of losing north sea oil reserves unleashes a barrel of rhetoric against the bed but as artie's laura smith reports london's desperation is playing straight into the hands of scottish nationalists. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who want scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never end i'm question that's have the debate and let's keep our country together . but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that's still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and hope a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north s

military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by here on r.t. laura many would say two thousand and eleven was the year all the songs this really sounds like it's going to be the show to watch how did this come about. but we certainly believe it is my my producers and directors worked tirelessly to bring this about to bring to us on this show to r.t. view is basically we knew that our son's wanted to wanted to write and host his own into the show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast exclusively on r t it's going to focus of course on our songes favorite topic control to see you say two thousand and eleven was absolutely zero and undoubtedly was his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a byword for for exclusive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of u.s. secret documents by his website wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called a visionary and power insiders and he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a brighter and bette

what is laura smith reporting for us there now the ratings firms keep raining the blows on the beleaguered euro zone now fitch has downgraded five countries they include spain and italy which are the big worries because of their size if they fall you leaders and key financier's are struggling to find a remedy to the debt crisis at the annual world economic forum lauren lyster reports from davos. we've seen leaders not only from the eurozone but from other countries financial am political leaders also continuing to fight and to argue over the proper solutions for the eurozone crisis and at the center of it is a lot of people pushing for a larger bailout fund for a for a secure fire wall the irony is that as they're talking about this we hear that germany wants greece to hand over control of its fiscal budget as a condition for the next bailout package the further irony is that we've seen capitalism really be one of the topics one of the issues here at this davos questioning of capitalism in its current form is still serving the global and these western nations and i just heard david cameron

prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith at him. be back with a recap of the week's main headlines in a few moments stay with us here on r.t. . we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark and because of what the four props we do not want anymore nor do most. a core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on. here even this unfortunately. because we don't know what's in it for me there's no labeling there for it being used like a board to experiment to be used as guinea. will now we have more questions than we have access to guards. like. me feel. him is. just simply is. superior to. see if subliminally. we. eleven thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for another month the number of monitors waltz will be increased this despite criticism from the syrian opposition that wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia votes in favor of joining the e.u

let the united kingdom come apart laura smith. while you may be mired in domestic affairs later in the program we report on an international blow for the country as a former senior official admits to us now. the embarrassments of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were cool doing. something stone for the modern day james bond of moscow's rock solid evidence forces a key figure to finally come clean. america's conversely use of its drones in asia may have caused overwhelming anger but now it's threatening to do the same at home washington's king spying weapon and overseas operations is becoming a common tool for us please stirring up privacy concerns among more and more americans. looked into the issue. they are the cornerstone of america's military arsenal dropping bombs on bosnia pakistan afghanistan libya and yemen a manned aerial vehicles known as drones have become the trademark of washington's war missions targeted assassinations and spying operations overseas but today a local police departm

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prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith party at ibrox. still to come on our team with less than fifty days to go we take a walk up the current political climate in russia ahead of the march presidential election. first the us has strengthened its presence in the persian gulf with the aircraft. abraham lincoln sounding into waters off iran on thursday the movie is seen as a test of tehran through solved after it warned america not to send more warships through the strait of hormuz tensions between the u.s. and iran intensified after the islamic republic thread to block the strait a vital transit route in response to further sanctions over its nuclear program washington to retaliate if you did cut off the passage. from antiwar group international action center says what the u.s. really wants is to regain control of oil that it decades ago. the motivation for the u.s. to continue repressing the iranian people to assassinate nuclear scientists has nothing to do with any love of democracy it has everything to do with the fact t

laura smith right there and u.k. arms contracts with saudi arabia are not the only thing piling pressure on iran as we find out in just a few minutes here. in every instance all the speculation falls on those who want to see a continued escalation of hostilities look at who benefits from d.c. stabilizing the islamic state all of that analysis is just about to come up for you . this is r.t. political hardliners in kosovo have announced that a bloc serbian trucks that border crossings this weekend to come just by belgrade ongoing steps towards a compromise in the border issue as the country strives for e.u. membership and ethnic serbs in kosovo say they're finding themselves under more pressure from the albanian majority you've got. reports. the checkpoint in northern kosovo may not look like an obvious triumph of peace but here is the same spot just two weeks ago since the summer you backed billions have tried to take control of the border between serbia and. the minority erected barricades in response they don't reco

prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who led the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. . at last hour we report on the international blows to the u.k. at british if it comes clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake rob to snoop on the kremlin that's after six years of stony silence. and while public discontent and the u.s. boiled over on the internet it continued bringing people to american streets we report on the latest occupy protest in the shadow of the u.s. congress. this week russia has seen a build up of political debate for the country's fifth presidential election looming arches or in english go look at how rival camps and candidates are lining up ahead of the vote with what important setting out his vision for the country s.e. eyes a return to the top job with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign is still simmering in the candidate's headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker for change he's decided to be more scholarly picking u

military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by for us here my lord this really sounds like it could be the talk show to watch how did how did all of this come about. well it became clear to us that you in essence wanted to make this program it's going to be and also hosted by him and of course everybody knows about julian assange and his name has become famous some might say infamous as the founder of the web site wiki leaks which released the biggest mass disclosure of secret information coming out of the us in history and it's going to be broadcast it's nice to be on o t it's going to focus on his favorite topic which of course is control of a c he's going to be talking through the series to ten what he calls iconic vision and how it. basically we can be doing is discussing issues old today with people he says will shape looks like essentially he's going to be challenging them on his ideas for how to secure a brighter future. paying over slavery we are going to be broadcasting this series of programs exclusively here

go on fearing that the next energy bill they receive will be the one that drives them into debt laura smith london. now to some more headlines from around the world this hour violence has erupted between rival minister groups in the libyan city of guy even at least three people dead and around fifty injured they reportedly used machine guns and rockets in the weekend shootouts fighting began when a local military council the mind of the tribe hundred members accused of aiding. interim government's attempts to broker a cease fire and then to take hold. leaders have called a crisis meeting for a fourth day of violent protests against austerity cuts thousand demonstrators clashed with police arrest some hurling stones and bottles at officers had boiled over because of proposed health care reforms which were later dropped but still deep frustration with public sector wage cuts and what action. the company and she. a cruise ship sank off italy's west coast killing five people says the captain may have made mistakes a spokesperson said the ship sailed too close to the shore and didn't follow safe

laura smith reporting for us that you are with us just ahead how even the winter chills don't stop global warming get the call. would you be willing to blow dry your hair anymore than i'd be willing to do you willing to try your clothes on the line and never use a drag machine and i doubt that the president asked people in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet. then we have off to solitary as a skier's and put the slopes through the paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics finest in two years' time. the first signs of hope have emerged after nearly two weeks of deadlock in talks between greece and its creditors over the country's huge debts negotiators say a deal could be close to within the coming week while the final details are as yet unknown private investors are expected to agree to write off more than half of greek bond holdings that would reduce the country's debt by more than one hundred billion euros and pave the way for the next to tranche of viable bailout from the e.u. and international monetary fund to keep the country afloat the search

or it is laura smith reporting for us there in london and investigative journalist tony gosling says injustice in the u.k. sparked the under arrest. there was all sorts of problems at the time with the police and of course it was the shooting of mark duggan that sparked it but the london school of economics and also the guardian of done a very comprehensive report actually interviewing lots of the rioters some of whom were convicted some of whom were convicted and it's absolutely clear one hundred percent that the reason behind this riot really was a hatred for the police in this country which is goes right across many of the sink estates in the country they see i think most people see the police many of the rights to see the police as in forcing a kind of unjust system and a lack of justice so there's a whole bunch of people in society who are disenfranchised right now including many of the middle classes but i think particularly young people feel utterly betrayed by our political hierarchy by our leadership here in britain particular these youngsters are not stupid they can see whe

not knowing whether he can expect to be released laura smith. we're going to explore all our stories on our website with much more lined up for you at our dot com thirty two years on board the long history proves liner which ran aground off the italian coast say it was like the titanic it's a live picture of count five the concorde you follow the search and rescue operation live video stream at our dot com. plus violent clashes in romania watch footage of frustration are robbed of prosperity and low standard of living. and israel heated spirit is gaining momentum over the controversial boycott law it outlaws any criticism of the country's policy including its settlement construction in the west bank but activists are pinning their hopes on the israeli supreme court to overturn the legislation but as artist polls are found out the congress parliament has a whole range of other controversial bills on its agenda. gershon baskin is a wanted man in israel for his outspoken views against the government's policy of settlement expansion it's ironic beca

not knowing whether he can expect to be released laura smith. but ten year anniversary has drawn human rights activists and other countries to demonstrate as well amnesty international protested near the statue of liberty in paris the famous monument in new york hundreds of them manning the closure of guantanamo on the streets of various cities across the u.s. but investigative reporter jason lee paul told r.t. the majority of the public in america tends to ignore an issue that stains their country's reputation. it's very sad that the public more or less this tune guantanamo out has tuned out. widespread human rights abuses that continue to take place in guantanamo it is an issue and abuse that we condemn other governments for however what's happening now is that we have come to accept indefinite detention and i think that people are willing to accept it now it doesn't affect them let's face it they look at this as an issue that they do not need to be concerned about because they still see the majority of people there as terrorists even though w

watch this space correspondent laura smith reporting right there will meantime our t.v. news executive nicholai a book a chicken describes how the network signed up with julian assigned jim britton there were quite interesting discussions in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibility is and obviously it would be an eternal view right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on our t.v. i mean he always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any new story and shoulder real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream china when we talk. you know was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show. all right over to you now to tell us what topics you would like to see julian astonished tackled and exposed in his new t.v. series on c beginning in march i hear the numbers from our website artie dot com the

prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith at him. on a sour away report on another political scandal the u.k. got involved in this time it's an international wall. top british official comes clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake rock to snoop on the kremlin that's after six years of stony silence. crowds have stormed have quarters of libya's ruling national transitional council in the revolutionary hub of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace of reform and the current direction of the new authorities the demonstrators throw stones and let all bars. the building breaking windows damaging the car of a.t.c. chairman come till giulia young men founded anger and the level of compensation they see from the interim leaders for injuries sustained in their efforts to oust market after radio host and author stephen land then believes the crowds are unhappy with a new government serving as puppets of the west. the real world will be sitting in washington using their proxies sitting in the big icy tripoli w

go on fearing that the next energy bill they receive will be the one that drives them into debt laura smith london. now to some more headlines from around the world this hour violence has erupted with rather militia groups in the libyan city of guyana leaving at least three people dead and around fifty injured they reportedly used machine guns and rockets in the weekend shootouts fighting began when the local military council demanded the tribe members accused of aiding colonel gadhafi the interim government's attempts to broker a cease fire and failed to take hold. a car bomb has been detonated in the iraqi city of mosul killing at least eight people and wounding four explosion happened in a residential complex which houses displaced. most was known as an al qaeda stronghold and saw some of the most brutal violence following the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three. nigeria's president has announced an immediate. this is to stem nationwide strikes and protests the trade union saying it's not enough used to end their industrial action the country's been paralyzed by stoppages since the g

go on fearing that the next energy bill they receive will be the one that drives them into debt laura smith london well in a few minutes cross talk to raise the pros and cons of cutting america's military budget first though let's get the latest from karena at the business desk. hello and welcome to our business update for joining me european equities are mixed following the slide early in the day and the downturn came on fears that the eurozone credit downgrades could worsen the region's debt crisis late friday ratings agency standard and poor's downgraded nine countries with france and austria losing their prized aaa grades and portugal plummeting to junk status and now all the numbers u.k. footsies nearly flat as media and publishing company pearson rose two point seven percent in germany the dax is supported by not a two point nine percent gain for com make a dime or at two percent rise for the wattle b.m.w. u.s. markets are closed monday for martin luther jupiter day here in russia markets closed in the black with the r.t.s. finishing over half a percent of them was six of just the com

prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. edinburgh. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's main headlines in just a few minutes stay with art. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment more chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more and no deal molds. our core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled but that's allowed to go on in america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like a board to experiment to be used as guinea pig. oh now we have more questions than we have matters guards. like. down the field fishel on t. up location on the phone i pod touch from the top story. which all teachers life on the go. video on demand. an omission st now with the palm of your. machine. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don

prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith. and next hour we report on another political scandal the u.k. got involved in this time it's an international. top british official comes clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake rock to snoop on the kremlin that's after six years of stoning some. male plants have finished their bombing mission in libya with western companies now stepping into their shoes hoping to profit on their rebuilding effort with a string of the lucrative deals. and this week russia has seen a build up of political debate with the country's fifth presidential election looming archies are in a little look at how rival camps and candidates are lining up ahead of the vote was a lot of important setting out his vision for the country as he eyes a return to the top job. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign still simmering in the candidate's headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker f

called on president obama to honor his election pledge and shut down the jail it was hard to use laura smith reports many a site a new law that allows america to detain anyone he deems hostile as proof that obama's promises were empty once. one homeowner. abdel moneim am absolutely today is probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even know that people around the world are campaigning for them but as far afield as london demonstrations are held to demand the release of the hundred seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp after ten years one of those men is shaka omer who's earned the dubious distinction of being the last british resident held in guantanamo he was in afghanistan or nine eleven he says doing charity work digging wells and building a girls' school in kabul. when the u.s. invasion began almost went into hiding from an increasingly wary northern alliance but his freedom didn't last shuckers supporters maintain he was sold for a bounty went into the hands of the northern alliance who were warlords basically and he actually thought

laura smith reporting for us now look at some top stories making headlines around the world right now the nigerian army shot dead eleven suspected boko haram insurgents. in the country's east it follows a warning from a supposedly leader of the violent islamist sect that they will kill more security personnel and kidnap their families a week ago killed more than one hundred eighty people during a gun a bomb attack in the northern city of kind of a new one sharia law more widely and for. throat nigeria. place in senegal fired tear gas at demonstrators rallying against a court's decision to allow the president to run for a third term protesters then threw rocks broke barricades and started fires the president's candidacy was in question because the constitution changed back in the year two thousand just after he took office to impose a two year term limit. how did lie wade believes that the law doesn't apply to him because he was elected before it came into effect. this case slopes of sochi are in place for the next winter olympics now comes of course the test to make sure they meet wor

lives out his life in a tiny windowless cell not knowing whether he can ever expect to be released laura smith london. the ten year anniversary of guantanamo bay has also evoked a strong reaction from human rights organizations and activists amnesty international renowned for defending political prisoners staged its protest at the statue of liberty in paris of the twin of new york's famous landmark the previously called the prison quote the gulag of our hundreds also gathered across america demanding obama keep his word something he says he can't do because of the opposition of congress but investigative reporter jason leopold believes there's no real domestic pressure on him to act as the majority of americans prefer to turn a blind eye. it's very sad that the public more or less this tune kuantan m o out has. widespread human rights abuses it is issue and abuse that we condemn other governments for however what's happening now is that we have come to accept indefinite detention i think that people are willing to accept it now it doesn't affect them let's face it they look at this an issue th

we will indeed laura smith there now r t s news executive nicholai burger chain describes how the network signed up julian assange to britain there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels we right now to get our signage but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on our t.v. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story and shoulder real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream china when we talk. you know was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show. and there at one of our news executives over to you we will know what you think about what topics you'd like to see during this tackling exposing his new t.v. series here on this channel in march this is what you're telling us this hour the votes so almost evenly sp

between the cracks of government subsidies many children are fun of themselves left in the cold laura smith reports. this is something that single mother of four julie henry can't afford to do very often boiling the kettle for tea hers is one of eight hundred thousand families in the u.k. in fuel poverty struggling to pay for heating and electricity in the last three years she says her bill has doubled and it's a constant juggling act the more go to the bill and for food and school uniform than you don't have not into safe so that's the difficult bit of what children have to eat for them have to eat and their school uniform i have to buy and on top of the. electricity use and the library i try to cut down so many. working. the warm home discount is a government scheme aimed at helping low income families heat their houses adequately in the winter but charity save the children says energy companies aren't contributing enough to the fund meaning only three percent of families are getting the help they need with disastrous social consequences growing up. has a really profound impact on childre

correspondent laura smith reporting right there well meantime r.t. news executive nicholai a book in describes how the network signed up with julian assange in great britain they were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels you right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that israel will be on r.t. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story. the real reasons behind the news that you would see on main street. when we talk. was very calm and relaxed which you would expect from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show. and over to you now to tell us what topics you would like to see julian or stanch tackle and expose in his new t.v. series on r t from march from the web i voted r.t. dot com the here are the numbers this hour almost forty percent belie

he lives out his life in a tiny windowless cell not knowing whether he can expect to be released laura smith r.t. london. now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world a bomb blast has killed at least thirteen and wounded twenty at least in pakistan the explosion happened in the midst of a religious procession in which hundreds of shiites were marking the end of a period of mourning it it's believed the bomb was planned ahead of the gathering and time for maximum impact after the blast mourners began throwing rocks at the police so in turn deployed tear gas to control the crowd. must demonstrate the continuing in rumania preferred day with riot police firing tear gas in an effort to control the crowds at least nine of buildings and so dozens of arrested protesters are rallying against strict government imposed for service as well as the health care reforms but also calling for early elections in the resignation of president by cisco. a special breed of sniffer dogs become the latest recruit in russian airports to help try and tackle terror with one of the best

so we will laura smith there reporting on what tell you the guests are either of them have to stay with us ok in the times or just after six minutes past midnight back to our top story now the gathering tonight thousands out of tahrir square in cairo let's talk about that with filmmaker phillip rivers joins us from cairo himself philip very good to see you thanks for being on the program a year on from the original revolution many say that very little has changed gyptian must be pretty skeptical i guess about how much has been achieved what's your thoughts about that. absolutely as far as the system goes the political and economic system in the country almost nothing has changed we've had ousted from power after massive protests but he was basically a scapegoat while the system has remained very much in place what is important to realize is and that's very much you can see today is that people really have changed over the course of the part of this past year that egyptians are willing to take risks to go to the streets to demonstrate to call for change and this is this is often very cos

laura smith reporting there and remember you can always find more help police worldwide in dealing with the occupy movement on also there for a major raid on a popular file sharing website on the make up off load of turning mega trash as prosecutors given to thursday in the days uploaded by fifty million users from the web. and the biggest drone in the world is crashed in exploded in israel during a test flight discover the cause of the accident. don't come. well as promised let's now return to the developments occurring in washington concerning the occupy wall street movement i'm joined now by activist robert wall from occupy d.c. action team so the police don't learn as poss now what's happening there at the moment . well right now last time i saw which was about half an hour ago when i left the park to come here people were just sort of hanging out waiting to see what the police were going to do we've put up a sort of large tent in the center of the park so people can sort of stick together throughout the night and try to keep an eye on each other so that the police can't pick us off