russia denies claims it supplied cluster bombs to syria which are now allegedly being used by damascus. the e.u. gets tough on iran again with a new batch of sanctions targeting metal and gas sales aims to pressure the state over its nuclear program after three rounds of talks yielded no results. call for independence and problems not fallen on deaf ears of the british prime minister is set to sign a deal on a story referendum that would result break up of great britain after three hundred years.

this is the live from moscow with me. russia maintains it's not supplying koester bombs to syria which are allegedly being used by the government and its fight against the rebels their human rights watch earlier claim that they were munitions are being dropped on residential areas russia's foreign minister says it's hard to pinpoint the origin of such arms. there are plenty of weapons in the region right now with huge amounts being supplied illegally to syria and neighboring countries there are medicine reason for and trainers in the conflict zone this is being confirmed by independent media the region is flooded with it's very hard to determine where they're all coming from the alleged cluster bombs are said to be from the soviet era we can come to terms with some former soviet warsaw pact countries on regulating the production of soviet technology without a license so there's plenty of things that need to be sorted out of the solutions

sergey lavrov also stressed the need for international efforts to focus on urging both us here and rebels and the government to lay down arms and once as a fighting in the country escalates the joint u.n. arab league envoy to the conflict zone is the middle of a renewed effort to mediate a cease fire but our hearing is holding talks in iran which has put forward its own vision of the watch out for him is reportedly proposing to bring in three thousand international peacekeepers once a ceasefire isn't quaids meanwhile the flow of syrian refugees is said to be rising exponentially as artie's loose a couple of 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 all cause just thirty minutes after 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 her. family is mohamed not his real name isn't so lucky. thought it is safer here but us to reach an office bombs are falling three hundred or four hundred meters beyond tents inside the lebanese territories people here advised me to move my tent from here to protect my children which i did neuer leave their near 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

the situation. especially for the syrians who come to our car outside this region it is safer and the situation is better everything is secured for the other refute g.'s they got refrigerators who television everything here we have nothing at all we don't have work either 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 four neighboring 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 atari 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't close our border in the faces of the refugees we have to help them. but help is hard to come by turkey's. it's refugee populations well to more than eighty seven thousand people over the past month. or two 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 and elected in neighboring countries for syrian refugees like these hope in itself is a herculean feat. lebannon. the european union is about to ratchet up sanctions against iran over its nuclear program the new measures will include

a ban on e.u. battle sales to the country holds to imports of tehran's natural gas and various oil shipments restrictions the new sanctions mark one of the toughest lines against iran to date and that mounting worries the states 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 out on the country since two thousand and six when the un ban supplies of heavy weaponry and arms exports after which more bands from the e.u. and the us fall and raw university professor of science mohammad marandi says western restrictions have little to do with the nuclear program. the iranians are willing to be more open and 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 iranians see the sanctions that are being imposed by western governments in human 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 is iran iran to independence iran is a country that not bow down to the western powers and the europeans and americans want to newer like saudi arabia like most of the other countries in the region and to make ordinary iranian tougher. coming out a bit later here on our team at crunch decision. get even those who buy five minutes and see agreed by so many top. really to date somebody with a mental condition who is suicidal and whose emotionally to

a child. will see britain does as a u.k. man who have into the heart of the pentagon on a search for sounds to america and just under an axe to hunt down. thousands of protesters that have been calling for scotland in a panels for months are about to get a step closer to their goal british pm david cameron is set to sign an agreement that will pave the way for a referendum in two thousand and fourteen but many fear the move will drive a stake through the heart of three hundred years of unity parties there are further reports from. coutts and hill in edinburgh the city that for decades has been the scene of protest the munging scottish independence now that though it's been a long time in the making and confessions to be made by base size the alex salmond gaining the right to fix thing is seventeen year olds who participate in the right

in only thirty to ensure the referendum will be legally binding the holy writ is going to be grown kids the legal powers roughed up this referendum under what's known as the section. i think is very important this is a very it's a hundred years for this nothing but i think it's stupid. yeah i don't know because like they've been part of like. i think we need to work together i think is a. pretty good for me would you have any i just think it's about you know the return years ago for independence but probably a family except except to make your point go a bit more and you go to the decision now was the pope. 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 quarter of the scottish public when the polls are carried out the say they want independence that if that will be held to the end of twenty

fourteen so it's still to play for them will be. campaigning to tell the scottish public why the country should become an independent one some of the central issues will be the economy. capabilities these are all going to be discussion points if. they said yes in that referendum yes to independence the united kingdom this being in existence the three centuries and leaves a third of its land mathes nuclear deterrent and most of it will not to mention the impact it would have on its international standing it really would have very far reaching implications indeed. sarah ferguson for anywhere else now take a look at some other stories from around the world the laws are laid trial the self-proclaimed mastermind of nine eleven and his four accomplices is to begin a monday at the notorious u.s.

naval base at guantanamo bay the hearings have been delayed several times since the original start date in august the 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. human rights advocate has been elected as libya's new interim prime minister it comes only a week after the ruling national general congress dismissed his predecessor for failing to form a cabinet all these are done will now face a tough task of forming a government that devious conflicting political factions can agree on a country still highly unstable after last year's uprising that led to the toppling and death its longtime miron to delfi. brazilian marines and police have stormed two of rio de janeiro's most of tori's slums the operation was aimed at wrestling control of the shantytowns away from drug gangs as part of

the preparations for the twenty four thousand football world cup at least five suspected traffickers who attempted to flee were killed police are now planning to deploy specially trained agents to operate in two areas permanent bases. and in just a couple of minutes here and. across europe and nationalist party. it is a way of life traditionally the people are. in many ways. they are also highly skilled and organized.

depending. on the day we found this particular camp they were settled near the coast. here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand. people and. they can use almost every single part of the. deer is a means of transportation. with. the life in the tundra is harsh and so before winter hits many of the children are helicoptered to the center of the. boarding school. students learn different languages utilize modern technology specialized grant

programs and even learn arts skills all within a protected environment the school was founded a. scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people. even with the most progressive ideas and education many that say they don't want to trade the modern life of their beloved. i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see deer it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. 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 that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. welcome

back you're watching r.t. now he claims he was just looking for you but could now face sixty years in a u.s. prison for almost a decade washington has been demanding the extradition of the autistic u.k. hacker gary mckinnon on there are a treaty designed to get hold of terrorists a final decisions 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 be open to 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 charming challenge we can because as they will to all absolutely sure i'm convinced that if ordered he 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's supports 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 veil between him and the world and sometimes actually feels that it's just not real gary used to say co used to swim you know 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. separatists in belgium have gained control of europe's second biggest port city and were after it a fairish nationalist leader a one big election to become the city's mayor barger weaver promised to use his new power to seek wider autonomy for flanders the new flemish alliance or n.b.a. scoring thirty seven percent of votes in belgium's wealthy dutch speaking region a party stated its goal is dependent flemish republic but its first objective is to and fiscal transfers to the poorer while the region which the nationalists claim as a drain on flanders belgium partition fell across as the our problem of the

election straits just how support for breaking away is 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 for instance 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 a government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flanders voted for come something completely different that we are getting now with this federal government and friends is an economic economically socially powerful prosperous region we have we are already if we have a flemish nation and we have a french people you have to know that belgium is an artificial country you it's

really two separate countries already within belgium and we see a completely different political consensus on the floor vision on the world. those would be perfectly able to do have an independent state and be a member of the you know european union. right. now for the visit they downed the world's top finance officials disagree over how best to resolve the economic crisis . well absolutely that we can and i am i from the world bank meeting in two q. seems to have divided the world's top economic decision makers the european officials have complained about the damage the austerity measures have caused in turn they themselves were criticized for having no clear rescue plan for greece many also pointed fingers at the world's largest economy the united states for the budget mess analysts claims these gatherings were radically different during the two thousand and eight crisis when they served as the platform for collective

decisions something that the latest meeting clearly a lot. and to move it on let's check out the equity markets will start with asia where trade is pretty active this hour and shares there are mixed mainly on concerns about growth prospects as corporate stiva to the earnings season overall the wall street with all the worst trading week since june and you're seeing friday's closing figures there and that's despite some clear signs of economic recovery last week like a pretty upbeat unemployment data for example here in moscow equities also ended friday with a loss as of russia's biggest company gazprom slumped even more than the my sex one point three percent on friday now into the ground to market the year at the moment is slumping against the u.s. dollar and the russian ruble closed at friday's session lower to the currency basket will bring you the latest figures as soon as russia reopens in less than one

hour's time and how it reopens largely depends on crude prices which are lower this monday on reduced forecast for global demand courtesy of the international energy agency now crude price of all the till it he really threatens russia's growth since its budget largely depends on oil revenues the country. it's former finance minister alexei kudrin explains what to prepare for and case crude remains extremely volatile. was the first scenario which is also the base one is the status quo given the current all prices institutions and markets will improve but at a slow pace the second scenario involves a sharp drop in crude prices triggering a major cuts in infrastructure in education spending the third scenario is the most difficult one it involves the improvement of public institutions that compensates for falling oil prices this scenario requires wide support to get implemented. and

in just a couple of minutes we'll take a look at what the twenty fourteen olympic host city house to offer its visitors. russia would be so much brighter if you knew more about song from phones to question. me start on t.v. dot com. welcome to. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've

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down in the black sea coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled access points are being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summer as the spacious beaches on the warm seas busk if you're looking

for more than just a time it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucasus reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with very experienced. and we are all. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride you might be lucky and find some tama but mostly it's just to try brooks fortunately alexei's wonderfully named wozzeck is up to the top. model looks like much of this is spin spin on this the seconds and. we're going up

and down to crash the blasts. still going. to the full. use of it so. just a couple of days in the caucuses reserve had its on for the mountains the biosphere here is filled with unique flora and fauna some of the best hiking trails in the country. but getting to them wasn't going to be easy. especially as there are plenty of places that even the wozzeck can't go. james take this one place it'll be my bike. i'm on the blue one. to get into the forest we needed to cross the nearby river but a long rugged paul's like these you need to be careful where you put in the wheels . on the.