mediators not bombs iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad voices opposition to the u.n. the nato military operation in libya and describes the western invasion as a big mistake and he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they belong to the past the president shared his views exclusively with kevin nolan. president not going to thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy sched you will 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 and the middle east that'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 that'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

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 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're 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 you raney and i. no you said all the long line rand does not want nuclear weapons ron 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 during a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries we 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 none 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 ahmadinejad the president of iran in full on our website that's r.t. dot com. going on now for the fourth weekend in a row tens of thousands of israelis have taken to the streets demonstrating for social justice across eighteen cities nationwide there demanding cheaper housing more access to education and for social inequality to be addressed 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 turns in tel aviv to nationwide phenomena prime minister netanyahu has appointed a special committee to address the people's demands in the thames to quell the situation however protest leaders have so far rejected all proposals and called for a million strong large in fifty cities of the third of september but as r.t.

is policy of a pause there are some of the in the jewish state that are left out of the movement as they fight a much tougher battle. the 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 eritrea 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 groove over our heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper wholes is 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 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 i'm not sleeping here and necessarily every night but it's a slimeball that dancier 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 haven't lived in israel mostly from in the treaty 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 or. if i want to find something. it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place we're sitting is a british where very often. stream right wing organizes the rallies against jews saw. jews the seamy what people are sitting. there feeling 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 poorly c r t tel aviv. and you can find our previous reports from the tenant city on our website also know she's facebook page and follow policy as tweets from a drone out twitter feed. the recent wave of street unrest in the u.k. led to mutual recrimination between police and politicians as they each seek to lay

blame for it and an adequate response to the violence on the other so the chaos erupted last saturday and it only took a few days for the disturbance to spread across the country the british pm david cameron expressed serious discontent with the police calling that responsibly outset of violence timid and inadequate pointing to initial tactics and police numbers place authorities didn't hesitate to strike back and blamed politicians for not offering enough assistance labeling that early return from some occasions as a lame gesture of help. processing hundreds of alleged rioters and extra police units are expected to remain on the streets until at least next week the drama leaves people around the world wondering if the streets of their own home towns will always be safe and knowing how often they still so not as the president try to find out if new york is good for see their city shaken by violence in the future.

is your neighborhood next week let's talk about that it's. inhumane in barbaric and i think 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 about what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. yes yes sometimes like a lot election times people are going crazy but not to the far like the looting is so horrible and not rise but there were demonstrations in creation but there 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 you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked a bit harder try to be harder and you know sort of if they had hard luck they said i've got hard luck whereas now everybody expects everything behind them on the plate you know so if you go back in history and look at the hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments in the newspapers published in that era for which 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. the

u.s. has lost its treasured aaa credit rating of her downgrade last week by the agency standard and poor's it's a move that sent markets around the world on a roller coaster ride and now washington is gunning for those behind the dreaded meltdown the u.s. securities and exchange commission is now investigating the company of allegations of overestimating the u.s. stand by some to try. and on this side of trading it's believed that news of the downgrade was leaked to second knock of power play when it only became official confidential on the dining reigns of why this may need to full scale investigation of all the ways. the path itself probably doesn't begin or end with an s. and p. my guess is that the investigation is going to find if be if it's not just an arm waving show that there were some extra no parties but 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 that 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. this is stay with us here for a few hints and tips that helped a lot become one of the richest in the u.k. . so we'll take a look at a russian businessman leading a life of luxury in europe despite only the russian government one billion dollars . and an unwanted side effects the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some unexpected consequences c.l. soul reports late in the form. the u.s.a.'s uranium boom started

in the mid forty's and lost it for less than a decade but people living in the former mining areas are still suffering from his deadly legacy marina portnoy reports now and those few native americans who stay with their tribal loans but pay a high price for it. this northeast part of arizona a compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor territory rich in your rainy arm but ruined by the us is demand for hope it's a different world we don't have money we don't have the farms the people from the dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandoned 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 in the u.s. government the radioactive 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 have been diagnosed with some form of cancer i feel pain below my chin 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. groups of the one i need to take. pearl harbor 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 plans to goo i don't have a choice while most of america worries about the crippling economy part of this country's indigenous people are struggling to stay alive and as the white house focuses on paying bills and creating jobs this life and death issue may just slip further from everyone's attention up we're not hearty new york and you can always find more on our website but here are some of the stories lined up for you there right now. in court as in moscow teenage pranksters could find themselves behind bars after getting caught playing with a flame thrower on the capitol's way away tracks. in. a boot camp in china takes an inside look at how chinese students are given a month long taste of army life. and make

a long list of wishes because they may just come true that's if you want child mesmerizing footage this time around. to find out where best to watch tonight's group you know. russian businessman and former senators who gave his one of the ten richest people in the u.k. but he's also among those under investigation because he is buying those this state more than a billion dollars and there's also his diet. this is just one of many cases that have exposed drastic problems for the country's banking regulations. 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 surveiled 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 and yeah that heroes however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his banks creditors says that only as a result of misconduct in violations by the management insiders of most drawn by its creditors suffered damages totaling more than one billion dollars. last year the international industrial bank known in russian as news from bank was the first private bank to default on euro bonds in more than ten years it received a more than one billion dollar loan from the state as part of the anti-crisis support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off at the book and among the bank it was mr 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 buys

probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank which will merge with them and 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 bunch 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 enjoy their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. r.t.

moscow. time now for some other stories from around the world on the because at the end of the sea we're in a coastal city of latakia forcing local residents to flee that's according to activists and lead the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stall by suing or no doubt. came after government troops once again crackdown on nationwide protests last friday with sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. new clashes between pro and anti kadafi forces iraq to iran the key coastal town of zawiya in libya the government strenuously denied the rebels had captured the city according to colonel gadhafi a spokesman and group of fifty rebels have been repelled by government troops after they opened fire and tried to move into the town so we're just fifty kilometers

from tripoli is a key target for rebels hope to cut all of the capital from the outside world and months of deadlock around thirteen thousand people have been killed in libya since the uprising began six months ago against gadhafi is authoritarian. u.s. citizen has been kidnapped by gunmen from his house in the eastern pakistani city of lahore began slammed into the victim's home early in the morning the man reportedly has a local office or an american consulting company assisting the u.s. government's main a main aid so foreigners are frequently taken for ransom in pakistan last month as always couple was abducted in the country southwest. the former cuban leader fidel castro turned eighty five this saturday celebrations have the governor long before the anniversary itself and concluded in a festive concert by two dozen musical acts from across latin america but castro himself couldn't make it to his own birthday bash which is hardly

a surprise he has barely been seen in public since he stepped down into. thousand and six he made his last t.v. appearance in july alongside venezuela's president hugo chavez says power to his brother raul has tended to keep a low public profile thought to be due to his declining health. changing sex for better life transsexuals and one indian state enjoys some of the world's most progressive rules that the government provides free gender or alignment for those who want to make the change that is ati's preassure discovers the door has become the center of controversy with some claiming it has boosted prostitution of 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 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 he draws like me. sukey 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 all of the women. with. them. to be more. only that it's sort of. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals

that cure here if they go the other 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 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 and you 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's inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment that has a lot of it was older do you know six well i mean maybe if you want to do numbers what was it for you know truly in 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 a lot i live for my happiness we found 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. here today to tell the back with the latest headlines in just a few stay with us. he

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if there's a house near the headlines a tough life there. mahmoud ahmadinejad slams nato his intervention in libya saying in that bloody massacre and failed to bring solutions and he insists iran will never speak to develop nuclear weapons no she speaks exclusively to the ukrainian president. also tens of thousands of israelis are out on the streets to demand social justice and low prices but some in tel aviv say the demonstrations address only a small part of the government's police call this. room is open insider trading and an accounting error worth two trillion dollars leave the standard and poor's rating agency facing and when it went for washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift following the unprecedented u.s. debt downgrade and.