as based on french designs sanctions prohibit official business between the u.s. and iran but american companies such as general motors are already said to be moving in to secure their positions journalist george la bruno believes the u.s. is just waiting for the right time i think already there of being thought secret contacts between us for and iranian counterparts in order to prepare a. political deal between iran and the united states mainly these contacts. in the. but fortunately for us in france we are the brother the last one in europe to who tried to to to go to iraq because for the last the last years france was extremely active in the fighting against iran. was exerting a lot of pressure you know for the last twenty years the us were outside the the

french businessman at quite good position around the bush or no in the automobile sector and now they're afraid that these all these years of the force will be cleaned by the new deal which will happen between us and iran for sure that the european companies will be losers in this kind of agreement. and i look at some other world news this hour a stampede on a bridge at a hindu temple in northern india has killed at least eighty nine pilgrims dozens were also injured as huge crowds attended a religious festival reports say police used batons to restore order which caused an even greater panic the stampede began when a group claimed the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up killing. explosions of once again ripped through iraq official said at least thirty one have died and dozens have been wounded blast took place in seven cities across the country mostly targeting crowded outdoor markets and bus stops one of them

a gathering of mourners for the seventeen victims of saturday's attack this is massive surge of violence has already claimed more than six thousand lives. in australia a huge fire fueled by high winds and dry conditions as force one and a half thousand people to evacuate from the site of the olympics held in the year two thousand and three were treated after breathing in smoke it took fifty firefighters to bring the blaze under control and it's just one of a number of fires to have swept across the eastern state of new south wales in the last twenty four hours. to china now where a building collapse left five people buried in six. injured in the northwest of the country on saturday the bodies of four workers have since been recovered while the search continues for the one remaining victim witnesses say the construction site had twenty people working on the roof and five on the first floor when the accident happened the cause of the collapse is being investigated for having amassed a three trillion dollar war chest chinese firms of gone on

a shopping offensive in europe just today it's been reported the beijing is on the brink of a multi billion deal to snap up shares in the u.k.'s nuclear industry and not even iconic london taxes have been spared the interest of cash rich businessmen from beijing. reports. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cab would be consigned to the history books after its may cut the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t. 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 shape of the taxi. meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and she on 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 future really previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. to develop. i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation 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. 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 but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies that means companies are not competitive across the globe. so we're not putting in the right tax policies we're not dealing with regulation that hinders 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 staff and jobs are more liable to go because there's allegiance between the companies that are owned by foreign entities and their country rather than britain pieces been a cabbie for over forty years in a scene the london taxi company gave to several british owners i hopped in for a ride and asked him how he feels about turning chinese it is a shame that it's not owned by a british company but it's better then go into the wall a dial m. and a companies that are still british they would be faced with and you see. i

see london. so let's have a look at some of china's recent investments in two thousand and ten a chinese car maker flush with money decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it in january last year one of germany's premier concrete pump makers also fell to beijing's richest that same month italian not builder ferretti was snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime just a few weeks later french fashion brand sonia recall was taken over by hong kong based firm in keeping with the growing fondness for luxury roger nightingale founder of an economic strategy consultancy firm says many european countries believe chinese investment poses a threat. a lot of european countries are very nervous about except seeing chinese cash who many of them and i think you find this in

southern europe you find it in france you find it to some modest degree in germany also some countries think that they are threatened if china buys into their industrial base my own view is that that is entirely wrong my own view is that the industrial base of these countries will fail if you don't get the investment into them that will allow them to raise their productivity and to raise raise the profile of their products it's something comparable to that which afflicted the africans earlier they think that by selling out their assets they actually somehow undermine their capacity to have an economy that is viable in the future i think they're wrong but time will tell. this week the olympic torch began its long journey from moscow to sochi and the twenty fourteen winter games the flame embarked on a four month relay covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia

and space this in greece it was then taken to russia by plane last sunday it was escorted to a red square by two hundred strong cavalcade of. president putin personally the ceremonial cauldron kicking off the relay the torch then toward moscow for two more days before setting off on its epic trip across russia. to visit nearly three thousand cities and towns it'll scale the country's tallest peak and descend to the bottom of its deepest lake leaving be taken for a space walk for the first time in history and on february twenty fourth scene it will finally end up in sochi to herald the start of the games and he joins me tonight reports from that relates over on our website right now at altie dot com. you've been watching the weekly on r.t. after the break i'll be back with the headlines and more news from around the world

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so in this sense there is no difference between rouhani enough but it is good to save for his visit to new york through honey publicly declared that their goal is to annihilate israel. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each. one of someone offers a life time food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against them all and we think that. the genetic anymore the right products are priest to tool there is no. evidence for this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most tract i don't believe that destroyed. and that free. enterprise is profit.

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