a shelter which turned into a prison for months on joined us on to still corner london embassy while he's homeless trail you apparently helping the u.s. gather intelligence on him. billions of dollars at stake the russian energy giant aims to become the world's top oil producer by striking a deal with b.p. . e.u. leaders introduce a pan european banking control as protesters fed up with a sturdy make their voices heard on the streets of spain and greece. and death from above the cia wants to expand america's why squadron up on manned aircraft despite of the visual al cry from pakistan which has suffered years of heavy civilian

casualties in the attacks. one pm in the russian capital you're watching our marina joshie the home country of julian assange has reportedly been sharing its intelligence on hand with washington for around two years a songe earlier accuse a strain of disgraceful pandering to his foes naming the u.s. as a key one is now holed up in ecuador's london embassy unable to cross the doorway with the british authorities desperate to get hold of him more from our teaser for. came to seek asylum here at the ecuadorian embassy in that time and who do granted him that asylum and yet still he remains caged behind the doors the british government refusing to grant him safe passage saying that he'll be arrested if he's

so much as one toe outside the embassy duals you can see the police presence here at the door and that's causing huge concern amongst the public and the fact that taxpayers' money is going to fund this diplomatic headache it's costing eleven thousand pounds a day to keep the police here is already top. and that people say is a ridiculous sum of money to be spending to keep the security operation up and running as the debt limit six standoff continues he's wanted in sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations julian assange and his team said they were baseless and they were always willing to gates to sweden to face that questioning the main concern has always been that if they were to go to sweden they'd then face its addition to the u.s. and the u.s. some of the charges that julian assange could be faced with still carry the life

sentence the u.s. is named seal an astonishing enemy of the state and anyone who supports him could equally be tarred we went to meet the man himself talking to julian assange inside the embassy oh you also you spoke of the allegations that have been thrown at him and of the fact the full month and he's managed to distance of the cells from the very personal nature of those allegations that has such a huge impact on him now remember it's been an incredibly bumpy ride today in a silence the man who was hailed by the british press as a true seeker was then torn down briefly by the very same media institutions wiki leaks continues to. that all important work that they set out to do that has been so pivotal in revealing some of the things that the world would have otherwise not known about the iraq war logs the afghan war logs the civilians in some of those countries it has been hugely revelation when really changed the face of

whistleblower. nauert he's been closely following the fate of join the songs before and after he took refuge. a lot. more on his case can be found on our website also a or the songes exclusive interview showing all of the soaps are available online. leaders have agreed on a deal that would bring centralized banking supervision to a continent the controlling body will be gradually phased in over the course of two years regulating some six thousand banks budgetary union and aid to banks bypassing sovereign control were also on the cards at the summit the talks were marred by continuing protests in southern europe tens of thousands of greeks descended on athens as a nationwide strike on the way clashing with police one protester has died of a heart attack and then the scuffles in madrid parents teachers and students marched in condemnation of impending government cuts to education capping three

days of industrial action for journalist tom gill the sun decision is a direct threat to the democratic foundations of europe. as a big time. democratic principles that of course is part and parcel of the whole process of european integration for quite some time now. over the moving of monetary and fiscal policy from national governments effectively since the creation of the thing. that's been a huge demographic deficit in the calm proposals that will give more power to elected officials in brussels and from. take them out of power. stronger speights. is fundamentally on democratic and is rolling back the whole principles of what european integration was about when when it was founded not long after the second war now the proposed changes to the fiscal policy will allow brussels to

tell member states how to spend their money to a man or as chairman of the libertarian party of the netherlands thinks it will endanger the european people if the european union gives more hours what it will ultimately lead to is that this current tax countries and big governments are going it's going to keep growing it's going to keep getting more powerful it means do you ever really see. all territories. and it will leave any competition so even sure going to be may sound like a good idea to give us your powers to get in member states to just for less money but what will happen in the long run is they will all spend more money the simple solution to get congress to spend less money to start the bailouts if there's numerable of money they will have to cut spending. now the european

financial turmoil has been accompanied by massive protests violence and often havoc in the streets fine pictures of all that at our tea dot com also online human trafficking or in the u.k. as a new financial report shows that the trade in people's lives is on the rise of a country with even children falling victim. and the biggest no smoking zone ever that's what russia to become in two thousand and fifteen a new anti-tobacco law is approved banning smoking in all public places including bars and restaurants. the u.s. fleet of unmanned planes known as drones could balloon in size as the cia has urged the white house to improve its expansion the agency seems to be ignoring the latest statement by the pakistani interior minister who said eighty percent of those killed by american man air strikes were civilians artie's or english who has more.

they don't even come the hover overhead with an incessant buzz they watch they see and they kill. thousands of deaths all the name of security of the united states there are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered three thousand americans they are plotting to strike again this precise claim of self-defense in the face of the ever present terror danger has been in the works for over eight years now more than three hundred drone attacks in the tribal administrative areas located on the border between afghanistan and pakistan have taken according to different estimates between two and three thousand lives the problem however isn't just with quantity as it is still unclear whether those killed are actually terrorists the americans themselves often don't know who they've hit and there's huge discrepancy over the focus you know that we follow and find out that a lot more civilians are being killed but these are the people that the americans

don't tell you about and then they actually class these people over as circulated by scholars from new york and stanford university's found that approximately two percent of the total number of deaths were actually terrorists. among the remaining several thousand victims of the drones hundreds of the five were children at one point the u.s. military argued that everyone who was killed in the operations was a militant some believe this stems from americans ignorance in matters concerning foreign cultures what generally happens in the tribal areas every person that walks around almost assembles a scene clothes he wears a white or a color to walk the music which you suggest and that their grass and every type of person carries a weapon and make it forty seven which is a good many. safety information. officially pakistan acknowledges the need to wipe out terrorists in the area but is adamantly against such broad military action on

its territory something they have been very vocal about it on strikes. counterproductive but they couldn't under full on strikes. again focused on something which washington is quick to hit back with threats of cutting out french aid an important factor and its relationship with islamabad the pakistan boasts a nuclear arsenal the admits it's hardly the answer to their financial woes and islamabad temper is running out when twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed in the u.s. led airstrikes last year the country closed down the nato supply route for seven months and reopened it only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state the united states every manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda the right seems to have no option but to overstep the weak steps in the sentence from the attacks the financial aid was doing the right things considered

the was was substantive hope was to be far too was this is our god this was the stuff was caught. robert naiman policy director of the in a panel think tank just foreign policy thinks pakistan is sending a sick and tired message to the us. independent reports say that the only two percent of the destined drone strikes since two thousand and four the entire global terrorist leaders show that's not the actual policy that nearly john . kerry receives so that the alternative to a policy that cavalierly kill civilians is to not have a policy the cavalry kill signal the pakistani government is pretty low pressure on the us by giving the international media something to report on in terms of their claims about civilian deaths and weighing in on the side of the n.g.o.s and better

researchers if the parts that the government really decides that it's going to stop the drone strikes in pakistan and government can do that we may be seeing the government moving in that direction and coming out ahead clearing up the remains of the old regime forces the link to libya's new government move into former gadhafi stronghold killing and wounding civilians. plus a top rated show with a very limited cast we examine why the us presidential debates remain the privilege of just two candidates despite the support voters show up for in the panic bronner's.

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a green light for russia's oil giant ross nafta by stake in. the deal would see ross now becoming the world's largest wildfire well joining us from london with more details are. high that i guess to over in london we now know that the head of b.p. bob dudley he's going to recommend that b.p. accept roughnecks bed to take over that hoff of t n k b p now ross neff have reportedly offered over twenty six billion dollars to b.p. for that half of that russian joint venture as well as a stake in the company so at the same time we know that ross neff have also negotiated to buy out b.p.'s russian partners who are in the all the halls of the t n k b p joint venture it's the billionaire consortium a are now what all this means is that ross nast could end up swallowing russia's already largest oil company t

n k b.p. that by taking it over. b.p. russian after would become the world's largest listed oil producer making over four and a half million barrels of oil a day so igor sechin his head of ross nast has been in london holding talks with bob dudley who's the head of b.p. and that was ahead of the point when b.p. received a formal offer from the russians. so today we know that bob dudley is going to be talking to the b.p. board and he's going to be talking very positively about this deal with ross nast talking about the benefits that it could bring to the company what a fifteen percent stake potentially in ross nast could bring to b.p. so he's going to be recommending that his company accept the soffit today or i pod thanks very much indeed and more facts and figures on the a later in our business bulletin from peter all over. but just how erosive going to be able

to afford this multi-billion dollar deal join me in a few moments time we have a look at one of the ways in which they're looking to raise a bit extra capital. and i mean timely an army units have launched an operation to clear out supporters of the old regime from the town of bani walid the area which used to be a colonel gadhafi stronghold has been under siege for the last two weeks thursday's attack on the city saw around a dozen people killed activists and journalists don says those behind the latest assault there should be punished. i'm getting numerous in your mobile actually reports from residents of bani walid that indeed the so-called non-government they call themselves a stable basically it's not a state is four hundred militias conducting more brutal across libya. are sieging by anyone leave at the moment including with grad rockets and with chemical weapons

you know at a time when human rights watch and amnesty the very organizations that gave the human rights cover for all the atrocities in the libya conflict have suddenly stated that the rebels are killed around over sixty or could offer his convoy a year ago nearly to the day and executed gadhafi himself and of course they did because it was all over you tube from the very first day of the libyan rebellion the atrocities of the rebels today we're seeing another siege before we saw the siege of sirte on the people of ben he wanted civilians to why isn't the united nations putting in one nine hundred seventy three resolution in this situation where u.s. voters are waiting for a file on their face of between barack obama and mitt romney before making their choice at the ballot box but one of the debates have become one of america's most watched shows taking part in them remains a privilege for the chosen two candidates from outside the two main political parties almost never appear in televised confrontations green party candidate jill

stein and her running mate of were arrested while trying to gain entrance to the latest debate that's despite stein's name appearing on eighty five percent of the ballots across the country than lansky the green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to out dated lost and corporate control. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states. now the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters their choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era and which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of

those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . and let's get now more on that hundred k.b. stories from a marina casa rose at the business das gand we're looking at the financial side of things of course so what does this deal mean for ross next well first of all it means that it will need to find a lot of money we're talking to barely ends of dollars here and we'll be discussing all of this with peter all of our who's following the story for us here in moscow and as if there was enough drama peter now we know that one of the top managers of b.p. has been detained here in moscow after allegations of corruption within the company emerge now tell me how will this affect the deal between ross left and b.p. will it affect it in any way. well the short answer and how it will affect it is

really not at all these this particular b.p. manager that's being detained by police here in russia questioning on corruption charges now those direction charges lead to when he was a government official before he started working with b.p. in a few early a private matter the notes involved in the company told so that shouldn't be any kind of issue of choice to push through this deal to buy b.p.'s fifty percent share in t.n. k b p no one of the ways in which they're attempting to raise extra revenue to try and avoid the whopping price that it's going to cost we believe somewhere between twenty five and twenty eight billion dollars the fifty. one of the ways they're looking to raise extra revenue is by issuing bonds of course that's not going to give them all of the money that they need but it could give them around an extra six hundred fifty million dollars. know what ping amount that i'm talking about. simply don't have twenty eight billion dollars to to spend on this deal well

they're going to be looking at is to deliver some kind of cash payment and also be a stock in real sniff now that could be somewhere between ten and twenty percent to make up the amount to say somewhere between twenty five and twenty eight billion for they still. would mean no if it goes ahead and can capture the whole one hundred percent of. the pay is that they would be the largest publicly publicly traded oil company in the world however that does come with some risk taking on all one hundred percent of g.n.p. b.p. would mean that they had sixty billion dollars around that mark worth of debt put that in perspective that's around the same amount of debt as some european countries have. know in terms of what b.p. wants out of this deal they don't want to be out of russia entirely they just want to be out of their current deal with their russian partners as part of t. and k b p what b.p. wants is to be able to have

a stake in those all important off take oil exploration rights which rosneft of course these negotiations ongoing in london at the moment as information starts to trickle out of a closed door meeting. thank you peter let's not forget of course our fish ratings agency already said that ross have doesn't quite all one hundred percent shares off everything at risk being downgraded and not only ross there but also teen katie because of all the costs involved oh well of course the monster and that hit all of our fossil live near the headquarters of ross a hall that's a from the business team for now but stay with i.t. because coming up we will have general a fellow who will be asking this gas questions on syria will it survive its internal divisions and is its fate really controlled from the outside that's coming up in a fiery debate across shortly here on our. in

japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there a from the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones in their shattered lives or when professor of design his first brain bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies

lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg like them in a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out there press. expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states

financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertises one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think the guy is like expect to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have the surgery adding seven more centimeters to his self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now it's what i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle syria ablaze as the world faces off supporting different sides fighting the syrian civil war rebel groups within the country struggle to unify can the syria we know today survive and is the future of this divided country now in the hands of outsiders. to cross-talk the syrian inferno i'm joined by flynt leverett in washington he's a professor of international relations at penn state university in new york we have meyer javedanfar he is a middle east analyst and lecturer at the interdisciplinary center in herts libya and in beirut we crossed in name salam he is an associate professor and co-founder of the faculty of international affairs and diplomacy at notre dame university lebannon are a gentleman cross talk rules and i mean you can jump in anytime you want my very much encourage it there is talk of.