tonight a fresh russia u.s. spy scandal is brewing in america as a person is charged with being a moscow agent while ten others are arrested over smuggling sensitive high tech electronics more on that just ahead also. around forty people are dead over one hundred injured in the latest series of blasts which are being labeled terror attacks targeting syria's commercial hub of aleppo. syria's worsening violence seems russia's security service warned that more countries in the region could succumb to terrorist control. plus debate since britain or whether julian assange supporters will get back hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to get even bailed while there's concern over how much taxpayer cash is being spent on how and

it was. live from moscow ten pm this is r t it's kevin owen here this with our top story this breaking news we bring in over the last couple of hours the owner of several russian and american companies has been charged tonight in the u.s. with being a secret russian agent allegedly exporting microelectronics to the russian military lives in new york let's get the latest as the teachers are coming through his miniport as across the story hi again marina what do we know so far than about these charges new else is implicated. well according to the u.s. justice department alexander. they say was operating a spy network that was based in houston and that according to u.s. officials enhanced the capabilities of the russian military now go and ten others

were arrested yesterday and today and charged with falsifying documents and illegally exporting high tech u.s. made microelectronics to russian military and intelligence agencies according to the f.b.i. since two thousand and eight they say that shanker was allegedly using his company are collect tronics to secretly export goods such as analog to digital converters static random access memory chips microcontrollers and microprocessors now the reason this is all so important is because u.s. officials say that that type of equipment is subject to strict u.s. government controls due to their potential use in a wide range of military systems u.s. officials say that russia does not even produce many of those goods that they say for sure it was sending that does not produce that domestically but now again we need to underscore here that what the u.s. justice department is saying is that these goods were being exported without

notifying the u.s. government or the department of commerce now the defendants will be arraigned in a houston u.s. courthouse and afterwards the government says it will seek to extradite them or to move them to the eastern district of new york where the indictment was filed for this this case why it's been filed in new york is not clear just yet officials have not disclosed those facts about the timing of this exposure one of the charges being pressed. well i mean clearly it's somewhat of a quince evince this story is breaking right now this big russian alleged russian spy network being stung by the f.b.i. it's breaking on the same day that the first u.s. presidential defeat is scheduled to take place by by wednesday evening u.s. president barack obama and his opponent mitt romney will be debating live on stage

we you know our viewers may remember mitt romney the republican candidate has referred to russia as america's number one enemy and also according to published reports the houston f.b.i. agent in charge of this alleged sting refer to russia as a hostile country that is seeking to improve its defense capabilities and to modernize their weapons system at the expense of u.s. taxpayers so clearly there's a lot of allegations flying here harsh rhetoric coming on the day that the first u.s. presidential debate is about to take place it will it will be interesting to see if this topic is brought up sure will be course all this coming just a couple years of the previous uncovering of suspected russian spies in the states here. that's right no that's firing from two thousand and ten that turned out to chapman into a household name of course this isn't the first time we've we've heard about these these so-called spy ring russian spy rings being broken out by the f.b.i.

or the u.s. department of justice back in two thousand and ten and chapman was one of ten legit russian spies that the u.s. has been working he working in the states to try to gather intelligence and send it back to moscow that that whole story was it was humongous but it ended with those ten alleged spies being extradited to russia it was as actually a spy swap then the u.s. got three people back from russia those three people that were that the moscow was allegedly holding worse were sent back to the states it was it was a spy swap one of the biggest ones that that occurred in more than twenty years so more this story is not the first that we're hearing about these russian firings i know you the rest. very much cross this story out of their sails are you going this more later of shulman to pull my life in new york for now though thanks very much ok let's go to who stood next to a told to a man who's had access to the case files his name is douglas mcnabb he's

a lawyer and a senior principal but now the associates hi there thanks for being with us one of the last looking carefully at the the wooding of these charges first off let's try and bring some information to our viewers who's actually bringing these charges exactly where the united states government is bringing their charges and they're bringing them out of the eastern district of new york one. was indicted out of the southern district of new york manhattan shorts in that same area but a completely different court these men were arrested in houston because their businesses are in houston and because they live in them and u.s. law says that when one is arrested there to be taken before the nearest federal courthouse which would be in there to make their appearance before united states for. magistrate judge in about an hour. but they did defend his mother getting this wrong just to clarify for me here my understanding was the defendants being brought back to new york that is certainly not the nearest cortez mother being brought to

new york that well they were arrested in houston so the nearest courthouse would be houston so they're taken before united states federal judge in houston to have a determination as to whether they should be released on some sort of bond or whether they should be detained pending trial if they are detained then they it probably within the next week ten days will be transferred to new york to stand trial will shore hence the new york connection ok now from a legal point of view how solid to the charges against the eleven the do you think well it's difficult to tell because all we're doing is reading the allegations an indictment is nothing more than allegations brought by the u.s. government against a defendant they did prepare very detailed letter the letter of which i have with me that they wrote to the united states federal judge that these defendants are going to be appearing before in about an hour it's an eleven page document a letter that says that but that the u.s. government has overwhelming evidence with regard to the defendants but the

defendants are facing up to twenty years on each count each allegation and there are twenty five allegations so this is serious ok well thanks so much for giving us the details of this mcnab lawyer and the senior prince with mcnab associates life in texas pretty shaded by pleasure. this could all come up between the two kinds of course in the u.s. presidential races we're talking about with really just now in the face to face debates kick all thing down the late and wednesday we'll be exploring what else to expect a little later this hour to. a series of terror attacks have struck syria's largest city around forty people dead over one hundred injured many of feared trapped under rubble of what are thought to have been suicide car blast targeting the military are these middle east correspondent paula slee is got the details. syrian state television is reporting that this is the work of terrorists and that

dozens of people have been killed many of them belonging to the syrian regime now it comes amid intensified fighting between government forces and rebel fighters in the search and we are understanding that the explosions were a few minutes apart they happened near the city's large squares at least one massive crater has remained in the ground and that the facade of several two buildings nearby were completely ripped apart according to eyewitnesses there the explosions were followed immediately by intensified gun battles and clashes we are also hearing that by all accounts it seems as if the explosions were caused by call bombs now this is not getting verified but it does suggest that this is the work of suicide bombers there isn't a binny's newspaper that is reporting that the syrian president bashar assad is in the city of aleppo where he is visiting and seeing firsthand what the battles there have been bringing about and that is also ordered at least some fifty thousand

troops to be deployed it is unusual it certainly is rare that they have been suicide bombings in the city of aleppo there was a bombing back in february in which twenty eight people were killed but mostly you know all the suicide bomb bombings have been concentrated in the capital city of damascus and over the past few days and certainly over the past few weeks there has been an intensified number of car bombs exploding there now the rebels have come forward and came for sponsibility for those car bombings so far no one has tempers sponsibility for this particular attack but it certainly does have all the fingerprints of the rebel car bombing suicide attacks there was a call last week by will find who is in which they say that they would intensify the fighting in aleppo they said that they were going to end the battle there it comes amid reports of a receiving that qatar has same. nearly two hundred million dollars to the free syrian army says certain the scene seems to have been said for fighting intensified

certainly in the near future and looking now in the city of aleppo. while i can let you know the russia's foreign minister has clarified the country's position again always to solve the syrian conflict and has talked about what's instigating it if you want to find out what more sergei lavrov had to say to major russian newspapers you can we've got the details of his interview at r.t. dot com. well middle east countries could fall into the hands of terrorists who are now active in syria those fears were voiced by the head of russia's security service the f.s.b. along with other possible shock waves that might emanate from the conflict is artie's tom barton covering that angle to the story. the head of russia's federal security service alexander bought recalled was talking about his concerns not just about sectarian violence in the middle east not about the humanitarian crisis there but about his fear of the risk of the rise of islamic terror groups specifically al

qaeda in the region there are specific fears about what al qaeda and terrorist groups may be trying to do in the region a that they may be trying to gain higher positions within the government structures there and b. that they may find it easier to try and get their hands on weapons of mass destruction which would create a very dangerous situation indeed specific to russia he talked about the reported sighting of north caucasus terrorists operating in the region and gaining valuable experience there and he talked about a new strategy that of a thousand steps being employed lots of little attacks and mr bought a cop says that the e.u. wildfires that have caused such problems recently may have been started by terrorists citing the websites encouraging terrorists to try and cause as much damage as possible by doing things like lighting fires which require very little imports those are the messages from the f.s.b.

heads about the danger of the growth of terrorism in the restive middle east. elsewhere in the region how bahrain is working people on the pro-democracy protests these days a former c.n.n. journalist who made the award winning documentary but the atrocities in bahrain sheds light to us on how the channel dances to the tune of dictators she's got a story here on r.t. bill bit later this hour but. russia's largest airline air flaw is suing its home airport should the men who own demands its head be dismissed more on this and much more after a short. invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of are you is there of in the nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones

and slowly pulling them apart and therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was off was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to be always out of center nowadays seeking serious jury focused magic reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor no because who operated on many of them it usually comes down to a man's pride first patient to turn to us with a leg like the mean request to meet his fifteen centimeters to the wall to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the will out there pressure him bitterly expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main

motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in others in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so eight centimeters would have brought me right to average for women height isn't so important girl can be sure it's not a big deal i think the guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have a day surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now it's their call you're so tall what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean if you would like to hear you have a real tree let me call it austerity reeling from one crisis to another the western

world has come to the rescue of the banking and financial sectors so that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. soon which brightened if you knew about song from phones to christian. news crew starts on t.v. dot com.

live from moscow this is our tale again as the bahraini government continues its crackdown on protests as a former journalist for c.n.n. claims bahrain is paying the network to get the coverage it needs a law and told us a documentary depicting atrocities in the gulf kingdom which one prestigious awards was censored by the channel and never shown on c.n.n. international explained what happened to me. brain is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this content you know is editorially independent it doesn't. affect that well we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had at c.n.n. to get coverage accurate barring coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're

supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying customers as journalists we were able to sneak into some of the villages we were able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who had run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot ambulance drivers who were beaten and as we were heading back to these villages we were violently detained by security forces and brain about twenty masked men with machine guns who then try to erase all the video that they found and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broads and we were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine surprise when we got back to the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage off the air. all the while the.

pro-democracy protesters in. custody for allegedly being medical attention the twenty three year old. prison for taking. the protests for equality which rested last food on a website. the fates of over two hundred thousand dollars the julian assange supporters pledged to bail him out of a british prison almost two years ago remains unclear the saving the decision supposed to be made at a court hearing wednesday's been delayed now r.t. sarah firth has been following the case she's got the latest. where is the place to be decision day for that group of julian assange supporters they pose a one hundred forty thousand pounds as a surety when he was back in december two thousand and ten but the judge said that it would be another couple of days before a decision was reached as to whether or not they get that money back now of course

is an incredibly complex case in fact there were two groups that put up money back when julian assange and his extradition case was going on one group provided the up from bail money and previously we discovered that they lost that money that was the two hundred thousand pounds as it has been gone this new green nine people they put up the money at the time as a sort of guarantee. and would comply with the conditions that the court has set now this is all surrounding of course his needs and to claim asylum and of course is just a completely exceptional case and this is the point that the court heard today was that you know it was completely unpredicted none of these members could have foreseen that coming out just to remind fears of the background to this case julian assange is fighting extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations questioning the sexual assault allegations that process here in the

case fails and we then saw any very dramatic twist julian assange claiming asylum seeking asylum from ecuador and he was he was granted that but the u.k. have refused to say far to grant him safe passage and so the case continues that they all very much stood staunchly behind that decision to put the money for even though it's the key to mount of money that they stand between that night as we said one hundred and forty thousand pounds is not just. losing money on this at the moment the taxpayers rules like putting a huge bill to keep julian assange to this case in part continuing eleven thousand pounds they really want police protection surrounding that embassy safe you know it is raising he's questions about that because and everyone very very much wants his diplomatic headache to come to an end. couple stories and come tonight all to all but almost we tell you what the international space station is getting good up

to get out of the way and the topless women's rights group raising eyebrows to raise awareness with a study in front of the venus tomato statue of the louvre we find out why the pairing will again at. the presidential debates are about to kick off in the u.s. with a month to go before americans make the final choice president obama and his republican rival mitt romney bracing for they head to head to head but it is their way it's going live in the states took them all through the store in general holmes as i started the program you say with us tonight gerald good evening but they have presidential debates of course as we know it important checkpoint before the elections but is there anything new do you think the candidates are going to tell the voters this time around. i tend to doubt it unfortunately in this debate is one reason why nowadays there are those who say that what we haven't heard of states is not democracy but a mockery that is to say what happens in other states is that all the candidates of the left such as the green party are bar from this kind of presidential debate and

as a result the kinds of policies that president obama has been acting that are subject to withering criticism from the left for example bailing out the banks but not bailing out homeowners for example this war against libya they were not able to be criticized adequately by his opponent mr romney and as a result you have a very very tepid debate that takes place. while obama romney opposed closely to coast to wall straight and big corporations which certainly does affect their campaigns isn't much of a real difference end of the day between the candidates. well that's what's curious about this debate about u.s. elections as you know the united states is very much supportive of what it calls building democracy abroad it is the united states agency for international development which goes all around the world. supposedly bill democracy it funds the international republican institute there is the freedom house that supposedly building democracy but quite frankly as

a us national i think the message should be physician heal thyself that is to say that you need democracy to be built here at home because these kinds of debates basically exclude the critiques of the present dilemmas and problems that the u.s. people face for example rising poverty rising unemployment etc and mr romney is not the appropriate messenger to deliver that particular point that i'm raising both parties have been using china of course lately is a suspect move while using china than. well because they don't want to point the finger at themselves what's curious is that the mayor of toledo ohio michael bell has expressed an opinion that has been expressed by a number of mayors of u.s. cities he's trying to attract chinese investment like many u.s. cities and in fact u.s. states there have been delegations streaming into beijing and shanghai trying to

attract chinese investment at the same time you have these political candidates such as mr obama and mr romney basically bashing china now we all know that that's just a song and dance that have to be election that they will both be knocking at china's door themselves recall that bill clinton one thousand nine hundred two running against george h.w. bush spoke at the beijing butchers but after the november one thousand nine hundred ninety two election he helped to usher china into the world trade organization that's the kind of what partner state but basically turned off a good deal of the u.s. electoral job from going to leave it there but thank you so it's cheryl hall and on the line all the stories much appreciated this is a short break to me to say with a business update for this said late wednesday night in moscow thanks for being with us. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's

still possible to live off the land and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters going on he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu. for two things a successful duck hunting a patient a bottle silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to frighten the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but

environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island. here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island

a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the old walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication the wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. and i mean a warm welcome to the business updates on the let's take

a look straight at the figures in the united states where a.d.p. has reported the job sector adding the private sector adding hundred sixty two thousand new jobs in the month of september which was better than expected and therefore we are seeing the dow and the nasdaq pull within half a percent at the close in the euro was also positive based on the data of course we'll have to wait for a full report from the labor department tomorrow but as you can see there driven by banks both in this you saw at the close now on the currencies market the euro is a losing some of its value against the dollar as spain's prime minister says a bailout is not imminent the russian ruble also dropped and on the russian market we've had a pessimistic day given that world prices are lower so the r.t.s. m i six down around one percent russia's leading airline air florida is suing its homan base airports two minutes of it now the carry accuses the airport of damaging have lost reputation and want.