pakistan is set to ignore crucial talks on afghanistan next week over nato deadly air strike that hits of the heart of already strained of washington ties. the biggest walkout in decades is true really in the british public sector workers strike over pensions driving the country. around about half of all schools are closed and hospitals are expecting much and sees only a small for me in london in just a moment. and begin to pay orders the iranian embassy in london to close the diplomatic rift deepens after violent protesters stormed the british compound in

tehran forcing its staff to pull out. last egypt's parliamentary vote enjoys a record turnout disillusioned and protest to say the poll would limit the military's powers over parliament. international news in comment twenty four hours a day this is. pakistan has dealt a fresh blow to the u.s. by deciding to boycott a key security conference on afghanistan next week he 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 to stop the conference is the latest step by islam about to cut back on its cooperation with washington. as well. 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 the u.s. drone strikes targeting terrorist most recently a needle had to admit it killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. this said protestors onto the streets of islamabad torching and effigy of president barack obama burning american flags and demanding an immediate divorce from its american partner this is hardly the first problem the pakistani sovereignty has been infringed by the united states is not the first time the pakistani citizens

united states and its allies it seems to be the case now you know. pakistan is a part of free fire zone in which. two. countries three with no need for poetry or redress you know has called the incident tragic and an intended promising to investigate the killings the pakistani government has demanded the u.s. and the key an airbase used for drone attacks it's also closed a vital u.s. military supply route to afghanistan a third to 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 choice of beauty of what america historically speaking i did to expand the war and i'm going to bug plan or point out the problem is not going to be a door it can be good with world war and i want and wanting 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 leaders stop at nothing to get what it wants or enough war nile artsy new york. manipulation president of the pack nationalist forum says pakistan is being used by the us and it's time for the country to stand up for itself. bucks

county interests will have to be respected if clarkson is to participate in take part in efforts to stabilize understand and let me just remind you clarkson has played a major role as you know at the beginning of the war we're talking ten years ago. in our first peace efforts that led to the formation of a government that is headed now what president hamid karzai there's 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 and afghanistan has failed to do that box and has been used as a punching bag some has been blamed for the failures of the international coalition in afghanistan which are clearing major failures there that cannot continue and i think rocks that have been reviewing this for a long long time and i think a time has come now or maybe were talks and has suffered losses in excess of fifty billion dollars over ten years lost opportunities investments that they 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. two million public sector workers all over britain are on a massive strike over pensions and marched through many of the u.k.'s major cities the heart of all schools were closed as were many offices well hospitals have been badly affected and of being forced to focus on emergency cash let's get more now from artie's or smith she's live in des moines. speaking to people out on the streets there today just showing gree all day with these measures. but they're very angry and i think the scale of this strike with achieve million people walking out of that workplaces all over the country and it's the biggest strike the thirty year is really speaks to how angry people are about these proposed measures we've seen a rally here in london today with approximately twenty thousand people active but that's not even half the story there have been rallies in cities throughout the

country and also a picket outside individual workplaces now this is it has been a largely a very largely peaceful demonstration although we are hearing very early reports of the breakaway group who have rate is a building not very far away from where i'm standing in which the country's highest paid c.e.o.'s reportedly works we'll be following that as it as it develops various polls have been done about who supports the strike action in this country and a b.b.c. poll says around sixty one percent of the population are in favor of it despite the fact that half schools half of all the schools have been closed which has meant that parents have had to make special arrangements for child care and haven't been able to go to work because of that i know there's been trouble or potential trouble at the airports as border control officials have gone on strike which is meant here used to get into this country and airline civil they warned of delays deployed

hospitals this week that are accepting emergency cases only and there are a huge range of people who have been on strike teaches nurses doctors including some. it's a great to talk to you never been on strike. and altogether. about thirty unions have supported the strike action and what they're saying is that the new proposals to their pensions will mean they have to pay more into the pension scheme work for longer and then get less money out of them at the end of their working lives the first time the british people have been on strike in recent years over government policies will the politicians listen to them this time and. if i mean it's not clear these demonstrations that we see to be going on for a year now we started to get students save the cost of education and this is not the first time the public sector workers have been out on the streets either chancellor george osborne has already come out and said that the strikes were going to achieve anything that's not looking very good and the prime minister david cameron has already called them a damp squid that will be huge of the strike inspired they've already said that if

nothing happens as a result of this strike they will go one more strike and they will strike the longer now this is all to come in full to get to back up the government constantly saying that there is no money but consistently bailing out so you're raising countries despite the fact that britain isn't part of the year is there an early i speak to you alex kenny from the national union of teachers here's what he said about that. certainly people are saying we didn't pay for the courses we didn't pay for the banking crisis and they bailed out the banks are now working people are being made to pay for they won't accept. we have an unprecedented thirty three unions taking. money who've never taken strike action before we will see just how strongly people feel about. the government but of course in the aftermath of the strike expect at this thing the impact of it how many well placed the place was that was the disrupted it's not looking like

a taking notice it is looking like they will be moved right you can follow what's happening today on our twitter feed r.t. london very week we'll be staying here to see how it's about. as you say more from you throughout the day live from london thank you very much indeed for that update . well still ahead this hour growing pressure turkey announces economic sanctions against its former ally syria including a halt to weapons deliveries design process sounds government has reached the end of the. last model victim russian investigators say britain's prime suspect in the two thousand and six radioactive poisoning of k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko in london was himself poisoned with polonium the story still to come. but first britain has ordered the closure of the iranian embassy in london and the expulsion of its staff after the u.k. decided to evacuate its own diplomats from the islamic state capital norway has also closed its embassy in tehran with germany recalling its ambassador from the

country the moves come after militant students storm vu compound into room hundreds of hardline protestors master outside the buildings before putting the gates and windows with petrol bombs burning british flags and embassy vehicle it's ok martin iran resolved to produce diplomatic relations with the u.k. following its decision to impose further sanctions on iran should ensure five from the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london thinks that both the west and iran lose from stirring up the conflict the west has not hesitated to use any excuse. to. diplomatic relations with iran and these are all confrontational steps the west has. decided to take but. these are not productive the unfortunate thing is symptomatic af a much larger problem on the west and it is the breath out. sometimes

i was. saying is this door and as soon as possible we'll see. the answer from the price of a very strongly ordinary iranians this is a new situation on the one side or. ordinary officials. have been suffering from. you know that they are. finance the board financial this there and their oil industry that is being science or not but at this time. ordinary plans are. going to be. suffering this is because as we see the. iran's oil industry the price of food is going to rise. well rules are curious what you think about the consequences of the u.k. embassy siege in tehran you can cast your vote at r.t. dot com let's look at results from the moment the sell the majority of you think it

will eventually end up with western intervention on iranian soil opinion of the attack was just political theater and will have few serious consequences come second and fourteen percent believe the u.k. and other western countries will cut diplomatic ties with the islamic states while the rest predict more sanctions against iran and its further isolation i will say on r.t. dot com good to hear from. two men found guilty of bombing the subway in the better russian capital minsk had been sentenced to death the explosion in april killed fifteen people and me three kind of on off was found guilty of committing a terrorist act as he carried out the bombing he built the explosive device himself there's an aging during rush hour he acted with an accomplice a lot of some of the volume of the judge ruled postponed in extreme danger to society and so deserve execution by shooting been sentenced by the recent high school which means a kind of appeal the sentence can only be reversed of president lukashenko pardons

and the reason is the only country in europe that practices capital punishment. egypt witnessed unprecedented scenes as millions turned out to vote for their future but here to protest polls remain skeptical adults already over the influence a new parliament will have their share. the autocratic hand of the military will continue to rule the country and it's only reports signs of a real democracy mile long lines at the polls both stained fingers and culpable joy of participating in egypt's future but do the signs stop that. election excitement and dreams of 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 action for real candidates but for our parliament that will have no power does that make as part of a real transition them from the old regime and the problem is you know what of that

you're going to produce a parliament that cannot appoint ministers that can work going to government. whose 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 your brother how the protester that knows all too well old tactics are still rampant virginity tests was performed on her and other women the protests don't talk we're long after mubarak fell. the women told me to lie down for so she examined me and the man came in and sorry and then 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 boat i guess about the truck mosconi the main reason for holding the elections is for the military to hide their corruption and crimes instead of voting a group of protesters march to call for justice and show solidarity for jinnah

detests victims. there were few cameras and no egyptian press it remains the fact that both before during and after this election the ruler of egypt is an elected man called field marshal muhammad ali and as long. he's on 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 going to say one of your own minister back to barracks beat down will be perfectly free to keep the army where it is of egypt if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans do and it was expected to do what it was which leaves little room for the people to get what they want and egypt might be waking up for more of a nightmare and the sweet dream of democracy once election settles and you say no way r t cairo. turkey is freezing the assets of the syrian regime and suspending financial dealings with their firm and i and crew also announced it would stop the

delivery of weapons to tonight's case the turkish measures come in the wake of arab league sanctions a move syria dot economic move for earlier the u.n. released a report stating that government forces have committed crimes against humanity and their brutal crackdown on protesters russia believes the unrest was triggered by armed syrian opposition and has called on both sides to begin down or at least explain edwin says it's all very citizens who will bear the brunt of the economic pressure. is a blunt instrument which ultimately the population more. ruling. creasing li the country may be sliding. kind of civil war because the protests apparently the peaceful protests have not had the kind of impact. organizers are poor and they may be moving more and more power to some kind of armed confrontation

nevertheless these some of these activities are also could be. sure all those who have the best interests of syria and its people should make. more efforts to try to get some kind of dialogue going between the regime position the internal as well as the external opposition because unless we see it i think that's true ations going to be dangerous for everybody involved both within syria and in the region that's explosive situation. more stories and eye catching videos are always waiting for you on our website it's our dot com here's a taste of what's online for you there at the moment american drone dropping bombs across afghanistan and pakistan set to get closer to home as a new legislation could see the plane circling over u.s. soil. and a virus that could just make the world

a scientist in the netherlands create a deadly strain of bird flu sparking a row over the form of its future for more on those stories and plenty of others at r.t. dot com. a new twist in a long running spy saga the russian businessman who's the u.k.'s prime suspect in the murder of x. security officer alexander litvinenko is now seen by moscow as a victim in the case russian investigators say an attempt on his life was also made when it was killed in two thousand and six another key witness that we could call them was also a target all over explains. russia's investigation into the murder of alexander litvinenko said the two people who guarded as suspects in the murder by british investigators were actually targets of assassination themselves at the same time these are to me to be a businessman and former f.s.b.

agent he was implicated in the case after having a meeting with alexander litvinenko and under the 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 actually against russia's constitution since entered politics and is currently a state duma deputy meaning extradition cannot take place and he will not under any circumstances be going to london to face questioning in the five years since the death we've seen really frosty diplomatic relations between britain and russia mostly due to the britain wanting to see a little boy extradited now russia has questioned the thoroughness of the british investigation and said that the british side could provide russia with information

suggesting that look of boy was guilty they would look into prosecuting him themselves here in russia but in london right now an inquest into the little yank his death is currently ongoing. peter all of our reporting there it's coming up to twenty one minutes past the russian capital before we get the latest from the world of business with kareena let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world in our world update the eurozone has ten days to stabilize the single currency and stem the crisis the e.u. monetary affairs chief also said the region needs tighter economic governance and more protection against market meanwhile portugal has approved its strongest cuts in thirty years. as it struggles to reduce debt and italy says it will cause its owner sturdy measures and long term reforms on monday next week leaders to sort of try and hammer out a fresh solution to the continent's debt crisis. also angeles police say they've arrested at least two hundred occupy protesters as they tried to force them from their camp over

a thousand officers in riot gear raided the camp two days after demonstrators ignored and eviction notice from the city's mayor some protesters threw sticks some water bottles of police although the majority remained peaceful. because president laurent gbagbo has been charged with crimes against humanity by the international criminal court he was taken into custody at the hague where he's accused of murder rape and persecution charges date back to the aftermath of last year's election when he refused to accept defeat and also almost lead his country into civil war and his point to remain in power to be the first former head of state to be tried by the court since it was settled in two thousand and two. so that brings up state for the moment with the summary of the main news stories for in about seven minutes from now in the meantime as promised the latest business news is next with greta. well thank you bill hello welcome to our business update this hour of action by the

world's major central banks has given a powerful letter 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 a means to boost liquidity and prevent a global credit crunch meanwhile the chinese central bank took us a lot of measures to boost liquidity in its economy and xander from crocodile explains what's been going on. well you saw the vehicle chariot of. cheese you know there reserve requirements up to the downside for the chinese banks just trying to ease the situation would be getting in the kidneys market bought off towards the major news. server to key in the zero zero small school time where all the major serving food banks in the world to the east of us war for a really slow for the u.s. dollars actually it's not that important but it's important that at least comes through force of the central banks is still possible in the current environment.

let's have a look at the numbers now the coordinated action by central banks has given a lift to nearly all asset classes including oil prices are driven higher by suggestion from frustrated calls even sanctions on importing oil from iran but sweet is currently trading at one hundred and one dollars palla grande is over one hundred grand and never golfers are stocks in the u.s. jump out of the joint action by u.s. and e.u. central banks the balance of nasdaq again over three and a half percent with caterpillar play the games on the dow that includes all three of its components the european equity markets are making strong gains and even trading at the foot sea is going is up nearly three and a half percent the dax is up over a four and a half percent and in russia markets posted strong gains on wednesday as well the r.t.s. closed over five percent and the black problem isaacs ended over three percent

higher that's not a look at something diverts or travels that sarah bank rose over six percent separate posted a two fold increase and net profit for the first nine months of the year shares a common producer ross have been blocked from trading due to forty percent growth out of this a high demand for the asset is due to its recent listing on my six and sever style and the lower after jumping ten percent since november for you. reports say it may spin off its called production assets. that's a banking stocks russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to enter the swiss knock it as part of its strategy to expand in europe it's in talks to buy a small local bank has sold before a russian oil company little poor congress a newspaper says burbank is aiming to develop investment and private banking services in switzerland a deal could be worth around sixty million dollars. and russia's largest comic afterthoughts will look to overseas markets to expand competition at home will

surge once the country and says the w t o accession to the trade body will mean gradual decline in car importing is to fifteen percent from the current twenty five percent ahead of after the us explains how the company will handle. we are going to support competitiveness. increasing efficiency. reducing cost bringing big was better is our competitive advantage and russia. and the next target is as i stand and the foremost and next step we will move to the developing markets. but that will be in the next step we will discuss a couple of. well that's our business all that for this hour but don't forget you can always find most tori's past the web site i actually got caught. for driving quite a mix. of

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