some of us didn't. drop. the olympic torch or towards moscow before it's really across the haze country it's our first day culminating with a capital sky lighting up in a spectacular display. the destruction of syria's chemical law school begins on time and according to plan running to masters present from russia and even the united states a little challenges away. security forces are targeted in a wave of deadly attacks across egypt just a day after more than fifty people died in violence. also abduction all special all by libya wants answers from the us about why washington thinks it's ok to seize their citizens without telling them what they're up to.

you live with us here on our from moscow you with me to ban would say let's take a look at our top story the national torch relay for next year's us all she winter olympics is in moscow before it goes on an incredible journey across the world's largest country. the first day of the moscow leg of the olympic torch relay has wrapped up it was taken to the muscle state university campus where a spectacular show was put on r d's alexy. was the. the first day of moscow's leg of the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch relay has come to an end culminated by a spectacular fireworks show here at the sparrow heels in front of the most go state university the first day of the most cool leg of the torch relay kicked off at

midday beside the red brick walls of the most school kremlin and ever since then the torch bearers have been running across the russian capital carrying the torch passing the flame from one to another i myself was lucky to witness the handing over of the flame at one point right next to the moscow state university all in all this was just the first day of the moscow torch relay the relay which promises to be a truly historic one and i did a report to explain what the peculiarities of this torch relay this time will be and what's so special about it. let's on october the twenty ninth in a limpia handed over to russians on october the fifth in athens and delivered to moscow on the next day now the olympic flame has started its long and unique journey across the host country five time olympic champion and synchronized swimming and. was chosen to be the very first storage bera fourteen thousand more

will hand the flame to each other in the next four months among them people of a range of profiles and backgrounds including a special v.i.p. guest there's a lot of expectation on the in the beginning but on these games i think there's a lot because it's been a lot of preparation. a lot of work to do and i think it will be but i think it will be a great to go into. the twenty fourteen sochi games olympic torch relay has only just kicked off but it has already been branded as historic covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across nearly three thousand cities towns and villages in russia it will become the longest storage relay in history and probably the most seen as well with almost one hundred thirty million people being within reachable distance of the relays route for the first time in history it will be taken for a space walk outside the international space station that's before descending to the bottom of the world's deepest lake baikal heading to the top of the world at north pole and scaling europe's highest peak russia's mountain groups this is

a unique opportunity to united nations and a great way to explore russians themselves and because. with the flame. single city and. this particular city the capital of the olympic games after two days in moscow the olympic torch will have further inland before ending up at the grand opening ceremony of the saudi winter olympic games in exactly one hundred twenty two days from now. r.t. moscow. torch is on its epic journey to shut. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand to one.

in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. torch relay. on r t r two jobs. the world's largest an old us oil cartel has taken sides in the british scottish independence rao saying it condie magine and ambrose a future without london the organization has extensive times with the u.k. and its biggest export as a big fans of british weapons a london correspondent bully boy called told me why opec's weighing in. the british government's got tight links to opec and in fact the british government sells arms export licenses to a number of its member states including saudi arabia so for critics it's hardly a surprise that opec is trying in along with westminster in dismissing the idea for scottish independence and the opec secretary general general abdalla. who happens

to be a former minister and a colonel gadhafi he's firmly rejected the notion for scottish independence the head of the oil cartel said that there isn't much oil left in scotland anyway and he's dismissed the idea of an independent edinburgh ever coming under the umbrella of opec which controls one third of the world's oil supply he said that the interests of both london and edinburgh are both under the umbrella of the united kingdom which is all likely to be a blow for the pro independence camp in scotland a big part of the scottish nationalist independence campaign hinges on the notion that oil reserves above the scottish border are going to be what makes the scottish independence campaign viable while the idea of scottish independence viable the scottish national party has even estimated that oil reserves could account for up to three hundred thousand pounds per every scot put into some estimates ninety percent of the u.k.'s ordeal is actually located in the north sea in scotland we've had the pro independence campaign in scotland really queues in westminster of

waging a campaign called project fear to scare scots off taking the yes box when it comes to the scottish independence referendum even the newspaper where the interview with mr badgery appeared it's the telegraph which is closely aligned to the conservative party and i spoke to a scot in london recently who told me that regardless of where you weigh in on which side of the independents camp you weigh in on the lengths to which westminster has been going to over the past six months even to fear. scare scots into thinking about the consequences if they vote for independence is almost humorous politicians in westminster saying that scotland would have to reapply for its new membership if it broke away from the united kingdom that they might not afford to have a postal service so that they wouldn't have enough money to create a proper armed forces so both camps are engaged in a real propaganda battle at the moment we're seeing some different facts and

figures and statistics and it's very about from both sides and at the moment it's difficult to tell where the truth lies. the leader of the scottish national party is challenging a british prime minister david cameron to a debate on the phony issue of independence so far alex us elman's often has been met with silence from number ten speaking to me early ascot as national party m.p. angus make neil dismissed opec's comments as hypocrisy to the membership of. the afternoon and i thought you know it is the new policy of opec that countries shouldn't be shouldn't get their independence and will these members of opec want to be returning to the formal imperial masters i think they want and i think they're quite happy with with that independence and you know as a result of that for them the self was becoming to live in a world no one once we had fifty independent entities most of them what empires now with for two hundred independent states and the world is a better place as a result of that scotland is going to follow a natural and normal pattern and scotland can well afford it independent of the

number six above all these opec states i think in the world and well from scotland there's about one hundred eighteen percent of the g.d.p. of the u.k. it's ninety five percent of the oil and only a year last february david cameron himself came to scotland and said in the clearfield alone in one oilfield there was a fifty year supply left when the when the mood changes the student changes but you know i don't really think that the views of the head of who pick out of whatever it might be in for foreign minister colonel gadhafi and your reporter would really matter very much in scotland the talk of. california that have come out in force or demanding mercy pulled my grand balls and have much to get a pathway to citizenship for eleven a million immigrants with the message that no human is illegal we tell you about that online. and so it's a land post some more time postal service out c dot com explains why the country's recent. welcome to your new home.

the destruction of syria's chemical and. has begun it's been confirmed by international inspectors posted to the country under the plan brokered by russia and the u.s. so far as going to plan the regime troops are said to be using blow torches and crushing equipment to destroy warheads chemical mixing installations and rockets eliminating chemical agents there is more complicated than some toxic materials are will have to be transported out of syria for disposal another issue is that the rebel groups are currently refusing to cooperate with the mission with some promising to impede inspectors. if all that there weren't enough a colossal task lies ahead for inspectors they have to oversee the dismantling of hundreds of tons of chemical agents and rockets in a tight time frame while in the middle of a war zone and western intelligence estimates there are forty five chemical weapons

a dead person around the country damascus disputed that there are how of the number and that the confusion stems from the operation. to hide the weapons or from a u.s. strike now seven of them according to the government are located in combat zones and that makes access difficult as for the production facilities there are believed to be four of them in the country all of them near cities where force fierce fighting is often reported that homs hama and latakia inspectors are under orders to verify the destruction of these sites by november the first all or no syria is estimated to have about a thousand tons of chemical agents there including mustard gets a blister agent serin and relax and is that sarin of course there was allegedly used in a deadly assault near damascus in orcus professor ibrahim aleutian from a university in amman emphasizes the hostility of conditions on the ground. the

first thing we have to remember is that this mission is being undertaken under state of war so this is one of the most dangerous missions to be undertaken for this month and in such unconventional weapons basically all the main groups within the syrian opposition. the free syrian army or the syrian syrian national council have said that they would have preferred a military strike against syria instead of having syria peacefully remove its cusses of chemical weapons so these people there are still going on they and they are committing crimes on the ground and trying to sabotage any prospect for a political solution in the horizon. syria's cooperating in giving up its chemical

arms the has earned it praise and not just from russia but even tacit applause from the united states the foreign minister of the two world polish met on the sidelines of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in bali paul scott is a forty. confirmation that came that disarmament of syria's chemical weapons stockpile has already begun it was only ten days ago that the united nations as you know honestly passed a resolution on syria's chemical weapons stockpile and u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that it's a record breaking process to get to this stage soon and russian's foreign minister lavrov says that damascus is fully complying with the international community. during all these weeks after syria joined the chemical weapons convention mosques have been working jointly with the international inspectors we hope this will continue on in the future while u.s. secretary of state john kerry also says the syrian government deserves credit for the smooth process now it had been hoped that u.s. president barack obama and russian president vladimir putin would have been able to

have a one on one meeting on the fringes of this economic summit of course president obama was forced to cancel his trip to asia because of the ongoing financial problems in the united states and the continuing shutdown that his place is being taken by secretary of state john kerry who says that washington now believes there is no military solution to the conflict in syria. we agree again there is no military solution here we should. not have. radical extremists on either side of any kind. or greater. status or position in syria and that is why we recommitted today with very specific efforts to move the geneva process as rapidly as possible now it was undoubtedly a productive meeting between the two sides with kerry saying it's been the most productive meeting in recent months between lavrov and himself and attention now

turns to the possibility of a geneva two peace conference where it's hoped that the syrian government representatives of the syrian government on the syrian opposition will sit around the table for peace talks. says that he can get. delegation from the syrian government from damascus around the table. to date for these talks and kerry says he's hopeful that he can do likewise with the syrian opposition. afghanistan's are gearing up for its first democratic transition off the bottle with dubious all of. the presidency it's. get a heads up that stories coming up. after decades of prosecuting a covert and proxy war against iran can washington change its behavior many in washington have dismissed obama's all branch out of hand many in iran are just as

mistrustful is this quest for peace a fool's errand. george is on a journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through some nine hundred ton two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip. there see another space. torch relay. on our t.v. our two daku. close.

friends will stay with us here on our team a series of deadly attacks have struck security forces across egypt where violence has continued into a second day. six soldiers in a drive by shooting in a city one hundred kilometers east of cairo a suicide attack a deadly detonated a massive truck bomb that rips through the security headquarters in southern sinai peninsula three people died and more than fifty were injured in the blast he is an egypt correspondent. the families have gathered in front of cut the capital's main morgues and him to basically pick up the dead after a very bloody night in cairo and across the country leaving dozens dead and hundreds arrested this all kicked off on sunday afternoon on the anniversary of the fortieth the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy three arab israeli war this is largely regarded as an armed forces day a day that people celebrate the military victory even saw the interim president had

called for egyptians to come to the streets in particular to his credit behind me and the presidential palace to basically congratulate the military and what is regarded as one of the most proud moments in egyptian history however supporters of mohamed morsi had other ideas they wanted to protest against the military not the institution itself they said but the generals they attempted to march on the great square as well which was being heavily guarded by security forces security forces stopped them pretty sharply firing tear gas and bullets into the crowds there was reports of light on the mission i was there on the ground these chaotic street battles spilled over into the side downey's it was extremely bloody indeed howard this is not an unusual sight it's not sadly egypt this is one of. start is no longer top news here in fact local news stations were actually more focused on the celebrations and they were on the bloody assault on the missing brotherhoods and morsi supporters this comes up to to refuse to look turmoil after a two thousand levon uprising which has seen the country really become very divided

between very support to side with the military and those who want to go with the present brotherhood another side effect of this is unfortunately a number of terrorist attacks already this morning we've heard of a massive explosion of security directorate in sinai in south sorry night edition of five police officers shot at ismailia which is in the series canal so we're seeing here is a massive massive turmoil security crisis for meanwhile the supporters of mohamed morsi refused to back down especially if they've lost so many of their relatives and friends there is time to come back the streets so expect to see further clashes on the horizon. political activism. the supporters of the muslim brotherhood and the interim government trying to stay at each other down it's a knuckle breaking situation it's a bottleneck both sides are trying to put a lot of pressure on the other until the other reaches a certain point of concessions that more or less puts the other party in

a much stronger position now the most of brotherhood are giving more and more into the scenario of victimizing themselves they're going on the streets although they haven't recently used violence but violence has been. imposed on them and they have a lot of victims in the past couple of days and in the past month or two they want to gain more sympathy locally and abroad to get more on the recent developments in egypt as well as the history of violent revolution and r.t. dot com. former warlords with a tainted cause militia leaders and political outsiders will join a number of heavyweights to face each other in afghanistan's presidential race more than twenty candidates have registered to succeed. you second and final term and next year that concerns are over corruption and voted rigging already costing a poll over the election but overshadowing it all is one major fear the taleban

making its way back into the government if you take a look at the red zones on this map you'll see the regions where there's an alarmingly high presence of other militant group let's not get more on this are from antiwar campaign at deborah sweet director of of the world can't wait group now monday most of that leave twelve years this is the u.s. began its invasion of afghanistan isn't it a measure of success that the country's about to hold its first ever democratic transition of power well i suppose you could say that a proper government is different than. an explicitly world lord government but from what we can tell under hama karzai proposed last twelve years. a force of pro-u.s. and also a world lord have made up the government and its influence has been very limited. it's been very limited around the country this is an occupied country by the

largest military. kaname many billions of dollars up to a trillion dollars have been poured into afghanistan and the basic people are in worse shape than ever it's now the most dangerous country in which a woman can give birth in this whole globe because of. maternal mortality speaking a lot of speeches about it does that and. i want us to go back to the. afghanistan right now there's a withdrawal scheduled twenty four thousand by the u.s. but who can be sure that afghanistan won't play into the daily deadly violence happening post-war iraq right now. well nobody can be sure of that there's plenty of deadly violence going on now there are double the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan now than there were when george bush was in power and the

civilian death toll has actually been higher in two thousand and twelve than any other year of the us occupation so this is already the direction things are going the us has said and supported the taleban by creating such disasters around the country. killings of people in large groups the continual bombing of wedding parties the night raids the use of white phosphorus this has created justifiably a population which is very much against the occupation and in some senses has been one to support the taleban which many people never supported before this all started so you have three forces you have the talabani you have the warlords that have been supported in the past by russia and then you have the u.s. occupation and the basic interests of the people in afghanistan are represented in the home playing. increase in support of the taliban in the last couple of.

well i would explain it by the actions of the u.s. military the targeted drone killing when people feel like they have been invaded by in a really an entity as of comest and has been over the last several decades first by russia the soviet union and then by the u.s. . people feel very rightly so that they want those invaders to leave and in some cases people have been pushed to support the taleban because they want to see the u.s. leave i'm not saying that the taliban is any good for the people clearly they're not but here was the bush administration identifying the taliban and al qaida as the main problem now the obama administration is clearly negotiating with the

taliban with anyone. that they think will continue them to have some potential of influence in afghanistan and around the region and we know that this war was launched twelve years ago completely illegitimately had nothing to do with nine eleven really it was a way of ws trying to establish i'm very sorry but i'm a credit title empire very so i'm really i'm going to have to cut you off my apologies that was never sweet antiwar activists and director of the world com to wait group speaking to us the life. thank you libya is demanding an explanation from the u.s. why its forces kidnapped one of their citizens that's how tripoli described sunday's capture of the suspect in the ninety one to eight american embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania the libyan government says they see the operation as a clear violation of sovereignty defense consulted million rove told us that the

u.s. think that it has the right to to meddle in other countries a face. it's extremely dangerous policy that a one governments in the world can intervene in any other country sovereign state invaded afghanistan without a un resolution they invaded iraq without a un resolution they attempted to carry out airstrikes against syria recently without un resolution so it's an extremely dangerous policy and it makes the whole world a dangerous place with the. with the policy in place for his part secular state kerry defended capturing a libya as quote legal and appropriate target what puts him in that category well they claim that under a two thousand and one u.s. law they can capture anyone anywhere in the world they can enter any sovereign territory and arrest anyone but what's what's amazing about this story really is

that this individual lived in the u.k. in the ninety's he was also involved with the attempted assassination of hosni mubarak the then president of egypt but he was also aided allegedly aided by m i six britain's security services to assassinate the revolutionary guard daffyd the the then head of leader of for libya. during all this time he was given the size of political asylum in the u.k. . he also found time to plan the bombings of the embassies in tanzania and kenya. mall of the world news this hour on their series of apparently coronated bombings have rocked baghdad reportedly killing up to seventy two people more than one hundred others have been injured at least one car bombs are and a roll site of isis i thought to have been detonated mostly in share areas of those sunni neighborhoods were also hit iraq's staidly sectarian violence has killed

almost a thousand people in the last month alone. a crowd of ultra orthodox jews us who made it up to six hundred thousand has turned out in jerusalem for the funeral of the influential israeli web and scola. the ninety three year old spiritual leader of the shas party was regarded by his father was as the greatest living soul of jewish religious law his death the leaves of a party without a clear successor and a battle ahead to become leader. of immigrant defense minister has been found guilty in the country's most notorious corruption case in recent years and he received millions of euros in bribes while in office from one thousand nine hundred sixty two thousand and one profiting from the military contracts including the purchase of submarines and missile systems he could get up to twenty years in jail sixteen accomplices away convicted as well including his wife ex-wife and daughter crosstalk is on the way looking at whether america's

a recent change of heart towards iran is really a quest for peace. i recently read headlines all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has just bought five percent of ukraine now they're writing that china will lease five percent of ukraine over ukrainian officials themselves claim that china won't be getting our either and if this is a deal about some drip irrigation system the situation didn't explode onto the internet to the fantasies of bloggers the south china morning post reported that one company does have a crop in pig farming plant design utilized nine percent of ukraine's territory also lester the ban on foreigners buying lead ukraine constantly been lifted although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting the rich foreign country to pay to develop your.