three. videos for your media project free media. the fate of a foreign journalist kidnapped by syrian rebels remains unknown after a run some deadline passes for her execution. seismic decision britain lifts the suspension on controversial gas extraction despite the practice being blamed for causing earthquakes. and washington looks to deal that would let more u.s. troops and asia as china's new leader advises the military to prepare for a strike. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t.

moscow. there has been no word about the fate of ukrainian journalist being held hostage in syria after a deadline for execution set by rebels passed on thursday. who's assisted r.t. along with other media outlets journey in the ongoing syrian conflict was abducted by insurgents now two months ago they threatened to kill her if a fifty million dollars ransom was not paid by taking up the story for us now. well the deadline has passed with no word as to whether or not she is dead or alive she was reportedly kidnapped by the free syrian army and held for ransom of fifty million u.s. dollars she was taken hostage nearly two months ago and since then has appeared in two separate videos in the first she appeals to the ukrainian government to pay the ransom money and sit her free in a second which many believe was made under due is she admits to being a spy for the point needs to be made that just about everyone believes the that

this video was made under extreme pressure and dulce the object of mists of what she was saying now reporters without borders amnesty international and a number of other nongovernmental organizations have called on the free syrian army as well as the syrian national coalition they've demanded that they immediately secure her release saying that this is the first taste of the nearly a widely recognized government at the same time the same rebels in egypt. video in which they have said that no russian no ukrainian and no rain in will leave syria alive so there is deep concern as to her fate it is paula slowly reporting right there in the meantime a dr ali mohamed a from the syria tribune online magazine but if you use that foreign nations which back the rebels will do little to pressure them to release the journalist. but there were. western cities or american citizens in particular here to.

be sure to put some pressure of. the. countries. that have been sort of thing there were a massacre for the. way we still enjoy. from information. now russia recently recognition of the syrian opposition by the u.s. and its allies is only fueling the armed conflict in syria that moscow also reiterated its position that political dialogue is the only solution to the confident let's delve deeper into this now r.t. if you're going to spin off by joining us live now from central moscow you quarter there's been growing speculation that moscow could actually be changing its attitude towards the conflict why it was that. for the past twenty four hours international media has been buzzing with speculation that russia changed it stands

on the cards in syria but now the foreign ministry has officially and its position is still the same russia does not support any side of the conflict in syria it's not looking at any possibilities to shoulder with president assad although with the situation in the country deteriorating plans to evacuate russian citizens out of there are indeed being worked on around the circulation in the media started after one of the senior officials of the foreign ministry on thursday was misinterpreted what he called the syrian opposition which said. over the country now the foreign ministry has stressed once again that there could be only one solution to this conflict that is a diplomatic one without any foreign military intervention it should be based on the principles reached in geneva which basically called both sides of the conflict to immediately and simultaneously put their weapons down begin a political process and for the international community to apply equal pressure on

them to do so moscow's also stressed once again that some outside players are actually encouraging the rebels to continue fighting by. giving this political financial and moral support on friday we've also heard from one of the leaders of the syrian opposition from inside the country who also said they don't see any implications that moscow's stance on the issue changed in any way. thank you. in the meantime america is deploying its troops close to the syrian border four hundred soldiers are being sent to turkey to operate batteries of patriot missiles to protect ankara from potential syrian attacks but the range of nato as missiles extend deeply into serious territory online we've got more on how the deployment may change the balance of power in the region.

thanks for joining us here on our to today london has managed to keep economic decision making power in the e.u. after the block's leaders agreed the european central bank should become the main supervisor for banks in the euro zone a britain which of course sticks to its own currency had feared moving to a banking union could make it financially powerless steven wolf from the u.k. independence party says the deal will not bring any benefits to his country there is a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that they're no longer going to be at the central table of europe enjoying the late night events in the flash cars and the hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of

being but there are those like me actually part of that believe that being outside of of this particular to could actually influence great great britain's influence will actually rise and we'll be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations. this is our the thousands of people have marched through the spanish capital with the christmas spirit failing to quell and the austerity sentiment this time the show of discontent was directed. ward's education cuts a spanish government remains committed to its strategy of austerity as its desperate to avoid the bailout fate of other european nations like greece portugal and ireland the country is nearly one hundred fifty billion euros in debt. the u.k. government has given the green light to the resumption of the controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking but the methods heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impact including causing massive water pollution and even

earthquakes the story. driller is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the divisive technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place here. minor earthquake says. a local unpaid is doing very little he said i don't know a lot about it well he should know a lot about it you're going. to lie shareholders pockets this is not going to benefit us and it will be a legacy toxic legacy for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capital's outspoken mayor calls shell gas on six of the nation's prize and the

reserves in lancashire a miracle but for residents here in this trying call corner of england it's a blight on their otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being in line people on to where the reserves are all the way down i think at the moment it's all about. how much better off will be but. the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond lancashire. struction using hydraulic fracturing techniques is a high risk activity which has many benefits for foreign investors but very little for the people of britain for dirty energy. pollutes groundwater. is

a short. intelligent solution to energy problems. they're going to get money out of a drug program to. bring corrupt governments would do anything for money i think it's just sort of resource money they can just get the money so this is not really for the country's best interest to do that way brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the budding shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not self-sufficient and gas and haven't been for a very long time we were but in actual fact we import about half of gas now we see that in the us processes are a quarter of what they were i want to attract this suit to output this suit print is much less so there are many reasons why she'll go but if it can be made to work

it would be attractive in terms of curators and also probably in terms of price stability and that's what's drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow of fracking facilities know that the government is playing fire. see lancashire. of course are much more news to catch up on online including lead from via a millionaire now the former c.e.o. of the world's largest nickel producer breaks all records in russia in an unprecedented payout leaving his job. for the what are you dot com footage from the scene of a building collapse in southern russia killed at least five and injured over a dozen. just after ten minutes past the hour moscow time that the u.s. is ready to expand its military presence in asia reportedly drafting a deal to rotate even more troops to the philippines but some experts however have

warned that washington's apparent attempt to grab influence away from china that is a dangerous high stakes game. and there does like to miss around with china and trying to stand up i taking sides in this dispute between china and its neighbors it's really not because it cares one way or the other but the philippines. clinton has told the time to see the west. that's a very strategic part of the walls a lot of shipping through that area and. when there are so many players involved you cannot control them all and if one is going to solve then really it would be very hard to control the situation bring it under control oh it's good to have you with us here on our team today still ahead for you in the program nuclear talks with iran but they could soon be back on track to run and the u.n. atomic agency both praise

a recent visit by inspectors despite the team once again being barred from accessing a suspicious military site. plus the bundestag officially limits the level of love you can show your peds with the new. legislation upsets the country's one hundred thousand open to pursue a file so that and more after. the san bernardino california police force was 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 had one solution offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load and you know what actually that's. not that bad of a proposition america has always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chief's 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 are 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 consume 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. wealthy british science. is not on.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. . which brighten if you need to move from phones to christians. who screen stunts on t.v. don't come. part of five fifteen pm moscow time this is arts he finally there are signs of progress in talks between iran and the un atomic agency of course this after months of standstill

a recent mission to tehran has given rise to expectations that inspectors could be allowed access to iran's nuclear program next year the u.n. team of experts said they were happy with their visit the spot of failure to get access to the parchin military base and that is suspected of previously housing nuclear activities and the us however is stiffening sanctions against tehran and america's ally israel has warned it could strike iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail but a former top iranian diplomat in an interview with r.t. said israel is exploiting the issue in order to justify its own weapons program here's a preview of course to come a bit later here on r.t. even today israel is the are always using the wrong issue. to war justifying the nuclear bomb. iran is existential threat for easily but the fact is. is that israel would produce nuclear bomb before

islamic revolution because of iran where the shah of iran that easily. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iran because it was massed produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so. a former russian policeman has been convicted of involvement in the murder of prominent journalist and political skier and he's been sentenced to eleven years behind bars in a maximum security prison dimitry probably a chunk off confessed to organizing surveillance and acquiring the murder weapon and the pilot guy was murdered in the elevator of her apartment block six years ago professional activity is considered the most likely motive the investigation into

her death continues with five more people implicated in the murder awaiting trial. russia's prominent opposition leader and a corruption fighter alexina bal nee has a new fight on his hands with new accusations of fraud and money laundering together with his brother he's been charged with embezzling more than one point eight million dollars while working for a mail transport business the families deny the allegations are true as tom barton has more. alexina valmy has been charged with fraud and money laundering in a case involving postal services his brother worked in russia's postal service investigators allege that the two of them set up a fake company and then using their contacts they convinced another company to use their firm for postal services which they then massively over charge for an pocketed one point eight million dollars worth of funds laundering some of that money as well investigators say in

a very complex scheme the family for his part says that the charges came out of the blue and has alleged that they were politically motivated and designed to discredit him alexina danny rose to fame through his anti corruption blog he's also helps to organize the opposition protests which over the past year have been held around russia against alleged massive vote rigging and he's made it to the time magazine's one hundred most influential people list he's also facing another other charges of fraud this is the second time in six months that charges have been brought against him in the other case it involves similar allegations involving a timber deal both of those investigations are ongoing into alexina valmy. parties are tom bought reporting there all right or into the r.t. war day we go starting with the british government which will pay over two million

pounds compensation to the family of a prominent libyan dissident he claimed u.k. secret services played a key role in his kidnapping in hong kong and forcible transfer to tripoli where he was tortured by the regime in two thousand and ten the u.k. also paid millions to a number of guantanamo bay inmates to avoid a potentially embarrassing investigation this after they accused london of having a cozy would lation ship with authoritarian. regimes. thousands of bolivian prison inmates in oblivion jail but here's a very themselves neck deep in the ground and use their own blood to write protest signs are unhappy with the low rate of their income and the government put daily payments of less than a dollar on hold earlier this year. and egypt's become split ahead of a constitutional referendum supporters of the president have gathered for a major rallies in the capital cairo or the opposition or campaigning for a no to

a draft written mainly by the islamist group backing the president the referendum follows two weeks of demonstrations by protesters and loyalists leading to clashes in the capital. now germany's getting tough on heavy petting parliament passed a new anti the law banning inter species relationships and part of a subset thousands of germans who were files to say the loves of their lives will be taken away a lot more on this rather beastly story years artie's peter all of. man's best friend and sometimes. i need an animal to be happy life i did not have it there would be something missing . but i can fall in love with your animal in the sexual relationship is not another question. these people make up some of the estimated one hundred zero

files in germany and. it started slowly or more like child some kids playing doctor with each other and it's not really sexual took some small experimentation. technically it has been illegal since the currys animal welfare laws were relaxed in one nine hundred sixty nine that sex with animals was dropped from the start books. it has led to a boom in the practice and the proliferation of websites and even brothels devoted to it after new laws approved this week come into force the practice will again be considered illegal this group claim there will be a witch hunt when it comes into force. the way this law is written means that all you need is a rumor or accusation for the agency to get involved and take your head away it also affects not just those who practice best where for example an animal has

certain issues and all you need is a suggestion that this could have happened for sex and you got into an accusation spiral that reminds you of very dark times in german history. these you affiliate campaigners say that here in the german parliament there legislating against morality however the law makers themselves say that it's only the welfare of the animals that they care about. policy and morality but we're improving animal protection a lot we would like to specify that it's forbidden to call some lives were sexual relationship with the line is when you call the suffering to an animal for your personal second great if. leyden denmark sweden and belgium currently the only e.u. states with filial law that leaves the prospect that these countries could become a destination for a zoo a fellow tourism animal rights activists hope the move by the bomb the stark will

become a europe wide band. yes we would support the european wide ban on b.c. ality where stand behind other nations and we need to catch up. just outside of berlin as one of the largest animal shelters in europe consent is a major issue while those involved an animal welfare say must be addressed as dogs are loyal even when they're abused they're still going to look as if they're. head beat especially when it gets enough to eat dogs will be happy whatever you dictate but there is not a sign that the dog is enjoying it those in relationships with our littles though are confident that their love is legitimate in fear for the future you want to find a fantasize about castrating you're taking my animals away our friend has found a razor blade in this post with a note do it yourself so we don't have to work where is don't arrive too often but the arrive every now and then in the subway someone was yelling at me calling me

names i'm concerned that attacks could become physical but often after stars these are all over our t.v. jerry. for a couple of minutes here in our laura lister in washington d.c. a capital account that's after just a short break. this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stead setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of disc ins he is pleased to be back

amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. the youth and it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle through the schools i'm through with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of

a burden more attractive they're promising. to do so and lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the hood a get so high a fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable last day in the republic's capital. but he didn't do wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for thursday december thirteenth get out the twelve municipal bonds traditionally seen as a safe investment were the basis of marin's whitney's crisis warnings in two

thousand and ten now she predicted hundreds of billions of dollars in default over the next twelve months which never really came to be but since then we have seen some high profile city bankruptcy is particularly in my home state of california so is there a dark underbelly lurking in muni layout and how might the fiscal cliff impact this three point seven trillion dollar market we'll ask the author of the warders dot com muni land column long and you may wonder how the fiscal cliff impacts news well it's a potential change to the tax exempt status i mean a simple bond interest yeah they're federal tax exempt more you may not know about municipal bonds and our word of the day plus apple concedes defeat what is the world coming to you after what wired. apple's map op map pocket or its disaster of a map app on the i phone five google mountain is back we'll discuss in loose change let's get to today's capital account.

all right let's back up a little bit in late two thousand and ten it was prominent banking analyst meredith whitney is a big call there's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal bond evolves how many is a spate you could see fifty sizeable defaults fifty to one hundred sizeable default more this woman out to hundreds of billions of dollars worth of defaults it will be something to worry about within the next twelve months i don't know it failed to play out as she seemed to indicate it would over the following year in turn pretty much ever since we have seen a spate of headlines similar to this murder of whitney unocal was one hundred percent wrong according to a bond pro there however.