this is r.t. from moscow tonight the drive for diplomacy russia wants an attack on iran could have disastrous regional repercussions as israel says military actions a real possibility. the i.m.f. josh for kremlin cash that of international monetary fund visits moscow in search of financial support to help prop up prices its economy. and russia is christine lagarde spur sculpin admission to the world's top ten coming financial powers. plus our mortgage better results ski court b. a b. c. of the super rich russians or the legal log heads in london right now with a like shown on shady deals and billions of dollars at stake.

close ten pm here in moscow my name's kevin zero in first russia's foreign minister has warned that an attack on iran would be a grave mistake with unpredictable consequences so the lover of statement comes after israel said possible military action against iran's nuclear facilities is becoming more likely he's an italian overcovered got the latest for you. russia stands firmly on that this issue has to be approached with diplomacy has to be done step by step through talking and no military intervention is acceptable russia's reaction to this comes after israel has been pushing for a military intervention saying the clock is ticking and iranian nuclear program has to be stopped right now russian foreign minister insists that it's going to have consequences for the entire region is already so unstable. our view on this issue

is well known an attack would be a serious mistake with very grave consequences as we can see that every day when we see how problems are being solved close to iran iraq or afghanistan or other countries in the region military interference only leads to a multiple rise india. meanwhile international atomic energy agency's preparing i reports which is going to prove that iran's nuclear ambitions are not peaceful overall iran has been denying this ever since the beginning and. that has sat that's if there's going to be military intervention and iran is prepared for it. in over cover a correspondent professor sad mohammad marandi from university of tehran says the israeli warnings of a possible attack on iran are nothing more than rhetoric for the sole purpose of putting pressure on the country. well i think if you look at the general picture there is a general trend to try to put iran in

a corner of it or try to corner iran and also to put pressure on other countries independent countries like china and russia and others to agree with the new sanctions by sort of patrolling israel as a mad dog attack dog that needs to be somehow controlled in a big region your sanctions. something bad will be prevented from happening but the whole report itself it's based on forged documents there is absolutely nothing new in the for all the documents that are supposed to come out go back to two thousand and four and the previous years all i've been refuted in the past the united states has never provided. with the documents this shows that this is basically an attempt to create. pressure and to to move public opinion against iran whereas in the course to hear your say in all the big stories of the day that's what we're talking about today we're asking how you think here how much you think military action is likely against around right now is what you're telling scottie

dot com let's take a look majority of you seems to continue to say that it is a certainty just because the u.s. and israel need this war a little fear of you this hour take the opposite view you think there's no chance of conflict there's no one's got the stomach for another bloodbath in the middle east right now nine percent of you say war is unlikely is going to happen if there is overwhelming evidence that iran has got nuclear weapons the minority believe it all depends on the round submitting to inspections by the un's atomic watchdog really good to your thoughts go to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. this is r.t. and still ahead a cloudy future looms over libya claims of revenge killings of the spread of radicalism nato says its job in the country is now on the front more about that later. as more and more countries are turning to the international monetary fund for help it in turns reaching out for support from some of the world's emerging financial power plays i don't achieve christine the guards preparing to head off to china on tuesday and she's currently here in moscow for talks with the kremlin and

he's a country groucho has been following the visit. during these financially turbulent times russia can all for the i am a fan the european union what it now needs most money russia paid the last portion of its step to the international monetary fund in two thousand and five and seems that it has been contributing to the organization providing financial support to countries which experience serious financial and economic difficulties or even risk default as it is now the case with praise recent developments in this european country and the euro crisis in general. to come over at the g. twenty summit in cannes last week where the leaders agreed to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and the financial institutions to save the euro and eurozone and one of the hopes for the euros coming from the module you quantum is from the so-called brics countries that is presumed russia india china now south africa added to the list

russia in particular is ready to contribute at least ten billion dollars all the european union but mission and that it made it very clear from the very beginning that these support should be targeted comprehensible transparent it should be done in directly through this international financial institution not to the sort that a country of the european union directly and another must condition is that the brics countries are given every within the international monetary content of the financial institutions the brics may not be directly affected by the euro crisis at the moment but we should not forget that russia for instance keeps up almost forty five percent of its international reserves in europe's asia times correspondent probably ask about things contributions from emerging economies won't save the eurozone unless it's changed from within. compared to ten billion dollars that's russia's offerings to the fire war that europeans need in case italy goes under the

needle fire war one trillion dollars you're not going to get this from the brics is out of the question not even china would even imagine giving the lord then let's say fifty billion dollars it's not enough the problem is the euro there's a war for the eurozone you can work for north in europe but not for the club med countries in they have to find a solution inside europe from the point of view of europe would be to have a neural there'll be equal for everybody from the netherlands to sicily but it's not going to happen because trying to start they had this political idea that if we have a common currency we're going to have a political unity it's strong it's not going to work because there's total economic imbalance between north and suddenly europe and it when. it's a political nationalism and of course it is greece that heads the line of countries destabilizing the euro zone and it's in athens the new coalition of unity

government in form the try to tackle with that crisis there it comes after weeks of political chaos that put greece's membership in the euro in jeopardy promises to happen agree to step down with his replacement you to be announced any time now and you interim government will lead the country until elections expected to be held in february next year one of main task will be to approve one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package that was reached between your leaders and there are now consents to it well that italy is on its way and coming next victim of europe's debt crisis economic analyst nick sprecher told me you need drastic reform if it wants to survive. i think it's about time that the political system became a little bit more responsible and responsive to the needs of the country and greece itself i think a coalition should have been formed quite a while ago it seemed that a lot of the opposition parties were having their cake and eating it too in the sense that they were voting for the money but no before he was thirty i think italy

and spain a parolee still it's the largest threats to the eurozone and certainly heelys very concerning the political situation there is more unstable than it is in greece and borrowing rates are reaching very unsustainable levels and i think there are many good reasons to worry for other countries and even call countries like france who may well lose their aaa rating and some point in the future what they do has to do other than just bailing out some countries and putting up some defenses in the short term because have a really good look at the trees in the infrastructure of the whole project and see if there is some reform they can make it more workable of course when you have seventeen different very different economies in very different countries setting one uniform monetary policy is always going to be haphazard and when the e.c.b. itself can't lend the country then things can be very problematic. week

after wrapping up his intervention in libya the head of nato says it has no major role in the future of the country that's despite widespread allegations of crimes against humanity under the new libyan regime and a shift towards radicalism he's got if you can ask whether the west has made a habit of turning a blind eye to the shortcomings of its allies. here first question later not so long ago the u.s. media presented leading rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after gadhafi is killing their narrative changed you know you talk about this arab spring and maybe people here don't hear. as a move towards democracy but really that is not exactly what's going on it seems the us media just woke up to the un folding human rights disaster in the region libya's new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to overthrow an al-qaeda flag planted on a lady and courthouse steered quite some panic and not just there you have the

interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy was going to be legal again consistent with sharia law actual real law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves beheading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers sure real long which is about to be introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new lead in governments domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with them saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law and women are not allowed to drive cars they're not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to bother the powers that be in washington and why because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being

a dictatorship and not a democratic state america's a big gala in a big supporter of saudi arabia just shows that we really don't care for working with democracies or we're working with dictatorships or working with secular governments or religious governments all we care about is our interest in the region bahrain another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's two fleet and also leads under shari'a law and has a questionable human rights record as will leave those in power are there only things to nido and particularly the united states the media here had generally been supportive of the campaign to topple gadhafi but now that he's gone why does that concern about human rights maybe out. all had it so well demonstrated in the run up to the iraq war when the media cheered first then then when it was too late when the war was full on started asking questions analysts say human rights in libya was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently be in government i'm going to check out reporting from

washington r.t. . as wars end soldiers come home but for many there's no home to come back to tens of thousands of american soldiers because jobless and homeless as soon as the militia let's go is going to read more about that some are web sites not r t dot com while you're there to the stories also get a lot of clicks through the russian woman accused by the u.s. of being spied on implicating a british him he is now reportedly taking another government official and spent all this time just for but i'm on tonight i don't know you should channel two stripping who enjoys what we have here while activists in ukraine take the vatican by storm where very little just after the pope's weekly address that quickly removed the lady's not to close thanks for fast response by police and could barely keep a straight face it's that you tube or you tube channel to. feuding russian tycoons with roman abramovich. taken the battle to the u.k.

court and it's no small claim either with over six and a half billion dollars at stake so folks are business with the results he claims are promoted robbed him of the money by intimidating him into selling oil shares on the cheap something the chelsea football club owner denies the bet is we watching the billion dollar lawsuit play out. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated fifteen billion assets for your child's a football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr b. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht for he does still have his trusty stretch my book which he never fails to show off. which is rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his time in the witness stand has lifted the lid on a life in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employ primarily disabled staff and a lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection and the dived into the infamous selami and walls of in one

thousand is where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly the clean cut image of one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was in the warm vein of the only difference between a rattler people and a few people has been very good because of the very banal imagery that he doesn't really come across aggressively the always say anything at all he wants to go respectful and suddenly we're all aware of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a bird of that world but very spare is also he claims is he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr am promote it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company significator in the ninety's it's about as he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected to smash the record but the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is

thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as well the legal fees mr every moment she is a route to be sixteen million dollars is the law as they work cut out there are no rain no fee basis the pair used to be close mr b. . he gave his protege the all important leg up into the world of the super rich and we now know he was paid for his troubles but mr a says that was just protection money denying they were ever business partners it's that claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia and none of their deals were written down by week's c n n i've counted the cost of nine billionaires five russian one kazakh one is backing all israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention future strange deals records of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you

try and piece the whole thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr b.'s lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett r.t. london. taking around the world now in liberia riots broken out at the headquarters of the country's main opposition party just a day before a presidential run off the people were killed it comes after thousands rallied in the capital as their candidate called for a boycott of the runoff of the fears of fraud favoring the incumbent president opposition candidate winston tubman claimed the first round of voting was biased against him but international election observers say last month's poll was free and fair in yemen government forces have killed six militants during clashes in a southern city bringing to eleven the number of insurgents recently killed in the

area the region of yarn is reported to have been partly taken over by al qaeda extremists some say the pilot antigovernment protests have helped militants gain control of the area over fifteen hundred people have died since demonstrations against president starting in february. in syria heavy firefight said to be underway as government forces try to storm a residential block where a group of insurgents hiding out dozens have been killed in anti-government rallies in home since sunday damascus accuses the u.s. of involvement in violence in the country and asked the arab leaders support the issue now the league will make a further attempt to tackle the crisis this week after brokering an earlier peace deal that's been widely ignored. bangkok's of the floods spreading now to its commercial district others a new warning too from authorities credit three reptiles will be missing in the waters in some places two non-serious claimed over five hundred lives across thailand in the country's worst flooding in half a century government says four billion dollars will be spent to restore the country

. victims of the gas tragedy in india have staged a mass protest against the province's local authority as it health day should they celebrations they say that instead of spending money on festivities the government should concentrate on rehabilitation of people instead twenty seven years on the survivors still feel the effects of one of the world's worst industrial disasters a correspondent chris reader has the story for r.t. . even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget. i clutched my children drug one wife and mother to the bus station everyone was screaming room room we crossed in a village where people go to mccomb and everybody in the village was screening room room experts say union carbide had faulty equipment poorly trained employees and in adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter

managers were bailed out and flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and they're angry. today thousands like from and still suffer. we were very healthy before the gas leaks to the places where after this incident we became very sick never improved after the leak many indians were wary of foreign companies but it turned them into prime candidates for clinical trials they thought they were getting treatment but doctors often used experimental drugs without them knowing the patients apparently consented by signing papers in english they didn't understand and many say they never sign anything at all for

each participant in a clinical trial the doctor received around two thousand dollars this is both paul memorial hospital the place where the victims from the gas leak of nine hundred eighty four were treated it's also the place where clinical trials of medications took place about eighty percent of those are believed to have been done on gas victims r t obtained documents that show at least six trial programs that took place in bhopal between two thousand and four and two thousand and eight. profoundly ironic that after the victims of the worst chemical disaster in with some of the largest farmers to largest the national corporations the war against the victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations treat vast of became suspicious when he was repeatedly asked to bring one of two bottles of medicine back a common practice in clinical trials and. they didn't tell us the name of the

medicine but told us that we were given trial drugs and medicines had numbers repeated requests by r.t. to speak to the government or pol pot memorial hospital were denied experts say that medical testing on people needing actual treatment is an ethical unsafe and unscientific and documents show that at least eleven people who are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs when you grow up throws on people whose injuries of not even being assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today srivastav still waits for justice. because of the mood i'm slowly losing my sight would fall on either and i suffered from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india what about sports news ahead in twenty minutes with you ninnies got to news of russia's longest ever

football season business first but for the subject of the uncertainty surrounding what european very much in the headlines tonight from here to update you. welcome to business science the european debt indeed remains one of the dominating issues for the markets this week france and italy are in the spotlight as they have to deal with their budget deficit and that's after greece's embattled prime minister george papandreou announced he's stepping down after support of plan for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brave enough to step up on the issues the decision is expected later on monday coalition governments main task now will be to pass the european rescue package a move considered crucial to suring up the euro. and that is why i was seeing a lot of cautious trading going on in global floors in the u.s. there were games of the opening but now the dow jones and nasdaq are down points in

some point nine percent respectively and this is our porches they're watching developments over in europe and it's municipally with great attention if you look at the closing picture in europe it's also a mega observe point three percent of x. point six that's despite the fact you see intervened to buy nine are billion years worth of bonds to keep a lid on the ball because. in russia quite the opposite picture of the markets were playing catch up on monday after friday's holiday and as the time change saw the u.s. markets open positive as we mentioned just fifteen minutes before the end of the trading session in moscow last minute buying boosted the r.t.s. and then i six so by one point three percent. with oil reversing back into positive territory a lot of support was seen an energy source notably. three point seven percent gains there also after announcing recently a production the financial sector has burbank gained two percent the latest gossip

of the t.v. capital wraps up today's trip. largely today was. the end of the g. twenty meeting which failed. to live up to expectations the hype of the last two and a half two months and the rally that. we saw in last in moscow markets beforehand russian market is always a comma because of the strength of your price. markets slowly down and there's quite obvious because the wheel is catching you high so it's going to be difficult for the town government to refinance and to remind you it's always a much bigger problem which the new fund which was created to sell it to a smaller european countries and their problems is not really equipped to deal with unfortunately g twenty never answered who is going to give the money and then we look at it looks like nobody is prepared. europe's troubles with sovereign debt are having an impact already on russia's fiscal policy that really finance minister said eustacia says russia will be looking to raise

a modest seven billion dollars from foreign issues next year we will very strange very unusual situation. here was the model for money he's been going to consider. a good guide for research he's read all. three of the issue for only a small room. poland as the site is of course russia gas supply prices of court . monopoly as far as a claim of the stockholm moderation tribunal against russia's gas problem russia currently supplies around seventy percent of poland's gas needs and also in the country agreed to increase purchases or wanted a ten percent discount for extra liveries for its parts gazprom is resisting all claims from european customers who want to renegotiate existing long term contracts to get cheaper gas. and it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia finally has its foot in the door of the world trade organization the countries in

the final round of informal negotiations moving out the remaining issues that official on russia's membership is expected by the end of the week but the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde says there. won't necessarily mean economic benefits there or you know clearly economy benefits to be heard i'm not sure that they are huge in the case of russia because you are essentially exporting a lot of raw materials a lot of oil a lot of carers and and importing. you know modified should goods and the lives that you roughly. of average tariff is in the range of about twelve percent so i'm not sure that you get there is going to be a massive gain as a result of turning w two although there might be some you know on some lines of products there might be immobile gains. the headlines are next on are going to stay with us.

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