quite. the winner takes it all the loser standing small the russian self. is left empty handed after a muslim court dismisses his hefty lawsuit against. which. turkey's pitch for a syrian intervention hits a dead end at the un leaving nato countries warning they might simply bypass the security council. and we could also chips in on syria promises more revelations

on western motivations of the crisis and blasts u.s. harassment of his whistle blowing web site. plus republican mitt romney accept his nomination as presidential candidate with a promise to show more backbone but critics snipe that's not his greatest asset. online on screen international news and comment live from new center in moscow if you're just joining us for one welcome the russian billionaire the man number of overtures come out on top of a high profile jewel with a number based on one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multibillion dollar challenge from controversial time. and the trial which offered a writ glimpse into the lives of the super rich more in the case now for marty's.

final verdict in a case found against bodies which means that he won't receive then all the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for. but i want to. see in court this morning. was he a brave looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but that it was being read he held his head in his hands. and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the old old brushes make a richard what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about the history of sums of money off shore bank accounts illicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash or of course five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the

strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's cruel to london to school building billionaires along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this area in their shades in a menacing way but he said that is all this case says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that promote it intimidates him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they will but abramovich says that in fact he embodies all skill whenever business partners that he was making payments to but is also key but they were only for political protection. roof in russian which has become a common hollins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to put his old skate up

full of political protection but he says that they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made into huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred for in cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid for but is also key to travel in a private jet that he bought him a french chateau and he also bought him jewelry for his girlfriend but as he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he would see. back in two thousand and two from which this is been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've heard the results of this case new when this time around we may see more cases of this nature here in london. parties nor smith than the professor of law or westminster university john flood believes london courts will have to deal with more cases of this kind in the future . well it's not normal it's the first of its kind but it's the first of

a series of cases which are now going to be heard in the commercial court we've got two and they're coming up next i'm going to ask is going to be appearing again so i think this one's going to run it's going to become normal the trouble with partly with the russian case is is that there's no there's no move towards settlement there so deeply entrenched in the polar opposite positions that they just want to fight it out. when you can check out r.t. dot com for the timeline and all the claims and counterclaims in this multibillion dollar wrangle and the details from right inside the courtroom lined up at our london bureau twitter feed the latest tweets say the verdict court but it's but it's also by surprise he's considering an appeal he was described by the judge as deluded been some of his testimony and his evidence was dealing with.

britain france are warning they might bypass the u.n. altogether or off to turkey's push for a no fly zone over syria met strong criticism of the security council and chris demanding sweeping powers to protect refugees fleeing war in a move that would amount to military intervention but international reaction has been cool with strong reservations about militarizing a humanitarian effort miniport now reports from new york. well the security council remains very much divided over how to deal with the syrian crisis the high level meeting that was taking place in new york focused on the humanitarian circumstances in syria right now and how they continue to exacerbate according to u.n. officials at least two hundred twenty nine thousand syrians have fled the country in the past eighteen months spilling over to neighboring countries turkey has the

security council to consider setting up refugee camps inside of syria that are outside countries would safeguard this is a suggestion that the syrian government say they are very much against russia and china also opposed it saying that it could only create more conflict and violence but we did hear western countries address the security council their representatives calling once again for the syrian president bashar al assad to step down britain and france the foreign ministers of those countries today made a new call encouraging for more defections within the syrian government and the syrian military the russian ambassador tonight nations vitaly churkin i did address the security council and raised the issue of the fact that the unilateral sanctions that western countries including the u.s. britain france those sanctions that they've placed on syria are only hurting the syrians at the examples of the stool the sinks is imposed by passing the u.n.

security council have nothing to do with actual efforts to settle the syrian crisis we complicate the lives of average citizens and do not allow them to meet their elementary needs or fully enjoy basic human rights this is not only our conclusion but also that of an independent commission in syria we call upon nations who impose sanctions against syria to immediately lift them you see the efforts of certain states to use humanitarian reasons to justify financial technical and logistical support to illegally armed groups as an acceptable. but the u.s. and its western allies have underscored as late as this eat this meeting taking place security council that they will continue supporting the syrian opposition and continue providing them with a quick meant. professor paul sheldon foote from california state university has been monitoring turkey's no fly zone but he says that underneath the rhetoric and professed humanitarian concerns it's all about politics. it's

a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country years seeing the united nations as your vehicle it is a. repetition of what happened in libya where we are the united nations being used to promote war instead of a step playbook worked in libya they want to try to save playbook until it doesn't work anymore well there's no desire by. the west. with a negotiated settlement the old with the purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east or in such as syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as there is a gross. also weighing in on the syrian situation is we can leaks within the song promising to publish millions of emails to cost new night on the crisis that's supposed to show just how comfortable the west used to be with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him it was simple i made

these comments during an interview with a south american t.v. network while he's holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london he criticizes washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime he would have mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega-state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights and so as predicted he would stay for up to a year at the embassy surrounded by british police and some of the diplomatic solution is found the case against him is dropped full within from the u.k. independence party says the issues we humans brings up all extremely relevant. we here in britain suffer even more from the surveillance society in the united states and london is the cat the world capital of surveillance everywhere you look there's a c.c.t.v. camera we all constantly monitor moment to twenty four hours a day now we we in the u.k. independence party trying to fight this in the same way that wiki leaks has been trying to do but it's very difficult thing. because you are made out to be against

the rule of law or if you don't want to be surveyed you know every moment of your your waking life but the fact of the matter is that there's been no attempt to say that any of the stuff that they reveal is fraudulent or if it's misleading the whole strike seems to be to take them out because the actual documents speak for themselves and are clearly for the most part you know extremely damning and very relevant you know. stay with us here on r t still ahead feel this politically motivated the body of a grown although you un report claimed to have evidence that the country has doubled its nuclear past. and over germany where the old dutch mark is more than just sentimental value in uncertain times that story still to come. first mitt romney has been outlining more of his policy plans except that his nomination

as the republican candidate for the u.s. presidency he wants more stressed his aggressive views towards some nations including russia with a reputation for changing his stance it can be hard to tell how trustworthy years he's going to check on explains. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any masorti towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mistake was in will see less flexibility and more backbone and of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy and that they need to reset the reset

that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for a lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration he was for giving them legal status that he was for deportee them mitt romney's flip flops have been widely discussed they've become an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is. from the tonight show with jay leno it says actually mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change directions that any moment and another comedian goes obama is like you can be whatever you want to be while romney is like i can be whatever you want me to be there are tons of jokes about mitt romney and his backbone issues

apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this november election. you know different because greatness and special position in the world is a staple of both candidates campaigns but is it fair to say the u.s. the u.s. has a unique role to play in global affairs but that's the question in today's cross talk that's coming your way at nine hundred thirty g.m.t. . let's take a look at a very well known clip from h.b.o.'s program newsroom. just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there's some things you should know and one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world we lead the world in only three categories number of incarcerated citizens per capita number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending is america still number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state and eight

hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictator rest of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. crosstalk come your way a little later on iran is rejected as a political move the latest report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog which claims the country has doubled the number of you knowing him enrichment centrifuges to run police at the findings aimed overshadowing the nonaligned movement summit taking place there side mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran thinks that the release of the report at this time is highly suspicious. the iranians are saying that this report came at

a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the nonaligned movement. conference in tehran has been highly successful instead of iran being isolated the united states has become isolated scented opposed senior figures going to tehran and many major world leaders have come to the country in addition the president of egypt into iran which is a political earthquake the iranians are producing uranium. enriched uranium at twenty percent for facilities in tehran which then produces medical isotopes the fact that the united states and the europeans tried to prevent iran from obtaining that fuel in the past that meant that they were taking the iranian cancer patients hostage the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but

the americans and the europeans by taking iranian citizens and people hostage forced the iranians to take that step the politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility. don't forget to log onto our website healthy dot com for the latest news comment and videos online all the time and while you're there here's a taste of what else might be. plans for a new app which gives the latest updates on the u.s. military drone attacks including a port of power. has been the problem. also online vision of the future a woman who lost her sight has got it back again surgeons have implanted hope for the first ever successful by a college. german

chancellor angela merkel is on a visit to china hoping to tap into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its debt spiral she's seeking to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability fund a fall against financial trouble that you chancellor worked hard to create a hands on the nanny from the european council on foreign relations says the chinese are no hurry to lend a hand to bunim. the big house in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism . the chinese. offer lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the

chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example how much the chinese invested in european bones in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably won't know. there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of a boss that we see this is a european company and so it would benefit not just you know. money but also fronts and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. by german companies are open to european companies and so in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries and i would generally seems to be winning that competition. well germany is striving to make sure the euro stays afloat its old currency the don't mark is showing no signs of being discarded. has the details of berlin's old school savings for a rainy day. here in germany the don't try are still very much alive and kicking in fact in the store in central berlin the good old they market is still accepted as

legal tender when it comes to purchases with an exchange rate of around two dollars each marks to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it once on the name of three the reason we accept which marks is there are still plenty of people with the old currency we get quite a few people wanting to spend them in our store for it's not just in shops that they're accepted if you find a few d. mark coins down the back of the sofa germany's public telephones will happily take them off your hands germany officially dropped the old money for the euro over ten years ago in two thousand and eleven alone though over eight million mark were brought to the bundesbank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. he had that has not been one of my other lead relatives gave me before and it's a gift so i decided to turn them into something it could spend on television you

know it would have been lying around the house for ages we only just got around to getting democrats changed or there are those though who say they won't part with their marks as a good sum i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro. according to the blunders bank there's still more than thirteen billion dollars each marks in circulation they say they get returns from as far away as brazil and new zealand so unlike some eurozone members the bank won't place a time limit on accepting old money. we will continue to take them as long as people keep bringing them it's something of a tradition here that currency from years and years ago will always be exchanged for legal tender there are conspiracy theorists though who say that in the banks vaults are trillions of marks being stockpiled should the crisis deepen only

room so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for a rainy day what happens to it and once the exchange is complete those deutsche marks the shredded ending their days it's very expensive contest peter all of a r.t. . well before we have the business news with dmitri let's check out some other international news in brief now at this stage of the day at least twelve people been killed and up to twenty injured after a powerful explosion rocked a market in north western pakistan there's been no claim of responsibility so far in the region a scene frequent attacks in recent times which mostly been blamed on the taliban around five thousand people have died in violence there over the past five years. south africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation over the decision to charge almost three hundred minors with the murder of their thirty four coworkers despite the fact the victims were killed by police prosecutors claim police were

provoked during the incident two weeks ago and opened fire only after protesters attacked them this huge public outrage with many believe the government is trying to shift the blame incident was the bloodiest in the country's history since it became a democracy in one thousand nine hundred ninety four. also in a world update a massive wildfire in southern spain has forced around four thousand people to flee their homes with some losing everything in the flames firefighters believe the blaze was started deliberately and they hope to get it under control by the end of the day spain's countryside has been very dry this summer because of a prolonged heat wave. well as promised which is next with the business news and how the markets reacting dimitri to ben bernanke is key speech in wyoming any sensations that well the market reaction is quite moderate because the answer is kind of yes and no because chairman ben bernanke he was talking a lot about quantitative easing what everyone was expecting basically from him but

when it comes to factual data as to when how and volumes there was no basically no indication of that but chairman ben bernanke he made clear that the federal reserve will do more to boost the economy because of high u.s. unemployment and an economic recovery that remains quote far from satisfactory he also basically talked about the high unemployment rate that this is the result of cyclical problems in the economy but again when it comes to quantitative easing he hinted that it could be done but no factual no factual data here so let's take a look at the numbers then the dow jones now is up point six percent last hour we looked at it was up more than one percent so it's kind of the hype is calming down and indeed we could just say that the markets are not deep rest by this speech so it was not a disappointment as was the case with several that you see the drug speech.

over in europe we are also seeing a positive picture on the dax at the close it's up more than one percent on hopes that the e.c.b. would go ahead and buy up more bonds in spain and italy but the footsie slipped into the red at the end of the session now when it comes to poland one of the european union surf you grow stories and it's feeling the squeeze of the downturns of the country's second quarter growth eastern two point four percent the lowest in three years and significantly below for those g.d.p. kept expanding over the last few years. well much of the e.u. showed negative growth but a series of gloomy economic indicators have shown that the so-called economic miracle is basically coming to an end. now russia this is the closing picture it's mixed and pretty flat basically it's out of sync with the rest of the world today

with the rest of global markets and the my six has been driven down mainly by boyle's shares which are taking huge part in the index is weight is pretty pretty solid and that's on the back of the company and baling that has been buying up the two and a half billion dollars worth of its own shares from the market so investors can chose to secure their profits as they're probably will not be and buy back in the future at least in the coming days. and lot of us take a look at what's happening in the commodities market light sweet and brant of both gaining one and a half dollars per barrel now on these expectations that there will be stimulus soon that we will soon get some information as to when how and where and therefore this could stimulate the economy could stimulate demand for energy so we're seeing prices rise pretty much now on the currencies market the year is new zing it's steam against the dollar it's now at twenty five and as you can see was up at one

point twenty six at one point and the russian ruble was gaining against both currencies but that's gains after several days of going down against both the euro and the dollar. now china is trying to promote its you walk on and make it a currency in international trade not only with hong kong and singapore but now it's eyeing the latin american markets and the middle east so russia has been pretty much calling to do the same thing and hong kong's financial secretary john tsang has told us here that the two countries could help each other. what is happening now is a great deal of trace. in the national currency so in terms of for example between russia and china they would be doing a lot of settlement in un or in this way you can weigh reduce the currency

risk that may incur and that it's already happening i think we should expect to see a lot more of that two currencies become a. currency for for the rest of the world. so that's the way the markets look at thanks a lot to me in the next hour here in r.t. well i'll be back with the top stories for you in just a couple of minutes stay with us live this is our team in moscow.