a new low in relations hallway a nato airstrike which killed more than twenty of its soldiers a bloody in pakistan says it all now play no part in a key international meeting on building a secure ghana stadium. britain warns iran of serious consequences after protesters stormed the u.k. embassy complex following london's decision to impose more sanctions on the country over its nuclear program. downs are cast over egyptian parliamentary elections as metasearch move their man from the military rulers to step down as the record number of hopefuls turn up to vote for change in the country. possible serbs persist with putting up roadblocks along

a disputed border despite nato forces clamping down with tear gas and rubber bullets in days of confrontation. begins mass production of its newest model love the grounds that it needs to be a success as a change of weather is coming up with more on this. it's not out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me where you know josh welcome to the program a few or is pakistan is making its anger abundantly clear over the recent nato air strike which killed twenty four of its soldiers it's now pulled completely out of a key security conference on afghanistan's future next week and also promised to permanently close the alliances key military supply route through its territory reports. but these relationships are never easy but when it comes to the

partnership between america and pakistan the sugardaddy of this geo political alliance has turned out to be islamic most dangerous friend in a post nine eleven world pakistan joined forces with the u.s. in the war on terror receiving roughly eighteen billion dollars in return over the past ten years you have hundreds of pakistani civilians have been killed in u.s. drone strikes targeting terrorist most recently nato had to admit it killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. this said protestors onto the streets of his lawn torching an effigy of president barack obama burning american flags and demanding an immediate divorce from its american partner this is hardly the first time the pakistani sovereignty has been infringed by the united states is not the first time that pakistani citizens have been killed

by the united states and its allies it seems to be the case now that you know its case regards pakistan as a kind of free fire zone in which. to abuse the country's sovereignty with no need for apology or redress nato has called the incident tragic and an intended promising to investigate the killings the pakistani government has demanded the u.s. vacate an air base used for drone attacks it's also closed a vital u.s. military supply route to afghanistan a third to a half of all supplies that go to the nato forces go through pakistan so this is going to have a major impact there's no question about it the biggest rift between the two countries came six months ago when the u.s. violated pakistani sovereignty to assassinate osama bin laden navy seals raided his compound keeping pakistani and. teligent is in the dark about the operation dealing

a massive blow to the already troubled relations with lost respect because people no fear of the united states because we're like a drunken person will go to war anywhere if you threaten us now pakistan's prime minister has come out and said there would be no more business as usual with washington some experts believe america's aligned with pakistan has become less of a benefit and more of a liability there are clear choices pretty of what america has totally speaking either to expand the war and common to park bomb or one of the front is not going to be it can trigger the third world war and i want you and warning everyone that it can to get paid what it was i want don't want to go into details of it but. in desperation we began to even imagine pakistan has been america's main ally in the

region for decades but constant abuse of the partnership by the us has driven a wedge between the two many believe that pakistan's case highlights that a u.s. bearing gifts while later stop at nothing to get what it wants marina for nile r.t. new york. well still to come this hour here in our team millions turned out to cast their votes in egypt but doubts are cast in the parliamentary election will set the country on the road to democracy to find out why shortly. britain has warned iran of serious consequences after the storming of the u.k. embassy and compound into militant students clashed with police and threw stones and petrol bombs at window of the complex and protesters also broad down the british flag burned it and grazed the reigning demonstrations followed a vote in iran's parliament to reduce diplomatic ties with london for imposing further sanctions iran's foreign ministry has expressed regret for the incidents

political analyst chris bambery believes the new british sanctions provoked iran which is something the west has been wanting to achieve. as the. sanctions against iran and there is talk of some strike against iran over this nuclear program we should remember that nationalism runs very deep and people have one memories of when for instance britain and america in one nine hundred fifty three to overthrow a democratically elected government which had nationalized american oil interests and installed the shah of iran and that nationalism is runs very deep and. enthusiasm present. many of them would rally against any notion of sanctions against iran or a british american strike against iran also or the hypocrisy of america and britain who between them have enough weapons to destroy the world many times over in iran nuclear weapons it does not have. the americans and the bruce do have plans for

eventually for a military strike is whether or not the kind of and i think those people who are committed to peace and don't want to see a war should be concerned about this and should pressure in washington london and paris to stop any talk of for the sanctions or any talk of a military strike against iran. side mohammad marandi a professor at tehran university says it's iran silicon population who will suffer the most from the new sanctions. the iranians are very angry that. england has continued to take a hostile stance towards the country and the real problem in the eyes of iranians is that what the british government is trying to do is that is trying to make ordinary iranians suffer the sanctions that have been imposed upon the iranians through the government this government the british government are directed at

ordinary iranians the banking system and therefore imports and exports so it is basically very much directed at ordinary people. well we're always curious as to what you think today we're asking what the consequences of the attack on the u.k. will be so log on to our web site argue dot com to participate let's take a look at the site vote now this hour forty three percent of the your think it will eventually lead to western invasion of the country the opinion that the attack was political theater will have few serious consequences come second and fifteen percent of you predict more sanctions against iran and further isolation while the minority believes the u.k. and other western countries will cut diplomatic ties with iran well go online to have your say let us know what you think on this. well the u.k. has a lot to deal with back on its own soil as well up to two million people are set to

carry out a walkout across britain in what promises to be the largest strike of public sector workers in a generation labor unions a jack to the government's strategy to make their members work longer and pay more in order to earn their pensions more than a thousand demonstrations are scheduled to take place across the country during a twenty four hour strike the move comes three weeks after thousands of british students took to the streets against a tripling of their tuition fees. the credit ratings of dozens of u.s. financial firms have been downgraded standard and poor's lowered the rankings of a string of u.s. is to sions after setting a new criteria for banks methodology assesses each bank's risks as well as their likelihood of meeting government or group support in the future this comes just two months after several bank ratings were downgraded by moody's investor services a similar ratings firm. and former ivory coast president. has arrived at the hague after being issued with an arrest warrant the international

criminal court will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the former leader after last year's election he also faces charges of looting armed robbery and embezzlement has been under house arrest since he was ousted by internationally backed forces seven months ago. the. us vice president joe biden has arrived in iraq to discuss the departure of u.s. troops out of the year this comes months after washington failed to reach an agreement with baghdad to keep a small foreign military presence there as the troops departure draws nearer attention is being drawn to the hundreds of billions of missing dollars that have disappeared since the start of the war in two thousand and three this leaves many wondering who is responsible and why aren't being held accountable. we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that were spent by the u.s. government and hundreds of billions of dollars that were spent on you government and then all until today has no electricity no water. so you can't

see would the money has been spent in the u.s. occupation of iraq. and no accountability and that is from the u.s. . so it. is one of the most corrupt countries in the world the situation is that when i go there you can't. corruption in three different every transaction. you know transactions with small organizations with small companies with the government itself everything described there is no accountability and unfortunately the us presence did not make that any better it actually made it worse. in syria damascus has called the arab league sanctions a declaration of economic war the secretary general of the league has said the measure sent a very serious political message to the country but russia which wants to see

dialogue between the government and the opposition has said it's time to stop dealing in ultimatums and get back to the negotiating table earlier the un released a report stating that government forces have committed crimes against humanity in their brutal treatment of anti-government demonstrators according to ask them it's almost four thousand people have been killed since the beginning of the uprising in march at least expert has its ordinary citizens that bear the brunt of sanctions and not. least for now some of the neighbors. syria are saying that they are going to maintain. relations with. the. economies would be affected lebanon for example. did not agree to the sanctions iraq said that that's not going to implement the sanctions are some questions. about jordan what jordan's role did agree to

the sanctions number of jordan extensively also on syria water food products etc so that is something that. never the less what we know so far is that sanctions is a blunt instrument which ultimately affect the population more done this effect. and what we have seen so far is that increasingly the country may be sliding. kind of civil war because the protests apparently the peaceful protests have not had the kind of impact. organizers had hoped for. syria's opposition is receiving reinforcement from other countries experienced in the matter of political leaders so read artie's report on why the new levy in government reportedly sounds hundreds of its troops to syria to join

a local militants and show them just how you bring down a regime. and escaping and jail term for a medical condition in the region a mass murderer. has been ruled mentally ill and therefore not accountable for killing seventy seven people back in july. this counting the votes in the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of president mubarak but with the army general showing little intention to lead go all of the reins chances for people to get what they want are slim corresponded these are now we met one protester who is boycott of the ballot the size old tactic still rampant in the country. signs of a real democracy mile long lines at polls vote stained fingers and palpable joy of

participating in egypt's future but do the signs stop it that. election excitement and dreams of democracy could be overshadowing a harsh reality there is little doubt egyptian enthusiasm for this whole is genuine they're excited to be voting in a real election for real candidates but for a heart of a man that will have no power and does that make as part of a real transition than from the old regime the problem is you know what are that she going to produce a parliament to appoint ministers that kind of appoint a government. whose constitution whatever it turns out to be is going to be guarded by the army someone who understand this boycott at the polls like some your brother ham a protester that knows all too well old tactics are still rampant or virginity tests was performed on her and other women that protested on talk rere long after mubarak

fell i have it only let me the woman told me to lie down for the men to examine me and then came in and and then to examine the i was naked it was like a shoe with people watching over those over the servers and soldiers. she was too upset to tell me details of her ordeal but did say this about the vote because i think the main reason for holding the elections is for the military to hide their corruption and crimes. instead of voting a group of protesters marched to call for justice and show solidarity for jena detests victims there were few cameras and no gyptian press it remains the fact that both before during and after this election the ruler of egypt is an unelected man called field marshal mohamed tonto and as long as he's an elected this is not a democracy but the west was quick to praise the election as a great step towards change although the americans are beginning to say well no the

army must go back to barracks and deep down they'll be perfectly happy to keep the army where it is in egypt and if you give one point three billion dollars to the egyptian army which the americans do you were you expected to do what it wants which leaves little room for the people to get what they want and egypt might be waking up for more of a nightmare than the sweet dream of democracy once election a ration settles and he said no way r t cairo. and coming your way in the program tackling the problem some believe the quickest way to bring down their always makes them is a mystic or the battling sides face to face and see where the dialogue gets the. serbs in northern cause of a building moral blocks along the border despite the efforts of nato peacekeepers to take them down this comes after days of confrontation where troops have been firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse serbian protesters leaving dozens injured for months local serbs have been using soil rock and concrete to put up

roadblocks in response to attempt by cost one authority to take control border checkpoints to impose a ban on serbian goods nato peacekeepers have moved in to patrol the border possible unilaterally proclaimed in a panic in two thousand and eight a move that's never been recognized by belgrade or cos it will serve as living in the area corresponding you were on that spoke to someone calls for say they are fed up was living in the conflict zone. for serbia and kosovo the road to independence starts here since july the western backed albanian majority here have tried to impose their customs controls on that is inhabited by the serbian minority these men sort of as an underhand step to drive them out and set up roadblocks now to keep watch. and more and more are calling for independence from albania and kosovo and from belgrade this checkpoint isn't located in any internationally recognized border and the people behind me are in professional border guards but

the extreme measures they've had to go to the only means of survival. in september in milan a pair of h. was shot in the leg by nato soldiers who were trying to take down the barricades as he prepares to return there he says that he now realized that the price of the standoff is just too high and says he never wanted independence just the cost of a three a night to serbia but he had missed the does is unlikely to happen and that a compromise is necessary process. we are isolated now anyways maybe as talking about this will put pressure on belgrade to pay more attention to serve some cause or to help but you will see those that were there for twelve years since the conflict that divided kosovo the politicians in belgrade have repeated that the area is an integral part of serbia but under the presidency of western oriented but it started joining the european union has become a bigger priority to satisfy either demands that it has recently called for the barricades to be dismantled them and branded their defenders extremists to units

that are public and build great has abandoned kosovo and the people of kosovo are fighting for themselves the e.u. keeps making new demands first handing over milosevic then cut out which then mullard it but they will never be satisfied meanwhile the situation for serbs in kosovo is getting worse that we have because this is footage of the latest clashes on the barricades which have been happening almost daily recently but despite the toll of simmering violence when we visit the barricades on a quite a night there is of course where serbs remains firm over because this will because this is our homeland we will not leave it and we will defend it regardless of what anyone else tells us to do on the butt of. the european union most of the leaders in belgrade and albanian cost of us of all brushed off the idea of an independent serbian kosovo but until a compromise of some sort of fun for the serb minority living here a destructive standoff will continue indefinitely either

a very ordinary artsy kosovo. well among those russians who grew up after the fall of the soviet union there's a number of those who consider the north caucasus a foreign alien state historic and cultural differences have made the country face a growing problem of youth turning to nationalist movements are reports in the program aimed to battling the issue with reason and dialogue. russia's north caucasus a place where they're a beautician for volatility even some russians tend to view these republics as separate entities with religious and ethnic differences at the heart of the problem and leading some to tackle its consequences the ugly side of nationalism. we get people from all walks of life into them on a trip to the north caucasus in order to dispel existing myths to show those who live in that region that russian nationalists and football fans and it is evil as they are portrayed and also for us to see that north caucasus is populated by

people just like us with similar problems in issues as part of a program called dialogue and those that helm include a member of a nationalist movement a football fan and a youth movement leader their main focus is the younger generation those who grew up after the soviet union was the youth in russia and in the north caucasus have a warped perception of each other that was the starting point for our program a lot of people do not venture outside of their region and base their opinions on the information they find in mass media and on the internet racial tension and football have increasingly gun hand to hand in russia last december football fan give was killed in a brawl with a group of men from the north caucasus his death sparked riots of football fans and nationalists in central moscow police clashes emerse arrests those involved in the fatal fighting eventually ending up in prison it was huge football right now is a strong part of our society which keeps growing since one nine hundred seventy russian people didn't have a paved or national idea to rally about football fans rally around the country and

around the national ideal so far the group's only organized one visit but it's already getting high level and gauge meant. the willingness for the regional government to participate in dialogue is huge progress for the north caucasus because these issues were never acknowledged by them before and that's why we ended up with the problems we have on our hands right now these men know they're deeply into. animosity can't be defeated overnight but they're convinced that they've got two key tools in their arsenal talking and listening that's why they have to have dialogue between the conflicting sides is one of the main problems how can those people know the reason why the conflicting sides are involved in the issue we must sit at a table have a moderator and talk about these issues face to face. football stadiums like this one for example often become battlefields was our top of the sports cup but this in turn the defeated ethnic conflict in fact in russia terms for both ai and

nationalist have unfortunately become listed on the most people like soul town believe they can and will change that by proving that sporting patriotism have nothing to do with national stadium even. moscow and in a few minutes will take a trip to the far north west of russia but before that there was he was happening in business with. thanks very much the first new sedan and four years rolled off the after mass production line on tuesday russia's biggest carmaker means that to be a success the country will shortly be joining the world trade organization which could threaten the recent turnaround in the company's financials business studies many in the course you have this report. the profit on top of the fire wolf it's at the see above about stopping the workers here from feeling insecure about their future russia's largest carmaker is once again on the right while many people in

the country are excited about russia joining the w t o it's a major concern for the auto industry import duties will be reduced from thirty percent to fifty percent making the market more attractive for foreigners and also for a new variety so consumers are looking the more she deals now investments in russia's car industry increased by twenty seven percent in the first nine months of this year and the government is eager to get warners and bolt the full extent of the end of the month when the deal with the massive manufacturers will not be fully known until seven years from now which is a problem the will say will the poll just be complete and all the regulations finalized but some say it's unlikely that the government will let its so-called labor smiled be pushed out of the markets in the past it rested after vos from bankruptcy file for cash loans and guarantees but they are saying that after the boss may find it difficult to maintain their share price given the stiff

competition that's on its way and some analysts even predict that it will be swept away by the laws of the new board the full board turned its it was all the main goal right now for off the vase is to improve its operations and of the structures business so when push comes to shove it can deliver and to stand its ground against international all of the way there. russia is on the way to being starved of investments the economic ministry expects the country to see a six percent growth in investment two thousand and eleven and a slightly higher increase in the coming years almost half of the cash is still coming from the states the economic ministry says that's not enough to finance russia's ambitious plans for modernization with no more opportunities to stimulate economic growth with budgets but. figure them out is this our oil is continuing to lose ground following three sessions of gates has after the american

petroleum institute aboard an increase in us in the trees light sweet is declining sixty two cents per barrel brant desert one hundred ten and a half. asian shares are drifting lower despite overnight gains on wall street and hong kong metals companies are leading the losses on prices and any corporation of china is down more than two percent to a strong yen is weighing on tech shares good so here with a limb person losing ground as reports say it may miss the deadline to report financial results which would force the company to delist from the tokyo stock exchange some blue chips are bucking the downward trend as a surge of consumer confidence is supporting investors. well there's around thirty two and a half minutes before the opening bell here in moscow russia negative he saw some profit taking on tuesday after a surprisingly strong start to the week monday tears shed two further percent of my

six point seven nine percent. russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to enter the swiss market as part of its strategy to expand in europe is in talks to buy a small bank s l b from russia as well company lukoil commissar newspaper says burbank is aiding to develop investment in private banking services in european countries the deal could be worth around sixty million dollars and this believe the bank will face tough competition as more than three hundred by class banks are present in switzerland leading liberal financial charts. arena is next with the headlines to say about.

the. line in russia would be so much brighter if you knew more about song from funniest impressions. these friends don't on t.v. dot com. culture is that so much as a lot of people are curious that is it all worth tempting to taxing people in the name of health was one of the aims of the so-called fat tax governments all over the world and throughout history of adopt it.