glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought. was a big issue. tonight is the season to go bending is britain sales spree begins we look at exactly who is pocketing the profit. careless kalib it warns of the country's making a dangerous move by following washington taking the radian militant group off the television. and damascus blames terrorists for killing twenty including children in the north while the rebels accuse the regime but there seems to be no clear picture of the mutual finger pointing.

there of a grieving too if you just joined us here at the new center tonight our top story britain's bargain hunters are out in force with shops reporting record boxing day takings both in store and online and other shoppers are keeping the u.k. stills ringing then you might be surprised to know whose pockets a big line polly boyd. has been finding out. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people no nevermind everything's ok now you

know the ways and the things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain wants to talk about the march of the makers can have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boot the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an

australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. selling off. some people and also closing down some of their home manufacturing and it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great use for investors although is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control

particularly over in the g. companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and not made in london there maybe in paris and or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of the chemist which is a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years i moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases in income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often

difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell polly artsy london. so rarely as warning color the it's made a dangerous move for taking a notorious aronian militant group off its terror list khaled is following a similar move by the u.s. in accepting that the enrique has renounced violence and wants peaceful regime change in iran refresh the looks of the organizations recording is from some iranians who are wary of legitimizing it mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard big ambition like this is how we killed time and the pain from the

torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talking about the admission valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members among prisoners but mohamed refused them they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after these lawmakers evolution with the association of the

country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one nine hundred ninety seven and make a joint america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaeda and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic on this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get and make a off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian

officials second that saying and became a place similar role that america back the position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main supporters of beasts to reduce groups or restore confidence because they use from that through to through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada. this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those questionable ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and make a was involved in the assassination of

a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after interrogate him an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as been jock is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort how to fight terror on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are. tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to move. from iran syria leaders claimed terrorist groups a band the deadly shelling in northern syria earlier opposition activists said the

attack that killed twenty with at least eight to be children was carried out by government forces it happened in a province that seen fighting escalate in recent months has come live to our middle east correspondent paula joining us now. what more do we know about this latest violence there. well damascus has announced that it is terrorist groups who are behind this deadly massacre in the northern province of raka what we do know is that at least twenty people have been killed eight of them are children now they were early reports by activist groups that it was in fact government forces who were behind this deadly shelling but that sense has been refuted one of the main groups to come to the fore is a u.k. based activist group known as the syrian observateur for human rights the pictures are currently witnessing are pictures that they are distributing on you tube they cannot be verified of the point has been made by the russian foreign ministry that this was

a group that relies on some two people and so these kind of reports need to be taken with a pinch of salt and indeed we've seen that today with the early reports that it was government forces that caused this massacre now being refuted at the same time the pictures show that there are blood stained bodies on blankets certainly there has been a lot of killing that has happened in syria and this is not the first time that we've received this kind of misinformation we constantly hear reports coming out of syria with each side accusing the other of perpetrating calamities indeed what we've witnessing happening in syria is a new view of what is a misinformation. picoult to verify your point of also recent reports of the chemical weapons being used against the fighters. well we've been hearing now for several days the rebel fighters in syria claiming that assad's forces are using chemical weapons on them what they saying is that the

injuries that civilians are coming forward with are injuries that do point to some kind of exposure to a poisonous gas that they're consistent with those kind of injuries the fact is though that they need to be a lot of question marks around this now we all know that israel is no friend of syria but we are hearing from the israeli vice prime minister who was casting doubt over these claims by the global fighters moshe ya'alon the israeli vice prime minister sort of this is not the first time that there has been such claims made by little fighters and he has made the point that the opposition in syria has a vested interest in making such claims as a way of getting foreign military intervention he also says that there is no proof for any kind of confirmation that indeed assad's forces are using chemical weapons now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has also made the point that he is satisfied that the chemical weaponry within syria is been contained we have been

receiving reports that it has moved to two locations what we witnessing again here is the continuation of this misinformation war the fighting in syria continues to intensify we're likely to continue to fear such kind of reports in the coming days and certainly we will do our best to try and verify the sources lutheran for paula thanks for the update to a policy of the middle east correspondent. this growing global concern over israel's planned settlement expansion it's approved twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem raising fears now that that two state solution could be lost forever if it goes ahead we got more insight into that later on those well we're recalling more major events from twenty twelve as we take a close look at the u.s. presidential race this time and the candidates sidelined by the main news outlets cover the story they're.

under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest probably the loneliest road in the world reenacting march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia yet it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reactors now receive interest from all over the world to show

them what it was like what the story is going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future we want is a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety last in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. my

. love again is a warning to israel that settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem brings the total number of housing units planned in the last few weeks to five and a half thousand these are illegal under international law but around half a million people already live in israeli settlements peace campaign a wrong pundit told me their fate and the expansion of homes have become political bargaining chips. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected

to elections and not realities and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided about two hundred thousand with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side and the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred would stay inside is well why would we agree delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are leaving. green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered schoener in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace we'll be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go and be accepted

and we. were compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got over sixty percent backing a controversial referendum of the turnout was low it clears the way then for a parliamentary election in a country that remains deeply polarized with opponents insisting both a poll on the charter a deeply flawed and a threat to freedom. angry protesters blocked traffic in cairo after fun result was announced the new charter empowers the traditional parliament's upper chamber it's legislative powers until the lower house is elected within the next two months the opposition is worried that the muslim dominated body which held its first session wednesday will deal of blow to rights of women and minorities. the institute of arab and islamic studies told me the constitutional referendum. boy.

this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot resolve the egyptian pollen count and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democratic elections and it brought the parties to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises about getting better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent of the vote is declining going down mainly because they are not permanent opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while not delivered

so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. and we've. spoke to the cia on our website with. the head of this committee was so worried by what they saw they want to consider it a drama not a documentary about what really brought out online if you're interested also be sustained thanks to bacteria from siberia. in the back story to. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for

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rushes up as parliament approved the ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft law as a response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations dr instructions got unanimous backing in the chamber in iowa needs presidential approval to become the

way you act is named after the mayor of live a two year old russian boy died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car on a hot day lawmakers say it targets america's lax treatment towards those who lead russian children suffer but critics claim the move deprives thousands of orphans of the chance to find a loving family. the world news in brief now this hour has been an explosion of fireworks factory in nigeria's largest city the resulting blaze destroyed neighboring buildings in lagos with the initial blast shaking the windows of several homes several kilometers away but no media reports of fatalities though at least thirty people have been treated for their injuries. thousands of iraqis have rallied against the shiite led government demanding more protection of rights for sunnis protestors accuse leaders of trying to marginalize them and the drawing the country into sectarian conflict it's the third major protest and most of the week since the arrest of ten bodyguards and

a senior sunni official the community launched an insurgency in iraq after the two thousand and three led u.s. invasion brought the shia majority to power. a suicide attacker tried to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan's killed at least three people left seven more injured guards opened fire on a minibus packed with bombs the vehicle exploding before reaching the entrance to the camp chapman compound taliban says it was targeting local police working for the americans there forty one people including six u.s. troops died in attacks this year in the volatile city near the pakistan border. iran is preparing to conduct a week of naval drills in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf war ships submarines and missile defense system you can all be tested he says it's peaceful demonstrations around the sensor capabilities promising it won't violate international law and will respect the maritime borders and neighboring countries. with the new year nearly here are taking stock of the events

which shaped twenty twelve today we look at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have multi billion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we have been running the election including series more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show it's so outrageous that truck so given voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is to the debate

a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our are awash in systems in which a multiple party to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow range people often ask why does it have to force ways what you know of the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion ideas that don't fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney to debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.d.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that

we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election oh that would be the pie in the sky is that the guy would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an on going to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic monitors adults are prepared to write i think you want them to thank you but i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. you have got

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