tonight on our team president obama tells syria's leader to help the transition to democracy or quote get out of the way as he outlines america's stance on the arab world turbulence right now. pushing for an onion united kingdom scotland plans a referendum to go it alone for britain after nationalists win a majority in the devolved parliament. the i.m.f. chief submits and quit sport it triggers concerns that the fund might drop his projects to draw countries away from the american dollar as a reserve currency. plus picking up the penguins r.t.

heads as far south as you can go to investigate if humans are causing problems for us freezing feathered friends. relieving from moscow you're watching r t my name is kevin owen it's ten pm here now on our top story europe's swelling nationalism is now saying scotland consider an independent future a 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 they'd be better off alone bolstered by offshore oil reserves is lower and it has the story. the starting pistol sounds in the race for 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. gain control over a resource responsibility for the problems with peace in our country and to be able to stand up and speak out in issues that matter to us. charge at home and 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 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 you the s.n.p.

would support other european movements in their own struggles for independence including wales and northern ireland if they so choose it's for the people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support the one violence in any shape or form clearly if other 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 that striving the movement system argument. richard it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british if you want to be part of a union which i think of. well through for a few years the s.n.p. still has work to do it want scotland to break away even the most optimistic polls show only around forty percent of scots would vote yes and on the streets of

edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and about you know see. all the oil just an angle this we can go. on it generally will still not. eat it to other people would rather scorn the self profits call includes all rise of. the roses for scotland as much as close to. the case of either feature or how off your own short when should i have mentioned the penny. will be paid not at all they run like. the do enough are going to get to do a lot of things for they could put one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of it spidy a 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 it's. just right and you can hear a more from the scottish national party's justice minister we heard it before in an interview and a bit later this hour and also to come to currency affairs as the world's top banker puts the fight sex assault charges we have expert opinion on what that means for the dollar's reign as the supremes kurds. next though president obama has issued an ultimatum to syria's president assad through the lead democratic transition of the country all quote to get out of the way as warning came during a keynote speech was just finished on america's middle east was issued when he also announced financial help for egypt and tunisia that is going to. listen. she's in washington. more pressure on syria tonight though seems like the u.s. is really ramping up the rhetoric. you're right president obama said quote we'll

get out of the way end of quote only when president assad provides transition of power was there a threat implied could be he also once again recommended serious partnership with iran it felt like he was talking from a position of a decision maker when it comes to syria hinting that the u.s. could get involved if president all sides doesn't step down earlier the u.s. says that if the syrian leader to their blacklist by imposing sanctions on him personally where it's all heading is unclear now the u.s. is now involved in the civil war where it is clearly taking sides and giving full support for the opposition leader but a large but a large portion of the leader in population is very much opposed to any foreign intervention and washington's attempts to push certain people to power there could mean years of conflict ahead experts say foreign intervention could create a much worse conflict in libya which is the heart of the area which is in the very heart of the arab world if you rance closest ally in the weekend and it could send

shock waves throughout the whole region goes through this speech infuriated some in israel tonight was supporting of public opinion in those months and sixty seven borders. for. kevin on the israeli palestinian issue and our part of the speech was very much anticipated obama pushed harder for the israelis to make concessions to stop building settlements or at least you suggest that israel go back to pre nine hundred sixty seven border line and that would mean that what happens is giving up completely the west bank is jerusalem and the gavel stream. he was very careful to say that the u.s. is solely an advisor here and cleared washington of basically of any responsibility . to ak there has been words before but never any action to really push for the two state solution solution that president obama was talking about the fact that israel is the protectorate of the united states and the israeli lobby is very powerful

here makes it even harder to expect a balanced approach from washington this sunday president obama is in the bill is going to deliver a speech at the american israel public affairs committee a packed as the three lobbies here in washington and his meeting with these really president is friday so with this statement in line we are sure to have a lot of talk about college education reporting and from washington d.c. thank you but it is of course the place to be for more coverage of all the stories we're talking about and a lot more as well plenty of news and analysis we'll be telling you what's on one little bit later let's now though we're. small coleman the resignation of the international monetary fund chief follows accusations of sexual assault and stirred up the global financial community and the concerns of the dominique strauss cans for will put efforts to offer an alternative to the u.s. dollar. currency on hold on his economics and geopolitics or the agents of gucci

told r.t. those are well grounded as he sees it. is having worth its international monetary fund so she dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr starr's car was the special drawing rights which in a way part of the mechanism that would make the call of suffering in that we are going to see that whoever takes over the whole of the i.m.f. will keep away from giving the stroke to strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be in the key currency and anything which is seen as competition automatically puts on warning lights 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 boehner to have printing presses going on twenty four

hours a day if that were to be stopped and if america were to start printing currency well our burgher could at least financially collapse. introductory dot com to my home page their stories a lot of clicks you might be interested in as well and there's really attention is kicked out of russia of supplying a godly inside espionage investigation online on our web site tonight also russia's per man in charge has been booted out find out why the opera house speaker was just too loud for so we got the story of our team go. fish. fish fish fish. fish sht. polish and russian investigators have met to discuss closer cooperation in solving the air crash that killed president kaczynski and ninety five others over a year ago at the meeting in moscow they also arranged for documents and other

evidence to be handed over to warsaw katrina is out of it for r t is following the developments. the interstate aviation committee has completed its report and handed it 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 will help 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 job humans concerning the investigations because various records and transcripts of records

call and initially was very much against the findings of the interstate baby ation committee there was quite a big copper war in the area and i'll let of course by the former president's twin brother actually it was completely refused flat out to accept the findings of the interstate aviation committee which of course included that the crash was due to pilot error and mr bachchan 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 but as many officials in russia in the and all over the world aviation next. to that air 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 more top world news headlines tonight. ratios nor. an afghanistan police opened fire to disperse the demonstrators as a few stones and set a police station ablaze a crowd for protesting against the nato overnight house raid which therefore people dead later confirmed the killing of two men and two women with said they were armed and fired it through. a triple bomb blast they want security forces who were. killed at least twenty seven i mean your skills can cook in most of the country's been riven by ethnic strife with three groups vying for control of the world rich area. a special report for you now for months arctic air now to sean thomas in the travel to the planet's southernmost continent to look at whether humans are putting the penguins there in a flap. 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 and 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 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 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 up english and go out every day to see where they followed i may need to get up again and so some friends can be quite hard because they look like they should but you can put the body thank you very much

a further look into anchor's credentials that let 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 appear 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 could be of the penguins are actually very smart splurges sometimes when they come to be a trivia ice you see them 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 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 your interest safe and no one should be moving south for jobs that just don't exist in antarctica sean thomas hardy. sure are a good time when i was down there he did a lot of research and a lot of filming that was just the start of our trip to the south pole you can watch out for a brand new report on our team tomorrow. here

than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the flowers this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special but attractive from the wildlife in antarctica is the bones if you lived in the slums of. expeditions to the bottom of the earth artsy. what is it about penguins that kind of make you smile like a treat in the studio becoming very shortly with the business machines you saw them laughing with all right about twenty minutes time kate going to be previewing the saturday night big fights out the year of moscow it's between the legendary roy jones jr and then it's negative not a build up to that so full coverage i was at the weekend but it's got more details to come so there's a lot of business savvy for that in just a minute or two. for the we've got.

the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. didn't start all of a sudden. the story of destroying the living under. there are. something. out here when they get done like that. if you took everything out of the water and you don't do something that want to. protect you can't attack the issues. it's going to nature's the steps making way for the talks. you look around the city of the solar. this is your most well off. the road system really number that's true. and yet billions of. state.

consider potential areas for development in south atlantic the gulf. if. you want to talk about. this street still see.

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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 known ferments however lucrative organ from i.h.s. global insight believes that 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 necessary changes to the economy has to be done by the political leadership and the question is are. the russian president and he's government have the political will to go through a restructuring of the economy is facing a currency crisis is basically needs to get this liquidity levels up as soon as possible but is having trouble borrowing

a good. national bank of 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 is seems to continue. russia's state run rosneft may seek compensation for the deal with the deputy prime minister igor said one of the main architects of the deal companies noise are studying the viability of a claim doesn't specify whether it's the plea or it's russian partners they are that might be the target both rosneft and a i have previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. andre got managing partner and got sloppy opie thinks. does have sort of grown. like was the. cause it sounds like he didn't disclose the.

partner that. you should have called because from before to enter in any deals in russia you explore for us as a natural resource which i do believe that lawyers knew about the calls and the wars. unfortunately sometimes in russia the people more rely on the relations with the government or with the other. a little bit of usual throws on the war. some times may cause trouble. let's take a look at the markets now oil light sweet is trading down under one hundred dollars per barrel of present contrary to expectations of increase and brant crude is around one hundred twelve dollars a barrel u.s. 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 corp reported earnings that beat expectations but the

stock was flat european stocks closed in the black belt in part by the news of dominique strauss kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund shares an air france k. l. m. are up two percent after the airlines run back into profit in the latest financial year in vinci's p.l.c. is down three point seven percent in london and may have to leave the forty one hundred index following the i.p.o. glencore the world's largest lot of these trade out there in moscow the markets have closed in the black thursday passing back from the losses of the past three weeks. now let's have a look at some individual share moves on the my six gazprom was down today despite the company's increased export forecast for this year beating and listen expectational metal miner n l m k was up that's his credit rating agency fitch lifted its rating to a triple be minus and t n k b p was in the red the company's continuing to suffer from the fallout of the collapse deal between rosneft and bt. the biggest i.p.o.

of the year is underway in london commodity group glengall glencore has a price that's floated five hundred thirty pence per share that's half of the eleven billion dollars issue was four times oversubscribed analysts say the deal was priced to go and i'm not at all surprised the man was so high. rushes year to year the. inflation year to date inflation has reached four point five percent which is point eight percent higher than the same period last year consumer costs have been driven by higher pixel prices which are really risen by thirteen percent in the last month the government is still forecasting inflation for around seven percent for the whole year but many economists doubt that this can be achieved. russia's biggest airport hopes that twenty percent of its shares will take off at the london stock exchange here defects news agency quote sources close to the project. airport in moscow has been valued at up to five and

a half billion dollars its revenue last year growth of more than one billion dollars showing an annual growth of twenty percent. russia it is better to be exempt from an e.u. rule that says guess suppliers can't own the pipes it's come through at the same time russian officials claim the legislation known as the third energy package damage investment in oil and gas infrastructure projects and will harm european energy security in the long run the russian gas industries trade body says it hopes that a solution can be found. but. we . should be taken 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 ending a compromise. that's there just business for now but remember you can always keep

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