international who's live from moscow this is all see with me thanks for joining us 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 around a thousand palestinian militants ati's policia has been following developments for us intel a bit. i must finish the bureau chief pilot michel speaking from damascus and he called this a national achievement for the palestinian people to express for greater that not more palestinian prisoners were being released as part of this field not through office evening tuesday there has been an emergency cabinet meeting in jerusalem that has now finished with the israeli government giving its nod to this prison a 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 and 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 and then finally when the returns to israel the final number of prisoners will be released among them amal one but. 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 now would be 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 there 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 but at the request of the mideast quartet the two sides agreed to resume peace talks and those peace talks. always 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 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 albus is a political analyst who is in gaza says the swap was a big victory for the palestinian. this is going to be the highest number of policy

and 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. and it comes at the time in which it follows from the policy the prisoners being on hunger strike for the past two weeks and i guess this is chief meant for the palestinian people for the palestinian political factions american authorities claim they've uncovered an iranian government plot to assassinate this saudi ambassador to the u.s.

washington says it's committed to holding iran accountable but tehran says the allegation is baseless or he's going to check out the latest on the story from the u.s. capitol. the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the uranium government accountable for the plots to kill the ambassador of saudi arabia to the united states also the u.s. is accusing iran of conspiring to stage two bombings at these really embassy in washington and at the embassy of saudi arabia also in washington and here is how the u.s. department of justice came up with those accusations the f.b.i. and the u.s. drug enforcement agency have arrested a new raney and born u.s. citizen he's name monsoor are burps you are u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and for that according to the americans this iranian man turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. operatives the attorney general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was

directed by high ranking iranian officials iran's firmly denies the allegations saying it is a comedy show fabricated by america saudi arabia on the other hand the allegations seriously and thanked u.s. authorities for thwarting the alleged assassination attempt of their ambassador fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now let me remind you that the state department has listed iran as a state sponsor of terror it seems now war mongering has reached the tipping point basically the questions asked in the u.s. media now come down to this one will the u.s. retaliate or not as if everyone saw it coming and now here it is what they are not bringing up is possible motives behind accusations like that whether those accusations make any sense at all why would the government if you ran want to kill the saudi ambassador in washington would be rainy and actually do it taking into consideration the potential fallout i heard experts on american mainstream channels

beating the drums of war saying things like we need to step up activities to undermine the government of iran of course we need to step up cooperate. with saudi arabia and israel speaking of cooperation with saudi arabia the us has brokered the largest arms deal with saudi arabia in its history worth sixty billion dollars the u.s. will justify its enormous contribution into further militarization of that we 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. michael assured former cia intelligence officer things these current intensified friction between the us and iran and believes there are many suspicious issues about the investigation. one of the biggest problems in the united states for

before telling what the terrorist threat is in our country is that the f.b.i. runs these sting operations and then claims great credit for breaking up a plot that wouldn't have existed except that they lured somebody into doing it my initial reaction is if the iranians wanted to kill a saudi ambassador why do it in the united states when it would cause a war between the united states and iran do it in thailand do it in cambodia do it in saudi arabia but why do it here i think what you need you to keep in mind is that the saudis want the iranians destroyed the israelis want the iranians destroyed the congress in the united states is owned by israel and so the congress wants iran destroyed and this is an opportunity for them to push for war and so i think we have to be very careful until we find out exactly who is behind the supply to the iranians are as much a threat to the united states as my shoes are to the united states but what we don't need is any kind of

a conflict with the iranians because what that will do is bring the whole islamic world down on top of us. in ukraine in kiev called her sentence the country's former prime minister to seven years in prison the verdict has brought a flood of criticism from the u.s. the u.n. russia yulia tymoshenko was found guilty of abusing her power while signing energy contracts two years ago something to fiercely denies always look to your ships he was following the events for us 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 was saw as she was taken to hospital having fallen from a stage or from a staircase or something like that inside the courtroom of course it was very tense as well while the judge was reading out the verdict units in

a sankoh 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 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 magic to 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 or stand at the protesters 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 a law fully 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. the verdict has already brought calls for the. its relations with the ukraine has done no bushell reports now 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 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 contact and again the head of the european parliament regrets the verdict and is calling for a review of the case on appeal now you claim 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 sounds 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 trial a very good look it takes

a great trial it 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 on our website we are interested in your opinion on the story and today we're asking you will between your sentence means and about a third of the believe it's a play ukrainian ploy to avoid paying for russian gas while sixty percent saying the verdict is simply a politically motivated more cream the rest are split between two options whether

the sentence is proper justice or it's a fatal arab looking ukraine's road to the you so please local tarted up on how to build. the bailout plans have been dealt a severe blow in its plans to extend its bailout fund slovakia the last country due to ratify a new plan to rescue havel indebted european nations has voted against the move and a rift within slovak is government prevented one of the poorest countries from approving an increase in its bailout fund or the second most following days for most of the european financial stability facility had to be approved by all seventeen members of the eurozone if the viking i had approved the move it would have contributed just about one percent of the four hundred forty billion euro bailout package but its financial adviser patrick young says live up here has been balancing its own budget well in recent years and this lot of 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 have 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 selig of the freedom party who's saying enough is enough why should we have a situation where five million slovakian people are expected to pay 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 hard and green with great justification about 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 russia and china boosting culture ration a bit to balance out the economic and political dominance of western countries prime minister vladimir putin is in beijing to sort of defy democratic diplomatic or other times and other countries hurdles now call serious following their long. 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 asians 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.n. 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 and 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 leave there were. no financial systems and that the role of the brics books 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 and you we agree that the role of the brics countries in these organizations must be in. given the growing importance of our country's economy. so there is a lot of big hopes and ambitions plans but both premiers said that they're confident and that they have established the porn star will make sure that they become a reality a new york jury is said to hear the first details of the prosecution against a russian businessman facing a range of arms related charges that he denies the judge has required jurors to sign an agreement that they won't read information on brewed on the internet or elsewhere so as not to prejudice the case against him he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight in a sting operation at the request of american officials and was then extradited to

the u.s. in november last year according to american officials he was one of the world's most market arms traders and was responsible for escalating several regional conflicts the russian businessman is charged with a wide range of counts including conspiracy to kill americans and violating un security council sanctions which could see him spend life in prison if convicted in this case as also calls the political route between russia and the u.s. moscow believes that was only extradited from thailand after intense political pressure was exerted on the tight judicial authorities by washington. libyan interim government forces say they've cornered conduct his loyalists in the center of his home city is said but still faced resistance nato has expressed surprise at how fiercely productive forces are fighting but this comes as fears grow of a possible rise in muslim extremism in libya as well as another arab spring countries but as john of the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. says it's hard to determine who people in libya are really supporting right now.

well of course the situation in libya is still in flux there are still are small holdouts of loyalists and of course it's very difficult to know exactly what the state of public opinion is in libya how much pocket the whole supports the revolution and much much of the population still supports gadhafi so it's very difficult of course to know exactly what the level of support is for islamic extremists in libya dish really there hasn't been a great deal of islamic extremism. and as i said even those. self identified is. like to see some form of political takeover in libya even day that said embrace the pluralist. project which is actually consistent with other branches of political islam in the region

the muslim brotherhood in egypt for example or not in tunisia. there's the way in news this hour up next our interview with martha under a sentence for much of accountant for the european commission is now a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party and she explains the origins of the current european financial crisis. i'm talking to mark to address and he's now

a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party but she was formally the european commission's chief accountant 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 were you a euro skeptic when you joined the commission as chief accountant no i was not there you were 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 in order to be part of our if i've managed to do reform 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 funding from the european union and i was responsible for the signature of the spade it's 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 pane or 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 up payments 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 commish the solution is to blame the member states only gave the money to the u.k. so you carrie who is committing the irregularities well yes but you pay the money out that you are asked the proper questions they dealt 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 want 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 france in

a proper way not the people. you 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 where 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 approving in the budget committee the two thousand and twelve budget and they have what they are asking for over four percent increase i would even asking for decreases but fundamentally saying we should at least reduce 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 your budget has nothing to do with price but i

will give you an example greece was brought into the european into the euro zone when they didn't qualify to get into the u.s. now people say greece lives. maybe in that account but. commission has asked that this ticks off its user static who should have challenge the figures and they didn't challenge they kept side ten years later they realized so something is wrong but they are there they have one thousand people working in new or start 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 universal. greece got sixty billion pounds in the last twenty years out of the european union budget the question is were the money euro zone countries are staring down the barrel of a gun 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. victors generally bureaucracy in brussels who stands to gain those 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 anywhere vindicated by what's going on in the euro zone at the moment. sadly yes i feel the katie because you know if people had herds and pads 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 not trying to ask and thank you very much thank you.

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to have uncovered a plot linked to iran to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the u.s. and that's when a general eric holder says the u.s. is committed to holding iran accountable but tehran virginia tech is a. free and buy off to get this passage is right now says that it's soldier gilad shalit is to be free to make sure one thousand palestinians and i deal with him on. the green in court hands down a seven year sentence for the country's prime minister's company functions and a lot of criticism to be tried to the u.n. russia due to its motion correspond to get you abusing about what signing and that your contract something should be as they deny. just a moment here when all see the kaiser report oh it can all make sense one of which has the father on the run and stacy give you the news wall street would prefer you didn't.