to improve its nuclear capabilities it's not actually building nuclear weapons the i.a.e.a. didn't present any proof that iran's nuclear program has a military slow and why should the u.s. and europe continue to pressure iran. i think they do that for home consumption so i think they're in any case you know building a propaganda case to you know pacify the home populations nobody in the word believes that the last report from i.e. a was in any way correct it was based on rumors on false and fabricated documents and i was there in vienna when the director general presented his paper and he said well we thought you know the pressure from this nuclear program is building so we fired this report and in fact like this he explained why he was using all this bad information which day his predecessor in this job very wisely had never used so

this is the situation we have with this fake report the bad report damaging report and the report which makes you know steps by the u.s. against iran more likely but that this is all show the real thing is america's and a high pressure it's bankrupt in a way they need more billions of dollars to be generated in as a steady flow in trade this is you know in fact being damaged by this embargo this is why it is really patently stupid even from the u.s. point of interests so for this kind of situation right now we have in fact military pressure building on iran and what they want to see regime change this is what they say this is not about oil it's not about a nuclear program it's about regime change they want a regime which is doing washington's wishes that us are and what ever means they can throw in some who are desperate this time because of the bankruptcy of both the european system and the american system that is the situation we face we face this

urgency from the west and it's not based on you know affects us on the policy or wise counsel it's based on hectic affairs as you say economic warfare military pressure in the region ultimately ultimately all of it bought in doubt about a regime change or kristoff hostile government consultant political analyst i wish we had more time we don't thank you for coming on r.t. today. a u.k. student faces extradition to the u.s. for setting up a website giving people free access to movies online is not a crime in britain but in america he could get up to ten years in prison it's because of a controversial treaty between the two countries originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects but as artie's either bennett reports the deal is putting many british citizens in an extremely vulnerable position. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s.

federal prison richard o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain but counters copyright infringement in the us for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. the parish going. back to the gulf states i don't think the cuban rigid site t.v. shack was seized by u.s. authorities last year this is what you see on the home page now he didn't host any illegal videos itself but posted links to where users could find them u.s. prosecutors claim richard banked two hundred thirty thousand dollars in advertising revenue from the site although he's never been to america they claim his actions had direct consequences there i have been treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition well i've heard all about but i'm just going to go with

the other side anyway so. all that work that we. are as. he would there when he's i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said with a good strong argument that all went out the window completely for you know giving up no no we can't give up. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so for extraditions of five to two in america's favor veteran british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party the smaller partner in the governing coalesce. what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than that of an american to and at the moment

you think it's impounds i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds richard dryers are innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon is case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's wanted for hacking into pentagon files that he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still more than enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him his case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out either bennett artsy

london. ok let's get to some other international news for you in brief this hour would be after world updates starting with iraq a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded seventy across the iraqi capital of the blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country the violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. another body has been recovered from the capsized cruise ship off italy's coast bringing the number of confirmed deaths to sixteen over a dozen are still missing more than ten days after the line that ran aground salvage crews are preparing to drain the vessels massive fuel tanks of half a million gallons of fuel and tons of diesel before it leaks into the city. right time now for the business with dimitri.

hello and welcome to business artsy the ruble hit its wendy's well against the dollar on tuesday number of factors are pushing and higher including stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector to discuss the prospects for the currency i'm now joined in the studio by alexander if you're a senior economist. i was under always a pleasure to have you in the studio so what we're seeing right now is this a temporary bounce for the russian currency or does it have a long term trend here where i think the first quarter i would say that you are really in the first quarter exports are strongly in for selo and this helps a lot so i would expect some more appreciation going forward but then we came in the second half of the year we did see the ruble and the previous year over first two roubles for the dollar i've actually encountered in my personal experience if you go to a shop and you see some imported goods they've already been overpriced in just

a week right after the holidays and now why we seeing these fluctuations. i think it's mostly capital flows and this capital flows tend to cause very short term movements in the room and the fourth quarter was quiet but we kept a lot of it was there. in the quarter so that would kind of target do you have for the ruble against the dollar it's all the end of the year so nothing exciting thirty one or for the end of the year and pretty much for the year except for their small deal that i described earlier this is a comfortable level for the central bank in order to pursue its monetary policy you know i think the central banks policy is now designed so as they try to balance they kept all flows and current to go and there the rubble is in the pretty close to an equilibrium but when it comes to world of course you can't talk about the ruble without talking about oil or seeing right now as these tensions surrounding around pushing the well price higher this is supporting the ruble in turn but do

you think there may be one point when oil becomes too expensive for europe that it's going to hurt european economies and therefore you know it's going to have a negative effect for the russian economy you know of course no one benefits from lower global growth. so there should be for instance if all goes to one hundred fifty to two hundred of course it will be detrimental for the forest as well finally right now we're seeing a liquidity squeeze on the russian banking sector how much of a problem is that for the central bank should it be tackled i think the central bank is quite aware of it and last autumn they have been trying quite well to provide extra liquidity to banks for use in the main fin also helped with deposits in banks and i actually think that it's a new reality to which the banks have to adopt that central bank will be the provider of liquidity for them going forward and there will be less external liquidity available for a very short if you're

a senior economist obviously because it all thank you so much for being with us in studio. and that's all we have time for in this edition of the business news on i'll see we will be back in fifty five minutes time with plenty more so do join us if you can of course the headlines and excellency.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more new g.m. owns. a core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on where . we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it and there's no labeling there for it being used like on the board to experiment to be used as guinea. pigs oh no we have more questions than we have had three guards and like.

if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you live from moscow the headlines now. in libya as khadafi loyalists retake their former stronghold of bani walid at least five people killed with clashes between supporters of the. several. gulf states withdraw observers from syria as the troubled country rejects

a brokered peace plan calling for president assad to go meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil. to pay for black gold with. reports suggest. china could follow suit. on r.t. an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and a few possible solutions sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy to africa. that's next. you know how much chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation calls an also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you

for having me here so we start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis you as an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to la presse a failed in the country last time have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the most awful drill even with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day in tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle the mob get together we see life get back to each has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was

a real civil war and in some areas of libya of this civil war is not the word in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces its own of tribes it's a zone all of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if need be and political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which rushed. i was proposing last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disability that's the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but that's

all political talk shows if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because the ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today then to some people are really unhappy with that fact because then in favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about a so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with five star hotels because you know isn't all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk about necessity of establishing sharia law all over the country and all these

lawmakers world and all over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably see today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son safe islam will actually get a fair trial a lot will depend on that that would show the new face of libya actually i think that he will be in the government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the. well years of human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to most of the lead in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of of i.c.c. in the hague to bring the case of a system nation of moammar gadhafi to international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the

international community that you leave does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that and some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like i guess probably of his working together with any a jeep to extract oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that new libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top place for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject to the. arab spring and at this point how big is

assets support base because we don't hear much about that syria is different because syria is a cornerstone for political settlement in the middle east and the geo strategic role of syria is sorry to say that and but don't want to insult anybody but it's more important the more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability of many other countries that were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syria in case we have to play political chess but not american football is that what people want and. meaning to say i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is strategically speaking it's a wise idea i think that what syria needs today it needs more political efforts it needs political dialogue and that's why i heard with the regret that president bashar assad said that he is not in favor of the continuing of the mission of

observers sent by the arab league pick up pretty upset when russia seriously think that the observers and by the arab league can play the role does affect of stability within russia also offered several times that the russia can be a docking mechanism between the government and the opposition unfortunately all our proposals are being rejected for the time being can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as i said ship step down isn't their role really to mediate rather than i demand anything like that but i think that their role is to mediate that's what the secretary general is saying and that's what he's proposing no to mediate to build bridges and we need russia strongly believe that regional organizations should play a more important role in today's international politics what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not a syrian regime we are protecting syria as the country we are protecting syria as a nation we want to help syrian people and syria as a country so you bring up

a very important point because at this point if you look at it from the outside it does look like a full fledged war that's been going on for a while do you think a regime change in syria in order to protect the syrian people it's reasonable i seriously think that today the syrian political elite has to understand that the civil war will not lead to any political solution it will produce more blood from both sides it will produce more hatred and it will make a. national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that our syrian friends from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq you scenario should look at the libyan example should look at other sad example spenders lawman world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that the civil war cannot be a political solution what do you think finances and arms the free syrian army

a syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least for syrian opposition delegations were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finance is coming from different sunni states different companies individuals what we see in syria today and i really regret to see that we see more and more of a conflict security and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar also belongs to the family which isn't a lovely family the shia family the majority of the population in syria soon is and unfortunately that is one of the biggest problems of the middle east today we see more and more competition between the shia and the sunni in some cases it is represented by the competition between iran and turkey but in some cases it is represented by the competition between different political and really shows a religious circles within one state how big is

a support base at this point well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to arm all the opposition and to start massive war or mace a message invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from sub-saharan africa are the vibes of the arab spring felt there in the region at all one of the most concerning. results of the so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the socket zone in sub-saharan so i recently visited. me and morocco and for these poor countries and what is happening in the desert where this happening in this often zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the market i said what market today saw get the chinese made manpad which is an along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs it's for

nothing and i think it's it's a real problem it's a real problem because uncontrolled thinking may end up somewhere in the south of africa or somewhere in the south of europe do you think the fight for don't mean nation over and the african resources could just have a lasting region while the it's not the fight it's a kind of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the african continent during the ninety's recognized that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for the real prize or sometimes for the prize which is on the the market and today we see competition between many countries in the african continent it's not chinese domination like it was in the ninety's we see turkey was iran we see russia we see western countries will see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economy is there and all the new

economies all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. wealthy british style. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. on.

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the headlines fresh rounds of attacks in libya gadhafi loyalists retake the stronghold of bani walid at least five people were killed with clashes between supporters of the old and new regime in several cities across the. gulf states and withdraw observers from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy tanks on damascus. and india reportedly finds

a way to iran's oil despite the. paid for black gold with. reports suggest iran's biggest customers trying to close it. and all the action from the world of sport. hello welcome to the latest sports news and hear other top stories talk about reigning champion compliances beat outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of history in a. while but express what you're federer cruises into the semifinals with a straight sets victory over white martin del potro our next face rafael nadal. from the dugout to drop tottenham manager harry redknapp has been portrayed denies charges of tax evasion. first to tennis and reigning champion kim clijsters has

beaten and going world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of the australian open well despite injuring her ankle in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures and interest me ask you will lose the number one ranking to sixty seven weeks at the top. you know it was i was happy with that i was playing to try to be a little bit more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second so. so i knew that you know we both played a really good day in the north first. we really went for shots and good serving and good returns. good so i started laughing every time because the media was sounds to me sometimes like finishing my career and i only have one year left on you know time's running out but those factors are. quite a few years since the.