the world's longest a subsidy pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe with president medvedev in germany but he deployed a switch. and now business bulletin in twenty minutes we'll bring you more on the economic the south expensive process. it's a race before the rescue funds in greece with politicians scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis hardly hears what greeks themselves think. and as israel threatens a strike on iran increasing numbers of young israelis turn their backs on joining the army saying their country is too severe for service.

broadcasting live or direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. trying to have you with us western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm the nord stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to e.u. customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and belarus president to get up will start the flow in germany later on tuesday marchese nicholas goes there. the key points off the russian president's visit to germany is the launch the official opening of the north stream gas pipeline of course the gas pipeline which is an offshore apply fun runs for more than twelve hundred kilometers from or of russians one of the boats to germany it's not offshore pipeline it runs along the bottom off the baltic sea it has been in construction since april of two

thousand and ten the key of this particular five hundred that it will allow for russian gas to be transported to europe without any intermediary points like ukraine and belarus which is the case right now of course to doing that construction there has been some criticism from politicians or economists who are saying that this pipeline will make your of too dependent on russian gas but others of course have argued that vice versa this goes along diversification of european energy sources so the only please well for europe to have this pipeline running from russia to germany of course there have also been some environmental concerns products off their old hurdles how did austin after it has been proven that this pipeline in fact does not present any danger to the environment or to with european gas or energy supply in the pipeline is going to be launched it's a date on the seacoast germany of course the russian president is to be very will

be accompanied by the german chancellor angela merkel along with the french prime minister francois young this is a very very busy day ahead for the russian president we're expecting a lot from this particular visit of course we'll bring you the latest as we get it . you know who this guy reporting for us they are now in business r.t. in around twenty minutes time discover nordstrom's journey from pipe dream to reality and in the next hour former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of nord stream tells us why it means everyone is a winner. closer. the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question or kind of the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back on a logical differences or glitches in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of a and you are you know what i hope russia does that has to make it or is close in government is evidently pro european with europe it can't keep pushing russia away it hurts muslims pride we have to keep in mind all russia has the alternative

should he just or europe has no such alternative europe's geopolitical position it will give you food what if it manages to enter a tight partnership with russia under the same time a session later king or that would be a sound strategy into the future of the rest of us the world today. and you can see that full interview with a former german chancellor and chairman of nord stream shorter and just over an hour here on r.t. . greek leaders are struggling to decide who should become the new prime minister to lead a crisis coalition george papandreou has agreed to go but is not going to raul with the opposition leader over who should replace him things is under enormous pressure to act fast and push through cuts before it can get more emergency e.u. cash sarah furthur has asked the greeks how they assess the mats that they are.

i think your insane crisis rumbles on greece is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone's had an opinion about the situation here in the country we decided to come. which is really up with the answer it's so much of this year a crisis in the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. the camera and the like. to. let the people who are taken away alone we are angry well of. all the people who. are saying. everything is mid-morning actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like hi my name's the t m m m p canadian i've been living in greece for ten years now my grandfather fought for this country and it saddens me that. right now there's

a chance you might lose everything that we know in this country and there's really not much we can do and i want to ask something else. all the european snow but old . and would be bad but. why do the olympics money question don't they want the money but the thing with the situation right now is that we don't feel real secure about anything but our salaries our health and you know in my age saying about the tumor i'm going to make and the decisions i have to do from then from now it's really sad because. everybody here things that you know that things could be better there's something more than the there's something more very very angry. now. very skeptical about euro

i think. it's better we are in the euro. of course definitely but there are some serious problems. because look at people they lost their jobs you don't know what. you can you can't plan your life i'm twenty years old and i don't have a job. i have to leave my parents i don't have money i can leave i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that is a european country in greece and euro is a greek word a greek word for hope something can be done so we can save this beautiful country and be able to pass it on to our grandchildren and their children after that. it's up to the mike and had a chance to have a say the question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them

whether decisions against a key being made for hiding place. i think. well next in the financial firing line is italy where guns are piling up amid record borrowing costs prime minister berlusconi is rapidly losing support all around him though he remains resolute in being the one to pass the country's austerity budget but even his former allies are not so sure one greek financial analyst says italy's politics are worse off than in his own country. i think italy and spain are probably still it's the largest threats to the eurozone and certainly heelys very concerning in the political situation there is more unstable than it is in greece and they're borrowing rates a raging very and sustainable levels i think there are many good reasons to worry for other countries and even call countries like france and may well lose their aaa

rating at some point in the future or what they do have to do of course other than just bailing out some countries and putting out some defenses in the short term we 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 was always going to be haphazard and when the e.c.b. itself count lent countries then things can be very problematic. and still ahead for you this hour when confrontation is not an option. we look at how israel's military muscle flexing and fierce foreign policy is turning its own people against signing up for service. and why russia is restive north caucasus is a rising from the ruins with a powerful p.r. machine hoping to attract thousands to the region. russia has issued

a clear warning to israel over a possible attack on iran the foreign minister was responding to the israeli president's suggestion that a military strike on iran is more likely than diplomacy sergey lavrov said any such attack would be a serious mistake with unpredictable consequences the u.n. nuclear watchdog is about to report on these runs nuclear activities where it is thought it will reveal computer models of an atomic warhead and other weapons related work israel's main ally the u.s. says it will focus on diplomacy but is ready to keep all options open political analyst iran says that washington is unlikely to support israel's push for an attack. in china i think when mao and the chinese got nuclear weapons now made direct threats to nuke the united states and of course lyndon johnson explored military options etc and of course they didn't take the chinese nuclear weapons you can deter this we have thousands of nuclear warheads russia has thousands of nuclear warheads iran will have a few and they haven't even put them on

a missile yeah missile design takes a lot of technology etc so they've shown that they can design a warhead that will fit on a missile hitting the missile over here we've seen north korea had a lot of problems with that so we're not in the panic mode yet but i think what the foreign minister said there is absolutely correct there's no good military option here if you want to make sure you get all the stuff you have to launch a ground invasion which would make the invasion of iraq look nice and right i mean look easy runs a much bigger country the terrain the people there are not in a good mood towards america sattar you'd have a lot of a lot of problems and of course they could attack by air israel or the united states could do that and that's the fear i think but there's just no good option. it's israel's increasingly tough talk that's driving away the very people it would need to defend itself that's on top of recent aggressive foreign policy moves such as the ground invasions of lebanon in two thousand and six and advancer three years

ago policy or reports on the israeli conflicts that are republican conscripts. for years it's been the cornerstone of the country's security but these days there's a real risk the israeli defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at an all time no three in their age eighteen to forty or fifty percent of recently jewish males who. serve in the military. instead of choosing to serve the country people are choosing to serve themselves. twenty bikaner spent most of the year and a half is in on it trying to convince his superiors to release him a medical grounds a venture he did but only after he wasted months searching around he says doing nothing while the uniform it would get drafted for a. because of this feeling that i would be a parasite if i wouldn't and a couple months later i realized that actually my sole responsibility is to you

mine if you are in person and human being i just am working longer and there is what's called israel defense forces which has nothing to do with the friends or family name and a growing number of israelis agree with him mr friedman made sure she scored low on her army entrance test so instead of serving as a soldier she's not doing civil service working as an art instructor and a center for the mentally disabled i have a lot of friends in the army and they saw. how they were when they first came to them in how they are now and it's a lot of brainwashing actually and they just take you down from your identity and make you basically a soldier ten years ago the refusenik movement started in israel youngsters refusing to serve in the army on political grounds add to that the nearly fifteen percent of potential drop to these who don't serve because of religious reasons and a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military to apply on this

day to do a bit of understanding so chose not to do this for. posted on you tube says a true israeli doesn't even need the truth in other words a true israeli avoids conscription fifteen or twenty years ago an effort like this would have been unthinkable in those days not serving in the army was something shameful but now youngsters have role models like activity in order to coppers former girlfriend israeli model barbara faily who evaded service and gave its legitimacy well ations of human rights. for an hour by israel absolutely this respect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about it i mean as far as moral decisions go it's not a big dilemma the only thing to overcome is actually social pressure. but that social pressure is loosening up which is why volunteers like to have our own are trying to stop the glass dodge's here by lobbying the government and speaking at

schools she says part of the problem is with on yourself it's very easy to be exempt you know if you go to the mental health officer within a target you paid for he doesn't have the facilities the money the time to check if you like and he more knowledge he doesn't want to take the. study showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever the growing trend has the military worried it won't have all the tricks it needs especially now as the region heats up and the army needs all the soldiers it can get policy r.t. television. and head. for more on all of our stories plenty more there as well. the hackers are back the notorious anonymous group is warming up for another online attack this time targeting america's imminent presidential election campaign. and

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calls. and r.s.s. feeds the palm of your. call an eleven mile neighborhood march in new york on monday became the latest occupy protest against corporate greed in the meantime police continue to crackdown on demonstrators after violent clashes and arrests over the weekend for activists the movement increasingly brings a violations back into the eyeline of america's prominent politicians. 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 is a is a big problem in the united states since 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 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 economics blogger michael snyder says the spiraling number of people losing their jobs and hopes for the future is fueling the protests nationwide will be obama administration seems to think that it was stock market surging that everything was ok but the truth is that we're still got more big keep increasing last year or two point six million more americans slipped over the pogues on both the americas that was already over. if you would back and this is the long term trend back your true tells and you have one out of every smiling americans living in poverty today we have one out of every seven americans living in poverty. and we definitely want to

know if you're going to assistance and crusades and so long but those are only temporary solutions what they really are the job of hotels are leaving this country by a million through this winter many older americans are going to have to choose between eating their homes on the table or getting their medicine but the real tough choices made. by our correspondent lucy kavanagh through continue to report from inside the occupy movement protests you can follow our to use twitter stream to keep in touch. and more world news for you this hour. michael jackson's doctor has been convicted of killing the king of pop the jury took two days to find conrad murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter by administering a lethal dose of the painkiller propofol there was an emotional reaction inside and outside the court as the verdict was delivered where he faces four years in prison and has lost his medical license. a woman who accused the u.s.

presidential hopeful herman cain of sexually abusing her has gone public with her accusations sharon bialek has said the republican groped her when she asked for his help finding work in the one nine hundred ninety s. it is the fourth allegation of sexual misconduct against a candidate cain denies all the charges but it's not stopping support from ebbing away. your rob was president is cruising towards a third term in office with most votes counted in the election of daniel ortega has secured over sixty percent of the ballots so far that's more than double he's the nearest rival conservative fabio gun who's rejecting the results and accuses ortega of voter fraud. for many russians. carcasses has been synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is that convincing people that times are changing for the better attracting tourists is a key goal with luxury ski resorts among the developments taking place as medina coaching reports the p.r. is paying off. i

these glamorous and extravaganza shows are the modern face of the caucasus where anxious traditions survive for tension with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not slowly ago local football club biggest county and she was barely known outside the region and now it regularly makes international headlines with its doubles on the global transfer market. i'm starting from scratch i want all the trophies possible in europe as a player here and start a new course i've played with brighter colors before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team the words of the camera man star striker and more importantly the record price they were prepared to pay made the local team one of the most ambitious clubs in the world and a mission is almost everything and the caucasus discovered the land of opportunity

in its finest and world class alpine stuart's results the new we're out of the northern caucuses is coming. and there actually more than a dozen ski resorts hamp all currently stand empty and the states now aiming to turn that around france has already signed up to the project with one important condition the dresher guarantees the repayment of funds if the security situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first ground in new how those are due to resit for the upcoming ski season so there is not much time left to boost people's confidence in the safety of a holiday in the caucasus and godsends of the much harder task than girls in five star accommodation. indeed terrorism and she terror raids and armed jocks are often the first things that come to mind when you think of the caucasus because that's mostly what we hear in the least. but real life is always much more

complicated there is another side to living down hand has barely even heard of beyond the region which is well worth making the effort to describe you i never thought it would be mostly insurgent sure result of time what's happening in some kind of miracle i can't believe my eyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business centers popping up and soon that richie's have been cheered and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit there for now so i only have to put the region on the front page it's the p.r. machine spinning and full speed because where the stories go the cameras from my dinner question oh i see reporting from the north caucasus. and in a few minutes we hear from russian gas monopoly guys problem about the launch of the nordstrom pipeline one that also in the business update with current.

at a shallow well. as the better part of an artsy russ's said to start pumping gas to europe through the nearly bare. where across at the launch for you throughout the day but now that poor explains how the world's longest other what a gas leg into for us. russia has been selling gas to europe for half a century with the first pipeline running to austria completed in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven trading survived a long list of upheaval even the depths of the cold war failed to disrupt supplies however the breakup of the soviet union brought a new set of problems and much of the energy infrastructure became the property of countries bordering russia with their own political and economic ambitions this resulted in a couple of so-called gas was with ukraine and the old bus stop with bella ruse which is where north stream comes in the pipeline runs beneath the baltic linking russia directly to germany it's the longest subsidy plotline in the world over twelve hundred kilometers and it bypasses all transit countries at nine billion

euros it's undoubtedly expensive but a pipeline last for up to fifty years so there's plenty of time to make a return the immediate benefit is it provide security of supply to europe which gets twenty five percent of its gas from russia and after thirteen years of planning and two years of construction the first delivery is about to be made in the pool business r.t. . going to the markets now all prizes are mixed after crude futures close above ninety five dollars on monday the highest level since late july light sweet is currently trading at around ninety five and a half hours from brant is that one hundred forty dollars or about asian markets are showing a mixed picture of japanese and korean she has more on the eurozone debt anxieties exporters are among the leading the criers in tokyo sony and i kind of both down around one and a half percent hong kong moving higher on hopes for policies in china. here moscow

trading is less than one hour away but both my six and the r.t.s. gained over one point three percent on monday supported by stronger crude. tell the whole global equities remain wobbly on monday out of the g twenty three zero to meet investor expectations of the eurozone debt problem how they get that b.p. capital believes this will continue to dominate the markets know this week expect the markets to remain quite. small so investors going to be inspirational for what what comes out of greece and italy next i guess there are more risks to the downside during the course of the week with on monday with the market outcome of the europe is starting to get even weaker with a reserve of germany a bit of stations and probably that trend is going to continue in the s. on the other hand the macro is probably going to be you know it's bad given the nature of the recounts and the regulation goes the companies are going to be in there's a lot of them kept sister year versus versus next and probably feel for the music

going to dip it's going to be next year or so of us market is going to be more resilient than its european counterparts and all eyes are going to concede on europe russia will be no different and obviously being a high bidder market the euros they go up more than the others provided they were pressed for suits. well that's it for now i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more here on business r.t. thanks for watching.

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experiment it's something that we'll see if we pursue a program to see this rap music we would expect those good movies lately trying to make sense of global economy and it's all changed things as financial temple these are the reasons i am willing to maintain our confidence in markets and take your wants to be seen trade imbalances recession look between nations close to sing a song like look close. to fail circlet but again feel a little like think is the west crash and imminent smash the ceiling seems to me is like ultimate in transition athens free for the i.m.f. for me i'm just programs in greece where the total economy.