and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. i'm trying hard was a big picture. tis the season to go spending as. begins we look at exactly who is pocketing the profits. canada terror on the ones that country is making a dangerous move by calling washington taking an iranian militant group off the terrorist. and building up trouble israel faces renewed criticism rising to green lights twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem.

on air and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. on kerry johnston. now whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals or snatch off was online this is the day to do it britain is a boxing day bargain hunters are out in force. keeping the u.k.'s tills ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being lined has been finding out. proud to be british brits and terrorists alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware 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 getting. 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 packed 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 here recently with premier foods not only selling off brant stern picco selling off hartley's just. some butter and also closing down some of their hovis manufacturing and you know it's interesting what's the reaction. great news for investors although is bleak news just before christmas . as 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 in supply and not made in london there maybe in paris and in berlin 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 boots the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham four hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bid 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 acquisitions the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell paulie boy artsy london. tehran is warning canada. that it made a dangerous move by taking on a taurus airing in the militant group off its terrorist calendar is following a similar move by the u.s. in accepting that the enemy hey has renounced violence and wants a peaceful regime change in iran but if a national looks at the organization's record and hears from some iranians who are wherry of the generalizing it muhammad shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants 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. sham valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he'd 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 other 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 shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the

terror continued after islamic revolution 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 make a joint 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 viewed ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic call 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 we came 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 restore confidence because they use for a truce to access 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. 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 using terrorism as a tool and out of those question about 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 they were after interrogate him 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 outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten forgiven mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changing 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.

now there's a warning to israel about its settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem brings a total number of housing units planned in the past few weeks to five hundred thousand a middle east correspondent explains the repercussions. 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 in globe 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 so be 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 secure 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 expansion this plan is 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 that certainly is appealing to the right when voters and according to 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 see 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 some. 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 around half a million the people who live in the israeli settlements peace campaigner ron pundak says their fate and the expansion of homes have become political bargaining chips. 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 the round on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not reality and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand titles within jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we really delineate the borders of jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government

of again shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which will have to go over and be accepted and will be hard by israel and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. now egypt has passed an historic milestone but it's done nothing to bridge the deep divide after the break how it's. the constitution blocks the path to real democracy to keep up the fight parliamentary election news. and r.t. recalls more major events from twenty twelve as we take a close look at the u.s. presidential race and the candidates sidelined by the main.

undergo these men and women are working on the longest. they reenacting march into exile made by found some samsara structure. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get their summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided

to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact is now receiving to us from all over the world to show them what it was like well these are you going to it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future we want is a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of

exile where they were an apple or a criminal. more well the news stories for you now. egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got sixty percent backing in a controversial referendum although turnout was low it clears the way for a parliamentary election a country that remains deeply polarized the parents insisting both the poll and charter are deeply flawed and a threat to freedom well under protestors blocked traffic in cairo on tuesday the final result was announced a new charter empowers the traditionally toothless parliament's chamber which will hold elections in the house. to within the next two months the opposition is worried that the muslim dominated by the rights of women and minorities.

from the institute of arab and islamic studies has the constitutional referendum both. if this is the first. constitution that you have the president cannot. and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democrats the collections brought. to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises could not have better security economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt. 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 the opposition and they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just. not deliver so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. a movie about osama bin laden's volunteer maz has spooks this cia on our websites we tell you why america's information community was so worried by what they saw and want to consider a drama not a documentary of what really happened and. how life could be sustained on mars thanks to bacteria from siberia look at the science on the story of. wealthy british. holds a. lot of the time. in florida.

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the house of parliament has approved the ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children but laurie's

a response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations. we can get despite strong opposition from the campaign and we need a. presidential approval for the coming or is named after. two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car. critics say the move deprives thousands of orphans the chance of finding a loving family. well news now and shelling in northern syria has reportedly killed around twenty people eight. children. the defection of the country's military police chief to the rebels on monday the u.n. arab league envoy said the situation in syria remains wiring after talks with president

assad. there's been an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in nigeria's largest city resulting fire destroyed neighboring buildings and ghosts from michel blast should you have heard from several kilometers away there are no immediate reports of fatalities at least thirty people have been treated for injuries. a suicide attack and try to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan has killed at least three people left seven more injured guards opened fire on a minibus packed with bombs and of a quick splitting reaching the entrance to the camp compound but alabama says it was targeting local police working for the americans there forty one people including a six u.s. troops have died of anthrax this year volatile city near the pakistan border. and iran is preparing to conduct a week of naval gas fields off the strait of hormuz the question of gulf war ships

submarines and missile defense systems would be. iran says it's a peaceful demonstration in the face of capabilities promising it won't violate international law and who respect the maritime orders of neighboring countries iran rejected the latest accusation from gulf arab states that it was interfering. with the new year nearly here r.t.d. is taking stock of the events which shaped twenty twelve today we look at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have a multibillion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we

have been running the election of close to your ears for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running live guests on the show and cetera et cetera so given the voice to 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. first studio in. one of the most important. it's just that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the

big two forty machine on foreign policy for example the old kind of candidates have clearly been against military interventions against military expansion i.p.s. that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney 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 know in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact the election well that that would be the pie in the sky is that that i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology 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 because parties

into that debate which are blocking traffic not exactly a corporate america right i think you know. i don't think 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. when these in the stand forty minutes time before that people have voted bates whether fresh water could soon become as valuable as a boy with gold stalk is off the break stay with us.

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