program. the country is. one of its underground facilities claims. mitt romney accepts the

republican party nomination for the u.s. presidency promising to get tough with russia but critics say romney's frequent flip flopping on issues. international news. of. the russian. emerges victorious in 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. challenge from controversial. and the trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich. has more on that. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive

a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for from. what i want to promote himself was not in court this morning the scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once 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 for the viewing of the general public the moon. of russia's mega 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 used to have 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 is made this case

a very difficult one to judge is brought to the school building billion ads along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in their shades in a menacing way but he's got his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that abramovich intimidations him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact him would never business partners that he was making payments to but they were only for political protection. roof in russian which has become a common parlance in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to. full political protection but he says. anything to do with. made in huge cash.

cash. hundred million dollars he says that he paid. in a private jet. of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and. one of the biggest. it's been hundreds. so we've heard there is. a. billion dollar dispute.

he's pushed for a no fly zone over syria. and a. military intervention. has told me that. this is not their own humanitarian case what should be done is to use 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. syria so why do you wish them space are not the syrians for a political solution why there are going around trying to see the psychology how the u.s. . and the fundamentalists in syria. by and by the carried out that it was out there . against a secular states like syria i'm going to work well kind of studio expecting in the future about syria falls in behind this experience of go through cohesion of the syrian society will be totally collapsed and you could house and radicalization of the whole of the mideast. still ahead here the. we can lead swayze in syria june in the psalms promises more revelations on western motives in the crisis and loss to us harassment told his whistle blowing web site. the un

secretary-general ban ki moon has condemned threats by the u.s. and israel to strike iran this comes off to tehran rejected the latest report by the un's nuclear watchdog as a political move the report claims the country has doubled its uranium production at the fulda facility three draitser who's a geo political analyst for stop imperialism dot com has told me that he believes iran can't be blamed for standing up for itself in the face of u.s. israeli pressure. the iranians do it partially for self-preservation they also do it for propaganda purposes and to lend themselves clout on the world stage 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 it 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 the. 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 l. barra die or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law. mitt romney's accepted the nomination of the republican party as their candidate for the u.s. presidency what he's trying to do at the party convention he warned he would take a tougher stance against many including russia critics have been questioning romney's claims because he's frequent flip flopping on a host of vital issues but he's going to come 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 at 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 end 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 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. still ahead for this hour the u.s. justice system prefers to turn a blind eye when it comes to the misdeeds of its intelligence agency the washington

comes under fire for shutting down the last investigation into the cia's alleged torture of prisoners. also still to come this hour in germany we look at how the deutschmark still seems to be going strong alongside the struggling. for that still to come but first the signs of 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 that promised to show just how comfortable the west once was with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him as sanders also criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime is mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega-state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights it was 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 goes k. the leader of the u.k.

part of the party he says that it's important for wiki leaks to focus on his activities despite a songes legal wranglings. story is useful to see which leaks getting back and focusing on its real mission and that about opening up governments and actually really revealing useful information we'll have to see what this brings one of the recent was one of the recent revelations coming through which had 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 that moment it's very difficult to get this message out while the current continues about to say that mark not distract from the on going for it for x. to have a greater transparency and a greater powers of freedom i mentioned that's necessary here in the u.k.

but right across the world. the u.s. justice department is closed his investigation into the cia's alleged torture tactics against terrorist detainees without bringing any charges because he's involved to deaths in the agency's detention facilities in iraq and afghanistan u.s. based activist debriefs we just told me 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 promise same to put an end to torture can only find fit to prosecute whistleblowers. well to get to know going to a website for the latest news comment and videos is a taste of what's there for you right now a new mobile application. including a body count on why the was not approved by. a vision of the future as an. implanted first.

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that's the have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update this hour at least twelve people have been killed and up to twenty injured after a powerful car bomb went off at a market in northwest pakistan as we know claim of responsibility so far the region has recently seen a rise in attacks mostly associated with 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 miners with the murder of the thirty four coworkers despite the fact the victims were killed by police prosecutors claimed police were provoked during the incident two weeks ago and opened fire only after armed protesters attacked in this huge public outrage with many believe the government is trying to shift the blame the incident was the bloodiest in the country's history since it became a democracy. a massive wildfire in southern spain has forced around four thousand

people to flee their homes with some losing everything in the flames far figes 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. now while germany is doing everything in his power to keep the euro from sinking the germans are proving reluctant to let go of their old currency the deutsche mark. has the details of berlin's old school savings for a rainy day. here in germany the 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 store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it 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 the last of us from ft it's not just in shops that

they're accepted if you find a few demarche coins down the back of the sofa germany's public telephones will happily take them off your hands for germany they should be dropped the old money for the you wrote 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. he had to doesn't have any one of my only real it takes gave me the school and it's a gift so i decided to send 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 changed they're all those though who say they won't part with their marks as a minister yeah i've got some i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro and according to the bundles 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 can bring them in something of a tradition here that currency from years and years ago will always be exchanged for legal tender there are conspiracy theorists though he. in the banks trillions of being stockpiled should the euro crisis deepen. so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for a rainy day what happens to it and when the exchange is complete. and. it's very expensive.

research i mean passions are running high around upcoming u.s. presidential elections that's coming up very shortly not be but with the summer of on the news stories in ten minutes from the. what do you read into that. well conventions in the u.s. now are sort of a beauty contest they're not they used to be in the history they used to have

a lot more effect than nominees actually chosen at the conventions but now we have a party primary and caucus system which does that so it's just sort of a coronation of the nominee of the particular party and they script them pretty heavily romney has complete control over the conference convention there of a sort of you ron paul supporters that kicked up a little bit but largely even ron paul is playing the game inside the party so you don't see hardly any disputes or anything like that over the platform or anything else and no surprises all all though romney started at the very beginning of his campaign was very rough there was a lot of competition a lot of other candidates who basically discredit ahead and yet now at the convention it seems as the g.o.p. just wants from need to be the president yes well they've all that's the tradition in american politics usually is they have about a battle during the primaries call each other all sorts of names criticize each

other's policy and then all of a sudden you see people who are criticizing him before when he gets enough electoral i mean convention delegates they'll flip and then start supporting him so as it ran this time they think now for the u.s. well usually they're on the republican side they they nominate the person who lost last time the next in line the democrats are a little bit more if you but but i think it basically comes down to these conventions and surface are surface phenomena at the don't really mean much people who actually study elections in the u.s. say it's not really between two candidates it's a referendum on the current in a straight and so you know they could have almost anybody running and the economy is bad and it's going to be very close but i think some of the models predict obama still eking it out of a. close victory but it's going to be close so those models could be off as well but i think obama has an intrinsic. advantage in the electoral college

because in the united states you know we don't. as we saw on thousand election we don't elect the president on the popular vote it can sometimes be different in the electoral college so we really don't have a national election we have a state by state election and so the. candidates have to win so many states which add up to two hundred seventy electoral votes and so that can sometimes differ from the national got the popular vote totals so this could be another election where that happens we'll see but obama has a slight edge in the electoral map do you think he's able to move to appeal to the middle there well not as much i guess somewhat it's hard to say where he stands on many issues he's kind of moved around enough that's believable but after you do that and now if people just you know stick you with the flip flopper type thing flipping back and forth between you know viewers like john kerry was labeled with

that. a while back for the demo in the democratic side you know if you're inconsistent on your and then mitt romney has been inconsistent on abortion assault weapons ban and even on health care yes in fact obama and mitt romney have switched positions because used to be obama was against his own what became his own healthcare plan because hillary originally proposed it during the primaries and of course mitt romney was the guy who dreamed up the whole thing is governor of massachusetts and now he's against that sort of thing so you never know what's going to happen or what position they're going to take on foreign policy is it seems as if economy. jobs these are the main factors of the elections here about what about foreign policy and do you think that romney has any advantage or leverage. well i if anything i think he has the last advantage he's trying to make a big deal about the iran thing but you know obama killed osama bin laden and here

are some of bin laden is bill in number one and you know it took him ten years and george w. bush never got him so that's a feather in his cap here in the united states i think. romney has been very hawkish but people are tired of two wars here they want to get out of these wars so i don't think if anything that's a detriment to him that he's got all these neoconservative hawkish foreign policy advisers foreign policy won't traditionally hasn't provided played much in u.s. elections because it's usually domestic issues and the economy and in this case it's even more so since we've had this long recession and now a long sluggish period of recovery so i think even more so people are turning inward because they want to get rid of these wars and you know get back to what they're doing and that's why it's going to be on domestic issues so if anything i think foreign policy his views probably are handicapped form and less than three

months left for the elections about my state leading do you think that's going to be the case for until november sixth or do you see that he's in well the polls there are about even depending on which polls but those polls don't mean anything because it's state by state and i think you have to look at the electoral map and obama does have an edge there although they kind of his bad do you think he needs a miracle for the economy to keep that lead in the elections or is it also the fact that romney has issues with health care with the economy is not going to help obama but he probably will he's probably benefited from this these groups that have become disaffected with republicans like hispanics you know and that's sort of thing and i think he's got an electoral edge because of that i.

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