lee hitting bingo underground still talking about the largest amount of oil ever 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 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 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 anyone has its own version or the but they're not in the agreement or 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. than israeli company and. will not be. allowed to enter into lebanese territory or will have any further connection. of 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 supported from the syrian iran. and it would seem if we take statements in public positions seriously which we are they really interest in form and to very 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 policy r.t. television. and still to come for you this hour here on r.t. convinced global warming is just a lot of hot air we talk to activists who say mother nature gave them

a sign that they are right by sending snow two years ago all the details in just a few minutes. about eighty percent of syria's juvenile crime story plays in the evening or night when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's put russia at the top of the youth crime tables. the u.n. has an investigation into claims of torture in iraqi prisons following the latest revelation from wiki leaks that was all blowing website also raised concerns that kurdish controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw and sebastian may reports many in the country do fear two thousand and eleven deadline is too soon for local security forces to cope on their own. 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. 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 subversion companies who are not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown they're going to live with her charity turkey but with their own historic claim of the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq to 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 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 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. god for a bit but wars will begin between the girl as. an example of this violence wasn't long in coming no more than five minutes after we finished the interview a roadside bomb targeting the police detonated in the center of the city. luckily for the police the terrorists missed it appears that despite the gains that the police are making. the american troop withdrawal could easily lead to a return to sectarianism in kirkuk for kurds arabs and 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. . well peace campaigner carol turner says although dealing with the post-war reality will be hard for iraqis but u.s. has to leave the country solve its own problems coots has. an interest in helping the us presence because it doesn't want to see itself in conflict with other parts of iraq. it's looking to the united states to defend it is this a positive thing 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 and i don't think that in that

sense i don't think america in the north of iraq is a positive thing and staying in iraq the death sentence handed to saddam hussein's former deputy tariq aziz on tuesday has drawn much international condemnation many experts see the decision as a bid to divert attention from the wiki leaks revelations showing the iraqis government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corcoran. wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territories it is to divert attention to policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out 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 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. just now returning ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. and don't forget there's much more for you on our web site that's. just log on. here's a look at. this man i was so cheap hours forward with two thousand and fourteen preparations the massive construction work reveal secrets of russia's ancient past . to discover why archaeologists not athletes are racing to the site. and going against tradition why young couples in india rather the family fallouts for taking money.

from. russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders according to media reports moscow's presented a plan which would limit the alliances military presence in the youngest member states this comes ahead of a summit in lisbon which will be attended by russia's president dmitri medvedev the proposal is likely to be raised at the meeting in even perhaps earlier when the alliance is secretary-general of visits moscow nato meanwhile is hoping for closer cooperation namely on european missile defense and afghanistan the director of united states studies at moscow state university. says that removing troops away from russia's border would help to build trust with the alliance. of course

a matter of trust is an important feature in the relationship between nato and the russia know we speak about the lack of trust on both sides but nevertheless we are talking about their reset of the relations between the united states and russia these days. and there are a lot of talks about the improving all relations between naidoo and russia as well and certainly here the first step on this road would be to limit a substantial military presence on the borders of russia we each is considered by russia as a threat or as a potential threat and of course so we can see a lot of areas of cold duration in the future and the first real possible step would be the limited number of troops and military presence on the borders and the cooperation on certain practical matters between nato and the

russian one of them certainly is ever getting and there are lots of a lot of discussions in the participation of russia in training. military forces and police forces. in russia. supplies which can come from russia to get us down supplies glued into russian helicopters and some other important sub wise. global warming skeptics in the u.k. are marking climate fools day on this date two years ago snow fell in london as the british parliament was debating a bill to tackle global warming it was the first such early snowfall for over eighty years activists claimed ironic coincidence was just more proof that the bill is a waste of billions of taxpayers' pounds one of the organizers of the annual climate fools day conference whether actions peace corp and says global warming has simply been made up. there's no evidence for carbon dioxide driving

temperatures or climate whatsoever in the last five hundred thousand years or five hundred million years and what's going on is we have a government imposed policy all over europe we called it by. surely a one party state operating in europe now which is imposing taxes and restrictions on. production of carbon dioxide those who oppose us don't buy their so-called saw and so on evidence we are saw auntie's fighting for evidence based saw and a new fact saw droids what happened to the weather and climate change on this planet and if these politicians really cared about people they would actually make use of affect long range forecasts which can forecast how. very damaging it seems which cause death. all right now let's check out some other

stories making headlines around the world this wednesday and aid workers and their relief supplies have finally reached remote indonesian islands battered by a ten foot tsunami the massive wave which killed at least two hundred seventy people has swept away entire villages relief operations have been hampered by bad weather and rough waters the tsunami was triggered by an offshore earthquake that went. around thirty thousand protesters have hit the streets in the romanian capital bucharest to demonstrate against austerity measures it comes as the country's parliament began debating a possible no confidence vote in the government arrest was forced to cut public sector wages and government spending to comply with an i.m.f. loan that helped keep romania afloat last year. locals in haiti's or some are city have tried to storm a camp set up to treat cholera patients they said its proximity to school risks

contaminating the pupils the protesters threw stones at doctors without borders and blocked the road to stop patients from arriving un peacekeepers had to intervene to stop the unrest around us three hundred people have or so far died in haiti's cholera outbreak. france's parliament is expected to give the go ahead to a law raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two the senate has already approved the bill around the national assembly will hold a final vote later on wednesday has followed two weeks of protests and strikes against proposed reforms if the parliament gives its approval president nicolas sarkozy will sign the bill into law later this month. and attempts to bring the budget deficit down have sparked unrest in the u.k. as well but while the government plans to slash public jobs and benefits some analysts say it's squandering billions of euros on e.u.

membership that's the view of anti e.u. lobbyist dr levy or rather a you could watch the full interview in just over ten minutes time here on r.t. but for the meanwhile here's a preview. it's about a new hospital every three days i think it pays for the world family in two days i think it's something like every five days is the equivalent of repairing every single cathedral in england it's just search is a story where so many. russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe that's according to a world health organization report tracking crimes committed by minors across the continent with more details here's artie's diary of pushkov. 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 he's gang carried out a brutal now the main perpetrator would soon join his speeches in one of russia's sixty two young offenders institutions 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 and i saw the guy's noice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into ice even 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 own entertainment. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's youth crime this iteration among minors 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 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 interest a few moments stephanie is here with the latest business news. hungry for the full stop we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome to the business bulletin the american company responsible for running

operations at the cycling one may be swapped for a russian company ekso next to gas has twice asked the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project production has for them the audit chamber says involving russian companies in similar ventures as previously it would raise production and cut costs well staffed as among the likely candidates for operators that already owns twenty percent of cycling one through its daughter farms. top russian still produces a 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 you know reports. top russian natural producers savva stan has opened two new plants and the moscow region to supply can manufacturers with process to you is just one off

a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand universes upgrading its plant in that world mountains while i am m.k. plans to invest up to three billion dollars in the country to boost capacity with them but over it we're going to put it towards 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 tax breaks to foreign carmakers if they buy supplies from russian producers it's a part of the government's plan to encourage manufacturers to produce cars from start to finish with the locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering has recovered a little sure enough straddle xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore

make the russians still makers even better positional competitor compared to the global still makers. selling process 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 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 the russian paper news of the sea my commission the list gazprom head alexei miller russian railways boss rather made. that a pass at the top thirty seven experts compiled the list from a total of one hundred seven candidates placing them in four categories of influence minimal moderate to high and very high. let's turn now to the markets

european stocks are mixed this hour the footsie is still down around half a percent but mine is leading the decline in frankfurt the tax is slightly higher with deutsche bank gaining one and one percent on company results. here in moscow the russian markets are trading lower following losses in asia but the utilities and communications sectors are making some gains but telecom is up around half percent this hour. russian railways' has set the i.p.o. price range for shares in its subsidiary trying to contain up at seventy nine to ninety nine dollars per share the offering of just over four hundred four million sorry eight hundred thousand shares represents thirty five percent minus two shares of the company. russia's national carrier aeroflot will charge boeing more than one hundred million dollars over disruption to the delivery of its seven eight seven jets boeing has delayed the worldwide distribution of its dreamliner by two years

due to various testing problems received by the start delivery of twenty two dreamliner this to a halt by twenty four thousand boeing will be subject to increase fines if there are further delays. about one fifth of russian insurance companies are facing a bankruptcy the insurance watchdog said out of seven hundred firms up to two hundred fifty are in financial difficulties however major market players say the industry is in need of some rationalization. so not as they will yourselves a business or leave the market it will make the market off l.c. and good news is that the whole share of the market of such companies i believe hardly exists five percent so the real customers will not strongly be affected by this. of the market. global cup production in two thousand and ten could exceed pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the

number of cars produced this year could reach seventy eight million and here in russia it could rise to one point seven million parts. pre-crisis in two thousand and seven global manufacturing was about just under seventeen million units and it looks as though we estimate that it will come back to seventy million units globally in two thousand and ten so we're back to where we were pre-crisis book but there's a big difference because the bric so-called bric countries were just under twenty percent of the two thousand and seven production but it's going to be up to about thirty percent of two thousand and ten in other words has been a bit of a shift from the rest of the world basically to the bric countries. and that sort of business news now but of course you can always find more stories if you look on to our web site at www dot com slash that's this.

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we are coming to you live from moscow this is our top stories now a showdown looms between israel and lebanon over a recently discovered all reserves in the eastern mediterranean with turkey and cyprus staking their claims but without a clearly defined maritime borders experts predict the countries are unlikely to reach agreement any time soon. tensions high in northern iraq over fears of ethnic violence will erupt after u.s. troops leave the kurdish controlled region concerns intensified after the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks released documents highlighting cases of hostility between kurds and arabs. and russia are seeking to prevent nato from placing major

forces close to its border with a proposal that would limit the alliances military presence in its newest member states nato meanwhile is hoping for cooperation with moscow particularly on the european missile defense and afghanistan. dr. veteran from behind the scenes of relations is going to be finding out if membership of the european union is actually worth the cost stay with us. thank you very much for talking now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the. both a very important question and a very tricky question to ask in the first instance the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to eight hundred million pounds now.