and terrorism those who understands it fully that you have to live a. real life stories from. nineteen forty five gold. and you end sales agree on condemning serious bread down demonstrators as russia says the move could worsen the violence we'll look at how radicals for i jack in the us or the arab spring backfired washington's made ally israel. the world's leading financial body predicts america's reign on the economic throne will be over in just five years when china will grab the crown. of. india's new breed of middle class money the rapidly rising rates of spanners are finding business is booming. and then business the u.s. federal reserve cuts the country's economic growth forecast for this year expecting

it to grow over three percent more on that and other stories in our business bulletin but it. does not i am of the russian capital you watching i.t.m. arena josh welcome america's push for democracy in the arab states could see even spiral out of washington's control groups with radical islamic links are lining up to fill the power vacuums which are emerging as artie's published reports the ramifications for america's closest middle east could be huge. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher yeah nearly always use the egyptian regime like a zionist enemy trying to stop us foreigners in girls or we always got the weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they give more than they could ever hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's men gone the borders couldn't

be easier to get through the good that begins in. who will. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they're doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the u.s. claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember yesteryear the eagerness of the united states to topple the four major from president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change as i want to meet most hondas closest ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy there is a very real possibility that radical islamic could come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its

ranks now it's apparently governance and support against syrian president bashar assad but the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some anti-government factions what is afraid that if he goes away. the muslim brotherhood conflicts in so instead of in freedom with you in syria we're going to islamist. swapping one dictator for what could be worse if and when radicals hunted tower in ninety to direct the arms at israel people will be very conscious of the fact that syria is not libya and the fact that if you do the sides intervene in syria you will have knock on effects across the region in iraq in lebanon through israel palestine what if when you through it israel my face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the president's ability some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any grave threat israel has never been an unsafe place one of the greatest lie the mother and father of all lies as it

relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is that israel has been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete israel's existence as never be in danger from any combination of arab military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable future but the fighters on the ground aren't giving up hope and they are minister mourning is that is worse to come. and live on the time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy to israel is keeping quiet amid the current chaos in the middle east and north africa but behind closed doors will be plenty of disquiet about how much america's desire to meet new friends in the arab world is fueling serious instability policy r.t. television. the u.n. has failed to agree on an e.u. proposed statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government

protesters russia says it ends in syria did not constitute a threat to international peace saying the decision could only provoke more violence. it while the syrian army has deployed more tanks than reinforcements in the south and more than four hundred fifty people are been killed since the protests began over a month ago while the un is urging investigation into the violence washington is pushing for sanctions middle east experts say syria can be dealt with like the other arab uprisings. the west in both instances like the leaders they don't like they don't like said they don't like the regime in both countries however the situation is slightly different locally the regime in syria some supporters will use syria some supporters in the region and certainly i think the intervention of the west in syria if it's going to go down the same line as it started in libya i think that would be very disadvantageous to the west and to the

security of the region i think it will be a hindrance rather than a help even though everybody is claiming that they're stopping the killing but if you go down the line following what we've done in libya no fly zone and the rest of the measures and indeed if we begin to resistance within the scope of trees this is going to truly just flaring up more trouble in the region. the west is gunning for iran and gunning for other regimes and the region particularly syria and i think the next one is going to be also. still have three this hour the indians with the cash to flash. meet the new burgeoning generation of middle class with an eye on spicing up their lives. the new tasks for russian students although it's one they did want to get a high score as their stance or. a counter terror

operation is underway in russia's republic of dagestan with two militants under siege by police in an apartment building in the capital. russia's anti terror committee says they are try negotiating but the man opened fire security forces have evacuated the building and are now fighting the militants and other counter-terror operation was launched on wednesday evening and another region where two policemen giant three were injured in a shootout with militants. leading economists predict america's age will and of five years the international monetary fund forecast that after more than a century as the world's largest economy the u.s. will be usurped by china as early as twenty sixteen artist helen ford looks at the sun's definitely rising in the east. when china waits it will shake the world. two centuries ago. but american politicians and economists they would have

a little more time to this news but twenty years ago francis fukuyama declared that economic and political liberalism was the end of history the markets is really all there is now the final and most advanced stage of societal development when i was referring to was really the growth of a kind of universal sciences on the end of the justice justice of the rightness of the principles of liberal democracy that was really a remarkable fact of our world. today the world looks much different just ten years ago the u.s. economy was three times the size of china but new data released by the international monetary fund shows the chinese overtaking the u.s. by two thousand and sixteen that's just five years trying. but you know half capitalist country growing like busters they do all these people infrastructure

projects very fashionably high speed rail airports so michael comparison to other u.s. and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity at the i.m.f. says that the chinese economy will grow seven point eight trillion dollars over the next five years the us economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion this leading to the looks world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and some economists say twenty six c. is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms try to pass as a little bit sooner than that but that's only five years and i think this is huge implications and that it's those new liberal policies such as deregulation and tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. open. probably because you called. the averages and they say that china's rise

flies in the face of fukuyama theory china is definitely a refutation of the idea that you would grow you know this is what works for me here is an economy where the state controls not only the banking system. most of our corporations they control investments which is you know twice as much as a percentage of g.d.p. as it is in the united states. and. so the fastest growing economy and in the history of the world. an economy that has lifted three hundred million chinese out of poverty while the number of americans living in poverty increased from thirty one point one million to forty three point six million and just the last ten years or so would fukuyama revise this theory it's hard to say i still will bet on a system of checks and balances over you know you look at the quality of oratory it's just heeling ford artsy washington d.c. for some foreign policy watchers it's not as though america doesn't have the money

it's the world's biggest military spatter and as analysts tell r.t. other nations are being much cleverer with their attach. i'll give you a purse but archetypes. in iraq may have we're going to trillion dollars perhaps two trillion. worth of the us accomplish except for. this or lower your rock absolutely nothing because the most the because the fact that the american right russian chinese molitor japanese companies only. let you show the contracts in iraq that china is knew they were in for the many from. the right i guess bright line to finish the western china and we're spending a single plan for good sense you know where they get you going to get at least thirty percent over the good the better act so this review of the difference between the first back from prominent spencer from the area and the agreement that

the medal. provoked. by the chinese. and it's not just china that's accelerating towards anomic supremacy india see the growth of a new middle class there's appetite for spamming is growing with it our space reader reports from new delhi who need tell you all is living the dream age of twenty eight the former investment banker is now running a restaurant and bar in the heart of south delhi ten years ago if i were to take off opening a push from the father would have to. finance the find some opportunity in unless someone can carry on with it. but in the past ten years india has experienced enormous change and with it came a new set of hopes for the world's youngest population. market is huge the opportunity of huge we. can spend money tales bars located inside this small one of around six hundred magnum malls that have sprung up in india within

the past decade and it is written by a good desire to get that good brand and there's a lot of money. so combine a desire and ability is going to get a big. today indians can get just about any international brand from hong kong to the u.s. to the u.k. it's access to this change the mentality of many to be for ten years people. says is the group is the globalization is there so people are thinking in a very different manner india's economy is booming twenty five years ago ninety percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day by twenty twenty five forty percent of the population here will be caught by this middle class and with a growing income in here being a new culture of consumerism and brands from around the world are ready to cash in

on it india is a huge country with one point two billion. and so even if everybody spends so it's a huge sum but despite the success most indians are aware that the country still has a long way to go and while things are moving in a new direction and there is a large portion of the population who is at risk of being left behind and that this baby is widening the. rich closet in the region are. getting poorer but largely middle class indians and especially the young working demographic try to focus on the positive and watch with pride as their country comes of b. and is able to achieve a global status they always believed was possible its people factor for us i mean earlier western good used to think it. is a burden but now it is even the area lazing that the more the people the more the purchasing power the more the mining the more the economic terms power that is

difficult for the world to ignore preassure either r t new delhi india. and let's run you through some of the news and features we've got. on a liner to. the touchy subject for a u.s. beauty queen who claims that opting out of a full body scan of an american airborne left her with a pat down that was too close for comfort. and a case of separate fact in fiction as alleged arms smuggler victor borge finds to play here his name is lord of war reputation in the past the story hour to watch our passing video reports on al gore hitting the town. is he. going to.

be official g.o.p. cation on phone call from the. lunch all she. video. calls. an omission street in the palm of your. machine on the. america's national security team faces a major reshuffle the talk of manner in afghanistan general david petraeus as expected to take over the cia while the current intelligence chief will replace robert gates as the fan secretary r.t. contributor wayne madsen says president obama's making a team which shares his long term military vision. one of the people being replaced

is our u.s. ambassador to afghanistan former general carl white and berry who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with betray us looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy secretary defense gates has been somewhat reluctant to commit u.s. ground forces or even u.s. special forces personnel on a limited basis in the libyan conflict conflict so what we're seeing now is obama warning to put leon panetta who is basically a former democratic congressman he was chief of staff to president clinton he's basically a democratic party hack although he has had had served his term at the cia as a director and the other issue of course is making general david petraeus the director of the cia replacing mr panetta and we all know that petraeus the author of

the guy who came up with this whole surge in iraq in afghanistan is somebody that the neoconservatives certainly like they even were talking about running in for president on the republican. ticket what this is showing is that there is a trend to militarize the central intelligence agency which is after all and has always been run by civilians it's been pointed out that leon panetta is actually the first democratic secretary of defense since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven there may not be as much independence in reluctance issuing forth from the pentagon when obama wants to place the u.s. and yet additional wars and libya potentially in syria and continuing this covert war in pakistan and possibly even yemen we could see u.s. troops. children who are barely in their teens could face drug stassen russian schools a country has a severe problem with

a number of addicts and most starve their habit early. reports drugs counselors were the focus is pointing the wrong way and this one student is taking a drug test voluntarily but there for russian president dmitry medvedev has his way hundreds of thousands of students and even school children as young as thirteen will be compulsorily. when you see all these little a lot of parents are saying a compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind their reluctance is an unwillingness to face the problem with prevents their children from receiving proper treatment our country has not dealt with this problem compulsory drug testing and education establishment has already been piloted in several russian regional although so far only voluntary schemes for the underage have been approved countrywide field employed by an influx of drugs from a garrulous it's estimated there are over three million regular illegal drug users in russia most of them under twenty five destroyed protests from human rights

groups fearing this thing with lies ation of young children by association with drugs officials insist they must start at school. we want to catch people not when they are drug addicts or when they're younger and just try drugs to ascertain whether there might be a potential risk for developing an addiction. the initiative has raised questions of not just ethics but effectiveness at this tree rehabilitation center near moscow his skepticism about the tests if you don't think it would have changed anything for me when i was in school i wanted to take drugs at the time so we just did towards the end of school i wasn't even hiding my drug use that much. more than the last green i am categorically against these tests i remember my own reaction to them test will alienate and provoke the user making him those around him even less so also some will cheat and that will give them a sense of invincibility

a. psychologist at the center say the proposal actually don't go far enough. this measure will just give us the statistics of who takes drugs not the solution are they going to kick out all those who fail we will those students go what are they going to do to treat them. i've been moment there are only one hundred sixty state sponsored drug rehabilitation clinics and. for every million of the population under the new ones will have to be built at addiction specialists trained simply to cope with an upsurge of patients. growing. up in the right direction. approve the headline grabbing measure to have a cogent program of people trying drugs. and the government and. try to do before you go. the more.

i briefly look now at some other stories from around the world the two main rival palestinian factions have reached a reconciliation deal which will see hamas and fatah form an interim government in six and election date within a year amass has been in power in gaza while five has been running the west bank for more than four years but israel's prime minister and the palestinian authority can have both peace with this country and with hamas which has carried out bombings for several years. more people have died in severe storms which are hammering the southern united states at least fifty eight were killed in turning those in alabama bringing the number of deaths in the region to over seventy dozens of roads are impassable hundreds of homes are destroyed and a state of emergency has been declared the mayor of a lot of towns one of the towns says entire streets are in ruins and it's into structure decimated. a roadside bomb as detonated in pakistan's largest city

striking a bus carrying navy officials at least fifteen people have been reportedly in the early morning attack it's two days since deadly blasts in karate also targeted media buses the taliban says it carried out those bombings and threatened further attacks. britain's prince william and kate middleton may. a pretty wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their lavish ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother prince harry and senior clergy it's expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding with over two billion global viewers the last british royal ceremony on this scale was one william's father married diana thirty years ago. time now to take a look what's happening in the world of business with kareena.

tape this hour the u.s. federal reserve has cut the country's economic growth forecast for this year chairman ben bernanke he says he expects growth to be around three point two percent compared with the previous forecast of up to three point nine percent he has also significantly raised inflation forecast to up to two point eight percent having previously expected to be around one a half but american interest rates will remain on hold because the fed's reluctant to make any quick moves to combat high inflation or slow down growth. explains how this might work over with russia. since the market didn't seem rich to the u.s. more could throw open from the positive third three it's great it's a general binion mormon for sure but again i don't thing the rumors in some small

way on the profit taking slows correction in the working. poor looks and you blew open positions during the course coming along we can. all do some research. and russian stock markets will reopen in one hour and we'll see how they will start the trading on thursday to finish wednesday's trading session in the red with the markets down one point two percent energy stocks on the main losers despite higher oil prices banking stocks are also on the downside now let's look at asia japanese shares a rally with overnight gains on wall street after the federal reserve's policy decision to nicky's trading over a percent higher exporters are benefiting from an overnight weakening in the yen. it's all financial group crimes one point six percent and camera maker nikon up two point nine percent but sony drops four point eight percent to rank among the major decline as hong kong and mainland china shares are on the rise as part. of this is

because lenders where bank plans to sign legally binding documents over its purchase of the investment bank for a good hour by the middle of may it was agreed in february that the bear bank would spend a billion dollars to buy or something. as high hopes. we have quite ambitious plans that this project will pay off in the next three years sperm bank and sugar dialogue are now in the initial stage of integration we think that by the end of this year we will become a fully fledged subsidiary of the bank after we get the necessary permission for ages in all countries with bourbon and troika dialog all represented and in the next year we'll manage to take the leading position in all investment banking segments respectable lots of which in the north stream pipeline will start pumping gas to europe in six months or put in says ross is ready to go past thirty so meet rising demand and worries over nuclear energy safety and also pies from the

turbulent arab nations in his party so from bank of nascar believes the key thing for russell is to win consumers. it's more secure the north streams capacity may be increased by twenty five to thirty billion cubic meters of gas guestroom has an officer as for that but the situation in the european market is currently difficult for the us probably because of significance applies from a cattle this size there are significant risks in the long term concerning the launch of gas supplies from america on the other hand germany is expected to increase gas consumption by fifteen billion cubic meters as it will reduce the consumption of nuclear energy following the disaster in japan so everything will hang on how hard gazprom tries to win consumers in europe and signed long term contracts. and that's what i guess this is for now i have more fear and that's the right.

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