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the republican party nomination for the u.s. presidency promising to get russia but critics say flip flopping on issues like abortion and health care has already undermined his credibility. and broadcasting live from our studios in. glad to have you with us russian billionaire. has gotten some good news and a high profile court to deal with a london based compatriot in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed of the multibillion dollar challenge from controversial tycoon boris berezovsky in a trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich has more on that. it's 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 asking for for a. run up but i want to 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 all the viewing of the general public the milky world all 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. of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with new documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge is brought to the school building billion ads along

with their own two roses megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in their shades in a menacing way but he spread his old ski 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. we never business partners that he was making payments to but they were only for political protection all 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. pull a political protection but he says. anything to do with the.

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with. the security council. in a move that critics. political . is also skeptical of. who would be most likely to benefit from such a move. and this is not going to humanitarian case what should be done is to follow

is to push for a negotiation for a very look between the syrian leadership and with the opposition for example next month we have the internal opposition meeting instead of the mask was going to impact a risk to syria so why do you wish there was peace i'm not hoping that the syrians for a political solution why they are arming and trying to see the so-called g. how do you see. the fundamentalists in syria sided by and by the carried out. against the secular states like syria i'm going to work what kind of studio expecting in the future but if syria falls in the hands of this experience. cohesion of the syrian society will be totally collapsed through the house and because it is the action of the whole of the mideast and still had for you on our team wiki leaks weighs in on syria. julian assange promises and more revelations on western motives in the crisis and blasts u.s. harassment of his whistle blowing web site. un secretary general ban ki moon

has condemned threats by the u.s. and israel to strike iran this comes after 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 fordo facility eric draitser who's a geo political analyst for stop and dot com believes iran can't be blamed for standing up for itself in the face of u.s. and 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 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 i say 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 has accepted the nomination of the republican party as their candidate for the u.s. presidency while outlining his strategy at the party convention he warned he would take a tougher stance against many countries including russia critics have been questioning romney's claims because of his frequent flip flopping on a host of vital issues r.t. is going to get to you can't comments. 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 maasai 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 you this hour the u.s. justice system prefers to turn

a blind eye when it comes to the misdeeds of its intelligence agencies. washington comes under fire for shutting down of the last investigation into the cia's alleged torture of prisoners. and in germany r.t. looks at how the deutschmark still seems to be going strong alongside a struggling europe. julian assad has promised to keep a publishing millions of emails to cast a new light on the syrian crisis in a rare interview given to a south american t.v. network they are promised to show just how comfortable the west once was with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him assad has also criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime to mention how the west is turning into a 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 wiki leaks but he remains hopeful that swedish prosecutors will

eventually drop the investigation laws leader of the u.k. pirate party says that it's important for weekly leaks to focus on its activities despite songes legal wrangle. while it's very useful to see which leaks getting back and focusing on its real mission and that's about opening up governments and actually really revealing useful 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 tragic war the trap once the way the system which has very significant implications also here in the united kingdom to the trouble really is the moment it's very difficult to get this message out while the current standoff continues about to say with that mark won't distract from the on going for it for x. to have a greater transparency and

a greater powers of freedom of information that's necessary here in the u.k. would right across the world. the u.s. justice department has closed its investigation into the cia's alleged torture of terrorists detainees without bringing any charges but cases involve the deaths of tusa suspects in the agency's detention facilities in iraq and afghanistan alison weir from the u.s. based think tank the counsel for the national interest says this decision will not pass unnoticed by the international community many of us feel that this is not the image that we are opposed to what went on and that there should be true justice and true pursuit of justice gone which we have not seen yet the cia destroying some of the tapes that in itself is a criminal action that that itself shouldn't been pursued. hopefully will be pursued something so the fact that there may be some difficulty in gathering evidence we don't know that's really the case but

a part of the difficulty certainly is because important evidence was destroyed there are still people in the in the united states as well as around the world who are outreach to what's going. on but this has been a you know this is still the george w. bush administration's activities being carried on by the obama administration actions as well the lead prosecutor on this john a down and was appointed by you casey who was appointed under george w. bush who was one of the neo cons who was was very quote anti terror anti islam in the number of respects so we're seeing the same kind of thing going on underwear bomb i think they did expect that a great many liberals especially but conservatives too would be outraged at this violation of the rule of law and that's probably why this was announced as you say after you know a number of years that the announcement came the day before

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summer. while germany is doing everything in its power to keep the. proving reluctant to let go of their old currency the deutsche mark. the details of 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 dogs marks to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it went on to 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 from 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 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. he had to does not and one of my only relatives gave me the school and it's a gift so i decided to send them into something it could spend it's on television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting democrats changed or there are all those though who say they won't part with their marks as a minister and 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 always ready to change the legal tender there are conspiracy theory. though you say that 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. ending their days as very expensive. talks to a scholar and researcher. to get a comprehensive view of the race for the white house.

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 the romney started at the very beginning of his campaign was very rough there was a lot of combat this and 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 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 he but but i think 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 administration 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 t.v. 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 total 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 on 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 the winner of massachusetts and now he's against that sort of thing so you never know what's going to happen there 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 war 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 still leading do you think that's going to be the case for until november sixth or do you do see that he's in well the polls there are about even depending on which polls but those polls don't mean anything because 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 leaving that lack sends 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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