from the heart of moscow any attack on iran would be a serious mistake with unpredictable consequences that's according to russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov comments come after israeli president shimon peres says the likelihood of a strike on iran was getting closer artie's not explains what russia's plan to solve the problem russia stands firmly on that this issue has to be approached with diplomacy it has to be done step by step through talking no military intervention is acceptable russia's reaction to this comes after israel has been pushing for a military intervention saying the clock is ticking and the iranian nuclear program has to be stopped right now russian foreign minister insists that it's going to have consequences for the entire region is already so unstable as it's not sure how i view a list issue is well known an attack would be a serious mistake with very grave consequences we can see proof of that every day when we see how problems are being solved close to iran iraq afghanistan or other

countries in the region military interference only leads to a multiple rise in deaths. meanwhile international atomic energy agency's preparing i reports which is going to prove that iran's nuclear ambitions are not peaceful overall iran has been denying this ever since the beginning and mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that if there's going to be a military intervention and iran is prepared for it. political analyst ivan eland says that the fact that iran is moving its nuclear facility to a hard to reach location is why it's in the spotlight again. iranians are moving that facility into the mountain and once it goes in there it would be very difficult to take it down and so i think that's why there's a lot of bluster i think that's probably why they're releasing this report to put more pressure on iran iran is a totally different nut to crack than iraq or whatever yeah i mean like i say you have to invade on the ground to get these facilities basically of them even

a lot of military people would say there are not many good military options except a full blown invasion and i don't know anybody who's going to advocate that now if israel does attack or the u.s. does launch airstrikes i think you instantly turn the country into an anti-u.s. cauldron again now a lot of the people are fed up with the current regime and they're not happy especially you see the arab spring iran is in a very weak position its ally syria government there may fall over there what you've got in iran the arab spring can't be encouraging to the iranian leaders so i think you know iran is susceptible to pressure whether they'll give up their nuclear weapons though is another matter are their nuclear program i should say and we need to be cautious here remember what happened in iraq then we can't conclusively say that they have a nuclear program that's for weapons but it looks like they might but even if they do military action is probably not useful and later on in the program libya's

future after colonel gadhafi. amid claims of revenge killings in the spread of radicalism nato says its job is in the country is done all the details in a few minutes. as the european debt crisis deepens the international monetary fund is reaching for the kremlin for help i met chief christine legarde has been in moscow for talks with president dmitri new video on how russian cash could help save the crisis hit euro zone next stop is beijing but artie's a company has all the details on her moscow visit. during these financially turbulent times russia can all for the i am a fan the european union what it now needs most money russia paid the last portion of its stuff to the international monetary fund in two thousand and five and seems that it has been contributing to the organization providing financial support to

countries which experienced serious financial and economic difficulties or even risk default as it is now the case with grace recent developments in this european country and the euro crisis in general. to come over at the g. twenty summit in cannes last week where the leaders agreed to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and the financial institutions to save the euro and eurozone and one of the hopes for the euros coming from the monitoring economies from the so-called brics countries that is presumed russia india china now south africa added to the list russia in particular is ready to contribute at least ten billion dollars all the european union but mission and that it made it very clear from the very beginning that these support should be targeted comprehensible transparent it should be done in directly through this international financial institution not to the sort that a country of the european union directly and another must condition is that the

brics countries are given a voice within the international monetary fund and other financial institutions the brics may not be directly affected by the euro crisis at the moment but we should not forget that russia for instance keeps almost forty five percent of its international reserves in euros. asia times correspondent pepe escobar thinks that the only way financial contagion from europe can be halted is not by outside intervention but only if euro zone leaders find a solution themselves. compared to ten billion dollars that's russia is offering to defy a wall that europeans need in case italy goes under they need a fire wall of one trillion dollars you're not going to get this from the brics is out of the question not even china would even imagine giving more then let's say

fifty billion dollars it's not enough the problem is the euro doesn't war for the eurozone it worse for north and europe but not for the club med countries and they have to find a solution inside europe from the point of view of europe would be to have a near of their would be equal for everybody from the netherlands to sicily but it's not going to happen because from the start they had this political idea that if we have a common currency we're going to have a political unity it's strong it's not going to work because there's total economic imbalance between norse and southern europe and it when the grants it's a political nationalism while it's greece that have a line of countries destabilizing the eurozone with a new coalition unity government in athens to tackle the debt crisis there weeks of political chaos have put the country's membership of the euro in jeopardy. prime minister george papandreou has agreed to step down with the country's new

leader likely to be known on tuesday the interim government will rule until parliamentary elections expected in february it also has come up with a written commitment to honor the deal struck with the eurozone leaders in october which requires more savage austerity cuts after that greece should receive its next vital eight billion euro bailout installment without which the country will go bankrupt in mid december economics analysts next kircus says that instead of coming up with short term measures to cope with the crisis they are to think of fundamental reform. i think it's about time that the political system became a little bit more responsible and responsive to the mates of the country and greece itself i think a coalition should have been formed quite a while ago it seemed that a lot of the opposition parties were having their cake and eating it too in the sense that they were voting for the money but maybe for the austerity i think italy and spain up there are really still the two largest threats to the eurozone and

certainly here to lead is very concerning the political situation there is more unstable the leaders in greece and their borrowing rates that are raging very unsustainable levels i think there are many good reasons to worry for other countries and even call countries like france who may well lose their aaa rating at some point in the future what they do have to do of course other than just bailing out some countries and putting up some defenses in the short term is have a really good look at the trees and the infrastructure of the whole project and see if there is some reform that can make it more workable of course when you have seventeen different very different economies in very different countries setting one uniform monetary policy is always going to be haphazard and when the e.c.b. itself counseling countries then things can be very problematic. a week after wrapping up its intervention in post gadhafi libya the head of nato says it has no

major role in the future of the country that's despite widespread allegations of crimes against humanity under the new libyan regime and a shift towards radical islam arties going it can ask asks whether the west has made a habit of turning a blind eye to the shortcomings of its allies. share first question later not so long ago the u.s. media presented libyan rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after could alpheus killing the narrative changed you know you talk about this arab spring and many people do that here as a move towards democracy but really that is not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young holding human rights disaster in the region libya's new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to overthrow an al qaeda flag planted on a libyan courthouse steered quite some panic and not just that you have the interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy

was going to be illegal again consistent with sharia law sharia law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves beheading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers sure real long which is about to be introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new libyan government's domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with the saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems the bother the powers that be in washington why because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being a dictatorship but not a democratic state america is a big ally in a big supporter of saudi arabia that just shows that we really don't care for your

democracies or we're working with dictatorships or working with secular governments or religious governments all we care about is our interest in the region by very another u.s. ally in the region it hosts america's fifth fleet and also leaves on the shari'a law and as a. questionable human rights record as those in power are their only things to nato and particularly the united states the media here had generally been supportive of the campaign to topple gadhafi but now that he's gone why the sudden concern about human rights in libya maybe out of old habit so well demonstrated in the run up to the iraq war when the media cheered first and then when it was too late when the war was started asking questions and only say human rights in libya was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently be in government i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . as wars and soldiers come home but for many there's no home to come back to.

tens of thousands of american soldiers become jobless and homeless or soon as the military lets them go read more on our web site r t v dot com. a russian woman accused by the u.k. of being a spy and implicating a british m.p. has now reportedly taken another government official under her spell this time in germany. and on our you tube channel stripping for women's rights activists from ukraine take the vatican by storm wearing very little just after the pope's weekly address they were quickly removed to the ladies not the clothes thanks to a fast response by police who could barely keep a straight face just log on to our you tube page for all the details and plenty of other videos as well. the occupy wall street protests continue across the u.s. including an eleven mile neighborhood march in new york on monday in the meantime

police continue to crackdown on demonstrators after violent clashes and arrests over the weekend activist timothy for all says the movement has brought many important issues back to the agenda of prominent politicians in the u.s. . the occupy wall street protests are already changing the political dialogue in the country republicans are talking about social inequality democrats are talking about corporate personhood and you know in these are very these are important issues to a lot of people down at the protest in the financial district police brutality is a big problem in the united states and the wall street protests are showing that are you know that's one issue that a lot of people are organizing around when there has been violence it's when there are you know dozens upon dozens of you know of riot police in full gear you know it's almost like the police come in looking for a fight and with that kind of an attitude you're going you're going to get one

michael snyder a blogger on economic affairs says that the spiraling number of people losing their jobs and hope for the future has led to the ongoing protests all over the united states well the obama administration seems to think that it was stock market surging that everything is ok but the truth is that or more big keep increasing last year or two point six million more americans list over the podium those of most americans the ball is already at work. if you would about it and this is part of a long term trend back you're trudeau's and you have one out of every americans living in poverty today we have one out of every seven americans living in poverty. and we don't we want to give them assistance and food stamps and so on but those are only temporary solutions what they really need are jobs but the jobs are leaving this country by the millions who is winter many older americans are going to have to choose between heating their homes putting food on the table or getting the

register was a real tough choice is made to keep your finger on the pulse of the occupy movement as it continues its rapid spread across america just head to our t's twitter stream . feuding russian tycoon zero mana and bodies because of ski have taken their battle to u.k. court and it's no small claim with over six and a half billion dollars at stake self exile businessman but his office he claims of remote which robbed him of the money by intimidating him into selling oil shares on the cheap something the chelsea football club owner denies artie's ivor bennett has been watching the billion dollar lawsuit play out. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated fifteen billion assets for your chelsea football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr b. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht but he does still

have his trusty stretch my back which he never fails to show off a manner which is rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his turn in the witness stand has lifted the lid on a life in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employed primarily disabled staff landing lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection as he dived into the infamous alimony and walls of the ninety's where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly the clean cut image one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was the more you know the only difference between a rotten p.r. and here is p.r. has been very good presents a very benign image that he doesn't really come across aggressively the we say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're always aware of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth that. claims he's he's still

a wanted man in russia he's suing mr adam over it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gether in the ninety's just about as he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected to smash the record for the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as well the legal fees mr abbott is rumored to be sixteen million dollars a barrel lawyers have their work cut out there on a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close miss to be. he gave his protege the all important leg up into the world of the super rich and we now know he was paid for his troubles but mr a says that was just protection money denying they were ever business partners it's that claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia none of their deals were written down

five weeks in and i've counted a cost of nine billionaires five russian one kazakh one is becky paul israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention future strange deals recordings of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and piece the whole thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr pease lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett r.t. london. a quick look at some other world news now. the number of people killed in pre-election clashes in liberia has risen to five

after violence at the headquarters of the country's main opposition party thousands rallied in the capital as their candidate called for a boycott of the runoff claiming fraud favoring the incumbent president opposition candidate winston tubman claims the first round of voting was biased against him but international election observers say last month's poll was fair and the presidential contest will be have held tomorrow. in yemen government forces have killed six militants during clashes in the southern city bringing to eleven the number of insurgents recently killed in. the region of albion is reported to have been partly taken over by al qaeda extremists some say that the violent antigovernment protests have helped militants gain control of the area over a thousand five hundred people have died since demonstrations against president suddenly started in february. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has denied

reports that he's going to step down soon the statement comes despite predictions his government's likely to lose a vote of confidence on the budget on tuesday yeah position has long demanded berlusconi's resignation over alleged sex scandals and failure to sustain economic reforms to lower the country's debts italy is widely predicted to be the next euro zone survival battle get battleground after greece. michael jackson's doctor conrad murray has been found guilty of his involuntary manslaughter the physician now faces up to four years in prison and being banned from medicine prosecutors accuse dr murray of giving a huge set of drugs which killed the singer in two thousand and nine. next we talked to a former british government minister who shares his views on the origins of europe's debt crisis he thinks the e.u. is suffocating its members.

i'm joined by lord hesketh a former cabinet minister in both margaret thatcher's and john major's governments and he's just become the most high profile defector from david cameron's conservative party joining you keep the u.k. independence party note hesketh thanks for speaking to r.t. you've been a member of the tory party although i don't live why jump ship now well it's been a long process and i think the simple summation is this.

every government. that we have had with the exception of margaret satcher has a central day allowed itself to be bamboozled by its civil service into avoiding having a serious discussion with the europeans about sorting out. the problem and i'm afraid that is happening with this government there's no point listening to a lot of people telling you what they believe when they fail to carried out government being the party which actually recognizes that you cannot deal with the europeans the europeans have no desire to negotiate. europe all the is a new kind of religion. it is run by people who pay follow taxes than anyone else in europe and have their children educated free of charge in

a circle everyone forty in private schools from brussels and a european parliament would most the members of paid about three or four times as much money as they would have run in any other trouble your i might have to do in life and the system is essential to corrupt and it is unchangeable for the party which believes in two things one is telling people the truth and sticking with it when we achieve office but eventually we will because the public are upset absolutely fed up to the back teeth with mainstream politicians thing. happened is hopes and promises and delivering absolutely nothing but the opposite the bailout has been a green with the extra firepower and the banks agreeing to have greece's debt is this really the shot the needs or is it just another band aid that's about it. it's a band-aid because the real numbers three trillion maybe four trillion and

secondly the markets are looking forward detail and there is no detail that never has been any detail there was no detail in july there was no detail last year and there will be no detail this time and this deal will fall apart and the markets will make that happen because the markets like being lied to and as you are as usual they are being lied to let's just say what if it does work ok what if the recovers and britain's not part of it when if they leave one of what we stand to lose. we stand to lose unlike sponsors the rest of the european stamps lose they run a huge trade surplus with us so they're going to be the losers. there's no particular i mean that the europeans i mean the german army let's take the german army for example german army consumes more beer in afghanistan than it does aviation fuel i mean are there are some there are some pretty fundamental problems

in europe in terms of what they're actually capable of doing and delivering i mean today we have the last sort of great lies right now has which is if we don't all agree to this magnificent servant it's good to be wall so is this the beginning of the end would he save the e.u. i did do some going to the end of the taller thing may be the beginning of a new beginning which will be based on facts rather than fiction because the problem at the moment is the e.u. is based on fiction because it doesn't have political reality the whole problem of this crisis it was created by the europeans themselves because who could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away with the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and maybe a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policies the result is you have

a situation and you want to take forget trillions forget billions forget hundreds of millions look at that reality you want to get to have a cup of coffee in central paddy one of the most expensive places in the world because the same as going to. increase if we're going to get rid of unemployment in greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost everything is priced in europe is that will never be possible to happen therefore best thing if i was a green i would be. to get a grant. to get out of this because what happens that's still in the or is it so that french banks take a hack. but they're still stuck with the euro and of course everyone prices you see to give you an. before the euros and a car manufacturer in europe would have a different pricing structure for cars were sold in greece the cars sold in turkey or cars or sold in italy southern italy in northern little bit the u.k.

parts of southern england northern england wales and wherever because the markets would take the what the was the level of individual pricing now the moment the euro zone came in and the single market came in what then happened was you couldn't actually do that it all so the result was that there was an automatic splosion of inflation particular in a country like greece which produces practically nothing domestically in the capital goods market so the result was that the costs went up on a progressively higher scale than elsewhere in germany that's why northern europe have been the winner of the euro zone and the southern europe has been basically impoverished by the hesketh thank you thank you very much.

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russia raises the alarm against israel planning to bomb iran's nuclear facilities saying such action would have disastrous consequences for the region. the head of the international monetary fund is in moscow looking for the kremlin's help in getting europe out of the financial quagmire. and russian tycoon abramovich and boris berezovsky slug it out in a multibillion dollar court battle in london where evidence has turned the spotlight on allegedly shady business dealings of the past. as nordstrom is about to go live artie's al gordon of talks to go from spokesman said again on of to discuss why moscow now faces criticism following the achievement of building the giant gas pipeline spotlight our interview show is next.