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 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 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 and lebanon also say the oil spill 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 clear 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 they will have its own version or the 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 has been as the major political actor in lebanon. and strongly supported from the syrian iran. and it would seem if we take statements and public positions seriously

which we are. they really interested from 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 your. before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend into lebanese territory. tell if they have and still ahead for you this hour here on ars he convinced global warming is just a lot of hot air we talked to activists who say mother nature gave them a sign they are right by sending the snow two years ago all the details in just a few minutes. eighty percent of syria's juvenile crimes take place in the evening when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's at the top of the youth crime tables.

the un has done investigation into claims of torture in iraqi prisons following the latest revelation from wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site also raised concerns that kodesh controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw. reports many in the country do fear the 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'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 gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the others are very strong not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in the downtown area of these invited her to. character there are you there on this story a woman kirkuk is a unique city in iraq a true melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions the two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong unfair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw. 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 where the u.s.

leaves things will get worse it will be conflict arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with thirty and this will. go after 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 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 and care cook 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 to. peace campaign carol says although dealing with the post-war reality will be hard for iraqis but u.s. has to leave and let the country solve its own problems. an

interest 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 and i don't think they're 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 terry cozies on tuesday has drawn much international condemnation many experts see the decision as a bid to divert attention from the wiki leaks revelations that show the iraqi

government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corcoran wiki leaks if exposed to torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territory is to divert attention to policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it would mean nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir zs any more than executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutalise what is already a very brutal situation. forget there's much more waiting for you on our website

dot com you can log on and explore whenever you feel like and here's a look at what might try right now. forward with its two thousand and fourteen winter olympic preparations the massive construction work reveal secrets of russia's ancient past and. to discover why. not athletes are racing to the site. tradition find out why young couples in india face family fallouts for taking money off parenthood. russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders and according to media reports moscow has presented a plan which would limit the alliance's military presence in his youngest member

states this comes ahead of a summit in lisbon which will be attended by russia's president dmitry medvedev this proposal is likely to be raised at the meeting and perhaps even earlier when the alliances secretary general visits moscow nato meanwhile is hoping for closer cooperation namely on new 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 now 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 relations between nato and russia as well and certainly

the first step on this road would be to limit a substantial military presence on the borders of russia we choose considered by russia as a threat or as a potential threat and of course we can see a lot of areas of cold gratian in the future and the first real possible step would be a limited number of troops and military presence on the borders and that 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 going to come from russia to get us down supplies glued into russian helicopters and some other important sub wise. the director of your study is that moscow state university

that's your ear off there now let's go to some other news here on r.t. . global warming skeptics in the u.k. 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 playing the 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 of weather actions piers corbyn says global warming has simply been made up. there's no evidence for carbon dioxide drawing temperatures or climate whatsoever in the last thousand years hundred thousand years or five hundred million years and what's going on is we have a government imposed policy all over europe we've got a basically

a one party state operating in europe now which is imposing taxes and restrictions on the production of carbon dioxide those who oppose us don't buy their so-called saw and so on evidence we are saw and fighting for evidence based science and in fact the sun droids what happens to the weather and climate change on this planet and if these politicians really cared about people they would actually make use of effective long range forecasts which can forecast has. a very damaging instance which caused deaths. just turning quarter past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other stories now making headlines around the world on this wednesday aid workers and relief supplies finally reached a remote indonesian islands battered by a ten foot tsunami the massive wave which killed at least two hundred seventy

people has swept entire villages away relief operations have been hampered by bad weather and rough waters tsunami was triggered by an offshore earthquake. police have clashed with arab protesters in northern israel the head of a show jeweled march why an ultra nationalist jewish group demonstrators had positioned themselves along the planned route of the march but approaching police were mistaken for the marchers and pelted with rocks the crowd was dispersed then with tear gas and stun grenades. around thirty thousand protesters hit the streets in the romanian capital bucharest to demonstrate against austerity measures it comes as the country's parliaments begin debating a possible no confidence vote in the government look 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. 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 this follows two weeks of protests and strikes against the 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 of spock's 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 an c.e.u. lobbyist dr levy or right. you can watch the full interview next hour here on r.t. but here's a preview. treasury votes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of eight hundred million pounds the overall bill for business and for the country could be as high as two

hundred billion pounds a year the problem is that nobody knows this because there has not been a cost benefit analysis if you remember should 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 equipment to repairing every single cathedral in england it's just a waste of money. 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 our teaser daria 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 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 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 our media including television which stories full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred miners are currently serving prison terms the majority are either from a one parent family or an orphanage 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 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 crime is the grim statistics among those who are of age to exploit self. 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. and in just a moment all the business news with stuff. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. you're watching the business bulletin head on r.t. the american company responsible for running operations that second one may be

swapped for a russian company ekso next to gus has twice asked the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project opera duction has for them the audit chamber says involving russian companies in similar ventures has previously raise production and cut costs but according to the energy minister the issue of replacing the operator hasn't been considered as yet. top russian still produces a concentrating on domestic consumers to boost profits recent changes in tax bill and other government incentives have made the market more attractive is also giving a competitive edge to russian companies over their european and asian peers but in a question of that reports. top russian natural producer savva stan has open to new plants and the moscow region to supply com manufacturers with process to you is just one off a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic

demand. is a great thing it's pond in that we're all mountains while i am came plans to invest up to three billion dollars in the country to boost capacity with them but over here 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 one. and by another twenty percent the year after or even was to restore the pre-crisis output recent changes in tax law have made it more profitable for russian companies to south processed mazal to domestic consumers rather than exporting it in addition the state has over it tax breaks to foreign carmakers if they buy supplies from russian producers it's a 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. enough straddle xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore make the russian still makers even better position of competitor compared to the

global still acres. 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 my doing business answering. a list of the top fifty most influential russian businessmen has been published the russian paper needs a. commission the list and put gazprom head alexei miller russian railways boss of . recess. 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 and moderate to high and very high. now that stick out the equity markets european stocks are on the slide this hour follows some weak u.s.

manufacturing data down more than half a percent with minors in the zero declines and in frankfurt tech stocks are dragging on the docks. out of russia markets are trading lower following losses in asia banks are way but the utilities and communication sectors are making some gains just telecom is trading slightly higher at this hour. russian railways' has set the i.p.o. price range for shares and 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 five percent of minus two shares of the company. russia's biggest mobile phone operator you have reset is considering selling thirty percent of its shares on the london stock exchange in march the company has already started discussions with banks to underwrite the offer but it still needs to get the agreement of some of its biggest shareholders. about one fifth of russian

insurance companies are facing bankruptcy insurance watchdogs 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. not a very will. be as most all leave the market it will make a market. share of the market of companies believe probably five. of them ours will nords wrongly be affected by. the market global competition this year could exceed pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the number of cars produced this year could reach seventy million russia it could rise to one point seven million cars. pre-crisis in two thousand and seven global manufacturing was about just under seventy million

units and it looks as 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 countries. and that's all the business is for that but of course you can always find. website that's called slash .

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of the hour here in moscow you won with the headlines now showdown between israel and lebanon over. oil reserves in the eastern mediterranean with turkey and cyprus also staking their claims good without a clearly defined maritime border experts predict the countries are unlikely to reach agreements anytime soon. tensions high in northern iraq over fears ethnic violence with iraq 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. seeking to prevent nato from placing major

forces close to its border with a proposal that would have limited military presence in its newest member states nato meanwhile is hoping for closer cooperation with moscow particularly on the european missile defense and afghanistan. well next technology update takes a shine to metal and how it's still helping to change our lives enjoy. 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 applique.