billions of dollars at stake a russian energy giant aims to become the world's oil producer by striking a deal with b.p. . control as protesters fed up with austerity make their voices heard on the streets of spain and greece. a shelter which turned into a prison for months on. still cornered in london embassy. is apparently helping the u.s. gather intelligence on. libyan troops launch an attack on the former stronghold of bani walid after a two week siege and a shelling that killed a dozen people.

international news live from moscow's city center this is our with me rule received the b.p. board is set to deliver its verdict on whether it will give a green light for russia's oil giant to buy its fifty percent stake in b.p. and the deal would potentially becoming the world's largest oil producer details on this now to our polly. also negotiating to buy out the other half of t.n.t. b.p. which is owned by the billionaire consortium they are there be peace for russian patna is that all would mean that ross nast could end up blowing the whole of the unpaid leave that at the moment russia's third largest oil producer says eventually

that could mean that last year could end up being the world's largest misstate a boil producer making over four million barrels of oil a day and we know that igor sechin he's head of ross nast was holding talks in london yesterday with the head of b.p. he called me and that was the head of a formal offer that the russians made to b.p. and we also know that today bob dudley is going to be speaking very positively about what this deal could bring to b.p. as a company and he's going to be recommending to his board of directors that they accept the offer. and figure on the business bulletin and while the key discussion in london is well under way police have detained a top manager from b.p. on suspicion of fraud. well it's unlikely that the questioning obey told pti in k b p the corruption allegations will have any real effect told rosettes

negotiations for a multi billion dollar takeover of the company i'll bring you all of the ins and outs of that ongoing deal little later this hour. for the european leaders have agreed on a deal that would bring centralized banking supervision to the continent the controlling body will be gradually phased in over the course of two years alternately regulating some six thousand banks or budgetary union banks bypassing sovereign control also on the cards at the summit. to new and protests in southern europe tens of thousands of greeks to stay. things as a nationwide strike got underway. with police and one protester though did die of a heart attack amid the scuffles and in madrid parents teachers and students all marching in condemnation of impending government cuts to education cutting three days of industrial action for journalist tom gill the summit decision is

a direct threat to the democratic foundations of europe. as a bigger time of the democratic principles that of course is part and parcel of the of the whole process of european integration for quite some time now. with the removal of monetary and fiscal policy from national governments effectively since the creation of the single currency there's been a huge democratic deficit and current proposals that will give more power to elected officials in brussels in front and give particular amounts of power to two stronger states. is fundamentally unfair mccracken is rolling back the whole principles of what european integration was about when when it was founded not long after the second world war. the proposed changes to the e.u.'s fiscal policy will allow brussels to tell member states how to spend their money tony manders of the

chairman of the libertarian party of the netherlands things so this will ultimately in danger of the european people. if the european union gives more hours what it will ultimately lead to is kurds who know how to tax countries and big governments is going to keep growing want to keep even more powerful it means we are going to see shewn. territories. and it will lead to new competition so we sure are going to be me so when you don't even have to give us your powers to get a member states to paralyse only what will happen in the long run and more money the simple solution to get congress to spend less money to start their notes if there's numerous below money they will have to cut spending. the european financial turmoil has been accompanied by massive protests violence and often in the streets all the pictures that are to dot com also online for you are human

trafficking a horror in the u.k. as a new official report shows that the trade in people's lives is on the rise but even children born. in the biggest no smoking zone that's what russia could become in two thousand and fifteen if indeed a new anti tobacco lor's approved banning smoking in all public places including bars and restaurants. libyan 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 kid deathy stronghold has been under siege for the last two weeks the most recent in the series of shelling is on the city killed around a dozen people these are some of the latest pictures coming through here on our t.v. the activist and a journalist chandan says those behind the assaults should be punished. i'm getting numerous innumerable actually reports from residents of bani walid that indeed the

first so called non-government they call themselves the state obviously it's not a state it's four hundred militias conducting mob rule across libya are 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 that are killed around over sixty of gadhafi is conboy a year ago nearly to the day and executed could occupy one 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 aren't the people of ben who were lead civilians to why isn't the united nations putting in one nine hundred seventy three resolution in this situation. libya it's the syrian conflict which could prove to be a powder keg with the potential to inflame the entire region today's cross-talk

guests discuss whether those who back in the range of change in syria could ever become beacons of democracy for the state that's coming up for you next hour here on r.t. . i don't think for a moment that the saudi royal family or the qataris are out of frame horde of human rights you know they are not they're not the leaders absolutely but i think it's inaccurate to say that all countries are support there are undemocratic look at turkey turkey is a very democratic country look at egypt egypt has recently had a revolution and it's been my friend i actually found out where it says let democracy in turkey let's take the democracy internally because i don't like it if it does no good or he has a democracy we are going to add to them a crowd think election and won fair and square and us alive on ars and i thought i thought i was on my not it isn't going to be i've been a lot of the night as well didn't go to what the. that is what the where are the hard to solve. anything.

thanks for joining us here in our. home country of julian sanchez reporting we've been sharing use intelligence on him with washington for around two years as are julie accused australia of quote discourse for pandering to his foes naming the u.s. as a key one he's now holed up in ecuador's london embassy unable to cross the doorway with the british authorities desperate to get their hands on him more of marty's sorrow. is being full months in the son's came to seek asylum here at the ecuadorian embassy in that time and we do granted him that asylum and yet still he remains caged behind the doors the british government refusing to grant him safe past the saying that he'll be arrested if he's so much as one toe outside the

embassy doozie can see the police presence here at the door and that is causing his concern amongst the public to 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 told. and that people say is every day killers some of money to be spending to keep the security operation up and running as they did in the magic standoff continues he's wanted in sweden for questioning a 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 today an astonishing enemy of the state and anyone who supports him could equally be told we went to meet the man himself talking to julie in a cell and inside the embassy oh you also spoke of the allegations that have been thrown at him then of the fact the full month and he's managed to distance itself somewhat from the very personal nature of those allegations that had such heat impact on him now remember it's been an incredibly bumpy ride today in the saw and the man he 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 do 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 mean really changed the face of

whistleblower. surfer porting right there of course so we've been closely following the fate of julian or songe before and after he took refuge at the door an embassy a timeline of events and more in his case can be found at our website of course r.t. also airing a saunders exclusive interview program all eleven episodes standing by you are quick to weigh on our son start to talk. i never thought i could earn a living this way. not on the issue of noise anomaly she tossed small arms so there's no toast machine building plant not all these lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. there's. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of

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bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully it if i can get up that. i can go far to drive. whoa that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to walk every morning what with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. it's good to have you with us here. today on receive us voters are waiting for a final faceoff between barack obama and mitt romney of course this before making

their choice at the ballot box but while the debates have become one of america's most watched shows taking part in the remains of privilege for the chosen two candidates from outside the two main political parties almost never appear in televised confrontations light green party candidate jill stein and her running mate were actually arrested while trying to gain entrance to the latest debate and that's despite stein's name appearing on eighty five percent of the ballots across the country. the green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to outdated laws more importantly though that of 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 the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to give voters that choice those laws date from the cold war and they date from the mccarthy era in 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 jill 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. we are keeping a close eye on the upcoming u.s. elections and of course the two top candidates you can chain in on monday for special coverage of the ongoing race for the white house. will there be who are on the rise china friend or foe is missile defense offensive. where the candidates the u.s. election is close to twenty second on our team. the cia cia excuse me

has urged the white house to approve a plan to expand the u.s. drone fleet the agency seems to be ignoring the latest statement by the pakistani interior minister who said eighty percent of those killed by american undermanned airstrikes were civilians and this figure is backed by the growing and to u.s. sentiment among the population robert naiman the policy director of the independent think tank just foreign policy thinks that pakistan is sending a quote sick and tired message to washington. independent reports that the only two percent of the destined drone strikes since two thousand for the entire global terrorist leaders so that's not the actual policy merely to argue. terrorist leader so the alternative to a policy that cavalierly kill civilians is to not have a policy that. kill civilians the pakistani government is putting little pressure

on the us by giving the international media something to a point on in terms of their claims about civilian deaths and weighing in on the side n.g.o.s and researchers if the pakistani government really decides that it's going to stop the drone strikes in pakistan the government can do that we may be seeing the government moving in that direction. drone attacks troops in remote stateside endless hawkish rhetoric top level u.s. politicians maintain all of this is necessary to keep the country safe from terrorism and always eager to help with an imprint the image of the enemy deeper into american minds is hollywood so i want to go into now reports. he used more than sixty five american citizens to be held as hostages hollywood's latest thriller takes movie audiences back to the iranian hostage crisis of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the plot surrounds a cia mission aimed at rescuing six americans who escaped the takeover of the us.

somebody into iran and hit in the canadian ambassador's home with the film glamorizes the cia's secret mission to bring those six americans home however the portrayal of a brave american mission with the backdrop of violent muslims is troubling for some especially at a time when tensions between the u.s. and iran are high. if you look at all the propaganda being fed to the american public right now in terms of iran we have movies here coming out our go we've got the mainstream media over saturation of coverage of the iran situation hollywood is typically labeled as liberal but critics say the industry has been more than willing over the years to create villains out of u.s. political foes and typically per trade is american intervention abroad as always just patriotic these programs are really balanced really give you real context and background they tend to mobilize you to think in

a certain way not to be critical of what the u.s. government is doing form in the people all of whom had a death to america a little hollywood entertainment has historically followed us policy well reinforcing stereotypes of political enemies from the russians during the cold war you would think about as you as the first american corruption of guns. going to truly. more recent depictions of villainous middle eastern terrorists. this kind of if is used just as a backdrop for entertainment when the real life implications want to being a lot more sinister this new season of homeland actually begins with an israeli attack or do you care facilities as as the main plot point to kind of set everything in motion as nuanced as that show may think it is it actually winds up reinforcing a lot of stereotypes that we constantly see while to run in other middle eastern cities are constantly shown as centers of violent extremism. it is unlikely

hollywood's will be making blockbuster critical of this yeas torture and reducing program hollywood provides the images who our politicians provide the arguments as us politicians continue ramping up their fear mongering of nuclear threats and evil dictators hollywood script writers will be hard at work beating the war drums to crack with these shows the fire in los angeles. r t. into reality world up there we go will start in a bahrain where security is being killed or injured in clashes with antigovernment protesters the unrest began in february last year when people rose up demanding reforms from the longtime ruling dynasty the uprising was met with a harsh crackdown as well as the arrest of human rights activists and doctors who actually helped to treat the injured demonstrators and just recently four more

people were detained for twitter messages criticizing the king. suspected al qaeda gunmen have attacked a military base in southern yemen killing at least thirteen soldiers and losing the same number of their own and the battle started with a car bomb blast before militants continued their offensive on the coastal base from the sea and the region as seen fierce fighting between the army and al-qaeda as the country tries to battle militants. well it's been a rhondda two hundred years now since the first southern most russian settlement was a stop in north america a russian delegation has now arrived at fort ross in california to mark the event the settlers of the side were the first to build windmills in the area also setting up a ship building industry the settlement was sold to a profit by in the nineteenth century it was later named and historic a landmark and has been the subject of a large archaeological investigation. as we turn to our stop story here in r.t.

there's more in a quarter of an hour to see you again we're still talking about a b.p. of rosneft i understand you have an update on that a rest of the manager of a p.p.o. on suspicion of corruption that's exactly right but just to clarify it's the tens and now it's k.v. has released in the fischel statement and it said that the detention has a nothing to do with this man's work in its highly unlikely that it will affect the deal between. if that of course comes to that but we have our very own you know all over who's covering the story and he has all the details. this particular t n k b p manager that's being detained by police here in russia for questioning on corruption charges now those corruption charges lead to when he was a government official before he started working with t n k b p an appeal a private matter they're not involved in the company also that shouldn't be any kind of issue tries to push through this deal to buy the peace fifty percent share

in t.n. k b p you know one of the ways in which they're attempting to raise extra revenue to try and afford the whopping price that that's going to cost we believe somewhere between twenty five and twenty eight billion dollars the that fifty percent share could cost 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. now this what ping amount that i'm talking about. simply don't have twenty eight billion dollars to to spend on this deal what they going to be looking at is to deliver some kind of cash payments and also offer b.p. 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 this deal while that deal would mean no if it goes ahead and rosneft can capture the whole one hundred percent of the fees 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 ten k. b.p. would mean that they had sixty billion dollars around that mark worth of debt well put that in perspective that's around the same amount of debt as some european countries have. no interest in 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.n. k b p what b.p. wants is to be able to have a stake in those whole import. off to boil exploration rights which results in if tons of calls these negotiations ongoing in london at the moment as information starts to trickle out to those a closed door meeting bring you it all here. now let's take a quick look at international markets started with europe where there we're seeing the f one to negative sentiment pretty much as you can see there by the numbers investors are really are about to the summit meeting they're waiting to hear if

anything will be settled really so far we know that the leaders are impressed with the progress that the country has made towards meeting its austerity targets nothing investors are quite appalled by is a google because of course the nasdaq plummeted overnight because google shares dropped by nine percent after the news from the giants released this third quarter results only by accident their reports show this quarterly profits fell twenty percent from the previous year to just over two billion dollars google said there was also supposed to be release after the closing bell and trading even had to be suspended for two and a half hours and when they resumed shares recovered slightly to end the day eight percent lower and here in russia markets are following that lock loss of sentiment that was seen across the board and internationally both the r.t.s. and the by succession of over a half a percent there is a slight uncertainty with oil prices that you gain in the end so that's a really help of russian investors us for a moment take a look at currencies where the euro has been weakening against the u.s.

dollar for a couple of hours now when it comes to the overall ruble it remains next to the currency basket this of friday and this wraps up this invention of business by tuesday with r.t. because coming up we take you behind the scenes of a standoff that put the world on the brink of a nuclear walled war three this is a coming up in our special report called cuban missile crisis to stay with us. culture is the same or different each musician has the power of finding the mark

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