breaking news from r t what washington sends troops or jordan to protect its border with syria a move seen by many as an escalation of america's involvement in the conflict. a member of punk band pussy riot is freed on probation but an appeal hearing keeps the other two behind bars over there a publicity stunt in russia's main orthodox cathedral. and all going also charity fuels more separatism calls in europe as the referendum on scotland's independence from britain is all but confirmed.

hello and welcome to our first to developments in the middle east the u.s. defense secretary has confirmed that washington sent troops to the jordan syria border in what's seen as america's growing involvement in the conflict leon panetta says the task team is there to enhance jordan's capabilities in case while it spills over from syria we can now talk to our. own who joins us live from washington with more a guy in there what else has a you have u.s. official said about deploying forces in georgia. well karen according to defense secretary leon panetta they send the troops to the jordan syria and to the border between jordan and syria in case violence escalates in syria and spills over the border leon panetta did not go into details as to how many troops and so on but

another u.s. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said the forces are made up of one hundred military personnel and other personnel who stayed on in jordan after attending an annual exercise in may and several dozen more have flown in since they're operating from the joint u.s. jordanian military in a center north of that americans have used for years the news about u.s. military personnel so close to syria that is boots on the ground of course suggests an escalation in the u.s. in the u.s. military involvement in the conflict even as washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct military. direct intervention in syria also tension grow is growing on the border between syria and turkey after several days of shelling this wednesday turkey's military chief of val's to respond with more force that is a day after nato said it's ready to defend turkey this latest development with u.s.

troops in jordan comes with the u.s. presidential election less than a month away at a time when with mitt romney barack obama's challenger is criticizing the president for not being aggressive enough on syria for quote unquote sitting on the sidelines for missing the opportunity to topple assad and quote to deliver the active feet to iran and yes he actually said that so it's not clear whether this latest announcement about jordan is the administration's way of showing teeth in this election campaign or whether an intervention in syria is really coming soon to one of the reasons why the rebels refused to settle down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that's. that support is on the way that there will be an intervention but everybody understands without a negotiated solution the bloodshed will continue so the signals that the rebels are getting including the news about the u.s. troops about u.s. troops standing by wide across the border could be making it that much harder to

come to that negotiated solution. all right artie's. a lot from washington keep it here on our t.v. for more developments from moscow in washington thank you guy now let's now get more on the growing u.s. presence near the syrian border from lou rawls well writer and founder of the lute week of on my suspense to toot he joins us from alabama. thank you so much for joining us lou now what do you make of this move on the part of the u.s. is it really just about helping an ally in case of a spillover. no if of course it has been jordan has long been a bit of color a satellite of the u.s. it's not actually an ally it's the province of the u.s. and so why is the u.s. putting in these troops are first of all to imply that some of syria is threatening jordan which of course is not true syria has got their hands full with the u.s. inspired rebels who were trained by the way in turkey at a u.s. air force base for the past several years before this all started so this is just

a way to gin up the tension to bring on more trouble i know i think it's true the u.s. will not use its troops to invade syria but will they try a libyan strategy of simply bombing people endlessly from the air very possible the u.s. is closing in on the region and do we have a map what do you make of its growing military presence in the region in general. well first of all the u.s. of course would like to be the world government so it wants to control everything but it always specially wants to control all oil so yes so this is this is whether the overthrow of saddam hussein the intended overthrow sort of certainly of romney is made president maybe obama will do it too of iran the horrors that are going on in syria now this is all part of a plan to control the entire region bring it under us of germany and deny oil to china that's one of the one of the reasons for the attack on libya because that oil

was going to china they don't want to oil going to china without without the u.s. being in control of it so this is just part of the empire it's just another step. on the other hand that the u.s. government is broke so we'll have to see what happens financially for a long they can get away with simply printing up trillions of dollars and showering them on the world will that continue to work i think it cannot work. for too much longer but a lot of trouble could be made in the meantime for the already been tens of thousands of people killed in syria there probably will be hundreds of thousands killed by the time this is done it's a horrendous thing and we're also course the u.s. busy in overthrowing the last secular arab or here in. iraq was also a secular of regime the u.s. is always on the side of trouble like any empire the roman battle one ends whoever divide and conquer so. the the islamic are you know are used by the u.s.

they were used by the u.s. against the russian occupation of afghanistan that's when some of unloading for us was involved with the and so they're there to do the so-called has been involved in libya involved in syria to. syria's border with neighboring countries has been a safe haven for rivals do you expect this latest development to change that or give rebels additional protection. oh no it's intended to give the rebels so-called rebels i think they're not rebels i think they're they're are bought and paid for soldiers who are fighting for the u.s. for france for turkey and so forth against syria for israel it's the these are not the rebels in a normal sense a lot of them come from other countries a lot of them come from chechnya for so they're not they're not syrian rebels but they are islamic us and they cause trouble in the already promised to expel all the christians who have lived in syria since the time of the apostles to expel all the

christians to kill all the alawite who are the the the muslims so it's to with assad and the other people in the ruling regime in syria they're going to be a lot of deaths used to horrendous and the promotion of al qaida if such a thing i never know whether it's just a name for a tendency it's probably not a natural organization when the u.s. but the u.s. uses that to scare americans all after the after assad has been overthrown then the horrible islamicist are there so the us are going to step in and take over syria or do it through france turkey would also like to rejuvenate the ottoman empire i mean they they still remember that syria was part of the ottoman empire so with lebanon so it was iraq i'm a huge of it and so forth so right to have their own of their own all the time we have. added our of blue rockwell a dot com as well as writer and founder of the ludwig von mises institute thank you so much for your time thank you. now we are closely following developments as they

unfold and we'll update you in a few minutes of more of the details from our washington correspondent you can. meanwhile iraq's prime minister who is in moscow speaks out against a potential nato intervention in syria under the guise of protecting the reach of a report on that is coming up. in moscow appeals court has free to one of the jailed members of the notorious pussy riot punk band. but up held the two year sentence for the two others the three women were convicted in august of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for performing a song packed with obscenity at russia's main orthodox cathedral artie's polly boy has the details outside the court. what are the bands members you could see in the summit say that she walked free from more scary city court here she was released on probation throughout the trial and throughout the appeal the women have maintained that they didn't mean to offend anybody and that there was a protest it was

a political protest against vladimir putin however during the trial the court found no political motive to the stunt that took place back in february in the christ the savior of the jail in moscow they said it was in fact hooliganism motivated by religious hatred now today speculation has been mounting over a growing rift among the prissy right clan because we saw this one band member switched defense teams today and the new lawyers they took up a new line of defense changing her defense slightly backtracking almost saying that in fact she didn't take part in the protest attorney because she was distorted by guards out of the. main cathedral during this punk prayer protest and the media speculation that's been so big and what's made this story started huge has led lots of people to say that kristie riot is now a wild wide brand pussy riot the feminist punk rock has registered trademark

a brand. one major russian concert organizers says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promote has offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could fetch up to six hundred million euros. over the last there's red square behind me that percy riot stormed the area and performed an offensive song about blood and may have said a warm up gig of sorts but that particular stunt didn't bring the punk rock was the big break that they were off to internet in the tension on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the often. received just weeks later first the riots took their protest start to moscow central pathy journal. the stunning video went viral pussy riot were arrested their trial

a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities called for the women's release mysti international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shirts sold out the pussy it was quite normal that's the way you attract attention they always look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way but don was dressed look at that look at all the other. we can do as well as that or we could do something different in the heat in the idea that going into the cathedral and seeing the blood from the songs because that. would in fact be something i rejoice during the trial some was struck by the women's defense team's tactics. there is no defense in this case it's simple p.r. law is uncorking out on olive feel they're working towards the brand in order to capitalize on it in the future and it's worked i think two years in prison for the crime they committed is too harsh but at the same time i can see that their lawyers

did everything in order to get them those two years in prison with the concept requests pouring in there are those that say that percy rights course appeal is just like the trial that preceded it the point here isn't to reduce the women's sentences but rather it's about increasing the number of clerics headlines and the saleability of the now protected pussy riot brand polly boyko r t moscow for more on the pussy riot case do stay with us after this short break we'll be getting inside an analysis from john la land. finest his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but

he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just that i has them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's

difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with new people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd a more attractive than promising largest producer and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a high a fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. hello

and thank you for joining r t with me karen tara returning now to one of our main stories the developments in the high profile pussy riot trial in moscow let's now get reaction from probably institute of democracy and cooperation who's written about the case thank you so much for joining our team now we've heard some experts and observers say that the band and their lawyers are very interested in public city so how do you think that sits with their efforts to try and get the women freed. yeah i love that part of your reporter's another service i think it's very important to remind your viewers that this is so cool and that has never given a single concept well recorded a single song or as far as i know even written a song they're not a band at all in any sense of the word they are instead a group of political activists which is of course how they have presented themselves and how they have been understood in the west but indeed if they can

cash in on the minutes and in my view totally unjustified publicity which they've received from this whole business then i expect they will try and do that now just for the sake of calling them a band one of the band members got a separate lawyer ahead of the appeal hearing changing her defense line do you think the other two should have followed soon change their legal teams. well as i understand it the issue was whether this. girl. had had or had not in fact performed the song she claimed she was actually whisked out of the cathedral before she'd been able to unpack a guitar so it seems to me to be a straightforward issue of pleading not guilty and if so then that's why she's being released i don't really see any of the. calls to comment on that particular thing now the girls do insist that they didn't mean to offend christians feelings by performing in the cathedral but how does that go with the outrage among russian

worshippers. it's a complete lie honest people their whole performance their previous performances i'm sure some of your lawyers some of your viewers if they're any further beaten venturous on the internet will have discovered some of their earlier obscene undertakings in public though these things are all directed at outraging shocking their views and i've quoted before and i will quote again what they say mean the same shit shit to the lords shit you know these words are obviously designed to offend believers and you know if they want to apologize for what they did that's one thing but to add insult to injury by saying that they never intend it in the first place is i repeat a lie pirates are markland from institute of democracy in cooperation thank you.

the growing international standoff over syria iraq says it's against the foreign use of force in the country or using it to try to overthrow president assad the iraqi prime minister is currently in moscow for meetings with russian leaders artist peter all of earth's following the talks. both president putin and prime minister maliki share very similar views concerning the ongoing crisis in syria both the seemingly opposed to any kind of outside military intervention in the country and both want to see peace brought about through diplomatic means now there are meetings of come about under the shadow of increasingly frosty tensions frosty relations between syria and turkey on the border between the two countries now that's a situation that does have the potential to boil over into a ball wider conflict especially when you consider that nato has said that they are willing to step in on the side of their ally turkey following in the off the back of this i say increasingly tense situation on that border we're hearing that

president vladimir putin could delay a proposed visits to turkey by the delegations been in town for a few days and the purpose of this mission is to strengthen ties between moscow and one of the ways in which they've done not is the signing of a multi-billion dollar defense deal which will see russia provide arms to a rock now one of the reasons which iraq is turning towards russia for its defense needs in the wake of comments from a seat from senior u.s. politician john terry who said that the united states should cease all arms deals with iraq now this comes after a bike died refused to intercept a a rainy and cargo plane that was carrying military supplies to syria to aid the syrian army there so it seems that back that turning to moscow in the future for its military is all its defense needs as a british prime minister david cameron didn't have enough to to tackling our

session and spending cuts now he's having to watch his back london mayor boris johnson is capturing the public and his party's minds even overshadowing the beleaguered leader at the conservative conference party's laura smith reports from birmingham. he's still got this great blond hair which he referred to that david cameron has made a joke of he said if he was a mop then david cameron was the broom sweeping out the economy and some have said in fact that cameron was very generous to agree to the closing speech of boris's annual conference and of course one of the things that people are looking for now from david cameron is this star quality dave is not and his speech couldn't have really been in sharper contrast to boris is he still says that cuts are at the heart of his growth policy which is cutting the deficit what are hard working people who travel long distances to get into work pay their taxes meant to think

when they see families individual families getting forty fifty sixty thousand pounds of housing benefit to live in homes these hardworking people could never afford them so it is an outrage and we are ending it by capping housing benefit he defended the economic strategy but of course we all know the arguments and what's really lacking is is any really real evidence that is actually working that he didn't say the words will stare a c one and that's something i've seen was hanging around on the fringes of this conference over the last couple of days conservatives don't like the word austerity anymore they use these euphemisms they say tough decisions they say reducing the deficit they say reducing the government share of spending it's not fashionable to say the word austerity very uncomfortable with it so it's strategy not hugely coherent which is very important if cameron wants to gain this reputation is had in the past for huge compton's something he didn't mention which i have to say i wasn't really expecting was scotland of course we've had recently that the

stalemate between london and edinburgh on edinburgh holding a referendum on its participation in the u.k. david cameron will meet with premier alex salmond on monday to hash out the details but what we're hearing is that there will be a referendum held in. or to two thousand and fourteen a simple yes no question as to whether scotland will remain part of the u.k. and of course the major thing that david cameron does not want is to be the man who is in charge over the break up of the. alan smith member of the european parliament for the scottish national party so scotland can't back what it puts into the u k. it's not working for the people of scotland and we could do better rid of presenting ourselves as a small prosperous northern europe. surrounded by the use of norway and doing more under those we think we could do better in a country of five million people with a much more direct democracy who's going for the deliberate stone world who want to

do is to complete the crucifix and give a normal dose of the normal independence day with the e.u. you want independence so there isn't more to the u.k. than we can keep these a move to the e.u. we could book this is something that really has been proven by official u.k. tours are a statistics you know course it's going to do going to reconnect with. time now for more of the world's news from our there have been for clashes between hundreds of students and police in chile's capital they've been protesting for months over a wall they say limits the right to public assembly violations punishable with up to three years in jail security forces deployed water cannons on the students and made several arrests. the radical islamist cleric abu holmes our has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges as he appeared in a new york federal court it follows his extradition from britain along with four other men to face trial on charges of kidnapping tourists in yemen and plotting to

set up a training camp for militants in the u.s. a trial date has been fixed for next year i will have to answer to a total of eleven criminal charges. israel's prime minister has ordered a parliamentary election to take place early next year eight months ahead of schedule benjamin netanyahu is believed to be banking on the swift poll to ensure his re-election and a majority for his party right now he's struggling to get his austerity budget passed while ramping up the war talk against iran election success could embolden netanyahu who long been threatening an offensive against terror but it's not that striking before the vote could mean electoral defeat america's presidential election is also considered a major factor in the prime minister's decision as israeli historian and journalist dr ron paul dark explains. that is taking advantage of situation the budget is only it's true that to pass a budget is difficult but he could have done it but this is the best time from his

point of view because the coalition today in israel is in shambles so he catches actually a moment in which from his point of view within three months he will enter and he can make a huge victorious i think this is here another element the element of obama. has actually linked himself almost totally to much involvement in the american elections in favor of only we told news an old friend of mine tell you how they're holding similar conservative positions and they all in all his relations with obama are very sour i believe that if obama will be elected this will become also in issue in the elections and i will not meet a possibility in wish obama in direct way we also try to influence the election since we're. trying to meet his next of business news so russia needs an immense amount of investment and energy one trillion dollars to be trained nurse rival of course not one time over the course of eight years but still it is

a huge amount of money and russia's energy minister alexander novak has told me that tax incentives will be provided in order to achieve this indeed ambitious goal . first of all we've created a set of stimulating measures to boost the development of new all deposits in siberia secondly for the existence of posits that are unprofitable under the current tax system we've cut the export tax by five percent on top of that we will take steps to stimulate drilling of hard to reach oil reserves on the shelves. right very quickly cyclical what's happening on the markets this hour in the united states it's looking pretty pessimistic with the dow down to climbing point three percent this is on the back of the i.m.f. actually lowering its global growth forecast by twenty five basis points nasdaq is feeling a bit better driven by apple which is up around one percent ahead of the release of its new i pad model which is scheduled for these seventeen or at least speculate on

the russian market is this is the closing picture with the r t s m i six declining around one percent despite high of world prices and this is again on the back of pessimism coming from europe where a lot of worries still remain on the uncertainty about the situation in spades and in greece and i'm afraid that's all i have but the time for this i'll be back of course in fifty five minutes i'm going up to it now i think it's a meter that's coming up it is the latest edition of peter the bells debate that's in a few moments. sigrid lumber tour. was able to build a new most sophisticated robot. found anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should

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