in the movie joy see photos of the village the gateway hotel the burned imperial should the talks was pushed coromandel you can a letter tell her to sit down to go and. read this in the kennel was her child retreat. knopfler i'm going to shout slams the u.n. and nato over the military reaction to the libyan crisis and says iran will never have nuclear weapons speaks exclusively to the iranian president. the people flowing through the streets of israel continue the country's biggest social protest some in television say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privileged. and contaminated legacy native americans in an area that witnessed a year a new mining boom say the u.s. government exploited them and and left them on the edge of extinction.

international news and comment live from here in moscow where it's just turned one am good to have you with us this media is not bombs iran's president of i'm a dinner jacket says the u.n. should have helped libya reach a peaceful solution instead of resorting to minute reaction he also said iran will never obtain nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century he spoke exclusively to ati's kevin. president nothing thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to be on r.t. international tonight i'll start if i may with this story that made all the news headlines for the past six months that's unfolded in north africa and the middle east that's been the arab spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken about it before but i just want to hear your latest thoughts do you think it's a popular uprising for the benefit to bring democracy or you think it's something

maybe there's been orchestrated from abroad over the years there. either a letter or the entire global community is dissatisfied with the current state of the world there are many class distinctions there are pressures there are conflicts armed conflicts 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 have 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 neuter 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 history issued a resolution and it has complicated the situation that has led to the killings and the massacre of people and destruction of the infrastructure in the country do you think around needs to liberalize do you think you should introduce more political

reforms to maybe head off something similar happening in this country as well at some point in the future does it worry you at all when i think the entire world needs more freedom more than everybody else in the world europeans and americans need freedom in europe is there really freedom is there real freedom in the united states they are beating people in the streets 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 rand does not want nuclear weapons is a peaceful country but of course a lot of people in the west do feel that there's not enough transparency you think this country you should be doing more to make it more transparent again. 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 or in a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries we

just get me straight by you saying that in some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. 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 be a 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 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 a 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. they have the no documents against iran in the agency it's just a claim by the us that we are after nuclear weapons. and you can see that exclusive interview with lockwood and of energy out of the president of iran in full on our website dot com. thousands are gathered across israel in the fourth week of protests against government policies leaders of the movement of 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 have gathered until of the modeling cheaper housing and social justice but the obvious policy reports it's not just the citizens of the jewish state who are fighting others face a much tougher battle. to protest might be next door to a feeling one 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 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 wonderful 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 keep people here are not to mistreating 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 sample it's a. time for for it if you've got the. economic situation in israel.

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 revived 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 the sternness creation and accuse it of being a protest of the privileged. 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.

it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this approach with fifteen years of brits were very. extreme right wing. well there now it's a rally if they're going to do a few kids so all when. you do is this see what people are sitting. in the field that they don't belong to that plates which means that the protests 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 bright of the refugee here in israel. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protestors minds they just want a better life for themselves policy 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 looting but senior officers hit back saying politicians offered no help against the disorder and 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 the 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. some of the opinion story how often it started was known as the resident covered on the streets of a bigger. is

your neighborhood next to speak 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 in 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. high in life so they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were angry enough at what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. yes yes sometimes like in the elections times people are going crazy but not to the far like the looting is so horrible. but there were demonstrations in creation but they were peaceful day with the burn the flag you know but they will be great given

the instilled from the story so why are these british people doing that right now i think is always you know some people started for political reason then that these around the break and still you know that's that's what happens you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked harder tried harder and you know sort of if they heard of the sort of cold hard look whereas now everybody expects everything behind of 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 and there is papers published in that era over 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 lincoln 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 our program here in r.t. we find out how to become one of the richest men in the u.k. we look at the story of a russian businessman who joined the good life in europe despite knowing the russian government of one billion dollars. is going to come on wanted side effects the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some undesirable consequences you can watch our report later in the program. 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 crosshairs of the u.s. securities and exchange commission being investigated for overestimating the u.s. there are some two trillion dollars much more serious allegations of insider trading use of the downgrade is reported to have linked to certain market power players hours before it became official and financial analyst paul denning jeff

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. . investigation is going to find if the if it's not just an arm waving to show there were some extra parties but had nothing to do with s. and p. made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element because if you know a downgrade coming in you short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money but that is a serious concern within the system like there's a good question in regards to why you have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense raymond brothers for example was known by some other part of our 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 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 in their wake and as artie's miniport now reports radiation poisoning el 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 government territory rich in your rainy up but ruined by the u.s. . 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 uranium areas here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drink in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tons of uranium ore were struck to from. under the auspices of private companies from the u.s. government radio and out of resources mine demand for development of atomic power

after four decades corporations close shop but neglected to clean up abandoned mines homes and drinking water are 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. heart for sarah. 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 god i don't want to have kids because she's come out the born 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 relocating but many still say federal officials have fallen short where it 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 and i've seen no action you know rosie to improve the 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. artsy new york. but with more stories available for you online all the time on websites to the teenage pranksters could end up behind callers after being caught playing with the flame thrower on right away tracks. and shooting stars they're going to make wishes you watch we have mesmerizing footage of a spectacular meteor shower and find out the best place to be the season night's finale and for a whole lot more just log on to r.t. dot com. if you. couldn't take three.

three. three. three. three. three volunteers to video for your media project a free media got to r t dot com. a former russian senator is one of the latest entries onto the u.k.'s rich list but so to get control of is also under investigation and fine clothes the state more than one billion dollars and as a terrorist cover imports his case is just one of many as 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 cold dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert so a 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 grant 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 in violations by the management and founders of measure drawn by its creditors other damages totaling more than one billion dollars. last year the international industrial bank known in russian as nish 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 end i crisis support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off. it was mr patel childs pocket bank that catered for his various businesses in the wake of its license being revoked 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 of the money buys probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank. or 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 the bank the rest of baggage of the business empire seems to have dissolved into other of show assets a similar scandal broke over the bank of moscow russia state's largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling nine billion. dollars or nearly a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also under. the bankruptcy of measure from 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. last. time now for other international headlines for you know world cup date. vehicles and tanks events of the syrian coastal city of latakia forcing local residents to flee according to activists and the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called all countries to stop buying syrian. government troops once again crackdown on nationwide protests on friday sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence and nations inoculations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. any government has agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency austerity measures over the next two years they come as approved despite resistance from local governments 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 demolished italy balance its budget

a new austerity plan includes an extra so-called solidarity tax for high earners. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall ceremonies in the capital started with a memorial service a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee from communist controlled east germany to the west towards 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 over but the exact number is still disputing that. changing sex for a better life transsexuals in one indian state enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws after years of discrimination the government provides free gender realignment for those who want to make a change because of these pretty shrewd of the sky was many transsexuals for a new life style comes with a heavy price adverse and 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 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 we'd call it my brothers beat me up and kicked me out of the house because they did not like the way i behaved to travis 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 screen 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. to their.

homes. to be more. only that it's. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that cure here if they go to 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 the whole log 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 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 that the government inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment but has

a lot of resorting to sex work i mean really if you want to do numbers were just for. those 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 along i live for my happiness we flatter homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority or and i have no regrets and want. more rights yet fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t chennai india. just turned twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital with the latest headlines for in just a few minutes from l. stay with us live from moscow this is.

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takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. see a spring going on for months twenty twenty five years and since it's been an eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when a nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terror. just because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label then as terrorists someone to destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not the parents of real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on

the weekend with her cub scout troops that's the. sound. kind. of. tough. morning news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for asians to rule today.