for that matter scotland have not followed after years of the furnace by mr assad to sign a deal for historic referendum that would result in the breakup of great britain after three hundred years. russia says there is no confirmation of claims that soviet era cluster bombs are being used against civilians in syria. that you has imposed a new batch of sanctions on iran targeting its metal and gas sales the aim is to pressure the major over its nuclear program after we rounds of talks as was able to produce the results.

one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t with nearing a joshie thousands of scottish people have been calling for the countries in the palace for years could see their dream become reality and agreement set to be today paving the way for a twenty four thousand referendum artists or for forts from edinburgh. well here on calton hill in edinburgh the city that the decades has been the scene of protest among scottish independence well off the years a wrangling and consultation today prime minister david cameron and first minister alex summoned to going to be meeting here 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 side by side this natively alex simons gaining the rights of sixteen is seventeen year olds to participate in

this late in the move say to ensure that this referendum will be legally binding the holy writ is going to be grown says the legal powers to draft up this referendum under what's known as a section thirty 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 live because like they've been part of like british invasion and stuff i think we need to work together i think this is really pretty good for it's really germany i just think it's about you know the return years ago it was really for independence of the family except except the beaches and go a bit more and there you go so the decision now was the poles 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 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 all still to play for and there will be a massive campaign to tell the scottish public why the country should become an independent one summer. the central issues will be the economy. capabilities these are all going to be a huge discussion point if scotland voted yes in that referendum yes to independence the united kingdom that's been in existence for three centuries and leaves a third of 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 the united kingdom for three hundred years and today

with the signing of that memorandum they'll be feeling the detail and kicking off that campaign to decide whether or not gotten gains independent. and i was sorry for us reporting there and coming out a bit later here on r.t.e. london faces its own crunch this issue. does. civilized country do this do we really today somebody with a mental condition who is suicidal and his emotionally to a child. will see britain does not to stick u.k. haftorah could be said to americans just days under the act made to hunt down terrorists. winds that saudi terror costs are bombs are being used by the syrian government cannot be confirmed that's according to russia moscow says the region spotted with arms being supplied illegally from abroad or disappear 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 said that 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 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 in which there are mercenaries and for in trainers in the conflict zone this is being confirmed by independent media the region is flooded with domes it's very hard to determine where they're all coming from the alleged cluster bombs the said to be from the soviet era we can come to terms with some former soviet and 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 with the us but 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 now that stance has been backed up by the current joint un an arab league peace envoy lakhdar brahimi now he took over the job from from kofi annan you'll remember he's currently on a tear of the region trying to 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 that would see what's 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 all of this comes against the backdrop of a further round of sanctions that have just been signed off on by the european union on syria. syrian civilians caught in the crossfire are increasingly

fleeing a conflict zone where the number of refugees said to be rising exponentially the u.n. warns there a number could soon top half a million and one stop there are 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 cars 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 whether numbers are 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 to 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 advised 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. yeah the situation is awfully miserable especially for us the syrians who come to. 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 place a 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 and carra 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 neglected 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 has just slapped more of them on iran over the country's nuclear program the new measures include a ban on e.u. metal sales a halt to imports of tehran's natural gas and oil shipment restrictions the new regulations mark one of the toughest alliance against iran to date and mounting worries the states making nuclear weapons iran is always an ally this my 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 un ban supplies of having weaponry and arms exports after which more bans from the e.u. and the west followed iran university professor aside mohammad marandi says western penalties have little to do was a 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 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 to 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 just to make ordinary iranian tougher. out of just a couple of minutes separatism marches across europe. and ash party leader gains control of the continent's second biggest ward city and immediately calls them war and dependence for flanders blaming the belgian government for draining the region the story more after the break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building plant not are the source to count of all the

weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the clowns history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the violence in germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core which some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one truck made for girls with a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming in the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe

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welcome back you're watching r t he claims he was just looking for you photos 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 treaty designed to get hold of terrorists a final decisions expected on tuesday but as laura smith reports london could still stepdad. gary mckinnon the 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 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

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 have been to the supreme court twice we've been to the house of lords we've been to the high court so we've exhausted every possible because we challenge we can because as they will to all absolutely sure i'm convinced that if 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 who 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 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 in the world and sometimes actually feels that it's just not real gary used to say colleagues 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. altie london. on our website right now going to absolute extreme is an austrian skydiver becomes the first man to break the sound barrier without any vehicle follow fearless feliks as every move at r.t. dot com. was a dangerous precedent in the making a lovers in the us might be and for a better surprise as copywriters gear up for yet another legal battle so go online to find out more. what will change when america picks this president amid muslim rage walking the run times wrote pushing china dry as occupy anger spreads to two

parties still dictate rules are. you a selection of clothes every day r t beginning of july twenty second separatists in belgium have gained control of your second biggest port city after the flemish nationalist leader won the election to become the city's mayor barred the way of a promise to use his new power to seek wider autonomy for flanders. or am in the courts and thirty seven percent of votes in belgians wealthy dutch speaking region the party stated its goal is an independent republic but its first objective is to and this goal transfers to the poor along a region which the nationalists claim is a drain on flanders belgian politician philip quasi said outcome of the election on streets 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 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 government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flounders 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 and we have a flemish people you have to know that both room 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 than on the world will lose side. this would be perfectly able to have to have an independent state

and be a member of the you know european union. for a bizarre day with natasha gasper and you have your customers are negotiating sound changes to their contracts or have you got well that's absolutely right heightened competition and lower energy demand has gals from zero pm partners asking for a discount italy's energy giant any insists on cancelling a key contract provision the so-called take or pay clause and he's president paul of corroding is reportedly asking to remove the clause if he is to renew the expiring contract the sake of pay principle means that any either takes the specified volume of gas from gas from or pays a penalty the fine could reach eighty five percent of the price last year any record or loss of six hundred million you. and it had to pay one of the house billion euro in the take over paying penalties. and it's time now to check out the

equity markets european shares are in the positive territory this hour miners a weaker as though on faster than expected decline in china as producer prices here in moscow equities at this hour are recovering some of their earlier the losses gaining around four percent each now onto the currency markets where the euro is sliding to the dollar on european concerns and the ruble this hours trading mixed to the currency about that crude is lower this monday on a slosh forecast for global demand from the engine national energy agency and this crude price volatility really threatens russia's growth since its budget largely depends on the oil revenues the country's former finance minister i see who drin explains what to prepare for if this trend 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 in a couple of minutes a special report on sochi the host of the twenty fourteen olympic games. for. russia would be so much brighter if you move about song from finest impressionists.

nice clean start on t.v. dot com. well into the funny science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. is. the. wealthy british style john bolton has moved on to very much like.

the credit card. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a report on. the gold fever. turned thousands into slaves my father but also among brother involved in the mines . since i started working at the moment i stated it. to be dry and if i think that in this country metallurgy as an environmental cost which is unacceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace . we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups prices

colombia going to pay. the for the modest effect on our. 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 up 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 to drugs fortunately alexei's wonderfully named wattage is up to the top. model looks like much of this is spin spin on this thing is seconds and. we have gone up and down and crashed blasts. still going. to be full. of it so. just a couple of days in the caucuses reserve had time 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.