other was in charge here interest the e.u. use rule of law mission in kosovo says it will now launch its own probe into the allegations in general. on war crimes and other serious crimes very serious. should be sufficient evidence and should we be responsible for dealing with them we will certainly look into the issue. mr hashem she has dismissed the report is baseless and defamatory and has threatened to sue it's another shocking twist in the history of this already troubled region naysay randy e.u. peace keeping in police cars stand guard twenty four hours a day each side of this bridge that divides the serbian and albanian parts of the town of meet the wreath said ten years after the end of the cost of been worn ethnic divisions here still run very deep bass with the release of this report people are now saying that they feel abandoned and let down by the international community here supposedly charged with protecting them all these he is less a bit. of a story come across because it's the kremlin. bringing a century old christ

it's four thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our team here headlines russia slams the e.u. and us for attempting to influence the trial of. former oil tycoon awaits sentence after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows as moscow's ice covered the airport struggle to cope with the flow of holiday travelers officials say they're doing their best to ensure that the flights take off on schedule. and two years after israel launched a large scale assault on gaza killing more than a thousand palestinians survivors say they're still living in a cage the strip remains blocked off by israel with tight control or ever everything going in and coming out. russia's deputy foreign minister has recently returned from a visit to the middle east up next he tells r.t. it's time for the world community to step up and get the peace process between israelis and palestinians back on track. like some of the luggage in the midst of sultan of you recently visited syria and lebanon who you met the leaders of these two countries you also met how it must show

short time to harvest that's why they chose that way you've mentioned turn to factory culture the e.u. and us donate about half a billion dollars to in terms of agriculture in afghanistan each year but many believe they smile disappears into a corrupt political system can you explain how this happened. fighting drugs is very complicated done it requires a very comprehensive approach it's obvious that efforts taken so far by the government of afghanistan have brought some results in twenty provinces the poppy has not grown any more also five thousand drug dealers are now in jail has also been provided to poor peasants regional corp has of course been very helpful that we see the provinces where the war still rages on where there is no security account for ninety eight percent of all poppy and opium production so this is the huge problem that there's no security in those regions. so ken the country is donating their money to get it stand sure that they smart it will go to what it is supposed to go. about what you've mentioned donated money disappearing i should say of all the money allocated to

time to harvest that's why they chose that way and you've mentioned turn to figure a culture the e.u. and us tonight about half a big. indoor still in terms of agriculture in afghanistan each year but many believe they small it disappears into a corrupt political system can you explain how this happens. fighting drugs is very complicated or not requires a very comprehensive approach like we see the provinces where the war still rages on where there is no security account for ninety eight percent of all poverty and opium production so this is a huge problem that there is no security in those regions so can the countries donating their money to afghanistan be sure that they will go to what it is supposed to go. you know what you mentioned donated money disappearing i should say of all the money allocated towards fighting the drug crimes of the afghan government spends twenty to thirty percent with the remaining seventy percent spent by the donors themselves they have their own projects which they found themselves yes investment of going to start very claims you are associated with the drug maf

four minutes past eight moscow tom thanks for being with us more and more europeans seem to be regretting their country's decision to join the e.u. especially those using the struggling single currency find out why in ten minutes time before the business. welcome to business of prices have shot up after opec left production quotas unchanged at the weekend brant crude is holding over ninety dollars a barrel almost a percent up today the early winter renewed optimism over a global economic recovery given the market to boot. goldman sachs predicts the oil price will rise mid term averaging one hundred dollars a barrel next year and rising further in twenty twelve. pair of president of russian energy giant who quote says that too optimistic. wish i think that the current price is already fair and comfortable for both producers and consumers our analysts agree with opec experts that the oil price next year will be at around the same level as this year that is eighty or ninety dollars are companies looking forward to this price for them staying with the sector exxon mobil and b.p. are in talks with the government and rosneft to drill

e.u. especially those using the struggling single currency right now more about. ten minutes time but it's going to business update next. walk into business or prices have soared off the opec left production quotas unchanged bring crude is holding at ninety dollars a barrel that's up two point one percent today the early winter and renewed optimism over a global economic recovery have given the market a booth. for the right bridging hundred dollars a barrel next year and rising further in twenty twelve a very good pair of presidents of russia energy giant new call says that's too optimistic. i think that the current price is already fair and comfortable for those producers and consumers the beauty of our analysts agree with opec experts is that the oil price next year will be at around the same level. that is eighty or ninety dollars are companies looking forward to this price you can offer them in other energy news exxon mobil and b.p. are in talks with the government and rosneft to drill in russia's offshore areas they're among twenty three domestic and foreign

what are your headlines now russia slams the us and e.u. for attempting to influence the trial of. former oil tycoons awaiting sentence after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows out moscow's ice covered airports are struggling to cope with the flow of holiday travel and officials say they're doing their best to ensure that flights take off on charge more. than two years after israel launched a large scale assault on gaza killing over a thousand palestinians those who survived say they're still living in a cage the strip remains of blocked off by israel with tight control over everything going in and coming up. well up next it's a special report on the rise of domestic violence in the united states you with r.t. do stay with us. courtship of abuse to me. i can sum it up in one word despair. and i just prayed that if you couldn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me. i love this guy any promise to be his wife into h

you had lines now russia the us and e.u. for attempting to influence the trial of. former oil tycoons awaiting sentence after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows. hordes struggling to cope with the flow of holiday travelers officials say they're doing their best to ensure that the flights take off on shuttle. and two years after israel launched a large scale assault on gaza killing over a thousand palestinians those who survived to say they're still living in a cage remains blocked off by israel with tight control of everything going in and coming out. or russia's deputy foreign minister has recently returned from a visit to the middle east next he tells r.t. it's time for the world community to step up and get the peace process between israelis and palestinians back on track to stay with us. mr you recently visited syria and lebanon so you met the leaders of these two countries you also met how it must show in damascus where you said that israel settlement policy in the occupied arab lands was the main stumbling point t

is the us and e.u. for attempting to influence the trial of. former oil tycoons awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows at moscow ice covered airports struggling to cope with the flow of holiday travelers. and two years after israel launched a large scale assault on gaza killing over a thousand palestinians those who survived say they're still living in a. financial headlines that with a twist the kaiser report is coming your way here on r.t. thank you for watching. and this is the kaiser report yeah we got some more of those stinking financial dearest story of this show let me review for you so far in the program we reveal to you the shenanigans over goldman sachs now michael bloomberg is suing the european central bank to get them to reveal that goldman sachs is the bank that cooked greece's books to get them into the euro we also told you about j.p. morgan's massive illegal silver short position we got them so scared now their mood there is a little silver short position off

e.u. countries to give the us but i think that's just one point but now the point is there that it has to be very popular already now to be said to them i have access to the female but now we.

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e.u. consists of situation also embezzling billions of us dollars just to remind you because they used to be all of you vigor all companies in the world at the time headed by. who was at the time russia's richest men and all this makes this one of the most controversial cases in russia and for more let's hear this report by my colleague. once russia's richest men he's now russia's most prominent prisoner coming to the end of it eighteen sentenced for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history he and his partner. which charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion u.s. dollars from a subsidiary company of you can see the verdict has been announced guilty. supporters say he didn't break any laws. or was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had dissolved loopholes and them. rose to great wealth thanks to one of the world's largest non-state oil companies you can see the company grew from the states in the one n

e.u. more democratic and accountable is put to us that is absurd argument that is absolutely bizarre and totally fine i think that's a very very long step and go ahead you want to it is easy to feel it how can the european union really argue that it's democratic steffen go ahead first the recent work to have through the lisbon treaty was that you wanted to make e.u. more efficient when it comes to decision making or legal to say what's going to power to the elite internationally and i take paraguay to a new nation stone fan continue continue your point go ahead it's very it's very difficult to argue when there's somebody who interrupts or go ahead steph and you continue this country once again the research i reserve for the earliest going treaty was to make even more efficient and more democratic in relation to the enlarged european union up to twenty seven member states a lot of news a long night long term plan to centralize power harry what do you think about that i mean i want to talk about this this bailout clause in this program but we've heard is the e.u. now more efficient and democratic.

e.u. policy alice at the bridge group to us rather and thanks for talking to us now let's talk about what's brought these protests on we heard a statement from gordon brown talking to the b.b.c. this morning about how the problems in the eurozone were amounted to much more than just debts of banks and that he saw a crisis in the areas and coming in the first few months of next year what's your view on that well i'm glad he's repaired he's been rather off the very edge of lace and frankly a little bit too to do too late with the been a number of people have been saying this isn't just a make crisis that's part of the whole euro zone package for the last ten fifteen twenty years so to pop up now and say that's a problem is it's not exactly for sorry to charge that you've been predicting a crisis in the year is in for quite a long time if i'm not mistaken what what sort of crisis do you think they'll be what will it's what shape will it take. the fundamental crisis it was down to you don't have a single economic sector as it were within the whole of the eurozone you've got you've got the north

also from korea expert going for stay with us here on r t still on your way diplomatic fallout i know why you're wrong is considering breaking off all ties with e.u. ok. but first the aftermath of freezing rain is causing major delays around us ructions at one of moscow's main airports i stopped electricity cables have a ruptured and caused a power outage at domodedovo airport for more on this we go live for correspondent sara forth with more hello sorry so what's happening where you are how bad is the situation. anyway. today is really a chaotic situation. been affected by the power because. we had the substations the power the. big cables that run the electricity to it and. the double whammy of the weather is well really affecting the traffic coming in today. people walking in the. cases. they were getting the information that they were going to be going anywhere now the . situation as quickly as they. had the domestic. taken out of. the baggage none of the international flights are up and running. what does this mean for planes that are currently in the air. with the pilots completely. affected they are able. with the pilots in a lot of. place

e.u. so the euro crashing and burning at the moment there's never been a chime postman's for us to have this discussion arlen's in a lot of trouble at the moment in the e.u. and the i.m.f. have stepped in to bail them out surely arland would be in a lot more trouble if they didn't have that kind of backup so isn't the e.u. a force for good well let's not forget of course to referendum they were forced to vote again because they got the decision was the political elite know personally i don't think we should be bailing out ireland i mean that's my own personal view i thought it is ironic i was watching the budget this week an island their stamp duty up to a million euros in one percent losses at four percent and seven hundred fifty thousand by their choice. benefit is crazy the amount they pay out in child benefit their corporation tax to keep it at twelve and a half percent no wonder countries a reader companies are relocated from germany from portugal from spain and from the united kingdom to ireland well how can you have monetary union if you haven't got every other form of union and polit

e.u. average. i think it would be more worthwhile for us to debate how we get the growth rate up and what reforms do we make to make our economy more efficient? has he got something to say about it or is it another blank page? >> he said how do we get growth of the economy up. absolutely light but what you don't do is put up v.a.t. what you don't do is put up v.a.t. next year from the 4th of january and cut public spending by 20 billion pounds. that's why -- that's why the obr says that we will have the weakest recovery from recession for 40 years. i come back -- i come back to this point. i come back to this point about employment, mr. speaker. can he tell us -- can he tell us over the five years -- over the five years of the parliament, which will unemployment return to precrisis levels? because that test of strength of the recovery. when will it return to the levels before the recession? >> we inherited an 8% rate of unemployment and what the office of budget responsibility says is it it will be 6% by the end of the parliament. he asked the question, he gets the answer. but let me just remind him

e.u. referendum campaign this is purely about getting our democratic right to have a vote because three leaders have promised us that it was a labor party manifesto commitment by tony blair that gordon brown of course and then david cameron famously in oppositions gave a cast on guarantee that he would have a referendum on the subject so once i realized it was vance i thought yeah hold on this is wrong and i do believe we've been denied our democratic right it would be costly to implement a referendum on being in the i mean the u.k. is already a member of the european union it's better just to let sleeping dogs lie yes he would be costly but it's costly to be in it it's costing the british tact. forty eight million pound a day to be in the we've just given on the island another seven billion pounds of our money saw another four hundred fifty million pounds in the budget increase it's going to be even more than that so it's costly already and anyway i'm not saying to get out what i'm saying is let's have the discussion you know on the b.b.c. and on programs like this you know the pros and cons of europe so that

michael market analyst and author good evening to you thanks be on the program with us so what does it mean for the e.u. and the eurozone if one of its biggest economies like italy is now coming out of this sort of pressure. it doesn't mean the end in my opinion because the political will is there to keep the euro with all means and this is what also is he being. president today announced the money order to make the euro survive the other question of course is if by printing money you can keep the euro but i mean we're here on a very political. issue that means if the euro really will go then europe also will drown and this is what nobody wants on the other hand of course. there are problems at the periphery but to do tomorrow the e.c. b. will meet again in frankfurt and like to present a package. in order to make the euro survive this package on the other hand doesn't mean anything else than printing money similarly to their work to the feds. quantitative easing to already have done because you print yourself towards disaster you say the euros could be saved at all costs surely there must be a line to

information from up in space to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the cosmos peter all of a bike you know. so a european reform campaigner explains why the e.u. safety net is fowling to catch countries as they fall but first we'll check in with the business daniel joins us now. to business oh prices have soared after saturday's opec decision to leave production quotas unchanged brant crude is trading one point six percent higher at ninety one dollars ninety one cents the market is also being supported by the cold start to the winter in the northern hemisphere and renewed optimism over a global economic recovery. some market watchers believe the strengthening trend will continue through next year goldman sachs predicts the oil price will average one hundred dollars a barrel next year and drives further in twenty twelve but the pair of president of russian energy john you quote believe that too optimistic. i think that the current price is already fair and comfortable for those producers and consumers our analysts agree with opec experts that the only price next year will be at around the same level. that is eighty or ninety dollars our compan

us. someone tore into the dangerous leaders at the e.u.watch. >> they are being told is it would be inappropriate for them to have a general election, and the commission are said they had to agree to the budgets before they could be allowed to have a general election. just who the hell do you think you people are? you are very, very dangerous people, indeed, your obsession with creating this euro state means that you are happy to destroy democracy, you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be poor. untold millions must suffer so your euro dream can continue. >> he's right. you notice it all happened without votes orphan -- without votes or any fanfare. europe is telling ireland they cannot have an election. because it look like freedom does not noon it is. we are today there is no such thing as freedom without economic freedom. i say, bull crap. i would rather be poor and free and have a chance, a chance to do something than rich and a slave. in the year 64 in a.d. the empier report said "tax and tax and tax," and the b

e.u. they are to be ratifying the change. the mechanism will be available for use from january 2013. the exact nature of the mechanism, however, is not being debated but very much being debated what form it will take. will it be the currency of the countries needing it or something else? >> they may actually be more harm than food. if a country is already overdone -- >> the talk that germany would like to see a line inserted into the treaty saying the mechanism, whatever its final form, should only be triggered as a last reshort. but those saying it could leave room for the markets if they fear a delay in the triggering of the mechanism. that said. there doesn't appear to be support for -- >> the australiain' authorities say they expect more bodies to be found after a boat carrying refugees sank off the coast of christmas island. at least 27 people tied. it's not clear how many were actually on the boat. most on the boat were thought to be from iraq and iran. >> more harrowing pictures emerge sowing the desperate plight of the asylum seekers when their boat was smashed against the ro

thanks for being with us tonight a little later on our talks money as he says the e.u. monetary system that's in his latest debate program cross talk about ten minutes from now in fact before that though let's get across all the latest business is late friday night in moscow from kareen. i want to welcome to a business program with mcqueen americana good to have you with us russian businessman alexander live has confirmed he's planning to sell around four percent of their float shares the deal is estimated to be worth up to one hundred ten million dollars as negative sells the forty four million shares in russia's national air carrier the shares are to be sold through a private placement organized by u.b.s. i don't believe the main reason for the sale is to generate finances for negatives troubled national reserve bank which is seen capital outflows for a number of state inspections. question prime minister would you put it has met is finished college apart in st petersburg economic issues were on the agenda as russia is still the prime trade partner for finland bilater

e.u. members so if what the united kingdom wants is free trade she can have that without being part of a club that makes three thousand new rules for us every year and cost us a membership fee of nearly fifty million pounds a day and the seven billion pounds that the british government has said it will guarantee for the irish frankly is money poured down the drain what we should be doing is saying to our friends in our land we will help you come out of the euro and get back to having your own currency otherwise frankly we're wasting this money mr grosso said i think two years ago he said that the european union was the first ever nonmilitary empire and what empires try to do is expand so they'll have it into the euro and they'll try and make join the european union next year over year after they think that all the while they're expanding people will say well it must be going well and it will take their attention away from what's going on within sadly it's too late and all the opinion polls show that in germany in greece in britain in our in the right across the european union increasingly the publics of europe are holding the politica

five thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t these are your headlines russia slams the u.s. and the e.u. for attempting to influence the trial of my. former oil tycoons awaiting said and after being found guilty of a desolate billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows on moscow's ice cover to airports struggling to cope with the flow of holiday travelers and officials say they're doing their best to ensure flights take off on schedule. and two years after israel launched a large scale assault on gaza killing more than a thousand palestinians survivors say they're still living in a cage the strip remains blocked off by israel with tight control over everything going in or coming out. of these stories in half an hour up next artie's al gore enough talk to the u.n. representative in darfur about southern sudan's upcoming referendum and whether it can bring peace to the country that's coming your way in spotlight stay with us. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i'll bring up when today my guest on the show is it by him. on the ninth of january the people o

attaching another two to collect information from up in space to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the cosmos peter all of baikonur. e.u. leaders hope to be able to move decisively in saving the euro at this week's summit on the continent wide debt crisis the eurozone is battling to prevent the single currency from disintegrating well next john daunt who leads the e.u. referendum campaign in the united kingdom says countries are better off leaving the union before it collapses. today i'm talking to john gaunt british media personality and head of the referendum campaign he's demanding that the british people should be allowed to vote on whether they want to remain members of the european union john gordon thanks very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me a bit about the e.u. referendum campaign is this is purely about getting our democratic right to have a vote because three leaders of promises that it was a labor party manifesto commitment by tony blair than gordon brown of course and then david cameron famously in oppositions gave a cast iron guarantee that he would have a referendum on the subject so onc

e.u. countries it's basics but we have tried to be a pirate country in many ways for instance where us in the most modern technology is now in a body. watching war of the lisa. then we try to show how to be effective and safe at the same time i know it they so want to read the rest or so you can feed a side once and you can babysit freedom for the short terms like for the fairy saw for the fall of this new trade. we personally i admire and the things we invested in that but we know that it would be mind again and this time to go the whole deal for it's got to go higher but what these the most important piece of bad when depression has now become very practical very pragmatic that all of these conditions what's needed in order to take that away did make a beast the freedom so we take them and their actions take it back to get it missed that step by step we don't say anymore if we say what it's. but why we still use the visas i hope that it would be so so so that i think out and no not at all to meit's way to walk you in so that we hope to serve you ask would ask well so president helen wit

e.u. and their debt crisis so in case you're one of those people who didn't know what austerity means let us in light of new austerity means and forced or extreme economy which explains why the word was used nonstop when talking about the world's economic woes and the need to cut down and according to merriam webster the word was starting to become popular back in may when the greek government was working to fight it a massive debt crisis news outlets have now been using the word austerity constantly to describe how european countries are combat ing economic problems meanwhile most of the public doesn't even know what it means and that's not too difficult to understand why americans people are clueless about the word because they haven't experienced it while ireland england spain and greece all passed forms of austerity measures the u.s. couldn't even vote a plan out of the bipartisan debt commission so much for debt with dealing with our debt now just in case you're wondering two other words making merriam webster's list this year socialism i wonder why so many people are really curious abo

e.u. breaks apart, what does that mean for us over here?stirewalt is joining us on this topic today. chris, what would that mean for us? >> reporter: well, it would probably be pretty bad news because on the one hand they are a competitor to the united states in terms of the global marketplace and selling debt and many other things, its global reach. so we are very feint on what happens -- dependent on what happens in europe, so what's going on over there matters a great deal to the united states. jenna: our viewers have lots of questions about the value of our dollar, and along with this bailout fund for the e.u. nations, there's some question about whether or not the euro is going to survive. is there any sort of model or any sort of, i guess, takeaway from those type of questions that are happening there? >> reporter: well, what's goin ots in places like london because that's not what we're used to. so the european union's trying to sort itself out, sort of the haves versus the have nots. if they can't figure out how to deal with what is