new peace plan for syria unravel of the top international envoy to the conflict zone expands his mediation efforts. a crunch decision the u.k. man who hacked into the heart of the pentagon on a search for e.t. could be extradited to the us in just days under an act made to hunt down terrorists suspects. and call for independence in scotland not fall on deaf ears of the british prime minister set to sign a deal for an historic referendum that could result break up a great britain after three hundred years.

and am in the russian capital you watching r t was me. as fighting escalates across syria the joint u.n. and arab league envoy to the conflict zone is in the middle of a renewed effort to me at a cease fire log garber himi is holding talks in iran which has put forward its own vision of ending the bloodshed to iran and they have not provided the exact details of the plan for him is reportedly proposing to bring in three thousand international peacekeepers once a ceasefire is in place else comes amid a deepening regional split over syria the country's northern neighbor turkey is bolstering its military presence on the border while ankara and its allies continue to back the rebels urging them to fire donegan some analysts say efforts to mediate peace are furred less while such foreign meddling continues. let us not forget it countries like france united kingdom have declared that they are supporting the insurgency that they have said they're providing non-lethal support but in fact it

seems their intelligence services are quite simple be supporting the free syrian army they said problem. and one of the proposals i think for. mr brahimi peace to try to get a ceasefire on the part of the syrian government but how can this human government released e-coli implement the cease fire when the rebels don't want the ceasefire because they want to study government militarily and they know they have the backing of the united states and all full members of the european union saudi arabia of qatar or their well feet persian gulf arab states in turkey of course member of nato jordan so. we have to see how he goes. he rides watch as a key is the syrian government of dropping ban cluster bombs on residential areas the ngo says it doesn't have information on casualties and syrian civilians caught in the crossfire are increasingly fleeing the conflict zone where the number of

refugees said to be rising exponentially they want to warrens they are number could soon top half a million without stopping their. reports. the bekaa valley is one of the poorest regions in lebanon resources are scarce living conditions visibly harsh but for syrian refugees with the fewest means this is now home we arrive to the town of just thirty minutes after a syrian shell hit the area the lebanese army wouldn't permit us to film the damage but even here at the official border crossing. sporadic gunfire serves as a reminder of the dangers on the other side hundreds of thousands of syrians have fled their country many coming right here to lebanon to seek refuge from the escalating violence but with their number is growing by the day and no end to the fighting in sight many find the prospects for their future are increasingly grim there are no camps for the refugees in lebanon most stay with host families mohamed not his real name isn't so lucky. it is safer here but.

bombs are falling three hundred to four hundred meters. inside the territory's people here advised me to move my tent from here to protect my children which i did know one of those trees. we met this refugee at a nearby apple orchard where he and seventeen members of his family have been hiding after losing everything in the war he didn't feel safe showing his family on camera but describe the struggle of trying to survive where you're not wanted yeah that's the situation. especially for those who come to our outside this region to see for and the situation is better secured for other refuse. they've got refrigerators who television everything here we have nothing to hold we don't have work out there it is catastrophic no help from lebanon he says and no way to return home. west in between we don't feel safe neither from the syrian army

nor from the rebels. lebanon has registered nearly seventy thousand syrian refugees but their number is set to soar the u.n. warns that the syrian refugee population could more than double before the end of the year today there are just under three hundred thousand syrian refugees in the form a boring countries and the prime provides for up to over seven hundred thousand this means is an additional four hundred thousand the question is whether syria's neighbors can absorb the incoming wave already cracks are showing riots erupted last week at the un runs attari refugee camp in jordan police fired tear gas to quell the uprising by syrians complaining about poor living conditions it was the worst violence since the facility opened in july. we can close our border in the faces of the refugees we have to help them. but help is hard to come by turkey sides refugee populations swell to more than eighty seven thousand people over the

past month prompting ancora to at least partially shut it's open door policy less than one hundred meters from its border makeshift camps like this one have sprung up were desperate hopefuls wait to be allowed to cross ravaged and dispossessed by war marginalized in the collected in neighboring countries for syrian refugees like these hope in itself is a herculean feat to see caffein of lebanon. at our website r.t. dot com on now a dangerous precedent in the making a lovers in the u.s. might be in for a better surprise this year up for yet another legal battle online to find out more plus it's going to absolute extremes at austria. skydiver becomes the first man to break the sound barrier without any goal vala fearless felix every move on our team dot com. while he claims he was just looking for you photos book could now face

sixty years in a u.s. prison for almost a decade washington has been demanding the extradition of the artistic u.k. hacker gary mckinnon on dury treaty designed to get hold of terrorists a final decision is expected on tuesday but as laura smith reports london could still step in. gary mckinnon this mother janice has been up all night working to get everything in order to convince the home secretary not to deport her mentally ill son for trial in america it's ten years since the u.s. demanded gary's extradition for hacking into the pentagon's computers from his north london bedroom he's mildly autistic and doctors say a very real suicide risk gary would not survive five minutes and that c agreed by so many top a psychiatrist and doctors do we really extra days only with a mental condition who is suicidal and his emotional age or a child does. civilized country do this surely not but there may be

a light at the end of the tunnel the home secretary has until october the sixteenth to decide whether she'll block the extradition gary's mother has high hopes as does his lawyer who won't give up if the worst happens to move into the supreme court twice we've been to the house of lords we've been to the high court so you know there's we've exhausted every possible nickel charm we challenge we can because his legal team are all absolutely sure and convinced that if would commit suicide so we're talking about man's life we're told now has built a successful practice on fighting water is seen as one sided extradition rules in the treaty with the us the americans must only show reasonable suspicion if they want to extradite to britain compared with probable cause going the other way the result nine times more britons have been extradited than americans it's

a treaty that even david blunkett the home secretary here is signed it in two thousand and three admits was a mistake it's now under review but so far it's just words also just talk has been prime minister david cameron and his. deputy nick clegg the ports but gary mckinnon both were loudly on his side while in opposition but after two and a half years in power there's been no action all the while the cases roll up to forty five year old gary of almost a quarter of his life and taken a potentially irreversible toll on his health is beginning to wonder who is real and who isn't he says it's like there's a view between him and the world and sometimes actually feels that it's just not real gary used to say co used to swim you music he signed if gary had been tried in the u.k. at the start he would have served his sentence and been able to put all this behind

him by now as it is he's stuck in limbo still liable to sixty years in an american jail and still insisting he was only looking for evidence of u.f.o.'s laura smith r.t. london the european union says it's prepared to richard up sanctions against iran or its nuclear program the new measures include a ban on e.u. metal sales to the country a halt to imports of terrans natural gas and various oil shipment restrictions the new sanctions mark one of the toughest winds against iran to date amid mounting worries the state's making nuclear weapons iran has always denied this and says it might consider limiting enrichment of higher grade uranium if it's allowed to have fuel for research reactor sanctions have been piling up on the country since two thousand and six when the u.n. banned supplies of heavy weaponry in arms exports after which more bands from the e.u. and the us followed to iran university professor aside mohammad marandi says western

restrictions have little to do with the nuclear program. the iranians are willing to be more open and allow more intrusive inspections and they're willing. to talk about enriching uranium at twenty percent under certain conditions but in general nothing has changed and increasing sanctions by the west will only make things more difficult because the iranians see the sanctions that are being imposed by western governments as inhuman the intention is to make ordinary iranians suffer there is a consensus that this is not this doesn't have much to do with the nuclear program the issue is iran iran's independence iran is a country that not bow down to the western powers and the europeans and americans want to run to near like saudi arabia like most of the other countries in the region and that's the objective to make ordinary iranians suffer.

as story moment for scotland is moving a step closer as british pm david cameron is set to sign an official agreement for a friend him on in the pants in two thousand and fourteen thousands have protested on the streets in the past months calling for a vote on whether scotland should go it alone r.t. sara first reports from edinburgh. we're here on calton hill in edinburgh the city that for decades has been the scene of protests demanding justice independence now the fils been a long time in the making and concessions to be made by face size most notably alex salmond gaining the right to sixteen and seventeen year olds to participate in this new slate to ensure that this referendum will be legally binding the holy writ is going to be granted the legal power as she drives up this referendum on the what's known as a section. i think it's very important this is one hundred years for this and i

think she put it i think it's stupid. yeah i don't know because like they've been part of like brits invaded i think we need to work together i think. it's really. i just think it's about the very thing you know the return years ago from the public family took such images and go a bit more and there you go so the decision peaks of people in westminster right now and they all assure we by and large most people in scotland approach the union and there's nothing to worry about here but to simply take that viewpoint that line would be to my list of really underestimate just how pivotal this decision could be for the united kingdom now whilst the polls mostly back up the fact that the majority of the scottish public and now are in support of remaining in the union

it's around a third a quarter of the scottish public when the polls are carried out the say they want independence but of course that vote will be held to the end of twenty fourteen so it's still to play for and there will be a months of campaigning to tell the scottish public why the country should become an independent one that's. some of the central issues will be the economy the nikkei capabilities these are all going to be discussion points as i said it really will be an absolutely monumental decision if scotland very said yes in that referendum yes to independence the united kingdom that's been in existence the three centuries and lazy of its land mass its nuclear deterrent and most of its will not to mention the impact it would have on its international standing it really would have very far reaching implications indeed and it is why this is being

described as the most important political decision to face the united kingdom for three hundred years. and in just a couple of minutes separatism also marches across europe and ashley's party control of the continent's second biggest city. calls for more in the palace for flanders blaming the dutch government for draining the region. i mean sochi the only city in europe on the hosts of the twenty fourteen which are the figures. thank you. thank you. a. dog days of. days it. takes a. seat it's so true.

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to watching our team now separatism balham have gained control of europe's second biggest port city on tour. after the flemish nationalist lira won the election to become the city's mayor barda we were promised to use his new power to seek wider autonomy for flanders and you fly machine lines or and sports thirty seven percent of votes and belgians wealthy dutch speaking region the party stated its goal is in the hand of flemish republic but its first object in history and fiscal transfers to the poor along the region which the nationalists claim is a drain flanders belgian politician says the outcome of the election illustrates just how support from breaking away as grown in the region over the years. the idea is gaining ground that it's the most important thing because we are having

a lot of problems now in belgium we see that france is the federal government doesn't have a majority on the flemish side in the federal parliament although the flemings make up the majority of the population in belgium the federal government doesn't have a majority in flanders and that's of course is a big problem it's a problem of democratic deficits and this means there is government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flanders. for come something completely different that we are getting now with this federal government and friends is an economic economically socially. prosperous region we have we are already if we have a flemish nation and we have a flemish people you have to know that those room is an artificial country you it's really two separate countries already within belgium we see a completely different political consensus on the flemish on the world. flanders

would be perfectly able to do have an independent state and be a member of the you know european union. as moments four and panels have blossomed to many as terry burden countries in the e.u. matters a member of the libertarian party of netherlands told r.t. why going it alone might be just the solution to the euro crisis one solution to our problem of having too much government which govern spending is by. separation when countries become smaller because they because of these areas getting independence. there is more competition among governments and that is a good thing everybody knows that competing companies is a good thing when companies compete prices go down service goes up all the goes up the same thing or two it is true governments from governments compete they have to bring their tax rates down that is why the tax rates have gone down in the last thirty years reagan and actually started cutting taxes and the rest of the world

followed in order to compete the european union right now it's like the carto high tax countries and the european union is trying to harmonize tax policy you are going to tax your use of government regulations and eliminate competition that is a bad thing if small countries come into existence. and areas that are not in the coming and going into the future there is more competition there will be lower taxes less spending very few regulations of the more free market policies because because countries need to compete for capital for talent and that is what drives economic growth. now take a look at some other stories from around the world the last great trial of the plane mastermind of nine eleven and he is for accomplices is to begin on monday avenue to where he is u.s. naval base and guantanamo bay the hearings have been delayed several times since the original start date in august a military court will consider twenty five motions from both the prosecution and

the fans relatives of victims from the terror attacks have been invited to attend the hearings. he won rights advocate has been elected as libya's new interim prime minister it comes only a week after the ruling national general congress missed his predecessor for failing to form a cabinet all this done will now face a tough task of forming a government that libya's conflicting political factions can agree on the country is still highly unstable after last year's uprising that led to the toppling and death of its longtime leader moammar gadhafi. when his opposition has taken the lead in the country's parliamentary election a left wing labor party and center left social democrats have together one around forty five percent of the vote and are both ahead of the ruling coalition which is coming third the result reflects a sharp decline in the government's popularity which has been linked to its dress to the program the baltic state has been plagued by unemployment and a huge exodus of workers into western europe. brazilian marie example we have

stormed two of rio de janeiro's most of tori's slums the operation is aimed at wrestling control of the shantytowns away from drug gangs as part of the preparations for the twenty fourteen football world cup at least five suspected traffickers who attempted to flee were killed police are now running to the boys specially trained agents to operate in two areas on a permanent basis. from coming to the baltic sea russia has voted in its nationwide regional election more than fifty seven thousand candidates were running for positions as governors or municipal officials early results show ruling united russia party has won or was heading for victory in all the main provincial races. has been following the vote from moscow. overall more than twenty two million russians had an opportunity to arrive at the polling stations and choose from an unprecedented number of candidates regional elections have taken place in russia

for the first time in eight years and what is so special and interesting about this day is that it was introduced following laws disabused ways of opposition protests a return to direct regional elections was one of the demands of the protesters people also wanted to see more opposition in parliament so at that moment than president dmitry me they just scrapped the old system which the regional officials in regional governance handpicked by the government and he also made it easier for new political parties to emerge on the political arena by giving him more competitive complection to the local elections and this day we saw thirty two different political parties are taking place across the country house we know prime minister dmitry medvedev has not with the members of the united russia party and he emphasized that the united party has shown better results as this we should the elections than it did at the state duma elections that took place in december last

year and as i said before the single voting day was taking place or for the first time in russia in the last eight years. they are world fast approaching the second anniversary of the start of the arab spring and a wave of violence has so far force the leaders of four countries from power and over sixty thousand people killed later this hour to talk to most of five clearly a tunisian rider and director of the new york university center for dialogues to really assess the results of the ongoing unrest here's a quick preview of the election which the two praise. in the context in which there were hopes. were so from the storm coming. from. should be dished out and they should be. going to lose you were opening them. if. they come on making sure the problems

they did move. to transform the company you can use to the working. within egypt or tunisia is precisely a shift. in the instant response is the took over from real focus on economic motives. for the. patients the identity or breach values value is. time now for a business update and the world's top finance officials disagree over how best to resolve the economic crisis natasha tells more oh absolutely the latest science math and the world bank meeting and have really revealed the fresh doubts over their ability to boost global recovery the european officials have been complaining

about the damage coming from the austerity measures and turned they were criticized for having no clear rescue plan for greece many pointed fingers at the united states for the budget mess in the world's largest economy analysts claims these gatherings were radically different during the two thousand and eight prices they were seen as the platform for collective decisions something that the latest meeting clearly locked now let's check out the equity markets and let's start with the age of the only region that's actively trading this hour and what we're seeing there is that shares are declining mainly are concerns about the growth prospects corporates dive into the earnings season they're reporting third quarter results over the weekend there was some good news coming from the world's second largest economy china showing the. the government's stimulus measures a lot of pain but apparently that's not enough for traders to lift up their moods plus september's new bank lending was the grain of salt that came in below

expectations wall street saw the worst trading week since in june you're saying friday's closing figures amounts this buy and some clear signs of economic recovery last week like a pretty upbeat unemployment data here in moscow equities also ended friday with a losses here are the numbers of russia's biggest company gazprom slumped even more than the mindsets one point three percent now on to the currency market at the moment the euro is going to the u.s. dollar and european concerns and the russian the ruble and the friday's session a lower to the currency basket will bring you the latest figures as soon as the russian markets reopen in the less than two hours time and how the open we can partially predict by looking at how crude is trading at the moment it's a lower on reduced forecast for global demand courtesy of the international energy agency and up next on our t.v.

we talked to my stuff with levy it's an asian writer and director for the new york university center for dialogue to reassess the results of the arab spring. that's not clean leave tunisian writer and also founder and director of the new york university version east center for dialogue so it's great to have you with us here today. so i'm going to start of with a quote it is only a slight overstatement to say that muslims and arabs are essentially saying in as is or oil suppliers or potential terrorists by the united states now this is a quote by american intellectual writer of the arabic descent it worked saeed he said that over fifty years ago saying that western thinking all of islam has always

occurred within that framework that created by a passion prejudice and political interest do you think that at this point today things are different. unfortunately. that to which you do or say do object to. my the. kind of. truth. for one simple reason. the whole that. that we saw at one point through what is called between the arab spring risk to be dashed. because what happened since the through certainly through democrats who elections. we have seen the islamist parties the muslim brotherhood the group. can easily do you can move in.