oil prices by easter. bennett r t london. fears of a military confrontation involving iran are becoming ever more prominent but the top terror general threatening a preemptive strike of its national interests are in danger of christmas chambers journalism professor from georgetown university told r.t. the rhetoric is being hyped by the american media and you have to have a symbol of fear you have a you have a presidential campaign people are searching for issues interrogate shoes or red meat issues that they can feed their constituency and what you have here is is people joining up. coverage people understand nukes people understand military exercises in the god that gets people crazy what we aren't talking about are the you know the assassinations the cold war covert war the drones excel or any intrigue that might be going on with israel they don't do that particularly well

and that's the devil in the details and could get us into trouble. kate is here with business shortly but first let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world apart commuter train control runaway platform in argentina's capital killing innocent people and injured five hundred fifty others the driver and some of the passengers were taken away and stretchers first held still to be the worst affected rescue work services are still working to reach an estimated thirty people trapped inside. at least seven people being killed and twenty injured after police opened fire during a second day of protests outside a u.s. military base in the afghan capital demonstrate as i go by the diversity of the program by u.s. troops have been throwing rocks and petrol bombs a senior commander apologize for the destruction of the muslim holy books and the u.s. embassy in kabul has been put on lockdown while an investigation is hell. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has declined a chance to address the court in the final session of his seven a trial judge announced the verdict will be delivered on june the second

prosecutors want the death penalty for accused of being behind the deaths of eight hundred protesters during last year's uprising that ended his three decade rule yelling for the leader the noisy allegations to keep. backward some of our main news stories for in about eight minutes from now on meantime let's cross over as promised to our business desk and kate is waiting for us. a labor is accusing ukraine of siphoning off gas pound for europe during the cold snap at the beginning of the month c.e.o. alexey miller says ukraine illegally took as much as forty million cubic meters the day at a time european customers asked for increased supply melissa says gas prom do what it could to meet demand the absolutely actions off ukraine calls home to the russian company's reputation balance sheet here lies accusations.

separately gas problem says it's ready to start construction of the cell strain in december of this year the pipeline is intended to transit gas to southern europe bypassing ukraine the project is expected to cost around fifteen billion euros. russia's state nuclear energy corporation tom is entering the european market is going to supply experimental fuel to the largest atomic power plants in the navia but say used to be if it proves to be successful russia could count on the contracts but looks to me keep joe. let's see what's happening in the world of the markets and we will start with europe didn't do they closed in the red raising agencies which downgraded greece's credit worthiness father into junk status deceit from picture to say in maybe his own words this means default on his going to paris is highly likely the new feature as you can see the footsie finished up point two

percent of the rats on the last nearly one percent down. they were in russia it was a similar color pallet but also rats delta as point eight percent down the miserly over a percent in the negative territory. a dispute between europe and the rest of the world over a new carbon tax on fly's is coming to a head diplomats from opposing countries are mosco to discuss the council measures possible retaliation dmitri medvedev because at the event of business are today. the u.s. had several green initiatives and one of the latest is including airlines in the emissions trading system so basically means airlines will have to pay a certain types of fifteen percent on all of their carbon emissions by purchasing quotas on the emissions trading system basically concerns all flights to and from europe and charges not only the segment of the flight which goes over european

airspace but that serves all flights so a declaration has been signed by twenty nine nations including russia china india brazil and the united states today which gives carte blanche to all the nations which have signed is that gratian to take any countermeasures that they deem necessary in order to protect their national interests and the corporate interests of their ally over all we have heard from by leading okola deputy transport minister that this financial burden will all in all be very heavy for airlines involved and this is what we have to say about this. business you know the aviation business has extremely low profit margins the air carriers see profit one and a half to two percent in a good year that's why any additional financial pressure hits the stability of the company's base cost loading will help industry improvements below the moon this passengers will be the ones to pay the burden there is

a lack of dialogue between the two sides and neither the e.u. nor the nations opposing the move want to back down and the deadline for companies to pay for quotas for two thousand and twelve is june two thousand and thirteen so this process of argument can drag on for at least another year. but also the business needs for now the more stories you can always check out our web site. business and in the time pod misstating for the headlines. with horrible.

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