just after five pm here in moscow this is with me rory sushi washington says the plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. will further isolate iran with the allegations expected to increase sanctions on tehran two iranians were charged of it trying to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack that's something that's here on dismissed as a comedy show. can reports from washington. the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the uranian government accountable for the plot 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 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. turney general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking iranian officials 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 of iran want to kill the saudi ambassador in washington would the rainiest actually do it taking into consideration the potential fallout i heard legs 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 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 so he's going to try to right there from d.c. now time for you to get involved with us here at all to you know we're asking you on our web site all to dot com what you think about the so-called iranian plot uncovered. all right now so far more than half of you believe the attempted to hit on the saudi ambassador to the us was an american lawyer. but a quarter think the story is just the tip of the iceberg with more details to come thirteen percent say it was orchestrated by while the rest just a way for washington officials to. do take a moment of. bonding

exercise prime minister putin has strengthened russia's partnership with china during his high profile visit two of the world's fastest growing economies came together to share common interests and commercial goals aimed at the issue of balancing the dominance of the west deals worth some seven billion u.s. dollars in energy trade and high tech industries have all already been signed more yet to come. explains. that's who they visited was more of course had an economic flavor rather than a political one this was promised to putin's first visit since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections and some say it's a sign of a change in focus for us and that the government is now looking east for both russia and china of course members of the breaks group along with brazil india and south africa and the growing economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined their dominance of the global political stage paving the

way for a margin economy is now prime minister putin said the us is currently using instead of monopoly as the only global reserve currency and that's how they and negative effect on their financial policy if you will because the but you 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 is a single global currency the problem is not only for the world economy both for america's economy as well because it leads to a violation of financial discipline in order to do so but when it comes to the e.u. vladimir putin said that greece is a big problem but that it could have resolved if countries that weren't afraid to take action he said of russia and china should have a form of international financial systems and that the brics well should play a bigger role on the world stage. i think it's time to talk about reforming existing institutions first of all i mean global financial institutions such as the international monetary fund and world bank here we agree that the role of the brics

countries in those organizations must be enhanced given the growing importance of our countries economies another important issue here was energy corp lattimer putin and his chinese counterpart said they're all issues and this agreements were resolved when it comes to russia supply of oil when it comes to gas and the goshi actions are still ongoing but both insist out there and the final stage of energy consumption is expected to increase dramatically in china and russia could cover that extra demand and in doing so for their strengthen their strategic partnership . all right out here in a course of reporting there from beijing still ahead for you this hour here on the issue of mass disapproval the whole world is singing in unison criticizing a ukrainian court for the guilty verdict of the former prime minister one of the most high profile women in politics. and the police. wall street protesters in boston with reports of war veterans being abused.

israel has agreed to exchange over a thousand palestinian prisoners for one israeli soldier who was captured and held in gaza for five years deal with hamas has long been in the making however some high profile detainees will remain in. report from tel aviv where the return of gilad shalit is being eagerly awaited. 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 that 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 bill and the whole exchange will happen in egypt. it was taken captive back in june two thousand and six now at this stage we don't have the intricate details of who's on the list of prisoners and what the deal involves but certainly 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 must avoid side is coming up the winners of this deal so he they have been celebrations throughout last night and they continue today particularly in the jabalya refugee camp in gaza so that is why you are hearing some voices in israel some voices of concern that the capture of one soldier is going to be something that is encouraged on the palestinian side because the price for one soldier is particularly high 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 and now there are some prisoners who are currently undergoing a hunger strike they protesting against the general conditions in the prisons we've

been hearing from activists who say that particularly the political prisoners they have basic rights like bathing that are being denied to them ever since going to actually it was taken hostage some five years ago there have been heavy restrictions on goods both coming in and out of gaza among the prisoners who are to be released a fair number will return to the gaza strip. paula slater right there now let's talk to a. lawyer with a legal center for our brights in israel. thank you for coming on the program today this deal five years in the making over a thousand palestinians swapped for just one israeli soldier however the release of high profile prisoners something hamas has been pushing for not part of the deal tell tell us a who's winning here. it's not a matter of. from the point of view of this case. this is. actually on the one on the other hand the prisoners have been under

the custody of the. service says. most of them. for. more than twenty years or even for ever so. the case is. there's one in this case so we can say. this side ok so you're saying it's one side having more. interrupting but it's not an issue as you say of one side winning here it's not a matter of what if it's a matter of if i if i may i do apologize for having been to separate ourselves away here when i was there but if i'm sorry hamas is saying that many of those held by israel in a sense something to something that you're alluding to at the moment as well as a lawyer you represent certainly some of the people in israeli prisons who are they and why are so many being held without charge. there

is. there are some detainees who are under threat says. that. there was not in their case they are just. custody in this way and that's why there is a claim that they are not they're not charged and they are they might be in the sun so we know that there are about two hundred and thirty detainees which are under this custody so. that the base of this claim we don't know we don't know which of them they should be released if there are any we hope that some of them will be from. during this this deal now there is concern in israel the notably from the israeli foreign minister that militants could try to capture more israeli soldiers to see the remaining palestinian prisoners free seems

like a viable option what do you think. i think that the side. they negotiated with the other partners in this deal they have for sure their security considerations and other considerations so i'm not sure that this. is a this is a really and right we should also wait and see and don't say that we should wait for. explosions or something but i don't think that israel would take the risk if they don't have their own government t's all right a. lawyer with a legal right to our rights in israel many things. thank you all right now you are with live from moscow it's good to have you with us on the program today now an international course of disapproval has hit ukraine over the verdict handed down to former prime minister yulia timoshenko she's been sentenced to seven

years behind bars and find almost two hundred million dollars for abuse of power when signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine other verdict that team of lawyers will appeal mass protests among the supporters. reports from kenya. 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 the main street of key of the simmering tensions on tuesday. the capital of course there were thousands and thousands of people here the biggest protest 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 different parts of it also expressed their concerns and indignation over the

verdict sentencing the country's former prime minister to seven years in prison and confiscating all of her property 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 perchance court in kiev in fact neglected russia's concerns over the legitimacy of these all of these gas deals in two thousand and nine and also the russian foreign ministry stated that the decision by the purchase court is in fact has or has in fact some and side russian pretext in it he of now finds itself in a very very difficult situation when to stand out according to the european union that any possible agreement on the association of the european union and ukraine would now be canceled and some even say that the invitation to mr president of ukraine to attend a meeting in brussels in the nearest future could be even counseled with certainly

following all the developments and will bring the latest information as we get it. to the reporting right down on us but i want to the top stories here are the fact that washington charges two iranians for an alleged plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. for high. people members of mexican drug cartels are all accusations of tehran have rather has dismissed as comical now let's get some more details now and speak to professor of political communication for what is already from tehran university thank you for joining us today there are a lot of questions being raised here many saying the information seems sketchy and iranians working with mexican drug dealers also seems bizarre and what do you make of it. it is. you know u.s. intelligence service is quite strong. it's. difficult to believe that you don't even want to contact mexicans to kill the saudi ambassador to the

u.s. and the guy that is supposed to have done it i was reading in the virus. that he was actually u.s. informant the u.s. government informant before. previous years he had. mentioned. he's quiet trouble some character the guy who was supposed to be hired by iranian. government u.s. government as you know u.s. relations have been quiet u.s. has repeated threatened to attack iran. and then of a you hear accusations from the u.s. government against iran you just have to be very careful now under the guise of nato we've seen western intervention and in places all over the arab world in recent months it might seem to some the iran is next in the crosshairs or could

that be part of it as well and also could it be a part of political posturing as obama's looking for reelection in two thousand and twelve and nothing sells better than thwarting a terror attack on america. you know. they can in the u.s. but all the demonstrations all the turmoil internally a tactic that u.s. government has used throughout its history has been to create an enemy outside whenever there is problem inside one of the difficulties with its economy. demonstrations and other difficulties u.s. has been able to create an enemy outside russia was the enemy for many many years and so. not bother we were not in iran considered to be the u.s. enemy but. basically the soviet union us was looking for another enemy and iran has been filling that gap. so this is a tactic that just has used and it seems that. sort of using the same

tactic again what is very troubling is the story that's being told this story has a lot of holes in it and that makes a lot of people very well certainly during the year of george w. bush when he came up for a second reelection day they claim to have thwarted another terror attack during that time and as you're suggesting america america is very profitable to have enemies around the world are considering many say that the defense industry and the energy industries are all in bed together with the politicians in washington d.c. so at the end of the day at the end of the day does this story to you sound legitimate or is it just some sort of a smoke screen to further some other agenda on the part of washington. formation that's provided by the u.s. government just doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense for the government to hire someone who has been in jail in the u.s.

repeatedly and has been an informant to the u.s. government it doesn't make sense for the iranian government to get in touch with such a person and why would you don't want to kill the saudi embassy. in the u.s. all the security apparatus and all the. different levels of intelligence that exist in the us the location of it the person that's supposed to be killed and the person who was supposed to do the killing all the very difficult questions and as you said what has happened in the past as you know before us attacked iraq some years ago the. iraqi government was going to assassinate president bush bush the first bush in kuwait so they have come up with this story before some government trying to asses than a us or our friends now we have to go and attack them and it's just i hope that this doesn't happen because you know i'm standing on a rooftop in tehran and twelve million people living in this city so what is the

last thing people professor of political communication for what is already from tehran university many things. well weeks after the anti wall street movement started in the united states protests are still going strong and spreading fast the response by law enforcement officers has also grabbed headlines with over one hundred demonstrators arrested for the participating in the occupy boston splinter demo but despite the crackdowns social media consultant says the movement will continue and could have far reaching consequences. what's happening here could be as big a deal as the space program when we first started the space program we were talking about launching a satellite into space a rocket up there we didn't know that explosion of technologies that everybody would use every day that would change our lives we didn't know that the satellites that would be to send up could be used for cellphones eventually they don't even

exist what's happening here is is a phenomenon that's huge it's an explosion and the right there are people like orrin hatch who are saying this is dangerous he's right but he doesn't have a clue how dangerous it is people are waking up there are so many there's a lot of anger about this people are furious that they're getting ripped off that the system is broken that it no longer represents the people that the congress represents corporations now this is a very common thing that whether they're democrats or republicans it doesn't matter who you vote for because they're going to take care of the corporations first not the people. you're with r.t. if you've missed anything we've been covering on just how. many time you like i always knew some comment and. some of the items waiting for you there right now look at how the case of a russian businessman accused of stealing is causing a shadow over the u.s. justice system. and a russian

a truck driver rescued dozens of people from a burning building when he drove his vehicle next to the window so people could jump to save. the euro zone's rescue plan for the indebted nation put on has been put on hold by slovakia as the country voted against expanding the region's bailout fund the rift caused by the decision led to the collapse of slovakia's ruling coalition however it has since joined forces with the country's main opposition force you to work together. to approve more cash for the fund so that here was the last to vote and the only country to say no to increasing the facility which needs the green light from all seventeen euro zone members if agreed the country would have contributed about one percent of the four hundred forty billion mark for the fund but as financial adviser patrick young says it's in no rush to foot the bill for other nations. ultimately this is

a question of not just principle but actually rational economic well being of the ordinary working people of slovakia they have ensured 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 help 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 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 all right here with r t in just a few minutes here we get a rare look at a no go zone in southern russia it's where scientists are allowed to tread first though the latest business with korea. hello and welcome to our business update this hour and our top story russia and china are close to a gas deal that's been on the cards for many months with both sides haggling over the price talking to the chinese media prime minister putin explained how a solution to the impasse had been found. there are russian and chinese companies will find a mutually beneficial solution we're aware of the needs of china china is a worry about unity's reserves a very big unable to meet the demands of our chinese friends. and in september the countries agreed on a new deal to the supply of almost seventy billion cubic meters of gas over thirty years however they still haven't managed to sign

a final agreement as china says the price is too high. oil price has shown remarkable resilience in the latest wave of financial turmoil alike in two thousand and eight where crude dropped to thirty five dollars the barrel of a barrel this time it's held around eighty dollars a barrel jacob mel from morgan stanley believes that this shows how the world has changed as demand is no longer being made or driven by the developed nations he suggests this is good for russia. the demand for oil is all coming from the emerging world gets 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 all the development of a soft landing scenario for china where they get inflation back under control and through the measures that 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. let's take a look at the markets now oil prices advancing this hour speculation that proposals on european bank recapitalization will support economic growth and fuel consumption and european markets are edging higher despite slovakia's rejection of the plan to expand the eurozone rescue fund late on tuesday the footsie is up half a percent and the dax is up one and a half percent now and here is russia where stocks are heading for the strongest level in two weeks as all rises the line six is gaining two percent reversing an early loss of the r.t.s. is up over three percent as have a look at some individual shareholders on why six energy majors are broadly on the rise with gazprom among the main game is getting four and a half percent this hour noise makers lower the russian daily reading this reports

the miners may need government approval for its buyback program citing a letter from the russian anti trust regulator russia's grain and sugar producer of lies down at two percent on news that the country's government may tax grain exports once they reach twenty four million men will be here. consumer prices in russia haven't started rising and despite official forecast russia seems inflation in the last three months to seasonal fact. there's the country's economic ministry expected consumer prices to grow percent in october with the recent declines in the ruble exchange rates increasing inflationary risks well that's all i have for you this hour but only in forty five minutes for more here on this is art.

in two thousand and ten especially economic zone for industrial production was established in russia's somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property land and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of in four g.'s the some our region as he said is currently witnessing a. infrastructure construction the region special economic zone promises exceptional. business in russia will come to the small region for more information . invest in some.

drug cartels. all of these accusations. being. political. could soon be coming her way to see him.