syrian rebels are threatening to execute a kidnapped ukrainian journalist for ransom isn't paid reportedly saying russian and ukrainian citizens should not be allowed to leave syria alive. britain says it has evidence of russia's involvement in the death of the former spy alexander litvinenko after six years of failing to provide any tangible proof. debt ridden greece gets its latest installment of bailout funds needed to keep the economy afloat in exchange for a debt buyback scheme which many see as counterproductive. and as the you want to tomic watchdog resumes talks with iran and we look at why many iranians consider acquiring nuclear energy as not just a matter of necessity but of national pride. good

evening you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of let's get straight to our top story now where ukrainian journalist kidnapped by syrian rebels is facing execution on thursday unless a fifty million dollar ransom is paid. has been working in syria during the conflict helping international media outlets including our t.v. now the european federation of journalists has strongly condemned the targeting of reporters our middle east correspondent paula slayer is following those developments for us. journalists on hot coach never was taken hostage in october and no homes the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has a kid into you tube videos that were released by the. free syrian army and in one

of those she appealed to the embassies of ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demands will in fact be made she read a text in those videos in arabic in which admitted to having participated in the fighting and having worked as a military interpreter with syria and russian officers but the authenticity of these videos believing that they were made while she was under jurists now the ukrainian foreign ministry has also released a statement released last month saying that officials would negotiate for her beliefs but they did not offer through the details. some syrian rebels are reportedly threatening to make russian and ukrainian citizens in syria their target and prayed saying that they shouldn't be allowed to leave the country alive meanwhile moscow is warning that the opposition could win the conflict but at an honest sceptical price artie's alexei of cesky has the details. but the russian foreign ministry would not exclude the possibility of the syrian opposition forces

being victorious in the military call think in this country that is according to the deputy foreign minister minister but he stressed once again at what price a completely unacceptable price according to the russian foreign ministry this victory may come he said that for now it has been claimed that sixty percent of syrian territory is being controlled by the pro position force as well as. forty percent of the territory remaining under the governmental control and if the opposition will be willing to push further this may lead to more casualties with forty thousand people about forty thousand people already killed the death toll could rise to hundreds of thousands of people and this is something russia finds us completely unacceptable and believing that this price is way too high this statement comes shortly after a conference in morocco finished with around one hundred countries pledging their support to the syrian opposition at the same time of violence is still taking place in the country with several terrorist attacks rocking damascus and the neighboring

outskirts of damascus in the last forty eight hours. washington is accusing to ask us of deploying weapons banned for use in populated areas in its fight against the rebels jacob hornberger from the future freedom foundation says the u.s. is demonizing the syrian government. we've heard this stuff before about you know saddam hussein's debbi m.d.s. and he was going to unleash them on the us and mushroom clouds over american cities and it was entirely bogus it was and it was a way to get the american people to support the invasion and occupation of the country and that's what all of this interventionism is all about to install their dictators into power look like how the us empire is not complaining about the dictatorship in bahrain i mean there you've got a military u.s. military base so they got to stay quiet about that tyranny and day and you see what went on in egypt you see in saudi arabia i mean the u.s.

has long supported dictatorship saddam hussein was one of the ones they supported and so this is about regime change in the hopes of installing a true pro u.s. regime but as we've learned things don't come out as they as they often plan to be . well as the u.s. and its allies give full endorsement to the syrian opposition there are fears that washington doesn't fully understand exactly who the assad calm buttons on the ground really are on our website we have analysis of who is actually doing the fighting against the government there as well as the tactics that they're using. the death of former russian spy alexander litvinenko who was poisoned and london

six years ago is once again in the spotlight a testimony at a preliminary hearing into the incident is suggesting that the name go was a paid british intelligence agent and that the russian state was involved in his murder charges or smith is in london and she's following those developments for us this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world either there is there are wider implications to this and of course there have been the maybe just stumbling block in u.k. russia relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main program at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria we having that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interestingly the naught the english courts call its policy judgment on the lawfulness of the

behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm so will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting lead u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convinced. the evidence on the other side of course. you are going to use the u.k. police's main suspect. because poisoning he recently passed a law a detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically all us whether he has had any involvement in libya because that he said no lie detector test was passed by him also because of the hold on t.v. that he didn't suspect the kremlin or injury look of oil having any involvement in his son's murder this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world. you know when atomic experts are back in iran to try to make headway over tension surrounding that country's controversial nuclear program it's the first visit since

talks had a deadlock in august and the i.a.e.a. team is hoping to get access to some of the sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but there are unlikely to get inside the parchin military facility which tehran insist as a non-nuclear site saying that inspectors have no right to access it iran has consistently denied its uranium enrichment has military aims but despite the lack of evidence proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened to military action at the pharmacy fails there is way off an ocean reports mutual distrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of mourning when i met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of iran's leading nuclear scientists and two it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten.

left to work and then i heard a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this. i called my screwed my screwed. i thought he was just scared but then i turned to him there was no fleece just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran. they're working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for know how those who have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent. women series husbands began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seven. these western countries were rigged to how pure run develop its own nuclear program supplying into with technology with no

strings attached that changed when the iranian regime deed was earlier seen as inalienable right became its biggest liability iran. would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just because western powers say so while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that a country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this tension is fabricated with the sole purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have naive in your kitchen and some of the recent conti's contour. or. benjamins. maybe you want to use it to from. this is very. george king.

the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want a total change of leadership seat should be non-negotiable for the country. in your courage to come. here on the afghan cause for what you did here. it has. kind of drago if you're on. even want to come out. which is what the. blast that killed them and sirius has been to was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides

show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. nationality from to her around. well coming up president vladimir putin criticizes washington's a station to ban russian officials who are linked to a high profile corruption case russia's head of state called america's reaction to the making its case absurd warning that such a move could push relations between the former foes to the brink of a new crisis. plus more britons are in a work of but joy over the drop in jobless numbers could prove short lived more on that and other international stories for you to show.

the san bernardino california police force who have to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft and drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only have one solution to offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load it and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america's always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chiefs honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can't expect that a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's

great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p. interview intriguing story to tell you you. see arabic to find out more visit our big don't owe tito it's called.

go back to our top stories eurozone finance minister have ministers have rubber stamps the latest installment of bailout funds for debt ridden greece the money had been withheld for months and was dependent on athens buying back some of its debt before actually getting the vital cash injection because art has paid all over reports the deal might not be as good as it appears for the euro zone take a look. greece's given its financial package is something of an early christmas present by buying back a chunk of its debt from them however when they take the wrapping paper off that gift they won't find it's a little less which they've asked for as part of a bond buyback scheme which saw athens buy back its own problems at around thirty four percent of their original value the international monetary fund had expected

greece to be able to get its debt situation down to one hundred and twenty four percent of overall economic output by twenty twenty now that really does not seem likely right now this is because the i.m.f. to say well we won't be lending any more money to any countries that can't pay back their debts however there is a dangerous precedent with this in terms of greece been able to return the money of course private investors private creditors to greece well a lot of banks and a lot of insurance companies have already had to take that hits and it may swell there's no way we're going to get this cash back from greece but that is subject to the i.m.f. certainly are not willing to accept right now. they are zones because banks may soon come under direct policing from brussels it's a move which could get final approval by e.u. leaders later on thursday now this would be a key step towards a fully fledged banking union on the continent with national powers slowly being

concentrated into a single authority the new rules will see all banks worth more than thirty billion euros or with a significant presence in europe answering directly to the european central bank other steps in the pipeline include a decision on how to close the troubled banks. well later this hour max kaiser reveals how banks have been getting away with dodgy dealings what else is new. ages b.c. to pay one point nine two billion dollars fine to settle charges over a laundering state and federal authorities decided against indicting a just b. c n n money laundering case over concerns that criminal charges could jump or one of the world's largest banks and ultimately disturbed was the global financial system to. do big. government condones crime and they wonder why they made roads on fire because they loaded on fire because they've got the contract for the lighter fluid company.

russia's president has had out of america's recent congress sanctions on russian officials washington lawmakers accuse several russians of being involved in the prison death of a lawyer sergei magnitsky referring to the moves as absurd let him or putin also highlighted america's prison track record take a look. but frankly speaking i don't understand why our american colleagues are doing this most likely it's internal political intrigue the foreign ministry has already called it the theater of the absurd that's precisely what it is this sort of game of death was a tragedy but does nobody die in u.s. prisons and maybe even in greater numbers going up that is an eight years they have failed to show at guantanamo down where people are kept without due process under wearing shackles like in medieval times people who open secret prisons have

legalized torture during investigations are now pointing out drawbacks. to put and also affirmed that russia is a yet complete us investigation into magnitsky death moscow's already promised to retaliate against the congress sanctions on the us by barring americans that it accuse us of human rights abuses. will always more for you on our website that's our team dot com let's see what we have cooking for you there the power of hypnosis that's going to be tested on a u.s. sergeant who claims that he has amnesia as prosecutors hope that he'll remember the day when he allegedly killed five fellow servicemen in iraq. also online for you making hey we've got the tale of how oscar pistorius part of me left a trained racehorse that was awake typing it to the post in a contest between man and.

well back to the story now is today's visit by un atomic watchdog inspectors who are in tehran and i want to bring into this conversation professor saeed mohammad marandi from the first three take ron sort of thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us now from what i ate suspects that nuclear weapons related experiments may have been carried out at the parchin facility in iran but my question is why is tehran refusing to give inspectors access to the site i mean wouldn't this in some ways appease the fears of the international community. well first of all the iranians don't believe that the international atomic energy agency really has any

fears about the party in sight and that it is basically american pressure along with the pressure of its allies that forces the agency to take such steps because it's a very western oriented organization it's not a democratic body most countries in the world meaning the nonaligned movement in fact supporting iran's position. but the reason why the iranians have not allowed them to enter is because they've already done so twice before and if on every occasion the iranians allow them to carry out their mission and iran gets nothing in response then there is no real partnership here well certainly it's a tough situation for iran but again when you have a situation where the international community is firm on these suspicions and iran which continues to maintain that it's not developing its nuclear program for military purposes why not just give into this one request let them in and smooth

things over so that the country can get what it wants back in return. one again is that it's not the international community the nonaligned movement which constitute constitutes three so the countries of the world support iran's position and the russian government as well as the chinese government have both both repeatedly said that there is absolutely no information showing that iran's nuclear program into anything but peaceful but the iranians are willing to show allow them to enter parching but what the iranians are saying is that we must have a comprehensive solution in other words if you run allows them into part seen then if three months later they want to go in again and then six months later again and again where does this end paunchy in is a military complex the iranians have a military industry and the iranians know quite well that the americans are trying to obtain information. ability itself because it

produces all sorts of weapons conventional weapons to protect itself obviously now if. in the past when iran information they passed them on to western countries and eventually we had iranian scientists assassinated because of this information if they've done that in the past why should the iranians trust them to not pass on this information to the united states about you ones defense capabilities and b. which what is the end game well speaking of any games and of course you mentioned the u.s. is sort of being the big pushing for behind this encircled meant of iran at least in terms of sanctions now the u.s. of course has previously previously warned its ally israel against a preemptive strike on iran but critics are suggesting that that was because president obama was fighting an election now that all of that is over do you think that this situation could change. no i think that the last two

years in syria has shown that this by american and western attempts to create a civil war in syria and the murder of tens of thousands of syrians support of the most despotic. regimes in the world. they've they've shown that they do not have as much power as they pretend that they do they said for almost two years that syria's about to fall and it didn't israel on the other hand its power has been shown in gaza they fought a week a week in gaza and at the end of the day they had to accept palestinian terms for peace and for a cease fire so the iranians know that the united states israel and you know as powerful as they claim to be they are both brute. in their behavior to. these constantly threatening iran with war and the americans and the europeans imposing

sanctions on iran to prevent iranians from owning medicine which is barbaric in the eyes of iranians but the iranians know that attack is carried out on the run their response would be severe and the united states nor israel neither of them would win a war well certainly no military a war perhaps but so far a war of sanctions professor say it mohammad marandi thank you so much the thing that you know the university of tehran. well there is an early christmas present present for britain the jobless rate has shrunk in its biggest quarterly drop in a decade but it's no reason to pop the champagne just yet and sarah first explains why. well some unexpected season would share this week with official statistics showing the u.k.'s unemployment rate has fallen by eighty two thousand people between august and october well the government might have been acting like christmas is coming early but the cold hard reality is that all of course there are going to be a huge number of people right now he simply don't recognize the pictures that they

statistics the painting and this one the person is back to work you need to separate out this month's figures from kind of the medium to long term direction of the economy on the right market so we're still getting some of the tail end of summer olympics effect and we're not sure whether when we start to move out of a period you're going to still see this very strong employment growth particularly amongst young people take for example those on the government's work programme that they have to come along to the job fence is part of that program and could be signed up for mandatory unpaid work experience now those people will no longer be included in the unemployment statistics a very clearly that's very far for a more ordinary people indeed those people on the program themselves would consider employed so you can see you have to be very careful with this not these statistics giving us do you feel like the government's doing enough to help young people can

see anything around me. really and how you find the on the work program a lot of young people we stay can t. have you know i haven't found it all that helpful most of. the people are looking for the. young person who. never would have before in their lives. of course it's not all bad news there are some encouraging signs in these statistics but it's very early days and to conclude that the labor market here in the u.k. is back to full health with not only be foolhardy it would be dangerous in fact predictions saying that in two. twenty thirteen we could see youth unemployment talked about one million marker again now that could have long term implications for the young labor market here in the united kingdom and right now britain's on the precipice of venturing a triple dip recession and so for millions who work is all across the twenty thirty

is looking sets to be very far from a happy new year. r.c. london. stay with us kaiser report is coming up next on our team. it is a way of life traditionally the people. are also highly skilled and organized. depending. on the day we found this particular camp they were settled near the coast of the. here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand. people and.

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