more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from girl you've been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day . scotland is set to consider a break from the nazi kingdom in full independence of the country's national party secures a surprise majority of seats in the products of. european union's main lender germany loses patience with member states that we're seeing playing out on the streets all sturdy measures before them off goods and food a. u.s. introduces new sanctions against syria targeting the country's president first states he could choose this policy. does he travel south for some penguin topping the antarctic native population and delve into it some of the list

surrounding the co-counsel. and in business news following the collapse of the multi-billion dollar deal between b.p. and ross jeff the russian oil company may sue its british partner demanding compensation and find out more on business saltines once you've done. that there you're watching r t welcome to the park but our top story now scotland has become the latest country in europe caught up in a wave of nationalism some cross the consulate and scottish national party surprise success in recent elections means for the first and they have a majority in parliament i think wasted little time in promising a vote on independence from britain felt it was artie's or reports it could be a struggle. the starting pistol sounds in the race to 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. gain control of our own resources responsibility for the problems of peace in our country and to be able to stand up and speak out on issues that matter to us. taking charge of hallman sure 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 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 printer pendants 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 a father countries wish to pursue an agenda then they'll get a great deal of sympathy from others and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up say it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood striving the movement system argument. richard it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british we want to be and we've been part of a union which i think has served. well through for three hundred years the s.n.p.

still has work to do it wants the way 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 just ignoring all of this we've got a lot of generally. each other people well the school in itself. is always there for scotland as much as. the feature of how often. have i seen the damage. would be praying that it had all . the doing well enough to do a lot of things that i could put one would rather the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore grounds it's putting off the referendum until the second top of its five year 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 all its might and its policy. gained an exclusive interview with kenny macaskill justice minister for most of us national party coming your way next hour his views on how scotland could exist as an independent state. and one of the reasons that sometimes people in scotland are skeptical. because we recognise that these are not for negotiation but there are matters that are fundamentally right to meet. people. nor we discovered oil to see something from come from the. economy that has. billions in the bite with as much snow as we see the good the cells weapons of mass destruction in illegal wars so it's time for us to of ocean

revenues the precise markets have to be dissolved and what pope but his own oil gas over new. germany has criticised even countries that have received play outs saying they haven't done enough to pull themselves out of their dire financial situation chancellor angela merkel rounded on greece on the athens reduce workers' vacations said countries like greece and unfortunately in spain which could be next to no for bail out need to increase their retirement age to better germany's news one credit at the moment and mr author michael ross says bailing out countries shouldn't be done on any circumstances 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 odds are all we have something. banks socialism because as they're told us tell us i don't do it

and there's no other choice if we let it go greece 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 brains are full of it and some people all you say that maybe the politicians have been elect mailed by the financial community in order to give the money off the taxpayer to make the banks survive. max keiser delves into the sort comings of the capitalist system and you can watch the kaiser report later today on r.t. . little thirty five dollars an ounce or so fifteen hundred dollars an ounce for it all 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's last j.p. morgan's last goldman sachs' around the world these two are fused 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 in the pentagon fused together in the paper goes bombs the country and the bank steals all the precious metals. there are three of the plane which crashed in russia smolensk region carrying the polish president and ninety five others we will sort out the end of summer representatives from russia and poland have met discuss how they can work together on the investigation and range from moscow to pass some documents related to the inquiry. has been following the meeting and joins us now on. the investigations lawsuits and national

aviation finished its report so what are we going to see total complete. dismay that the interstate eighty s in it and presented it. earlier this year and. the investigation and the joint investigation conducted by both russian and he's still on. board secure general forty five forty. concerning that's. fine it's a very. pretty thing. you let them know just that's. the right. that is the entire miles that's not the entire piece and still more jobs humans are expected to make their way from moscow or so we also know that russia is planning on sending the fragments of each one or that crashed course

outside the russian city of slavyansk on the end of last year we know that initially did not accept the findings of the interstate aviation maybe what is still being accepted those conclusions made of course by the interstate aviation committee by the russian investigators and both the prosecutors general approach and the one stage is that they're satisfied with the level of cooperation that is present currently in relations between the two countries they're working very closely together on. the tragedy of w. bush the recent one as well as the historical the massacre investigations into a still ongoing russia of course because by a lot of miles and handing them over to the polish side of the declassification process continues so both sides seemingly very satisfied with the level of trust

that currently exists in their relationship but of course the investigation is still far from complete you know that there are many more case files evidence and plain current ones that remain to be turned it over to the polish side there were also some questions raised by polish journalists about possible identification missed but we know that both of those general said that they're very happy with the way the thing the station is ongoing they're going to continue their working relationship to continue to build and increase the trust that is existing between relations and relations between moscow and washington at the moment. thanks but up. coming up in just a few. program ought to. take me to the nation first time in. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is it and

people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization. thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive from the wildlife. and from the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. president obama will use a major speech on thursday to outlaw america's approach the middle east the first wave of popular uprisings incomplete revolutions and the nato bombing campaign but it was deemed to be merely urging the moccasins could be rewarded with cash support but as artie's got a chicken reports america's 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 the u.s. hasn't learned its thoughts are thinking that this is the way the policy has been formally for fifty plus years of his country is that we try to look for somebody we would like to see in power back but washington's all policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the libyan population is opposing any foreign meddling in their appears 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 puppet governments and not just meet the needs of the people seated across across the region and that's because of governors a government that. has a foreigner it's not so the interest of their own people the inconsistency between what america's says and what america does seem bigger and more obvious when it came to egypt despite hoskin words all three terry and then on democratic rule

washington had been supporting him for decades and many of those years president mubarak has. a leader a counsellor and a friend and something about his spirits but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he was swiftly shifted its policy as better in washington harks we've never seen ski explains it. if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point putting our head against the wall in order to save a government that's doomed i'm going to 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. with ever happens is over in yemen where the president is heavily backed by the west or even grain 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 u.s. backed out of meant it what is rarely even mentioned here these days in saudi arabia one of the u.s. key allies in the reach and 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 m.d.s. really settlements owes us very little. or exactly. 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 a white house or 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 get another conflict could further destabilize the region and add more red spots on this map. r.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 syrian president bashar assad is accused of human rights abuses violent crackdowns on anti-government protesters measures into an asset for use in the prevention of americans dealing

with us our european union also agree to tighten that sanctions against syria on the grounds of that which was the place which raises fears that the western troops can further countrymen repeat linson are something russia strongly opposes. they solicit by syria ignored support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they were disregarded by the actions that some states took even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened afterwards demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is deplorable because it undermines the all thirty of the un. sanctions against the syrian leadership will affect civilians rather the country's political elite says middle east expert eric haney. i don't think sanctions work i think they are essentially a symbolic measure usually when sanctions are applied against a country. the poor people in that country more than the rudely need 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 . functionaries where these people can still carry on i don't think they would be too affected it would be an irritation but nothing. recently they would go she is on very friendly terms with bashar assad trying to get him away detach him from iran drag him towards their aid and then possibly even use him and the baathist regime in syria against iran world that his mouth all him by the way side. egypt's military leadership is not respecting human rights according to

international law stocks even after the revolution to remove dictator hosni mubarak people are still reportedly being tortured by security services all of which is feeling concerned that the country and for the control of political radicals after all the reason why will barak was unpopular not just his own personality or even his family through huge economic problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and the religious issue take away mubarak and you don't really take away those problems of the power of the original government the generals of the pointedness to you know don't really possess a strategic regional free from where they want to go and so we're seeing radical groups and also 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 have the people who come out on the streets the muslim brotherhood maybe of mobilizing of people to take part in it doesn't really look. but other top stories around the world now at least twenty

five people killed in some. explosion. rocks and subsequent. to car bombs birthrates of. the second explode on a school with some. produces the majority of the country's oil which is prime for various groups in the region. workers have entered reactor number three a japan's earthquake hit the sheema nuclear plant the first time after explosion in march and some of the ten minutes after the death of radioactivity earlier this month technicians were also able to examine reactors moment seriously damaged in the disaster and it's often. on the space shuttle endeavor has successfully topped the international space station an hour should you shuttle columbia but astronauts kelly delivered the most expensive freights ever to the station three

billion dollar magnets which is hoped to help scientists look beyond this and. last right for endeavor on the penultimate history of american space shuttle program. at our special series of reports on antarctica the team traveled to the southern wisconsin to meet its locals and explore their last stop the claims that just penguins opposer to the sound of passing planes to shore thomas went 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 and able to write themselves but is this story

true but i think it's something that's why do you know monks and pop it but i think generally regarded months anyone that knows anything about it is 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 up after they fell otherwise they would die one german ornithologist we spoke to claimed that this indeed was her job was to look something lines and go every day to see her followed by many to get math again and so sometimes can be quite hard because they don't like thanks for what you can do but the writing thank you very much for their look into 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. the 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 myth. 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. the previous penguins are actually very smart splurges sometimes when they 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 will push him in as a sacrifice to test the water. 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 and no one should be moving south for jobs that just don't exist in antarctica shyness are cheap. but perhaps that that's because they were the business that joined them which. hello and welcome to business artsy russia's state run rust may have may seek compensation for the failed share swap deal with b.p. deputy prime minister you could set 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 be or is russian partners a car that might be the target both rosneft and they are have previously frightened to seek compensation from b.p. andrey gold managing partner at gold field he thinks

a potential lawsuit has solid grounds. for should be because it sounds like b.p. didn't disclose the particular colon and was it here was their partner or was unthinkable venture you should've told. before to enter in any deals in russia to explore for us as a natural resources i do believe that lawyers knew about the clause and the lors informed be. unfortunately sometimes in russia the people more rely on their relations with the government or with the other little of officials rather on the war and the times may cause trouble. representatives of the world's biggest investment have met with prime minister princeton to discuss the fund that russia is setting up to attract investment that sen billion dollar project will be formally launched in st petersburg at the economic forum in june.

the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of their plans to businesses. to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of congressmen's from the leading funds the next five years i think it's really important for them to get a goose rate of return in russia and each way they will keep investing and to do the confidence that was given to ministers by prime minister putin is a catalyst that will help to see if you can keep crease investment into the russian economy. rosemary to the markets now we sell the commodities and oil is trading below one hundred dollars a barrel for west texas period it's losing despite u.s. reporting unchanged crude inventories contrary to expectations of an increase. of korean stocks trading in positive territory best still however shrugging off news that dominique strauss town has resigned as head of the international monetary fund chairs an air france scale amaranth pulled one out percent of the airline swung

back into profit in the latest financial year i ben says he'll see is down three percent in london up to the engineering group of all of the drop in it's a lot of work. and here in moscow is the picture that we're seeing right now it's flat to positive that's after closing in the black on wednesday rebounding from a five month however if we look at the storks not everything is rosy in manufacturing and chemicals are the biggest gainers in the my sex book banks are mixed up point three percent post burbank is down half a percent gas from is also down despite upping its european demand for. the biggest i.p.o. of the year is on the way in london commodity group glencore as prices float says at five hundred thirty pounds per share that's after be eleven billion dollar issue was four times oversubscribed analysts say the deal was priced to go and not surprised the amount was so high. russia is battling to pull its gas pipelines

exempted from the e.u. for editing package the document bans one company from being a gas supply and transport at the same time russian officials claim legislation will damage investments in oil and gas infrastructure projects and thus will be harmful to european energy security by any yazid from the russian gas society explains what changes he would like to see. the system put in. he should know what we think that certainly should be taken into the third elegy package difficult position is that the energy package should come into legal force with all gas pipelines we do understand the difficulty of talks given the legislation has already come into force but we have to keep making steps towards finding a compromise sure but the headlines are next on how to do sales.

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