three volunteers to video for your media projects a free meal john darche talk time. tonight on our t.v. president obama lays down notes of mates into the syrian leaders saying that if there's no transition to democracy it's sad must get out of the way. also pushing for a new united kingdom scotland plans a referendum to go it alone from britain after nationalists with a majority in the devolved parliament. passed but you know the penguins party had since far south as you can go to investigate if humans are causing problems for freezing federal credit. and in this mess that there is a commie is in freefall while it looks to be getting

a three billion dollar loan just how much good will that to join with the full story in business around twenty minutes time. from r.t. it's nine pm now here in moscow my name's kevin zero in on our top story this hour europe's swelling nationalism is now seeing scotland considered independent future the scottish parliament has a nationalist party majority for the first time when it wants a vote on separation it's been part of britain for over three hundred years but many scots along thought they'd be better off alone bolstered by their offshore oil reserves. reports. starting pistol sounds in the race to independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and that hell bent on a referendum on brake. in away from the u.k.

gain control over a resource responsibility for the problems with peace in our country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. keeping charge of hormone making 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 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 printer pendants including wales and northern ireland if they so choose its people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support violence in any shape or form clearly if other countries wish to pursue an agenda then they'll get a 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 system argument. is taught by the rupee richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british we want to be and remain part of a union which i think you serve scotland 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

people if i did the oil industry and about you know. you'll get. all the oil used to it and will this week i'm going to let it generally. to other people work well the school itself. is aware of this risk or. as much as close to risk. because of the feature oh if you were in school we should have mentioned that then it. would be freaking out all day when we're. doing well enough we're going to get to do a lot of fruit for good food when we would rather the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore grounds 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 seventy 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 its policy.

and you can hear more from the scottish national party's justice minister who we heard in that report in our interview coming up next. i'd also add in the program to currency affairs as the world's top banker quits to fight sex assault charges we look at what that means for the dollars brain as the supreme currency got an expert opinion on that in a few them. both developing news story tonight president obama's issued an ultimatum to syria's president assad to be the lead democratic transition in the country or get out of the way and quote there was warning came during a keynote speech was just finished on america's middle east position where he also announced financial help for egypt and she is here let's discuss all this problem child a visiting fellow at the center for american progress joining us from washington tonight thanks very much for being with us again coming down hard on syria as we've seen now in the way the confrontation between them do you think with libya.

i doubt it but i don't think the u.s. will intervene in syria any more than it has so far which is to issue smaller number of sanctions the us is policies as outlined by barack obama is actually no different from what it has been in the past it's it's really that of a good news spectator the only new thing that he mentioned here really is a brief mention about her reign but there was no call to the rulers of bahrain to step aside so as far as i can tell it was an attack on iran's attack on syria and there's no reason to support any of these governments but where was the support for the people of kurdistan where was the people support for the people of bahrain and on man in many of the countries in fact u.s. policy has shown itself to be behind the mention for example that he's going to provide two billion dollars to egypt this is what these spend in afghanistan in

a week this is what is spent in iraq in a week and that two billion dollars not actually cash on the table it's debt forgiveness it's money to opec which supports u.s. companies as opposed to local businesses in egypt so there's not a whole lot it's simply a slightly a reiteration of the stand towards syria i don't think this indicates intervention . you talk about the money. going to egypt engineers here there's been mention bridge associations with the marshall plan for europe after world war two doesn't it where the u.s. but also does influence basically by itself thought we have neuropathy to follow the americans leave is this so as a year ago who follows the summit his latest this what the u.s. wants for north africa and how do you think. this is very little money i mean you have to put in the context the kind of money that's been rolled up in the marshall plan originally the amount of money for the bailout in europe two billion dollars is nothing that's what they provide every year to the egyptian military to buy

weapons in the united states it's not a lot of money it's not a cent so congested you will have no impact it's a token gesture it's a token gesture no not that it's one of the spectators standing by the side watching world events go by and trying to participate but not wanting to actually change its its role in the region and which is not really been very helpful ok let's look at some other issues about also back to the palestinian state within those one hundred sixty seven borders what do you think their reaction will be in israel to the. not really an expert in israel i mean i think israel alone was push back against any attempt. to give any kind of support to the palestinian people i think it is and i think it's good that obama you know says go back to the one nine hundred sixty seven borders. he is really not after the whole lot that's new out here it's. george mitchell resigned for the simple reason that obama was not really

going after anything concrete on the table and he has not offered anything concrete and obama's later we're here to speak to a gathering of israeli lobby in the u.s. it's head we send an e-mail to delegates not to who president that is that some of that signify about our policies of affected the region you think. we may have lost the line of them clearly. i can hear you now but i lost the last i'm going to say barbers later on to speak to a park is gathering of pro israeli lobbyists in the us now we're hearing that it's had sent an e-mail to delegates the delegates going to that meeting not to boo president obama what does that signify about obama's policies affect the region you think. one of the actually the neo cons actually got it right this morning when

this said the point of the speech is not actually is to convince american audiences barack obama's goal his right now is the two thousand and twelve elections so this speech is not really about the middle east the two billion dollars is is is small change in this town and in this city of grand scale of events with this is really about is is is perhaps showing a piece to the american public so they will reelect him he is in a meeting with netanyahu tomorrow his speech this weekend to a pack that's is the message he's sending this this was this is an opening to what is actually a more important. play for the presidency as opposed to really anything to do with the middle east at all because there is nothing new except you know token gestures in one thousand nine hundred seven a mention of bahrain which is good but not sufficient and the predictable attacks

which are not necessarily. bad ones on the governments of syria and iran these are not necessarily good governments but the u.s. is not about to step in in any meaningful way it's not going to sit down at the table it's not going to get involved even in a military way because it can't afford to have clarity thanks for being on the line with us from washington i don't r.t. . hundred r.t. don't call me we've got plenty more all the news stories we're covering of course and these stories as well to my getting a lot of clicks israeli attention to the russia accused of spying on the inside as investigation online and. also russia's third man in charge is rooted out front of why the upper house speaker was just too loud for some of the some of the stories tonight lotty dot com.

if. you. the international monetary fund chief has resigned while in custody in new york over accusations of sexual assault that he strongly denies before dawn can quit though crowds gathered in washington to join the growing global calls for him to go let's look at all means for the world banking world with adrian soul who she's. politics author in one is our it this is a bunch of spin where this was a vocal advocate was me of widening the world's money system and drawing countries away from the u.s. dollar as a reserve currency what's going to happen to his pet projects now that he's no longer in charge. well to a great extent i think one has to interpret that his having left the international monetary fund in sochi dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with him because well perhaps sexual escapades are a bit of the norm as we see it would suit your berlusconi in italy and as we have seen with new york governor spitzer and we've seen a million high level government officers i think of the fact that he has gone on as

much to do with the fact that the united states dollar must continue being the local currency the dominant global currency and that is challenge very much so perhaps mr dominique strauss turns socialist needs in a way talking to give more preeminence to special drawing rights the s.t.r. which is. incorrectly paul b. i am a moderate but here actual fact in a way that makes it is and is strengthened to rather think we can he was taller in fact in march of two thousand and nine with governor of the bank of china sold one proposed open we are i.m.f. special drawing rights should be a mechanism to draw away from the u.s. dollar and different more balanced basket of currencies considering the u.s. dollar is being hyper inflated by the federal reserve bank of the united states even though we call it by a nice euphemism called once it's an easy so if you're what you're saying here in

a nutshell is the dollar is going to suffer because of his departure. no i would say you know quite the contrary the fact that mr sloan's car was promoting the special drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that who are vying. for the whole month at the i.m.f. will keep away from it. too strongly participation in doing away with the u.s. dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be the key currency and anything which you see this competition automatically puts on warning lights are a small example in november of two thousand and two saddam hussein started selling is our drop our food for all will agreement with the u.n. one billion dollars per annum he started selling that in europe so that was in november two thousand to well we know in march two thousand and three what happened to saddam hussein because it was

a very dangerous he was there and it was the oil market going to migrate from u.s. dollars to urals that would spell trouble for the u.s. dollar so here if our. stars comes but our idea of my away from the dollar toward special drawing rights of i was one of the treasuries i was one of the key bonds for a couple for countries to invest in the. trouble for u.s. treasuries and again it would still trouble for the united states dollar i mean europe and the euro. what for europe and the euro the euro in the way i believe i personally was a transitional experiment currency the euro is technically strong but it is culturally still a weak currency it is not yet by no means equal currency the special drawing rights and the myth and make our little words into a country. it is a strong mechanism because as it stands right now it is a basket of currencies that includes the united states on the euro pound sterling.

or a fourth currency now it is stronger our there is a strong core to have the brics currencies are in call resume russia india and especially china so the fact there are dispersed special drawing rights will be strengthened in quantity and be more of a why it was called as far as the currencies that spans would make many countries like. russia like india feel more comparable keeping the euro back and central bone reserves in special drawing rights with the i.m.f. and doing away with united states treasury anything that will trigger countries to sell off the u.s. treasury bond holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us treasury bonds is what allows both burbank to have his printing presses going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be stopped and if america were to stop printing currency well

america could at least financially collapse if want to focus on here are many countries that were bailed out now strauss can play the leading role in bailing out greece ireland and portugal now what about if a country for instance like spain came along wanted to follow suit at some point in the future what are the chances of a country getting bailed out less these days now in this new climate again yeah but that is a sign of trouble because again because of a. straws come socialist means he had a tendency to say ok the job of the i.m.f. our image is to help ireland portugal hope to transition be momentary financial imbalances if the i almost want to take a much stronger stance and not bail out greece for example then greece would be in huge trouble i'll give you an example for michael if you know argentina in two thousand and one and two thousand and two the i.m.f.

was in the hands of course earlier and krueger was the number two cig's only did not bail out argentina in october two thousand and one told of financial banking and voluntary collapse of origin bells once one thousand two with mass of forty percent drop in the pros domestic product if the percent of the population fall below the poverty line so if our life were to replace the old mr astro's that would spoil a lot of trouble for many of the weaker european countries notably spain italy portugal ireland greece thanks very artsy for moscow are joining us on the line from what is our race tonight as you are. going to take you through some world news in brief couple of top stories there's been a second day of the nato demonstrations in northern afghanistan police opened fire to disperse the demonstrators as they threw stones and set a police station ablaze the crowds were protesting against a nato overnight house raid that left four people dead later confirmed the killing

of two men and two women said they were armed and fired through. a triple form blast of security forces and iraqi city of kirkuk skilled at least twenty seven injured schools mill north the country's been riven by ethnic strife three groups are vying for control rich area there to our special report now from antarctica how to sean thomas of the think travel to the planet southernmost confident look into whether humans are putting penguins in a flower. the penguins of antarctica truly fascinating creatures to watch but are they in trouble from a man made threat. back in one nine hundred eighty 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 widely known months of topic but i think generally regarded a month anyone that knows anything about it is being a bit of a myth to be honest and antarctic 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 dry place lets out to look something like this and go every day to see where they fall over and i need to get a map again and so sometimes it can be quite hard because they don't like which much but you can put a lot of people are much further look into on his credentials left some doubt as well as a check with the chief of russia's billings house and station a place 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 this is what drew 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. they. the penguins are actually very smart spurn sometimes when you come to be a trivia each you see them 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. 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 king ones 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 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 sean thomas archie i've got more from sean as our special report continues tomorrow still ahead of the program tonight russian scientists who was one of the most rewarded but who became one of the most widely known salvia this happens to this day is a turbulent life story coming up in a few minutes time after the business with katrina.

right if you. are from finance to. keep don't. i don't welcome to business with r.t. for this our prime minister tourism is invalid reuss as the country's economy faces its biggest crisis in decades its national currency is in freefall having lost over half of its value this week alone russia together with its partners in the former soviet states are preparing a three billion dollar rescue loan from minsk however little groovy and from i.h.s.

global insight believes this will only provide temporary relief i think it will be useful only for short term and the long term it will not be able to. basically make the necessary changes the necessary changes to the economy has to be done by the political leadership and the question is will. the russian president and he's government have the political will to go through a restructuring of the economy is facing a currency crisis or basically needs to get its liquidity levels up as soon as possible but is having trouble borrowing get. national bank of the pillars decided in response to this crisis to remove exchange controls on the local currency plummeted in the past ten days it has lost about two thirds of its value so the crisis it seems to continue. russia's state run rosneft may seek

compensation for the failed share swap deal with b.p. deputy prime minister igor research and one of the main architects of the deal says the company's lawyers are studying the viability of a claim section doesn't specify whether it's b.p. or its russian partners a hour that might be the target both rosneft and they are previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. andre got a bald managing partner and. thinks that a potential lawsuit does have solid grounds. the sniff will sue b.p. cause it sounds like b.p. didn't disclose their particular color was their partner was that thing could be venture you should have told the consul before any deals in russia to explore for us as a natural resources i do believe that lawyers knew about that clause and the lors unit for b.p. but unfortunately sometimes in russia the people more rely on their relations with

the government always the other little of officials rose on the war and the times may cause trouble. if you have the markets now firstly light sweet is trading down under one hundred dollars per barrel at present contrary to expectations of an increase and brant is down around one hundred eleven dollars a barrel here stocks are positive this hour after three straight days of losses technology stocks are up on strong earnings reports from dell but traders remain concerned that the u.s. economic recovery is slowing target corporation reported earnings that beat expectations but it's not as flat european stocks closed in the black helped in part by the news that dominic strauss kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund chairs in air france k l m are up two percent after the airlines find back into profit in the latest financial year and then sees p.l.c. is down three point seven percent in london though and they have to leave the

footsie one hundred index following the i.p.o. of glencore the world's largest commodities trader and here in moscow the markets have closed in the black thursday bouncing back from the losses of a lot of the last three weeks as have a look at some individual moves on the my six gazprom was down today despite the company's increase export forecast for this year beating analysts expectations better mine n l m k was up that's his credit rating agency fitch lifted its rating to a triple been minus. and t n k b he was in the red the company is continuing to suffer from the fallout of the collapse deal between rosneft and b.p. . russia's biggest airport on the deal of a well placed twenty percent of its shares in the in its planned i.p.o. in london that's according to sources close to the deal quoted on the interfax news agency moscow's biggest airport is reportedly valued at up to five and a half billion dollars its revenue in two thousand and ten grew to more than one

billion dollars that's around twenty percent better than the previous year. russia is battling to have its gas pipelines it's exempted from the e.u. third energy package the document bans one company from being a gas supplier and a transporter at the same time russian officials claim the legislation will damage investment in oil and gas infrastructure projects it will therefore be harmful to european energy security valerie yazid from the russian gas society explains what he'd like to see changed. we. should be taking to the package position is that the energy package should come into legal force or 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 for a compromise. and that's all the business for this hour we'll have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us now.