it was me thanks for joining us we say it has no bones iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad voices a position to the u.n. and nato military operation in libya and describes the westone by him as a big mistake he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they belong to the past the president shared his views exclusively with us he's given our. president not only 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 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. do a lot of 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. the 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 raney and i know you said all the long line round 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 i guess. 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. and we shall 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 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 fall of our web site it's r.t. dot com. the streets of cities have played host to thousands of reality each weekend since mid july it's a mass protest across the entire country complaining for social justice cheaper housing better access to education and measures to overcome social inequality are among the key demands protesters are now setting a september deadline for the government to improve the situation is a strategy that sings day to have worked as israel's benyamin netanyahu has appointed a special committee to address the demands of aspiration leaders remain less than satisfied and threaten officials with a million strong march across fifty turns in early september but as our policy here discovers demonstrators call for social justice they have neighbors who face an

even tougher battle having simply no place to live. 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 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. the israelis here demand cheaper housing is good for them at least they have houses we have nothing we haven't even got a group of records let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper howells's that these protesters want they're demanding a new government one that will charge less taxes provide free education and cancel privatization of state owned companies changes that the poorest neighborhoods of tel aviv need the most but i want to please people here are not 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 necessary every night but it's a sign that the tents here are four 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 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 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 is a place where very often. stream right wing organizes the rallies against jews saw. the see what 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 you can find out previous reports from the tent city on our website also on his facebook page or follow policy as tweets on our 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 an adequate response to the violence on the other day care so rapid last saturday and 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 their response at the outset of violence timid and inadequate pointing to initiate tactics and police numbers police authorities didn't hesitate to strike back and blamed politicians for not offering enough assistance labeling that early return from some of the cations as elaine just held courts are overwhelmed with processing hundreds of alleged rioters and the extra police units are expected to remain on the streets and at least next week the drama news people around the world wondering if the streets of their own home towns will always be safe and noise hasa missed also as the president tried to find out if new york is good for c. there says the shaken by violence in the future.

is your neighborhood next week let's talk about that it's. barbaric. unfortunately around the country we have situations where. people are disappointed with leadership in various parts of the world and they are 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 price 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 they've surrounded 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 trying 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 or 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. the

u.s. has lost its treasured aaa credit rating and 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 on now washington is gunning for those by. find the joy that mob down the u.s. securities and exchange commission is now investigating the company of allegations of estimating us dead by some two trillion dollars and insider trading is beneath that needs of a downgrade was leaked to south america to populate even before it became official as a national id card downing explains why this may need to full scale investigation of all the 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 be 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. this is to stay with us here for a few hints and tips that help the money become one of the richest in the u.k. so take a look at a russian businessman leading a luxury in europe despite knowing the russian government one billion dollars. into its side effects the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some unexpected consequences so c. l. full report later in. the usa is your reigning broom started

in the mid forty's and lasted for less than a decade but people living in those former mining areas are still suffering from its deadly legacy. reports now on those few native americans who stay with that troubled loans but the high price for it. this northeast part of arizona 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 thousand forty four nearly four million tons of uranium ore work structed from navajo under the auspices of private companies from the u.s. government to reveal an additive resource was mined 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. this is the one i need to take. pearl for higher purser louver 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's so 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 to now the whole 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 that 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 for do 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. artsy new york. and you can always find more no website it's all here are some of the stories lined up for you right now. in part has the most teenage pranksters who could find themselves behind bars up to get a call to play with the flames throughout on the capital's a railway tracks. also good come in chinatown he takes an inside look at how chinese students are given a months long taste of the army life. and make a long list of wishes because they may just come true that if you want to that's no

rising footage of a spectacular meteo shot you're going to find out what the best to watch tonight's creeping into the. russian businessman and former senator. is one of the ten richest people in the u.k. but he's also among those under investigation hey mosco because he's buying the state more than a billion dollars as his diary it was called the report was this is just one of many cases that have exposed drastic problems with 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 sorel 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 it is yeah that

heroes however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his banks creditors sternly as a result of misconduct in violations by the management in founders 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 banks 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 very serious businesses in macau in the wake of its license being revoked if they practically halted its operations and focus on transferring the assets of three credits to show companies that move it on and on and in the end the money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank

which will come on the bank's database was deliberately erased and investigators say the bankruptcy was intentional it's the largest bankruptcy case of a financial institution in russia's modern history along with a bank the rest of the business empire seems to have to solved into other of show 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. artsy laska.

and time now for some other stories from around the world armored vehicles and times have ended secret coastal city of latakia valsin local residents to flee that's according to activists a day earlier the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop by eight zero all in a gas can i asked him if the government troops once again crack down on nationwide protests on 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 erupted iran became the coastal town of zawiya and libya the government denied the rebels had captured the city according to colonel gadhafi spokesman a group of fifty rebels had been repelled by government troops after they opened fire and tried to move into the town so we is just fifty kilometers from tripoli is a key target for rebels who hope to cut all the capital from the outside the world

and months of deadlock around setting thousand people have been killed in libya since the uprising began six months ago against gadhafi has of her terrible. a 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 and that reportedly has the local office of an american consulting company assisting the u.s. government's main eight. foreigners are frequently taken for ransom in pakistan last month a swiss guard couple. was abducted in the country's southwest. the former cuban leader fidel castro turned eighty five this saturday celebrations have begun long before the anniversary itself and concluded in a festive kassab by to doesn't musical acts from across latin america but castro himself couldn't make it to his birthday bash which is hardly a surprise he has barely been seen in public says he stepped down in two thousand and six and made his last of their paris in july alongside venezuela's president

hugo chavez says handing over power to his brother raul has tended to keep a low public profile so to be true to his declining health. changing sex for a better life transsexuals in indian state enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws that the government provides free gender realignment for those who want to make the change but as chris schrader discovers the law 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 when i started liking men i had sexual feelings for men i wanted to befriend them and spend time with them i was not attracted to girls adding to her confusion for suki also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher us a derogatory word for transsexuals readable 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 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 struct 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 the women. with. them. are more. only the external. despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that cure here at the 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 reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been discriminated against were told 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 that the government inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment but has a lot of visiting to six well maybe if you want to do numbers were lost for training on the. 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 found

our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority and i have no regrets. but more rights get fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t chennai india. today the headlines are next in a moment. it

can hear dr swines policeman's wives ministers why i just pray to god. if you didn't find me if i could slip 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 my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm me in jail or he's going to kill it says. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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this isn't see at the check of the headlines at home. mahmoud ahmadinejad slams nature's intervention in libya say it led to a bloody massacre and failed to bring solutions and he says survive on the world never seek to develop nuclear weapons or she speaks exclusively to they rain oppressed and. tens of thousands of israelis out on the streets to demand social justice and low price is what some in television say the demonstrations address on the smoke all of the government's policy is. very reserve insider trading and accounting error was two trillion dollars leave the standard and poor's rating agency facing eventual washington inquiry even as world markets continue to ship following the president did the u.s. debt downgrade.