helps dillon was the one who turned the old way her turn because i'm also to the millstone who killed some of those country house holiday in the full year old goldman tells the rim branch the clinic that used to be the most acute version of the world called the ruben's hotel. the u.s. introduces new sanctions against syria targeting the country's president for the first time this latest move and he could choose middle east policy. so clearly this is a consider a break from the united kingdom full independence but polls show voters are still unsure whether they can go to no. grand r.t. travel south for some penguin toppling the antarctic snake in population and delve into some of the myths surrounding the cold continent.

you're watching r.t. welcome to the program the top story now president obama will use a major speech on thursday to outline his approach the middle east in address the wave of popular uprisings in complete revolutions and the nato led bombing campaign buttons that deem to be newly emerging democracies could be rewarded with cash support but artie's the only chicken reports wreckers dealings in the region have a habit of stirring up a hornet's nest words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wild fire 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 well you also have learned thoughts or think that this is the way the policy has been formally for fifty plus years out of this country is that we are. and look for somebody we would like to see in our back but washington's all

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 puppet governments tend to be corrupt. and not to meet the needs of the people. across across the region and that's because of governors a government that's. foreigners not of the interest of their own people 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 carrion an undemocratic rule washington had been supporting him for decades and many of those years president or as. a leader in the house were afraid something about the streets but when millions of egyptians took to the streets the

u.s. swiftly shifted its policy as that are in washington hawks we've never brzezinski 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 or to build 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 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 their leaders although they too have violently cracked down on peaceful protesters meanwhile in iraq people regularly protest against their you aspect 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. that and the u.s.

seems to be ok with all of that words have not been the basis of u.s. actions in another longstanding conflict in the middle east despite calling for israel to stop building settlements in the west bank and jerusalem the u.s. vetoed a u.n. security council resolution that would have condemned israeli settlements owes. her exactly. what a one state there is coming close to being on washington's black list 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 declaring president not sounds ruled there illegitimate action might follow syria is a much more dangerous 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 get another conflict could further destabilize the region and add more red spots on this map again to check on our t. washington d.c. . syria's the current focus of u.s. middle east policy washington has introduced a new batch of sanctions which for the first time talk to soon president bashar assad he's accused of human rights abuses following violence crackdowns on antigovernment protests or questions including i said for a reason the preventing of americans dealing with assad and european union also agreed to tighten its sanctions against syria on the arms embargo which was already place based expert only however says it's unlikely to have any effect.

i don't think sanctions work i think they are essentially a symbolic measure usually when sanctions are applied against a country they affect the poor people in that country more than the rudely new leads as we saw four years before the united states invaded iraq in two thousand and three they had imposed bloody sanctions regime which led to the loss of children's lives those medicines were prescribed now they're saying that these sanctions apply largely to. the parties functionaries where these people can still carry on i don't think they would be too affected it would be an irritation but nothing more killed very recently they were negotiating on very friendly terms with bashar assad trying to get him away detach him from iran grab him towards their side and then possibly even use him and his regime in syria

against iran world that has now fallen by the wayside. meanwhile egypt's military leadership is not respecting human rights according to international watchdogs even after the revolution to remove tator hosni mubarak people are still reportedly being tortured by security services which is fueling concern that the country could fall under the control of political radicals after all the reasons why would barak was unpopular not just his own personality or even his family the huge economic problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and a religious issue. and you don't really take away any of those problems and very original government with generals and pointed in the schools you know don't really possess very strategic regional for where they want to go so we're seeing radical groups and also just locally thought of people have elections in september but the largest best organized group might say we don't accept the results we can grow the

real majority and we will actually have the people who come out on the streets the muslim brotherhood maybe of movie rights and of people to take part in it doesn't really look. coming up in just a few minutes in the program artie's off the antarctic to meet its black and white population first hand. you are the world for. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge adults and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization and shaun pollock is discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many wildlife in antarctica is a bonus if you live in the front of the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. queen elizabeth the second has offered her deepest sympathies to the victims of the troubled history between britain and ireland she was speaking during her historic for the tour of the republic and the

first british monarch in one hundred years and is aimed at consolidating a calming of relations. with some clashes between police and protesters angry residents trip comes as scotland considers following steps taken from the recent electoral success by supporters of independence as artie's or at reports it's only the beginning of the struggles. all is well have suffered as a consequence the starting pistol sounds in the race for independence for scotland the scottish national party now how to surprise a majority in parliament and their hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. . control over resources responsibility for the problems to feast in our country and to be able to stand up and speak otoh the issues that matter to us. charge of home and we can through that we have a voice abroad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea are worth an estimated

twenty one billion dollars to the u.k. treasury every year scotland 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 from 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. have 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 striping the movement. it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british we want to be and we've been. part of the union which i think has served well through for years the s.n.p. still has work to do it want scotland to break away 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 we'll get. all the oil just an angle of this we just got done it generally a day will not. be date to other people would rather scorn the sylph prefer.

over the fiscal and as much as close to risk. because of either feature zero zero zero if you are in short when you have a friend appendage. to be freaking out all day one. doing enough of voting it's ok to do a lot of things when i could do it one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore grounds it's pushing off the referendum until the second tarth of it spied the 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 and it's. gained an exclusive interview with kenny macaskill justice minister from the scottish national party committee where about twenty minutes of his views on how something could exist as an independent state. one reason is that some place

scotland are skeptical about independents. who are too we can't manage we recognise that these are matters for negotiation or the matters that are fundamentally right to make our country people better. nor we discovered oil of the sea quite some years to stop them from going to the full benefits that norway has transformed the society and its economy. his billions in the by that is we've seen of weeks the good the cells weapons of mass destruction and the illegal wars so it's time for us to have ocean revenues the precise amount of stuff to get us off the road but as of oil and gas and it's over a new engine. germany has criticised even countries that have received a note saying they haven't done enough to pull themselves out of the guy financial situation transferred a number called grounded on greece demanding athens reduced workers' vacations

should save something and will help countries like greece spain which will increase the retirement age to that of germany's lose its economic analyst and author. since our country is not something that should be done. we are living in a so-called capitalism now this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore everything and everyone every country is being bailed out so we have something like a bank socialism because there told us tell us i don't do it and there's no other choice if we let it go all 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 only in germany there 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 the financial community in order to

give the money off the taxpayer to make the banks survive. well coming up later mexico is into the shortcomings of the capitalist system i can watch the cars reports from its very own r.t. . there are a lot of thirty five dollars an hour fifteen hundred dollars an hour they want to pay nothing they want it free they want to have that u.s. taxpayer financed the pentagon to go to afghanistan murder a bunch of people destroy the civilization and kill the culture and steal all the resources that was a strategy in iraq oil that's the strategy of the pentagon j.p. morgan goldman sachs around the world these two are fused together now how somebody can argue that this isn't some. bastardization of fascism you know explain to me how this isn't fascism when you've got the banks of the pentagon fused together the pedagogues bombs the country and the bank steals all the precious about all the.

other top stories from around the world. dominique strauss kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund and so it's a jail cell so you say most of you feel for me from to put up one million dollars in cash charges essentially of some of them tell me scones of house arrest in and out and where and sort of trick is movements. seventy seven plane crashed while taking off from the naval base and some kind of three people aboard managed to escape with any mining injuries play was operated by private contract by the u.s. navy to support its fleet. the space shuttle endeavor successfully docked with the international space station an hour should you. come on board mark kelly live in the most expensive freighter ever to the station two billion. scientists look

beyond this is the last. like friend ever and anon tonight in the history of the american space shuttle. out of our special series of reports on antarctica our team traveled to the earth's southernmost continent it's black and white locals and explore them not star on claim suggests penguins flip over to the sound of passing planes. thomas went to separate truth from the myths. the penguins of antarctica truly found sleeping creatures to watch but are they in trouble from a man made threat. back in one thousand eighty two british pilots in the falklands discovered a phenomenon as they flew over penguin colony he said the birds would topple over as they lifted their heads to watch the planes fly by then paying wins by the thousands were left on their backs and able to write themselves but is this story

true well i think it's something that's why do you know months of topic but i think generally regarded it once anyone that knows anything about it as being a bit of a me to be honest and i thought it was me. as for the second part of the tale a special person had to be employed to turn the birds right side up after they fell otherwise they would die one german ornithologist we spoke to claimed that this indeed was her job was to look for thing lines and go every day to see followed by many to get them up again and so sometimes can be quite hard because they don't like which one but you can but the body thank you very much a further look into anchors credentials left some doubt as well as a check with the chief of russia's billings house and station base located in a unique place between an airstrip and a penguin colony. 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 they had to say about the airplane. unfortunately the penguins were remaining silent on the topic but careful observation revealed that sometimes the penguins appeared to have special dances you know hurry they could be clumsy and often slipped and we even found evidence that they were highly intelligent and good advice of creatures they were the previous penguins are actually very smart spurts sometimes when they come to the edge of the ice you see 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 water. but snopes dot com and 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 and no one should be moving south for jobs we're just going to exist in antarctica sean thomas our team. will be like ok it's a business with trees coming up next after a short break stay with us. hello and warm welcome to business with me to meet remember the anchor of russia's state run rolls now may be seeking compensation for the failed share swap deal with b.p.

there are a prime minister in one of the main architects of the deal says the company's lawyers are studying the viability of a claim section does not specify whether it's b.p. or its russian partners that might be the targets. and had previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. now to discuss the issue i'm joined by andrea goals but managing partner at is international law firm of course but below andrew thank you very much for being with us so who could rosneft b.p. or what for exactly you know burst information. flight which is the near full suit b.p. because it sounds like he didn't disclose the. venture. a shrewd told b.p. the b.p. should have told. before to enter and any deals in russia to explore for us as

a natural resources and i assume that b.p. knew about but ignore and there are these there was no suffered the deal was suspended and then finally cancelled so i think in my opinion it's very likely that ross near may sue b.p. but what would be to actually do that in the first place didn't it seem weird see you that such a multi-billion dollar deal signed at the highest level would actually have such a clause which was ignored well the moment number resigned so busy i do believe that lawyers knew about their clothes and the lawyers informed b.p. but unfortunately sometimes in russia the people now rely on their relations with the government always the other level of officials runs on the law and they basically sometimes cause trouble and i think that's a very to go situation and b.p. probably thought that clause is not that important yet as the doing was you go they're being told that the deal is closed by prime minister and they shouldn't be

a problem over time pulls would try only was. not true. so this whole delay that we've seen the deal eventually being cancelled so rosneft can demand compensation how high are the chances do you think of the company winning this case how transferred the word communicates how johnson is now worth two billion because of frost in a row right now high the chances that night when compensation from b.p. but i think the chances. are you purcell and i i think over fifty ok so how will this all affect the reputation of the p t n k d p you know i mean you have b.p. repletion was a really. really good as after the mexican gulf disaster do you. repletion to be if you there are so i assume to be teachin when you fall and for the this is for rich pension funds who invested a lot in the b.p.

shares. as we go to her and i don't think their position will be heard as a result of the deal propping up and i think there are a sneer of a good company and its potential. in such kind of deals with any other major oil producers which i think they do and one final question i mean given the whole shakiness of the situation rights of sensitivity do you think any chance that b.p. and ross the next night for the new deal hoping obviously there are chances that b.p. or sniff me for a minute deal. that is going to be deal about exploration of the arctic sea and wildly different kind of deal for the chance and so. ok underage girls blood from the girls are below p. q so much for being clear thank you for your time. representatives of the world's biggest investment firms have met with prime minister putin to discuss the fund russia setting up to attract investment the ten billion dollar industry will be

formally launched at the st petersburg economic forum biz june meanwhile. the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of their plan. to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of kind of from the leading funds in next five years i think that it's really important for them to get a good rate of return in russia and this way they will keep investing about and to do the confidence that was given to mrs bhutto prime minister putin is a catalyst that will help to significantly increase the investment in flow into the russian economy. high let's take a look at the markets now we start with a commodities a secular whale and it's going down right now it's below one hundred dollars per barrel down twenty nine cents brant is down just fifteen cents we've heard the u.s. reporting unchanged crude imagery is quarter of the country to expectations of an increase yet there's still a decrease in the price of commodities to move to stock markets in asia the next

a loser's ground up to japan reported as g.d.p. contract by almost two percent in the first quarter the results so far greater drop the forecast is making year on year contraction of three point seven percent however the. saying is up twenty eight percent on commodity prices with property of financial stocks also boosted by weak and u.s. stores. here in moscow the markets are just about to start trading what you're seeing on your screens wednesday's close of picture of the artist and nice expert on more than a cassette rebounding from a five month low stocks were boosted by a series of strong earnings from. the russian markets did see a significant selloff in the past few weeks however for me to be capital believes they are close to the bottom. the russian market was there first trying to console the new levels. past couple weeks we've seen a correction a tactical question which we wish we had this created basically i think the market is trying to find some ground and i think. the work will not go below eight hundred

r.t.s. jelly we in the next two months we expect the market to saw that in trade in the range of between eight hundred and two thousand. and the russian economy is facing its biggest crisis and their case since national currency is in a freefall having lost over half of its value in less than one month in part the crisis has been caused by russia's axing trade preferences for men's that's in addition to the poor management of the bill russo economy which is largely on reforms since the soviet era minsk has asked russia and the international monetary fund for a bailout and moscow's ready to provide a one billion dollar loan but this is likely to come under certain conditions if russell looks at. the situation and i don't think it will be guided by previous patterns of just outright subsidies or transfers to balance it will want to see certain changes in terms of the economic policy

approach and in terms of economic policy car creation with russia so i think potentially with russia. in terms of its assistance to build rooms would be closer to trade and investment ties and probably some greater. possibility to participate in the privatization process. business south he will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update i'll see you then join me.

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