calls for in the pants in scotland have not fallen on deaf ears as the british prime minister is set to sign a deal for an historic referendum that could result in the breakup of great britain after three hundred years. russia denies it supplied illegal relations to syria which are now allegedly being dropped by damascus. this comes in response to claims made by human rights watch that soviet era cluster bombs were being used against the civilian population in syria. and the e.u. gets tough on iran again with a new batch of sanctions targeting metal and gas sales the aim is to pressure the state over its nuclear program after three rounds of talks since april produced no results.

from moscow with me marina joshie thousands of scottish people have been calling for the country's independence for years could see their dream become reality and agreement set to be inked today paving the way for a twenty four thousand referendum artists are for reports from edinburgh. we're here on calton hill in edinburgh the city that for decades has been the scene of protests among scottish independence well off the years a wrangling and consultation today prime minister david cameron and first minister alex summoned to going to the meeting had to sign a memorandum of understanding head of a referendum to be held at the end of twenty four team to decide whether or not scotland gains independence now the fils been a long time in the making and concessions have been made by face size face nicely

alex salmond's gaining the rights to sixteen and seventeen year olds to participate in this right in the you say to ensure the referendum will be legally binding felt holy writ is going to be granted legal how is. this referendum on the what's known as a section i think it's very important received hundreds of years for this and i think she i think it's stupid. yeah i don't live close like they've been part of like britain for ages and i think we need to work together i think is an. avenue i just think it's about you know the return years ago for independence of the family except except to reach a point go a bit more and there you go so the decision now was the polls mostly back up the fact that the majority of the scottish public to now are in support of remaining in

the union it's around. a quarter of the scottish public when the polls are carried out that they they want independence but of course that vote will be held to the end of twenty four teams so it's still to play for and there will be a massive campaign to tell the scottish public why the country should become an independent one some of this. issues would be economy. capabilities these are all going to be discussion point if. voted yet in that referendum yes the independent the united kingdom that's been in existence three centuries and would leave the. 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 and coming up

a bit later here on r t one faces its own crunch decision. a. civilized country do this do we really somebody with a mental condition who is suicidal and whose emotionally to a child will see britain does as an artistic u.k. could be sent to america in just days under an act made to hunt down terrorists suspect. russia maintains it's not supplying cluster bombs to syria which are allegedly being used by the government in its fight against the rebels they are all over has the details from outside the russian foreign ministry. human rights watch the new york based watchdog has said this following what they've seen in a online video that dates soviet era cluster bombs were being used by the syrian government against the civilian population in syria and the ongoing conflict there now russia has rebuffed these claims wholeheartedly the foreign minister

sergei lavrov saying that russia was not supplying cluster bombs to damascus that all of the defense contracts that russia has with syria were conducted within the letter of the law and all above board with them during and there are plenty of weapons in the region right now with huge amounts being supplied illegally to syria and neighboring countries and their medicine reason for in trainers in the conflict zone this is being confirmed by independent media the region is flooded with domes because it's very hard to determine when they're all coming from the alleged cluster bombs the said to be from the soviet era and we can come to terms with some former soviet warsaw pact countries on regulating their production of soviet technology without a license so there's plenty of things that need to be sorted out it's that simple both of those thoughts and shuttle this is the latest high profile allegation leveled against russia that supplying arms to syria something that well russia

denies wholeheartedly saying that the defense contracts they have are they mentioned were all above board and that they aren't supplying arms to backdoor channels no if we look at the the most recent case we saw a flight a commercial airliner that was bound for moscow to damascus was stopped to see it as an end to turkish airspace over the text authorities claiming that they found weapons on board they get to to show those weapons or explain exactly what they found on there to say this is just the latest claim is being made against russia claims which moscow did nice wholeheartedly also to a lover of was giving his address he. reiterated russia's stance which hasn't changed since the conflict first started over a year ago which is that they want to see both sides lay down their weapons they want to peaceful solution through dialogue no that stance has been backed up by the current joint u.n. arab league peace envoy lakhdar brahimi now he took over the job from from kofi

annan you'll remember he's currently on a tour of the region trying to convince syria's neighbors to stop pushing for both sides to lay down arms and comes to the table and come to the table for talks you know he's also putting forward a certain situation it would see arms if he put down and talks are underway a three thousand strong international peacekeeping force going into syria to make sure that no further violence erupts but this all comes against the backdrop of a further round of sanctions which the european union is expected to sign off on against syria. syrian civilians caught in the crossfire are increasingly fleeing the conflict zone was a number of refugees said to be rising exponentially the u.n. a warns they are number could soon top half a million and won't stop 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 all 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 host families mohamed not his real name isn't so lucky. we thought it would be safer here but bullets are still reaching us bombs are falling three or four hundred meters beyond our tents inside lebanese territories people here advise me to move my tent to protect my children which i did now i live there 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. the situation is awfully miserable especially for us the syrians who come to africa outside this region it's safer in the situation is better everything is secured for the other refugees they have refrigerators food televisions everything here we have nothing at all we don't have work either it's a catastrophe. no help from lebanon he says and no way to return home. we're stuck 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't 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 catherine of lebanon. and on top of the syrian sanctions 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. metal sales to the country holds to imports of tehran's natural gas and various oil shipment restrictions the new sanctions mark one of the toughest lines against iran to date and mounting worries the state's making nuclear weapons iran is always deny 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 and arms exports after which more bands from the e.u. and the us followed its own university professor of science monitor randy 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 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 the issue is iran iran independent iran is a country that not bow down to the western powers and the europeans and americans want to near like saudi arabia like most of the other countries in the region and to make ordinary iranians tougher. and just a couple of minutes separatism marches across europe nationalist party here against control of the continent they get sports media only calls for independence planners

blaming the belgian government for braving the region storing a lot more after. a texas mom was arrested and thrown in jail orange jumpsuit and all for neglecting her kids who were playing in front of her house for just a little while a concerned neighbor and sort of say walking across the street you know to talk to the unintended children to find out what's going on went to total sheep mode and immediately called nine one one because children playing it is truly an emergency worth the police's time but i guess it was worth their time because they showed up and slap the cuffs on the mother who claimed that she was there the whole time and of course to punish you for ignoring your children briefly while they play you'll

get thrown behind bars because that makes sense where does this culture of fear come from if you leave your kids alone on your own property why does that mean that they are certainly going to die. there are dangers out there believe me but living in constant fear abuses your children far worse that's just my opinion. wealthy british scientists on. the. market. to go find out what's really happening to the glue. economy with max culture there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on. the

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welcome back you're watching are to live from moscow was. he claims he was just looking for u.f.o.'s but 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 under a tree 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 smothered janice has been up all night working to get

everything in order to convince the home secretary not to deport her mentally ill son the trial in america it's ten years since the u.s. demanded gary's extradition the 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 is say 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 child does. civilized country do this chile 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 have been to the supreme court

twice we've been to the house of lords we've been to the high court so you know this we've exhausted every possible vehicle charm we challenge we can because as they were tame all absolutely sure and 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 a briton 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 support 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 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 you're a smith london. and on our website right now i'm going to absolute extremes an

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the new flemish alliance or m.d.s. or it's some thirty percent of voters votes rather in belgium's wealthy dutch speaking region the party stated its goal is an independent flemish republic but its first objective is to have fiscal transfers to the poor wallonia region which the nationalists claim is a drain on funds belgian politician philip kos says the outcome of the election illustrates just how support for breaking away has 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 you see that france is the federal government doesn't have a majority on the flemish side in the face. 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 voted 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 we have a flemish people you have to know that blow them 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 going on the world will lose. those would be perfectly able to do have an independent state and be a member of the you know european union. straight to the world of business now and as we hear in court prised volatility is a threat to russia's economy that's right and russia's former finance minister tells business r.t. how he sees the situation developing this story in just a couple of minutes but first heightened competition and

a lower energy prices has gazprom european partners asking for a discount italy's energy giant any insists on cancelling key contract provisions the so-called take or pay clause and its president polls ronnie's reportedly ask him to remove the clause if he is to renew the expiring contract to take a pay principle means that any either takes the specified volume of gas from gas or pays a penalty a fine could reach eighty five percent of the price last year any report of a loss of six hundred million euro and it had to pay one and a half billion euro in the take of pay penalties. and the let's not check out the markets first going to a year. where european shares are in the positive territory an early trade meyer's a weaker though on a faster than expected to fly in and china as a producer prices here last go equities at noon are with covering some of their earlier losses trading want to positive the sour over asia shares are bouncing back

and now crude prices crude is lower this monday on this the last forecast for global demand from the international energy agency and this crude price volatility really threatens russia's growth since its a budget largely depends on oil revenues the country's former finance minister alexei who'd written explains what to prepare for if the strand continues. the first scenario which is also the base one is the status quo given the current old 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 and 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 white support to get

implemented and up next talks to mustafa t.v. a tunisian writer who really evaluates the results of the arab spring. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't sound anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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their oil suppliers or potential terrorists by the united states now this is a quote by american intellectual writer of the arabic descent edward saeed he said that over fifty years ago saying that western thinking all of a slum has always occurred within a framework that created by a passion prejudice and political interest do you think that a base point today things are different. for. them to reach the door slowly drifted. my it's be. a kind of. truth today for one simple reason. the hopes that were. that we saw at one point through what is called between codes the arab spring risk to be dashed.