to the. pakistan south of crucial talks on afghanistan's future next week as nato is recent strike deals a blow to a strained islamabad washington times. live pictures for you here on out see britain grinds to a halt as public sector workers walk out over pensions in the country's biggest strike for generations but these are live pictures right here from central london. an estimated two million kids don't strike in the u.k. today schools are closed and hospitals i've been flooded much and sees mainly for me in london in just a moment. but u.k. orders the iranian embassy in london are closed as the diplomatic rift deepens the

violent protests to school the british compound in turmoil and forcing it stop the pullout. i don't record not go but you should turn up the cost of both in parliament reelection but severe square demonstrators say the poll is meaningless if the policy. by them of a. business the size of the world's major central banks give a powerful pretty markets around the world by agreeing to lower the cost of the dollar slots as means to boost the quickly and avoid the credit crunch for more on the markets from an. it is now a just after seven pm here in moscow are you watching our team with me rory. pakistan has dealt a fresh blow to the united states by the stunning so a boycott

a key security conference on afghanistan next week. i've already tense relations between the two hit a new low after a recent nato airstrike on army posts killed twenty four pakistani soldiers the decision suits not the conference's the latest step by islam abides or cut back on cooperation with washington. portnoy or details 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 jihad's most dangerous friend in a post nine eleven world pakistan joined forces with the us 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. this said protesters onto 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 a pakistani sovereignty has been infringed by the united states is not the first time the pakistanis have sons killed by the united states and its allies it seems to be the case now that the united states regards pakistan as a kind of free fire zone in which. to abuse the country's saw them free with no need for poetry or address nido has called the incident tragic and an intended promising to investigate the killings the pakistani government has demanded the u.s. viki an airbase used for drone attacks it's also closed a vital u.s. military supply route to afghanistan

a third to one 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 now stands prime minister has come out and said there would be no more business as usual with washington there are clear choices pretty problematic because. i dared to expand the war and i'm going to prague pummelled one of the front is not going to go it concluded with third world war and war and warning 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. meantime you're the president of the pack nationalists forms of pakistan that has been used by the us and it's time for the country to stand up for itself bucks any interest will have to be respected of products and work is if we didn't take part in any efforts to stabilize afghanistan and let me just remind you box that has played a major role as you know in the beginning of the war we're talking ten years ago. an air for peace efforts that led to the formation of a government that is headed no but president hamid karzai there is no way that you can have the operation of a country if you will not take that country's interests along unfortunately the international coalition led by the united states in afghanistan has failed to do

that bucks and has been used as a punching bag and has been blamed for the failures of the international coalition in afghanistan with glaring major failures there that cannot continue and i think pakistanis have been reviewing this for a long long time and i think the time has come now for a major parks and has suffered losses in excess of fifty billion dollars over ten years lost opportunities investments that ran away skate went somewhere else and so forth and of course not to mention the huge psychological damage of course that the pakistani people are suffering from as a result of our role in america's war in afghanistan it's now or six minutes past the hour here in the russian capital two million public sector workers all over britain taking part in a strike over pensions and unions say it's likely to be the biggest walkout in decades thousands of schools and offices are closed while hospitals are badly affected and being only able to focus on an emergency care. reports one. this is the biggest strike for around about thirty years there's

a rally here in the center of london at these marches that you can see behind me are going down to westminster column and to show you just how close they are and there are also individual pickets outside work places hospitals schools a vast number of schools are closed today we've got teaches nurses doctors on strike also civil servants and diplomats believe it or not the civil servants particularly problematic because of border controls untrained people have to be drafted to check people's possible sat at heathrow airport for example a lot of public sector work is interesting the old women and i'm joined by two of them here this is pretty and tim rich thanks very much for talking to us and we'll pose teaches pretty this this start with you as a female worker will will these changes to your pensions mean t v well. if you not have to work until in my late sixty's early seventy's i can't imagine being in the

playoffs and my thirty five year old as a seventy year old woman i hear teaching p.v.t. as a farmer school teacher and doing my job as best like i'm able to do now and also the cuts and the contributions have been cut to our pensions as well what we have to food. for dinner holidays and things i'm not able to do now as my career is starting out and the slogan that you old operating on stays in the pension schemes will make you pay more i work longer and get less at the ends of it simmered it this comes to you and ask you the government is constantly saying there is no money and that's the reason these pension changes having to be made but at the same time they're bailing out countries in the euro zone when a person isn't even a member of the or is the what's your feeling about that i mean anything it's all well and good helping our country again today you need to sort out your own country for having us on fair to the public sector and say and justified all we can. take money from the pensions when there's so many other ways that they could do and help

the eurozone if that's what they want to do and that's what they want to cite any day i just think it's a bit unfair way to go about it really to public sector teaches that thanks very much for talking to us now will be held today as more strikes are promised if the government doesn't keep saying we tweet here you can follow us that. report right there from central london as we continue to show you the live pictures coming from the scene here here we go you can see now it's approximately three in the afternoon london time upwards of possibly two million could make an appearance or nationwide it is worth noting here on ars who want to stand out many of our viewers are travelers when it comes to the issue of heathrow airport initial reports say heathrow is running smoothly however as the day progresses exactly the opposite could end up being the case london's heathrow airport and scores of airlines have warned an international travelers could be held in lines for up to twelve hours at immigration halls and many flights could be delayed or canceled

again live pictures here central london so what is expected to be the biggest strike in generations is staged live pictures here on our city. why do i do with r.t. a lot from moscow we're still ahead for you this hour growing pressure so here is economic sanctions against its former allies syria including awful tibetans deliveries ankara says the assad government has reached the end of the. mastermind victim russian investigators say britain's prime suspect in the two thousand and six radioactive poisoning of k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko was himself poisoned by. britain has ordered the closure of the iranian embassy in london and the expulsion of it start after the u.k. evacuated its own diplomats from the islamic states capital i denounce when it comes after militant students stormed the u.k. compound in tehran hundreds of hardline protesters massed outside the buildings

before pelting the gates and windows with petrol bombs burning british flags and an embassy vehicle the attack iran resolved to reduce diplomatic relations with the u.k. following its decision to impose further sanctions on tehran let's get some analysis and opinion on the situation i'm joined by i should initial five from the school of oriental and african studies at the university. thank you for coming on the program today so the iranian diplomats in london but have been ordered to leave the u.k. within forty eight hours how will this do you think the climate in this ongoing western iranian hostage. yes the unfortunate thing is that we were just referring to our symptomatic off a much larger problem with iran and the west in general which is the breakdown of the coming his'n channels this dialogue and negotiation is restored as soon as possible we'll see escalation of the current situation but do you think i mean

could the seeds of the u.k. embassy lead other countries to put more pressure on iran and perhaps encourage further international isolation as we understand it to norway has already closures embassy in tehran due to security concerns there is a bit of a knock on effect perhaps yes i mean the west has not hesitated to use any excuse whatsoever to you know seize diplomatic relations with iran and these are all confrontational steps the west has. decided to take. is are not going to. be restored as soon as possible in order to avoid. that i was as you as you were suggesting though that the western tactics here are on a confrontational manner but if you go the extra sanctions are on the back of deep frustration over iran's nuclear program and the un watchdog suggesting that sarongs designing an atomic bomb why doesn't it wrong simply let the observers in and show

there's nothing to hide perhaps that would solve everything. the i. thought i've reports on iran since two thousand and three and all of his reports various five none diversion of all nuclear materials all declared nuclear materials in iraq including those which are located in hospitals. to military. this is the result of extensive war by specters who have been in iran working hours and hours of inspections on hundreds of timer but the allegations which exist in his reports they have been fed to the i.a.e.a. by outside resources including this one on me state. supposed to have provided the i.a.e.a. with this. resources that material which has been discussed by hicks has and has been declared as incredibly. fragile and. on

credible so this is the part of the part of the i report which actually very fies the non-drivers and declared nuclear material or not as you say i don't think you're suggesting that everyone has been transparent with regards to its nuclear operations missions but when it comes to the clash of sanctions and what is going perhaps there's some i say tit for tat between iran and the west or the scenario is being orchestrated by international leaders the political elite how will these sanctions affect ordinary iranians. yes dysfunctions affect the very strongly ordinary iranians this is a lose lose situation as many rein in officials have already stated and when i say views lose on the one side iranians ordinary officials similar to similar to each other have been suffering from the. cuts from financial world financial system and the oil industry which is being signs of

a but at the same time. european ordinary europeans are being real going to be suffering this sciences because as we see the venue science and the wrongs all industry the price of food is going to rise. very much and i was just coming to your studio i could see hundreds of people on this result in london and this is already a sign of how dire the economy exaggeration is in the west and the sanctions are going to just what of course and the situation here especially for greece and spain and portugal oh i'm afraid that's all the time we have for here today on the program ushering shot for you from the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london many thanks. you with r t live from moscow an hour two men found guilty of bombing a subway in the russian capital minsk had been sentenced to death for the explosion in may kill fifteen people to be cannot by law for it was found guilty of

committing a terrorist act as he carried out the bombing he built the explosive device himself detonating it during rush hour he did act with an accomplice that of let us love off the judge ruled that they both pose an extreme danger to society and so both deserve execution by shooting they've been sentenced by a bill of rights is highest court which means they cannot appeal but the sentence can only be reversed if president look at schenker pardons the brother who says the only country in europe that practices capital punishment. now egypt has witnessed a president it seems as millions turned out to vote for their future but a rear square protesters who boycotted the polls still remain skeptical with doubts already over the influence that the new parliament will have they're sure that the autocratic hand of the military will continue to rule the country and he said now it reports. signs of a real democracy mile long lines at the polls vote stained fingers and culpable joy

of participating in egypt's future but do the signs stop that. election excitement and dreams democracy could be overshadowing a harsh reality there's little doubt egyptian enthusiasm for this whole is genuine they're excited to be voting in a real of action for real candidates but for our parliament that will have no power does that make us part of a real transition than from the old regime the problem is you know what or that you're going to produce a parliament that cannot appoint ministers that can work going to government. and its constitution whatever it turns out to be is going to be guarded by the army some who understand this boycott at the polls like some you regret how the protests are that knows all too well old tactics are still rampant or virginity tests was performed on her and other women protested don't talk here long after mubarak fell

out of it only the women told him to lie down for so to examine me and a man came in and a man to examine me i was naked it was like a show with people watching all of those officers and soldiers she was too upset to tell me details of her ordeal but did say this about the book i guess i thought was any the main reason for holding the elections is for the military to hide their corruption and crimes instead of putting a group of protesters marched to court for justice and show solidarity for victims . there were a few cameras and no egyptian press it remains the fact that both before during and after this election the ruler of egypt is an unelected man called field marshal muhammad ali and as long as he's on a lecture this is not a democracy but the west was quick to praise the election as a great. step towards change the americans begin to say want to be on you must go

back to barracks deep down they'll be perfectly happy to keep the army where it is in egypt and if you get one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans to you was expected to do what it wants its leaves little room for the people to get what they want in egypt might be waking up for more of a nightmare than the sweet dream of democracy once the election operation settles at least in our way r t cairo right now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow but turkey is freezing the assets of the syrian regime and suspending financial dealings with their former ally anchor also announced it would stop the delivery of weapons to damascus and the turkish measures come in the wake of arab relief sanctions a move that syria dubbed quote economic warfare earlier the u.n. released a report stating that government forces have committed crimes against humanity in their brutal crackdown on protesters but russia believes the rest was triggered by the syrian opposition and has called on both sides to begin dialogue middle east

expert edwin it curly says it's all very citizens who will ultimately bear the brunt of the economic pressure. sanctions is a blunt instrument which ultimately affects the population more than it affects ruling elites creasing the country may be sliding crowds kind of civil war because the protests apparently the peaceful protests have not had the kind of impact. organizers had hoped for and in fact they may be moving more and more power to some kind of armed confrontation nevertheless these these activities are also could be a double edged sword all those who have the best interests of syria and its people should make a police nother effort maybe more efforts to try to get some kind of dialogue going

to be in regime opposition the internal as well as the external opposition because unless we see that i think that situation is going to be dangerous for everybody involved both within syria and in the region it's an explosive situation. all right in about four minutes it's corrina with the business there but for now always bear in mind more stories and eye catching videos are always waiting for you and r.t. dot com now a quick taste of what's online the moment merican drove dropping bombs across afghanistan and pakistan a set the closer to home as a new piece of legislation could see the robot planes circling over u.s. soil. and a virus that could decimate the world and scientists in the netherlands create a deadly strain of bird flu swatting a row over the formula's future for more head over to r.t. dot com. a new twist in a long running spine saga the russian businessman who's the u.k.'s prime suspect in

the murder of ex security officer alexander litvinenko is now seen by moscow as a victim in the case russian investigators say the tent on his life was also made when litvinenko was killed in two thousand and six and another key witness said that about dimitri was also a target artie's peter all of a explains everything. russia's investigation into the murder of the libyan yanker said the two people were guarded as suspects in the murder by british investigators were actually targets of assassination themselves up the same time these are dimitri kovtun a businessman and former f.s.b. agent he was implicated in the case up there having a meeting with alex hunter and under a little boy who still remains the main suspect wanted for questioning by british police over the murder which took place in london he denies all of the allegations that have been made against him by the british police. that britain had asked for

him to be extradited to the united kingdom to face questioning this is out of the question and actually against russia's constitution since entered politics and is currently a state duma deputy meaning this extradition cannot take place and he will not under any circumstances be going to london to face questioning in the five years since that been yank his death we've seen really frosty diplomatic relations between britain and russia mostly due to the britain wanting to see a little boy extradited the russians question the thoroughness of the british investigation and the british so i could provide russia with information suggesting that lugovoy was guilty they would look into prosecuting him themselves here in russia but in london right now an inquest into the litvinenko is currently ongoing . my. thank you rory hello and welcome to our

business update this out thanks for joining me on top stories today action by the world's major central banks has given a powerful left to equity markets around the world six central banks including the u.s. federal reserve and the european central bank agreed to lower the cost of dollar swaps as means to boost liquidity and avoid a credit crunch meanwhile the chinese central bank took unilateral measures to boost liquidity and its economy i was under a complete go from troika dialog explains what's being going on. the use will be a big. change in their reserve requirements so it can be built inside for the chinese banks just to ease this information with liquidity in the kidneys markets bought off towards the major news came to seventy in the zero zero zero s. mostly time where all the major or certain food banks in the world to the

east peace war were really slow for you as well those that actually it's not that important but it's important that at least consumers but it's there for all the central banks you still possible in the current environment. and some of the numbers now and the coordinated action by central banks has given a lift to the all asset clause classes including oil likes where it is trading at one hundred one dollars about well brant is of course one hundred eleven dollars per barrel for the u.s. stocks opened shop behind our joint action by central banks the dollar and the nasdaq are gaining over three percent in early trading with caterpillar leading all the dow betting on games that included all thirty of its components european equity markets are making a strong recovery after a weak start to the day as well the key is gaining any we have the sense that dax is up over four and a half percent this hour and the russian markets posted strong gains on wednesday

the up here have closed over five percent in the black walk my six and their own with the sands in the back of block let's have a look at some individual shambled perhaps grab bag growth over six percent alfred pulled from a two fold increase in that profit for the first nine months of the year shares of diamond producer also have been blocked from trading due to forty percent growth. analysts say the high demand for the assets is due to its recent listing authorising and sèvres and that the lower after jumping ten percent since the benchmark for the last report. say the place has been up all about it's. russia's largest lenders bareback 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 from the russian oil company lukoil according to congress that newspaper's burbank is aiming to develop investment and private banking services in switzerland a deal could be worth around sixteen million dollars. russia's largest carmaker

after the us will look to overseas markets to expand as competition at home surges where the country joins the w t o accession to the trade body will ensure a gradual decline in car in prosecuting these to fifteen percent from the current twenty five percent the head of after the us explains how the company will handle this we are going to support competitiveness and increasing efficiency. reducing cost bringing big. there is our competitive advantage in russia because first and the next target is as i stand and the former c.e.o.'s conference and next to be one of the developing markets. but that would be a next step we will discuss and couple for you that's our business outlook for this hour but don't forget you can always log on to our website i t dot com business from last night's.

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