moscow police detained a ballet dancer suspected of orchestrating an acid attack on the artistic director of the bolshoi theatre. two hundred percent. annual salaries to diddle for britain it seems which rejects e.u. plans to executive pay. from the battlefield to the ballot box the taliban could launch a political debate in afghanistan this despite thousands of lives and billions of dollars sacrificed to remove them from power. and china's reins of power past a new leaders who are set to defend beijing's military might amid a longstanding battle to influence with the us our top stories. around the world on screen online international news and comment live from the new

center here in moscow this is. police in moscow detained a renowned. acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet set a good fit in. is the latest suspected detained in the case that has put the spotlight on infighting of one of the world's biggest and best known theatres. has been following the developments. investigators have that were handed to pavel dmitrichenko the bolshoi soloist dancer whom they suspect of being the mastermind behind the attack earlier on tuesday they have also arrested two other men are not connected with the bolshoi theater whom they suspect of actually carrying out the attack and now the attack on sergei filin has happened on january seventeenth happened at night friday outside of his host when he was coming home from work he described as having stepped out of his car and then i was approached by an assailant a masked assailant who splashed still for an acid into space to verily burning of

course his face and his eyes but he had to go to undergo more than ten surgeries we were told today in order to save his eyesight but it does seem like he is on his way to recovery right now in a clinic in germany now he is the artistic director of the bolshoi theatre ballet troupe that means that he literally has the chance to make or break a career of the dempster and the investigators from the very beginning have been saying that they believe the attack has been connected with sergei filin separate question though to tease there's a lot of competitiveness inside the ballet troupe there has been talk about bribes about threats being made by some of the dancers significant others or husbands towards the artistic directors of the bolshoi theatre there has been instances of dresses being cut or even glass being stuffed stuffed into the dancing shoes of the ballet dancers and of course this is the latest development is just the latest in the string of events which have been happening in the bush over the past couple of

years there was one incident with a man who always are expected to become the director of the bolshoi theatre who was well on his way in opposing the poaching that feeds when pornographic pictures of him have surfaced on the internet is sensually ending his career still for all the beauty that we have on the outside there's actually quite a bit of rather unsightly goings on inside the bolshoi theatre. and we'll get more on that developing story and post it on to you soon as you can hear in our team a bankers' bonuses can never be too big that's the view of the u.k. authorities have opposed the plans for britain's finance ministers given the resolute note of the blocks planned to prevent bankers from receiving bonuses bigger than the. reports from london mel on the reaction this is a measure that's likely to be quite popular with a lot of the general public because a lot of very hard working people that find it very hard just to get by on their

every day wages if we compare the figures in two thousand and two the overall bonuses paid out to bank is in the u.k. were around seven billion pounds whereas most recently that figure has gone up to seeing billion pounds and that's something that quite a great swathe of the general public for a very hard to stomach at a time when wages are forming and the price of the centuries are going after all the time because of inflation so while george osborne says that this is a way to really save the financial services industry and it would be crippling for britain to have this cap imposed a lot of critics would say that this is the chancellor just trying to protect the bankers that would ultimately then vote for the conservative party at the next general election what many people here in the u.k. are also saying is that. point for the e.u. and britain that this could be an issue that could really force the britain to

think about other potential ways of isolating themselves father and perhaps even a british exit from the european union. and british conservative m.p. brooks newmark told me earlier that the prospect of bankers leaving london is much worse than public outrage at their excessive pay packets. we're well aware of the toxicity of this issue and we're well aware of the insensitivity of many bankers some of the big banks in terms of the way they have rewarded themselves given these times about stereotypes but there is a practical problem which is that the people who are in banks and banks themselves are very mobile so they can go anywhere in the world they don't need to be in london or paris or frankfurt or even zurich for that matter they can go anywhere and do their business because most business is done online or on a telephone or can be done abroad city of london is

a hugely important center for us in terms of our expertise it contributes a huge amount to the extract and if we damage that by trying to penalize those who actually you know do do a good job within their banking institutions we're going to drive that business away i do not want to see the business driven away and a lot of this decision making is being done by those countries that do not have as large a financial center as we've got. deep delve into the finances of the e.u. and elsewhere across the world that's in the latest edition of artie's cause report is a preview of the program coming up later this hour. why are stock brokers on drugs why did stockbrokers start so much cocaine why do the brokers and bankers at j.p. morgan and government saxon barclays royal bank of scotland why are they sniff their weight and coke every morning just to get started to begin their day rampaging

through the markets stealing people's wealth because they are being treated like rats by the pharmaceutical companies to get them into a state of perpetual larceny and it's working. because a report coming our way later this hour with the afghan presidential election approaching next year the taliban says it's seriously considering entering politics former official in the militia said the group could launch a political party but that doesn't necessarily mean and to the insurgency of course one of the original goals of the u.s. led war in afghanistan was to remove the taliban from power so let's have a look at what this has cost both countries well since the launch of the military operation back in two thousand and one more than two thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed total coalition losses have topped three thousand lives and the number of americans injured in the line of duty exceeds seventeen thousand

and the death toll among afghan civilians is staggering more than thirty thousand lives lost in the war and from the human factor to the financial burden as far as america is concerned the price tag of the decade long effort is a massive seven hundred billion dollars now if the taliban return to power all these sacrifices could turn out to be in vain and the taliban victory could easily become reality that's according to former afghan m.p. daoud sultanzoy. this government has so much so many problems that western world have lost their credibility and this government has no credibility so in that sort of a situation that taliban had they've been smart they would have scored big in the political front think the taliban can take advantage of this void in fill that vacuum it is up to the taliban to show their real face not the face that is pushed by the british intelligence or the pakistani intelligence the west is is confused the west

is looking for an exit a very speedy exit and there i'm afraid that they will probably do whatever is possible whatever is convenient to put up a very very tedious. and very temporary fix and leave and then things will go back to where airhead started that's the problem in the region has to realize that we have to find sustainable fixes for this problem not a temporary face saving thing for the nato to leave and then leave a big problem for afghanistan for the neighborhood. and we're always interested in your views on the stories we covered today we're asking you to vote on our website whether you believe the afghan taliban can transform itself from an armed insurgency to a credible political force had to r.t. dot com and take part in our on line poll.

north korea is threatening to end the decades long cease fire with its southern neighbor if it goes ahead with its joint military drills with the u.s. also cited the u.s. led attempts to slap it with sanctions as being behind the decision it comes as washington is going up more punishment for north korea described as some of the toughest ever imposed by the u.n. an expert on east asia ford says that while china supports the u.s. proposed sanctions it would still prefer to have north korea as its ally in the region the chinese. government is genuinely annoyed with north korea.

with this particularly with the third nuclear test because it's a giving excuse to the united states and japan to deploy theater missile defense which notably threatens north korea of a threat and china and at the same time due to the new much more nationalistic incoming government in japan and an excuse for removing article nine from the constitutions were referendum and i actually remember trying to agree japan where clearly those troops are got to go army and navy and air force and not just for north korea but also are there available with the you know the boundary disputes we have been in the region trying now whatever it thinks of north korea actually prefers north korea rather than the americans are only up on the yellow river. it may be one of the world's most reclusive states but it seems the power of the web is slowly lifting the veil of secrecy on those career instagram and twitter and now in the country and there are even claims that pirate bay was preparing to drop

anchor there well earlier or to correspond. to my colleague lucy coming on. started with a tweet by the bureau chief of the associated press in korea ms jane leavy who on february twenty fifth tweeted that this is my first tweet using career links new mobile internet service hello world from center in pyongyang this tweet has gone to like millions of retreats but definite did open the floodgates in some way that after that we've seen instagram pictures facebook tags check ins all coming from one of the world's most closed countries and definitely this is a breakthrough and nothing we have experienced before well certainly exciting stuff but i mean this is actually translate to the locals the people on the ground are they running around posting instagram photos and tweets well the korea link is the only internet provider in korea you know a phrase like that would have been unthinkable three years ago or it launched this service the mobile internet service but now for now it's only available to visiting

guests it's not available to the local population but they can already send text messages to each other and even make a video calls to each other which is already a breakthrough for a country where having curtains and windows is outlawed because then it would mean you have something to hide so which is not something i heard about before and i'm curious is this something to you personally would have ever imagined seeing in north korea i mean you've been to the country what's it been like when you visited well i saw the curtains part i saw them all windows were open when i was there some seven years ago that the change in about them in a way when i came there i was shocked because my cell phone was confiscated at passport control and the only one time i could use internet i could go online was from a russian embassy because they had a contract with a chinese satellite provider and i was the only way i could actually go online to do to post something to post and pictures from inside the north korean country so definitely the situation has changed now compared to what it was like seven years ago when i was there and i'm curious of course it's hard for us just speculate as

to why these changes are happening since it's a fairly closed country but do you believe that this has ended it with a change in leadership by younger. the energetic man who is perhaps more aware of things like three g. for example absolutely when kim jong il the late korean leader said that the country needs to embrace the new high tech technology the new high tech era probably his son who is now in charge of the country took these words very seriously recently saw a visit of one of the google stop executives to the country something unthinkable you know which is crazy if you think about it three four years ago then we saw visit over from boy in the n.b.a. player former n.b.a. player dennis rodman rodman who actually said that kim jong un his friend for life so all this shows that that north korea wants to open up the world the question is certainly to what extent the country will open itself up of course and i'm really curious how you say this whole hired based story what exactly is going on there was about well first we heard a statement published on wired based website that i quote today we can reveal that

we have been invited by the leader of the republic of korea to fight our battles from the network it is ironic in many ways because pirate bay as we know has always been prosecuted globally and north korea is also in a very difficult situation let's put it this way. they even changed their logo for a short period of time the typical pirate ship was replaced with a ship having north korean flags on it later we contacted people from the pirate bay who said this was a joke which was aimed at directing attention to their problems that they are being prosecuted but certainly as we know all jokes have some truth behind them. more international news still ahead this short break stay with us if you can. the british.

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has set its sights on joining the euro zone in twenty fourteen that's despite the currency bloc shaky outlook with a sturdy gaping holes in the country's budgets the decision also clashes with public opinion in latvia where. are against your own membership well we spoke to one member of the european parliament who believes the timing couldn't be with us. led if you want to be a member of nato or of the e.u. of the eurozone so want to be a member of a bigger bloc now we need to i can imagine the e.u. i can imagine the eurozone at the moment is not the right club to join in because lead of you came out of the crisis in two thousand and ten and the economic recovery started shortly after actually led to be doing quite well so one could wonder why does latvia want to enter the eurozone if have an economic crisis would

come back to latvia lead of the year in the euro zone cannot leave value and will have to stay in it like agrees is doing now and greece's go towards a lot of suffering and that is the economic downside to perhaps the political advantage to have member of a bigger club the remains of the german capital's notorious landmark the berlin wall could soon make way for a fourteen story luxury apartment block and it seems the trend for reshaping berlin is gaining momentum with more new buildings emerging as fast as the real estate prices keep growing or these people one of the reports on how this is affecting the lives of the city's lifelong residents who are both sexy but so. lovingly described his city. now some berliners feel this way of life is coming under threat it isn't here if you keep your increase we've seen big changes over

the past ten years more and more apartment buildings have been built in areas where people traditionally used to rent what we're seeing is people being forced from their homes. real estate prices in berlin have shot up by thirty two percent since two thousand and seven well ahead of the german average this is resulted in some tenants being a victim as their rented flat says sold from underneath them prompting anger and demonstrations from those who see the city's identity being sold to the highest bidder isn't. our problem here is that berlin is turning into a city split between the haves and have nots rising prices of forced people who have lived here for years to move out and those who have come don't mix. this year has seen an increase in the amount of protests against the gentrification of lin as well as growing resentment towards other germans on foreigners moving into the city

for the most part the public image of this still poor but sexy however times are changing the new a merger in face of perlin is certainly stylish however it's also becoming increasingly an affordable due to the demand from people wanting to live and they desirable location economically viable and politically secure the lynas becoming the place of choice for southern europeans to invest in during turbulent times in their own countries. can't turn sells and rents property to italians. in a town. one of the main reasons our customers are buying here is that there is no trust in their telling economy or the banks people see an apartment in berlin as a good way to preserve the value of their savings. was about the claims that the real estate boom is stealing the in sold the get this is progress berlin is

developing sure it presents some challenges but this is just the same as when the wall came down and people moved into our areas if anything this creates the multiculturalism. it makes for a win when it is. new housing developments are being built all around the city to try and accommodate demand however with rental prices having risen by ninety percent in the last decade it does seem that the writing is on the wall for the dream of an affordable life in the german capital peter all of a r.t. . on life at the moment the elite military wing of hamas is shared some of its secrets with our society. and article from you'll find the exclusive inside scoop on how the group conducts its operations and on who gains access to the hamas in a circle. a group of men dressed as the evil darth vader and his storm troopers as raid to the shop in ukraine apparently for a good cause at r.t. dot com we tell you what sparked the wrath of the dark side.

the israeli prime minister has made it clear he's not backing down from the idea of a potential attack on iran and even netanyahu told a gathering of america's powerful pro israeli lobby that negotiations are a waste of time and only the threat of direct military action will crush iran's nuclear ambitions but what his message was applauded at the apec conference in washington it doesn't receive such a warm reaction back at home as are to reports. the israeli prime minister is at it again addressing his favorite topic words alone will not stop iran sanctions alone will not stop iran sanctions must be cobbled with a clear and credible military threat if diplomacy and sanctions fail strong statements from a leader emboldened by new grip on power this one yahoo born to the american israel

public affairs committee iran is using international negotiations to buy time so it can press a hit with its nuclear program a message he's warm to in the past how do you stop. well you have to put greater pressure on you have to upgrade the sanctions and they have to know that if the sanctions and diplomacy fails they will face a credible military threat that's essential nothing else will do the job and it's getting closer so much for the sigh of relief many breathed following last month's parliamentary elections the surprising win by saying ten pro peace political parties prompted many to believe netanyahu would back down from his threats to strike iran ask those on the street who voted against netanyahu they feel the message was clear take your finger off the trigger or three to attack iran give economic sanctions and diplomacy a chance but analysts on so sure netanyahu has any intention of toning down the

rhetoric netanyahu is a man which is very much concerned about his position in history and he understands that now his third by ministership i'm afraid that one off the reasons that he would like to foster taking against iran is to place himself at the history of the israeli people and it's making the israeli public nervous daniel be an obvious company sells a system that provides ventilation in bomb shelters in times of chemical or biological attacks he says each time it on yahoo mentions the run the number of queries goes up. some people prefer not to think of the threat but it's there and they know it so we have clients just calling to find out about the system but who have difficulty deciding to buy one and then we have some people who are more alert these are the people who assume there is some tension in the media will call and

order the system you know a lot of worry is good for business and that's really help problem either and we were so many money go. on that matter one is an israeli graphic designer who accidentally created an online movement after posting a facebook message declaring that israel would never bomb iran are the israelis quickly created the own posters with the same message and he waved responded in kind but they're up against on yahoo and he's more powerful message i think a big part of it these people are voting out of fear out of you know being afraid of a walker who is the one you know fighting the war. speculation about a possible israeli strike on iran is also keeping foreign investors away many a weary that while war might mean big business for some it spells disaster for others policy r t tel aviv. time for a brief world update now but as well as vice president has said that hugo chavez is

going through the most difficult time so far in his battle against cancer because mature is addressed to the media was apparently aimed at reassuring venezuelans that their leader is still alive contrary to growing rumors they also claim chavez's illness was the result of a conspiracy on part of his domestic and foreign enemies in addition with the announced the expulsion of a us embassy attack for allegedly plotting to destabilize the country. a man has been killed and another wounded during a wave of clashes with police across indian controlled kashmir the rallies were sparked by a separatist group and get the death of a local research scholar found hanged in southern india at the beginning of the month the region has remained turned since mohammad grew across many separatist was executed in february for his involvement in a two thousand and one attack on india's parliament. to brings out a date for the mojave but with a news team with morphy in just over half an hour from now but just a couple of minutes mexico is there and stacy herbert with the latest edition of

the kaiser reports they with us from out if you can. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes when we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of someplace on earth like course to lobola or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he was reading it off of a teleprompter right now i am reading off

a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them so they even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches if you're deeply versed on some subject then you should need to read word for word from a teleprompter to give a speech just try writing some notes and speaking with your brain and maybe your heart like in the good old days but that's just my opinion. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance the. program says documentary some spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too negative angles stories. for you here. the spanish find out more visit i. tivo it's called.