washington sense troops to jordan to protect its border with syria the move seen by many as an escalation of america's involvement in the conflict. a member of the punk band pussy riot freed on probation but an appeal hearing keeps the two others beyond the publicity stunt and russia's main orthodox cathedral in. an ongoing austerity feels more separatism calls in europe as the referendum on scotland's independence from britain is all but confirmed.

hello this is r t live news from moscow at eight pm with me kevin zero in very good to have you with us this hour first to developments in the middle east the u.s. defense secretary has confirmed that washington sent troops to the jordan syria border and what is seen as america's growing involvement in the conflict now. says the task team is there to enhance jordan's capabilities in case violence spills over from syria at his gun into cats got the latest from washington. according to defense secretary leon panetta they sent the troops to jordan syrian border 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 center north of that americans have used for years and 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. military involvement in the conflict even as washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in syria but jordan is not the only place where the u.s. has military presence if we look at syria and the u.s. military presence in the region we see that syria is pretty much surrounded militarily also tension is growing on the border between syria and turkey after several days of shelly this wednesday turkish military chief vow to respond with more force that is a day after nato said it's suv ready to defend turkey but this latest development with u.s. troops in jordan comes with the u.s. election presidential election less than a month away at

a time when mitt romney his challenger is criticizing the president for not being aggressive enough for quote unquote sitting on the sidelines for missing the opportunity to topple assad and quote delivered that defeat to iran yes he actually said that so it's not clear whether this latest announcement about jordan is these ministrations way of showing teeth in these in this election campaign or whether an intervention in syria is really coming soon one of the reasons why the rebels refuse to settle for a. a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention everybody understands without a negotiating some negotiated solution the bloodshed will continue so the signals that the rebels are getting including the news about u.s. troops standing by across the border could be making it that much harder to come to that negotiated solution going to teach a camel independent journalist now both things border protection is just

a pretext to press harder for a change of the syrian regime. throughout the duration of the conflict in syria we've heard a lot of talk about the creation of humanitarian corridors or buffer zones along the turkish border and now we're hearing reports of the same thing established on the jordanian border believe that it's what the american personnel in jordan are there to do one needs to acknowledge the fact that this is not the policy of the turkish government nor is that the policy of the jordanian government the u.s. think tank the brookings institute in march two thousand and twelve published a report titled assessing regime change options and syria for that specifically cite the creation of a buffer zone or a humanitarian corridor as a means to base certain rebel groups in the region to project force towards the syrian government in an attempt to topple it so that it appears to be what it's playing out at the moment. not all countries in the middle east are happy about

america's plans to weigh into similar protect the region from the syrian spillover iraq's prime minister is currently here in moscow spoken out against a potential nato intervention in syria or using it to try and overthrow president assad got more of that at our t.v. dot com. a moscow appeals courts freed one of the jailed members of the notorious pussy riot punk band but up held a 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 it rushes main orthodox cathedral parties polyploid has got the details from outside the cold. what are the bands members you could see in the summit say that she walked for e from moscow is citicorp hair 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 cathedral 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 percy 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 a troll 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 say the pussy riot is now a wild wide brand pussy riot feminist punk rock has registered trademark a brand new global one major russian. 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. coming back over the last there's a 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 the attention on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the all for. received just weeks later first the riots at their protests start to moscow's central feature of. the stunt video went viral pussy riot were arrested their trial a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities forced the women's release

. international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shirts sold out the pussy that 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 always dressed look at that they'll look at all the other. well we can do as well as that or we can do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and singing that song because that. would in fact be something ridges chairing 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. lawyers uncorking up on ali 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 writes horse appeal is just like the trial that preceded it the point here isn't to reduce the women's center says but rather it's about increasing the number of clicks headlines and the saleability of the now protected pussy riot brand. moscow. investigative journalist tony guzzling says the resulting popularity and vandalism in the wake of the band's trial raises a big question over who was really benefited from the sentence. let's not forget what's else is going on around the world around this case because you have got loads of problems at the in a way you know part of the punishment is to stop these people cashing in on the free published is published there's been two prizes awarded to these people one from the lennon oh no fun which is a prize for peace which i find incredible since this has been such a divisive case the other is the luther prize which has been awarded boy of the

city of wittenberg which is where protestantism started and what's happened is the city has awarded the prize for the people of the city and they are protesting against that saying you know we don't actually endorse this sacrilege i think there's something really a bit sad about a band an organization that defines itself by opposition to the church and it's quite clear through this court case that's what this is about we've even had the desecration of orthodox crosses across eastern europe in different parts of eastern europe in support of pussy riot so this is actually about i think an attack on the cathedral an attack on the church. as you say it's a story that's made all the headlines you can keep abreast of the latest we're closely watching the a pussy riot case for all the details lined up for you but our t.v. dot com now is just up to ten minutes past the moscow time coming up later in the program with me kevin knowing that israel's prime minister calls the shots and is making his move. brings forward parliamentary elections with one i'll pass

a new austerity bill got the latest on that developing story today plus this. russia needs one trillion dollars of investments of the energy sector in less than a decade with how do you reach such an ambitious goal find out more of this and other stories once you are. was. i was. in the glow of russia's north through way from civilization and its three hour helicopter train from the nearest village. so they still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer screens.

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around who it is gather their tens and move to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter we men and children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though there's sometimes a similar. as if british prime minister david cameron didn't have enough to do tackling recession and spending cuts now is able to watch is back barley london mayor boris johnson is capturing the public and his party's minds even overshadowing the beleaguered leader at the conservative conference or

a smith report 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 mob 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 but dave is not and his speech couldn't have really been in sharp contrast to boris is he still says that cuts are at the heart of his growth policy which is cutting the deficit well or hard working people who travel long distances to get into work to 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 that these hard working 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 word austerity 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 sherif 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 is coming once we 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 have recently that the stalemate in broken between london and edinburgh on as a 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. 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 breakup of the u.k. . and smith member of the european parliament for the scottish national party told a scotland doesn't go but what it puts into the u.k. . it's not working for the people of scotland and we could do better resenting ourselves in a small prosperous northern european nation we're surrounded by the likes of norway aren't don't mark under those so we think we could do better in a country of five million people with a much more direct democracy is going to problems deliberate it's done well for we want to do is to complete the crucifix and give the normal course of a normal independence to the european union on independence stole these and more to the u.k. and we get by the u.k. freezing move to the e.u. than we get back this is something that really has been proven by official u.k.

treasury statistics he was no worse installable do better economically and. bring a real currency from the lord of the rings world online we've got details of today's exchange rate for those commemorative middle earth coins that are now in circulation in new zealand but in france you go online to find out more there plus the very unexpected arrival tools of babies born on board a russian passenger plane at thirty three thousand feet. israel's prime minister's ordered a parliamentary election to take place early next year eight months ahead of shared jewel but he may not believe to be banking on the swift poll to secure his reelection and a majority for his party right now is struggling to get his austerity budget passed

while ramping up the war talk against iran election success would embolden netanyahu who's long been threatening an offensive against iran but it's thought 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 a journalist dr ron pundak explains. is taking advantage of situations. the budget is. to the to pass a budget is difficult but you could have done it but this is the best time for this point of view because the coalition today in is where it is in shambles is 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 victory i think these year another element the element of obama. has actually linked himself almost totally to much involvement in the elections in favor of warmly we're told me as an old friend of italy out there holding similar

conservative positions and they all in all his relations with obama are very sour i believe that if obama would be elected this will become also in issue in the elections and i will not meet a possibility it wish obama in direct way would also try to influence their elections it is world so we'll do some brief for roche's clashes between hundreds of students and police in chile's capital that been protesting for months over a law they say limits the right to public assembly when while ations punishable with up to three years jail security forces deployed water cannons on the student and made several arrests. radicalism is cleric abu hamza's 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. the trial date specifics now for next year that will have to answer to

a total of eleven criminal charges. america's drones have been used to deadly effect abroad now the big modified to serve the skies at home the homeland security department's planning to troll or miss part of a public safety program but privacy experts say it'll mean the government can get away with spying on its own people. and there are no laws out there right now that protect privacy from the use of drones and as this technology gets more available the police will be able to do more and more with it will be able to do more and more with it without needing a warrant so we're entering an age where everything that we do even possibly down the road in our own homes could be subject to unwarranted police surveillance so there are police departments that have expressed interest in having rubber bullets having tear gas possibly having deadly weapons on the drones in the future they are able to target surveillance targets better too so if someone they want to keep an eye on a suspected criminal or maybe even just somebody who may have gone to

a protest they're able to do that much more efficiently. dimitris go to the world of business for you tonight stay with us. you know how 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 tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official publication to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.

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hello and welcome to the business update on r.t. russia needs a one trillion dollars a total of investment in the energy sector by the year twenty twenty now that's according to the energy minister alexander novak he told r.t. that tax incentives will be used in order to achieve this ambitious goal. you know it is to me 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 he took a. close second look at what's happening on the markets first of the united states looking for it see. pessimistic because of. declining growth prospects for earnings for industry giants like alcoa and the share from that finally for that and so it was that quarter and also we're waiting for the beige book report so-called based report on the state to come in the united states feeling better than the market is apples up around one cent now and moving over to europe if we can the foot sea and the dax ended the session down around half a percent that's on the back of uncertainty still remaining about what's going to happen with speight and greece and the i.m.f.

cutting its growth prospects for the global economy by twenty five basis points over on the cars market the euro is barely changed versus the dollar now looking flat supposed it was kind of going up and down when some loose and the russian ruble managed to gain a bit of value against five currencies at the close and this is the closing picture for the russian the markets where they are just my six dropped around one percent despite relatively high of world prices which are above ninety two dollars per barrel this is on the back of this global gloom on the european and u.s. markets gazprom this falling for the third consecutive day. russia's goldman sachs actually goldman sachs has quit as an advisor to russia's megaphones to two billion dollars initial public offering the investment bank is reportedly unimpressed the plans of the company's shareholders have a small enough he wants to place his shares in an umbrella company and then he siegelman sachs. as a blow to russia's second largest mobile phone operator which is planning to sell

twenty percent of its stock by the end of the year. as we've been saying earlier in the program clashes broke out in athens as german chancellor angela merkel is visiting what's driving the greeks mad are these austerity measures which are a condition for the bailout economists say the only way out for the troubled nation is to accept losses and restructured it what i've proposed is is the establishment of a berlin club in the emerging world you have the paris club when an emerging country gets into trouble what happens is the emerging country comes to the paris club with its creditors and they discuss and debate and they restructure the debt they haircut the debt they allocate losses to the creditors i think there should be a berlin club angela merkel should invite all of the developed country finance ministers and politicians to berlin they sit around a table and they start to haircut and allocate the losses around the table and in doing that i think you then start the clean balance sheets because the simple fact

is today there is more credit market debt in the world today than there was yesterday than there was last week and then there was the beginning of the crisis. all right i'm back in fifty five minutes time with another business update coming up next our team talks to andy green burke from forbes magazine who says despite the u.s. war on whistleblowers truthout of casie is on the rise stay with us. this machine kills secrets is the title of a new book that chronicles the history and future of information leaks ranging from the pentagon papers to wiki leaks and beyond r.t. is now sitting down with the author andy greenberg who is also a reporter for forbes magazine welcome andy as a pleasure in your book you introduce readers to the inside world of hacktivists cypherpunks and digital activists such as wiki leaks founder julian assange which

you came to the conclusion that in the twenty first century the world should grow used to more whistleblowers like bradley manning and more groups like wiki leaks why is that. julius anjan in two thousand and ten and it's you know the time it seems to me that he was he sort of made it seem so easy to to leak these massive troves of secret documents but i i i think the rest of the media didn't understand how this was possible where did this come from. some kind of just genius singularity or did it come out of some larger tradition or is it the technology that he used so i i went on this kind of you have the quest to trace the ideas behind wiki leaks and then just you know once a sort of found the tradition that a song comes out of which is to say for punks a group that's been around since the mid ninety's who have always dreamed of using encryption to to take power from the government and give it to individuals and i

conceded that he was actually using technologies that are freely available that have been developing for decades and once you see that you have to wonder who is going to use those technologies next it's not as if this isn't all just about julia songe and it's actually a movement that's been developing for decades then it seems inevitable that it's going to keep evolving and then we're going to have another wiki leaks and another meaning and maybe another songe you traveled around the world to. understand the ins and outs of the hacking community you were tracking cypherpunks and you also spoke to members of other groups such as anonymous paranoia and open leaks well in two thousand and ten actually before i even spoke with a songe there was a kind of mutiny within the wiki leaks where one engineer known as the architects who is a very secretive guy who actually rebuilt the wiki leaks anonymous mission system and is known as is described has been described to me.