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through. all. the winner takes it all the loser. the russians. as left empty handed after a london court dismissed. against. syrian intervention hits a dead end at the u.n. leaving nato countries warning they might simply bypass the security council. republican mitt romney accepts his nomination as presidential candidate with

a promise to show russia backbone but critics like that that is not his greatest asset. and on screen international news and comment from the new center here in. russian billionaire roman abramovich has come out on top of a high profile court jewel with a london based compatriot in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multi-billion dollar challenge from controversial. and a trial which offered a writ glimpse into the lives of the super rich more in the case now from in london the final verdict in the case found against bodies which means that he won't receive then the more than five point six billion dollars that he was.

what i want to. court this morning. was very upbeat saying he had been in the legal system but once the verdict was being held his head in his hands . 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 brushes make the rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about the history of sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools 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 billion ads along with their own two rushes megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who want to

round these courts area in their shades in a menacing way but he's got his old case says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact him but whenever business partners that he was making payments to bit as 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. full political protection but he says that that they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made in huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred different cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid 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 received . back in two thousand and two. 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 fee so we've heard the results of this case. when. we may see more cases of this nature here in london. and all the claims and counterclaims in this multibillion dollar. website get more insight into what went on right inside the courtroom earlier today by checking london bureau twitter feed the latest tweets there say the verdict. by surprise and he's considering an appeal he was described by the judge is deluded in some of his testimony and his evidence was weak.

britain and france are warning they might bypass the u.n. altogether to turkey's push for a no fly zone over syria but strong criticism of the security council and chris demanding sweeping powers to protect refugees fleeing war and a move that would amount to military intervention but international reaction has been cool with strong reservations about militarizing the humanitarian effort. 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 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 all western countries address the security council their representatives calling once again for 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 baths are today nations vitaly churkin 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 that there was up on the stool the sink 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 meads 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 to 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. political analyst and freelance writer cavour comer is also

skeptical of a no fly zone questioning just who is humanitarian needs it would fulfill. this is not going to marry terry curious what should be done is to follow is to push for a negotiation for a dialogue between the syrian leadership and with the opposition for example next month we have the internal opposition meeting inside damascus under the parable of the risk to syria so why do worst of states are not hoping the syrians for a political solution where there are going down trying to see the psychology how the u.s. . and the fundamentalists in syria sided by and by the carried out that it is out of. this against the circular states like syria i'm going to work well kind of studio expecting in the future about syria falls in the hands of this experience of cohesion of the syrian society will be totally collapsed and you could have only by the coalition of the whole of the middle east. still ahead here on the wiki

leaks weighs in on syria if your little songs promises more revelations on western motives in the crisis and blasts us harassment of his whistle blowing web site. and another headache for washington which has come under fire for closing the last investigation into the cia's alleged torture tactics against its prisoners. well that's still to come but first mitt romney has been outlining more of his policy plans as he accepted his nomination as the republican candidate for the u.s. presidency he wants more stress he's aggressive views toward some nations including russia but with a reputation for changing his stance it can be hard to tell how trustworthy is so if he's going to can explain. 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 mr putin 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 anime 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 deporting them mitt romney is flip flops have been widely discussed they've become

an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is 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 at 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. well stay with us here in r.t. still ahead for you this hour politically motivated the verdict from iran on a new u.n. report claiming to have evidence that the country has doubled its nuclear capacity . over in germany where the old butch mark is more than just sentimental value in uncertain times. just promise to keep

publishing millions of e-mails to cast new light on the syrian crisis in a rare interview given to a south american t.v. network promised to show just how comfortable the west used to be with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him soldiers also criticize washington's harassment of leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime you mention how the west is turning into surveillance mega-state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights the whistleblower voiced his belief that the case against him is really a case against leaks but he remains hopeful that swedish prosecutors will eventually drop the investigation paul wilson from the u.k. independence party says the issues we killings brings up are extremely relevant. here in britain suffer even more from this surveillance society in the united states london is the world capital of surveillance everywhere you look there's

a c.c.t.v. camera we are constantly monitored monitored 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 because you're made out to be the rule of law or if you don't want to be so very 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 only of the stuff that they reveal is fraudulent it's misleading. the whole strike seems to be to take them out because the actual documents speak for themselves and clearly for the most part you know extremely damning and very relevant. u.s. justice department has closed the last remaining investigations into the cia's alleged torture tactics against these detainees after the nine eleven attacks without bringing charges the cases involve two deaths in the agency's detention

facilities in iraq and afghanistan well let's discuss this week from the u.s. based think tank the world called wait joins me now live from new york now this period of five years which would put dozens of cia officers in legal jeopardy has finished with these two cases now closed is that the end of the story no well one would hope that the world's population would have to hope that. the u.s. military and the u.s. government has not literally gotten away with murder again this possibly opens the door for international prosecution and findings that the u.s. indeed broke international law as many people around the world think it did and has repeatedly in this eleven year long war on terror you mentioned war on terror is not the sort as for those of us who have worked. short or

a slight delay between us both you mention war on terror in the very word war means of course conflict and some would say would of course these sort of things do happen in time of conflict. well yes and that's exactly why international laws have been created that just need a convention and so forth to protect people who are being held without any rights by a government whether they are combatants or not and of course in the case of the men picked up in the war on terror to guantanamo up a grave in progress the vast majority were not combatants in the war on terror at all. they were men who were picked up largely because they were in a country that the u.s. was in the process of invading along with its partners. in the u.k. and australia and so forth so yes people do die in war there are

bodies here of men who were tortured frozen to death men who died with their hands over held over their heads chained in freezing temperatures who were beaten these are men who were killed by homicide not in war at the hands of the cia and this was just one group of them then there were the hand of the men that were the prisoners and others that were killed at the hands of the military and even who were held by the f.b.i. in the early days of guantanamo there are huge stories here that we're just still beginning to uncover and the outrage of this bill is that the obama administration which came in promising to put an end to torture which you cannot finally do until you hold torturers and though the lawyers that justify it accountable.

this administration can only find fit to prosecute whistleblowers not only bradley manning betty. even the cia officer john kerry aku who's being prosecuted for merely talking about waterboarding so this is this is really a deeply make sceptical situation so just briefly your thoughts for the future is this a sign that the cia could never be brought to justice be held account for any of his actions just briefly. i don't know what's possible with. world public opinion being brought to bear on this i think that is the hope in getting any government to stop doing anything and that is that the people's voices have to be heard saying we want to accept this being down in our name deborah thank you very much indeed for your thoughts your comments there live in new york deborah sweet from the u.s.

based think tank the world can't wait. 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 downward spiral she's seeking to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability fund the far wall against financial trouble that the charges will work hard to create and other hands can do nonny from the european council on foreign relations says the chinese are no hurry to lend a hand to berlin. the big hope 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 so there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of their boss obviously this is a european company and so it will benefit not just germany but also france and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off for german companies are all going 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. while germany is striving to make sure the euro stays afloat its old currency the day which market showing no signs of being discarded peter all of that has the details of burn ins old school savings for a rainy day. here in germany the don't try are still very much alive and kicking in fact in a store in central berlin the good old they market is still accepted as a 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 was 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 from 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 marks were brought to the bundesbank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. that he had that is not any one of my ugly relatives gave me the school and as a gift so i decided to turn them into something it could spend on television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting

damaged or there are those though who say they won't part with their deutsche marks as an innocence. i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into europe and 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. so 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 theory. 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 exchanges completes those deutschmarks the shredded ending their days as very expensive confit see peter all over r.t. . now don't forget to log onto our website dot com for the latest news comment and videos and while you're there is a taste of what else might catch your eye plans for a new app which gives the latest updates on u.s. military drone attacks including a body count find out why the hasn't been approved. also online vision of the future a woman who had lost her sight has got it back again surgeons of implant her with the first ever successful.

the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has condemned threats by israel and the u.s. to strike iran this comes after terror on rejected as a political move the latest report by the i.a.e.a. which claimed the country has doubled its nuclear capacity side mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran think 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 should then produce 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 running 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 in citizens and people hostage force 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. well the beach is next with the business news for us here in r t so what does the fed chairman ben bernanke said in his wyoming address the miter well basically has said that quantity of easing is going to help the economy and it's basically needed

so that was the key information the best as well waiting for but his speech lacked any kind of factual detail as to when how what volumes we're going to see and cetera so that was kind of disappointing in a way so it's a it's a mixed feeling that it has created on the markets the chairman ben bernanke he indeed has made clear friday 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 and he's also argued that the fed's moves so far to keep interest rates at record lows and to encourage borrowing and spending have helped bolster the economy so. we was a big part of his speech but the lack of factual information has created the indeed a moderate reaction on the markets the dow jones and nasdaq indices this hour up around half a percent as you can see there however one point they did go up more than one

percent because of this week now and that's a manufacturing coming in and july with the growth of two point eight percent which basically indicates that it's not all that bad in the u.s. economy. in europe but we have this is the closing picture of the foot sea ended down on profit taking was the dax went up one percent also on the hopes that the e.c.b. would continue and buying up spanish and italian debt notably gone. now in russia we've also had a mixed picture at the close with the r.t.s. helped by a stronger ruble look at it a bit later in the my six down pressured by luke world shares now russia's second largest oil producer has said that its has already spent. two and a half billion dollars on buying back its own stock so basically investors see this as a signal that it's discontinuing to do so and therefore it's time for profit. on the commodities market was seeing a huge rally with light sweet up now two dollars per barrel ninety six sixty now

this is on the back of basically hopes that there will be stimulus in the united states and therefore there will be high of them on through energy in the year currencies market the euro is continuing to gain against the dollar although moderately now fifty five points compared to that's moderately compared to the one hundred twenty two points that we saw earlier in the day and that's one percent which is a huge loss for just one day and the russian ruble managed to strengthen somewhat of the losing several days in a row against both currencies. now china is trying to push its national currency the yuan into international trade it's already operating in the yuan and trading with hong kong and singapore now it's eyeing latin america and the middle east now russia has been calling to do the same with its ruble and let me get that name hong kong's financial secretary john signed as sold out see that the

two countries could help each other what is happening now is a great deal of trace element 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 ruble this way you can weigh reduce the currency risk that may incur and that is already happening i think we should expect to see a lot more of them as these two currencies become at some stage currency for for the rest of the world. well that's all i have for you this hour we're back with one final friday update in one hour's time we're at the c.n.n. thanks very much indeed for that well i'll be back with our top stories in just a couple of minutes from now.