worldwide news around the clock this is r t live from moscow with me rule received shane iranians hiring mexicans to assassinate the saudi ambassador in america the details of a complicated plot the u.s. government says it has uncovered officials in washington say two iranian agents tried to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack allegations that tehran dismissed as a comedy show. has the latest from washington. 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 ten and here's 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 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. 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 fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now 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 the rainiest 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 cooperation with saudi arabia and israel as for iran's some experts believe that undermining the government if you ran 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 they're going to try and reporting right there when i mean time michael shoe a former cia intelligence officer so there are a lot of holes in the allegations against this apparent iranian plot. one of the biggest problems in the united states for for 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 this plan 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. you are still ahead for you here in the program no desire to be a hero tiny slovakia knocks out the e.u.'s big plans to increase its belt out fund unwilling to dig into its own pockets a bailout heavily indebted countries. the latest

a final hurdle for serbia and it's come pain for longer zeid e.u. membership of recognizing because of zero could be higher than belgrade wants to join. hamas officials have agreed on a prisoner swap deal with israel secures the release of over one thousand palestinians and exchange for one jewish soldier gilad schalit he's been held in captivity in gaza for five years. reports. at this stage we don't have the intricate details of who's on the list of prisoners and what the deal involves but it does seem to suggest that there has been not that much movement on both sides in terms of the deal over the last few years which is why many are saying it's the israelis who have given mary and certainly the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has a lot to gain from such a deal he's facing immense political pressure both internally and internationally i must point side is coming up the winners of this deal certainly they have been

celebrations throughout last night and they continue today particularly in the jabalya refugee camp in gaza hamas is political bureau chief khaled mashal has called this a national victory for the palestinians he has encouraged be the welcoming back all of palestinian prisoners expressing regret that not all palestinian prisoners are being freed so be the gazans have been bearing the brunt of the siege that was imposed on them ever since going to actually it was taken hostage some five years ago there has been heavy restrictions on goods both coming in and. among the prisoners who are to be released to stand on the return to the gaza strip and i think it's worth mentioning that we don't yet know who these prisoners we will have their names released within the next fifty eight hours but it's worth remembering that at this moment there are more than eight thousand prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails among them are many women and children some three hundred children many of the prisoners are also there without having been tried now

they're all some prisoners who are currently undergoing a hunger strike they are protesting against the general conditions in the prisons we've been hearing from human activists who say that particularly the political prisoners they have basic rights like bathing that are being denied to them there are some one thousand and twenty seven prisoners who will be released there will be released in various stages the latest being we are hearing is that the first batch will be released possibly as soon as next week when we understand that gilad shalit could be taken to egypt egypt of course broke at this veil and the whole exchange will happen on egypt's soil. oh there it's good to have you with us today on the program now up pushing through energy deals and boosting cooperation with the aim of balancing all the economic and political dominance of the west russia's prime minister is on a visit to china or an important agreement on the price of oil is already in place . as more. that's a visit from minister fruits and had more of an economic flavor rather than

a political one he met with a local government officials including the chinese president and the prime minister and they all talked about the importance also increase some biological trade as well as developing other key areas of interest like aviation and technology now it's important to mention that this was prime minister putin's first visit since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections and some say that it's a signal of a change in focus for russia for many years the west of course dominated the country's political agenda and now it seems with china's economic progress most school may be looking east both countries have supported each other throughout the years on various issues and they also have similar political views and we saw that just recently when both countries vetoed the european draft of the un security council resolution condemning syria and of course both countries are also members of the brig's group along with brazil india and south africa and the economic

uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined the dominance of the global political agenda of europe and the us paving the way for emerging economies like russia and china naturally prime minister putin said that the role of the brics were to become more important on the international scene. i think it's joint reforming existing institutions and 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 enhanced given the growing importance of our countries' economies he will also be here alone he was here with a huge delegation including a russian a businessman who are all here looking to make business deals with local companies and they did that so all that they got here was seven a billion dollars worth of agreements including want to set up a mutual investment fund well also trade as i mentioned earlier was a key issue. a promise or vladimir putin said that they expect their trade turnover

to reach at least seventy billion dollars this year with the overall goal being two hundred billion dollars by twenty twenty china is already russia is the number one trade partners and they're now working towards switching gears and making their relationship even stronger and developing their ties. or that's a dive deeper into us an hour here on our with jon lee from the center for international security studies at the university of sydney good to see you thank you for joining us on the program so russia and china want to balance western influence but. there are two nations who just a decade ago were not so friendly to each other work together so closely. well in the short term they certainly can and the main reason driving russia and china together is the continued influence and resilience of american power in asia now russia is focusing more and more so on asia and less and less so on europe it's

still a very dominant america in the region and russia has no choice but to bandwagon with the chinese for a moment now in the longer term there are questions whether those two countries are really allies but in the short term america is driving them closer together ok so as you say america is ultimately driving russia towards asia as russia does see more and more western dominance so certainly in the west and western europe but how does such a friendship bode for the global political arena long considered america's backyard are they really up to the task and how do you think america will react to russia and china becoming ever so close. i think america will be wary of course but i think the americans have a lot of skepticism that the russians and the chinese can truly cooperate. for example putin has made quite a lot of speeches about re orientating the russian navy away from eastern europe

the baltic areas towards the pacific area and putin has also spoken a lot more about the evil corporation the chinese now everyone knows russia extremely wary of what the chinese are up to in asia russia would like to balance against the americans but but they still don't want a dominant chinese navy so russia's play is walking a very fine line at the moment the americans know that and the americans will watch what's happening but they won't be overly concerned it's very interesting how you put that you say that russia is ultimately doing a bit of a high wire balancing act here not wanting too much american dominance in the west but also wanted too much chinese dominance in the east but in your opinion in china is there is there a limit to how far this our friendship can possibly go i mean ultimately russia and china they have a mutually beneficial agreement china needs the energy russia has got the energy where can it spread from there. well that the problem for relations between russia

and china there are two main areas or two main issues stay in the long term that will drop you apart the first is that russia is a traditional great power in central asia and china is very explicitly stepping on russian toes for example in the last five years or so china has built pipelines from kazakhstan and various other countries in central asia straight into china bypassing russia which has been the traditional middleman that's one area of contention the other area of contention is a siberian ace this is a very extensive border russian held of russian controlled border but you've got around five million russians in that area facing down about one hundred million chinese who are rapidly moving upwards in trudie's fairly porous border regions now putin has gone on record saying that in a longer term this is unacceptable to russians for teaching interests but right now

this little moscow can do about it but certainly these areas fairly rich in resources team and water for example that the chinese are very interested in effectively and seeing more of this area and this will be a source of long term tension if you think. more time through discuss this further john lee from the center for international security studies university of sydney thank you. well the germans chinese visit russia's prime minister vladimir putin gave an interview to the state broadcaster outlining the priorities for the two nations. a push for technological breakthroughs in aviation and building some of the areas where he wants to see the bottoms working together you can read the full interview. also online for you police brutality at the occupy boston protest to vietnam veterans were injured by police officers up to one hundred people also arrested.

here in moscow the. 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. . was given a seven year sentence for abusing powers when signing contracts with russia should also have to pay two hundred million dollars in damages to ukraine's state gas company. looks at the angry response. the situation is still pretty much tense to because several hundred protesters supporters of yulia timoshenko the country's former prime minister lost still stationed in their in their tent camp here on this city's main street on the main street of kiev and i reckon they're planning to stay

here for at least another week despite that their leader has been jailed for seven years and there have been no indications so far that she would be like against the verdict and that she could be released any time soon with a presidential pardon on any other possibility like that the supporters of the on the povich who are also stationed here at the main street of key in front of the court building for three months they have removed their tent camps and now of course it is a lot quieter than last three months still of the simmering tensions on tuesday. capital of course there were thousands and thousands of people here the biggest protests we've seen so far in the last three months the international reaction has been furious. regardless of where you look with which part of the world everyone have been very disappointed with the verdict the united states washington said that had to be released the european union expressed their concerns and indignation over

the verdict russia also reacted furiously to this decision saying that those gas deals which were signed back in two thousand and nine were completely legitimate they stress that once again and saying that the decision by the court in kiev in fact neglected russia's concerns over the legitimacy of these all these gas deals in two thousand and nine and also the russian foreign ministry stated that that the decision by the purchase court is in fact has a has in fact and side russian pretext in it so definitely the reaction has been furious from all over the world you have now finds itself in a very. very difficult situation and experts are predicting some possible steps from the president to even possibly a presidential pardon to. ukraine's former prime minister we are certainly following all the developments and will bring the latest information as we get it.

out of the reporting right now the e.u. the latest plans to extend its bailout fund have been derailed by slovakia the tiny country voted against the new plan to rescue indebted european nations slovakia which was the last to vote didn't support the move to increase the amount of money available now although the rifts caused by the decision led to the ruling coalition collapsing the reforms to the european financial stability facility have to be approved by all seventeen members of the eurozone if agreed slovak government would have contributed about one percent of the four hundred forty billion in market for the fund but as a financial advisor patrick young says slovakia has been working really hard to balance its own budget in recent years and it's not eager to pay the country's defense. 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 ardent 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 meantime serbia has long been looking to follow in the footsteps of nations like slovakia by joining the e.u. and it will move a step closer when the european commission puts forward serbia as

a candidate for membership later on wednesday but one big compromise still lays ahead but of recognising cause of as a sovereign state is there a further reports. starting a new life together and in doing so you're 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. as a ceremony and cause a very bitter time when the territories divides once again the focus of international attention this couple so sure of their commitments. this is our territory that's not going to change. that marriage is very similar to the partnership that serbian. that's easy membership for better so where's the riches of 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 times the union could be filled with an easy compromises and the biggest hurdle in serbia's potential membership just how the cost of a question if it came down to eat canned for serbia relied on them recognizing what with bouquets response 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 so serbia cannot give up on its constitution and on its territory in serbia in the same time is not willing to give up polity european integration so it solves really. you know unresolved so he has already done much to its potential suitor fizzling many of the quite serious set by the candidacy to

be an option the rest of the final war crimes suspect wanted by the hague in connection with the yugoslav wars in the one nine hundred ninety s. many said believe that the country. now firmly on the right track recent visits from the leaders have been seen as a positive i said be a might finally be about to see some action because they could be the deal breaker now there's a much more is that have to be eased true intentions so we have got many many more hoops to jump over before we can get anywhere close to membership and as is often the case sometimes these unions bull nuisance of any particular love necessity gives up or need to integrations. jeopardy to become isolated once again and we know how it feels when your eyes only to when you're isolated you cannot fight. politically or diplomatically for your legitimate national interest despite that is assertion that it will never recognize an

independent kosovo reality belgrade's e.u. aspirations are going to make it very difficult for the government to make any decisive action when it comes to surf. great. all right our top of the world update here on out to some other headlines from around the globe this hour and a series of bomb attacks targeting iraqi forces have rocked baghdad killing twenty three injuring over sixty official say there were at least three explosions with suicide bombers targeting local police stations the attacks came just days after iraq asked for more than five thousand u.s. military trainers to stay on past the formal withdrawal date of december. a roadside bomb has killed six police officers under a tribal elder in southern afghanistan they were all traveling with a truck in kandahar province when it was hit and landed on an explosive device investigators believe the blast was remotely detonated the tribal elder was the

target militant activity in kandahar has increased since nato handed over security so local forces. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says she is planning to leave politics next year for more quote private life she says or she will leave the state department after barack obama's first saying she believes he will be elected for a second one clinton has been in the political spotlight since one thousand nine hundred three when she became america's first lady before being elected as senator from new york in two thousand she now says she has no desire to stay in the public eye or at all later on here and we've got all the highlights about the euro two thousand and twelve championship so that'll be in the sports bulletin before the end. of the business. thanks story that's right time to delve into the world of business in russia and china are close to a deal it's been on the cards to many months to both sides haggling over the price

talking to the chinese media prime minister putin explain thomas solution to the impasse have been found. there are russian and chinese companies will find immediately beneficial solution we are aware of the needs of china china is aware of opportunities it reserves a very big unable to meet the demands of our chinese friends in september the countries agreed on a new deal to supply almost seventy billion cubic meters of gas over thirty years where they still have and that is to sign a final agreement as china says the price is too high. and the world price has shown remarkable resilience in the latest wave of financial turmoil unlike in two thousand and eight when current dropped to thirty five dollars a barrel this time it's held around eighty dollars a barrel jacob melt from morgan stanley believes this shows how the world has changed as demand is no longer be mainly driven by the developed nations 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 is coming 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 in the development of a soft landing scenario for china where they get inflation back under control and through the measures that are taking such as cutting income tax fiscal policy easing and letting the one appreciate in order to support domestic imports which will support the rest of the world we see them continuing to grow very strongly. that's a look at those figures oil prices are advancing the sound speculation the proposals on her pay and bank recapitalization will support economic growth and fuel consumption. on the european markets in higher just as rejection of the plan to

expand the eurozone rescue fund late tuesday see is up half a percent while the debts is gaining one point five percent. on the russian market so i could to positive territory that my six is gaining two percent while the r.t.s. is getting more than three percent this hour let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the minds of rosalba pools the receipts have surged more than three percent that sort of the world's biggest aluminum producer court at one point four billion dollars loan from china to fund a smelter in siberia nickel is low with russian dated better mr of course the mind the may need government approval for its buyback program citing a letter from the russian anti trust regulator and russia's grain and sugar producer is down almost one percent of the news the country's government made grain that once they reach twenty four million metric tons per week yeah.

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