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coming more than you have been begging for a year yeah please lord don't let me down don't let me down and finally jackie relations praise have been answered the oil company he's invested in reportedly hitting bingo underground we're 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 one turn on his way to the promised land bringing them to the one spot in the middle east that has no oil but that punchline might need to change because it seems that moses might not have been so wrong after all in two thousand and nine israel announced the discovery of a first major natural gas field off its coast but the most recent reports from the giant live ethan natural gas site off the coast of haifa point to a potential for billion barrels of black gold we will be able to beijing or future . energy. it will be less expensive which is
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how important. from a political. appointee we were surely we should be less dependent on the. improve for who but it's not only israel lane came to the reserves greeks cyprus turkey and lebanon also say the oil says and one international no one lousy 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 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 negotiation and i know that we as it has its own version over the land but what they're not in the agreement whether and because the two countries are enemy states there is unlikely to be any agreement anytime soon both have threatened to go to war over the issue obviously this is an israeli company. as an israeli company and
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. will not be allowed to enter into lebanese territory or will have any part of their connection with ration 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 here it is strongly supported from the syrian you around. and it would seem if we take statements and public positions seriously which we are they really interested in form and to very creating tension israel has the upper hand for now it's already struck a deal with cyprus and is preparing to start extraction while lebanon still needs to sort out the boundaries of its economic zone with cyprus and syria and it will be years before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend
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into lebanese territory police here r.t. television. still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. they're convinced a global warming is just a lot of. we talked 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 crimes take place in the evening or night when children in syria are supposed to be looked after by their parents we investigate what's good russia at the top of the crime table. russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its borders moscow has presented a plan which would limit the alliances military presence in its youngest member states for more we're now joined live by r.t. is alex hebert who is waiting for us here in moscow and hello to you allison so can you give us more details on exactly what is it that russia wants. well so wants to
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prevent naysay from placing any major forces close to its border it wants to set a formal limits i kept on the amount of the alliances force is that all place close to its borders particularly in its new member states which do you like that bit closer to the russian border is it doing this russia believes that it's simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet. mikhail gorbachev back in one nine hundred ninety when it promised not to move quite as much as the thumbs which further to the east say russia simply things that they are all skating nato to keep to that promise that was made all those years ago other cording to foreign ministry buildings this plan was actually put forward as far back as december and it's been in the game ever since but will now seriously be on the table in the next months allow mug russia nato meeting to take place in lisbon
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and possibly even before that when they take secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen visits moscow so what russia wants is a formal limits to be placed on the the amount of the nato alliance forces to be put close to that border as. well as talk to us more about what about other issues where russia and nato come cooperate. well one the particular area in which both russia and nato can cooperate is in the own going issue of afghanistan and maintaining peace in that area and also in the ongoing fines against drug trafficking that comes out of afghanistan earlier this week several leading u.k. newspapers i made the statement that russia would be is sending troops back into the country to help in training afghan forces now russia's envoy to nato dimitri at ruggles that has flatly denied that he said that russia will no account be re
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entering afghanistan russia of course fought a bit said decade long war in afghanistan from nine hundred seventy nine to nine hundred eighty nine and to be fair i called in the house said the russia has no wish to go back into the country what he has said russia will be doing though is possibly supplying helicopters to the ongoing fight in afghanistan and will also potentially help in the training of afghan forces and also in afghan and pakistan a police forces in their own going fight against the drug because but that training will not take place on afghan soil another area of potential cooperation is in the future discussion on the europe wald missile defense shield in these spiritual improved russian made so a friendship nato has said that it very much wants nato to be a russia rather to be a policy of that discussion on how best to implement that missile defense shield
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across europe are all to use i listen to the reported russia live from moscow thank you. the un has urged an investigation into claims of torture in iraq e prisons following the latest revelation from wiki leaks the whistle blowing website also raised concerns that kurdish controlled northern iraq could be plunged into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw and sebastian maya reports many in the country do fear the two thousand and eleven deadline is too soon for local security forces to cope on iran . a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk where 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
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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 developing gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the other sort of very strong police force not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown they're going to get invited mr her charity turkey where are you with their own historic claim of 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 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 us leaves it will be no
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independent security force right now the security is from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the us leaves things will get worse it will be conflicts arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with thirteen and this will. i got for a bit but words will begin between the ethnic 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. . 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
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the decision as a bid to divert attention from the wiki leaks revelations showing the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corp wiki leaks have exposed the 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 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 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 terek izzy's any more than
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executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutalise what is already a very brutal situation. now don't forget there's much more waiting for you on our website. just log on and explore. here's a look at what you are right now. ford with its two thousand and fourteen winter olympic preparations the massive construction work reveal secrets. to discover. not only racing to the side. and going against tradition why young couples in india face family fallouts for taking money to put off.
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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 snow fall for over eighty years activists claimed 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 where their 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
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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 saw and 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 how. the very damaging instance which caused death. now quarter past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world on this when aid workers and relief supplies 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.
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police have clashed with our protesters in northern israel ahead of virtual march by an ultra nationalist jewish group demonstrators had positioned themselves along the planned route of the march but approaching police were mistaken for the marchers pelted with rocks the crowd was then dispersed with tear gas and stun grenades. around thirty thousand protesters hit the streets in the romanian capital to demonstrate against austerity measures it comes as the country's parliament began debating a possible no confidence vote in the government who caressed was forced to cut public sector wages and government spending to comply with an i.m.f. loan that helped people mania 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 and the national assembly will hold
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a final vote later on wednesday as 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 have also spot on the rest in the u.k. but while the government plans to slash public jobs and benefits some analysts say it's squandering billions of euros on e.u. membership well that's the view of anti e.u. lobbyist dr levy rather and you can watch the full interview in just over ten minutes time but first here's a preview. treasury writes 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 of membership it's about
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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 to repairing every single cathedral in england it's just search is a story to estimate. 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 daria push cover. everything 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 now the main perpetrator would soon join his peers in one of russia's
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sixty two young offenders institutions i live close enough has already served more than half of his sentence for committing a racial murder he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both him and his friends attacked a four in the king youth i saw the guy's noice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into ice 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 . 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
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five thousand seven hundred miners are currently serving prison terms the majority either from a one parent family or in all financial 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 mine is 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 to exploit so while many of these young boys hope they will be able to survive crime free in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the barbed wire to ensure they don't become another those generation gary pushed r.t.
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moscow and we are coming to you live from the russian capital is now just turning twenty one minutes past the hour now time to turn over to the latest from the world of business and stephanie is here hi stuff hi roy so you were telling us about the top fifty most influential russian businessman that's right i certainly well a russian newspaper has compiled a list and i'll tell you who's the top in just a few moments but first. the american company responsible for running operations in one may be swapped for a russian company exxon never to gas has twice us the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project but production has fallen 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 yet. 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
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giving a competitive edge to russian companies over their european and asian peers but in a question of reports. top russian missile producer seven star has opened two new plants and the moscow region to supply can manufacture is with the sas to you is just one of a number of his that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand yeah vast is upgrading its plant in the world mountains while came plans to invest up to three billion dollars in the country to boost capacity. we are planning to produce ten million tons of metal this year we're going to increase the output by some twenty percent by twenty eleven and by another twenty percent the year after our aim was 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
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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 xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore make the roughest filmmakers even better position a competitor compared to the global still acres selling percent 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 i do not question the business . a list of the top fifty most influential russian businessmen has been published
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the russian newspaper news of the sea my guys that's a commission the list and put gas pump head alexei millo russian grow ways boss of rather me your crewmen and the russo c.e.o. like that of out the top thirty seven experts compiled the list from a total of one hundred seven candidates placing them in four categories of them through its a minimal moderate high unfair economy. and now let's take a look at how the equity markets are performing european stocks are on the slide this hour follow some weak u.s. manufacturing data footsie is down more than half a percent with minors leading the declines and in frankfurt tech stocks are dragging on the dots. on the wall street has opened low on wednesday that follows that weak durable goods data and investor speculation that the federal reserve may take a more cautious approach to stimulating the economy than hope. i'm here in moscow the russian markets are trading lower following losses in asia banks of wayne bought the utilities and communication sectors are making some gains plus telecom
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is trading point nine percent higher on the my six this our. russian row ways to set the i.p.o. price range for shares in its subsidiary trance container at seventy nine to ninety nine dollars per share the company could raise as much as five hundred million dollars on the london listing. and russia's biggest mobile phone operator you have reset is considering selling thirty percent of it 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 from some of its biggest shareholders. about one fifth of russian insurance companies are facing bankruptcy insurance watchdogs said out of seven hundred farms up to two hundred fifty are in financial difficulties but some major market players say the industry is in need of some russian zation. both or not of they will.
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be the most or leave the market it will make the market more healthy. the whole theory of the market of competence i believe probably exceeds five of them so a real cost the most will nords wrongly be affected by these cooling of the market global copper duction this year could exceed pre-crisis levels according to price waterhouse coopers the number of cars produced at this year could reach seventy million and here in russia it could rise to one point seven million cards. pre-crisis in two thousand and seven global manufacturing was about just under seventy million units and it looks as we estimate that it'll 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
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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's all the business is for now but of course you can always final stories if you delve into a website apps are columnist slash business. there
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it's now six thirty pm. with your headlines now a showdown looms between israel and lebanon. in the eastern mediterranean with. but without a clearly defined time experts predict the countries are unlikely to reach agreements anytime soon. but fears ethnic violence will erupt after u.s. troops leave the controlled region concerns intensify after the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks released documents highlighting cases of hostility between. us. and russia. close to its border with
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a proposal that would limit the military presence of member states nato. cooperation with. once and afghanistan. well next hour to you talks to dr lee roth a room veteran from behind the scenes of the u.k. e.u. relations to find out if membership of the european union is worth the cost that's next right here on r.t. . docs or other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the e.u. well that's a both a very important question a very tricky question to answer in the first instance the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of eight hundred million pounds now that's not the whole picture because that is basically that's the course contribute.

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