eight pm right now here in moscow law if tonight ukraine stops receiving russian gas after missing the latest and final deadline to start paying its multibillion dollar debt stresses that supplies to europe will continue as planned. that's a. threatening note to take as much gas as it needs for free from the transit pipe supplying russian gas to the. also headlining from the international fresh fears of a mounting police threat stirred up in america by revelations that officers are being armed with weapons from war zones despite a low crime rate. palestinians killed during clashes with israeli troops amid a massive door to door for three jewish teenagers kidnapped in the west but. if

you're just joining us my name is kevin irwin straight to our top stories in this russia's gazprom a stop to gas supplies to ukraine after kier failed to pay a part of its huge debt by the final deadline earlier today when a cost of a reports than from outside the gas giants headquarters here in moscow well we've actually heard from the c.e.o. of gas from alexei miller and he's been meeting with russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and once again miller said that to ukraine's position is a form of. the position of the ukrainian side can be described as open blackmail the ukrainian government the prime minister wanted gasp from to allow ukraine to pain. true low price for gas like those in the customs union and it's

certainly prices were not granted to kiev in ukraine said it would not pay back its gas that to russia it also said it would take our gas without any payment and in volumes it needs of course such demands are unacceptable for the russian side that's why gas problem and to the prepayment method at ten am this morning we also know that ukraine's prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk has imposed a state of emergency on the country's energy sector here but of course now it has to pay up front if it wants any gas so from russia now the price that russia was offering is three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters even the e.u. energy chief said that the price was reasonable but again when it comes to ukraine's prime minister siniora he doesn't want to pay any more than the price that was agreed with the previous leadership in ukraine before february's so right now since both sides are can't agree on the price or take matters to the international court ukraine is accusing russia of playing political games or russia simply looking to

get its money back now of course as we know many european countries they're dragging this period right now because they don't want to see a repeat of what happened in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and that's when ukraine was called siphoning off gas intended for them through its transit pipelines and since of course we know that many european countries depend heavily on russian gas their concerns are understandable but right now the ball is in kiev sports and already we know as i said that many european countries are worried that we will see ukraine siphoning gas off of them since they can't get their hands on more every summarize from one of the facts for ukraine so far as russia more than four billion dollars what russia demanded when it set its final deadline was that it received at least half of the money moscow stressed all along that it will continue supplying europe before ukraine for its parts been demanding that moscow cut the price on gas supply the e.u. has called gazprom. final offer of three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand

cubic meter is a reasonable proposal and as you can see that number is lower than the estimates of what many e.u. countries already pay for russian gas. let's take a look at a bit more of the logistics of all this here's how the gas pipelines go from russia to the e.u. the majority goes through ukraine's territory despite assurances from moscow that supplies to europe won't suffer gazprom says that kiev has threatened that it will take quote as much transit gas as it needs for free which it has done before ukraine's prime minister gets new york has ordered a review meantime of the transom fees for russia's gas supplies to europe so let's talk about now with dr richard welling aziz the deputy editorial director of the institute of economic affairs in london dr thanks for being with us first off let's talk about the threat here from ukraine that it may be might be siphoning off transit gast you through to europe south before in two thousand and nine is that a big danger now i think it is and i think already ukraine's got to approximately

five months of gas in storage now that it hasn't paid for and obviously this is going to be hugely wary european union countries that rely so heavily on russian gas we've already seen a crisis meeting of the european commission and very very worried about this and i mean any spike in the gas price from this crisis could be potentially very damaging to the use economy why is it we hear all this worry in europe all the time but it's kiev that sold in the card to see a rush is going to supply the gas it's guaranteed to supply the gas as normal to europe why isn't europe putting more pressure on kiev to get this sorted. well i think that's going to happen i think possibly this will potentially drive a wedge between some of the major european powers i think you can expect immense pressure from germany for example to push towards a deal the point is we've already seen a very significant hike in the oil price because of events in iraq and if we also

had a hike in the gas price because of the ukraine crisis then europe could face them enormous difficulties particularly those countries in southern europe that both rely on energy imports and also are in deep economic trouble to add flavor to the proverbial fire here as well no says it will review the transit fees for russian gas through ukraine is that going to go well i mean i think. i mean in the longer term of course there are schemes to introduce capacity for that will further south with the south stream project through the black sea but in the meantime obviously. still has some leverage over but the problem is of course this isn't going to help ordinary ukrainian people it's creating enormous economic instability and uncertainty a deal would have signaled a step towards normalization of relations with russia which of course is ukraine's by far the largest trading partner so really a deal within the ordinary ukrainian people's interest and i don't really

understand why else is going through. another try to sit outside all of ukraine it was planned is the south stream pipeline yet at this really difficult target negotiations in the last month or so brussels will be putting pressure on bold garia to make last minute changes or to at least make it more difficult by the looks of it but timing no matter how you look at it it isn't. that's right i mean i think. you know the politics of got involved in the use been trying to use the south stream project in order to put more pressure on russia but of course the u.s. also made a series of policy blunders in its own energy policy so it's it's closed down a lot of its coal fired power stations environmental read reason so it's really quite a vulnerable position and of course things are going to change in a few months time once winter back in that will really focus people's minds on getting a deal surely you would have thought europe once i was treatment quickly as possible to alleviate the problems of getting gas to the west to go through ukraine no.

i agree but of course the different pressures and of course you know it is immense . pressure from the u.s. to impose the more stringent sanctions on russia for example so really torn in two directions it has this enormous trade with russia it doesn't want to damage that too much but the same time is under pressure from washington to be take a harder line on the ukraine crisis against russian of course that's going to be damaging to the economy so this clearly is not easy for them to find a path through here ok dr richard wellings deputy editor of directly to the economic affairs in london thanks for your thoughts. there's been another attempt to attack a russian diplomatic compound in ukraine this time in the port city of a desk you can see here covering up pictures of crowds of demonstrators trying to get through to the russian consulate building they were stopped by police there were master hooded people in the crowd there the mobs were chanting anti russian

slogans and calling for the russian flag to be torn down police arrested a group of protesters who were carrying explosives all this comes just days course after the russian embassy in kiev was vandalized. as well as locking horns over gas with russia kiev still waging a military campaign in ukraine's east near the city of slavyansk one of the places hardest hit by the military operation journalists have come under fire from a correspondent for marty's ruptly video agency was among them he told us what happened. although we were walking through fields when we heard a machine gun we dived down i kept on filming the self defense member who was our guide called for backup and a car came to pick us we jumped in we were driving fast and then another shot ripped through our tire and we were driving just the bare wheel for the rest of our journey we thank god but we're alive when we made it all the crew at the time were filming a report about the allegations of phosphorus bombs being used by the ukrainian army

their desire to cause large fires and their use is strictly behavior did by the un and other two journalists working for russian t.v. have been released meantime the pair were held by ukraine security forces since monday meantime thousands of people have been having to flee their homes in the east because of the violence. because for a minute by minute coverage of all the various and many elements in ukraine's crisis right now you can always head to our website r.t. dot com or keep it fully posted. there's outrage in communities across america after revelations that local police forces are getting heavy duty military equipment washington says it's using surplus hardware from its overseas wars to bolster security back at home but some americans fear the neighborhoods are now turning into war zones in their own report miles got the story. well as america can use winding down its longest streak of war soldiers are returning home and so is their military arsenal

a used armored vehicle that will be used during swat calls and other emergency situations nine foot tall mine resistant trucks specifically designed to survive roadside bomb attacks are parked all throughout the u.s. local and state police departments have acquired more than four hundred m. wraps and silencers and tens of thousands of m. sixteen machine guns and night vision equipment the new paradigm is it's the military paradigm militarized police and the problem with that is when they look at american citizens volved when they see only combatants this is all made possible through america's military transfer program created in the ninety's when violence and drug gangs plagued major cities today crime in the u.s. has fallen to its lowest in a generation and the special response team in richland county south carolina looks like this ready to take on the taliban should it invade the self this year the thing that it's doing is basically just making it more and more obvious there are

they are being launched her eyes are police forces are being turned into soldiers iraq war veteran emily yates says her country's law enforcement is being trained to fight against the public instead of serving to protect it they should be trained to deescalate any violence or aggression that's happening but instead the police are showing up and causing violence and aggression people are just afraid all the time and for no reason our country has never been invaded we have no foreign armies at our doorstep however a sheriff in indiana claims his county needs m. wraps to protect against possible attacks by veterans returning from home i see a lot of paranoia about that because i don't like it usually excuse the armed police like they're intimate you know. like the people of afghanistan and we got a problem using that as a way to militarize the police for whatever they think might be coming in the

future a future where america's local police forces will be prepared for war but who will they be warring against marina r.t. . and did even some form of police officers are worried about law enforcers getting so much fun now retired captain ray lewis sided with protest his after offices pepper sprayed peaceful demonstrators not street rallied in twenty eleven he says such crackdowns could turn deadly if military weapons are used by police. high caliber weapons are extremely dangerous they have a very high ricocheting velocity and that means that innocent people are going to get killed and injured they will be shot they can go through doors they can go through cinder block they can go through metal car doors and this type of velocity is not necessary think of kent state where they shot so many and killed so many innocent people and they were not high caliber weapons can you imagine

a massacre that would take place at full for service had high caliber weapons they will sell this high equipment the repair the maintenance for this will come from taxpayers' money corporate america will make billions off its office equipment you've heard of the prison industrial complex you heard of the military industrial complex corporate america now wants to make a pile lease industrial complex where they'll make billions off of police departments the u.k.'s first secret trial was about to signal and to move from justice in the country however the prosecution was banned from doing so just yet but if it is remain a correspondent spends more but surely also from it for the program to the gap narrow zone scottish independence we give you the details of the ongoing debate. clashes between palestinians and israeli troops have left one teenager dead in the west bank city of ramallah it comes as tell of the the rest more than forty palestinians in connection with the abduction of three jewish teenage is the latest

attentions reportedly bring the total number of those rounded up to at least one hundred fifty among them is the speaker of the palestinian parliament who is also a member of hamas. more of the operation from tel aviv this has resulted in the closure of several palestinian cities and also in house to house searches and it was during one of those searches that overnight a nineteen year old palestinian was shot dead during clashes in the palestinian city of ramallah now the israeli government says that the hamas militant group is clearly to blame it says despite the fact that the organization has not taken responsibility and let's remember that this is an organization that in the past has clearly stated when it is responsible for attacks and for kidnappings in fact a massive said the israeli accusations are silly the three teenagers were kidnapped on tuesday night while they were hitchhiking home after religious studies the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed that he will do everything in his power to bring them back safely he also points the blame at the palestinian

president mahmoud abbas saying he needs to shoulder responsibility particularly in light of the recent palestinian unity government that was formed this unity government is something that the israeli prime minister has criticized repeatedly saying that it is an opportunity that hamas is trying to use to gain if through their stronghold in the west bank as is always the case of course it is the ordinary palestinians who are feeding the repercussions of this heavy handedness on the israeli response side you have border closures you have an increased israeli military presence now in the palestinian territories and the mood on the ground of course is that no one is certain how long this will continue for. a very quick break now a lot to come previously mentioned plus those two the story of a russian former anticorruption official who jumped to his death during a bribery investigation as well.

i think. they would like to know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across a cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try and rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing up to five different film ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture.

between yes and no vote some scottish independence is closing a recent survey shows nearly half of all scottish families are divided on the question one of the key issues in the debate are pensions many claim that the elderly will be worse off in a post yes scotland probably depend on the campaign angus gave us his view on about it spending on social protection that's pensions and welfare payments actually take up a proportion of our national wealth at the moment then for the rest of the you gave to pensions spending is actually more affordable in scotland under the westminster

system it's absolutely ridiculous for the new campaign to suggest this phone wouldn't be through member of the european union scotland has been the boss of the e.u. for the last forty years our citizens are you citizens and any other scenario this fall and i'll say that the european union caused serious difficulties for the other member states of the e.u. who have businesses which operate in scotland as citizens who live here and that would jeopardize the rights of those businesses and citizens. well as the vote is many famous names are choosing sides among them or through harry potter series j.k. rowling received abuse online after tonight in a million pounds to british unity that's the side she's taking scotland's sole euro employee that told r.t. sophie shevardnadze that his fellow scot shouldn't be misled by what the separatist politicians claim we have had a three hundred year old alliance scotland has a three hundred year old lines with england which is benefit both countries and enable both of us to punch above our weight on the world stage mr samad is not offering independence either way mr salman who is the leader of the scottish

national party of us as governor he is offering a rule from brussels because he wants to remain part of the european union it wants to offer rule from brussels and financial rule from frankfurt that's not independence. a former russian anti corruption police officer who is himself caught up in a bribery scandal has committed suicide according to his lawyer he jumped out of a window after being questioned and apparently this wasn't the suspect first attempt on his own life to see catherine off reports. well boris kolesnikov is the former head of the economic security and anti corruption department at the interior ministry here he was in the process of being interrogated by authorities when he allegedly asked to use the bathroom and somehow managed to climb out of the window

and plummets to his death and in a suicide. but there are of course questions about whether there may be potential police brutality involved in this case now back in may he sustained serious head injuries while in pretrial detention wasn't proven there had been allegations of potential police brutality that he may have been beaten up while in custody and this comes on the heels of news developments in another police brutality case that has sparked a nationwide outrage here in russia a fifty two year old man who was in detention two years ago in the russian city of cazan when he was allegedly tortured beaten and sodomized with a champagne bottle he ended up dying from those injuries well today eight police officers were sentenced to up to fifteen years behind bars in connection to that gruesome killing. more tonight's top stories sunni militants in northern iraq have captured the city of tal afar near the syrian border is therefore the latest blow

to the nation's shiite led government a week after it lost a vast swathes of territory in the country's north a radical militant group known as isis is leading the arms will through the country washington says it could use drone strikes against the militants and is even considering direct talks with iran to help the iraqi government fight the growing insurgency. somali based militant group al shabaab has admitted responsibility for an attack on a town on kenya's coast the islamist rampage has killed at least forty eight people shot of people in a drive by attack as well as targeting hotels a bank a police station al-shabaab has been behind a string of deadly assaults in kenya last september at least sixty seven people were killed in a siege at a shopping center in nairobi. pakistani fighter jets have pounded militant strongholds in the country's northwest tribal area the country's army says thirty seven insurgents have reportedly been killed in north waziristan the airstrikes have a week of the deadly militant attack on the international airport in karachi which killed dozens of people but

a good news here formula one champion michael schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left hospital according to his family they say he'll continue his rehabilitation of another location the forty five year old racing star suffered a severe head injury will skiing in the french alps last december doctors kept him in a medically induced coma to help reduce swelling in the brain. the prospect of the u.k.'s first secret trial of two suspected terrorists in the name of national security has had defenders of the british justice system up in arms but last week an appeals court flashed the red card to the plan questions still remain there were some of the main proceedings will be kept behind closed doors anyway sarah firth explains more. the trial of the key terror suspects was always the first fully secret criminal trial to be heard in the u.k. now prosecutors had been fishing for that the press to be banned from every part of the proceedings on the grounds of national security now the course of appeal

blocked that last week so what can now be reported the judge's introductory remarks the prosecutors a printing speech and the verdicts and sentencing phase can all be reported but the court of appeal also ruled that the cool part of this terrorism trial will still be heard in secret and we can take a listen now as to why the details of how this terror trial should be heard have proven so controversial these are the names of the t. defendants in the terrorism case until last week they'd been known only by the initials a b. and c. d. cheatin application from prosecutors to ban the press and public from proceedings on the grounds of protecting national security the whole case was close to being completely in secret well the court of appeal blocks that attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the u.k.

the judge is saying that the core of the terrorism trial could be heard in secret but that other parts must be public but campaign is the worried that despite the ruling this case marks yet another step toward secret courts becoming a firm part of the british legal system only partial victory large parts of the going to be held in secret the important issue here is the very issue of open justice because we have a long tradition that just has to it's not enough for justice to be done it's got to be seen to be done in this case was an extraordinary departure by initially allowing the whole of the case to be heard in secret at the heart of the debate around secret cool. is this can national security information ever be made public because it sounds a is you know there are people who are saying that it's a dangerous precedent they are wrong it's neither dangerous nor a precedent as far as the precedent point is concerned the have been many trials in

which part of the hearing has been held in secret for national security reasons house for being dangerous it's not dangerous because the judge will guard the fairness of the trial down in public if at all possible well for hundreds of years we've been able to have jurisprudence on cases that involve sensitive issues there are always ways in which the evidence can be presented that will protect for example surveillance or secret service operations there's no need to go to the bar the press from it whatsoever if we don't know what's going on what's being reported it could easily lead to an increase in miscarriages of justice ultimately it is the judges that this saeed there will be released in a down to this in this instance the cool cheese nazi goes far as a police secret trial the concern now is that with more applications that day went the far off surface r.t.

reporting from london. thanks for being with our teams national review watching around the world we always appreciate you company after the break a debate on u.s. foreign policy crosstalk. i think right. now i. want to. like. right to see. first strike. and i think.

for. the. following welcome to crossfire of things considered i'm peter lavelle debating american foreign policy is there one any more traditionally the political left and right had clearly different positions on how washington should exert power in the world today it appears everyone in the establishment is a hawk. to

cross talk american foreign policy i'm joined by my guest james carafano in washington he's the heritage foundation's vice president as well as a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges and in philadelphia we cross to walter he is an independent scholar and freelance journalist as well as a former senior executive at the department of defense or a gentleman cross-talk roles in fact that means you can jump in and any time you want and i very much encourage you james let me if i go to you first in washington it used to be there was a left right division on looking at foreign policy and american interventions abroad is that just completely disappeared now because it seems that there are variations of being a hawk these days. yeah well i think the premise here shows you know completely wrong and i think they were wrong reading of american foreign policy is so you know first of all american there's always a bit of a sine wave between the left and the right we go through these periods of relative consensus and then clear divergence you know so for example the earl.