at the low end relations following a nato air strike which killed more than twenty of its soldiers after bloodied pakistan says it will now play no part in a key international meeting on building a secure again a state. britain warrants a rod of serious consequence after protesters stormed the u.k. embassy complex following london's decision to impose more sanctions on the country over its nuclear program. doubts are cast over age of parliamentary elections as protesters continue their demand for the military rulers to step down as a record number of hopefuls turn up to vote for change and the country. possible serbs persist was putting up roadblocks along the disputed border despite nato

forces clamping down with tear gas and rubber bullets in the days of confrontation . i am in the russian capital you're watching joshua welcome to the program a furious 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 future next week and also promised to permanently close the alliances key military supply routes through its territory very important i reports. 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 yet hundreds of pakistani civilians have been killed in u.s. drone strikes targeting terrorists most recently nato had to admit it killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. and this sent protesters on to the streets of islamabad 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 you know it's case regards pakistan as a kind of free far 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 with lost respect because people now fear. the united states because we're like a drunken person will go to war anywhere if you threaten us by the now just in his prime minister has come out and said there would be no more business as usual with washington. clear choices produce what america has gotten really speaking either to

expand the war and coming to bog bimal point of approach is not going to be it can trigger the third world war and i want you and want everyone 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. still there con this hour here in r.t.e. millions turn out to cast their vote and doubts are cast that a parliamentary election will set the country on the road to democracy find out why shortly. britain has warned iran of serious consequences after the storming of the u.k. embassy and compound militant students clashed with police and threw stones and petrol bombs at windows of the complex protesters also brought down the british flag

burning the rain while demonstrations follow a vote in iran's parliament to reduce diplomatic ties with london in retaliation for imposing further sanctions iran's foreign ministry has expressed regret the incident 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 you could program we should remember that nationalism runs very deep in people one memories of when for instance britain and america in one thousand nine hundred eighty three to overthrow a democratically elected government which had nationalized american oil interests and store the. nationalism is runs very deep and. present. many of the mood around against any notion of sanctions against iran or

a british american strike against iran also the hypocrisy of america and britain between them have enough weapons to destroy the world many times over. it does not have. the americans and the bruce do have plans for eventual 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 you know 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. sun hot iran d. a professor at tehran university says it's iran civilian population who will suffer most from the u.k.'s 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 to 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. one just we're hearing that u.k. evacuate staff from the iran embassy this is the latest that we hear from the country and we'll be keeping you up to date on this well in the meantime we also would like to know what you think on this issue today on our website we're asking what the consequences of the attack on the sea will be so you can log on to our website r.t. dot com to participate let's now take a look at what's happening on the site but now and this hour forty four percent of our viewers think it will eventually lead to a western invasion of iran the opinion that the attack was political theater but

will have few serious consequences come second and fifteen percent of you predict more sanctions against iran and its further isolation while the minority believes that you may and other western countries will cut diplomatic ties with iran so you can go online and let us know what you think about this and the latest that we've heard so far just like to repeat that in case you just joined us is that the u.k. vecchio its staff from tehran embassy. now the u.k. has a lot to deal with back on its own soil as well and 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 object to the government 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 the 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. institutions after setting a new criteria for banks the 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 for. 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 investment babo has been under house arrest since he was ousted by internationally backed forces seven months ago. you asked vice president joe biden has arrived in iraq to discuss the departure of u.s.

troops and 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 moves closer 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 you aren't being held accountable. and we're talking about hundreds of. hundreds of billions of global sorts were spent don't you. mint and they're all come to today has no electricity has no water street. so you can't really see where the money has been spent in the country the us occupation of iraq created a new culture a culture of corruption and no accountability and that is from the u.s. from the iraqi side. that no this is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and the situation is that even mr but when i go there you can feel the level of

corruption in different every transaction. you know transactions with small organisations who is small companies with the government itself everything is corrupt there is no accountability and unfortunately the u.s. presence did not make any better it actually made it worse. basking in post-election glory after holding its first parliamentary vote since the fall of president mubarak preliminary results are due to be announced later on wednesday but where the army generals showing little intention to let go of the reins many say nothing will change spawn of these now and that one protester who's boycott of the ballot to emphasize your tactics there are 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 of harlem and 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 brow a protester that knows all too well old tactics are still rampant a virginity task was performed on her and other women that protested on talk we're long after mubarak fell out of 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 but 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 jinnah 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 on the elected this is not a democracy but the west was quick to praise the election as a great step toward. change although the americans are beginning to say well no the army must go back to barracks 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 a year to the egyptian army which the americans do you assume 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 settles and he's in our way archie. and coming your way in a program tackling the problem somebody quickest way to bring down nationalism and extremism is to put the battling sides face to face and see where the dialogue gets stuck. in syria damascus has called the arab league sanctions a declaration of economic war the secretary-general of the league has said the measures sand every very serious political message to the country by 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 table earlier the un released a report stating that government forces had 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 middle east expert adam reid says it's ordinary citizens that bear the brunt of sanctions and not the. least. 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. but that's not going to include those are some questions. about jordan what jordan's role did agree to the sanctions number of jordan. syria water food group products etc so that is something that still out there nevertheless what we know so far is that sanctions is a blunt instrument which ultimately affects the population more than it affects.

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 ousting political leaders can read artie's report on live t.v. and government reported elise and hundreds of its troops to syria to join local militants and show them just how you bring down a regime. and escaping a jail term for a medical condition of the norwegian mass murderer anders breivik has been ruled mentally ill and therefore not accountable for killing seventy seven people back in july.

serbs in northern cost of our building more road blocks along the border despite the efforts of nato peacekeepers to take them down this comes after days of confrontation with troops who 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 a row blogs in response to attempts by the cost of an authority to take control of border checkpoints to impose a ban on serbian goods nato peacekeepers have moved in to patrol the border costs are going electorally proclaimed in a pan's in two thousand and eight a move that's never been recognized by belgrade or cost of serbs living in the area our correspondent there spoke to some locals who say they are fed up with living in the conflict zone. for serbian cos of the road to independence starts here

since july the western backed albanian majority here have tried to impose their customs controls on the air 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 albanian kosovo and from belgrade this checkpoint isn't located within the internationally recognized border and the people behind me aren't professional border guards but the extreme measures they've had to go to the only means of survival. in september 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 man says he never wanted independence just the cost of a three a night to serbia but he admits 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 and branded their defenders extremists to units that are public until great has abandoned kosovo and the people of kosovo are fighting for themselves but the e.u. keeps making new demands first handing over milosevic. then mullard it should be 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 olive oil 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 serb in kosovo but until a call from eyes of some sort of phone from a serb minority living care a destructive standoff will continue indefinitely. either a very ordinary party because of a. well among those russians or grew up after the fall of the soviet union there is 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. reports on a program and battling the issue with reason and dialogue. russia's north caucasus a place where there are

a petition 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 separate we gathered people from all walks of life and took 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 are not as evil as they're portrayed and also for us to see that north caucasus is populated by people just like us with similar problems and issues as part of a program called dialogue and those at 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 created and youth in russia and in the north caucuses have a warped perception of each other that was the starting point for a program a lot of people do not venture outside of their region and base their opinion on the information they find in mass media and on the internet racial tension and

football have increasingly gun handed hand in russia last december football fan give you that 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 he who had the right knows a stronger heart the last assignment which keeps growing since one nine hundred seventeen russian people didn't have a play for the national league they had 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 to the willingness of the regional government protests a page in the dialogue is huge progress for the north caucuses 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 entrenched. animosity can't be defeated overnight but they're convinced that they've got two key tools in

their arsenal talking and listening to the absence of 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 with the football stadiums like this one for example often become battlefields was our top of the sports coverage this in turn the defeated ethnic conflict in fact in russia said terrible smog and nationalist have unfortunately become all this anonymous people like cell town believe they can and will change that by proving that sporting patriotism have nothing to do with national stadium even. moscow while our special interest in sports just ahead but first the business news with maytree. and a warm welcome to business r.t.

russia is on the way to being starved of investments konami ministry expects the country to see a six percent growth in investment in twenty eleven and a slightly high increase in the coming years almost half of the cash is still coming from the state economic ministry says that's not enough to finance for russia's ambitious plans for modernization with no more opportunities to stimulate economic growth with budgets but they. to the markets now world is losing ground following three sessions of gains that's after the american petroleum institute reported an increase in u.s. crude of the trees light sweet is currently trading at ninety nine dollars per barrel while bread says that one hundred ten and a half. asian shares are also drifting a lower despite overnight gains on wall street in hong kong metals companies are leading losses on weaker commodity prices i mean corporation or chinese down more than two percent stronger yen is weighing on tech shares in tokyo with olympus

losing ground as reports say you may miss its deadline to report financial results which would force the company to delist from the tokyo stock exchange but so we have seen a somewhat of a correction on the nikkei as some blue chips are bucking the trend they see a surge in consumer confidence and that is supporting us since. this is the opening picture in russia and it's a positive one with the r.t.s. gaining point two percent to my six point three percent on choose day there was a correction of around point seven percent and on monday we saw a massive gain of around four percent alexander golts offered also believes hopeful political movement over the use of debt problem as well as some end of the month for window dressing will be supporting sentiment for the day. was a day on the man's on the calendar month them to be positive more often than it is negative especially as we approach december before the new or when of dreams

come true and especially when there is still hope for some policy action from european policymakers possibly some good news from the minister of finance meeting so or these two when it is the last day of november would be moderately positive on the policymaking hopes and on some window dressing in the end of the month. russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to enter the swiss market as part of its strategy to expand in europe it's in talks to buy a small local bank s.l.b. from russia's oil company lukoil commissar newspaper says there's burbank is aiming to develop investment and private banking services in the european country and deal could be worth around sixty million dollars and this believes burbank will face tough competition of more than three hundred high class banks are present in

switzerland proving the global financial job is. over one in three organizations in russia claim to have fallen victim to economic crimes according to accounting firm pricewaterhouse coopers the company's head of friends says the government is making the right moves to fix the problem governmental things are moving in the right direction. on the corruption side the rich challenges but again it's not just a rush of problem everybody around the world is suffering the challenge of corruption and things are moving i think russia moves to accede to the o.e.c.d. sino to the anti bribery convention that will have a significant impact on the other side around us it misappropriation towards the management need to get more actively involved in their business they need to consistently set a tone within the organization but i think there's

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