the keys to my old car. and. now with the palm of your. washington charges two iranians for an alleged plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. accusations tehran dismisses. the partnership set to balance the scales prime minister putin makes the chinese leadership in beijing as the country's ties to rival western dominant. an israeli soldier captured by hamas five years ago could soon be going home as a long awaited deal will see him exchange for over one thousand palestinian prisoners.

internationalising comment live from moscow this is 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 to iran dismissed as a comedy show with more details i'm not joined by r.t.s. kind of who is in washington so america seems to be piling more pressure on iran. well bill the administration strongly believes in the case against this uranium war a man who is accused of trying to block the fascination of the saudi ambassador in washington the administration seems to be willing to take the accusations to the next level they're calling for the world to unite against iran we hear reports that the u.s. might raise the issue at the u.n. security council they're talking about the need to completely isolate iran in the international community and they are trying to get other countries on board on this one so a lot of tough words against iran drums all four are beating loud and clear in

washington although the u.s. administration officials are not talking about a military action yet but they keep it very vague at the moment saying all options are on the table whatever that means that they were heard about a new round of sanctions that the u.s. is imposing on iran those include sanctions on any raney an airline which according to american investigation investigators to members of an elite force linked to the alleged plot to kill the saudi employee to the u.s. vice president joe biden hinted that the u.s. actions could go beyond thanks and let me remind you that there's a department has listed iran's as a state sponsor of terror since nine hundred eighty four and many answers they've been washington's long time goal to undermine the government in iran after the crash accusations in the lebanese community a few cousins in here various experts say literally we need to undermine the ukrainian government and that's the state of mind here if you will but it could just it could be just a lot of tough talk hyped by the media and politicians because the idea of getting

involved in some bold action against iran would be very unpopular among the majority of americans were frankly tired of the u.s. involvement in everlasting conflicts overseas going to what so washington claiming all the actual motions behind the so-called assassination ploy. that's a very interesting question the question about the motives that the iranians might have had with alleging allegedly plotting to kill the saudi ambassador in washington is very important context of the investigation but nevertheless you don't hear much questioning here neither among politicians were among the media pundits most seemed to be taking the accusations that face value in the meantime there are lots of doubts about why on earth would iran plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. and blow up the embassies of israel and saudi arabia in washington and those are the accusations brought up by the u.s. justice department how could you and possibly benefit from it many analysts doubt that you would actually would actually acts to undermine yourself that way you're

any different denies all the allegations saying it's again the u.s. is playing possibly to divert attention from their domestic problems whatever the invisible underlying currents on the surface now is tension which is growing. he's going to check our reporting live there from washington thanks very much indeed for that well for more on this joined by patricia de janeiro she's from the department of politics at new york university and she joins us now live here from new york the u.s. or do state hillary clinton has spoken about what she calls a dangerous escalation in iran's support for terrorism calling for an international response will she get that support earned from. sherry has pretty much comprehensive internationals are i really worry about this all seems seems rather suspicious to me actually i mean why with iranians all the way to the us trying to kill the saudi ambassador when there are plenty of other opportunities.

and take on very much closer to home to cause an arab iranian threat this this is this is just a little i think there are a lot of questions here that need to be at sorry but why then is the us putting pressure on iran of the moment it's not just about the perceived nuclear threat is it. well even putting pressure on iran now for several a year and this is ministration seems to be much more intense about the pressure that they want to put on the iranian government its coming you know large scale pressure from israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu mentioned that at the u.n. he also mentioned in this to address to congress there are still thing no facts whatsoever that. we've been able to really get our hands on or see that either i answer absolutely building nuclear weapons and even if they are why are we putting . it on the table by all means why are you not talking to them if you know if this

had happened during the cold war which is something i was thinking about this morning there are two large scale diplomatic initiatives have going on very now not a lot of threats you know and international consequences. including the u.s. would like to see a regime change in iran and many other countries and although the u.s. officials have actually today you dismissed military action against iran in response to this latest allegation could you think military action still be alone. when i worry about military action because we tend to be using it way too much but you know the iranians themselves have shown us that there is seems to change so i mean i think there are different different diplomatic opportunities to be used here and supporting you know hurts within the country and also just within the government we know that there's risk within the government we've seen them between

. it and. the mullahs so i think there are there are various areas diplomatic opportunities that we can go and move forward to here before we start talking about using force that that. washington has issued a worldwide alert about possible and u.s. actions coming from to run to run is actually. dismissed this is saying it's all comical but kook we actually see a more assertive reaction from to run this because through from their point of view this is highly provocative. it is highly provocative better you know i think iran is going to continue down that journey but it's been continuing ott for some months now and that's really making and building relationships with not only its arab neighbors but it's behaviors in turkey and pakistan and also afghanistan and i mean that's something that we in the west should be doing and we should be you know working on our relationships with iran as well you know these constant threats and

forms of intimidation and you know mitigation of allowing iran to part of the international community is really leading to conflict and i think we need to step that breath and say how can we stop tensing. and all of these animosity i just want to briefly just very briefly all skewed lot of questioning and a lot of cynicism over these allegations what do the u.s. authorities have to do now to convince the world and people like you that these allegations are indeed true just very briefly but i think they need to store some documentation so the average i mean this is a pretty big claim and we've not been able to see any any anything to support these allegations other than a complaint at the f.b.i. office thanks very much of course but first if you know from the department politics at new york university and president. and we all skewered our website r.t. dot com what you think about the faulted iranian plot uncovered by the us so far more than half of you believe it was nothing more than an 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 orchestrated by to run while the rest believe it's just a way for washington officials to boost their careers to cast your vote at r.t. dot com. building 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 deals with seven billion u.s. dollars an energy trade and high tech industries have already been signed and more is yet to come over explains. there to davis it was more of course had an economic flavor rather than at political one this was prime minister clinton'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 great scruple of brazil india and south africa and the growing economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s.

have seriously undermined their dominance of the global political stage paving the way for emerging economies their prime minister putin said the us is currently using instead of monopoly as the only global reserve currency and that's how they and that's of a fact on their financial policy level because i 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 as a single global currency the problem is not only for the world economy but for america's economy as well because it leads to a going lation of financial discipline not of yourself when it comes to the e.u. vladimir putin said the greece is a big problem but that it could prove itself if countries weren't afraid to take action he said of russia and china should lead the reform of international financial systems and that the brics world should play a bigger role on the world stage and. 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 and here we agree with the role of the brics countries in those organizations must be in. the growing importance of our countries economies another important issue here was energy corporation land here put an end his chinese counterpart so there are all issues and this agreements were resolved when it comes to russia supply of oil when it comes to gas and they go share sions are still ongoing both and says that they're in the final stage an energy consumption that is expected to increase dramatically in china and russia. could cover that extra demand and in doing so for this price and their strategic partnership still ahead this hour getting tough schools of occupy wall street protesters arrested in chicago washington d.c. and boston where reports claim police got heavy handed with war veterans. seven months of violent crackdowns on anti-government demonstrations syria's president said was also huge show of support find out more about that in

a few minutes from now. israel is agreed to exchange over a thousand prisoners for one israeli soldier who was captured and held in gaza for over five years that deal with hamas has long been in the making however some high profile detainees will remain in israeli jails but his policy reports now from tel aviv where the return of gilad shalit is being eagerly awaiting. there are some one thousand and twenty seven prisoners who will be released there will be released in various stages later as we've been hearing is that the first that will be released possibly as soon as next week when we understand they could be taken to egypt egypt of course broke at this field and the whole exchange will happen in egypt and that shalit 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 the only 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 i must point side is coming up in the winners of this deal so they have been celebrations throughout last night and they continue today to caylee in the devalued refugee camp in gaza so that is why you are hearing some voices in their souls and 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 or many women and children some three hundred children many of the prisoners are lawsuit they haven't been tried 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 human activists he said that the ticket maybe the political prisoners they have basic rights like a bathing that are being denied to them among the prisoners who are to be released if their number will return to the gaza strip ever since he was taken hostage some five years ago there have been heavy restrictions on goods both coming in and out of gaza. over a hundred people arrested on tuesday in boston as 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 has grown nation more like thousands all across america are demanding social justice attacking rife corporation greed some of the richest the most influential people in surfing going to be movements list hundreds of activists walk by the homes of the city's elite the so-called millionaires marsh and social media consultant rob cool 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 that everybody would use every day that would change our lives we didn't know that the satellites that would been set up would be used for cellphones eventually they didn't even exist what's happening here is is a phenomenon that's huge it's an explosion and all 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 political 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 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. and that was social media consultant roll call on the phenomenon that's gripping the whole of the u.s. . an international chorus of disapproval has hit ukraine over the verdict handed down to a former prime minister yulia timoshenko the our lady of ukrainian politics has been sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuse of power when signing gas 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 tymoshenko is laws will appeal spot mass protests among her army of supporters and crowds have been camping outside the court building since july when the trial started. by the way if you missed anything we've been covering on air you can head to our web site is online all the time dot com more news and comment for you there here's a taste of what's online at the moment should you log on we look at how the case of a russian businessman accused of cheating is casting a shadow over the u.s. justice system. and a russian tried to drive a rescue dozens of people from

a burning building when he drove his vehicle next to the window so people could jump into the sea for more on that story and plenty of others had to r.t. dot com. 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 slovak it was the only member to say no to increasing the facility which already got the green light from sixteen of the seventeen euro zone members but if your m.p. nigel farage believes the change of heart was forced on to the country. sixteen parliament stuffed with career politicians have voted for it not sixteen countries . if you put this bailout package to a referendum across europe the vast majority of countries would say no says the baccy has 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 backs did 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. need a couple of trillion to bail it out but what is the point actually of bailing these countries are 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 the money in the first place i mean the whole thing is mad what these countries need who are trapped inside this economic prison . 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. happy

they don't care about the tide of human is misery that because 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 and my old friend herman van rompuy oyo could govern five hundred million people it is not acceptable. hundreds or thousands of crowd of the streets of the syrian capital to show their support a loyal to president assad the country's been divided by seven months of violent crackdowns on the regime protests that have left almost three thousand people dead so far syria has been threatened by international sanctions as pressure builds on assad to step down. is in the heart of it that's because. thousands of people gathered so their support for the government here in the syria there was a lot of chanting for us are slogans he shouted out as well as

a syrian flag being carried around the posters and if you like all the cars are 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 passes between antigovernment protesters and security forces and also measure the of the killings that have also been reportedly taking place of course if we think about it since the protests started the mass this has been largely sheltered from the big complex 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 ambassador they are not against reform 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 a military helicopter flying a very low in my opinion over the crowd that they were carrying the a russian and

a chinese liar so they also wanted to show their gratitude for the two countries had a veto the u.n. the security council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on to syria now what's interesting too is that the people i saw at least this morning i were from various sectors of society there were students are they were older people there were some who were claiming to be from a rather lower social class and someone here to be from a higher class 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 and they say this can only be positive in light of things that's going on. there's another world news in brief now on our world update a nigerian man accused of trying to bomb a u.s. bound flight on christmas day two thousand and nine has pleaded guilty and i'm a little mccullough was one of nearly three hundred people on the flight to detroit passengers became aware of the suspect after the bomb sewn into his underwear failed to detonate fully instead catching fire his lawyers said the twenty four

year old would admit to terrorism and other charges and found guilty he could get life in prison. at least twenty five people have been killed and another sixty injured in baghdad. iraqi security forces official say were at least three separate explosions the suicide bombers targeting local police stations tax comes just days after iraq asked for more than five thousand u.s. military instructors to stay on past the formal withdrawal date of december. the most general amnesty for more than six thousand prisoners has begun with dozens including political detainees already released and just international reports that among those due to be freed some thousand two hundred political prisoners have been held in poor conditions and subjected to torture their release was a key condition of the united states to remove western sanctions imposed on the country's former military government. and the captain of a container ship aground off new zealand leaking oil into the sea has been arrested he was charged with operating

a vessel and there was an unnecessary danger all risk could now face a year in prison ship ran into a reef a week ago causing the country's worst environmental disaster in decades there were three hundred tons of all already leaked from the hole. but got to bring up a tape of the moment shortly peter lavelle and his cross talk gas will be speculating whether there's an american or some going on across the atlantic but first we have the latest from the water business with kareena. welcome to business here nazi russia and china close to a ghastly oh it's been on the cars for many months with both sides huddling over the price china is expected to need an extra two hundred million cubic metres annually by the end of the decade analysts say this is a significant ace in the hole for gas pump. prashar through deal with china divorce surprise the experts rules extra rules for russian natural resources such as a crude oil gas as in all situations the european gas market is not clear at all

but are some of the letters available for a very of albeit your proposal for the rules to china they can go at the potential of the chinese economy is better for the private brand because it would make russia x. with revenues from natural gas exports and we will watch that's more liable more stable of a second benefit in terms of far development the russian economy will but feel that since china is located for close to washroom siberian border and always border it will promote development of that part of russia which at the moment there is an underdeveloped russia or europe or european part of russia. but they have the markets now european markets going to higher and wednesday despite slovakia's rejection of the plan to expand the euro zone's rescue songs late tuesday my group top the losers list comfort city losing six percent among the winners during the regime natural resources and gained over seven percent and here in russia stocks

headed for the 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 out let's have a look at some individual channels on the rise acts as you majors more broadly on the rise with gazprom among the main game as well as make it was lower the russian daily betterness to report to the mine and may need government approval for the five x. program citing a letter for the russian anti trust regulator russia's grain and sugar producer has good eye and lowered the news the country's government may tax grain exports once they reach twenty four million metric tons for the year to western wraps up today's trade. the rally that we're seeing is just 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 have

ignored the fact that the slow acting government. did not pass the last round of the credit facility but again it will be out of a paper 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 and we're seeing that across the globe that's basically on the back of the belief that european europe will recover less the banks and russia as united symbol incorporation 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 improvement. next year we expect the industry to grow around fifteen percent but we think that our company will grow faster than that this year will probably grow to seventeen percent and considering the orders that we have we aim at around fifteen percent next year are you good with that with as all the

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