international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour washington says the thwarted plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. will further isolate iran with the allegations expected to increase sanctions on tehran to iranians were charged over trying to harm members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack something tehran dismissed as a comedy show well it is going to come reports now from washington. the u.s. aims to unite the world against the rand us what we hear from the officials here they are talking about the need to completely isolate iran in the international community vice president joe biden for example said the u.s. action against iran could go beyond sanctions but added that we are not going there yet that's a quote we're getting reports that the u.s. might raise the issue at the u.n. security council and generally a lot of tough words in washington these days the u.s. administration strongly believes in the case against this iranian born man also u.s. citizen mounts or are both sierra who's accused of trying to plot the assassination

of the saudi ambassador in washington the u.s. attorney general said the men admitted being directed by quote high ranking you raney and officials and on these grounds washington says it will hold the reigning government accountable for the plot to kill the master also the u.s. is accusing iran of conspiring to stage two bombings at these really embassy and the saudi embassy in washington denies all of the about all of the above are saying it's a childish game that you are playing possibly to divert attention from their domestic problems this is what they're saying meaning the ongoing protests across the u.s. but the saudis on the other hand have taken the allegations seriously and have things to u.s. authorities for for preventing the alleged assassination attempt very rarely anyone here is touching upon the possible motive iran might have had for trying to kill the saudi official seem to take the accusations brought up but the by the u.s. justice department at face value and the main question you hear in the mainstream media is will the u.s.

retaliate or not there's quite a few people in washington who ruled for retaliation in the meantime officials say all options are on the table not clear how far this will go but on the news i constantly hear phrases like we need to step up activities to undermine the government of iran we need to step up cooperation with this with saudi arabia and israel and that's what the u.s. will most likely be doing. got a car in there in washington with more on this i'm not joined by gareth porter he's historian and investigative journalist who's in washington well your interest is in u.s. national security just how real are the iranian plot allegations one might think that iran would choose an easier target than one on u.s. soil. well i just make a couple of comments on that level of analyzing this this story about a plot the first one is that i think the one thing that just about everybody outside official circles behind this story line are saying that this is just

completely and implausible as a plot that would actually be carried out by the iranian government or for that matter by the i.r.g.c. the islamic revolutionary guard corps and its codes force a special operations second section the fact of the matter is that they don't operate in such a haphazard way as to hire or to delegate a used car salesman in texas to carry out that kind of sensitive operation as bob baer former cia operative in the middle east who has dealt with. iranian issues and hezbollah issues in in the middle east over the years has said they're much more professional than that so so that's a kind of a up the first question mark about the story and then there's

a history here that i think we need to keep in mind and that is that the united states and saudi arabia and israel among the three of them have been responsible for two accusations against iran for carrying out alleged terrorist attacks in the past one or rather two in buenos i raise in one thousand nine hundred two against the israeli embassy in one thousand nine hundred four against a jewish community center and then in one thousand nine hundred sixty four bombing the khobar towers. billet for servicemen killing a number of americans and in that attack. i have investigated both of the. those cases very carefully and have discovered that the official. the official version in both cases is highly misleading and the case that was made

against iran in both of those instances or all three perhaps i should say really doesn't hold up under scrutiny so i think that this is in line with or comes as a nother in a series of cases which really we're we're not we're not honest or i say just quickly thank you explain what is the motive then what is the motive behind these questionable questionable allegations from behalf of the u.s. well i mean at this moment it's too soon to to really say what what actually happened i think that there are two two plausible possible explanations for this one is that there was indeed a an r g c faction which wanted to disrupt iranian policy toward the united states to prevent any possible agreement with the united states the other one which i'd actually favor is that this started out as a an effort by some renegades perhaps loosely attached of the security services in

iran to sell drugs or to have some sort of drug dealings with drug cartel in mexico and once they found out that it was or they intuited there was a da da agent they were dealing with in mexico they then suggested in some fashion that they could do a deal if they implicated or could they do a deal for implicated the i.r.g.c. in a plot to do some terrorist action just now we think that it's much more likely at this point i can just just briefly and finally clearly a lot oppression building up on iran particularly from the u.s. u.s. officials actually dismiss this as a stepping stone to many tree action against iran but could this actually that would be a long term goal. certainly it's not a goal of this administration and it's not a goal of the u.s. military both of whom recognize an attack on iran would be absolutely

madness are i think actively discouraging to israel at this point too from thinking about that sort of thing even though a couple of years ago the administration was trying to exploit the threat of an israeli attack for diplomatic purposes to put pressure on iran but no i don't think that they're planning anyone in the u.s. government is planning an attack any time in the future or thanks very much for comments in store an investigative journalist joining us live from washington thank you and we also on our website r.t. dot com what do you think about the thwarted iranian plot uncovered by the u.s. and looking on the screen to see that so far more than half of you believe it was nothing more than american ploy to smear its enemy a little less than a quarter think the story is just the tip of the iceberg with more revelations to come and nine percent say it was bogus traded by terror on while the rest believe it's just a way for washington officials to boost their careers cast your vote dot com.

bonding exercise prime minister putin strengthen russia's partnership with china during his high profile visit to the world's fastest growing economies came together to share common interests and commercial goals aimed at balancing the dominance of the west and deals worth seven billion u.s. dollars an energy trade and high tech industries have already been signed to more is yet to come rain across from explains. the two day visit it was more of course had an economic flavor rather than a political one this was promised a person'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 briggs 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 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 u.s. dollar is a single global. problem is not only for the world economy but it with america's economy as well because it leads to. financial discipline. which 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 will play a bigger role on the world stage. and i think it's time to talk about reforming existing institutions first of all means global financial institutions are such as the international monetary fund and world bank and here we agree with the role of the brics countries in those organizations must be and given the growing importance

of all countries economies another important issue here was energy corp lattimer put in and his chinese counterpart said there are 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. well still ahead here in r.t.e. getting tough schools a. street protest is arrested in chicago washington d.c. and boston reports claim police. will become of eurozone leaders scramble to boost the region's bailout fund a prop up the banks and also whether proposed measures will make a difference for the cash strapped. story still to come but first israel is agreed

to exchange over a thousand palestinian prisoners for one israeli soldier who was captured and held in gaza for over five years the deal with hamas has long been in the making however some high profile detainees will remain in israeli jails for more on this now joined by dr. human rights lawyer from adam a palestinian prisoner support organization well this still begs the question how concerned should israel be that ham ass will now take it as an incentive to capture more israeli soldiers. just could you please return question yes i was. wondering why and how concerned should israel be that how massed will take this latest deal as an incentive to capture more israeli soldiers. well basically i think.

a hamas movement in general. here the palestinian movement. achieved very important goals in the history of the. go between palestine and israel regarding the prisoners and this is not the first time. political movements. leading to a. give up a lot of. issues that would do that without any pressure so i believe that the. government would be. working on.

the future to ensure that other. political parties. and would not achieve the same goal that. so far let's talk about your interests in all of this the campaign to free it actually has been a very high profile one of course but what about those palestinians that are still being held by israel also looking at your website a little and your organization claims there are something like seven hundred fifty being held without charges for those who are not included in this latest deal what hopes to hold for them. you are talking about administratively detainees this is actually kind of detention. it has no. legal background it's actually kind of detention where there isn't any forces cannot arrest anyone without court without any.

soul for his lawyer is not allowed to. refuse. again is the one moment i don't know of. palestinian minister to music to. two hundred fifty people it's latest no but in the past it was much much more to do with the wall that was around one thousand five hundred people have just been expelled big for. times each time maximum for six months with their with no maximum. limit of. extensions so there are people who. are these people actually are not. included in any. prisoner exchange. today and we. don't

know what this situation is but most likely is that. they are. going to all of this prison of palestinian prisoners to be released sometime very choosey from this category because this. was the. israeli security and i know they will have to leave it there we're running out of time thank you very much human rights lawyer from palestinian prisoner support organization joining us live thank you very much indeed. ever wonder people were arrested on tuesday in boston that's part of the occupy wall street movement dozens more were detained in chicago and washington d.c. the movement started as a sit in protest in front of the new york stock exchange in mid september is growing nationwide thousands all across america are demanding social justice attacking rife corporation greed well some of new york's richest and most

influential people have also fallen on to the movement's hit list hundreds of activists homes. homes of the city's a little the so-called millionaires march and social media consultant robert poole says the demonstrations 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 watching a satellite into space a rocket up there we didn't know that explosion of technologies. everybody would use every day that would change our lives we didn't know that the satellites that would be sent up would be used for cellphones eventually they don't even exist what's happening here is a phenomenon that's huge it's an explosion and on 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 this is

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 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. social media consultant call on the phenomenon that's gripping the whole of the u.s. and international chorus of disapproval of ukraine over the verdict handed down to former prime minister yulia tymoshenko the lady of ukrainian politics has been sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuse of power contracts with russia she's also been fined almost two hundred million dollars the exact sum of the deals allegedly last ukraine the verdict that lawyers will appeal spot mass protests among her supporters crowds have been camping outside the court building since july when the trial stopped. by the way if you've missed anything we've been covering

here on screen you can head to our t.v. dot com there's more news and comment there for you here's a taste of what's online right now we have a case of a russian businessman accused of stealing is casting a shadow over the u.s. justice system. to drive a rescue dozens of people from a burning building when he drove his vehicle next to the window so people could jump to safety for more on those stories and. slovakia's says the deal to approve expanding the e.u. bailout fund has been reached the country's parliament voted against it which caused the collapse of the country's ruling coalition back it was the only member to say no increasing the facility which already got the green light from sixteen of the seventeen euro zone members but she. believes the change of heart was forced on to the country. sixteen parliament stuff with career politicians have voted for it not sixteen countries because if you put this bailout package to

a referendum across europe the vast majority of countries would say no the baqir said no last night but of course no isn't good enough no is unacceptable in the modern european union if you say no as the irish did a couple of years ago it was a slow backstab last night your made to vote again until you get the right answer which gives you a true measure of what this project's really like. bigger than even a couple of trillion to bail it out and what is the point actually of bailing these countries out one of the bailouts all these bailouts helping the people in greece and portugal are not what they're actually doing is they giving money to these countries to give back to our banks who over lent the money in the first place i mean the whole thing is mad what these countries need who are trapped inside this economic prison called the euro is they need to devalue without devaluation having austerity packages pushed upon them which is forcing them into a downward deflationary spiral which in my opinion in greece and possibly in portugal too could lead to revolution what we're doing is stupid and very very

dangerous indeed i've just been in this parliamentary chamber with mr barroso these people are absolutely intent on creating a united states of europe they don't care how many millions of people are unemployed it's crappy they don't care about the tide of human misery misery that they cause they have got their political goals but the reality is that not only economically is this failing but politically it's failing there is now a split in europe from north to south and in the north we are witnessing a democratic revolution against the whole concept of the euro and the idea that people like mr brown my old friend herman van ryn poyet should govern five hundred million people it is not acceptable. hundreds of thousands of crowd of the streets of the syrian capital to show their support and loyalty to president assad the country has been divided by seven months of violent crackdowns on regime protests that have left almost three thousand people dead syria has been threatened by

international sanctions as pressure builds on. is in the heart of damascus. well we're here in the center of the assyrian capital you can see behind me traffic is just about started to flow again but earlier it was the side of the thousands of people gathered show their support for the government here in the syria there was a lot of chanting. slogans leash out and out as well as a syrian flag being carried around posters and if you like all the cars were converging into this one area here now of course this is a far cry from what we see in other places in the country in other cities where there have been reported clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces not to mention the of the killings that have also been reportedly taking place of course if you think about it since the protests started the mass this has been largely sheltered from the conflicts in those other cities and the people here when we talk to them they said they came out to the streets today essentially to say that the syrian people are still united to this at least as far as they are

concerned and that they are not against reform that actually they do want to see reforms and changes if it will be for the betterment of their country they just don't want to see it coming from the outside they want to be able to make that decision on their own coming from within now what's interesting too is we saw a couple of military helicopters flying very low in my opinion over the crowd that they were carrying the a russian and chinese flyers so they also wanted to show their gratitude for the two countries had a veto the u.n. security council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on the syria nevertheless the people again are saying at least after the two countries had veto that resolution they feel that at least for now they won't be seeing at that external external influence level the what's interesting too is that the people i saw at least this morning i were from various sectors of society there were students there were older people there were some who were claiming to be from a rather lower social class and someone appears to be from

a higher caste so it was from all different sectors but one one thing that unites them though is that because of what's happening and their country they're not all involved in the sort of political discourse that they say they can't just stand around and watch without actually thinking about what's going on. in damascus well up next it's the business update with the summer home a new story version. welcome to business here in nazi russia and china are close to a gas deal it's been on the cards for many months with both sides huddling over the price china is expected to need an extra two hundred billion cubic meters annually by the end of the decade analysts say this is a significant ace in the hole for gas problem. rush hour through deal with china divorce surprised its experts rules extra rules for russia's natural resources such as a cool dollar and gas as you know situation the european gas market is not clear what

are some of the look this are valuable for all very well be cheerful told too far to china they can go to the potential of the chinese economy is very important before but. because it would make russian experts revenues from natural gas exports will go watch what's more reliable more stable of a second benefit in terms of development the russian economy will better deal is that since china is located. close to russia in siberia in border and always border it will promote development of russia which at the moment there is an underdeveloped compared to rush from europe european part of course you. have the markets now european markets finished higher on wednesday despite slovakia's rejection of the plan to expand the euro zone's rescue fund late tuesday group top the losers list comfort city losing six percent among the winners you are a eurasian natural resources that gained over seven percent and here in russia

stocks headed for their strongest level and two weeks as or rises in my sights and is two point four percent in the black while the r.t.s. is even higher nearly four percent. let's have a look at some individual shambles on the my xix as you majors more broadly on the rise with gazprom among the main gain as no as may kill was lower the russian daily better misty reported the mine and may need government approval for its buyback program citing a letter for the russian anti trust regulator russia's grain ensure the producer and that lower unused country's government may tax grain exports once they reach twenty four million metric tons for the year peter weston wraps up today's trade. the rally that we're seeing is some of that looks like a relief rally people are. clinging on to hopes that european union will cut recapitalize the banks come up with a plan for greece we've had some good data out of the us lately. they seem to ignore the fact that the slack in government. did not pass the

a large amount of the credit facility but again it will be another vote later this week that might resolve it. seeing metals being one of the strongest performers they have been one of the worst affected sectors previously and finally financials we're seeing that across the globe that's basically on the back of a belief that european europe will we can't let the banks and russia's united simm building corporation says it aims to list up to thirty percent of the company in two years time and only a plan to sell half of the company has been revised after the turmoil in the stock market's improved to pull through. next year we expect the industry to grow around fourteen percent but we think that our company will grow faster than that this year will probably grow to up to seventeen percent and considering the orders that we have we aim at around fifteen percent next year which are used as all the businesses are now but you can always find more stories just log on to our website

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a report on our to. the end. live from moscow this is twenty four hours a day top stories now at half past the hour washington is charged for an alleged plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. it's claimed they tried to haul members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack accusations. of israeli soldier captured by hamas five years ago could soon be going home on the way to deal with. prisoners. remain in israeli jails. and russia and china strengthen their partnership to balance out the economic and political dominance of the west point seven billion us dollars in energy trade and high tech industries have been prime minister putin and the chinese leadership in asia.