trying to corporations rule the day. the sale season gets underway in the u.k. but despite the very british items up for grabs a massive slice of the profits goes straight into the hands of foreign owned companies. in the face of international junctions approves of a thousand musafir homes in occupied east jerusalem in response to the palestinians recent status of great. fear the rainy and terrorist organization gets backing from washington of course from tehran and one of many that believe little has really trying within the current.

year so russia and around the world this is all see with me hello and welcome to the program it's boxing day in britain and millions of people are still thrilled by the president's left under the christmas tree a little do they know that much of the money they thought they were spending on gifts made by u.k. companies actually goes into the pockets of foreign owners. has a story for us. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says on aware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason that things are beginning. to almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son pat peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames

water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off hartley's just. some butter and also closing down some of their home. and it's interesting what's the reaction a great use for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas. for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around

the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and that made in london there maybe in paris in the or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was perhaps the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds of corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine billion so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation that has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize

every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell poly boy art c. london. define international criticism israel has announced plans to build more settlement homes in occupied east jerusalem it brings the total number of settlements approved in the last few weeks to five and a whole thousand details now from his policy.

what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense

displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to right wing voters and according to all the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into the election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to sell them he says expresses a wide national agreement and certainly this is the kind of sentiment that is

feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course. one school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building and as parliamentary elections are fast approaching some experts say there's going to be much more talk about the settlements settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the islet peace and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided about two

hundred thousand total with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side of the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews to live then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close they just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of proximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered short of it which is really but you could approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we. will. is where leads which will have to go.

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thank you take three. three. three. three. three. three brown video for your media. free media r t dot com. this is all she coming to you live from moscow welcome back as iran tries to keep its economy afloat amidst increasing western sanctions the country could be facing another problem the september the two us took an iranian militant group the ek also its terra blacklist and label it and labeled it an opposition exile washington says

it was because they didn't commit any terror acts for over a decade and want a peaceful regime change in iran or she's my affinity and went to tehran to learn what people that think of them. mohamed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendens all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talk about. valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month reasoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed

had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the us embassy siege in tehran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after these lawmakers evolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one thousand nine hundred seventy and he joined america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq is still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals

and cia chiefs extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that campaign i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying and became a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main support of beasts to reduce groups or counters because they use from that through to through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in

a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those questionable ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed and make a was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a pair of victim an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as been jock is a very poor and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort how to fight them here on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognised as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that.

nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to. from iran. and now to some other news from around the world a plane carrying high ranking concert military personnel has crashed in southern kazakhstan killing all twenty seven people on board the military aircraft was on route from the capital austin island came down twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of kent local media reports the pilots were trying to make an emergency landing and restoration into the crash has been launched. at least seventeen people have reportedly been killed in fighting and all pipeline in east and yemen the violence broke out when the army bands by as tribes attempted to secure the oil route and repair the damage caused by local militants last month

the country's pipelines are often subatomic why is the mystery why it is causing fuel shortages on slashing export earnings. for the rebels claim to have seized a small town near the turkish border government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters now control large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases an attack is now underway on a fourth. washington and so are. south korea is expected to patches for high altitude spy trials from the u.s. worth an estimated one point two billion dollars the deal has to get the green light from congress before it can be signed off south korea has been on to america's military umbrella since the nineteen fifties when korea was divided but almost thirty thousand u.s. troops currently stationed in the country motion to listen to approve the expansion of south korea's missile range meaning that it so warheads can now reach any corner

of its northern neighbor political analyst in sas a drone deal would only add fuel to the tension on the korean peninsula. if congress allows these drones to be so disagreeable that i think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they could watch it would traditionally be used to monitor north koreans and your korea's nuclear facilities but we have to remember that you are just one of many times but its territorial integrity sort of thing will happen is if south koreans rooms for example penetrate with green airspace this could potentially if you can see it if you look at the results of the latest offering the elections the president will work in hey she can. reach. into the way she is with north korea and then we can get easier and you know that i think what it was is that they were just to these rooms are having the entry to at

least forty doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory. a divisive election campaign is looming over or the new parliamentary about to take place within the next two months it comes after president morsi signed into effect the country's first post mubarak constitution passed in a two state referendum the gas vote was confirmed on tuesday after an official probe into allegations of vote rigging turned up nothing but in reaction furious opposition protesters took to the streets of cairo liberals claim their islamised a draft constitution betrays the revolution and sidelines the rights of women and minorities in egypt and one middle east expert told r.t. the islamists will lose power and they fail to miss the people's demands this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president not. went and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to

the president so it empowers other such as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democratic elections brought the last forty years to the to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises could not have a guarantee a better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent of the vote is declining going down mainly because they are not opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while the and not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. and our website right now for you a thirty three ton fish tank filled with

a shock soundly bust in a shanghai shopping center and got the details and these are for you. and also on line will report on the latest study from russia's far east that could potentially allow scientists to inhabit the red planet find out more at all to. with only days left until the end of the year also he recalls the most significant global events of the past twelve months and today we look back at the american presidential election and the memorable debates that preceded it. we have been running the election of close to your is more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show and cetera et cetera so given the

voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture . we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system with the seriousness of all the parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow range people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know are the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention

is against military expansion that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney to debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election well that would be the pie in the sky is that that would impact the election and let me just give you a car knowledge. of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties fist parties into that but you're blocking traffic even opposite her purse tired tonight right

here in atlanta. i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for and. we'll have a special report coming out for you in just a few minutes. deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators a good. self

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