a. the battle for scotland begins a landmark referendum deal hammered out with london springboards two years of heavy pro and anti independence campaign. president assad's foreign enemies are arming islamic extremists in syria who are poised to seize power if there were falls that's according to officials in washington. for any court is hearing the appeal of jailed human rights activist an appeal of her job amid continuing clashes between pro were formed demonstrators and the country's security forces.

worldwide news around the clock this is arts he with me will receive share live in moscow centuries of a unified britain 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 men in u.k. politics now to examine what's exactly at stake cerified. firing the starting shows with that pens and what's being dubbed the edge of bread the mint is signed it's being described as the most important political decision to face the united kingdom for three hundred years that 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 that this fighting will now and then they sides

who want to put their arguments food and some people getting their clues out in his press conference alex salmond had to field a question asking why he wants to tear up. the british flag. the business of. developing a new relationship between the peoples of. trying to build points of focus of both sides will be the economy and she's of defense whether scott than with the stronger 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 me to third option that would have seen more powers going to scotland last remaining inside the union this is now an all or nothing game with the polls have been

consistent over the past decade if not longer the support for independence remains at about a third of the population it doesn't really get much higher because those in the pro union camp may seem outwardly confident as the train dependence group are quick to point out the outcome of this fight is far from the given. that we were going to be very. hard. indeed the s.n.p. now hold sixty nine hundred 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. with the first concrete steps on the way to possible scottish independence surf r.t. edinburgh. and while london claims that edinburgh won't cope on its own those against the nation's independence a bluffing that's according to scottish m.p.'s linda fabiani. scotland has quite clearly couple of being a prime group it's very interesting that the new parties to conservatives the liberal plantin the democrats they are no longer seeing 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 star on a maybe up to us those who believe in independence those who believe that scotland can be

a better country if it's independent makes its own decisions we show our case and to the scottish people and the such are the ones who want people to vote no to put the case for staying in the union i'm five if you'll scotland and scots will be checked until. one thousand kingdom to syria now where most of the weapons being smuggled to the syrian rebels from abroad bolstering the strength of islamic extremist starts according to u.s. officials here say radical elements are poised to take over syria if assad falls. go in to investigate. 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 radical movements such as the sellers who then end up with these. 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 are cited by various media sources they have 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 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 these here that if president bush are all all said 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 and 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. a court in the block rain is hearing an

appeal from prominent human rights activist job he's currently serving a three year sentence for organizing and participating in illegal protests and a jobs sentence in august brought hundreds of program from demonstrators on to the streets to demand his release but on rest in bahrain has been ongoing for more than twenty months and fights between police and demonstrators are rocketing almost daily around eighty people have been killed since the clashes began and thousands of arrested in crackdowns by the sunni rules on the mostly shia campaign is the protesters are demanding more rights equal access to jobs and education opportunities for more on this and now we're joined on the phone by human rights advocate aside you'll see if the who's involved in today's hearing often appealed rajab it's good to see you could hear you so this is rule in moscow to tell us how is the court session going and all of the authorities taking your arguments into account. now i went to court just so the judge is supposed.

to aid the folks that's what it. is you know if you is to listen to that would this . oh it's true you wanted to you know issue from behind and you just if you would what you know i don't know if you could. have that i had to have this but the judge refused to do of. course as you're saying the hearing has not been delayed to november the eighth but you've worked closely with the bill rajab now the poster boy of the dissent movement what do you think will be the outcome of this appeal when of course it comes back to court on november the eighth . it seems that i mean the government allow a strike to crack out all the human rights activists just fifteen minutes ago they arrested another with only human rights activists have asserted he was. charged with a gun and that the activist just received

a summons from the police that just decided to crack down all the negativity and the. detention as long as they give them if they don't want to hear and you know it's anyone who talks to you and you want all this document to moderate opposition . from the government right now behind you now you're outside the courthouse where the hearing from to be all right john has been delayed now so november the eighth we are saying in recent minutes to move human rights activists have been arrested now and also last month bahrain was subjected to over one hundred seventy recommendations from the u.n. targeting the harsh government response to protest the offshore he's promising to address these issues do you think the city monarchy will act on the demands of the united nations i mean will you will i i will tell you my lad culture. and when a couple of it said that if there was they would implement the recommendation of

geneva but when we just came back to publish pictures of the activists who went to geneva and they kill our pictures i think. those people we should and it was it was it was a nationality and after a few tears to protest with who were killed by because after five. many many protesters where they. interrogated the head of i will phone. the largest a group and behind shows a different station. the people who are charged with police outside the people who are charged. with protesting the privilege of. so we have a concert opportunity for having all the people that you know and you present the people like. ours as you say the authorities with a culture of impunity that you told us that two more demonstrators have now being killed in protests and then moments ago two more human rights activists were

arrested what would you and your fellow activists want to see change in the very near future that would signal the protest movement is gaining ground and having a genuine impact. i mean all of the people in any fashion indebted to my demand think i'm a christian and the equipment behind the wheel we have we got a consumer i mean people demand that but i'm going to have to stick to what do you think it should photo use which is not go to bed i mean. to go but i mean they demand believe goes the food and they do demand equality and dignity and. women don't. associate and they're going to make political but which we don't have . to we just pretty important to get well and kids don't want to and i'm going to put this i'm glad i know more than one thousand seven hundred to put this to rights no engine. if you wish and that three hundred three think you know them behind it

are so the demonstrators according to more equal rights and more rights for education and various other aspects of just a social norm if i may ask you and i i also feel forgiveness i'm running low on time here why is it that over the past year and a half and plus the arab spring has in various regions have been covered extensively by media networks around the world but boss grain in particular has been ignored why is that i mean i believe that we are and beheaded we're not a victim because we live and always because to me we are a victim because we always have been a kind of. we're not a victim because we had. no wish to continue. so they don't they don't they just get about the business they don't care about the humidity people be. punished about it they just don't care they just get about about this and about their business and about so that's what we have. village the

country and usually not have the right idea i just really don't like you and your dignity because of that a distant and human rights advocate aside for almost half their joining us live here in r.t. many many thanks for coming on the program today thank you. are you watching the live from moscow still to come for you this hour back to court five guantanamo bay detainees are legibly responsible for the nine eleven attacks face a military tribunals yet again raising fears the so-called transparent trial is carefully designed to hide the truth. plus french winemakers quarter over a barrel as they claim the country's national treasure is slipping through their fingers that and plenty more stories just ahead after a short break. 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 an attendant children to find out what's going on went to the total she mowed 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.

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good to have you with us here on r.t.e. today i'm rori sushi the u.s. wants to cover up its 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 his 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's so-called interrogation techniques the detainees claiming they've been subjected to torture including waterboarding and this week's pretrial hearing now has to determine whether to allow the men to speak in court about what exactly happened during their years in custody live coverage from the courtroom will be subjected to a forty second sound lawyer retired air force colonel morris davis though he thinks 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 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 is blank out entirely so the motions in the words never quite match which i guess at guantanamo is 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 couch 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. part starting with the hague to be all the walled up that we go the form of balls and so. has begun his defense at the hague tribunal today he faces ten charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity he's also held responsible for the three and a half year long siege of sarajevo during the one nine hundred ninety s. balkan war which claimed the lives of over twelve thousand people. he was arrested in two thousand and eight denies all charges against him. if i was started as a over a thousand protesters gathered outside the parliament building in the portuguese capital on monday night it's off the country's prime minister announced even more biting cuts and still for the austerity budget in the country in two thousand. soon portugal continues to slide deeper into recession amid mass protests against the

disintegrating economy and alarming unemployment. a giant cloud of poisonous gas has forced over fourteen hundred germans out of their homes in the outskirts of hanover the incident occurred at a factory run by u.s. food giant kraft after the workers accidentally poured acid into a tank containing sodium hydroxide or ultimately triggering a bad reaction of some seven hundred firefighters are deployed to the site amid fears of a possible explosion local schools and nurseries have been closed as a precaution. french wine makers are sounding the alarm they claim the country's finest grapes are falling into foreign hands and millionaires from abroad have already bought dozens of vineyards and don't plan on stopping their paris meantime and shrugging his shoulders saying the deals are completely legal all nationalists warn the future of france will no longer lie in the hands of the french financial 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 shuttle we've just had to have the vineyards in french burgundy region home to one of world's famous wines made the headlines after it was purchased by china's entrepreneur former owners pushed 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 they rejoin or yellow peril in the sixty's. the paranoia of asian world dominance political economic and demographic that seems to be making this comeback these days

but there is no smoke without fire michelle the owner thirty hackers of shattered only graves producing two hundred fifty thousand of bottles peer says the reason a problem but it's not that foreign is by french family vineyards but that the owners have to sell them all but the cost taxes are very high and the hardest thing is to cover inheritance tax although many sell part of their farms to overcome that and it's progressive every next generation has to pay more for those to michelle who will likely sacrifice one hacked out 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're buying into. but that these people they come here

and they buy land just like they buy a castle or jewelry are the 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 troublemaking when it was over a commune that there are many regulations that impede development to be your bridge critic thinks every day enterprise chief has to approve with his lawyers and accountants of and then sent to different ministers 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 to do well and truly be over borrow more if notion are to

be reporting from fronts. trying to touch enough that it's not business up here at all tonight to see you again what on earth are you talking about organized crime one of the world's most successful businesses well certainly in terms of the purely financial terms its total capitalization is higher the matter of outhaul all the details in just a couple minutes but first let's go check out the equity markets starting with europe it's mainly gaining on reports that spain is well on its way to a bailout plan u.s. futures remain pretty much unchanged this wall street prepares for third quarter reports from the big guys the coca-cola company johnson and johnson and goldman sachs today here in russia the indices are once again trading above the line as you can see there the my six is choppy this tuesday the country's biggest lender is better bank is among the movers on the news that it's taken out of one of the houses billions of dollars syndicated low the ruble is mixed to the currency basket

this hour the dollar is edging higher to the euro russia's fast growing middle class and has a booming consumer market is really the two factors that are attracting foreign companies to russia and five years since the start of the crisis this trend seems to be getting stronger at such a pitiful for. the middle class and russia has tripled over the last five years to more than ten million households not so many of but each pulse on the 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 investment reveals if these russian could few was attracting investors to the contrary many people from outside think that the most attractive future. there is the resources of oil that's the third and has actually gone down slightly in attractiveness 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 to see the middle class in the growing middle classes 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 tortillas big spenders us to hitting the shops and the credit cards just i think globally make sure that compares favorably with zero growth rates and with. that to the people of those that are also well companies across the globe was struggling to survive the downturn one business that's thriving is the mafia according to the united nations office of drugs and find the international

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