it is not the end of the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshie welcome to the program iranians hiring mexicans to assassinate the saudi ambassador in america and the details of a complicated plot the u.s. government says it has uncovered officials in washington say to rein in agents tried to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack allegations tehran dismissed as a comedy show if you've got it she can has the latest from the u.s. capitol. the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the uranian 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 the israeli 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 was drug enforcement agency of arrested a new grainy and born u.s.

citizen his name monsoor are burps yar 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. operative turner general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking iranian officials and firmly denies the allegations saying it is a comedy show fabricated by america saudi arabia on the other hand took the allegations seriously and thanked us 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 list that you ran as a state sponsor of terror it seems now war mongering has reached a 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 of iran want to kill the saudi ambassador in washington with the rainiest actually do it taking into consideration the potential fallout i heard wag's you heard 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. would justify its enormous contribution to further militarization of that week as well 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

and as you can reporting there michael scherer have former cia intelligence officers as there are a lot of holes in the allegations against this apparent iranian backed plot. one of the biggest problems in the united states for if or 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 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. still ahead for you the program the price of compromise the latest hurdle of sorts for serbia and its campaign for a long desired membership but recognizing cost of a could be higher than belgrade point jump. the fires of libya's new governments around the remaining patch of gadhafi loyalists in his hometown but some question whether a victory will hold peace. hamas officials have agreed a prisoner swap deal with israel that secures the release of over a thousand palestinians in exchange for jew or soldier gilad shalit has been held

in captivity in gaza for five years and is often used by israel as justification of its blockade of the strip argues policy reports on the deal palestinians are claiming as their success. i must finish your cheap credit michel speaking from damascus and he called this a national achievement for the palestinian people he expressed regret that not more palestinian prisoners were being released as part of this deal now throughout this evening tuesday there has been an emergency cabinet meeting in jerusalem that has now finished with the israeli government giving its knowledge 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 been 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 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 this deal the fact that he is does point to the israeli prime minister benjamin 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 a good lunch and 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 very 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 declared baystate is all did not accept this but at the request of the mid east quartet the two sides agreed to resume peace talks and those peace talks. will resume at the end of next week in jordan so certainly there is now a lot more pressure on these rabies to recognize the palestinian statehood in light of this deal going forward one of the problems of for israel has been that it doesn't want to create an incentive for the kidnappings and there is an element among israeli society who feel that this deal is really too high a price to pay. policy are reporting they're pushing through allergy deals and boosting cooperation with the aim of balancing out the nomic am political dominance of the west russia's prime minister is on a visit to china and his first day in beijing and that with an important agreement on the price of oil artie's marine acosta is following the landmark meeting. well they'd soon here and give beijing i'm glad amir peretz and met with the chinese

government officials today as well as the chinese was there they all congratulated him on having a very successful trip here so far and prime minister putin reiterated the importance of working together towards establishing an even stronger bond and now the talks yes they had more of a coming that's a cool flavor russia and china have supported each other throughout the years that both also share similar political views which was proven just recently when they both vetoed the european draft of the u.n. security council resolution condemning syria and they're all both members of the brics group along with brazil india and south africa and continues economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined their dominance all the global political agenda and also promise or vladimir putin said the bridge group should play a bigger role internationally well another factor here was of the number of deals made a lot of them didn't come alone he came along with a lot of russian

a business tycoons who all look and see make agreements with local companies and they did and those agreements were worth seven billion dollars specials from both sides have already said that their relationship between russia and china is the best it's ever been in many years and they're adamant to make sure it's there is that way. across the reporting there and we are closely following that high ranking meeting in china on our website r c dot com so you log on there any time to get the latest updates but take a look out what the report is full interview with china's state broadcaster in full where he outlined the priority for the two nations technological breakthroughs go to our website to see that. and also online for you american police our use of brutality at the occupy boston broadus to get now war veterans were injured by officers and opp two hundred people arrested. the. it is the latest plans to stay out of bailout funds have been darrelle by

slovakia the tiny country voted against the new plan to rescue indebted european nations stock which was the last of zero didn't support the move to increase the amount of money available every forms to the european financial stability facility have to be approved by all seventeen members of the eurozone if agreed the government would have contributed about one percent of the four hundred forty billion euro market for the fund it as a financial advisor patted down says the baka has been working really hard to balance its own budget in recent years and is not eager to pay other countries debts. 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 cynic of the freedom

party who saying enough is enough why should we have a situation where fine millions 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've run their economy in a very sensible and intelligent way and ultimately they feel very very are great 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 survey has gone a long way in its pursuit of e.u. membership not least the handing over of suspected war criminals but there is one compromise proving very difficult to make recognizing causal as a sovereign state r.t. sara for a three ports. starting

a new life together and in doing so you going to want to ensure you chasing your partner wisely so when you can trust to have your best interests at heart. we love each other and we love our country too we wouldn't give up on each other and we won't give up on our land you know i see a ceremony in casa very little time when the church is divides once again the focus of international attention this couple social commitments. this is our territory that's not going to change. that marriage is very similar to the partnership that serbia now. that's fifty membership the better the richest the poorer in sickness and in health you're going to have to stand by your choice as many countries and they're learning the hard way but many marriages the reality is often far from picture perfect timing seeming to be filled with

uneasy compromises and the biggest hurdle in serbia's potential membership just how . the cost of a question if it came down to it can't. be every light in the recognizing what with the response be that i think we have a long way to go and we will certainly do everything we can to avoid such you know question to be put in front of serbia cannot give up on its constitution and on its territory and serve in the same time is not willing to give up on its european integration so it solves really. you know unresolved so it is already done much to with its potential suitor to fill in many of the quite serious set by the we can see to be an option the rest of the final war crimes suspect wanted by the hague in connection with the yugoslav was in the one nine hundred ninety s. that many said believe that the country. it's now firmly on the right track he says

visits from the leaders have been seen as opposed to. finally be about to see some of the action because they could be the deal breaker but there's a much more is the. intention has got many many more hoops to jump over before it can get anywhere close to membership and as is often the case sometimes these unions pull no sense of any particular love. gives up on the integrations. you know jeopardy to become isolated once again and we know. when your eyes when your eyes only you cannot fight. diplomatically for your legitimate national interest despite. that it will never recognize an independent course of reality grazie you aspirations are going to make it very difficult for the government to make any decisive action when it comes to serve.

so i have for you this hour here in our seven years behind bars we report on the sand and see all the planes former prime minister yulia timoshenko and the world wide accusations that this was a case of politics not justice. despite continued resistance in several areas libyan interim government forces claim they've surrounded office loyalists and the center of his home town syria taking over the city will bring the national transitional council closer to declaring full victory but as daniel bushell has been investigating some experts believe that won't be the end of the war. which was did t.v. do you think will be and seem thrilled with nato is bombing of their country those who visited libya front of very different story. nato and they were just insulting so they were asking they were wondering why are there no idea what was happening some of the media cheerleading in from supporting nato and sarkozy's bombing

campaign could be open to accusations of conflicting interests or indeed shared ones leading french newspaper le figaro belongs to surge does so make of the referral france's main attack jets in libya. and libya where you know as need to continue to battle with the transitional government forces to secure the last program strongholds of see it and but he will leave some believe that's far from the end of events it's of course very easy may be very. easy to win a battle. even with it and maybe. it doesn't mean. the.

mission of. defense from what in which way he plays the rebel government it's supported by. people in libya save the thousands the civilians killed turning the population against nato and that's what the with still called the clear victory despite many months of bombing. with the fighting not even over in libya washington and brussels and l. sitting there so it's elsewhere pressing for a u.n. resolution against syria similar to the one that detonated intervention in libya but how can the west lectured damascus the former senator after the humanitarian catastrophe it's just caused. a. one vision crimes against humanity. but it's a. huge civilian casualties in libya but that's approach may come back to haunt you lawrence as the people who've

suffered the cold the coast of the seas in grief. brussels well now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world egypt's ruling military council has refused to finance minister's resignation. we tried to quit in protest over the killing of unarmed coptic christians during a demonstration on sunday night which left at least twenty six dead he said the refusal put him in a difficult situation as scribing the current government as weak and unable to provide security tens of thousands were rallying against the ruling military council at the weekend over its failure to protect minorities. myanmar's military government has started releasing more than six thousand prisoners as part of a general amnesty international human rights commission has urged the president to free prisoners of conscience detainees who are elderly sick disabled or deemed to serve the earth salman's with good behavior are being let go at least some of the country's estimated two thousand political prisoners will also be given freedom.

u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says she's planning to leave politics next year for a more private life she says she'll leave the state department after barack obama's first term saying she believes he will be like that for a second one has been in the political spotlight since nine hundred ninety three when she became america's first lady before being a like senator for new york in two thousand and one well she now says she has no desire to stay in the public high. the jailing of ukraine's former prime minister has sparked outrage on the streets of kiev and a flood of criticism from russia the u.s. and the e.u. it was given a seven year sentence for abusing her powers while signing gas contracts with russia you also have to pay two hundred million dollars in damages to ukraine state gas company. looks at the angry response.

judgment day for ukrainian democracy this label of tuesday's events given by the opposition seemed rather accurate when supporters of units of assange could try to march the streets in defense of the former prime minister. before being dispersed by the police. three months of nonstop protests commentated in scenes room innocent of the orange revolution with tens of thousands on the streets the tension only broken briefly by the appearance of topless feminist activists the pressure was equally intense inside the court. specially after judge gave his verdict rock to you that i'm a shango in washington. the good news ruled that julia to mission is guilty under article three six five three of the criminal code of ukraine and sentences had to seven years imprisonment and denies her the right to hold positions in government for three years several years ago she was one of the most influential female

politicians in the world this conviction tops off her spectacular fall from grace and naturally left outraged that now was the retaliation or not it will stop me the trial showed that the constitution and justice had been trampled under throughout i urge you to begin the struggle it's a very difficult and important man and you have to protect ukraine against the authoritarian regime don't give up the prosecution claimed she abused power while signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine the accusation has been raising eyebrows in moscow which insists that those contracts were completely illegitimate this particular case is highly politicized and b. s and so there is asian. so clean the case that this has something to do with russia and we cannot accept that illegitimate acting contract which. remains in force which was never legally changed. could become the reason.

for the good decision. which took place today europe also doubted yoko which is assurances that the case was not politicized and lashed out at ukraine's leadership experts say kiev now finds itself in a very difficult situation ukraine's potential membership the european union is some years away and i think we shouldn't pretend otherwise but we do wants the countries in europe seems to know to get closer to europe not just in terms of membership in terms of european values like the rule of justice and this is clearly an extraordinary setback and i do think it is quite possible that the invitation for president yanukovych to come here on the twentieth of october will now be withdrawn not only could this verdict backfire against the look of it but could also benefit to machine code say x. spurts to those protesting her verdict she has become a martyr

a symbol of freedom fighting and she won't hesitate to use this join of arc image even if to do so she has to wait seven years just hours after a simmering tension in central kiev is back to quiet and normal again it is unclear whether unity mustang cause fate has been sealed as experts are now speculating that a presidential pardon is still a possibility but these protesters here are determined to stay here for at least another week in any case let's see russia's state party reporting from kiev in ukraine. time now for business have a date with this. thanks marina and a very warm welcome to the business program the oil price has shown remarkable resilience and laces wave of financial turmoil unlike in two thousand and eight when kurt drops to thirty five dollars a barrel this time it's seldom around eighty dollars a barrel jacob from morgan stanley believes this shows how the world has changed as

demand is no longer being mainly driven by the western developed countries well he suggests this is good for russia the demand for oil is all coming from the emerging markets over the last ten years over one hundred percent of the additional demand for oil has come from the emerging markets so the thing that matters for russia given that the oil price is so important for russia is what is happening with growth in the emerging markets in general and in china in particular and at the moment we're constructive of the development of a soft landing scenario for china where they get inflation back under control and through the measures they're taking such as cutting income tax fiscal policy easing and letting the one appreciate in order to support domestic demand and imports which will support the rest of the world we see them continuing to grow very strongly. well the networking giant cisco systems is launching its vast assembly

plant in russia the site will produce set top boxes that will let you use watch t.v. using the internet all the components will be imported while the plant will assemble them better mr newspaper reports the telecom major of may buy up to two hundred thousand devices each quarter the company's keen on expanding into the internet t.v. market and has more than doubled its subscribers to four hundred thousand since march . russia's second biggest still make a server start is facing another problem with its u.s. plants it may get less than two percent of the great cash payments for the sale of three still mills amid a dispute with the buy up service sol sold the s's to run through group in march for one point two billion dollars including one hundred twenty five million dollars in cash and the rest broncos plan to reduce the cash component of retail to one point nine million dollars has forced severstal to file a claim in the federal district court in new york both companies have not yet

commented on the case. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading down the salvage softer slovak lawmakers voted against an overhaul of europe's bailout fund you ask the senate blocked president obama's half a trillion dollar plan to create jobs than the back has cut its global oil demand growth forecast citing weak become a weak i'll pull industrialized nations. and stock markets mixed across asia in hong kong gains of chinese banks up offsetting losses connected to weak results of u.s. album a new giant corps and just not for europe's bailout fund expansion japanese stocks are edging the whoa whoa is down two percent and to come here make the nickel four and a half percent that softer the farms to production in thailand due to the flooding in the country. less than an hour before the opening bell here in moscow there are some markets closed on the next. note on tuesday off to several sessions surprise the mice obstruct the one percent and the arch as last three quarters of

a cent bank in stocks into oil may just war among the main losers. so we have time for know you are today it's all stories and analysis you can check our website archie dot com slash business.

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow these aren't the top stories the u.s. charges terrains with allegedly plotting to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to washington as part of a major terror attack american officials say they are committed to holding iran accountable but. calling them a job. a mosque in israel stride the long awaited prisoner swap deal that will. exchange for over a thousand palestinians has been held captive for five years. the russian premier is meeting the chinese leader in beijing on a visit to boost cooperation and balance our financial and political dominance of the west on the first day. border.