the investigation into the murder of former russian security officer and. the classified treatments with evidence linking. to. europe. without britain. accusing. the georgian capital tbilisi attacking the activists who needed help the area. un faces obstacles from. rebel forces there despite evidence of atrocities

committed by the. screen international. in moscow the russian government's alleged involvement in the death of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko will not be considered the ongoing inquest on the case in london that decision announced by the coroner comes despite britain's long running attempts to link with the. poisoned by radioactive polonium in london back in two thousand and six. reports. we know that the inquest has already been massively delayed from both sides on. being very slow to provide evidence from the russian side for the british side but what's happened

now is that there's been a real spanner been thrown in the works because william hague the british foreign minister very recently applied to keep any evidence related to the involvement the alleged involvement of the russian government and any involvement of the british authorities or how they may have prevented alexander litvinenko his death well he's applied to keep all that information secret and the coroner has had to reluctantly graunt that request he's proposing a secret public inquiry which would allow for the inquiry to go ahead but behind closed doors now quite a few people have very surprised at this turn of events because the british government has been requesting the extradition of a russian deputy put under a lugovoy for the margin of alexander litvinenko for quite some time now but no evidence has ever really been provided as to how he was implicit in what took place

and it looks like now that it's being kept secret that evidence isn't likely to be heard very soon either and that's really blighted relations between russia and the u.k. lugovoy russian deputy he actually passed a lie detector test last year which said that he was innocent he's repeatedly said from russia that he's happy to give evidence and to take part in the inquiry well earlier i spoke to dormant dell he's an independent expert on russia who believes that with this evidence the whole case will collapse. this is you know the catch twenty two at the heart of this whole case and the judge involved any. minute if we cannot have any evidence regarding the involvement or lack there of the russian state wishes with this reporter with his poise and with this accident we still have those fault actually on that basically if we take one set of facts

regarding russians that you can investigate those where when you cannot get a fair verdict and i believe the every that's already in the case already is evidence. being worried so it will be a farce it could be that the british authorities have not an entire story tonight another thing with regards to what they know about the man go and the circumstances of his death and you know once you know. to basically contradict themselves in public that there are words so there's many different games being played here probably by many different people and deducing what the ultimate reasoning is behind that it's virtually impossible to say with any degree of certainty because you know all the facts that we need to put that picture together and to say definitively what happened why are being made unavailable to us are being tracked from this inquiry and from generally. talking

a little earlier one spy scandal too many for russia which says the cia has crossed the line with the antics of the latest u.s. agent was courted moscow this is r.t. obtains a phone recording involving another american operative intercepted earlier this year. more on that story a little later but first the european union can survive without britain according to the french president who gave a marathon three hour news conference yesterday from seoul and went as far as accusing the british of being a threat to the very existence of the e.u. on these tests cilia has this report. there's been a lot of your skepticism growing in the u.k. and david cameron had said that he wants to put the membership of the e.u. to a vote in twenty seventeen and when a lot was asked this question a lot simply said europe existed before britain joined it. was very noticeable how long has he really been trying to go on the offensive he was

acting showing himself to be a strong leader at this point because he is facing a very large and growing euro skepticism in this own country if you just look at the latest figures there is a pew research showing that even if most french people still want to remain as part of the eurozone seventy seven percent of french people think that this closer economic ties with the entire union has been detrimental to their own economies so alarmed there seems he has been talking to the french people betters his audience for this speech trying to show how france can still go on even if the u.k. does leave the you that if that is the final decision now a lot also said it criticized the u.k. for being such a euro skeptic essentially saying that this kind of walking the ball attitude of the u.k. is threatening to splinter the e.u. is what we can see here is pointing out the fact that the u.k. really has been one of the most critical voices in the union so far and also a lot. of david cameron an interesting a lot himself is facing no growth in his own country so he said that david

cameron's policies is hindering growth in the u.k. while france right now is officially in recession now again it's interesting to point out that when a lot of this trying to rebut in answers these questions he's speaking to the french people hoping the massive this satisfaction that he's facing for the french people will eventually turn on his leadership here is under question he's facing massive unemployment he's a very unpopular man at this moment so in trying to prove that he is still a french leader years going on the fence if it's unlikely that we're going to hear him say that france is not going to survive without the u k. and denis macshane a former british minister for europe i spoke to many he says the infighting between the countries is putting pressure on the european union was every day you could have papers in britain here or go and listen to debates in the house of commons where people are lecturing the freight shouldn't everybody else in europe what to do sadly europe the european union at the moment is it

a kind of giant blame game figure for you that you because you it's taught me i'm a good boy i'm going to get better the british claim that the french blame the germans the germans played inspired they should try to be i think play grow out so got more adults in these days certainly top leadership of europe we're moving after the catastrophe of the banking crisis where the bikes were robbed by all these people who destroyed the economy of two thousand and eight was still living with the disasters of their incompetence we now i think want to have more banking supervision what's called a baggy union i think britain should be part of that it is time for us to settle this question about britain and europe. david cameron's under increasing pressure to guarantee a vote on the taste a future in the new level of britain's european partners fearful that such a divorce could be a strong thing. gay rights activists had to run for their lives in the georgian

capital tbilisi as their street parade descended into chaos a credible talks christians stormed the event attacking the revelers that i talked to tom barton he's been keeping track of the situation. the trouble started when a gay pride march in the georgian capital was itself marched on by thousands of very angry christians people opposed to gay rights they were in a very angry mood indeed chanting slogans like we don't need sodom and gomorra brandishing nettles that they said they would use to thrash any gay rights activist that they caught their central message really these gay a gay pride march is very much against their orthodox christian ethos the police went in to try and basically extract the gay rights activists for their own safety get them on to buses and get them out however despite their efforts there were some incidents of fights of injuries some head injuries and others and of rocks being

thrown at least one of the authorities vehicles as far as the authorities were concerned they allowed this gay rights protests to go on because they said no matter what your sexuality all groups within society deserve a public voice but i think it does illustrate something of the conflict in jordan society between more liberal elements of the government of society and also more conservative more religious elements that don't want this kind of thing to go ahead last year there was a similar kind of gay rights march and it ended. the cash strapped european union is mounting a crusade against the continent's banking hubs brussels declares open season on account for busy and tax evaders alike but even those outside the union pressured to change their rules will have more on this later this hour. first moscow's efforts to launch direct negotiations between the conflicting sides

in syria is now receiving support from the united nations secretary general ban ki moon is the latest in a string of high profile figures to visit russia to discuss the syrian civil war and has given the green light to russia's talks initiative even to pick an obvious following the diplomacy in the black sea resort of sochi. well after meeting with russia's leadership the un secretary-general ban ki moon agreed that the conflict in syria could only be resolved in accordance with international law without any foreign military intervention and with the full respect of syria's territorial integrity he also agreed to the idea of putting together this joint conference which would include both the syrian rebels and the authorities now they were also able to establish the list of current stumbling blocks concerning this idea and well first of all currently the opposition is still quite divided it's unclear who would be able to represent it as a whole at such a conference secondly moscow wants to see all the regional players taking part in

such a conference including iran which may cause problems with washington and also if the syrian authorities are ready to take part in such a conference right now then the rebels are making are voicing preconditions which include president assad having to step down but in general ban ki moon's visit continues this diplomatic marathon which will have been witnessing for the past few weeks a lot of officials have been coming to russia discussing syria including u.s. secretary of state the prime ministers of great britain and israel and in general it seems the approach of many nations two ways of resolving the conflict in the country is changing now however there are still many problems including the one with the washington since when john kerry was in moscow it seemed that they were completely on the scene page with russia's leadership but as soon as he left he started calling again for president assad to step down and promised more support of the rebels and that was back just recently by president barack obama himself what's

widely being ignored is the fact that many of these rebels admit that they are receiving directions from international terror organizations including al qaeda there are tons of videos in the web showing horrific acts conducted by rebels including. public executions of captured syrian soldiers there's this just troubling in video of a rebel cutting the horde out of a dead syrian soldiers chest and eating it on camera calling on everybody else to do the same and promising to continue doing so in the future and also there is the statistic from various international activist groups which basically shows that every time the rebels receive a weapons from abroad the violence just spikes. coin an online currency set up to get around the banks comes under siege by the u.s.

government sending ripples through the internet community that uses the fledgling monetary system and raising fears that it will be snuffed out before really gets going that's often a short break. is it turning into an overblown scandal or a reflection of a foreign policy poorly thought out and executed the terrorist attack on the american diplomatic outpost in benghazi last september has become a political football. ministration and hillary clinton mistakes were made but is there a proper focus on the most egregious ones you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. hard welcome to the big picture.

mission free couldn't take three months for charges free. range month three. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media. news continues here in the cia is going to fall within spying operations that's the message from russia's federal security service commenting on the recent scandal involving an american agent uncovered in moscow this week. the implications of all of this. i visited the f.s.b. had called in moscow the f.s.b. officials told me that they knew from day one since ryan fogle came to moscow that he was working for the cia that's why they had

a very close eye on him and the most important formation here clearly is that this is not the first case over the past three years in fact in fact since two thousand and eleven there have been four cases like that but one story which the f.s.b. officials wanted to join particular attention on is the story of also a third secretary of the u.s. embassy benjamin dillon who just like ryan fogle tried to recruit and then plea of the national anti-terrorist committee offering him a money and for him to meet and in private to discuss the details that's when the f.s.b. officials actually managed to apprehend him i have acquired a recording of the phone conversation between benjamin dillon and that man it's a group you have a. minister money misses and those that. are never really. we're not sure you have to tell me no long philistia school but also

not something that's got daughter but instead of your new year's and yesterday and were never actually more new used to be mysterious and so. for specific approach to two years to give you well the f.s.b. officials also pointed out the tactics which both dylan used to have a striking resemblance they both made phone calls they offered money maybe there's one exception that presumably dylan didn't have a wig on him like fogle did but clearly the tactics were the same and the consequences will probably be the same as well because we know that ryan fogle is now in for a different station from the russian federation and the same thing happened to deal and he was deported in january twenty third scene without making it public and it was done quietly back then of course there are some routine intelligence work and some professional athletes but the cia according to. the f.s.b. officials went too far with the fogel case the reason why the benjamin dillon story was not made public in january was because the f.s.b. try to keep it under the carpet they made

a warning to the cia colleagues that such things could not happen especially given the fact that f.s.b. and the cia have a very strong partnership in fighting terrorism together i talked to one of the high ranking officials in the f.s.b. and here is how he explained the current state of affairs we were particularly outraged at the actions of the american spy dylan benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counter-terror committee to hand over classified documents of this department to the cia like mr fogle he was also deported from russia we hope the cia would learn their lesson and something like that would never happen again so we discuss about dylan to the public but apparently they didn't learn that lesson in fogel's case the cia crossed a red line so we had to react according to official instructions. while they have been no common so far not from the us embassy in moscow not from the washington officials but the f.s.b. told me that they will let us know if anything any comments coming from washington

come on that matter. thanking privacy could soon be a thing of the past in europe that is if regulators have their way you're a kratz have been pushing hard for access to all account data on the continent and even switzerland a nonmember nation has found itself on the pressure. reports the prospects for the banking hub. so what do we know about switzerland then while the mountainous country sells tasty chocolate is home to some of the finest watches and it's a great place to ski but when it comes its banking sector well that's when it also is getting a little bit secretive avenue the one hundred years this secrecy attracted some of the world's mega rich to the country to qualify for the flat rate tax deal on offer the rich are not sure how to work in the country but must have a net wealth of at least two million dollars this ystem has attracted more than five thousand affluent x. patches to this nation of only eight million people including.

twain while they were foreigners collectively gave seven hundred million dollars in federal local taxes maybe it is that could be going into their home treasuries this cozy arrangement may soon be a thing of the passes the e.u. can't stand no such juicy tax incentives the e.u. is also piling pressure on members luxembourg and austria as well as san marino andorra and monaco which are actually not members of the union now luxembourg recently changed its chain just last month that actually agreeing to lift bank secrecy rules for european union citizens who have savings that. so what all these tax haven countries actually expected to do that well quite simply expose the e.u. want to be able to check out bank t. tails of any individual whenever they want without requesting permission first and

considering in cyprus the banks are worth seven times as much as the country's g.d.p. other luxemburg for example they're worth twenty two times more the situation could be catastrophic than if you put it in that way so in a wall where banking secrets are no longer cat these havens may have to find another way to seduce the great. the clampdown on bank secrecy comes as the european union present head with its proposal for a banking union one that the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party believes could make it easier to read depositors accounts. we all know why the trying to do this we all know what the it's basically to harmonize banking across the european union to create a banking union which is what the germans in particular ones because they know in the end if they are going to be a people's bank accounts like they've done in cyprus if they are going to do this to begin countries they need this banking union and in many ways they will need to

be a people's bank accounts to ensure that the euro continues because bailouts are going to keep coming of course we know that slovenia is now in serious trouble spain has only which is a youth unemployment which is sixty percent in greece we have soup kitchens on the streets of athens we have people leaving children on the steps of churches because they can't afford to live so there will be more bailouts in the pipeline and obviously the european union has to look at different ways of raising that revenue . the independent currency big corners had a serious snag after u.s. authorities blocked the account a dollar it's a business that allows users to convert u.s. dollars into coin and back again the department of homeland security says the peer to peer currency runs roughshod over new laws that require online transfer systems to identify its uses. explains the move as a warning shot for the fledgling currency the u.s. government has made no secret of the fact that it is keeping

a close eye on that point but now it appears that the crackdown on the decentralized digital currency the department of homeland security sees the company known as the wall or which allows customers to transfer their u.s. dollars to the points on tuesday washington shut down while his ability to process point payments now the u.s. warrant alleges that i want peace. as an on the license money transmitting business because to wallow wasn't it registered with the with the department of treasury's financial crimes enforcement network now some economists believe the timing of this case is no one to see the popularity and press surrounding it point is skyrocketing and the use of electronic currency is growing more appealing to investors and customers around the world this of course threatens the long. governments and banks have on currency regulation and interest rate manipulation

that this new york city bar restaurant behind to be known as ever began its. point last month so far the business has reportedly processed more than twenty thousand dollars worth of transactions in the morning now while wall street remains less than eight kilometers away from here the financial industry to its disappointment is far removed from the way in which the business of that point is operating according to new york. r.t. . now the big system was developed by an unknown program back in two thousand and nine to take download an old. computer or mobile device an address for this one it which they transfer coins to the wallets of usually for free and without the supervision of banks the whole transfer process is encrypted to prevent the money from being stolen the currency can then be exchanged for cash

or used in a growing number of stores that except to buy goods and services so the number of coins that can ever be created is limited by the original program designed to twenty one million economics professor richard wolf has told me earlier that the rotten banking system is pushing people to this digital currency. i think the fear is that conventional methods of finance are so corrupted and so looked upon with a negative mentality that masses of people are inventing ways and there are dozens of them to get around to evade to avoid some of them are of course criminals they want to avoid for those reasons but the majority of people involved are really expressing a sense of economics out of control of an economic system that isn't working that is making the inequality unbearable and everyone is looking for something that will

allow them to escape the rules as they are. in iraq a second bomb has gone off in the sunni area of baghdad bringing friday's death toll to fifty eight two days of terrorist activity in several cities as claimed one hundred eight lives the latest surge of violence has crushed hopes of restoring infrastructure still in tatters after the us invasion as ati's you see coming off as being finding out. it is the land between twin rivers ancient day mesopotamia modern day iraq and in baghdad there's no shortage of ways in which water is used to wash cars to clean shop fronts to store freshly caught fish before their gutted for sale everything it seems except drinking it personally oh god nobody drinks the city with him because i know it's not clean since who i've had to my own books will go on what comes out to the tap a second time in eight and it makes us sick how can we drink can't. water is just

one of the many services that still lagging and post-war iraq despite years of promises and billions of dollars spent on reconstruction many neighborhoods lack sewage systems there's no trash collection in some settlements there are barely any streets iraq's central power is sometimes on for as little as two hours a day this mess of wires is a common scene all across iraq it connects homes to private generators people have to buy electricity to cope with the hours of daily blackouts ten years after the war it's a symbol for much of what's wrong with iraq a crumbling infrastructure and reliable services and the tangled web of iraq or c. and corruption. the energy crisis has meant more work for album area and electrician who says he now earns about four times as much as he did before the war the grid is in shambles and breakdowns are frequent but he says the government is simply not serious about fixing it. it's the citizens who

suffer in the end not the government the services are so bad the power system has really deteriorated there were billions spent on fixing the grid but there's little to show for it. the government has promised improvements in public services but officials say it's a monumental task the infrastructure has been put to the neglected end of the previous regimes and the damage is enormous there is a need to rebuild everything that's required is tens of billions of dollars but the dollars are flowing along with and largely because of oil that's what accounts for most of the revenue in iraq's one hundred and one thousand billion dollar budget here at the college refinery production of more than doubled in the zero zero that's an open fire well industry has been touted as one of the few bright spots in the country that we might violate and of rampant corruption most of the reconstruction money was squandered through fraud and abuse it's a paradox that frustrates many iraqis there is as one of the wealthiest pieces of

land on earth but its people are some of the poorest lucie county r.t.e. baghdad iraq. well that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with the news team in about a half an hour from now the meantime stay with us for pizza lavelle's latest edition of crosstalk that's coming up shortly after this break. a fairly dickinson university study has revealed the twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution was just happened in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal for .