problem is national government has two years to convince the nation it's better off outside the u.k. after the landmark referendum deal hammered out with ones that. president foreign enemies are arming as lawmaking extremists in syria boys to seize power if it was deemed false according to u.s. officials. a bahraini court gets ready to hear the appeal of jail and human rights activists in the field or job amid continuing clashes between pro reform demonstrators and the country's forces.

am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me. centuries of britney unified under the union jack may come to an ad in twenty fourteen with a referendum on scottish independence and agreement giving the green light to the vote in two years time has been sealed in edinburgh by two of the top man in u.k. politics and as you sarah firth looks at what's at stake. firing the starting shot armed with their pens and what's being dubbed the edinburgh agreement is signed it's being described as the most important political decision to face the united kingdom for three hundred years of prime minister david cameron and first minister alex salmond meeting to sign a historic deal on an independence referendum that the battle for scotland begins after years of political wrangling the fierce fighting will now commence they sides will want to put their arguments forward and some people who've already getting

their claws out in his press conference alex salmond had to field a question asking why he wants to tear up the british flag was the pejorative language of the b.b.c. and the. business of. developing a new relationship between the peoples of so i think a more beneficial and independent. that's what we're trying to build points of focus to both sides will be the economy and if she's of defense whether scott then with the strong get going it alone really is better where it is and the referendum to be held was the end of twenty fourteen will focus on a single question whether scotland becomes independent or not dropping the much muted third option that would have seen more powers going to scotland whilst remaining inside the union this is now an all or nothing game when the polls have

been consistent over the past decade if not longer the support for independents remains at about a further of the population it doesn't really get much higher than that because those in the pro union campaign seem outwardly confident as the pro independents group are quick to point out the outcome of this fight is far from the given and. she did. it in favor of the law. sure that we were going to be found. indeed the s.n.p. now hold sixty nine the hundred and twenty nine seats in parliament but the stakes are high many feel the first minister has bet his career for the worst scotland to vote for independence it would be set to lose

a third of its land mass most of its oil and so with everything still to play for these were the first concrete steps on the way to possible scottish independence. edinburgh. while london claims that one cope on its own those against the nation's and pans are bluffing scottish lender five young. the new parties to conservatives the liberal plantin liberal democrats they are no longer seeing scotland couldn't make it but they are seeing is of course can be a viable independent nation that argument was won some time ago you would be believe that scotland wouldn't the united kingdom and then we we believe that a lot of the money at least and but that argument started scotland is quite clearly people will be in a bind everyone has to lay out their star and it be up to us who believe in

independence those who believe that scotland can be a better country if it's independent makes a sort of decisions we shall put our case and the scottish people i miss out should the last people to vote nor but of the three main parties in the u.k. it's up to them to put their case for staying in the union and by the feel scotland and scots would be big check links with united kingdom that mean they're part of it rather than an independent country who's a good neighbor. a scotland eyes away from the u.k. london distancing itself from the european union we reveal how that's causing friction inside the walls of westminster. most of the weapons being smuggled to the syrian rebels from abroad are bolstering the strength of islamic extremists and that's according to u.s. officials who say radical elements are poised to take over syria if false charges are in english who has the details. the u.s.

has admitted that the aid which they have been sending towards the syrian rebels actually does not end up in the hands of the groups which they were hoping it would end up and quite on the contrary the united states officials are now saying that in fact the money that they keep sending over which then goes towards the purchasing of arms which end up in the hands of the islamist extremist groups the problem with that is that the united states does not control where the money that it keeps sending goes the arms are being purchased by qatar and saudi arabia which have a tendency to prefer the radical movements such as the sellers who then end up with these top notch extremely expensive weapons which they then use against the troops of president bashar also even. the secular opposition groups within syria itself are saying that they simply cannot afford to buy the same type of arms which are being used by the radicals neither do they can they afford the cameras which are

being used by these radical groups such as the free syrian army who are then using it to broadcast their accomplishments or failures on you tube and the like of course the united states administration at this point is concerned that the arms are ending up in the hands of the extremist groups because they fear that may mean in the future that these groups will turn into insurgencies which then will retaliate against the united states of course there are also other diplomats within the middle eastern circuits were saying about at this point a lot of people are being frustrated with the syrian opposition who have proven that they unfortunately cannot unite over one plan according to some name diplomats who has been cited by various that media sources they have come to the conclusion that the syrian opposition is essentially a large conglomeration of smaller groups who spend their time bickering and cannot come to any one agreement and that's this very fact that there is no. there is no

clear cut plan which is also worrying to the united states now u.s. officials are saying that it's because there is no plan as to what's going to happen in the future they fear that if president bush are all also it is that will mean that in the turmoil which follows there will be a civil war in which the radical islamist groups will be much better armed and will be a lot better financed than the secular groups and that will just mean they play out all the libyan scenario all over again. to report their turkeys as it will intercept any civilian flights over territory that are heading to syria if they are suspected of carrying weapons for us it and other foreign plane the media was inspected by turkey on monday and then cleared to proceed after nothing suspicious was found some observers believe ankara stop and search policies drawing attention away from its own direct support for the syrian rebels. it's a complete provocation syria about not just your experience also procreation well

co-horts the peace in the middle east and so procreation the core of the civil life in general or us right now this is this complete ganda or it's not new in the billions going from western countries from coast states to the syrian rebels we are not discussing about the whore material we're not discussing about the weapons that i'm going ition and of course the communication technology which is delivered to the to the rebels in syria by other governments we are discussing now about two planes. turkey and this should be international affairs this is what the us government is doing there it's part of the propaganda war we witness since a long time a court in bahrain is due to hear an appeal from prominent human rights activists in the bill or job is currently serving its three year sentence for organizing and participating in an illegal gatherings or job sentence in august brought hundreds of pro reform demonstrators on to the streets to demand his release but i'm dressed

in bahrain has been ongoing for more than twenty months with fights between police and demonstrators erupting almost daily around eighty people have been killed since the clashes began and sauza is arrested in crackdowns by the sunni rulers on the mostly shia campaigners the protesters are demanding more rights equal access to jobs and education opportunities for of iranian peace side hadi on the side he says authorities are afraid to lose their grip on power. i do believe. in no shools to on the their people they are gambling on. the solution or are the politics. are using part of their brain the people in bahrain they have nothing in their. charlie. but their. they don't want to lead to the dialogue stage because

babies to dialogue stage they will change all their agenda they will further t.v. they are going to give more power to her if you want to. against our interest we are paying that rock to some people are killed some people are in jail for a reason that we can't understand like maybe a great job hundreds of people they are jailed for just they express their opinion two or three days back they arrested the children for the friday last friday just for this then my mama so this is and less a list of those to take an action to understand so for the world to go to their agendas. how we are following the protest movement in bahrain online the latest news in-depth analysis and expert opinions are available on our website.

plus a shocking discovery a new virus uncovered by computer experts could add to the already heightened tensions in the middle east find out first dot com. our weeklong pretrial hearing began monday at the one time of a u.s. naval base for the self-proclaimed mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and his four accomplices the military court has granted a fantasy permission to skip their many hearings if they choose to do so however the main question for the week's pretrial will be whether to allow the detainees to say and court what happened during their years in custody the five man claimed they have been subjected to torture quoting waterboarding while in cia custody the life transmissions from the courtroom are also protected from the public by a forty second sound delay lawyer and retired air force colonel morris davis though

thinks this policy is less about protecting the nation i am more about saving face . it was really a very bizarre process has been used before really what the defense is asking to do here is to deviate from what has been the process in the past and to allow the public through the media to understand what took place but it's a very bizarre environment the spectators are seated behind a glass window where they can see the movement in the animation in the in the lips moving in the courtroom but the sound lags forty seconds or more behind that at times it is blank out entirely so the motions and the words never quite match which i guess at guantanamo as is appropriate i think by and large is the embarrassment over what we did in trying to keep that quiet i mean i was on a panel last week here in d.c. with one of the senior members of the prosecution team who said all these trials are going to be an era in transparency but as you've seen today i mean if transparency is

a forty second sound allay and reporters tweeting from guantanamo then these are extraordinarily transparent but the public can attend and like i said you know the government can pick and choose what it wants to play out and i think that's the purpose of the military commissions is to try to avoid embarrassment over things that we did in some cases a decade ago. a staggering rise in birth defects among iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the u.s. led war has come to light the findings by the bolton of environmental contamination and toxicology suggest american and british ammunition is responsible for higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects professor christopher busby from the european committee on radiation risks believes the invading nations should take responsibility. it actually supports the work that we did and published about a month ago which did have. brought from the flu to general hospital there are high levels of lead in mercury which we also found in the head of the mothers of the

children with congenital malformation we believe quite strongly that it was the uranium weapons the new uranium weapons that were used in fallujah and of course they used an awful lot of the piece of uranium in as well and i reported this whole issue about the uranium in the congenital malformation is the united nations human rights council last month and there was an awful lot of interest in it so we would hope that the united nations might actually put some pressure on the united states not to come clean about the kind of weaponry that they were using and i'm sure they were using a lot of experimental weaponry in fallujah which is why we see these enormous increases in congenital malformation coming up here on our french winemakers or cod over about. the country's national treasure is slipping through their thing find out why in just a few minutes. iran's foreign ministry says the new batch of sanctions won't affect the country's economy in the long run it's after the european union slapped additional palaces on tehran aimed at curbing its nuclear program the measure is

targeting reigning in gas exports and oil shipments among other things worries continue to mount that the states making nuclear weapons claim iran's always denied on sunday the country said it might consider limiting uranium enrichment if it's allowed to have fuel for research reactor is foreign policy chief catherine ashton says she helps there's still room for negotiations after three rounds of talks since this april has led to nothing. from the national iranian american council says more restrictions can only lead to a diplomatic standoff. thanks can oftentimes sharpen the choices. of a regime or an adversary with which you have a problem with but at the end of the day sanctions are a blunt instrument and they're not used. there's leverage but they just continue to build pressure on a government then the government has a propensity to push back and do escalation of its own and it creates a cycle of mutual escalation where you move closer to a precipice of

a conflict that is war and i think that's an outcome that all parties but independently seek to avoid and more importantly i think that's an outcome that we're increasingly moving towards because the sanctions themselves seem to be just sanctions for sanctions sake i think we have to ask ourselves what the metric success is when when we talk about sanctions if the metric of success is capitulation then we haven't seen sanctions working and i don't think we will because the historical track record speaks for itself. i think since nine hundred fifty five there have been thirty five countries that have faced the kind of sanctions that are on the spacing out the probably not even a robust and one has moved towards a more democratic more open governmental system so that the track record speaks for itself i think the real metric of success for sanctions is creating a peaceful solution to the crisis between iran and the international community and iran in the united states more specifically and as i said previously have sanctions are used as a blunt instrument just for sanctions themselves and not to try and create leverage

for a negotiated solution then they become a very dangerous stepping stone towards a military conflict london has announced it will drop out of one hundred thirty contracts on law and order but the governing coalition split over the step which is supported by the conservatives while opposed by the lib dems political blogger george eaton thinks the move could spark more tension within westminster. the idea is to patch a set of powers to give britain greater self and she gave him the best justice and . peace be your skeptic conservative backbenchers because the two ministers always looking to push the blame on to the rather than ones that are all around and go to leave the e.u. is actually supported by the leader of a couple of minutes believes the u.k. should threaten to leave the leave a couple together in the hope that will. persuade brussels to cross sessions where they could. become pressuring the lib dems have always taken

a very different position on on t.v. to the south is that the most pro european policy on the six while the conservatives now more than ever are you know you are suggesting you can simply give the. u.k. doesn't have to decide which powers it will solve back in zero zero tina has the potential to cause a lot of tension with the coalition partners between now and the general election. and some other world news here in r t over a thousand protesters lit a fire outside the parliament building in the portuguese capital it's after the country's prime minister announced even more biting cuts in store for the astaire and a burden country in twenty thirteen portugal continues to slide deeper interior session and mass protests against the disintegrating economy an alarming unemployment. economic strife is also affecting israel where the country's parliament has

unanimously voted to dissolve itself after failing to sustain a viable government and early general election has been called for january two thousand and thirteen prime minister netanyahu says the reason behind the move is parliament's inability to agree on a new budget this comes on the back of months of wild scale protest over the country's economic situation. while the clashes have erupted in. mexico following a police raid on three teachers colleges the sorties used rubber bullets and tear gas against and demonstrators who've been seizing buses and delivery trucks in protest over changes in their college curriculum dozens of people have been injured and over one hundred seventy arrested in the skirmishes. french wine makers are sounding the alarm as they claim the country's finest grapes are falling into foreign hands businessmen from abroad have already bought dozens of vineyards and don't plan on stopping their paris is shrugging its shoulders saying the deals are

completely legal but nationalist war and what makes up france will no longer be made by the french the national reports. wine the french culture pride and prestige but some say the country's national identity is now threatened by foreigners hunting for the news all across the country this shut the door with just a to have to retain french burgundy original home to one of the world's famous wines made the headlines after it was purchased by china's entrepreneur former owners forced by financial troubles were forced to sell it and the merchant made an offer twice the market price and that has worried some in the hysteria that followed the front national france's far right party slender deal as emblematic of the danger threatening french heritage with much bigger chateaus already owned by japanese and russians just next door such

a reaction to this particular sale could be taken as an eco of the so-called their you join or yellow peril in the sixty's that paranoia of asian world dominance political economic and demographic that seems to be making its comeback these days but there is no smoke without fire michelle the oh no thirty have thirds of shot of the new grapes producing two hundred fifty thousand of bottles p. year says the reason problem but it's not that foreigners buy french family vineyards but that the owners have to sell them. with the courts taxes are very high and the hardest thing is to cover in heritance tax or many so part of their forms to overcome that and this progressive every next generation has to pay more for those too michelle will likely sacrifice one hectare tooth but he fears in fifty years' time he'll have sold a lot of foreign investors could be playing a negative role here too taxes depend on the region's average sale prices but with some businessman from abroad paying twice or even three times market values they

force high costs on the locals and many are worried these investors don't care about the evil street they're buying to the. but there are all these people they come here and they buy land just like they buy a castle or jewelry are they really good investors the taxes go up because of them but will they keep the wind quality up well we think there should be a state protectionism policy here. but some experts are skeptical of state support saying the french authorities are not only unhelpful but actually trouble making. a commune that there are many regulations that impede development to be your brick greg thinks every day enterprise chief has to prove with his lawyers and accountants about and then sent to different ministers of at least two papers on social environmental or fiscal security can you imagine how much effort that it takes while it could be directed to really worthwhile things it's not wise and with

the eurozone economies in such trouble risk so high these not twice could become too late the industry seems could well and truly be over a barrel ration ocean r.t. reporting from france. all right up next is the business of days wasn't actually good morning to you so it turned out foreign companies are still quite upbeat on russia that's right and the booming consumer market is really the main factor there all the details of the story in just a couple of minutes but first let's check out the equity markets going to asia first the only part of the world that's actively trading this hour and shares there are on the rise as you can see japanese exports are benefiting from i'll be totally of results of u.s. companies more about to just the moment japan's number three mobile phone operators softbank is rallying on the news of a twenty billion dollar deal to gain control of the u.s.

telecoms giant sprint sprint nextel on wall street overnight the bulls really ran the show thanks to strong september retail sales and pretty robust earnings from citi group it all paints a picture of recovering u.s. economy what it comes to currencies the dollar's edging higher to the euro this tuesday the russian ruble as you can see close the mixed to the currency basket on monday and a local equities and the day in the red of the r.t.s. shed more than a third of a percent we'll bring you the latest figures as soon as the russian markets reopen and the less than two hours and the russian equities track the oil price as they so often do they have no place to go but down since crude is a lower this tuesday but it's not the hydrocarbons but a fast growing middle class and hands a booming consumer market that really attract foreign companies to brush up and

five years since the start of the crisis it's stronger than ever that's how difficult explains. the middle class in russia has tripled over the last five years to more than ten million households not so many but each pulse of a hand has substantially more buying power than the average in china brazil india a survey of a kitchen p.r. agency based on the opinions of three hundred forty the best who reveals its these russian confused attracting investors to the country and many people from outside think that the most attractive feature is the resources of the oil that's the third and has actually gone down slightly interactiveness the most important one though is the growing in the wealth of the middle class and so that move from second position to first and for the best is see the middle class in the growing middle classes being the most attractive feature of russia the service is showing much

more positive enthusiasm for russia compared to five years ago before the crisis in two thousand and seven and so literally over seventy percent of the companies invested here feel good about their investment over seventy percent feel the country is on the right path those are really strong numbers russians who are not story as big spenders as two hitting the shops and they are the part of this i think globally big story and that compares favorably with the euro growth rates in the west. if you're looking for a bit there are three. and up next on our she would talk about how much clout the united nations really wields in trying to solve the various crises around the world our guest is the former serbian foreign minister and now the president of the un general assembly evoke yeah bitch. the general assembly is the main deliberative organ of the united nations one

hundred ninety three countries belong and the art of diplomacy is constantly tested the new president at the helm of this sixty seven session is thirty seven year old route your image he spent the past five years as serbia's foreign minister today he deals with the world's problems sitting down exclusively now with r t mr president thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. thank you very much indeed my pleasure you have assumed the presidency position in a very difficult time these days many would argue that the un. is dealing with someone of a crisis in confidence many see the institution as a stage where disagreements are more often displayed rather than all parties seeking or coming to any kind of agreement or solution the most obvious example here is the crisis in syria is the un more about preventing international

military interventions rather than resolving conflicts with what i witnessed in the last few weeks was a deliberation after deliberation and i had the chance to talk to almost everybody in the last couple of weeks ninety one by a lot of the meetings there was ninety one belittle meetings in a week it was it was approved tall order what i tried to put forward is the necessity to act swiftly and to act so that the violence stop now in my opinion. a political future of syria that has to be decided first and foremost by the syrian people. i believe it is strategically important very important for the world but it has to come second to the secession of violence and hostilities we just went through the general debate which is the high level segment of the session . of the general assembly where all the world leaders come and they spend one week .