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right. from the. start on t.v. dot com. the winner takes it all the loser standing small the russian tycoon. is left empty handed after london called dismisses his hefty lawsuit against. turkey's pitch for a syrian intervention hits a dead end at the u.n. leaving nato countries warning they might simply bypass the security council. plus republican mitt romney accepts his nomination as presidential candidate with

a promise to show russia. critics like that's not his greatest asset. online on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow the russian billionaire roman abramovich has come out on top of a high profile call jule with a london based compatriot and one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multibillion dollar challenge from controversial tycoon buddies but it's all ski in a trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich more in the case now from ortiz laura smith in london. the final verdict in the case found against bodies which means that he won't receive then all the. than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for. what i want to promote himself was not in court this morning

but that is all scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but was the verdict 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 all the viewing of the general public the milky worlds of russia's mega rich and what they go to up to back in the nineteenth ninety's the wild east as we called it but that we're talking about stiff sums of money offshore 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 to raj is megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked

around this course area in the shades in a menacing way but he spit is all this case says that he was driven 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. when never business partners that he was making payments to bid as well scheme 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 in huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred a free. cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid. in a private jet that he bought him

a french chateau and he also bought him jewelry for his girlfriend but he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two for which this has 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 . when this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. the timeline of all the claims and counterclaims in this multibillion dollar wrangle or. get more insight into what went right inside the courtroom earlier today by checking. twitter feed the latest tweets say the verdict to court by surprise and he's considering an appeal was described by the judge as deluded in some of his testimony and his evidence was deemed weak.

britain and france so warning they money to bypass the u.n. altogether off to turkey's push for a no fly zone over syria but strong criticism of the security council and demanding sweeping powers to protect refugees fleeing war and the move would amount to military intervention but international reaction has been cool with strong reservations about militarizing the humanitarian effort report has this report for us now 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 for 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 western countries address the security council their representatives are 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 ambassador to the united 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. the sink is imposed by passing the u.n. security council have nothing to do with actual efforts to settle the syrian crisis complicate the lives of average citizens and do not allow them to me. 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 if we see the efforts of certain states to use humanitarian reasons to justify financial technical and logistical support to illegally armed groups as unacceptable. 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 analysts and freelance writer. is also skeptical of

a no fly zone questioning just whose humanitarian needs it would fulfill. this is not them humanitarian case what should be done is to use to push for a negotiation for of dialogue between the syrian leadership and with the opposition for example next month we have the internal opposition meeting in san dimas close to the path of a risk to syria so why do worse and states are not helping the syrians for a political solution where there are many gunfire you see the psychology how these . and the fundamentalists in syria sided by both cried out that it was out of. this you know this against a secular states like syria i'm going to work well the kind of stage they are expecting in the future about syria falls in the hands of this experience of go through cohesion of the syrian society will be totally collapsed and you could have been very kind exemption of the whole of the mideast. well still ahead here this hour on r.t. wiki leaks weighs in on syria and promises more revelations on western motives in

the crisis and blast u.s. harassment of his whistle blowing web site. politically motivated the verdict from iran on a new u.n. report claiming to have evidence that the country has doubled its nuclear capacity . 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 once more stressed his aggressive views toward some nations including russia but with a reputation for changing his stance they could be hard to tell how trustworthy years and started going to church can 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 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 job political 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 deporting them mitt romney is 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 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. stay with us here in. washington comes in. closing the last investigation into the cia's alleged torture tactics against the president. and germany where the market is more than just sentimental value in uncertain times. first the u.n. security secretary-general i should say the un 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. way the atomic agency which claimed the country has doubled its nuclear capacity will for expert opinion on the story i'm not joined live from new york by eric draitser he's an analyst stop imperialism dot com now the report suggests as a significant increase in iran's nuclear capacity why does to iran continue to expand its atomic program seemingly while already being battered with criticism for just having it. well there's a couple of reasons for the iranians first of all they believe that they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law so i think that's the first one the second one of course is the geo political reality that they look around them you look at the map and they see

that they are surrounded literally on all sides by the united states or various allies of the united states and the principle is quite clear that the united states will invade nations that do not have the threat of nuclear weapons and the united states does not invade the nations that do have that threat so in other words the iranians do it partially for self-preservation they also do it for propaganda purposes and to lend themselves clout on the world stage now some experts think that the timing of the report is suspicious want to run said it was issued to shift the media focus away from the nonaligned movement summit would be the point of not after all that was a pretty important he's a very important summit going on. yes of course and the fact of the matter is the united states and israel too to a large extent are terribly embarrassed about the fact that the nonaligned movement summit which is happening in tehran has gone off as a tremendous success and the fact that many around the world are seeing the n.a.a.m. summit as really iran's coming out party in terms of geopolitics in terms of their

position on the world stage and so the timing of the report i think is it is in fact dubious and i would go further and remind people that the i.a.e.a. in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced think tank individuals like eldara di or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that. intervenes international law tensions are really building now with tool called some sort of military action against iran the u.s. military chief there had said he does not want to be complicit in a strike on iran but do you think if israel does actually decide to go ahead with an attack would washington support it. well i think that that would be in that case i don't know that i could necessarily answer whether

they would or they won't i personally don't think that that's a possibility the the israelis though they are led by reactionary right wing. what can we say lunatics in many ways like netanyahu and people like this i don't think that they're irrational nor do i think iran is irrational and i think the israelis and if we read the quotes from some of their military leadership they'll say it outright that israel has no intention of bombing iran unilaterally this is merely the talking point that netanyahu likes to hammer home for demagogic purposes the united states will not sanction any war on iran that is until they have all of the necessary steps leading up to that and syria is an integral part of this there would be no attack on iran without the prelude of an attack on syria breaking iran's alliance with damascus and with hezbollah and lebanon so i think that it is part of a larger strategy that we're seeing in the region the attack on the shiite arc of

dominance that stretches from tehran to baghdad to damascus and to beirut and without that you will not see the attack on iran regardless of what israel has to say no attack but certainly a lot of rhetoric a lot of pressure on iran what should it do now to try and ease that pressure and what what is its policy now for the future to get in effect countries off its back . well i think that part of what they're part of what they're doing is asserting themselves on the world stage that's what we're seeing with this summit in tehran right now showing that they can be a force for peace for example the the proposal that was put forward by the leader come in i believe yesterday regarding palestine and how how to resolve that issue trying to make the world see them as a constructive partner rather than as some kind of a loose cannon the way they're characterized by the united states and israel secondly i would also add that iran is is moving towards major economic development with some of its key regional allies we saw this meeting between ahmadinejad and

prime minister singh of india regarding the child bahar port regarding a number of other bilateral trade issues we see the same thing happening between iran and egypt we see the same thing happening with the chinese so they reach out to their partners their nonaligned partners i suppose we could say and find ways around the sanctions and find ways of getting themselves into these mutually beneficial economic arrangements that will make it near impossible for the western allies to attack them less they upset the world balance in the economic order and it creates a geopolitical analyst for stop imperialism dot com joining me live in new york thanks very much your time. 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 their promise to show just how comfortable the west used to be with president the sad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him when a surge is also criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking

the truth should never be considered a crime he mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega-state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights it was a blow voiced his belief that the case against him is really a case against wiki leaks but he remains hopeful that swedish prosecutors will eventually drop the investigation laws kay leader of the u.k. current party has put him out of there and he says that it's important for wiki leaks to focus on its activities despite aside his legal wranglings. well it's very useful to see wiki leaks getting back and focusing on its free or mission and that's about opening up governments and actually really revealing useful information we'll have to see what this brings one of the recent was some of the recent revelations coming through which have been about the traffic what the trap what's the way the system which has very significant implications also here in the

united kingdom the trouble really is the moment it's very difficult to get this message out while the current standoff continues about to say that mark not distract from the ongoing problems. to have a greater transparency and greater powers of freedom a mention that's necessary. but right across the world. the u.s. justice department has closed the last remaining investigations into the ceiling is alleged torture tactics against these detainees alter the nine eleven attacks without bringing charges the cases involve two deaths in the agency's detention facilities in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. based doctors to persuade says there's not much chance of any further legal action on the case despite strong evidence sold to. the world's population would have to hope that the cia 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 and this eleven year long war on terror 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 the obama administration which came in promising to put an end to torture can only find fit to prosecute whistleblowers. well that we get to log on to our website for the latest news content and videos while you're there here's

a taste of what else might catch your eye plans for you which gives the latest updates on u.s. military drone attacks including a body count. hasn't been approved. and vision of the future of woman who had lost her sight has got it back again surgeons have encountered her with the first ever successful. chancellor angela merkel from germany is on a visit to china hoping to tap into the country's military 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 a war against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create over hands called the nanny from the european council on foreign relations says the

chinese are no hurry to lend a hand to burn in. 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. offering 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 airbus that we see 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 the

german companies are all going to european companies and so to do 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 dortch market showing no signs of being discarded what is peter all of a has the details of burning 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 accept it is 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 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 they surely 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 only one of my only 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 democrats or there are those though who say they won't part with their deutsche marks as a minister. i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro any 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 when 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 theorists though who say that in the banks bolts are trillions of marks being stockpiled should the crisis deepen only rumors 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 and in their days it's very expensive confetti peter all of a r.t. . to turn twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital dimensions next for the business so tell us what did ben bernanke say in his wyoming speech today well most importantly he said that the new wave of quantity of easing is basically

needed for the economy in order to spirits in order to drive it forward because previous experience has shown that it is quite an effective measure and the situation right now in the u.s. economy is pretty harsh well chairman ben bernanke he indeed said on friday that the federal reserve will do more to boost the economy because of higher u.s. unemployment which he said was due to cyclical problems in the economy and an economic recovery that remains far from satisfactory quote he also argued that the fed's moves so far indeed to keep interest rates at record lows to encourage borrowing and encourage spending have helped bolster the economy and so therefore this has been taken and positively on the markets but on the other hand the lack of factual information as to when how volumes of easing he did not say any of that and therefore let's take a look at what's happening on the dow jones and on the nasdaq and they are up but

they're up within around half a percent so it's quite moderate indeed i one point one manufacturing data came in for the month. july which showed a jump of two point eight percent in the month also propelled the dow jones up more than one percent but as you can see profits have been reducing over the past couple of days over in europe now this optimism coming from ben bernanke moderate optimism is also coupled with hopes that the central bank here the european central bank will be buying up and spanish debt but the footsie ended down on profit taking on the russian markets we've seen a mixed session with the help to buy a stronger ruble to the my six was pressured down by lukoil which said that it has bought up two and a half billion dollars worth of its own shares from the market which was the signal for most investors to take in profits and on the commodities market we're seeing

a huge jump especially in brant more than two dollars as you can see the light sweet not far away this is on hopes that this stimulus announced by ben bernanke would also propel demand for energy and in currencies the euro is still stronger versus the dollar sixty eight points as you can see there not bad but it was even better one hundred twenty two points at one point and the russian ruble ended the session stronger but the whole week was pretty negative for the fall of the russian parents. and china has been pushing to use its yuan more in international trade so far it's using it in trade with hong kong and singapore but it wants to i now a latin america and the middle east russia has also been calling for that and hong kong's financial secretary john sign has told r.t. that two countries can help each other out what is happening now is a great deal of trace element in the national currency.