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 a political appointee we were surely we should 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 there is and while the international law allows a country to drill in the so-called continental shelf off the 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. company and. will not be allowed to enter into lebanese territory or will have any part of their connection with. a lebanese a 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 has been as the major political actor in lebanon. and here it is strongly supported from the outset

by syria and iran and it would seem if we take statements in public positions seriously which we are they will interest in form and teen activity 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 police here are t. tell if they have. had for you here on r.t. the price of a safe border what will it russia nato troops being stationed ever closer to its front expert analysis is coming up in just a few minutes. so insider trading illegal for the average american but not if you're a senator r.t. looks at how u.s. officials are using legal loopholes to line their pockets.

the u.n. has done investigation into the alleged torture in iraqi 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 as sebastian maya found out in court cook many non kurds living in the relatively stable region fear they will soon become targets. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk where in the suburb of doc 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. 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 other subversion from police force not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown very good by the picture of her charity target due to 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 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. in terms of security when the u.s. leaves it will be no independent security force right now the securities 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 prayed and we should say with the mayor and this will. by god for a bit but words will begin between the groups 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 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 r.t. . russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe that's according to a wealth 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 as. 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 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 noice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russianness ago i stepped into ice given pasta 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 experts say about eighty percent of syria's 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 room and sitting mint. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's youth crime this situation

among minus is actually slowly improving in the league i'm dealing with the underage crowd and in the past five years have seen a considerable decline of juvenile crimes a grim statistics among those who are of age takes for itself. while many of these young boys hope they'll 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. russia is 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 the lisbon summit to come 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

alliance his secretary general visits moscow. director of the franklin roosevelt foundation for united states studies of moscow state university says this move could actually turn into a fruitful relationship between both nato and russia. the first real possible step would be a limited number of troops and military presence on the borders and the cooperation on certain practical matters between nato and russia one of them certainly is afghanistan russia potentially can may go there live for the western troops in afghanistan much harder than it is now russia can also help a lot and. a lot of discussions about the participation of russia in training. military forces and police forces. in russia. supplies which can come from russian. russian helicopters and some other important

supplies certainly another important area is and a missile defense system right know there is a possibility that nato countries would just consider the european defense system in which russia can participate. why this will happen or not it's a matter of negotiations but i'm very positive on that that russia can participate . to some other news now in the capitol hill insiders in the u.s. are using and abusing their positions to make some extra pocket money according to the wall street journal many are taking advantage of the knowledge of markets they often have direct influence over and as ati's gone a chicken 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 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 hands of thousands of dollars betting against the market that he's a media 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 wound up benefiting the fur after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his eight. pocono spoke with chris meller. 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 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 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 as 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 dan i struck an arc to washington d.c. . e.u. membership is not the only or best way to regulate relations between european

states well that's the view of dr lee rather and from the britain's taxpayers alliance pressure group he thinks that for some countries either you membership costs more than it's worth you can 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 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.

you are with r t coming to you live from moscow now let's let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and a local in haiti city of santa mark try to storm doctors without borders camp set up to treat cholera patients they feared its proximity to a school would contaminate the students stones were thrown at the camp site and the road block to stop patients from arriving un peacekeeping forces had to intervene as ngo staff negotiated with community leaders around three hundred people have died so far in the cholera outbreak. thousands over romanians hit the streets of book arrest in protest of government austerity measures the demonstrations coincide with parliamentary no confidence vote against the government opposition leaders say they'll continue to protest whatever the outcome in parliament even before wage cuts career teachers were forced to get by on an

average salary of less than five hundred dollars. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and his bolivian counterpart evo morales had a bit of a kick around they were letting their hair down after a number of official meetings iran is among believe years of main trading partners accounting for over one billion dollars investment in two thousand and seven and became the first iranian president to visit bolivia. protesters angry at her planned march by jewish extremists through an arab town have clashed with police in northern israel the march was organized by supporters of a u.s. born rabbi who preaches that palestinians should be expelled from israel and the west bank around three hundred fifty israeli arabs gathered along the route mistakenly thought the rally had begun and started to. police in turn police used tear gas and stun grenades in response. well i wealth the motorist in moscow has

had a miraculous escape after destroying his luxury sports car in a high speed crash. million dollar aston martin which can top speeds of three hundred kilometers an hour careened off a busy street on the slippery road speeding. to kiosks and ended in a polyp scrap metal amazingly no one died people were the driver will get off relatively scot free the worst punishment for the faces on the russian is the temporary withdrawal. well don't forget there's much more for you on our website that's called you can just log on and explore here's a look at what might catch your eye right now. so she's. two thousand and fourteen . a massive construction work reveal secrets. to discover why. it's. going against

tradition to find out why young couples in india. taking money. and. time now for the business with career. hello welcome to the program good to have you with us the american company responsible for running operations at sun hull in one may be swapped for a russian company exxon nifty gus has twice asked the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project while production has fallen the audit chamber says involving russian companies in similar ventures has previously raise production and cut costs ross nafta is among the probable candidates for operators it already owns

twenty percent of such a hole in one through its top of firms. now top russian steel producers 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 i do the question has more. top russian national producer sever stout has opened to new plans and the moscow region to supply can manufacturers with the sas do you is just one of a number of that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand you have asked is upgrading its plant in the world mountains while came funds 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

will have made it more profitable for russian companies to south processed mazal to domestic consumers rather than exporting it in addition to the state has over 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 straddle xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore make the filmmaker's even better positional competitor compared to the global still acres 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. now a list of the top fifty most influential russian businessmen has been published in news that the paper commissioned the list from head aleksei miller russian will always be. c.e.o. . of topping the list thirty seven experts compiled the list from a total of one hundred seven candidates placing them in four categories minimal moderate and very high influence. now it's have a look at what's happening with the markets european stocks are lower for the second session on wednesday the early losses were paired with software group. and beer giant heineken falling sharply bank is bucking the negative trend on the dax here in russia markets are trading lower following downturns in asia both the r.t.s. i'm isaac's down half a percent this hour all the blue chips are in the red on both the bourses bucking the trend though is look that's trading in the block and utilities and

communications are also gaining with telecom apel percent. question will always has said the i.p.o. price range for shares in its subsidiary trans container at seventy nine to ninety nine dollars per share the offering of just over four million eight hundred thousand shares represents thirty percent minus two shares of the company. 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. russia's national carrier air flight will charge boeing with more than one hundred million dollars over disruption in the delivery of its seven hundred eighty seven jets boy has delayed the worldwide distribution

its dreamliner by two years due to various testing problems previously boeing planned to start the delivery of twenty two dreamliner as two air flight by two thousand and fourteen boeing will be subject to increased fines if it further delays delivery of the aircraft. state owned dubai world has secured support from its from its creditors for a twenty five billion dollars debt restructuring plan a bank has reportedly bought the debt held by the only credit and 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 now it's go to the car industry global car production in 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 russia's own production this year could rise to one point seven million cars if the current micro canonic tendencies continue russia's industry and trade ministry stated in

september that russia could make up to three point six million cars by twenty twenty. and that's all the business here is for me and the business team here but we'll be back with more in less than one hour cell trying to.

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the resort and spa. in the russian capital this is our top stories now east of the mediterranean all the latest point of tension in the troubled region way race is on with israel and lebanon resorting to threats of war to stake their claim. american support for a kodesh only police force causes into ethnic tension and iraq's cultural melting pot codes in the city you fear that a u.s. pullout will lead to bloodshed. russia has come to violent crime. study experts blame parents for not paying enough attention to their kids.

illegal for the average american but. the wall street journal says many are taking advantage of the knowledge of markets they often have a direct influence over. and we continue to discuss legal loopholes in the u.s. corruption the main issues on our debate show that's coming up with people next. to. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle corruption in one form or another is a cancer that eats away at countries and societies around the world and the global recession has demonstrated that corruption is very much part of business as usual in rich countries that often the fore.