thanks for watching media. iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad voices opposition to the un and nato military operation in libya and describes the west an invasion as a big mistake and he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they belong to the policy that president shared his views exclusively with. president not going to 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 want 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 use or. 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

but 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 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 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. no you said all the world long line ran 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 do you think this country you should be doing more to make it more transparent. as the 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 right now 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 now 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. 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 u.s. that we are after nuclear weapons. and you can see that exclusive interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad the president of iran and for now web site. for the fourth weekend in a row tens of thousands of israelis have taken to the streets demonstrating for social justice across eight hundred citizens nationwide they're demanding cheaper housing more access to education and for social inequality to be addressed and according to the new york times ten of the biggest family owned business groups in the country control some thirty percent of the economy in less than a month the movement calling on the government to improve the situation has grown from a few tens in tell a big ten nationwide phenomenon prime minister netanyahu has appointed a special committee to address the people's demands in the attempts to quell the situation however protest leaders have so far rejected all proposals and called for a million strong march in picture cities on the third of september but as artie's

paul is clear reports there are seven bigger states left out of the movement as they fight a much tougher battle. to protest might be next door to a film on lives but it's going to make little difference to his life he's a refugee from eritrea one of thousands who has 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. the israelis here demand cheaper housing is good for them at least they have houses we have nothing we haven't even got a brew favorite heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper howells's 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 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 at this time bill it's at the dance here hours. for for the difficulty to pay rent 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 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. it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place we're sitting as a british where very often. big stream right wing organizes the rallies against jews saw. the seamy 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. and israel is expecting more demonstrations this saturday night and we'll be covering those events for you on r.t. and you can find out previous reports from the tent city on our website also knows he's a facebook page and follow policy as tweets on our twitter feed. the recent street violence in britain has divided police and politicians over the way

then restless handled the chaos started last saturday in london are 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 that senior officers had by saying politicians offered no help again as they desired that their return from summer holidays made little difference says 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 carol has now turned out for what us police chief for advice on hundred lingen violence with a blame game and for swinging between those responsible for dealing with the rest people around the world are left wondering if the same violence could come to the streets of their countries and they are just some of the opinions laurie hardest otherwise known as the resident gathered on the streets of the big apple.

is your neighborhood next week let's talk about bet 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. 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 the tries but there were demonstrations in creation but they were peaceful day with the burn the flag you

know but they wouldn't break a window 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 leaves 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 or is 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. the

us has lost this treasured aaa credit rating a great last week by the h.s. system. than poets it's and there's that sense not gets around the world on a roller coaster ride and now washington is gunning for those behind the dreaded markdown the u.s. securities and exchange commission is now investigating the company of allegations of overestimating u.s. debt by saying some two trillion dollars and insider trading is believed that news of the downgrade was an egotist second market power legs even before it became official and financial analysts call donagh claims of why this may lead to full scale investigation of all the rain. 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 if it's not just an arm waving show that there were some extra ill parties that had nothing to do with s.

and p. that made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element to this 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 lehmann 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 or anyone else bothered to say anything to anybody. stay with us here in our seat for a few incentives that helped a man become one of the richest in the u.k. take a look at russian businessman leading a life of luxury in europe despite the russian government one billion dollars. and unwanted side effects the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some desirable consequences for china reporting later in the from.

the usa as you were a new broom started in the mid forty's and lost it for less than a decade but people living in the poor mining areas that still suffering from is dead the legacy. reports now on those few native americans who say stay rather with their tribal lands but pay a high price for it. this north east part of arizona 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 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 abandon your a new mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drink in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tonnes of uranium ore work structed from navajo under the auspices of private companies and the us 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 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. through prayer for a higher person or liver thyroxin. this is what i take for my thyroids forty year old cancer survivor rolanda says the people of the navajo nation have been exploited by corporations and abandoned by their government

you have no generation there's nothing after me my daughter don't want to have kids because she said they'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. but i have no proof for drew 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 reading drawings this life and death issue may just slip further from everyone's attention. artsy new york. and of course going to always find more on our website and here are some of the stories lined up for you right now. called heads in moscow teenage pranksters could find themselves behind bars after getting caught playing with a flame thrower on the capitals of brainwave. and shooting stars don't forget to make a wish while watching are rising footage on a spectacular meteor shower shower so i'm going to point out where i stood watch

tonight script me in on. a former russian senator is one of the latest countries into the u.k.'s rich list but soon gave is also under investigation that's his bond as the state more than one billion dollars and as all she's diapers call reports his case is just one of many that has exposed to all backs in the country's banking regulation. he has everything a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the called dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert sorrell wedding in monaco among the top ten richest people in the u.k. according to last year's sunday times newspaper said gay people their child 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 insiders 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 get the book out 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 focus on transferring the assets through credits to show companies that move 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 will 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 a bank the rest of the business empire seems to have to solved into other offshore assets a similar scandal broke out with the bank of moscow russia's fifth largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling at nine billion. dollars or nearly a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also hiding in london the bankruptcy of 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. r.t. moscow. time now for some of our stories from the rest of the world armored

vehicles and a tiny glimpse at the syrian coastal city of latakia also local residents to flee according to activists there the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas now it's going to came after government troops once again clamp down on nationwide protests on friday with sixteen people who are totally killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. germany has marked 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 to the west from communist controlled east germany the wall stretched for nearly one hundred sixty kilometers and divided 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 but the exact number is still disputed. the former cuban leader fidel castro turned eighty

five this saturday celebrations have begun long before down a bus or itself concluded in the festive concert by two dozen musical acts from across latin america but castro himself good make it to his own birthday bash which is hardly a surprise he has barely been seen in public since his step down into thousand and six and he made his last t.v. appearance in july alongside venezuela's president do get charges this is handing over power to his brother raul is. a standard king the low public profile thought to be due to his declining health. new clashes between pro and anti kadafi forces erupted around the coastal town so why in libya the government strongly deny that rebels have captured the city according to colonel gadhafi spokesman a group of fifty rebels have been held by government troops after they opened fire and tried to move into the town of wired just fifty kilometers from tripoli. is a key target for rebels hope to cut off the capital from the outside the world and

months of death around thirty thousand people have been killed and leave this is the uprising began six months ago against gadhafi is also a tangle. of changing sex for butts and live transsexuals in wanting to stay to enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws and their own government provides free gender reassignment for those who want to make the change but pretty sure that discovers the noise has become the center of controversy with some claiming it has boosted prostitution in the country ever since she was a little boy 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 i also realized 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 do believe it 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. sukey 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 such 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 women. with. them. to be more. only that it's sort of. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that kill you if they go 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 was that it was up to the government to help them out but that's tough without a job you firms will employ these trans women share a house and work as sex workers in china more than 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's inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment but has a lot of resorting to you know six well i mean if you want to do numbers were last for training 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 along i live for my

happiness if not our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority no one 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. the headlines in just a few moments stay with that. the

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it again this is see the headline it's. modern a shotgun is nato intervention b.b. is saying it led to a bloody massacre and failed to bring solutions and he insists iran will never seek to develop nuclear weapons all teen speaks exclusively to the. tens of thousands of israelis out on the streets to demand social justice and low prices but some intended they'd say the demonstrations address only a small of the government's. hundreds of insider trading accounting ever was two trillion dollars leave the standard and poor's rating agency facing a bank full of washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift following the president to rise that's got ready. coming up now well scott explores some of the exciting.