u.s. introduces new sanctions against syria targeting the country's president the first time its latest move in that they can choose middle east policy. scotland is set to consider a break in the united kingdom from the end of the pole so voters are still unsure whether they can go to the moon. and r.t. travel south for some of you going topic counting native population and they'll meet at some of the myths surrounding the cold comfort.

zone you're watching r.t. world news twenty four seven welcome to the program the top story hour president obama will use a major speech on thursday to outline america's approach to the middle east and address the wave of popular uprisings in complete revolutions and the nato campaign the him to be. democracy could be rewarded with cash support but there's always going to chicken reports americans 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 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 crises the u.s. hasn't learned susser i think this is friend of the work he calls it formally for

fifty plus years out of this country is that we try to look for somebody we would like to see in power back but washington's old policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the libyan population is opposing any foreign meddling in their of peers 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 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 are tuned to the interests of foreigners not so the interest of their own people the inconsistency between what america's says and what america does seem to even more obvious when it came to egypt despite hosni mubarak's all three carrion an undemocratic rule washee printed in supporting him for decades many of those years in prison before has. a leader and a counselor and

a friend to the united states but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he was swiftly shifted its policy as veteran washington hawks we've never seen ski explains if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point but then our head against the wall in order to save a government or to do it on the other hand if we are convinced that the street is going to fail there's no point massively antagonizing the government with which we have to deal have to or whatever happens is over in yemen where the president is heavily. by the u.s. or in bahrain which holds 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 us fact government is what is rarely 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. 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 can be empty israeli settlements ohs. there in. one state 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 who are said the administration is close to the clearing president assad's rule there 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 u.s. middle east policy washington has introduced a new batch of sanctions which for the first time target certain. president bashar al assad is accused of human rights abuses violence crackdowns on anti-government protests. measures including asset freeze and venting of americans dealing with us and the european union also agreed to tighten its sanctions against syria. which ones were already in place middle east expert eric ali says it's unlikely to have

any effect. i don't think sanctions work i think they are essentially symbolic measure usually when sanctions are applied against a country be affect the poor people in that country more than the ruling elites 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 and now they're saying that these sanctions apply largely to. functionaries for these people can still carry on i don't think they'll be too affected it will be an irritation but nothing to worry recently they would negotiating on very friendly terms with pressure assert trying to get him away detach him from iran drag him towards their side and then possibly even

use him in the baathist regime in syria against iran world that has now fallen by the wayside. well egypt's military leadership is not respecting human rights according to international watchdogs even after the revolution to remove the tater hosni mubarak people are still reportedly being tortured by security services all of which is feeling concern the country could fall under the control of political radicals. but after all the reason why no barak was unpopular not just his own personality or even his family but if you can all the problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and the religious issues trade away mubarak and you don't recall any of those problems and. provisional government the generals and the pointedness to say you know don't really possess a strategic region free from where they want to go and so we're seeing the radical groups and also just who thought he would have elections in september but the

largest per store group might say we don't accept the results we think we're the real majority and they were actually having people who come out on the streets the muslim brotherhood reveal to mobilize enough people to take part in it doesn't really work. well coming up in just a few minutes in the program artie's off the antarctic to meet its population first hand. then of the world from. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes sense arctic is so special that detracted from nearly the wildlife in antarctica the bones and runs an. expedition to the bottom of the earth. the 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 four day tour of

the republic that's the first trip by position one of her hundred years and is aimed at consolidating relations although there were some clashes between police and protesters angry presence. arms of scotland's considers following it others what steps breaking from the union to recent electoral success the supporters of independence results reports it's only the beginning of some in struggles. the starting pistol sounds in the race to independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and they're hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. gained control of resources from responsibility for the problems of country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. in charge of hourman 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 for 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 classics and the northern irish to follow suit and further destabilize an already weak you the s.n.p. would support other european movements in their own struggle sprinter pendants including wales and northern ireland if they so choose it's for the people of those countries to say what they want to do we would never support violence in any shape

or form clearly a father countries wish to pursue an agenda then they'll get a deal of sympathy from 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 system argument. richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british but we want to be and have been part of a union which i think you served. well through for a few hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland separate 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. all the oil is they don't want this we got money generally they. eat it to other people well the school in itself. as it was described and

as much as close to be. the case of either feature or how well off your own scotland should have mentioned appendage. would be freaking out all day one make. sure you know enough about it to get a feel for it could do it one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of its five year government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which hasn't 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 all it's. an exclusive interview with kenny macaskill justice minister from the scottish national party coming your way in about twenty minutes his views on how scotland could exist as an independent state. one of the reasons that some things people in

scotland are skeptical about independence is that we're told we're poor we can't manage we recognise that these are matters for negotiation but there are matters that are fundamentally right to make our country better. nor we discovered or you'll see something that is a thought for a company. that has transformed the. economy it has. billions in the by his moves you know we still go to the cells weapons of mass destruction and illegal wars so it's time for lost of revenues the precise markets have to be dissolved the workload of his own oil and gas and as a renewable energy. germany has criticised e.u. countries that have received saying they haven't done enough to pull themselves out of the dire financial situation. rundown greece demanding athens misuse workers'

vacations and some said countries like france and spain which could be next in line for you to increase their retirement age to that of germany's main relative. so i think analyst and author michael ross says bailing out the shouldn't be done under any circumstance. we are living in a so-called capitalism but this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore everything in every country is being bailed out so we have something local banks socialism because they're told us tell us i don't do it there's no other choice if we let 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 specially also in france the banks are full of debt and some people already you say that maybe the

politicians have been blackmailed by the financial community in order to give the money of the taxpayer to make the banks of life coming up later that's keyser delves into the shortcomings of the capitalist system that's kaiser what's great is they are not. they don't want to pay thirty five dollars an ounce for a server of fifteen hundred dollars an ounce for a girl they want to pay nothing they want it free they want to have a u.s. taxpayer financed the pentagon to go into afghanistan murder a bunch of people destroy the civilization kill the culture and steal all the resources that was a strategy in iraq with oil that's the strategy of the pentagon slash j.p. morgan slash goldman sachs around the world these to fuse together now how somebody can argue that this isn't some you know 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 paper goes bomb the country and the bank steals all the precious

metals. so our international headlines for you know at least fifteen people have been killed forty others injured the twin explosion ripped through police headquarters in iraq's northern city of cook official say first a car bomb was detonated near a bus station and a second exploded this police and rescue workers gathered at the scene. which uses the majority of the country's oil which is claimed by various ethnic groups in the region. workers have entered reactor number three it runs earthquake hit the shimabukuro well the first time after an explosion in march because when things are ten minutes to the level of radioactivity early this month technicians were also able to examine one of the two seriously damaged in the disaster and it's often a. space shuttle endeavor has successfully talked to the international space station

an hour should you shuttle astronauts kelly deliver the most expensive freight ever to the station a two billion dollar magnet. will help scientists look beyond that is that this is the last ride for me ever an ultimate history of american space shuttle program. part of our special series of reports on antarctica the team travels to the earth's southernmost continent to meet its black and white one calls and explore their last stop on claim suggests penguins flip over to the sound of passing planes out in short almost right to separate the truth from the myths. the penguins of antarctica truly fascinating creatures to watch but are they in trouble from a manmade threat. back in one thousand nine hundred two british pilots in the falklands discovered a phenomenon as they flew over penguin colonies 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 months 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 it was me. 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 this and go every day to see where they followed by many to kidnap again and so sometimes can be quite hard because they felt like which works for him but. thank you very much for their look into uncas credentials left some doubt as well as a check with the chief of russia's billings house and station located in a unique place between an airstrip and

a penguin colony. no no we don't have anyone who does not show up 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 men. 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 give you the penguins are actually very smart spurred so i think sometimes when we come to the edge of the ice sheets even peeking over looking for leopard seals if one gets too close to the edge another penguin move if you mean there's a sacrifice that's a terrible loss or. 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 painter safe and no one should be moving south for jobs with just the exact finished article sean thomas or cheer. for us because they were the business that's now enjoying the nature. thanks carrie hello and welcome to business the russia state run ross now may seek compensation for the failed share swap deal with b.p. heavily prime minister said she in one of the main architects of the deal says the company's a lawyers are studying the viability of a claim section did not specify whether it was the russian partners that might be

the target of ross never than they are have previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. now under a goal of blood managing partner. he thinks potential lawsuit has solid grounds. flight with the person if will sue b.p. because it sounds like b.p. didn't disclose their particular calling and was a partner was a thing could be venture b.p. should have told. them before to enter in any deals and rushed to explore for us as a natural resources i do believe that lawyers knew about that clause and the lors be. unfortunately sometimes a rush of the people more rely on their relations with the government or with the other little officials rather on the law and the times cause trouble

representatives of the world's biggest investment firms have met with prime minister putin to discuss the fund russia is setting up to attract investment a ten billion dollar fund will be formally launched at the st petersburg economic forum this june meanwhile he would need to have the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of their financing business r.t. . to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of time distance from the levy funds in the next five years i think it's really important for them to get a good rate of return in russia this way they will keep investing a lot and to do the confidence that was given to investors by prime minister putin is a catalyst that will help to see complete trees investment flow into the russian economy . by let's take a look at the markets now and we start with coming out of things while it is a flat this hour down just ten cents per light sweet and branches out by pretty much the same amount this is on the u.s.

reporting unchanged screwed him injuries contrary to expectations of an increase. have to stop markets and in asia the nikkei is losing half a percent of the plan reporters g.d.p. contracted by almost a percent the first quarter results showed far greater drop forecasts of making your year contraction of three point seven percent banks a shares are up commodity prices and probably financial stuff also is this the boy a week a u.s. dollar. thirty year now european stock stars of the day on a positive note shares an air france kaleb are up one hour for sab self swung back again to profit in the latest financial year now invensys p.l.c. is down three percent though in london after the engineering group reported a drop in a supportive of the prophecies up half a percent of that point three percent. where now to russia and here is the picture of trade right now the markets are mixed and flats that's off the closing in the

black on wednesday rebounding from a five month low so my sense is down point three percent stake in some of the main moves is rosneft is down point three percent even though the company said it would continue looking for deals on the off there but ros telecom is down half a percent as investors lose interest in the stalk. as they will not be included in the global m.s.c.i. index and gazprom is also said. russia is battling to pull out of gas pipelines exempted from the e.u. first energy package the document bans one company from being a gas supplier and transporter at the same time russian officials claimed legislation will damage investment in well and gas infrastructure projects and they will therefore be harmful to european energy security but as a from the russian gas society explains what changes he would like to see. remotely . what we think that certainly should be taken into the third. position is that

the energy package should come into legal force against. you we do understand the difficulty of talks given the legislation has already come into force but we have to keep making steps towards for eating a compromise because if you still hungry for business news you can always go on to a website. forward slash business or join me in fifteen minutes so i will not be the head like the next.

it didn't start all of a sudden. it's a long story of destroying the living and their habitats. they're on constantly or something leaks down here when they get done like that it's just that if you took every fish human out of the water and you don't do something about that water and habitat protecting the habitat the fisheries means it's going to collapse nature's steps by making way for the talks against the sea museum and say look at all the solar system disembodied humans well off incomes be road systems great number that's true. and you have billions of dollars going

against the state. real baby drill. one needs from there to cause some sun and one of my blood pressure will consider potential areas for development mid south atlantic and the gulf of mexico. and the book. some. place.

ok on the fourth quarter. this street still keeps its secrets a denounced time some feel the shooting of the soviet files azzi celeb . wealthy british style. market finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy with monks cause or were no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our cheat. download the official on sciatic nation your phone oh i pod touch from the i.q.

exams to. life on the go. see video on demand oxys minefield costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. column hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.