u.s. introduces new sanctions against syria targeting the country's president for the first time this latest move in a pick and choose middle east policy. scotland is set to consider a break from the united kingdom and with independence the polls show voters are still unsure whether they can go to new. ballots he travel south or some penguin talk like leaping out toxic snakes important nation delve into some of the myths surrounding the cold contra.

flow you're watching r t well live from moscow welcome to the program president obama will use a major speech on thursday to outline his approach to the middle east the dress the wave of up the uprisings in complete revolutions and the nato led bombing campaign there has to be union wedging our democracies could be rewarded with cash support but as artie's energy can report some america's dealings in the region the habits of stirring up a hornet's nest. words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wildfire of public rage spread throughout the middle east and north africa at the beginning of this year analysts say america's foreign policy in the region has seen a major crisis the u.s. has it learned its lesson i think that this is the way policy has been formally for fifty plus years. out of this country is that we try to look for somebody we'd like

to see in power back down based on whatever interests we are yet to battle people to stop i think they want to bring in power but washington's old policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the leading population is opposing any foreign meddling in their affairs and analysts say washington's efforts to propel its man into power in libya could result in infighting that's going to last years the governments tend to be corrupt puppet governments and not to meet the needs of the people seated across across the region and that's because the government is a government that's a tune to the interests of foreigners not the interests of their own people so that's a cost if they succeed the inconsistency between what america's says and what america does seem to even more obvious when he came to egypt despite hosni mubarak's author a terry and then undemocratic rule washington had been supporting him for decades

many of those years president mubarak as. a leader of a counsellor and for something about his face but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he was swiftly shifted its policy as that are in washington hawks we've never seen ski explains if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point of butting our head against the wall in order to save the government to do it on the other hand if we are convinced of the street is going to fail there's no point massively antagonizing the government with which we have to deal after whatever happens is over because we have continued interest and only say america's decisions as to which government it backs and which ones it breaks have added to the broader picture of incoherency of us war and policy in the region in yemen where the president is heavily backed by the u.s. or in bahrain which hosts the major. u.s.

fleet washington was very careful not to undermine bear leaders although they too have violently cracked down on peaceful protesters meanwhile in iraq people regularly protest against their u.s. backed government it but israel even mentioned here these days in saudi arabia one of the u.s. key allies in the region scores of dissidents have been arrested and the u.s. seems to be ok with all of that words have not been the basis of u.s. actually seen another longstanding conflict in the middle east between the palestinians and israelis despite calling for israel to stop building settlements in the west bank in jerusalem the u.s. vetoed a u.n. security council resolution that would have can be empty israeli settlements more than a dozen palestinians have been killed over the last few days while protesting against israel's policies. obama's owes. you know it's there in. your post.

but one state that is coming close to being on washington's blacklist is syria iran's closest ally in the region there is strong condemnation of the syrian leadership and the white house source said the administration is close to the clearing president assad's rule here illegitimate action might follow syria is much more dangerous a situation than libya as far as global issues are concerned it is a crucial player in the balance of power in that region it is a crucial factor in the current. sort of stays in the israeli palestinian situation with the situation in the middle east as unstable as it is analysts say the u.s. involvement in yet another conflict could further destabilize the region and add more red spots on this map. are t. washington d.c.

. syria is the current focus of us middle east policy washington has introduced a new batch of sanctions first time target syrian president bashar he's accused of human rights abuses following violence downs of anti-government protesters. and an asset freeze on anything from the units that european union also agreed to tighten its sanctions against syria yawned the arms of which was already in place for middle east experts tariq ali however said it's unlikely to have any effect a good. thing i don't think sanctions work i think they are essentially symbolic measure usually when sanctions are applied against a country of fact the poor people in that country more than the ruling you leads as we saw four years before the united states invaded iraq in two thousand and three

behead imposed bloody sanctions regime which led to the loss of children's lives because medicines were prescribed and now they're saying that these sanctions applied largely to. the baathists functionaries with these people can still carry on i don't think they'll be too affected it will be an irritation but nothing till very recently they would negotiate on very friendly terms with the pressure of trying to get him away. from iran grab him towards their side and then possibly even use him and the baathist regime in syria against tehran world that has now fallen by the wayside. i mean well egypt's military leadership is not respecting human rights according to international watchdogs even after the revolution to remove the tater was in the back he was still reportedly being tortured by security services all of which is feeling concerned that the

country could fall and the control of political radicals after all the reasons why will barak was unpopular not just his own personality even his family who were huge economic problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and the religious system treat away mubarak and you don't recycle any of those problems some degree original government the generals and their appointed ministers are you know they don't really possess a strategic reason i'm afraid for where they want to know who i am so we're seeing the radical groups of the just local disorder taking over if you have elections in september but the largest best organized group might say we don't accept the results we think we're the real majority and they will actually help the people who come out on the streets the muslim brotherhood may be able to move was enough people to take part in the possible iraq. still to come on the program our team is off to the antarctic to past some limits. to the point where you really want to bring wise overhead i'm. not one are you are right in the loop the loop that will

be very important when. you are than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes sense arctic is so special and attractive for many wildlife in antarctica is the place you lived for the. expedition to the bottom of the earth are three. now queen elizabeth the second has offered her deepest sympathies to the victims of the troubled history between britain and ireland she was speaking in june her historic four day tour of the country it's the first trip our british monarch in a hundred years is aimed at consolidating a calming or relations there were some clashes between police and protesters

angered hasn't the trip comes as scotland considers one of the island's steps breaking from him after recent and actual success for supporters of independence but there's artie's lore and it reports it's only the beginning of scotland's struggles. the starting pistol sounds in the race for independence for scotland the scottish national party now how to surprise the majority in parliament and their hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. being control of our own resources sports ability for the problems. and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. taking charge of corman making sure that we have a broad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea our worth an estimated twenty one billion dollars to the u.k. treasury every year saltman says the reserves are in their waters it's hard to imagine the u.k. would let the oilfields go without

a fight particularly as westminster wouldn't be legally obliged to honor a yes vote of the scottish people the union jacks days flying outside the scottish parliament could be numbers scotland's ditching the united kingdom would mean the u.k. treasury lost valuable oil and gas revenues and it could be the inspiration for historically less peaceful independence movements in europe like the basques and the northern irish to follow suit and further destabilize an already weak e.u. the s.n.p. would support other european movements in their own struggles for independence including wales and northern ireland if they so choose for the people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support or condone violence in any shape or form clearly if other countries wish to pursue an agenda in the field of sympathy for losses and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up say it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood that striping the movement it's

just an argument. it's not by the route you richard it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british we want to be and have been part of a union which i think has served. well through for a few hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants to breakaway even the most optimistic polls show only around forty percent of scots would vote yes and on the streets of edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and you know say real. estate angle this week and got money generally a day will. he take to other people in the self. for scotland so much close to. the future oh if your own shortly should have a single penny. will be praying that they're all very. doing well enough i'm going

to do a lot of things that i could do it one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore grounds it's putting off a referendum until the second toth of it government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which has been independent since seventeen zero seven but it's always retained a strong and distinct national identity something the s.n.p. will be playing on with all its might lure and its. full of interview with kenny macaskill justice minister from the scottish national party me away about twenty minutes his view on how scotland could exist as an independent state. one of the reasons that people in scotland are skeptical about independence is that we're told the. knowledge we recognise that these are not just for negotiation but that are fundamentally right to make. people better.

nor we discovered that the seed somebody a sculptor from the desert. transformed the society and its economy it has. billions in the by good as we've seen you know with the good the cells weapons of mass destruction and the illegal wars so it's time for us to of ocean europe of oil revenues the persuasive marcus has to be dissolved and what pope but his own gas and it's a renewable energy. germany has criticised you countries that have received bailout saying they haven't done enough to pull themselves out of the dire financial situation but it comes as europe agreed to save another debt stricken country. chancellor angela merkel grounded on greece on the things of g.'s workers with patients themselves anything wrong in countries that spain and portugal need to increase their retirement age to

that of germany when letter from economist and author michael ross says bailing out countries is not something that should be done we are living in a so-called capitalism but this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore everything everywhere every country is being bailed out so we have for something local banks all journalism because they're told us tell us i don't do it there's no other choice if we lead to call greece bankrupt or portugal bankrupt and in a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure then the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany and not on in germany specially also in france the banks are full of greece there and some people already you say that maybe the politicians have been blackmailed by a differential community in our law to give the money of the taxpayer to make the

banks of our life. well coming up later next ties it tells of the shortcomings of the top of the system you can watch the kinds of reports and stay on. the kaiser reports special in the saying there should. is in the us a great people go to choir to do their. work. yeah that's the morea let's bring in today's your worst days ever well max this whole suicide banking crazy insane banking model is spreading to the entire world everybody is acting like a crazy banker. now other top stories from around the world we head of the international monetary fund has a zionist side is a real real cell. phone it stars can answer in order to appeal for help following

charges he sexually assaulted who terminate he is going to be placed on a house arrest and not let him wear an electronic ankle bracelet truckies movements the noise say he's also willing to put up a guaranteed one million dollars of cash a bail hearing is scheduled to be held on thursday. boeing seven seven times the plane has crashed while taking off but we've been able and a sensor. three people aboard managed to escape with only byner injuries planers operated while private contract by the u.s. navy to sit with its fleet. will be a space shuttle endeavor successfully dot the international space station an hour ahead of should do the shuttle commander astronaut mark kelly live with the most expensive great at it in the station and to do it but a magnet still lost forever for that and ultimate in the history of american space

shuttle program. but out of our special series of reports on antarctica our team of travel to the earth's southernmost continent meets its white locals and explore their last stop on claim suggests penguins look over at the sound of passing planes short of us went to separate truth from americans. the penguins of antarctica truly found sleeping creatures to watch but are they in trouble from a manmade threat. back in one nine hundred eighty two british pilots in the falklands discovered a phenomenon as they flew over penguin colony they said the birds would topple over as they lifted their heads to watch the planes fly by then penguins by the thousands were left on their backs on able to write themselves but is this story true but i think it's something that's why do you know monks the public but i think generally regarded it wants anyone that knows anything about it as being a bit of a myth to be honest and i thought take me there. as for the second part of the tale

a special person had to be employed to turn the birds right side out after they fell otherwise they would die one german ornithologist we spoke to claimed that this indeed was her job was to look something like that and go every day to see a fellow by many to get up again and so some friends can be quite hard because they don't like the church but you can't expect the writing thank you very much a further look into uncas credentials left some doubt as well as a check with the chief of russia's billings house and station a base located in a unique place between an airstrip and a penguin colony. there are no no we don't have anyone who does that job here with all of the controversy surrounding this rumor we decided to go to the source itself to see what pearl had to say about the airplane method. unfortunately the penguins were remaining silent on the topic but careful

observation revealed that sometimes the penguins appeared to have special dances in a hurry they could be clumsy and often slipped and we even found evidence that they were highly intelligent and divisive creatures. they were to preview the penguins are actually very smart spurts and sometimes when they come to be a trivia e.c.c. even peeking over looking for leopard seals if one gets too close to the edge another penguin will push them in as a sacrifice to test the waters of. snopes dot com an internet myth busting site says that a british science team actually did research to see if the claims were true they found that the penguins only scattered from the noise of the airplanes and not one single penguin had toppled backwards but with no real evidence for ourselves we decided to do a final test with a little help from the chilean air force our mission to see if we could put this myth to rest once and for all. and it seems for now the penguins are safe.

should be moving south for jobs that just took exact names have to question thomas . well the business news now here. alone a warm welcome to business out russia's state run oil company rostam may be seeking compensation for the failed share swap deal with bt deputy prime minister eagle searching one of the main architects of the deal says the company's lawyers are studying the viability of applying section does not specify whether it's be pete ward's russian partners that might be the targets both ross left and a i have previously fred to seek compensation from b.p. however constantin seem a lot of the national security companies rosneft will find fault with me. i had to . go to the court and there are a lot of arguments to show that the position of. it was not and they can only be

here because of the political immature way to behave the main aim was to destroy the view that is rare for this. decision but. really the reason was to destroy the deal some small computer thiessen will not be a problem for it will be another argument for my idea that the main motivation was not required and it was politics. representatives of the world's biggest investment firms have met with prime minister present to discuss the you fund to russia's setting up to attract investment of ten billion dollars and says it will be formally launched at the economic forum in st petersburg because june meanwhile could yield meeting of the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of their plans. to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of congressmen's from the leading funds in the next five years i think that it's really important for them to get a good rate of return in russia and at least we do will keep investing about and to

do the confidence and it was given to ministers but trying to do some is a catalyst that will help to significantly trees investment inflow into the russian economy. look at the markets now we start with commodities oil is trading above one hundred dollars per barrel that's for light sweet it's gathering pace on the us reporting unchanged crude in the trees contrary to expectations of the name cricks . and they are the nikkei loses ground after japan reporters g.d.p. contract by almost zero percent in the first quarter results showed the far greater drop their forecast of making it year and year contraction of three point seven percent the hong kong shares are up on commodity prices with the property and financial stocks also boosted by a weak a us dollar. here in moscow the markets will start trading in two hours time go theology as my six closed in the black on wednesday rebounding from a five month low stocks were first and by

a series of strong and intervals. russian markets have seen a significant selloff in the past few weeks however from the t.v. capital believes they are close to the bottom. the russian market is trying to control the new levels. past couple weeks in a correction or correction which we which we have dissipated basically i think the market is trying to find some ground and i think. it will not go below eight hundred. and once we hit the market to trade arrangement between eight hundred and two thousand. russia is year to date someplace and has reached four point five percent which is a point eight percent higher than the same period last year consumer costs have been driven by higher petrol prices which rose by thirty percent in the last month the government still forecasting inflation around seven percent for the whole year

but many economists doubt this. the ruses economy is facing its biggest crisis in decades its national currency is in a freefall having lost over half of its value in less than one month and part the crisis has been caused by russia's axing of trade preferences. that's in addition to poor management of better was a colony which is largely under reform since the soviet era because i asked russia and the international monetary fund for a bailout is ready to provide a one billion dollar loan but this is a likely to come under certain conditions. if. looks. at the situation and i don't think it will be guided by previous patterns of just outright subsidies or transfers to those that will want to see certain changes in terms of the economic policy approach and interims of economic policy cooperation

with russia so i think potentially. see in terms of assistance to build those would be closer trade and investment ties and probably some greater. possibility to participate in the privatization process. well you can always find more news on our website r.t. dot com forward slash business we will be back in less than one hour's time with an update carries next for the headlights you said about the.

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