international news and comment live from r.t. here in moscow is just turned ten pm now in the russian capital good to have you with us this hour. mediators not bombs iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's says the u.n. should have helped libya reach a peaceful solution instead of resorting to military action he also said iran is never going to obtain nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century he spoke exclusively to artie's kevin. president not only do thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy show jewel to be on r.t. international tonight for the next half hour or so to answer a number of questions that i like to put to get your latest thoughts on domestic issues and international issues and i'll start if i may with the story that made

all the news headlines for the past six months that unfolded in north africa in the middle east it's been the arab spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken about it before but i just wanted to hear your latest thoughts do you think it's a popular uprising for the better to bring democracy or you think it's something maybe there's been all chris traded from abroad over to use this window. in the name of god the compassionate of each of. us first of all allow me to say hello to the viewers of your channel we are now in the month of ramadan in iran and we enjoy the blessings of our law for all human beings in this month and our last determines the destiny of human beings in this great round for the next year this month is the month of passion and kindness and i hope in this month all human beings. have. kindly behavior to each

other and they are enjoying the royal blessings you ask for the very important questions we have seen very important developments in our region and in north africa there are a few important things we must pay attention to. is not only about other peoples in the region the entire wall is not satisfied with the current status in the world there are class distinctions of pressures there are conflicts arms conflicts and a large number of nations in the world are being humiliated. that all the time today just as dignity are among the requirements of all human beings are all the nations who are seeking to gain justice and dignity and nations in our region and in north africa africa have the same aspirations and i think

the nations in north africa in our region have the ability to run their own countries and they have the ability to reach their goals and objectives that is important to take note of the interference of nato in the region nato has interfered in the affairs of libya the security council has made a mistake instead of sending bombs and planes to libya they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for a free election with the auspices of the united nations and whoever won the elections would be acceptable to the people but the security council hastily issued a resolution and it has a complicated situation that has led to

a chilling as and massacre of people and destruction of the infrastructures in the country can you highlight for me why you've had slightly different approaches to for instance the unrest in syria what's going on in egypt at the time just before hosni mubarak stepped down you you quoting it urged to continue their protest to free themselves and choose their own leaders in their own form of government why can't that happen in syria as well what's the difference. it's not only about us it's not only iran that has a different view there are many countries that have a different attitude for example do not do so you say europe have different attitudes towards the situ. ation what has been going on in libya in bahrain and syria there there are different positions and this is because of the nature of the regional equations and the kind of attitude taken by the outside

powers. just like to talk about tonight's the nucleus subject you're always having to answer about it i don't i'd like to ask you again if i may only recently iran announced that you've stepped up production of new centrifuges faster better centrifuges to make better higher quality. the question mark is why i know you said all the world long line the rand does not want nuclear weapons run as a peaceful country but of course a lot of people in the west don't believe that they do feel that there's not enough transparency do you think this country you should be doing more to make it more transparent. we don't like either that other countries have a lot of yours where. we are going in clearly against the nuclear weapons we must rise in opposition to the current. arsenals there is now there are a lot of. farming arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries

let me just get this straight are you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. that was never never its nuclear weapon is normal capable of doing something because we do not want nuclear weapons we do not see clear weapons this is an inhuman weapon. because of our beliefs we are against that one our religion says it is prohibited. we are religious people of. the second because you nuclear weapon is as no. capability to this. if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in far they have. wasted their money and. sources and

second they have created big danger for themselves. for example the international equalizations are now are not deterred him into the by nuclear arsenals because it's about the wave of human beings. because the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons because because some people could they win in iraq or you know afghanistan. yes. the nuclear weapons could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain the zionist regime to gain a victory in lebanon and in gaza. he or she could have nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from being collapse. the nuclear weapons is the issue of the four previous centuries

this century is the century of knowledge and ten thinking it is the century of human beings. it is the century of culture and logic. weapon is not going to be determinate in force in the world it is about the power of people not nuclear weapons. i mean why i should say that our goal in the country and the goal of our people are a slogan east peace for our. nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for man. this is a goal for. our activities our money for why the. good and all activities nuclear activities in iran are being sent to all the by the

agencies cameras there hasn't been any document against iran in the agency because they just claim it is a claim by the united states. and you can watch the exclusive interview with the president of iran mahmoud ahmadinejad's in full on our web site that's r.t. dot com. other news now leaders of social protest in israel are calling for people to bolster demonstrations across the country over the last month up to three hundred thousand people in tel aviv have been the mobbing cheaper housing and social justice result is poorer slower reports there are others in the jewish state fighting a much tougher battle. to protest might be next door to a film on lives but it's going to make little difference to his life he's a refugee from a tree or one of thousands who's found his way to israel but the solace he was hoping for has instead been replaced by anger and frustration at

a government he believes is doing too little to help him. israelis here demand cheaper housing is good for them at least they have houses but we have nothing we haven't even got a heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper houses that these protesters want they're demanding a new government one that will charge less taxes provide free education and cancel privatization of state owned companies changes that the poorest neighborhoods of tel aviv need the most but i want to please people here are not to mistreating the thousands of israelis might be able to pitch up here in protest many immigrants can't even afford to buy a tent to live in people are not sleeping here and necessarily every night but at this time it's at the dancier hours for for the difficulty to pay rent for the economic situation. like you say next to us people are sleeping there not because

they choose to put their tent outside it is just because they don't have any other place to go in the last few years tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers have evolved in israel mostly from in the tree and sudan the government simply doesn't know what. to do with him most spend their days struggling to make ends meet while trying not to be picked up by the deportation police many of the refugees don't want to appear on camera but those with spoken to say that they don't feel a part of this demonstration and accuse it of being a protest of the privileged danny parrot's is really he's a builder divorced and jobless he's here because he blames the government for the fact that he can't pay his bills but he also points a finger at the african migrants. and if i want to find something i guess it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place we're sitting is

a place where very often. big stream right wing organizes the rallies against jews saw when. a refugee is a seeing a white people sitting. in they they they feel that they don't belong to that place which means that a protest for social justice has essentially become a protest for only a few. if you really want to come out for better rights you have to come out for the basic right for the rights of the refugee here in israel right here. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protesters minds they just want a better life for themselves policy r.t. tel aviv and israel is expecting more demonstrations this saturday night and we'll be covering those events for you here on our to you can find our previous reports from the tent city on our web site also on artie's facebook page and you can follow

policy as tweets from israel on our twitter feed. recent street violence in the u.k. has police and politicians divided over the way the unrest was handled the chaos started last saturday in london and spread across the country over the following four days so far just over a third of the sixteen hundred people arrested have been charged prime minister david cameron was critical over the initial tactics police used to quell the rampant rioting and looting the senior officers hit back saying politicians were no help against the disorder and that return from summer holidays made no difference

courts are working overnight to deal with alleged offenders and hundreds of extra police are expected to remain on the streets until at least next week cameron has now turned to a former prominent us police chief for advice on handling gang violence jeremy corbin from the u.k. labor party says there's a whole list of measures currently on the table which will only make a bad situation worse. there is an increasing impoverishment of poor young people particularly in the big cities of this country and it's a very uncomfortable lest know a lot of politicians are going to learn that something's got to be done and fast to bring these people these young people back into the mainstream of society there's a very unpleasant agenda surrounding this which david cameron in part is promoting one is that could tell meant of social media such as twitter and facebook the other is eviction of whole families from homes because one member of the family has been charged convicted of an offense to do with the events of the past week and then you

suggest to bring in water cam and suggest the putting the army on the street all kinds of trick only and measures we have to listen and try and understand not the principles of those people to the stealing simply for themselves but the danger to all of us of the very large number of young people who don't feel any any problem with getting involved in it because they don't feel they have any stake in society as a whole and that is a very dangerous thing we've got to learn lessons from repression won't solve it repression will make it worse censorship won't solve it that will make it worse. while the blame game is in full swing between those responsible for dealing with the unrest people all around the world are wondering if the same could happen in their country and here are some of the opinions nouri hoffa is otherwise known as the president doesn't on the streets of the big apple. is your neighborhood next this week let's talk about that it's. inhumane and

barbaric and i think that unfortunately around the country we have situations where people are disappointed with leadership and various parts of the world and they're rising up and trying to do something about it whether you're in the middle east in europe you know fortunately we haven't had that type of unrest here in the states but i could totally see it happening i think because in taiwan most people have very. fine life they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were angry enough that what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. yes yes sometimes like in the election times you are going crazy but not to the father like the looting is so horrible i'm not arise but there were demonstrations in creation but there were peaceful day with the burn the flag you know but they wouldn't break even though and steal from the store you know so why are these british people doing that right now i think is always you know some

people started for political reason then that they've sat around that break and still you know that's that's what happens and you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked a bit harder tried a bit harder and you know sort of if they had hard luck they said i've got hard luck whereas now everybody expects everything behind them on the plate you know so if you go back in history and look at the eight hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments in the newspapers published in that era now with the stream of history reading the same course. so what can we do to change it if anything. not a damn thing whether or not you think looting can happening yesterday and the bottom line is the rise of social media and the growing disparity between social classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. and later in a program finds out how to become one of the richest men in the u.k.

look at the story of a russian businessman enjoying the good life in europe despite the russian government one billion dollars. with aftershocks of the u.s. credit rating downgrade still reverberating around the world washington has decided to go after those behind the markdown rating agency standard and poor's along with its parent company and now in the crosshairs of the u.s. securities and exchange commission being investigated for overestimating u.s. debt by some two trillion dollars amid much more serious allegations of insider trading he said downgrade is reported to have the market play as well as before it became official that his financial analysts don't injure explains it's not easy to lead to a much wider crackdown on. the path itself probably doesn't begin or end with an f. and p. my guess is that the investigation is going to find if be if it's not just an arm waving to show that there were some extra all parties but had nothing to do with s.

and p. made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element to those if you know it downgrades coming in you short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money that is a serious concern if we have weeks within the system like there's a good question in regards to why have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some other part of counterparty to be functionally bankrupt for some time prior to when they went under and yet nobody at the federal reserve or the new york fed or anyone else bothered to say anything to anybody. in the late forty's and early fifty's when the euro needed boom was in full swing in the us numerous mines mushroomed in parts of arizona but when demand dried up the facilities were abandoned leaving an environmental hazard and no way result is more important reports radiation poisoning now threatens the area's few remaining indigenous people in. this northeast part of arizona

a compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor terry torrey rich in your rainy arm but ruined by the us is demand for hope it's a different world we don't have money we don't have the farms the people from the dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandoned uranium areas here and drinking milk and terminated waters that we have drank in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tons of uranium ore work structed from navajo under the auspices of private companies and the u.s. government the radioactive resource was mined demand for development of atomic power after four decades corporations close shop but neglected to clean up abandoned mines homes and drinking water were left contaminated with elevated levels of radiation and residents were left behind to battle deteriorating health conditions my needs are eking walking is difficult i've been diagnosed with some form of cancer i feel pain below my chance i'm taking medication now u.s.

officials say radionuclides in the air and drinking water have been linked to thousands of cases of the lung cancer bone cancer and impaired kidney function this is for my eyes. this is the one i need to take. for a higher person or liver thyroxin. this is what i take for my thyroids forty year old cancer survivor rolanda says the people of the navajo nation have been exploited by corporations and abandoned by their government you have no generation. there's nothing after me my daughter don't want to have kids because she said they're going to come out before and my son the want to have kids. but i have one that has kids but there's problems in two thousand and seven the environmental protection agency launched

a five year plan to clean up the navajo nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico twice a month fresh drinking water is delivered to some fifty four thousand citizens contaminated homes have been rebuilt and people relocated but many still say federal officials have fallen short where really matters helping to rebuild a decent quality of life that people feel that through all these years even to this point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened they have seen no action see no roads being improved no housing being built. very very little has happened so they're questioning how long do we live like this i'll be here and i have no plans for goo i don't have a choice while most of america worries about the crippling economy part of this country's indigenous people are struggling to stay alive and as the white house focuses on paying bills and creating jobs this life and death issue may just slip

further from everyone's attention. artsy new york. just got more stories available for you twenty four seven on a website. to get more analysis videos and features a couple stories there at the moment for example teenage pranksters could end up behind bars after getting caught playing with a flame thrower on the roadway tracks. shooting stars don't forget to make a wish while watching mesmerizing footage of the meteor shower you cannot come to find out where it's best to watch tonight's finale. a former russian senator is one of the latest entries onto the u.k.'s rich list but surrogate is also under investigation in moscow as his bank owes the state more than one billion dollars and as if he's done a push cover reports his case is just one of many that is exposed drastic drawbacks in the country's banking regulation. he has everything a fortune in several banks

a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the called dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert sorrell wedding in monaco among the top ten richest people in the u.k. according to last year's sunday times newspaper. leads a life many would envy he even made his wife a star of a t.v. advertising campaign in france for the grand french food store it is yeah that here however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his bank's creditors. as a result of misconduct and violations by the management and founders of measure drawn by its creditors suffered damages totally more than one billion dollars. last year the international industrial bank known in russian as news from bank was the first private bank to default on euro bonds in more than ten years it received a more than one billion dollar loan from the state as part of the anti-crisis

support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off at the book or among the bank it was mr to get jobs pocket bank that caters varies various businesses in the wake of its license being revoked if they practically halted its operations and focused on the transferring the assets of three credits to show companies that move it on and on and in the end the money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank which will come on the bank's database was deliberately erased and investigators say the bankruptcy was intentional it's the largest bankruptcy case of a financial institution in russia's modern history along with a bank the rest of the business empire seems to have to solved into other offshore assets a similar scandal broke out with the bank of moscow russia's fifth largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling at nine billion. dollars or

nearly a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also hiding in london the bankruptcy of measures from banks last year and the recent downfall of the bank of moscow revealed that the country is in desperate need of stronger banking supervision and while those responsible for the damage enjoyed their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses . artsy moscow. to turn twenty seven minutes past the hour in the russian capital time now for a look at other international headlines in our world update and all the vehicles and tanks event of the syrian coastal city of latakia forcing local residents to flee according to activists a day earlier the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas or announcement came after government troops once again crack down on nationwide protests on friday sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. yemen is marking the fiftieth anniversary

of the construction of the berlin wall ceremonies in the capital started with a memorial service and a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee from communist controlled east germany to the west the war spread for nearly one hundred sixty kilometers dividing the city for over twenty eight years at least one hundred thirty six people are known to have been killed trying to cross the wall however the exact number is still disputed. that brings up to date the moment i'll be back shortly with the latest headlines stay with us live here in moscow this is r.t. .

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if you're just joining us a very welcome this is all t. not for moscow top stories now this mahmoud ahmadinejad slams the u.n. and nato over the military reaction to the libyan crisis and says iran will never have nuclear web. speaks exclusively to the iranian president. calls for israelis nationwide to join the country's biggest social protest grow louder as saturday promises to become another record breaking turnout over someone to say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privilege. and tense rhetoric between police and politicians in the u.k. as david cameron slams officers for their poor handling of street violence.