markets. i don't want to really happening to the global economy with much stronger a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our tea. party stuck on a central goal crucial talks on afghanistan next week of a nato deadly airstrike it's not the kids at the heart of already strained is not about washington ties. the biggest walkout in decades the two million british public sector workers strike up a pensions driving the country to hold. out saying they'll have to pay more except pensions but they don't get left money at the end of their working life join me for more intimate. and u.k. orders the iranian embassy in london to close as the diplomatic rift deepens after violent protests to stall the pritish compound interest on forcing its staff to pull out. plus egypt's parliamentary votes enjoys

a record turnout this illusion just to say the poll would limit the military's powers over party. that in business the world's major central banks give a powerful lift to equity markets around the world they agreed to lower the cost of tell us watson as means to go for it quickly and avoid the global credit crunch join me for a full business bulletin and i think. international news in comment twenty four hours a day this is good to have you with us this hour pakistan has dealt a fresh blow to the u.s. car deciding to boycott a key security conference on afghanistan next week you already tense relations between the two hit a new low after a recent nato airstrike on army post 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 has more. 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 bods most dangerous friend in a post nine eleven world pakistan joined forces with the u.s. in the war on terror or ceding roughly eighteen billion dollars in return over the past ten years yet hundreds of hassani civilians have been killed in the u.s. drone strikes targeting terrorist most recently nato had to admit they've killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. and this said protestors onto the streets of islamabad torquing and 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 the pakistani citizens. united states and its allies it seems that the. united states. pakistan is a kind of free fire zone in which. two. countries. with no need for poetry or address 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 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 but now prime minister has come out and said there would be no more business as usual with washington there are clear choice of produce. and i'm going to prague bomb all but never proven it was remarkable or it could. mean one thing everyone pakistan has been under his 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 marine upper nile r.t. new york and as the partnership between pakistan and the us is forming

a part another player seems ready to take washington's place china has long been a military and trade party and its number buds latest role with the u.s. only seems to strengthen the connection let's get some more insight into this from author and journalist barry. plenty on this subject is there in paris thank you very much indeed for being with us and i've been reading one of your articles in which you say that china and pakistan have more in common than america and pakistan could you explain a bit more what those. but first of all they're both geographically but much closer than america is so for trade commerce he's going to serve much definitely have mutual interests you know peace between the two of them and expanding their contacts there also together pakistan. of course is interested has been interested in supporting the taliban in afghanistan the taliban

of course being america's enemies in afghanistan the pakistanis are interested in the taliban if and when the taliban take over or have much more power again afghanistan the pakistanis see them as allies in their ongoing struggles with india and what china support that is well that. you know well because the chinese on the other hand are also i'm happy about america's power in the region and i would think they're particularly more perturbed now since obama's trip to australia where he announced he was going to be putting up twenty five hundred u.s. marines in australia and the united states was now going to turn its attention to increasing its power and its influence in the pacific i imagine that is the last thing that china wants anything that china can do to slow us down or hinder them. certainly plays into their politics i got pakistan wants to reduce cooperation with

washington as we've been hearing what impact will that have on the future of afghanistan. well it could have a tremendous impact because of course if you if you see all who. supplies to afghanistan go through pakistan it's keen. also as we've seen over the past few years the the taliban and their allies have been using pakistan as the places to hide out from which they can understand and they can then conduct their rates back into afghanistan from these safe harbors in pakistan so the u.s. person is understandably very upset by that but what role then could china have in the future stability of afghanistan more of a role little the u.s. perhaps but i think both china what's interesting is in looking at their trade relations with china and trying this new enterprises businesses in the area not

just have you back as then and other parts of the central asian middle east and chinese also want peace in the area they want peace and businessman peace for trade peace because they want to get a hold of their share of the petroleum from the region as well so peace for their own would be a tremendous asset that could expand a bit more on this the trade relations understand there's a lot of weapons sales also from china to pakistan but what are the industries on the chinese really interested in here because it seems to me that a lot of it is all about money and trade here than anything else it's about money and resources that you know that china has tremendously expanding economy needs fuel it needs or oil it needs natural gas and the place they need to get it from are places that are serving the middle east places like you're around. of in fact surprisingly that area now it's much more vital to china in saudi arabia iran is

much more vital to china than it is to the united states. author in general. very interesting to hear your perspective on this thank you very much indeed for your thoughts live in paris my pleasure. two million public sector workers all over britain or in a massive strike of a pensions more through many of the u.k.'s major cities in the whole of all schools were closed many offices while hospitals have been affected in the big focus or forced to focus i should say on emergency cash poor smith is holding events in london. 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 a story there have been rallies in cities throughout the country and also picket outside individual workplaces now this is it has been no largely

a very largely peaceful demonstration although we are hearing it very early reports of a breakaway group who have raided 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 top of all the schools have been placed which has meant that parents have had to make special arrangements with childcare and haven't been able to go to work because of that border control officials have gone on strike and airlines will say warned of delays to flights hospitals as we stagger excepting emergency cases and there are a huge range of people who have been on strike teaches nurses don't just including some categories of doctors he never been on strike before and altogether thirty round about thirty unions have supported this strike action and what they're saying is that the new proposals are that pensions will mean they have to pay more into their pension schemes work for longer and then get less money out of them at the end of that their working lives chancellor george osborne has already come out and

said that the strikes were going to achieve and the things that are not looking very good and the prime minister david cameron has already called them a damp squid that will be fuel to the strike hits but they did. i already said that if nothing happens is the result of this strike they will go one more strikes and they will strike the longer this is horrific cometh against a backdrop of the government constantly saying that there is no money but consistently bailing out say you're raising countries despite the fact that the person isn't part of the year is a fairly i speak to alex kenny from the national union of teachers here's what he said about the us certainly people are saying we didn't pay for the crisis we didn't pay for the banking crisis and they bailed out the banks and now working people are being made to pay for and they won't accept. we have an unprecedented thirty three unions taking action money of whom have 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 be exact i think thing the impact of how many but

this is the place was that this is the destructive it's looking like i think it's if it is looking like it will be moved right you can see what happens dayo not take to be touchy legendary i think we'll be seeing his secrets about the. smith reporting there from london well still ahead for you this hour in r.t. growing pressure turkey announces economic sanctions against its former allies syria including the hopes of weapons deliveries as a science government has reached the end of the road. muscovite all victim russian investigators say britain's prime suspect in the two thousand and six radioactive poisoning of ex k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko 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 states capital norway has also closed its embassy in tehran with germany recalling its ambassador from the

country the moves come after militant students stormed the u.k. compound in toronto hundreds of hardline protesters massed outside the buildings before pelting the gates and windows were. petrol bombs burning british flags and the c.v.t. attack came after iran resolved to reduce diplomatic relations with the u.k. following its decision to impose further sanctions on tehran should and should fight from the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london thinks that both the west and iran from stirring up the conflict. the us has not hesitated to use any excuse. to. diplomatic relations with iran and these are all confrontational steps but is the west has decided to take these are not for dr if the unfortunate things are simply not here to offer a much larger problem to iran and the west in general which is the breakdown of the modicum of history channel's dialogue and negotiation is restored you'll see

escalation of the current situation the branches of a very strongly ordinary iranians this is a lose lose situation on the one side to rein in spending cuts financial system and the oil industry which is being signs of that but at the same time ordinary plans are prospering because as we see the new science and the wrongs oil industry the price of food is going to rise. grosser 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 that's our website online all the time and this hour we can see the majority think it will eventually end up with western intervention on iranian soil b opinion that the attack was just political theater and would have few serious consequences comes second we could also see where the fifty percent believe the u.k. and other western countries will cut diplomatic ties with the islamic state while the rest predict more sanctions against iran and its further isolation still time

to have your say log on to r.t. dot com. two men found guilty of bombing the subway in the russian capital minsk have been sentenced to death the explosion in april killed fifteen people and 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 acted with an accomplice not his love of ali or ruled both pose an extreme danger to society and so deserve execution by firing squad they've been sentenced by the nooses high school which means they can't appeal the sentence can only be reversed if president lukashenko pardons them but it is the only country in europe the practice is capital punishment. egypt witnessed unprecedented scenes as millions turned out to vote for their future tell him the testers who boycotted the polls remain skeptical with alex already over the influence a new parliament will have their shoulder autocratic hand of the military who

continue to rule the country and he explains the signs of a real democracy why along the lines of the polls vote stained fingers and how people joy are participating in egypt's future nothing but do the signs stop it that. election excitement and dreams democracy could be overshadowing harsh reality there's little doubt egyptian enthusiasm for this whole is gen-u. when they're excited to be voting in a real action for real candidates but for a hard limit that will have no power does that make as part of a real transition down from the old regime the problem is you know what of that you're going to produce a parliament that kind of appoint ministers a counterpoint a government. whose constitution whatever it turns out to be is going to be guarded by the army some who understand this boycotted the poll right some you're in right now the protests are that knows all too well old tactics are still rampant

virginity tast was performed on her and other women protested don't talk to me or long after mubarak fell. the woman told me to lie down for so examine me that this and a man came in and i and then 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 about the talk mosconi the main reason for holding the elections is for the military to hide their corruption crimes instead of voting a group of protesters marched to court for justice and show solidarity for victims . there were a few cameras and no objection press it remains the fact that both before during and after the selection of the ruler of egypt is an unelected man called field marshal tantawi and as long as he is an elected this is not

a democracy but the west was quick to praise the election as a great step towards cheney although the american. people down will. keep the army were to me if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans do you expect it 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 and the sweet dream of democracy once election operation settles and it's in our way our tea kyra. turkey is freezing the assets of the syrian regime and suspending financial dealings with their former ally also announced it would stop the delivery of weapons to the mascot's the turkish measures come in the wake of arab league sanctions a move syrian economic welfare warfare i should say earlier the un released a report stating that government forces are committed crimes against humanity and their brutal crackdown on protesters and police at the unrest was triggered by the

syrian opposition and has called on both sides to begin darnall middle east expert edmund ghareeb says it's ordinary citizens who bear the brunt of economic pressure . sanctions is a blunt instrument which ultimately of the population more. ruling elites increasingly the country may be sliding. kind of civil war because. apparently the peaceful protests have not had the kind of impact. organizers who are. maybe moving war and more power some kind of armed. confrontation nevertheless. these activities are also could be. sure all those who have the best interests of syria and its people should make the police. maybe 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 that i think that situation is going to be dangerous for everybody involved both within syria and in the region that's right i know explosive situation. more stories and eye catching videos are always which if you would r.t. com here's a quick taste of what's online at the moment american drones dropping bombs across afghanistan and pakistan is set to get closer to home as a new legislation could see the plane circling over u.s. territory. planners that could decimate the world the scientists in the netherlands create a deadly strain of bird flu spotting around over the formula's future for more at r.t. . a new twist in a long running spy saga the russian businessman who is the u.k.'s prime suspect in

the murder of a security officer alexander litvinenko is now seen by moscow was a victim in the case russian investigators say an attempt on his life was also made when litvinenko was killed in two thousand and six another key witness to need to be called to was also a target peter all of that 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 the meter because a businessman and former f.s.b. agent he was implicated in the case up there having a meeting with alexander litvinenko 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. 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 that extradition cannot take place and he will not under any circumstances be going to london to face questioning in the five years since his death we've seen really frosty diplomatic relations between britain and russia mostly due to the britain wanting to see lugovoy extradited the russians question the sternness of the british investigation and said that the british i 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 his death is currently ongoing. peter all of the reporting there let's not look at some other news making headlines around the world for a business something really the eurozone has ten days to stabilize the single currency in stem the crisis and even

a tree ferns chief also said the region needs tighter economic governance and more protection against market opens with more portugal has approved its strongest cuts and thirty years in the struggles to reduce debt in italy says it will pass its both a security measures and long term reforms on monday next week the leaders are set to try and hammer out a fresh solution to the continent's debt crisis. los angeles police say they've arrested at least two hundred occupy protesters as they try to force them from their camp over a thousand officers in riot gear raided the camp two days after demonstrators ignored the pictionary as from the city's mayor some protests just to stick some water bottles at police although the majority remained peaceful. repose president laurent gbagbo has been charged with crimes against humanity body international criminal court he was taken into custody the hague where he's accused of murder rate and persecution charges date back to the aftermath of last year's election when he refused to accept defeat and almost always country into civil war and his fight to remain in power he was the first former head of state to be tried by the

court since it was set up in two thousand and two. obvious about the summer many stories for in about six to seven minutes from the meantime it's probably screen is next with the business news. hello iraq and. thanks for joining me also expect a central banks announce a planned of coordinated action to support the global financial system they agreed to lower the cost of dollar swaps as means to boost liquidity and prevent the global credit crunch the action has given a powerful left to equity markets around the world meanwhile the chinese central bank took a lateral measures to both liquidity and its economy and was adequately of course explains what's going on. we store the brick which are in the. cheese you know their reserve requirements so it could go inside for the chinese beings just to ease the situation would make me get you because you're

a nice market bought off the was the major news. server to you in the zero zero small school time where all the major serving food banks in the world to the east wall were real slow for the us dollars actually it's not that they have important but it's important that at least consumer goods forestall the central banks still possible in the current environment. let's have a look at the numbers now on the coordinated action by central banks has given a lift to oil prices are also driven higher by a suggestion from france to impose e.u. sanctions on the importing oil from iran light sweet is trading at one hundred one dollars per barrel brant is that over one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel u.s. stocks jump after the joint action by us read a reserve an e.u. central banks the dow and nasdaq are gaining over three and a half percent with caterpillar leading the gains. included all thirty of its

components and european equity markets closed with strong gains on lines day the footsie ended up over three percent the dax was up slightly under five percent and the russian markets closed to strong gains as well as he has closed over five percent in the black album isaac's and that over three percent higher now it's had a look at some individual shareholders over my six square bank grows over six percent after it posted a two fold increase in net profit for the first nine months of the year shares of diamond producer our also have been bought from trading due to forty percent growth analysts say the high demand for the asset is due to its recent listing on the my six and seven star was four and a half percent lower out there jumping ten percent since november twenty fourth reports say it may spin off its called production. assets. russia's largest lenders where bank is seeking to enter the source market as part of its strategy to expand in europe and stocks to buy it's in talks to buy a small local bank s.l.b.

from russian oil company look or else according to congress newspapers where bank is aiming to develop an investment and private banking services in switzerland deal could be worth around sixty million dollars. and russia's largest carmaker after hours will look to overseas markets to expand competition at whole surge once the country enters the w t o access center the trade body will mean a gradual decline in car import duties to fifteen percent from the current twenty five percent ahead of after the us explains how the company will handle this we are going to support competitiveness and increasing efficiency. reducing cost between the big wall gives there is a competitive advantage in russian business to stay and the next i get is as i stand and the former c.e.o. and next step be one of the world markets. but that would be the next step

we will discuss and couple of years. that's it for now but join me in about fifteen minutes from our. customers and so much a lot of people are curious. to see if the cold is going to be in for the so-called. come into the world and throughout history have adopted policies.

for. the beasts and much mightn't be. sung from the list immigration. teeth don't come.