peaceful solution instead of resorting to military action he also said iran will never obtain nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century he spoke exclusively to artie's kevin on. present nothing going as you have thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy sched jewel to be on r.t. international tonight i'll start if i may with the story that made all the news headlines for the past six months that's unfolded in north africa in the middle east it's been dubbed 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 orchestrated from abroad over two years there. at the letter or the entire global community is dissatisfied with the current state in the world there are many class distinctions there are pressures there are conflicts armed conflicts and a large number of nations in the world are being humiliated constantly today justice and dignity around the requirements of all human beings north africa has

the same aspirations and i think in our region we have the ability to run our own countries and to reach their goals and objectives it's important to take note of the interference by 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 free elections under the auspices of the un and whoever won the elections would be acceptable for the people but the security council he still issued a resolution and it has complicated the situation that has led to the killings in the massacre of people and destruction of the infrastructure in the country only recently iran announced that you've stepped up production of new centrifuges faster better sense if you choose to make better higher quality you raney and i know you've said all the world long the line around does not want nuclear weapons around is 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 that some countries have nuclear weapons if we're going to be against nuclear weapons we must rise in opposition to current nuclear arsenals. there are a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries let me just get this straight are you saying that in some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. and never never we don't want nuclear weapons we don't seek nuclear weapons this is an inhuman weapon nuclear weapons have no capability today if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money and resources and they create great danger for themselves international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and could they win in iraq and afghanistan could nuclear weapons help the israelis gain victory in lebanon and gaza could nuclear weapons keep the former soviet union from collapse nuclear weapons are the weapons of the last century this is the century of

knowledge and thinking the century of human beings the century of culture and logic nuclear weapons are not going to be a determining force in the world it's about the power of people not nuclear weapons our goal in the country and the goal of our people is peace for all nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for non nuclear activities in iran are monitored by the i.a.e.a. there have been no documents against iran in the agency it's just a claim by the us that we are after nuclear weapons. and you can watch that exclusive interview with. the president of iran in full on our website r.t. dot com. thousands of gathered across israel in the fourth week of protests against government policies leaders of the movement to mobilize 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 to live in the modeling cheaper housing and social justice there are reports it's not just the

citizens of the jurist state who are 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 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 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 necessary every night but it's a slimeball. for for the difficulty for the economic situation. and 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 that we've 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. 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 see 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 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 paula c. r t tel aviv. the recent street violence in britain has divided police and politicians 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 of the initial tactics police used to quell the rampant rioting and looting. has. it hit back saying politicians offered no help against the disorder and that their return from summer holidays made little difference courts are working through the night 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 us police chief for advice on handling gang violence with a blame game in full swing between those responsible for dealing with the unrest people around the world are left wondering if the same violence could come to the streets of their countries here are just some of the opinions laurie oftenest

otherwise known as the residents gathered on the street solved 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 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. light your fire life 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 not to the far like the looting is so horrible and that's right 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. it's always you know some people started for political reason then that they've surround 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 of 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 running 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 a little later in the program here in r.t. we find 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 owning the russian government one billion dollars. and also still to come in on one side effect the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some undesirable consequences you can watch a report later in the front. but first 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 mcgraw hill are in the cross has of the u.s. securities and exchange commission being investigated for overestimating u.s. debt by some two trillion dollars and that much more serious allegations of insider

trading use of the downgrade is reported to have leaked to certain market power players hours before it became official and its financial and it's called the ninja 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 f. 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 and 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 card counter party 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 uranium boom was in full swing in the us numerous mines mushroomed in parts of arizona but when demand dreidel the facilities were abundant and environmental hazard in the wake of port now reports radiation poisoning now threatens the area's few remaining indigenous people in. this northeast part of arizona it compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor territory rich in your rainy i'm but ruined by the us is demand for it it's a different world we don't have money we don't have the funds the people from the dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandoned you're a new mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drank in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tonnes of uranium ore work structed from navajo lands under the auspices of private companies in the u.s. government the radioactive resource was mine 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 chen i'm taking medication now u.s. officials say radionuclides in the air and drinking water have been linked to thousands of cases of lung cancer bone cancer and impaired kidney function this is for my eyes. this is the one i need to take. for higher purser louver thyroxin. this is what i think for my thyroid a 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 it really matters helping to rebuild a decent quality of life the 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 to go 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 every last attention. on artsy new york. just got more stories available for you twenty four seven on our website is. all the time you can log on to get more analysis videos and features and the stories for you for example teenage pranksters could end up behind bars after being caught playing with a flame thrower on the railway tracks. but if you get to make a wish as you watch we have mesmerizing footage of

a spectacular. we're going to find out the best place to be to see tonight's finale . critic three times for chargers free. free. free. free. download free barbecue videos for your media project a free media r t v dot com. 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 iraq the two men publicly claimed that their firm was involved in massive corruption soon after they were arrested by the army and detained at a military complex for nine months allegedly injuring beatings and torture with no reasons given. efforts to bring rumsfeld to court judges highlighting the

difficulty of prosecuting senior officials are protected by a myriad of no laws and loopholes speaking to r.t. activists debra sweet says it's now time for those who are silent to speak out. 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 the u.s. 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 fance and nathan or tell whore fighting through to try to get the story out and as they said it is really important for other whistleblowers to come forward. former russian senator is one of the latest entries into the u.k.'s richest but said it is also on under investigation and it was his bank owes the state more than one billion dollars and was also used only prescriber reports 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 said gable the chief 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 so strongly as a result of misconduct in 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 mr brown 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 it practically halted its operations and focused on transferring the assets through

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 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. time for other international headlines now in our world updated for two minutes past the russian capital vehicles and tanks have entered 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 new countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas announcement came to government troops once again crackdown a nationwide protest on friday with sixteen people reportedly killed in violence united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian. government has agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency sturdy measures over the next two years the syrian 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 have been demanding that italy

balances its budget and your sturdy plan includes an extra so-called solidarity tax for high earners. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the burnin wall ceremonies in the capital started with a memorial service in a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee from communist control is germany to the west the wall 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 line however the exact number is still disputed. gender change for a better life transsexuals in one indian state enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws after years of discrimination the government now provides free sex change operations for those who want to make the change but. discovered many transsexuals find new life still comes at a heavy price ever since she was a little boy the suki knew that there was something different i started liking men

i had sexual feelings for men i wanted to befriend them and spend time with them i was not attracted to girls adding to her confusion for suki also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher us a derogatory word for transsexuals my brothers beat me up and kicked me out of the house because they did not like the way i behaved dressed and was attracted towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided they would give me happiness to live with other heroes like me. the suki moved in with other transsexuals and decided to complete her transgender journey screened by doctors to ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of sex reassignment surgery or as are asked she had the operation and like all transsexuals in this part of india it was paid for entirely by the government all of them with. their.

homes their. only that it's sort of. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that cure years ago the southern state of tamil nadu had some of the most progressive laws in the world for transsexuals the state government decided three years ago to fully fund that reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been discriminated against for so wa that it was up to the government to help them out but that's tough without a job and few firms will employ these trans women share a house and work as sex workers in china well that we were beggars before now with the help of cosmetics will look more feminine and so we became sex workers prostitution is illegal in india and some who work with the community believe the government inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment that has

a lot of result into six well maybe if you want to do numbers were last for training on the. dog income generation or something like that only able to rely on themselves and each other these women know and accept their fate. we have been cast out of our homes in society i like this life a lot i live for my happiness we flatter homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority and i have no regrets what. more rights yet fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t chennai india. we'll be back shortly with the latest headlines this is r.t. live in moscow stay with us.

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this is not from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day top stories not hoff poss the. slams the u.n. a nato member of the military reaction to the libyan crisis and says iran will never have a nuclear weapon. speaks exclusively to the iranian president. as people flow into the streets of israel continuing the country's biggest social protests. the demonstrations are only benefiting the privileged. rumors of insider trading and the counting arrow worth two trillion dollars believe the standard and poor's rating agency facing a vengeful washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift for president and u.s. downgrade. well for me a little later in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we've been enjoying temperatures up to three.