i'm going needs to moscow and beijing boost corporations china becomes the first country to do a pretend business after stating a build run for the presidency next year. as well russia and iran the world this isn't see with me you are thanks for joining it's american authorities claim they have uncovered an iranian government plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the u.s. washington says it's committed to holding iran accountable let's now get the latest from there to check on ghana hello so it won't exactly are the accusations put forward by u.s. officials. well you know the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the reigning government accountable of the plots to kill the ambassador of saudi arabia to the united states also the u.s. is accusing duran of conspiring to stage two bombings at these really embassy in

washington and that the embassy of the saudi arabia in also in washington and here's how the u.s. department of justice came out with those accusations the f.b.i. and the u.s. drug enforcement agency have arrested and you were indian born u.s. citizen in this sting operation his name. are u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and was ready to pay one and a half million dollars for the murder and for that according to the americans the arabian man turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. operatives investigate investigators also say our bobsy are wired some one hundred thousand dollars to an f.b.i. undercover bank account sort of as a down payment for the assassination that he has allegedly ordered we also know that he was arrested in september of this year the attorney general said the men

confessed in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking you randi and officials all of those accusations come from the u.s. justice department you ran for only denies the allegations saying it is a comedy show fabricated by america that's what the ukrainian government spokesman said saudi arabia on the other hand took the allegations seriously and think to u.s. authorities for some warning the alleged assassination attempt has and the reaction of the american public is that any and do they believe that there is a terror plot they have the allegations of viewed with suspicion. well you'll be it's interesting to watch how the us media took on this story fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now let me remind you that the se department has listed iran's as a state sponsor of terror since one thousand nine hundred four it seems now the war mongering has reached the tipping point basically the questions asked in the us media now come down to this one will the u.s.

retaliate or now or not as if it's a slam dunk thing is the for everyone saw it coming and now here it is what they are not bringing up is possible motives behind accusations like that whether they make make any sense at all why would the government of iran want to kill the saudi ambassador in washington with the iranians actually do would taking into consideration the potential fallout but first minutes into the statement of the attorney general without having any details let alone proof are heard experts on american mainstream channels beating the drums of war saying things like or we need to step up activity is to undermine that government also we need to step up cooperation with saudi arabia and israel and other things along these lines speaking of cooperation with saudi arabia the u.s. has brokered the largest arms deal with saudi arabia in its history also according to the saudis and agreement is underway between the two countries on the purchase

of artillery systems worth one hundred and eighty six million dollars the u.s. would need to justify its enormous contribution into the militarization of the region and only say this incident in the eyes of the world audience could partly serve that purpose as for iran's some experts believe that undermining the government of iran has been a long time coveted goal of the united states it's not clear how this incident will play out but it definitely makes the drums of war beat louder here in washington. reporting there live from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed and of course we'll bring you more information on this developing story as we get it. well we go now five years in captivity as a hostage is coming to an end for israeli soldier gilad shalit following an emergency cabinet meeting these really prime minister binyamin netanyahu announced a deal has been agreed with hamas involving a prisoner swap for around

a thousand palestinian militants on his policy has been following developments for us in tel aviv. i must finish the bureau chief pilot michel speaking from damascus and he calls this a national achievement for the palestinian people express for greater that not more palestinian prisoners who are being released as part of this field now throughout this evening tuesday there has been an emergency cabinet meeting in jerusalem that has now finished with the israeli government giving its nod to this prisoner deal what we do understand is that some one thousand palestinian prisoners will be released for this one israeli soldier gilad shalit the details as we have them suggest that some three hundred fifty prisoners will be released in the initial stage that will be taken to egypt this is a deal that was brokered by egypt and is happening on egypt and soil at that stage another one hundred and fifty prisoners will be released i mean finally when he returns to israel the final number of prisoners will be released among them marwan

barghouti now he is the leader of one of the factions of the fact that he has five life sentences on him and tel aviv in the posse there was no way that he would be included in the still the fact that he is does point to the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu changing course and that is some of the analysis that he needs this deal so much more than does hamas in terms of changing the criteria of the deal and i'll get much of it was kidnapped back in june two thousand and six it was a cross border raid women issues from gaza took him across he has not been heard of since he was really little communication in fact it was only one or two incidences when the israelis were actually be notified that he was still alive the latest information we have is that this deal will see gilad coming back to israel possibly as soon as the beginning of next month it has been quite some time that israelis and palestinians have not been holding any kind of direct negotiations it wasn't so long ago that the palestinians to care of a state is all did not accept this at the request of the mideast quartet the two

sides agreed to resume peace talks and those peace talks. as you know at the end of next week in jordan so certainly there is now a lot more pressure on the israelis to recognize the palestinian statehood in the light of this deal going forward one of the problems so for israel has been that it doesn't want to create an incentive for they kidnappings and there is an element among israeli society who feel that this deal is really too high a price to pay. and dr honey of the suit is a political analyst who's in gaza says this was a big victory for the palestinians. i this is going to be the highest number of policies in prison hours after that long time of harsh negotiations with the israeli side it comes now i think because that israeli side there israeli government has conceded has accepted this the i guess that the palestinian political faction especially hamas has been insisting all the time on this big

number and there's really government and especially not any our coalition government has refused to give. now after pressure within the israeli government and from the israeli street the israeli government has finally accepted this deal and it comes at the time in which thousands of palestinian prisoners being on hunger strike for the last two weeks i guess this is chief for the palestinian people for the palestinian political factions in ukraine have called her sentence the country's former prime minister to seven years in prison that it has brought a flood of criticism from the u.s. the u.n. russia ulit was found guilty of abusing her power while signing energy contracts two years ago something she fears that denies all she's alexi your chest was following the events from outside the court. at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of units of thousands of them trying to

organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explosive still several people were injured in the pushing and shoving with the police one woman we saw as she was taken to hospital having fallen from a stage or from a staircase or something like that but inside the courtroom of course it was very tense as well while the judge was reading out the verdict. was over shouting the judge was screaming abusive words at him saying that this decision this verdict was not done in accordance with the criminal law but it was orchestrated by president viktor yanukovych indeed the reaction from the former prime minister when she learned that she's to spend seven years in prison have her property confiscated and to pay out almost two hundred million u.s. dollars in debt was very much furious. with the retiring regime or its verdict will stop me the trial showed that the constitution and justice had been trampled on

dispute i urge you to begin the struggle it's a very difficult and important moment we have to protect ukraine against the authoritarian regime don't give up when her stand at the protest to several thousand of them will remain in the key of central street for another week at least to follow the developments and to see whether their leader would be set free or any any other development could happen to her while moscow has been saying all along that those deals back in two thousand and nine were signed in full accordance with international law and with the two countries legislation and that the reaction which we have already received from the russian foreign ministry is saying almost the same that the court which had the verdict delivered basically neglected the fact that russia believed that that the deals were signed lawfully and the verdict itself has something over and so i russian pretext that is what we. hearing from the russian foreign ministry clear it is unhappy with the other way things are

going because we know that the russian foreign minister and president medvedev have been saying that this case should be transparent and that the gas deals were completely legitimate. and the verdict has already brought calls for the you to rethink its relations with ukraine has done a bushel reports from brussels. there's been a whole stol reaction from the people in europe here the european union's from policy chief catherine ashton says that she's been following the verdict and that the european union says its whole relations with key of as a result of this verdict we've heard the e.u. saying is deeply disappointed with the judge's decision the e.u. commission i did there are consequences for by that relations and earlier today the european commission said he hoped for a review of this of this verdict on appeal i mean we've wanted to see changes in ukrainian law so this sort of case khans happen again the head of the european parliament regrets the verdict and is calling for a review of the case on appeal now ukraine wants to enter the european union has

been discussing a free trade agreement and the ukraine president is actually due here in brussels next week to discuss the first steps to joining the european union but the sound we're getting here from brussels is that this may be put on hold and in fact stopped if if this case is not reviewed let's now listen to an expert for more details on this case the european union has already made it clear that if you use this child very dearly it takes a great game this trial doesn't like to see opposition politicians in prison and i think there is every chance that the european union may take some strong measures such as freezing the talks with ukraine strangely there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the so there were serious doubts about whether key of would actually go through with the ukraine would actually be able to join the european union but this verdict on yulia timoshenko really seems to put the entry of ukraine

into the european union into the long grass. washington has also condemned the verdict with key u.s. lawmakers saying it's an alarming new step in the deterioration of democracy in the country and in our website we're interested in your opinion on the story and today we're asking or tears saying about the question and what it means the whole sentence and about a third of you believe it's a clever ukraine ploy to avoid paying for russian gas well thirty two percent thing diverted to simply a politically motivated mockery the rest are split between two options of whether the sentence is proper just as always a fatal error blocking ukraine's road to the so please go on to article that have your say. the e.u. as late as bailout plans have been dealt a severe blow in its plans to extend its bailout fund the latest country due to ratify a new plan to rescue heavily indebted european nations has voted against the move and a rift within slovakia's government prevented one of the poorest countries from approving

an increase in its bailout fund reforms to the european financial stability facility to be approved by all seventeen members of the eurozone if slovakia had approved the move it would have contributed just about one percent of the four hundred and forty billion euro bailout package but as financial adviser patrick young says lavar care has been balancing its own budget well in recent years and there is love that people simply don't want to pay greek debt ultimately this is a question of not just principle but actually rational economic well being of the ordinary working people of slovakia they've been injured incredible cuts during the course of the last few years in order to keep the slovakian economy going and ultimately therefore we have this political leader richard shillelagh of the freedom party who saying enough is enough why should we have a situation where five million slovakian people are expected to pay eighty seven billion euros in order to pay for greek people to have pensions three times.

larger than the old age pensions in slovakia and ultimately that doesn't make sense i mean slovakians are the lowest wage earners in the euro zone they're incredibly fiscally pragmatic they run their economy in a very sensible and intelligent way and ultimately they feel very very are angry with great justification by paying for greece that is ultimately an economy where the government lied about their figures in order to get into the euro in the first place so new york's wealth has tycoons could come face to face with the rage of anti will trade demonstrators hundreds of activists that camping outside the homes of the elite in protest against the widening gap between the rich and poor in america are in a partner eyes following the developments from new york. these people on the list are the five wealthiest residents of new york city bill and as you were mentioning in the introduction to the story this rage has already been unleashed here in new

york city hundreds of demonstrators began visiting the homes of those on this list and those names include rupert murdoch c.e.o. of news corp jamie diamond c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase and as they were walking along park avenue their doorman outside of the buildings on on park avenue were actually cheering in support of these protesters now the reason they're there holding this demonstration that is in conjunction with occupy wall street is because they want to bring to light the fact that the new york state's two percent tax on millionaires expires at the end of this year and new york city residents say that ninety nine percent of new yorkers will be suffering because a lot less revenue will be going to the city and this state now when this group that is doing this millionaire's march taking part in it got to the home of the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan diamond there were actually police barricades set up outside of his building

now this is what's taking place in new york but we should also inform our viewers that in boston there was a mass arrests that took place following clashes that broke out between demonstrators of occupy boston and police officers there was more than a hundred people reportedly a rusted and there was some images that we did see a note of police officers getting physical with us veterans that were taking part in occupied boston in d.c. in washington d.c. at least six people that were taking part in an occupy demonstration there were arrested this is what one hundred or more protesters went inside of the u.s. senate building and attempted to hang a batterer that said tax the rich there might have been another banner too but clearly this shows that this occupied movement is not limited to one city in the u.s. it's not limited to new york it's expanding across this entire nation. as usual

assays twitter stream has all the latest developments catch up on what's happening as it happens at r.t. underscore home and i'll see underscore america and in one of her tweets on t.v. think nothing it says crowds that chanting hey you millionaires pay your fact shadd also declaring that revolution has begun so i log on to our twitter feed for fresh update. russian china boosting corp a big to balance out the economic and political dominance of western countries prime minister vladimir putin is in beijing to solidify diplomatic ties and other country hurdles auntie's merino of course are always following that landmark meeting. it's important to mention that this was the prime minister vladimir putin's first visit since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections and some say it signals a change in focus for russia for many years the west took center stage when it came

to the country's political agenda but trying as economic progress has mosco look in the east both nations have supported each other throughout the years and this is related to sulfur and sea developments and security and of course they also share similar political views and that was proven just recently when both countries a veto the european draft the u.s. security council resolution condemning syria russia and china are also both members of the brig's group and along with brazil india and south africa the continued economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined their dominance of the global political stage paving the way for emerging countries like china and russia and prime minister putin said the u.s. is using as though monopoly as the only global reserve and that's heaven and that's a fact on their financial policy. i never said the us was a parasite on the global economy but i do think it's feeding off the monopoly of

the us dollar as a single global currency the problem is it's bad not only for the world economy america's economy as well because it leads to a violation of financial discipline when it comes to the e.u. vladimir putin said that greece is a big problem but it could be resolved if countries weren't afraid to take action he said that russia and china should lead there were. no financial systems and that the role of the brics will to become more important on the world stage. i think it's time to talk about reforming existing institutions and first of all i mean global financial institutions such as the international monetary fund and world bank do we agree that the role of the brics countries in these organizations must be. given the growing importance of our country's economy. so there is a lot of big hopes and ambitions plans but both premier said that their confidence that they have established the pons that will make sure that they become reality.

that's hard news links this hour up next our interview with marta and traits a former chief accountant of the european commission is now a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party has got some strong critic of us on the. i'm talking to martha and dress and who's now a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party but she was formally the european commission's chief accountants

while she was in that job but she raised concerns about flaws in the commission's accounting system which she said left it vulnerable to fraud mottram dress and thanks for talking to us today now while you were euro skeptic when you joined the commission as chief accountant no i was not there you are a skeptic in fact i thought you were a project was a project of cooperation i thought they were sharing solutions among the different member states so i was quite on earth to be able to be part of the european union and also on or to be part of our roof through to reform and that they were undergoing what happened or what did you find out to make you change your mind when i found out that they had no control on the payments they were making out of the european union budget basically you know they didn't ask if people qualified to

get the. then from the european union and i was responsible for the signature of those payments so i had the highest responsibility and i thought i needed to know if i was playing to the right person and for the right purpose and they just didn't care and they didn't allow me to make change use to be able to determine if we were making the right pain others didn't see it like that they did that in fact you were fired for blowing the whistle do you think anything's changed since i don't think anything has changed i now see it in the budgetary control committee so all the committee in the parliament that oversee the payments out of the budget and i see it in the budget committee the committee that oversees the planning of the budget and in both committees i can see that they have no respect for european taxpayers' money. and i don't see that fundamental changes that they should make have

taken place you know once anybody who makes a payment in normal words would take care that the payments would ask the questions what does this pain mean to what is the purpose and this questions are not asked by the commission the solution is to blame the member states or we gave the money to the u.k. it's the u.k. who is committing the irregularities well yes but you pay the money out that you are asked the proper questions no they don't do you think brussels is capable of reform is there a will to tighten that up no i don't think that it's any will to tighten this practices because they have a different agenda they want to promote the european union project and to promote this project the point to be able to give the money to the people who will support the project not the people who really care about the use of the funds in a proper way not the people who are going to use this funding to grow the economy

of a certain member state but the people who will promote the european union project we're in times of austerity at the moment and members all across europe saying that that state spending is there any sign that brussels is doing the same now absolutely you know last night we spent six hours up proving in the budget committee the two thousand and twelve budget and they have what they are asking for over a four percent increase i would even ask for decreases but fundamentally saying we should at least for the use the allowances for the emmy please and they don't want to believe them you know we are now in the middle of a crises and people think well the year budget has nothing to do with price but. i will give you an example greeks was brought into the european into the euro zone

when they didn't qualify to get into the us now people say greece lied. maybe in that account but. nation has asked that this ticks off its user static who should have challenge the figures and they didn't challenge they can't cite ten years later they realize so something is wrong but they are there they have one thousand people working in your stat to analyze the figures they should have come another thing the budget was used to grow the economy of all these countries that came into the euro. greece got sixty billion pounds in the last twenty years out of the european union budget the question nice were they had the money eurozone countries are staring down the barrel of a god basically what e.u. grandees are talking about is in forcing more fiscal union in the face of economic collapse which seems like a desperate measure who stands to gain the most from keeping europe together i

think the. victor is generally a bureaucracy in brussels who stands to gain these there's people who have been pushing the project all along and they want this unity and union where they will hold the power over all the member states and finally as a euro skeptic do you feel any way vindicated by what's going on in the eurozone at the moment. sadly yes i feel indicated because you know if people had heard and had sort of responded to my claims ten years ago. maybe this wouldn't have happened so yes i feel vindicated but it's sad to say this because we could have prevented all that's happening today. and thank you very much thank you.

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you will see coming to you live from moscow the headline. washington accuses tehran of a time approach as the u.s. claims it uncovered and they're ready and willing to assassination plot targeting a saudi ambassador u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says new penalties against iran are on the way while the islamic republic rejects all accusations. free after five years as a hostage raid zero announces that it soldier gilad shalit is to be freed in exchange for one thousand palestinians and a deal with coming on. ukraine's expert in minutes days sentenced to seven days in jail bob he's in power one signing gas contract says the verdict sparking clashes between her supporters and needs to call decision also got a harsh response from russia.