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 livy a thin 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 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 turkey and lebanon also say the oil's fears and wild international law 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 are another 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 they will have its own version or their own poll 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 its very competent. 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. strongly supported from the room and it would seem if we take statements in public positions seriously which we are to they have an interest in form and really creating to ensure 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 the un has urged an investigation into the alleged torture in iraq in prisons details of which were leaked by the whistle blowing web sites we can 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 yes i've asked your mayor found in kirkuk many and 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 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. 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 developing gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the other submerged wrong place for not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown they're going to live with her charity target 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 and fair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw all of this 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 thirteen and this will. by god for a bit but words 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 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 care cook 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 r.t. . campaigner carol turner's has iraq is will 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 that 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. and interests in helping the u.s. presence 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 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 stay in iraq were saddam hussein's former deputy terry because he's has been sentenced to death the decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the way just we kill x. 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 the correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks of exposed to torture

that has gone on systematically and i think we've got sentenced pronounced for the territory. to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be 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 council the death penalty a brand of the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and just. just look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terek izzy's 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 and russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe and that's according to the world health organization report which says it could be prevented by offering more to keep young people busy

other experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids as artie's diapers called in our reports. every please show us on the door 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 across an of 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 guys knife lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into ice even 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 tell a very. in 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 experts say about eighty percent of serious 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 this situation among mynahs is actually slowly improving things are from the me i'm dealing with the underage crowd and in the past five years have seen a considerable decline of juvenile crime is the grim statistics among those who are of age takes for itself 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 bush r.t. moscow. and even ember ship is now the only or best way to regulate relations between european states that's the view of dr li rather him 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 the commission's own statistics the cost of the regulations is for in terms of the u.k. is greater than the 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 golden goose every hundred seconds just cast into the watery depths. russia seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders moscow has presented a plan which would limit the alliance's military presence in its youngest member states the move comes ahead 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 secretary general visits moscow the foreign ministries came to stop nato pushing any further to the east. capitol hill insiders in the u.s. are using and abusing their are 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 as artie's guy image 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 comedian helps overseed 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 won't up benefiting the fir 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 bruce being from michigan state university college of law says the u.s. has made corruption legal and there's more on this in cross stuck or peter lavelle's 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 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 watch the full version of cross talk show here on r.t.e. at eleven thirty g.m.t. . ando well see motorist in moscow had a miraculous escape after destroying luxury sports car in a high speed crash

a quarter million dollar aston martin which can top speeds of three hundred kilometers an hour careered off a busy moscow street and on the slippery road a speeding car left the ground smashed to kiosks and in a pile of scrap metal amazingly no one died and only two people were hurt the driver will get off relatively free of the worst punishment faces under russian law is a temporary suspension of his license. also take a look at some other stories from around the world in locals in haiti city of st marc tried to storm there is without borders camp set up to treat cholera patients they feared its proximity to a school with contempt the students stones were thrown at the camp side and the road walk to stop patients from 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 color break. i am going protest francis sena

gave its final approval to a bill to raise the country's retirement age from sixty to sixty two in the on the union organizing demonstration in front of the waters of french president sarkozy's ruling us party and in paris students chanted outside the senate building as riot by unions have called for another nationwide day of protest on thursday even if all parliament action on the bill is over. three hundred supporters of the opposition in myanmar have held protests in tokyo calling for an amber alert actions back home to be boycotted the pro-democracy party of mir is under house arrest says the poll will only prolong military dictatorship there. ruling john to however is billing the election as a key step towards democracy after five decades of military or. an iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and his believe in counterpart ever more all of us

have had a bit of a cake around they were letting their hair down after a number of official meetings and iran is among believe main trading partners accounting for over one billion dollars investment in two thousand and seven million jobs became the first iranian president to visit believe. how business is next with current email account don't go away. it's twenty past one o'clock here in moscow welcome to business the american company responsible for running operations at some one may be swapped for a russian company x. enough to go as has twice the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project well production has fallen the order chamber says valving russian companies in similar ventures previously raise production and cut costs is among the probable candidates for operators it already owns twenty percent of the holding one. top

russian still producers are concentrating on domestic consumers to boost profits recent changes and tax law and other government is said to have made the market more attractive this is also giving a competitive edge to russian companies over their european and asian players but in the course of our reports the. top russian natural producer severus now has open to new plants and the moscow region to supply can manufacturers with precise do you know it's just one of a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand everest is upgrading its plant in the world mountains while came plans to invest up to three billion dollars and the country to build 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 gone for 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 start to finish with locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering has recovered enough and all sure enough started axed here. the russians still makers even better positional competitor compared to the global store makers. selling pre-science still in russia can be three times as profitable as sounding 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 anting. a publication of the top thirty most influential russian business but that has appeared here according to his a.b.c. legacy at the newspaper who commissioned the list gazprom has. been and will sell c.e.o. pasko top the list thirty seven ex-pres compiled a list from the total one hundred seven candidates placing them four categories minimal moderate high very high influence. let's look at the markets now asian stocks are lower on wednesday investors are concerned that the u.s. federal reserve's expected stimulus measures may not be enough to boost the economy japan's nikkei average and slightly higher but also from its morning highs exporters got a modest lift the yen reversed some of its recent strength against the u.s. dollar and hong kong's hang seng is trading one point eight percent lower. european stocks are also down in morning trading session of the footsies trading point eight percent lower with minors leading declines with xstrata and rio tinto old 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 banked up one point four percent company results. the russian markets are trading lower following downturns in asia yes is losing point seven percent of the my six percent lower this hour all the blue chips are in the red on both bourses bucking the trend is removed hydro. russian banking sector profits have grown twelve fold to the first nine months of this year the banks made at that total 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 sixty million by the end of two thousand and ten however the crisis is still taking its toll in many banks with one hundred seventeen still suffering losses. global car production and twenty ten

could exceed pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the number of cars to be produced this year could reach sixty nine point nine million which is own production this year could rise to one point seven million dollars if the current not only tendencies continue russia's industry and trade ministry stated in september that russia could make up to three point six million cars by point he explains. state owned dubai world has secured support for it from its creditors for twenty five billion dollars debt restructuring plan bank has reportedly bought the debts held by the only credit not to give approval to the plan the restructuring agreement signals the first step to resolving the debt crisis which hit the middle eastern country last year. and 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 others severstal and male

dogs are you have announced their intention to go to the market told blackwell managing director of m. communications says the success of these deals will give a clear indication that conditions haven't proved 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 are looking to this six of them are in london ones in moscow and if if the majority of those get away i think you'll have announced that that will show something about the level of investor demand an appetite for russian issuance 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 informed well below the market and so. maybe as a turning point if these deals get away in a very 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 proven. that's all the business is for now joining me now for a look at headlines coming up next. dear

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brother said the colonel was her job as used to retreat. welcome back here with r t live from moscow 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 kurds in the city fear that a u.s. pullout will lead to blog. russia has come top for use violence and knife crime in a world health organization study experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids. and insider trading illegal for the average

american but not if you are a senator and the wall street journal says many are taking advantage of the your knowledge of markets the often half their influence over. those of the allies here in our t.n.x. the latest edition of technology updated where we explore the magic of modern marrow. hello and welcome to technology update this month the show goes middle only without the head banging we're talking about the most elementary of materials that have helped build our civilization and still find innovative new applications today the soviet metallurgical industry was blasting past competitors around the same time heavy metal started blasting out speakers by the time the country three pronged the us to become the world.