international news and comment live from our team here in moscow just turned eleven pm good to have you with us this hour. mediators not bombs iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad 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 our t's kevin owen. president not thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy sched jewel to be on r.t. international tonight for the next half hour or so 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 those people can straighten from abroad over two years or so little 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 war is not satisfied with the current status in the world there are class distinctions there are pressures there are conflicts arms conflicts and a large number of nations in the world are being humiliated all the time today just as dignity are among the requirements of all human beings are all the nations are seeking to gain justice that is important to be taken out of the interference of nato in the region and nato has interfered in the affairs of libya the security council has made

a mistake instead of sending bombs and lanes to libya they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for a free election with the auspices of the united nations 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 the united states and europe have different attitudes towards the situation what has been going on in libya. in bahrain and syria there are there are different positions and this is because of a lot about the nature of the regional equations and the kind of attitude taken by the outside powers only recently iran announced that you've stepped up production of new centrifuges faster better centrifuges to make better higher quality i know you said all the world long line of rand does not want nuclear weapons run as

a peaceful country but of course a lot of people in the west 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 to leave the nuclear weapons we must rise in opposition to the current. arsenals there is now there are a lot of. comic 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 never never the nuclear weapons is the issue of the for the previous century. this century is the century of knowledge and

think thinking it is the century of human beings. it is the century of culture and logic it's not clear a weapon is not going to be determinative 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 our slogan is peace for. nuclear energy. and nuclear weapons for man. this is our goal. our activities or money for why the. us and all activities nuclear activities in iran are being turned throws our money toward why the agency's 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 there you can watch the exclusive interview with the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in full on our web site that is r t dot com. thousands of gathered across is running a fourth week of protests against government policies leaders of the movement have been mobilizing the people against rising costs of living not just in the country's biggest cities but in rural areas as well over the last month up to three hundred thousand of government of the modern cheaper housing and social justice. reporters not just the citizens of the jewish state who were fighting others face a much tougher battle. to protest might be next door to a film our lives but it's going to make little difference to his life he's a refugee from every 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 roof over our 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 demonstrating while 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 it's a slimeball it's that the dance. for for the difficulty for the economic that situation is. 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 him a 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 parrots 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 or. 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. extreme right wing organizes a rally is against jews saw when. a refugee is a stream a white people are sitting. there 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. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protesters minds they just want a better life for themselves pointlessly r t tel aviv. recent street violence in the u.k. has police and politicians divided over the way the unrest was handled became 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 but senior officers hit back saying politicians were no help against the disorder and that their 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 is now i'll turn to a former prominent us police chief for advice on handling gang violence jerry 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. the reason 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 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 and convicted of an offense to do with the events of the past week and then you suggest bringing in water cameron suggests of putting the army on the street all kinds of kone and measures that we have to listen and try and understand not the principles of those people to 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 that we've got to learn lessons from repression won't solve it repression will make it worse censorship won't solve it 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 or healthiness otherwise known as the resident gathered on the streets of the big apple. it's 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 and 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 lives so 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 people are going

crazy but they're not to the far like the looting is so horrible and the tries but there are demonstrations in creation but they're very 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. it's 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 try to 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 hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments in the newspapers published in that era 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 happen in your city 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 our program her naughty we found out how to become one of the richest men in the way of the story of a russian businessman enjoying the good life in europe despite the russian government one billion dollars. that's still to come first with aftershocks of the u.s. credit rating downgrade still reverberating around the world washington has decided to go off to 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 use of the downgrade is reported to have leaked to certain market power play as well as before it became official and its financial analysts called an

injury explains it's likely to lead to a much wider crackdown on rating agencies. the path itself probably doesn't begin or end with an s. and p. my guess is that the investigation is going to find if be if it's not just. 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 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 hasn't insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some of their card counterpart 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 u. rainy and boon was in full swing in the us numerous mines mushroom in parts of

arizona but when demand dried up the facilities were abundant leaving an environmental hazard in the wake result is miniport now 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 territory rich in your rainy arm but ruined by the us is demand for hope it's a different world we don't have the 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 the contaminated waters that we have drained 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 in the u.s. government to reveal an additive resource was high in 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 higher first or louver 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's come out the formed my son to 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 been a whole 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. i have no place for 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 else attention. artsy me or. just got more stories available for you twenty four seven on our website. in addition to what you see here on screen you can log on to get more analysis videos and stories for example. teenage pranks. after being caught playing with the flames. away tracks. on the web site shooting star make a wish as you watch we have a mesmerizing footage of a spectacular. the best place to be in order to see

tonight's. critique take three. three. three. three. three. three blocks. of free media. two american private security contractors have been given the go ahead by u.s. court to press charges against former defense secretary donald rumsfeld for his role in the alleged illegal imprisonment and torture while working in a. publicly claim that was involved in massive corruption soon after they were arrested and detained at a military complex for nine months and beatings and torture with no reasons given efforts to bring rumsfeld to court would rejected by judges difficulty of prosecuting senior officials who are protected by

a myriad of new polls and speed. activist debra sweet says it's no time for those who are silent to speak oh. massive cases of stealing selling alcohol to iraqi forces of bribery and all sorts of the things that we know and we knew were going on when billions of dollars are involved in u.s. funds conducting this occupation these guys started to try to get the truth out and then were grabbed by us military interrogated apparently according to them and i certainly believe them. under the same methods of so-called enhanced interrogation that was approved all the way to the top not only rumsfeld we know cheney was behind this and bush said all of this was happening with his approval so of course the truth has got to come out and i really congratulate. donald vance and

nathan are tell for fighting through to try to get the story out and as they said it is really important for other whistleblowers to come forward. a former russian senator is one of the latest entries into the u.k.'s rich list but said he gave his also under investigation and moskos his bank the state more than one billion dollars and is all teased out of press coverage ports his case is just one of many that has 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 sorel 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 heroes however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his banks creditors sternly as a result of misconduct in violations by the management in founders of measure drawn by its creditors suffered damages totaling 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 and among the bank it was mr begats 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 transferring the assets through credits to show companies that moved it on and on and in the end of the

money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank who were to come on the banks 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 the bank the rest of the guts 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 mushroom bank 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 enjoy their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. r.t.

moscow. time for other international headlines now in our world update 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 state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas announcement came after government troops once again crack down on nationwide protests on friday that sixteen people reported in the violent united nations security council plans to meet on thursday discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. turning government has agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency austerity measures over the next two years the cabinet approved the cuts despite resistance from local governors who said the move will damage economic growth prime minister berlusconi said the measures will meet the wishes of europe's central bank which had been demanding that italy balances its budget the newest thirty plan includes an extra so-called solidarity tax for

high earners. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall 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 wall spread for nearly one hundred sixty kilometers dividing the city 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. it's turning twenty six minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back shortly with the latest headlines for you stay with us live in moscow this is r.t. .

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just joined us a very warm welcome this on t.v. live here in the russian capital top stories now. the u.n. and nato over the minute reaction to the libyan crisis and says iran will never have nuclear weapons speaks exclusively to the iranian president. as people flow into the streets of israel continuing the country's biggest social protest some until a bit of say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privilege. members of insider trading and accounting arrow worth two trillion dollars of the start of the rating agency facing a vengeful washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift following the unprecedented u.s. debt downgrade. i'll be back with more news for you more developments in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime the spotlight plays host to a rough.