over r t 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 in front of britain's taxpayers alliance pressure group of things that for some countries in membership cost more than it's worth watch the full interview later this hour but here is a preview. the cost of the regulations and red tape in this is based on the commission's own official 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 is 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 cast into the watery depths. and full interview with dr lee rather him in just under twenty minutes time here on r.t. . russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders and moscow has presented a plan which would limit the alliance's military presence in its youngest member states the move comes a half of a summit in lisbon which will focus on the creation of a single missile defense system covering the whole of nato and afghan security russia's proposal is likely to come up at the meeting and perhaps earlier when the wine to secretary general visits moscow the foreign ministry is keen to stop nato pushing any further to the east. 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 the our knowledge of markets they often have direct influence over and as our t's guy next to count 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 have reportedly traded thousands of dollars worth of stocks of companies they or their processes 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 firm after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his eight. course meal on. 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 are illegal in 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 struck an art to washington d.c. and brisbane from michigan state university's college of law says the u.s. is make or option legal and there is more on this in crosstalk where people of als gas decide there's only one way to be corruption democratically through elections. congress 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 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. and you can watch the full version of cross dog show here on our t.v. atl of thirty g.m.t. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and locals in haiti's city of same are trying to storm doctors without borders camp set up to treat color of patients they fear its proximity to a school will contaminate the students and stones were thrown out of the camp side of the road walk to stop patients from arriving u.n. peacekeeping forces had to intervene as ngo staff negotiated with community leaders

around three hundred people have died so far in the cholera outbreak. tween disasters a tsunami and of will cain eruption have paid into these are killing about one hundred fifty people more than twenty eight died when. forcing thousands to flee and seek refuge in shelters scientists had warned of pressure building binny's the volcano is lava dome could trigger one of the most powerful blast in years else words and nami triggered by an earthquake swept away hundreds of homes scores of people are still missing. despite ongoing protests friends a senate gave its final approval to a bill to raise the country's retirement age from sixty to sixty two yawn you need this organized a demonstration in front of the headquarters of french president sarkozy's ruling you have people party in paris students chanted outside the senate building is riot police stood by unions have called for another nationwide day of protest on

thursday even if all parliament action on the bill is over. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and his believe in counterpart ever more all us have had a bit of a kick around in they were letting their hair down after a number of meetings iran is among believe his main trading partners accounting for over one billion dollars investment in two thousand and seven but the job became the first iranian president to visit believe you. next hour here in our team the magic of metal and how it's changing our lives find out more in our technology update. filaments continued. bacteria strikes me to see a. mythological as better place than the seeds of hope to protect every sleeve we can receive to many forms.

we've got the future of hubbard and a list of the top fifty most influential russian businessmen has been published so creative i can is here to tell us more that's right well thirty seven experts compiled the list from the total one hundred from a total of one hundred seven candidates and we'll find out who is topping that list in just a moment but first to other stories the american company responsible for running operations at sun hullin one may be swapped for a russian company x. the next to gus has twice asked the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas projects while production has fallen out of chambers says involving russian companies in similar ventures has previously raise production and cut costs is named among the probable candidates for operators owns twenty percent of the high end one through its daughter firms now top russian still produces are concentrating on domestic consumers 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 their european and asian peers but unocal never has more. top russian macel producer seven star has open to new plants and the moscow region to supply cow manufacturers with process to you is just one of a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand everest is upgrading its plant in that world mountains while came plans to invest up to three billion dollars and the country to boost capacity. 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 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 apology of the government's plan to encourage manufacturers to produce cars from start to finish with locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering has recovered. enough straddle xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore make the roughest filmmakers even better positional competitor compared to the global story corps selling process still in russia can be three times as profitable as sounding it abroad but the market is being distorted 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 my do not question the business. a list of the top fifty most influential russian businessmen has been published according to. the newspaper who

commissioned the list gazprom had aleksey miller a russian railways boss allegedly to queen a new cell c.e.o. . top the list thirty seven experts compiled the list from a total of one hundred seven candidates placing them in four categories minimal moderate high and very high influence. now let's look at the markets asian stocks are lower on wednesday best as are concerned that the u.s. federal reserve expected stimulus measures not be enough to boost the economy japan's nikkei average ended slightly higher but off from its morning ised exporters got a modest lift to get reverse some of its recent strength against the u.s. dollar hong kong's hang seng is trading one point eight percent this hour. and stocks in europe down in early trading as well the foot seas trading point eight percent lower with miners leading the declines because of missed xstrata and rio tinto all down over two percent on lower metals prices british american tobacco is

also shedding one point nine percent after a trading update and germany's dax is down almost half a percent with deutsche bank up one point four percent on top of the results. the russian markets are trading lower following downturns in asia the r.t.s. is down over half a percent and a mind that trading over a quarter of a percent lower all the blue chips are in the red on both of course is bucking the trend is ross telecom and. russian banking sector profits have grown twelve fold in the first nine months of this year the banks made a net total of twelve billion dollars compared with just one billion in the same period in two thousand and nine russia's central bank is forecasting that the sector net profit will reach sixteen billion by the end of two thousand and ten however the crisis is still taking its toll on many banks with one hundred seventeen still suffering losses. and a global corporate auction and twenty ten could exceed pre-crisis levels of court. to price waterhouse coopers the number of cars to be produced this year could reach

sixty nine point nine million russia's own production this year could rise to one point seven million cars if the current microcontroller tendencies contain russia's industry and trade ministry stated in september that russia could make up to three point six million cars by twenty twenty. state owned dubai world has secured support from its creditors for a twenty five billion dollars debt restructuring plan bank has reported has reportedly bought the debt held by the only creditor not to give approval to the plan there is structuring agreement signals a first step to resolving the debt crisis which hit the middle eastern country last year. that's all the business for now but i'll be back with another update at twenty past the hour meanwhile logon to our web site r t dot com business for most of us.

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welcome back here with here's a look at 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. american support for kurdish only police force causes interethnic tension in iraq's cultural melting pot non-persons in the city fear that a u.s. pullout will lead to bloodshed. russia has come top for youth violence and knife crime and a world health organization study experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids'. insider trading illegal for the average

american but not if you are a senator of the wall street journal says many are taking advantage of their knowledge of markets they often have direct influence over. how much does it cost to be an e.u. member state and is it really worth dr lee roth the room a veteran from behind the scenes of u.k. relations shared his thoughts in an interview to r.t. . i'm talking to dr rolls are 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 talk to other 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 well that's both a very important question and a very tricky question to answer in the first instance.