tonight a fresh spy scandal brews in america a businessman is charged with being a russian agent while ten others are arrested over smuggling sensitive high tech electronics they could face decades in prison we've got the latest on this developing story also around forty eight dead over one hundred injured in the latest series of blasts big label terror attacks targeting syria's commercial hub of aleppo. syria's worsening violence seems russia's security service while the countries in the region could succumb to terrorist control. and debate simply know whether julian assange his supporters will get back hundreds of thousands of dollars the native to get impaled while this concert ever how much taxpayer cash is

being spent on hounding the whistleblower. live from moscow at eleven pm this is r t it's kevin owen who did this very good to have you company the top story the developing news of the last couple of hours we'll bring you up to date with the owner of several russian and american companies has been charged tonight in the u.s. with being a secret russian agent illegally exporting microelectronics to the russian military is one of poor nice got the latest from new york. according to the u.s. justice department alexander. they say was operating a spy network that was based in houston that according to u.s. officials enhanced the capabilities of the russian military no go and 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 it was allegedly using his company or 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 of course this isn't the first time we've we've heard about these so-called spy ring russian spy rings being broken up by the f.b.i. or the u.s. department of justice back in two thousand and ten chapman was one of ten. russian spies that the u.s. has been working he working in the states to try to gather intelligence and send it . to moscow this story is breaking right now this big alleged russian spy network

breaking on the same day that the first u.s. presidential debate 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 that 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 referred to russia as a hostile country that is seeking to. improve its defense capabilities and to modernize their weapon 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. my foot not in new york that there are a total these

a lawyer who's had access to those case files he told me the suspects of facing serious jail terms a found guilty men died meant 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 it's not 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 came out each allegation and there are twenty five allegations so this is serious the letter was signed by two department of justice trial attorneys who are in the counterespionage section of the department of justice the united states government also secured secret

foreign intelligence surveillance tape recordings but wire intercept. and so they're very u.s. government is treating this. as being a counter espionage i use it for them to have gotten five warrants they had to go on to a special court fice a court in order to secure the u.s. for its intelligence wire and secular stamps. well this could all come up between the two candidates in the u.s. presidential race of course when they have face to face debate skate calling den the late and wednesday we'll explore what else to explain a little later this hour. breaking news now just getting through to us again reports that turkey has struck targets in syria in response to any bombings from the syrian side that killed at least three people tonight in the wake of a series of terror attacks ripping through syria's largest city in aleppo more than forty people are dead over one hundred are engine men. food truck to the rubble

after what had been suicide car blast targeting the military middle east correspondent the latest 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 certainly we are understanding that the explosions were a few minutes apart they happened near the city's largest squares at least one massive crater has remained in the ground and that the facade of civil tall 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 given birth tried 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 thirty 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 where now the rebels have come forward and tamed responsibility for those car bombings and so far no one has tempered 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 where it comes amid reports that we're receiving and that qatar has seen two hundred million dollars to the free syrian army so certain the scene seems to be said for fighting to intensify certainly in the near future and looking now in the city of aleppo. the news from the french center for intelligence study spoke to us and believes the terror tactics be increasingly used in damascus and aleppo reveal the rebels inability to win the support of the locals it is always the same salafist groups boards and more and more we see you know that they use a classic called terrorist techniques because they want to put some more pressure on the syrian regime we have a lot of proves that the foreign countries i mean mostly. of called the states are supporting terrorist. support isn't going to start on monday and we the fact that

we have more and more attacks in aleppo and damascus which represent fifty percent of the population of the south and the tourists are absolute seem unable to take control of this and we have to see that most leaned and go as well as in damascus the quiet and all the server which has been held by the rebuild some weeks ago on their own that they have in control so the fact that they do suicide bombings for me is the proof that they are not able to take control of this stuff. but it's just you're just just a quick bit of breaking news we brought you a couple minutes ago to recap it for you turkey tonight a struck targets in syria in response to earlier mortar shelling from the syrian side which killed several people we're also hearing that now turkey has agreed with the nato secretary-general to convene an urgent meeting of nato members after that attack from syria earlier on today so as we get more you'll be the next person of course. middle east countries could fall into the hands of terrorists who are now

active in syria those fears have been 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 with that so the story is ortiz tom barton. 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 islamist 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 new 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 sightings of north caucasus terrorists operating in the region and gaining valuable

experience there and he talked about a new strategy that of a thousand stabs 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. tom barton there reporting now amid the ongoing violence elsewhere in the region a former journalist for c.n.n. claims bahrain is paying the network to get the coverage it needs we spoke to on the line she told us a documentary depicting atrocities in the gulf kingdom which won prost the prestigious awards was censored by the channel and never shown on c.n.n. international played a bit more 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 bahrain 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 there's by late 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'd 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 and 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. when all the while the. pro-democracy protesters. the latest incident police moved to disperse and for young. medical attention twenty three months in prison. the protests for equality which ruptured last for the details on the website. this is still to come the. onto

a sturdy anger that swept through europe the scene want to tally in business with the trees rise above it try to anyway the protester is the scaled some pretty specific areas to vent his frustrations for the vatican late today so we could expert analysis for you where you are like he is heading also. russia's largest airline floor is suing its home port city limits around demands its head be dismissed more on this and much more after. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very

friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a lot and so i felt at home the first blood joke was brought here from australia now it's trios come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail ira mazie but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all friends who brought their dia to life. five years ago. built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages

her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their websites and they're in touch with the busy mother twenty four seven on the phone itself but children are the most important thing my only interests not play any role anymore and regardless of whether parsky has huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but actually just the taking part that counts. she good laboratory to mccurry was able to build the news most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care watch only on the.

wealthy british style. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our team you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. just to bring up there given the breaking news that mentioned in the last half hour

turkey has earlier on this evening struck targets in syria in response to an earlier mortar shelling of a turkish border town which killed several people turkey now says it's agreed to with the nato secretary general to convene an urgent meeting of nato members on the issues he's developing news story it's going to kick off a lot more tomorrow of course we will bring you updates as we get more details. the fate of two hundred thousand dollars that julian assange his supporters pledged to bail him out of a british prison almost two years ago remains unclear the saving the decisions opposed to be made at a court hearing this wednesday is now been delayed r.t. sara first been following the case she's got more. where is the place to be decision day for that group of julian assange supporters they preserve 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

as 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've 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 assad 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 in that process here in the bay fails and we then saw and

a 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 a huge amount of money that they stand to lose 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 the innocents this case in pass continuing eleven thousand pounds they lean on police protection surrounding that embassy say you know it is raising he's questions about that course and everyone very very much wants his diplomatic headache to come to an end. so our first story desperations literally drove one man up the wall in iran to the top of one of the world's largest phaedrus he's been there for twenty four hours now scaling the dome and peter's basilica in

the attic and he's the restaurant owner who set up with government cuts and e.u. imposed policies meantime international lenders right now are in greece they're struggling past crowds of protesters negotiate another austerity package despite the strain to contain the deficit the greek government still planning a multi-billion euro formula one track vestment advisor patrick. couldn't wait to tell us what he thinks about. this is just absolutely insane and of course greece should be promoting tourism but surely they should be promoting tourism and all of those beautiful engine artifacts that come from the engine greek civilization which was probably the last time that they actually managed to have the economy in balance rather than sitting here and trying to build another incredible pillar of the eccleston empire formula one i'm all for motorists thing but i don't see why greek pensioners should be starving that a point in time when they lay one hundred million euros worth of tarmac for the formula one so what we have is you know the troika these people who come along and demand cuts they've been coming for the last several years every time they go away

they think they've got a deal in the greek side people to stick to it so this time around they really finally got to the point where they realize well they might make a deal that might not make it do it but actually we've got all these facts coming along ridiculous pieces of information and grown priests are being built in the greek hinterland with money the truth is the greek government is just out of control it is the ultimate vodka object in a pool of vodka. a lot see dog all to all bit old post of we tell you why the international space station is getting geared up to get out of the way was a close call paralegals more of what i'm talking about online plus the topless women rights groups raising eyebrows to raise awareness for the stuff this time it's one of the biggest to be the starts with a move by the why the better in all again don't come. the presidential debates are about to kick off in the u.s. with a month to go now before americans make the final choice president obama and his

republican rival mitt romney are bracing for their head to head in denver to lewa voters their way here's a story gerald horne believes americans are short of alternatives. unfortunately this debate is one reason why nowadays there are those who say that what we haven't learned 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 barred 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 base that takes place 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 we all know that that's just the song and dance that after the election that they will both be knocking at china's door themselves recall that bill clinton in one thousand nine hundred two running against george h.w. bush spoke at the beijing pictures but after the november nineteenth to play to a lecture he helped to usher china into the world trade organization that's the kind of hot pockets need that basically turns off a good deal of the u.s. electorate how can you have a realistic debate about the problems that this country faces the many problems this country faces when the kinds of analysis and critique from the left are basically excluded basically this debate comes down in many ways to

a choice between tweedle dum and tweedle dee nice way of putting it us historian gerald hole now ok let's get to business now u.s. jobs numbers are even not too bad news others are. not too bad preliminary report from a.d.p. says under sixty two thousand jobs were added in the united states in the month of september and therefore the markets they're looking positive we'll have to wait for a full report of course tomorrow on the news europe's market was also positive although the fact that spain's prime minister says he doesn't think a bailout is imminent it was pretty depressing that was limiting gains on the currencies market the euro was a lower versus the dollar although the russian ruble fell against both currencies continuing tuesday's trend and on the russian markets we've had a negative day one of the exceptions was air flight as i mentioned earlier in the program it's now suing its home base airport should have made saying that it's been forced to delay and even cancel some flights and that's all there for you all right thanks for that to be true after a short break crosstalk takes on whether austerity addiction is really the right

cure. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guinea's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go in the wrong the wrong and surprising and you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear

you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver. who are the bears are they have a very well for the soup i will have to keep an aisle when directed at. them and. so we won't go yes we shall but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears. another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the howlers eagle in has a wingspan of two and

a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region the climb up was tough. but the prize missouri. there was no superior to hear a good. day you will have tons of people coming here not just to get some for me on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can. hope for did you have to rely on yourself a few bucks. or so we're going to have to be the fat. maybe

for the wildlife here the lack of visitors is for the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. and if you. still. want to. follow in welcome to cross talk on people about the cruel politics of austerity reeling from one crisis to another the western world has come to the rescue of its banks and financial sectors though the future of both remains uncertain but what about the people of politics and economics been reduced to a contest between democratic government and market preference. and. started. to cross out the politics of us there.