wishing for and only a good night's it came to scotland our plans a referendum to go it alone from nationalist with a majority of beds of them to devolve upon all of that. pressure us sanctions against syria since attention on america's on the scene over why some of our of our prize exam questions and punishments. it's. not the pain it's sounds even against the best again if humans are causing for profit reasoning for their friends.

very warm and broken see this is our sea line from moscow europe's swelling nationalism it's now seeing scotland consider an independent feature the scottish parliament has a nationalist party majority for the first time and it wants a vote on separation it's been part of britain for over three hundred years but many scots of long thought baby better off alone bolstered by all saw oil reserves . the starting pistol sounds in the race for independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and that hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. we gain control over our own resources for sports ability for the problems we face

in our country and to be able to stand up and speak out of issues that matter to us . taking charge of hall meeting 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 for 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 struggle sprinter 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 if other countries wish to pursue an agenda they will 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 that striping the movement. it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british if you want to be and we've been part of a union which i think has served them well through for. 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 i do not see.

all the oil is doing well in this region. generally not. being. to other people well the school the self includes all by the. kids away this is called as much as close to reach for the kids of either feature zero zero if your own shortly should have written that then you. will be praying about it all day one make. sure you know enough about it to get you to do a lot more to think critically thought one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore ground it's putting off the referendum until the second toth a bit spikey a 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 nor and its edinburgh.

on around twenty minutes the scottish national party's justice minister talks to what he says scotland's oil revenues would be better spent on people brought. 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 with the matters that are fundamentally right to make a country of people better that scotland nor we discovered oil that the seed somebody a scot from from the from the food desert has transformed the society and its economy that has billions in the bank because we've seen those ways to go to the sales weapons of mass destruction and the illegal wars so it's time for us to. revenues the precise mark because often we're pope but it's of oil gas.

now adults and finance minister is warning that a worsening situation in greece will cause a domino effect across the euro zone the e.u. is close. pressure on them which is struggling to meet the terms of last year's a package may need more cans to avoid or worst case scenario will the situation has already triggered a strong words from the german chancellor angela merkel said countries that receive aid have. to pull themselves out of dire financial straits because also demanding out things reduce his vacation it's a little later we'll be getting some inside reaction from germany itself talking to dr i care how he publishes the analysis on european business movements you do stay with r.t. for that coming up in just a few moments now the polish and russian investigators have met to discuss closer cooperation in solving the air crash which killed president kaczynski and ninety five others over

a year ok at that meeting in moscow they also arranged for documents and other evidence to be handed over to warsaw you know as a lot of us following developments for us. the interstate aviation committee has completed its report and handed over to the polish side earlier this year but the investigation isn't actually fully completed we do know according to the russian prosecutor general that forty three case files have been handed over to the polish side eleven just last month but that still isn't the complete caseload of course concerning the investigation into the crash of the presidential plane which held of course president former president get a chance to keep his wife and most of poland's political elite we know that the remains of that plane some hard sell which were also entered into evidence are also expected to be handed over to the polish side as well as further documents concerning the investigations these various records and transcripts of records

poland initially was very much against the findings of the interstate aviation committee there was quite a big helper and they went a lead of course by the former presidents when brother actually it was completely refused flat out to accept the findings of the interstate aviation committee which of course concluded that the crash was due to pilot error mr catchin ski and many of his supporters in poland chose instead to blame russia for the crash especially russian air traffic controllers who according to some in poland should not have allowed that plane to land thought as many officials in russia and poland all over the world aviation next week said that they had their traffic controllers simply do not have that kind of authority over the pilots of a presidential plane for both sides working very hard to make sure that everybody is satisfied with the work that is being carried out with the progress that is

taking place and with the investigation results. well altie dot coms the place to go for more on all that we're compering here we've plenty of other news and analysis it's easy for you man is great here to say is kids out of russia it used of spying we've got the inside espionage investigation online. let's return now to one of our top stories we've had strong words from the german chancellor angela merkel saying that countries that was easy to aid haven't done enough to pull themselves out of their dire financial straits let's cross over to germany now. but he publishes analysis on european business movements he joins me now twenty times of being here that's how now i'm going to burgle as i was just

saying once greek workers to make more sacrifices to get further a fairly intolerance to change as it is so that just made matters worse do you think of the long run by encouraging militant strike action. yes i would agree with it because you cannot on the one hand. lower the standards for german workers and on the same side you leave the greek workers with all the privileges of a corpse but if you take those privileges away from those workers within greek they will. they will feel bad because they feel they have got a right to for the privileges and this surely will make them more military militant and this surely will. fall further down into problems of course something does have to be done really. saying quote

we can't have a common currency wes can get lots of they take said time and other is very little but of course the question that many people are asking is why did no one think of that when the year i was created more than ten years ago. well they i'm sure they thought about it but they didn't listen we have got a few high ranking professors economic experts who really even went to court against the euro in former days because the with the same arguments who are showing up by now so everybody knew about it part i think they they thought. they can carry with these problems and they will get rid of these problems by the time but nowadays it shows if you have got a country that cannot give it cannot hasn't gotten

a budget and has no idea of how they are getting an ordinary budget you won't get this country in an orderly an ordinary manner and now we have got these problems and of course us down and down the american problems with few of their countries inside too so we have got many examples where you can see that this this doesn't work for long run. has the situation not got a little out of hand i mean can this really be thrown back now i mean if you are right the loan payments are now off for another we throw down dissolve the fact so how can billions more year get into greece without any real guarantee that it will pay for it. well this is i think the problem where they're thinking more about a minute and there is a way you can solve the problems a little bit. leave the greek with their privileges and you can do it by leaving

the greek out of the euro area which would be not great or not as great harm for the euro. the experts from abroad they try to make our sclera. no country. that's should escape the euro area because they would lose money but this shouldn't be our problem it shouldn't be the problem for the. european countries our research has shown up of the greek could leave the euro area without any big problems and there would lie the third way of solving this problems by giving the greeks back their drama. for the long run. they can manage with exchange rate of the drama they can manage their problems and they can return to an international reliable standard

where. greek will be competitive within the euro area but within the world germany's what's the way heads. stuck between need to keep alive while not having a possible class to hand out all the. makings and whoops great germany's going to. well germany surely one stew give more money if that works help and lead to solve the problem but there's more the people look for regard to this problem lay we'll see but with giving more money they won't change anything so the only solution will be to leave the greek out of the euro area keep the euro strong within the the rest of

the euro area. show the greek a way are to enter the euro area again it is not correct worse there's some expert wants to tell that the euro is going down if greek or portugal will leave it that's not correct the euro is much stronger and will be much stronger if those two countries would leave the euro area and it would not make too much harm to the enter euro system if those countries are of even be like how the amount. of business these are so many of us on the topic. now when the president obama gives his major middle east peace on thursday he's expected to announce american cash support for the revolutionary arab states the buzzword the likely to be about supporting democracy where does gaiety can reports of everyone's fight for freedom fits washington's plan. words could be about

democracy actions are about interests as the wildfire of public rage spread throughout the middle east and north africa 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 lesson i think that this is the right policy is the formula for fifty plus years out of this country is that we try to look for somebody we would like to see in our background 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 puppet governments tend to be corrupt local governments and not to meet the needs of the people. across across the region and that's because of governors the government the june interest of

foreigners not to 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 are three carrion an undemocratic rule washington had been supporting him for decades and many of those years president mubarak has a. leader a counsellor 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 brzezinski explains 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 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. with ever happens is over in yemen where the president is heavily by. act 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 u.s. backed government it 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 condemned these release that all meant pose. there and are 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 the white house source said the administration is close to declaring president not sounds ruchir 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 yet another conflict could further destabilize the region and add more red spots on this map. on our t. washington d.c. . syria's president is over claims of human rights

abuses in the violent crackdowns against anti-government protesters the measures include an asset freeze and preventing americans from dealing with us and european union also agreed to tighten sanctions raising fears that the next step could be military action is something russia strongly opposes site of the libyan scenario as a failure on their heads and those fossils said that the operation there will continue until it gets out the regime falls but president medvedev believes a cease fire is the only condition for peace. i believe that despite the fact we still have problems there are still ways to resolve existing deadlock i mean the situation in libya which i believe can be settled only peacefully through the renunciation of the use of military force by both sides. but other news around the world right now this kind of historic or parity made by osama bin long shortly before his death the message which was

released today had his website praises the middle east uprisings and predicts more unrest in the region was killed by u.s. forces on the second of may is known to have recorded many of his thoughts and tapes scenes during the operation of pakistan are being examined by u.s. intelligence says. the international monetary fund has resigned and while being held in a tourist new york are suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid don't think you can eat on the sidewalk strongly denies the charges i will make another attempt at getting bail tomorrow and hours before you quit protesters gathered in washington to join the growing vocal chords to go. through the process in iraq this is a good cook who cook in the north of the country. with three didn't buy

control of the language. and now to our special series of reports on ambassador travel to. meet its black and white locals and explore their lifestyle one claim suggest penguins flip over to the south of passing planes on thomas to separate truth and the myth. 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 well i think it's something that's why do you know months the public i think generally regarded months anyone that knows anything about it as being a bit of

a me to be honest and antarctic open dows 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 lights out to look something lines and go out every day to see her they pulled over and they need to get up again and so sometimes when the front part of this place looks like they should but you can but the reality 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 a base 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 pearl 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. so you were playing greens are actually very smart spurts sometimes when it comes to be trivia issues even peeking over looking for leopard seals if one gets too close to the edge another came in as a sacrifice to test the water. snopes dot com an internet dusting site says that a british science team actually did research to see if the claims were true if 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.

no one should be moving south for jobs that just exist in antarctica shan thomas or . more that sort of portal website allison dot com right now though a bit insulting with katrina. thanks alison hello and welcome to our series business bulletin prime minister putin has arrived in valorous as the country's economy faces its biggest crisis in decades its national currency is in a freefall having lost over half its value in less than one month put in a system meet with the heads of former soviet states but it's also the thought he will discuss a rescue package for minsk to get the latest let's cross the line to r.t. alexy yaroslavsky he's a nights at l.s.e. hello how are you what's going wrong with the belarus economy can you fill us in.

well i've seen some very dramatic scenes in the capital of belarus with people literally stalking the exchange offices trying to buy any currency should be u.s. dollars or euros trying to find anything in exchange for the devaluing rather russian ruble which lost more than fifty percent of its value in the last week alone now at the exchange rate for the russian ruble officially changed rate according to the national bank is around three thousand rubles for each dollar. exchange rate is twice as big as that it's about six thousand rubles for one dollar so people are. buying the u.s. dollars and euro everywhere around the place the imported goods are the prices for imported goods are skyrocketing are almost twice as high as a month ago so clearly the risk is now in the middle of a serious financial and currency crisis now there have been several reasons for this situation first of all of course the economy which they did almost the same

from the soviet era and the mistakes of the government in the previous several years have. led to this crisis and also we understand that the reason that is going more than in the exports also one of the reasons for this currency crisis also many experts say that the fact that during the presidential complain in the back half of last year that the president look at shanker raised. by thirty percent this is also one of the reasons why the country is in serious need of any currency right now and clearly we understand that during the summer the euro summit which is taking place right now in this matter the matter how to help will or is being discussed though we understand is being discussed only behind closed doors now. even though it's being discussed behind closed doors will russia bail out valerie center and have you heard anything about what conditions may be held. we've certainly heard several indications that moscow would be helping minsk

in that sense we've heard assurances from the russian leader that that belarus will be receiving almost six billion dollars loan from russia part of it will come directly from moscow part of it from you were sacked. the russian leader is definitely sure that that would receive this loan we also heard some indication from the russian financial minister who also sad that this alone the possibility of this loan would be discussed during this summit in. far we've had no official confirmation from either the prime minister of russia vladimir putin or any ministers. would be provided any time soon we are waiting for any confirmation on that for sure but we're understanding that russia would be able to provide. this loan with this with a three or six billion dollar loan only of managed to reform its economy and launch

of the privatization which russia could take part in as well so we are waiting for a news to happen because clearly belarus is in a very difficult situation right now and certainly many ways out certainly the sides are looking for a possible way out of this financial stalemate here well thank you. they're reporting from minsk and that's all the latest business for now we'll have more for you just under an hour's time stay with us now.