a 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 m. . president not going to thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy sched you 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 i'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 to you say. 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 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 and 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 there 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 long line rand does not want nuclear weapons ran 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 yet. 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 during 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 see that exclusive

interview with mahmoud i'm going to out of the president of iran in full on our web site r.t. 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 in the modern cheaper and social justice but all to report 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 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 houses 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 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 if i'm not sleeping here and necessarily every night but it's a slimeball that dance you're ours for for that if you've got the rare for the economic situation. like you say next to us people are sleeping there not because they choose to put their tent out so 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 haven't lived in. 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 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 fuji's saw when. a refugee is

a see 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 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. but senior officers 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 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 are just some of the opinions laurie halfassed 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 life they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were angry enough about 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 the tries but there are demonstrations in creation but they have a 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 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 where in 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 here on 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 the russian government one billion dollars. is going to come on one side effect of the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals as lead 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 mark down 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 u.s. debt by some two trillion dollars maybe 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 a financial analyst called betting just 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 the 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 downgrades coming in you're short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money that is a serious concern if we get weeks within the system like there's a good question in regards to why has an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some of their card counter parties 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. you or anyone else had 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 mushroom in parts of arizona but when demand dried up the facilities were abundant leaving an environmental hazard in their wake and as always more important reports radiation poisoning l. 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 i'm ruined by the us is demand for hope it's a different world we don't have the 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 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 in the u.s. government the radio and 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. the one i need to take. for higher purser louver thyroxin. this is what i take 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've 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 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 ever once attention. artsy new york. well with more stories available for you online all the time websites through the teenage pranksters could end up behind bars after being caught playing with the plane on railway tracks. and shooting stars then we get to make a wish as you watch we have mesmerizing footage of a spectacular. find out the best place to be to see tonight's finale and for a whole lot more just log on to r.t. dot com. critic three. three. three. three. three. three vote. for your media project a free media party dot com. a former russian senator is one of the

latest entries onto the u.k.'s rich list but said it was also under investigation in moscow as his bank owes the state more than one billion dollars and as a cover ports his case is just one of many that exposed drastic drawbacks in the country's banking regulation. he has everything a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and humorous properties from the called dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert so well 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 and yeah that heroes however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his bank's creditors says that only as

a result of misconduct and violations by the management and founders of measure drawn by and 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 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 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 which 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 book of 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 enjoyed their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. over r.t. moscow. time now for other international headlines for you in our world update. vehicles and tanks event 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 on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and that became the government troops once again crack down on nationwide protests on friday sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence and nations the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. telling governments agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency austerity measures over the next two years the cabinet approved it because 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 demanding that italy balance its budget the 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 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. 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 now provides free gender realignment for those who want to make the change the result is pretty discovered many transsexuals find new lifestyle 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 also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called his her eyes 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 screen by doctors to ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of sex reassignment surgery or asked 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 women to their. homes then. to be more. only that it's sort of. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that kill you or if they go the southern fate 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 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 that the government inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment that has a lot of resorting to you know six well maybe if you want to do numbers what was it for trading on the windows 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 if not our 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. just turned twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital with the latest headlines for in just a few minutes from now stay with us live in moscow this is. in the.

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dr swines policeman's wives ministers wires and i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's going it killing me see. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event for the planet as time we don't know. the spring going

off about twenty twenty five years and so 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 labeled as terrorists someone you destroy property. with with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not. real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. of.

the news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule today.

if you just joined us for a welcome this is our t v twenty four hours a day top stories now. 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. has people flown into the streets of israel continued the country's biggest social protest some in tel aviv say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privileged. rumors of insider trading and an accounting error worth two trillion dollars leave the standard and poor's rating agency facing a vengeful washington inquiry even as well markets continue to shift following the unprecedented u.s. debt downgrade. going up to date for the moment shop of one of the she'll be here and that's in thirty minutes as the news continues in the meantime it's all special report on russia's far east where.