calls for independence in scotland have not for the on deaf ears as a 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 says there's no confirmation of claims that a soviet era cluster bombs are being used against civilians in syria. the e.u.'s imposed a new batch of sanctions on iran targeting its metal and gas sales the aim is to pressure the nation over its nuclear program after three rounds of talks since this april produced no results.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm rule research and live in moscow thousands of scottish people who've been calling for the country's independence for years could soon see their dream become reality and agreement is set to be inked today paving the way for a two thousand and fourteen referendum reporting from edinburgh saraf. we're here on coutts and hill in edinburgh the city that for decades has been the scene of protests among doing 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 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 bills mean a long time in the making and concessions to be made by both sides this is the alex

salmond's gaining the rights to sixteen is seventeen year old says the state is the state in the usa to ensure that this referendum will be legally binding the holy week is going to be one says the legal power as she drove 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 know because like they've been part of like british invasion stuff i think we need to work together i think. it's really. i just think it's about the you know the return years ago from the public family except except for me schieffer and go a bit more and there you go so the decision now was the pose muesli back up the fact that the majority of the scottish public but now are in support of remaining

in the union it's around. a quarter of the scottish public when the polls are carried out they want independence but of course that vote will be held to the end of twenty forty seven. to play for and that will be eight months if campaigning to tell the public why the country should become an independent one summer. central it will be hard to make. capabilities these are all going to be. if scotland voted yes in that referendum yes to independence the united kingdom that's been in existence for three centuries now . of its nuclear deterrent and most of it's not to mention the impact it would have on its international standing it really would have very far reaching implications in the end is why this is being described as the most important

political decision. the united kingdom the three hundred year is 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. of the edinburgh scotland are still to come but later here in london facing its own decision. is a civilized country do this. for mental condition. is emotionally to a child i will see if britain does as a u.k. could be sent to america in just a day but all of this may to hunt down terror suspects. for now claims that soviet era cluster bombs are being used by the syrian government cannot be confirmed according to russian officials moscow says the

region is flooded with arms being supplied illegally from abroad peter all of that now has details from just 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. 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 foreign trainers in the conflict zone this is being confirmed by independent media the region is flooded with gnomes bruce it's very hard to determine when they're all coming from the alleged cluster bombs the said to be from the soviet hero or we can come to terms with some former soviet and warsaw pact countries on regulating their

productions of soviet technology without a license so there are plenty of things that need to be sorted out which is not so . well suited 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 that stance has been backed up by the current joint u.n. and 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 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 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. there in the meantime syrian civilians caught in the crossfire are increasingly fleeing the conflict zone the number of refugees said to be rising exponentially the u.n. warns that number could soon top half a million and it will not stop there as. 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 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 through your four hundred meters beyond our tents inside lebanese territories people here advise me to move my tents and 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 walk

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 on. it's a catastrophe. no help from lebanon he says and no way to return home. we are stuck in between we don't feel safe neither from the syrian army nor from the arabs. of 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 two days ago just under three hundred thousand syrian refugees to form a boarding 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 u.n. 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 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. on top of the syrian side the european union has just slapped more of them on iran over the country's nuclear program of the new measures include a ban on metal sales and a halt to imports of terence natural gas various oil shipment restrictions as well

of the new regulations mark one of the toughest lines against iran to date and that mounting worries the states making nuclear weapons iran has always denied this. he 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 in the country since two thousand and six when the un banned supplies of heavy weaponry and exports after which more balance in the e.u. and the us followed tehran university professor side mohammad marandi says western penalties have little to do with the ongoing 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 independent 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. live from moscow this is r t you know just a couple of minutes here separatism marches across europe a nationalist party leader gains control of the continent's second biggest city regionally calling for more independence for flanders blaming the belgian government for draining the reach of the this story a lot more after a short break. a

texas mom was arrested and thrown in jail orange jumpsuit and all for neglecting her kids who are 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 an attendant children to find out what's going on when 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 i there are dangers out there believe me but living in constant fear abuses your children far worse that's just my opinion. mission. critical three years for charges free range chickens free. free stews free. food free broncos clothing video. free media. tom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. hard welcome to the big picture.

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mum's. it's good to have you with us here today i'm rory live in moscow where he claims he was just looking at a u.f.o. but could now face sixty years in a u.s. prison for most of the. washington has been demanding the extradition of the autistic u.k. hacker gary mckinnon under a treaty designed to get hold of terrorists a final decision expected on choose day but as artie's laura smith reports a london could at the end of the day still step in. gary mckinnon it's mother janice who's been up all night working to get everything in order to convince the

home secretary not to deport her mentally ill son to 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 c agreed by so many top a psychiatrist and doctors do we really extra days suddenly 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 would give up if the worst happens to women 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 because they will tame all absolutely sure and convince 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 has 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 position 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 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 collies 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 nora smith london and our website right now is going to absolutely stream. an austrian skydiver becomes the first man to break the sound barrier without any

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flemish alliance all and scored some thirty seven percent of votes in belgians wealthy dutch speaking region the party stated its goal is an independent flemish republic but its first objective is to end fiscal transfers to the fora while lonia region we should nationalists call a drain on flanders politicians philip class says the outcome of the election illustrates just how support for breaking away is grown in the region over the us. 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 deficit and this means this government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flanders voted for something completely different that we are getting now with this federal government and flanders is an economic economically socially powerful prosperous region we have we are already if we have a flemish nation we have a flemish people you have to know that belgium is an artificial country it's really two separate countries already within belgium we see a completely different political consensus on the formation of the world. flanders would be perfectly able to do have an independent state and be a member of. you know european union. target from a strong discussion after the only person is updated good to see you today. though we're talking about so crude a price of volatility it's ultimately it's always a threat to the russian economy isn't it that's absolutely right but highlighted in

competition that lower energy demand has gazprom his european partners asking for a discount italy's energy giant any insist on cancelling a key contract provision the so-called take or pay clause and he's president paul of scrutiny is reportedly asking to remove the clause if he is to renewed the expiring contract to take a pay principle means that any either takes the specified volume of gals from gazprom or pays a penalty the fine could reach eighty five percent of the price last year any report of the loss of six hundred million euros and it had to pay one in the house a billion euro in the take or pay a penalty is let's not check out the equity markets european shares are in positive territory this hour u.s. creatures point to a higher opening on wall street here in moscow equities this hour are recovering from monday's losses as you can see pretty have to gains on the currency markets

the euro is one thing to the u.s. dollar on european concerns the russian ruble at this hour is mixed to the currency basket and the crude is next as well just monday w.t. eyes down after the international energy agency slashed forecasts for the global demand crude price volatility threatens russia's growth since his budget largely depends on oil revenues former finance minister ali see who drink explains what to prepare for the strand continues. it was the first scenario which is also the base one is the status quo given the current gold 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

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a slight overstatement to say that muslims and arabs are essentially say 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 edward saeed he said that over fifty years ago saying that western thinking of islam has always occurred within a framework created by a passion prejudice and political interest do you think that at this point today things are different. to which door so you do project that. might be. a kind of. today for one simple reason. the hopes that were. that we saw at one point through what is called between coats the arab spring.