toddles nationalist government has two years to convince the nation it's better off outside the u.k. it's after the landmark referendum deal hammered out with london. president president abbas's foreign enemies are arming islamic extremists in syria who are ways to seize power if the regime falls forty two u.s. officials. bahraini cord gets ready to hear the appeal of jailed for human rights activists in the field or job i mean continuing clashes between probably formed it was very early on three security forces.

in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me are going to josh centuries of britain unified under the union jack may come to an end in two thousand and 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. looks at what's at stake. firing the starting shots 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 senator alexander and meeting to sign a historic deal on an independence referendum that the battle for scotland begins after years of political wrangling the fist fighting will now commence based sides who 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 more beneficial and. that's what we're trying to build points of focus for 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 to 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 last remaining inside the union this is now an all or nothing gain in the polls have been consistent over the past decade if not longer the support for independents

remains at about the first of the population it doesn't really get much higher than that because those in the pro union camp may 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. you. know that we were going to be very. very hard. 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 worse 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 surf city edinburgh. while london claims edinburgh one cope on its own those against the nations in a pan's are bluffing scottish linda fabiani scotland has quite clearly couple of being a pint which is very interesting that the new parties to the conservatives the labor plant in the flats they are no longer see in scotland couldn't make it i think a really interesting is a very very exciting time for scotland and that everyone has to lay out their start 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 show. the scottish people and the such are the ones who want

people to vote no the key is for staying in the union and by the feel scotland and scots. kingdom. most of the weapons being smuggled to the syrian rebels from abroad are bolstering the strength of islamic extremists that's according to u.s. officials who say radical elements are poised to take over syria if assad falls 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 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 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 the something

diplomats who has been cited by various media sources. come to the conclusion that the syrian opposition is essentially a large conglomerate 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 agreement or 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 bashar assad is ousted 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 than will be a lot better financed than the secular groups and that will just mean they play out of the libyan scenario all over again their english court porting their court of our brain is due to hear an appeal from prominent human rights activist of the over a job he's currently serving a three year sentence for organizing and participating in illegal gatherings for

jobs sentence in august brought hundreds of probably form demonstrators onto the streets to demand his release by unrest in bahrain has been going for more than twenty months with fights between police and demonstrators erupting daily around eighty people have been killed since the clashes began sauza is arrested and crackdowns by the sunni rulers on the mostly shia campaigners the protesters are demanding more rights equal access to jobs and education opportunities five iranian peace. he says authorities are afraid to lose their grip on power. i do believe that the our city of rain is not enough might choose to understand their people they are gambling on security solution or are the politics. are using power of their brain glow chick lit people in bahrain they have nothing

in there to challenge the authority but they are thirty they don't want to read to the dialogue stage because. dialogue stage they will change all of their agenda they will be. going to give the people more power to her if you want to turn against. our interest we are paying that well some people are killed some people are in jail for reasons that we can't understand like have the right job and hundreds of people they are jailed for just they express their opinion two or three days back they are said children for the friday last friday potus the protestant manana so this is and less a list of thirty take an action to understand us save for the world and know to go

to their agendas. fortunately live from moscow still to come on the program back to courts five guantanamo bay detainees allegedly responsible for the nine eleven attacks say some military tribunals get again brazen fears of virtually transparent trials carefully designed to i. os french wine makers are caught over a barrel as they claim the country's national treasure is slipping through there are things that employ more stories just ahead. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first.

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enjoy your favorites from outside t.v. is not required to watch all it's who all you need is your mobile device to watch r t any time. welcome back to watching r.t. live from moscow the u.s. wants to cover up its use of torture of military detainees that's according to the

lawyers of the five men allegedly responsible for nine eleven the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and he's accomplices went back before a military court at the guantanamo bay u.s. naval base on monday the case has raised international concern over washington so-called interrogation techniques where the detainees claim they have been subjected to torture including waterboarding while in cia custody the week's free trial now has to determine whether to allow the five men to saying chords what happened during your years in custody to live transmissions from the courtroom are also covered by a forty second sound delay lawyer and retired air force colonel morris davis though things this policy is less about protecting the nation and 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 when and where they can see the movement in the animation in the from the lips moving in the courtroom but the sound lags thirty seconds or more behind that at times is blanked out and sort of the emotions in the words never quite match which i guess that guantanamo does 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 in transparency but as you've seen today i mean transparency is a forty second sound alay and recorders tweeting from guantanamo in 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. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world over a thousand protesters laid 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 your steering a country in twenty thirteen portugal continues to slide deeper into recession amid mass protests against the disintegrating economy and alarming went. the former bosnian serb leader radovan card which is said to begin his defense of the hague tribunal today he faces stand charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity he's also held responsible for three and a half year long siege of sarajevo during the ninety nine a war which claimed the lives of over twelve thousand people it was arrested in two thousand and eight denies all charges against him. it all makes trifles 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 cold for january two thousand and thirteen prime minister netanyahu says look the reason behind the move parliament's inability to agree on a new budget this comes on the back of months of wide scale protests over the country's economic situation. french wine makers are sounding the alarm as they claim the country's finest grapes are falling into foreign hands millionaires from abroad have already dozens of vineyards and don't plan on stopping their parents is shrugging its shoulders saying the deals are completely legal but nationalist war and what makes up france while no longer be made by the french artist has more. wine the pizza meal french culture pride and prestige but some say the country's national identity is now threatened by foreigners hunting for veneers all across the country this shuttle was just

a to have the vineyards in 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 they don't know for twice the market price and that has worried some in the hysteria that followed the front national france's far right party slammed the deal as implemented to call 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 or the so-called bear you join or yellow peril in the sixty's the 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 me share leo no thirty half there is of shattered only grapes producing two hundred fifty thousand bottles p. year says the reserve problem but it's not that foreigners buy french family

vineyards but that the owners have to sell them or put the course taxes are very high and the hardest thing is to cover in the evidence tax of all many so part of their forms to overcome that and this progressive every next generation has to pay more for those two michel like a separate fires one head to toe 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 the a force in high costs on the locals and that many are worried these investors don't care about the industry they have by name too. but that was all very these people they come here and they buy land just like they'd 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 will we think there should be a state protectionism policy here. but some experts are skeptical of state support

same the french authorities are not only unhelpful but actually troublemaking to nationals of a commune that there are many regulations that impede development to bring your bird greg thinks every day enterprise chief has to approve what his lawyers and accountants have done and then sent to different ministers at least two papers on social environmental or fiscal securities 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. wow more business news this hour with natasha mitchell and scanning an edgy giant is expanding and russia that's right russia's rosneft is

offering india's oh in d.c. some projects on the shelves more of them just second but first let's check out the markets and. start of the session just over twenty minutes ago and so far we see a lot of optimism there wall street closing higher monday is no doubt an uplifting factor the ruble start of the day the higher to the currency boss kids will it see the currencies there they are the dollars sours edging higher to the euro russia's top ten lender prompts us bank has decided to postpone its half a billion dollar i.p.o. the bank plan to list up to twenty five percent and moscow and the london but said it will wait for more favorable market conditions india's energy corp oh and g c considers working on russia's shelf the country's oil major rosneft has invited its indian counterpart to develop fields in the seat of a holts owen g c s will bready working in russia and wants to expand here. now onto

the asian markets shares are on the rise there toward the end of the trading session japanese export is really benefiting from of be totally results of u.s. companies japan's number three mobile phone operators softbank is rallying on the news of a twenty billion dollars deal to gain control of the u.s. telecoms giant sprint nextel. and it turns out it's not the hydrocarbons but a fast growing middle class and hands a booming consumer market that attracts most foreign companies to brush up and five years since the start of the crisis this trend is stronger than ever that company called the has all the details. the middle class in russia has tripled over the last five gives. to more than ten million households not so many but each pulse of a hand has substantially moved buying power than the average in china brazil even

did a survey of a kid child p.r. agency based on the piano all three hundred forty the best will reveal if these russian confused attracting investors to the country and many people from outside think that the most attractive feature is the resources of 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 or see the middle class in the growing middle class is being the most attractive feature of russia the survey 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's on the right path those are really strong numbers russians who are not poor is big spenders are still hitting the shops in the first part of this i think globally

make sure that compares favorably with the euro growth rates and with. what you're looking for a bit there are three. and up next on our t.v. we talk about how much clout the united nations really wields and trying to solve various crises around the world i guess is the former serbian foreign minister and now the president of the u.n. general assembly here which. 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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peace. most book most but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups watch prices colombia going to pay for. the modest effect on r.t. . sigrid laboratory. was able to build its most sophisticated robot which on leave doesn't give a darn about anything to nj mission to teach a reason why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. 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 rookie 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 and my pleasure you have assumed the presidency position in a very difficult time these days many would argue that the un. is dealing with somewhat 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 would guess in

the last few weeks was a deliberation after delegation and i had the chance to talk to almost everybody in the last couple of weeks ninety one by a lot of meetings there was ninety one of the actual meetings in a week it was it was a pretty tall order but i tried to put forward is the necessity to act swiftly and to act so that the violence is stopped. now in my opinion the 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. the general simply and all the world leaders come and they spend one week in one building and we have a situation in syria where one.