moscow's fear is about to police allegedly beat up and detain a russian diplomat in the hague present britain demands an apology while the dozen bells of the is summoned to explain. flush with cash beijing's finest on snapping up prices all right you can call durations and brands on line each time it's my to manufacturing industry but someone has to know how. and syria's chemical disarmament is on track with the un plan as its progress is praised by the u.s. and russia at the asia pacific summit in bonn. from moscow this is r t you with me to bomb the day let's take

a look at our top story this hour russia still wants an apology a from of the netherlands over the treatment of a russian diplomat in the hague police reportedly beat up the official and detained him overnight to the news comes against the backdrop of another spread between the two countries the details from marty's can just again. the netherlands responded to russia's demand for an explanation and an apology by saying that they're investigating the incident and that they will apologize when and if they prove that the dutch law enforcement indeed violated international law now russia is not at all satisfied with such a response moscow says such an invasive an increase here and responses on acceptable and that the dutch authorities violated not just the diplomats rights but simply human rights because according to the russian foreign ministry the dutch police broke into the apartment of counselor the russian embassy in the hague they hit him with a baton they ignored his diplomatic status and took him to the police station where

they held him for hours without explaining anything later admitted but i'd seen was released in midst of what i'd seen says they broke into his apartment on the pretext that the neighbors call the police because of some reports of abuse which suit he says are absolutely not true and that just saudis have not said anything about this and micah said we're still waiting to hear that that explanation of the incident but we do have the reaction of the russian president on the incident take a listen. it could be sure sure you can see. this is a flagrant violation of the vienna convention we are always clarification because. and punishment of those responsible for our reaction depends on how to behave. the relations between russia and the netherlands have been tense lately the netherlands are taking legal action against the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise which sailed under the dutch flag russia has blasted the lens for having

systematically more requests to make the arctic sunrise stop illegal activity near the russian oil platform in the arctic now according to russia it's been going on since last year russia says all its warnings were ignored by the dutch and three weeks ago we know what happened peace activists tried to climb aboard the working world and they were detained together with everyone onboard the arctic sunrise the russian foreign ministry says the day before the incident on september eighteenth green peace activists made their first attempt to climb aboard. platform but they were prevented from doing the same day moscow summoned the bastard to issue yet another warning with regard to the arctic sunrise activities russia says that warning was ignored yet again the activists and those who were on board the ship are now facing piracy charges because russia argues technically it was an attempt

to seize the part for many russian foreign policy experts believe that the incident with the russian diplomat in the hague could be related to the tension between the two countries with regard to the greenpeace activists. catch up on the details of the russia greenpeace a stand off following the attempt to board that article oil platform on our website at r.t. dot com. where the american president and unable to attend china's leader was front and center at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in bali urging responsibility and caution in today's economic uncertainty it underscored how far as beijing star has risen on the political map a rise mirrored by the economic fortune enjoyed by china chinese money is flooding the e.u. and snapping up iconic european firms as a beijing's a business. news into pick up companies it considers to be severely undervalued let's take a look at some of the bigger deals now in twenty ten eight chinese comic of flush

with money decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it generally last year one of germany's premier concrete pump makers also felt to be riches that same month italian the arch built of ready was there snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime and just a few weeks later the french of fashion brand us only recall was taken over by a hong kong based forum in keeping well there is a growing fondness for luxury china is also investing heavily in the u.k. buying shares in london's heathrow airport and pumping billions of pounds into the country's nuclear industry and as polly boyko reports chinese money is also propping up a london icon. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cab would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer gili which already owns volvo

stepped in and bought the company for eleven million pounds the factory is now back in business this part of the assembly process is called the marriage of the carriage where the shell of the taxi over that meets with the shafi of the taxi over here. but it has been marriage between the chinese manufacturer and he and the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines to the future of really the previously when we were an independent company we like the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to now that we're part of the finances. and that gives us the ability to develop a brand new taxi i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while

a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does that say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of u.k. businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american jageler most his indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it represents a hollowing out of corporate britain and i'm happy that it's not going under but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies and what that means is that our companies are not competitive across the globe so we're not putting in the right tax policies we're not dealing with regulation in this these companies welcome to have new investment it always is in the long term this takes away economic productivity from this country it means that stuff and jobs are more liable to go because the allegiance between the companies that eroded

by foreign entities and their country rather than britain piece has been a cabbie for over forty years in a scene the london taxi company goes through several british oh noes i hopped in for a ride and asked him how he feels. about turning chinese this is a shame that it's not owned by a british company but it's better than going to the wall or die lever the companies that are still british they won't be faced with any see. i see london. time as a rich as member intertainment tycoon or wang lin has unveiled his plans for europe targeting hotels luxury brands and cinema chains more perspective on this a spending spree with economist and co-founder of search strategy consultancy rather nightingale and associates you know the u.s. is in a political crisis the e.u. in an economical one it seems like china doesn't really have a choice it does it will

china's got a lot of money it's got to do something with its money what it's been doing in the past has been buying rather low yielding american government securities that hasn't produced much benefit for china what it's been doing more recently and i think it will carry on doing is buying into companies which in fact has a much much higher yield britain has been the beneficiary of this so far but i think the rest of the world will also share in this largess so is it all about economy i mean china buying a trillion in you was dead to didn't give it a whole lot of interest but buying up industries that's bound to give it some kind of clout would interest there. it's it's pretty simply to do with economics if a country has a large surplus that it has to do something with that surplus there is no

possibility or it's not doing anything with a surplus and the only possibility is all that it boy securities or all the boys that have say and i think in fact this in china's interest but it buys assets and i think frankly it's in most countries interest visit buys the assets and keeps them going and one of your previous interviewees was talking about the british industrial base being a hollowed out on the contrary the industrial base would have been followed out had the companies gone bust having had the chinese investment in them having the child having the companies going the duster bases being less hollowed out but i remember britain doesn't it doesn't have a particularly good industrial base what we do well is its financial services and therefore we have to expect that the other pause of our economy industry will

do relatively poorly and it needs help from those overseas just as for instance germany doesn't have financial services so by the way now meads bunny coming in there was britain saying not to help it for natural services to get on an even keel but when china was a besting in africa everybody was had quite a lot to say about that in fact they said that china was exploiting that situation but here you are saying that in you know come back to the u.k. it's a different kind of set up so we just see using this as if we benefit then it's good for us and if they benefit then it's exploitation. no i never use such terms of and i wouldn't i mean frankly the african countries didn't have to sell out to the chinese. they could have chosen not to they had the choice and they chose in certain circumstances to sell out now but

they did this is absolutely normal the countries that boy raw materials all the countries that use raw materials and having bought the actual material you feel tempted to buy the company that produces the raw material britain did that over a long period of time germany has done it america has done it japan has done it it's only to be expected that china the new up and coming industrial country will also do it right and i can tell some of those come i'm going to have to arrange a ride the reagans some will be bought from the british whose. miss that i think i'm very sorry but i would have to leave it right there wish we had more time with you thank you very much economists and strategists be speaking to us on archie now it's a close up front so that writing about it for and for a the swiss have been preparing for an invasion from a breakaway french region they've been holding on the practices with envision envisioning having to raise arms to drop the cold war and that in just a few minutes. both russia and the u.s.

have been hailing the weapons elimination on the sidelines of the asia pacific leaders economic summit foreign minister sergei lavrov optimistic but cautious in saying that it's arming it is not enough to end the war and peace isn't possible while radicals fight in syria. people are moving closer. then to the free syrian army which is being portrayed as the secular opposition so the throne there is. in the favor of jihad just radicals among those who fight on the ground. and it is not only. our conviction rippers be conviction of the americans that we must not talk to these people. the latest iranian steps towards mending its relations with the western world it also came into the russians our foreign ministers focus on once again insisted on its right to to a peaceful atomic program lever of explaining to our t. why fears that iran could use it to produce weapons is ludicrous. why i haven't

seen any. confirmation by any intelligence the russian beat european be united states be. reassured categorically say that iran iranian leadership has taken a political decision to military nuclear program no intelligence agency on earth was able so for to make this conclusion. remember the full version of my exclusive interview with the gay lover of is that r.t.e. dot com. well see british. time right let's go. around the.

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thanks for staying with us here on our team the israeli prime minister has unwittingly turned to a public relations onslaught to win over the iranian public into something of a floss it's the first time he's tried speaking directly to the people of iran and will then two decades in top level politics and it's backfired a bit is a friends has the details he got a serious stressing down for saying that iranians aren't allowed to wear blue jeans he made the way were comments during an interview with b.b.c. persian in it he said if iranians were free they would wear blue jeans listen to western music and have free. elections now twitter is officially banned in iran but plenty of people use software to get around that and they took to the twitter sphere to point out the accuracy for instance they doctored up the famous shot of the pm drawing an ominous red line through a bomb at the u.n. general assembly this time it's a rather attractive pair of feminine blue jeans that of course speaking of coding

censorship some skaters took to the internet posting their clothing item of choice blue jeans wearing them proudly and it's not just the fabric that's remarkable it's the content of the couture that's explosive correct me if i'm wrong but that's an american flag on the t. shirt and here you can see a whole collection of blue jeans men in iranian mosque wearing blue jeans now in his blog on the israeli newspaper ha'aretz website david writes about the gaffe. saying iranians not wearing blue jeans wasn't the prime minister's only memorable moment in the interview he says netanyahu got out just two words in the persian language one that translates roughly to soccer and the other means nonsense which basically sums up quite a bit of this entire episode now the second and final day of the moscow leg of the winter olympics torch relay has wrapped up in the russian capital.

you go to greece going to watch the olympics torch a relay across small school here e s. . this is the sort of closing ceremony of the gold leg of the olympic torch really is going to want to run in the history of the olympic games it's sad for muscovites but it's really the time for the rest of the country to be able to see the olympic flame with their own eyes earlier the flame was returned to rights where the olympic cauldron was relived watching officially the end of moscow the leg but ever since it was brought to russia on sunday via this special flight recent stay here in the capital what's special it was a sport initially from the airport by the night wolves biker game very famous one in russian for their involvement lots of charity events these guys are also lots of the athletes they said it was a great honor and then it was greeted by the president on red square with the

ellipse the olympic cauldron for the first time and since then it was being taken through the whole city through the sites by celebrities including half leads and artists and others for ordinary muscovites to be able to see it but like i said i guess everything good has to end sometime this is the case for moscow it's not for the rest of the country it's only the beginning but it really olympic torch relay he's going to be epic we're talking about one thousand nine hundred seats and religious cross the whole country fourteen people are going to take part and this is the place that one. citizen of the country will be at a reasonable distance from the flame to be able to see it with their own eyes it's going to last for one hundred twenty four over one hundred twenty days and it's plans that the flame will be taken on top of the highest mountains like the el bruce and on the bottom of the biggest lakes including lake baikal it's even

planned that it's going to be taken on board the international space station and outside into space all part of a. massive unique and definitely a historic event for the whole country until the flame is delivered to its final destination in siberia of course the olympics city of sochi. olympic torch is on its big journey to suck. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand gallons. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on our. right to methe day government shutdown has begun in the united states with my the republicans nor democrats yielding any ground on the budget but the dead long

government has agreed to compensate the hundreds of thousands of laid off employees who are now effectively being paid not to work while on when and how it might all and what benjamin call but from the american a society for biochemistry and molecular biology now it's only been a week short of the shutdown impact on the sciences that hasn't been all that serious. you know that's not exactly true there are scientists are feeling the impact there are currently scientists who would be sending in their submissions for granted approval and grant funding what are unable to do right now there are groups of scientists who are unable to review funding for future grants so we are feeling the impact that i guess what's stopping you from finding private sources of funding. private sources of investment in science certainly exist and you know we're glad that they're there however for the basic science the discovery research like many of the members of my society the america safer

biochemistry and molecular biology participate in they're currently unable to get the funding because they're doing discovery research which doesn't necessarily have a very quick return on the investment which is a wonderful place for the government to be putting its dollars a lot of people in the media have voiced the fear of brain drain you know your colleagues very well i mean is this something of a serious concern among them you know there is a concern you know the united states remains the global leader in science and technology and innovation however as a survey that we put together over the summer shows you know one in five american scientists are considering leaving the country for better funding opportunities outside of our borders so it is a concern that we have today washington says it's not possible to keep up old levels of spending meaning cuts i mean defense has been cut health it caused by obamacare why should fines be exempt. you know the truth the science hasn't been exempt in fact since fiscal year two thousand and ten science

funding in this country from the federal government has been cut by fifteen percent all we're saying is the cuts while you know we do need to get our spending under control science is an economic driver helps to build our economy moving forward and we'd like to see those investments continue in light of the cuts that we've seen over the past two years in light of everything that's happened what is your way out how do you guarantee funding especially given that the results of basic science research often are not economically viable like you just said so what's the way out how are you going to keep your jobs and and stay in the country renie. right well you know we're certainly hopeful that the federal government continues investing in the basic research that they do today it is economically viable and a good example of that is twenty years ago the national science foundation and best of six million dollars and some students of stanford university those students ended up starting google which currently has a value of over ninety three billion dollars and employs forty five thousand people move out of states so there is a way out and we're hoping that continued investment in basic research from the

federal government will help us to grow our economy thank you very much mr benjamin caldwell public affairs director for the american society for biochemistry and molecular biology. a bankrupt a breakaway french region launches a surprise invasion across the border to raid the swiss banks and loot money it says was stolen that's the only scenario cooked up for the race recent war games carried out in switzerland which has of the biggest on me in a year up relative to its population live now to rub it on a journalist based in france although joins us tonight live from london good to have you with us ron what sorts of i'm conjure up and all my french invasion is there any reason the focus on france in particular. well i think. it's a bit of a joke on one level but it does can see you underlying tensions issues like the tax dispute between switzerland and france the fact that switzerland is surrounded by the european union recently they had

a referendum in switzerland on whether to keep the army and seventy five percent voted to keep the army in its present form with universal subscript conscript sion and it's a joke but it's a joke that demonstrates certain underlying tensions but of a joke a bit of underlying tension what's been the reaction in france into these war games where it's very curious this the article that stirred all this up came out in a in a news channel called france my cats whole france twenty four which is the french worldwide service and it's a channel which is very much under the thumb of the french government so it's not an accident that this article has appeared describing this this whole little story and i imagine it's a very gentle shot across the sweet spot saying come on this is a joke but we don't appreciate jokes about autonomy and splitting up of france and crises in the eurozone and right in the streets you know if you want to have military exercises great try and be

a bit less provocative next year oh i don't suppose there was a meal in needs to hold these maneuvers at all i mean the country's always stayed out of your old conflicts that award today in europe is hard to imagine really. well you're not that hard to imagine if you live in yugoslavia but leaving that to one side switzerland is a country that has had to make a decision and they've made it recently do they maintain a military force no per person their army used to deter an easy intervention from outside and that's what it's about the swiss want to make sure that nobody could ever just roll across the borders and say well you can't do this new car to do that we don't know your tax regime we don't know your banks. well interesting to see how far this job none jogo is a missile of eight hundred journalist thank you for sharing us your views on this thank you right up next the kaiser report on why oddly enough for to me actually be good for the economy.

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 either and that 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 and pig farming plan design utilized nine percent of ukraine's territory also last year the ban on foreigners buying land ukraine could instantly been lifted although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting the rich foreign country to pay to develop your nation's agriculture might not be too bad of a deal it would definitely take a lot of money to restore ukraine's farming to its former glory they see that ukraine used to be the bread basket of europe i'll give you that status back could

really help the country but selling off or even just leasing nine percent of the nation's territory is absolutely unacceptable doing a large project with the chinese that is mutually beneficial is one thing but selling or leasing off your country is another and by another i mean treason but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max ties are good news for the british economy yes apparently there is a to all that financial fraud at least according to the wall street journal as you know max indeed well you know the payment protection insurance scandal from the past few years where they the banks were selling payment protection insurance so

your mortgage would be paid if you lost your job or your house burned down or you got sick or whatever they would pay your mortgage for you well how a banking scandals bolstering britain's economy well the compensation for misselling those payments because apparently none of they were like all insurance products they didn't pay out so they had to pay billions of pounds to consumers who bought this thing and apparently the office for budget responsibility the government official forecaster said that the compensation was so big it would provide quote some short term support to household consumption growth one economist says the compensation payments have been more successful at stimulating the u.k. economy than quantitative easing u.k. lenders have already paid eleven point five billion pounds to millions of customers and have set aside another seven point three billion for future payments.