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 customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and bella bruce president will start the flow in germany later on tuesday. 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 pipeline runs for more than twelve hundred kilometers from russian town of to germany its offshore pipeline that runs along the bottom of the baltic sea it has been in construction since april of two thousand and ten the key of this particular pipeline is 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 the during the 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 well for europe to have this pipeline running from russia to germany of course there have been some environmental concerns are all hurdles how did austin after it has been proven that this pipeline in fact does not present any danger to the environment or to european gas or energy supply in the pipeline is going to be launched today on the seacoast germany of course the russian president needs to be very will be accompanied by the german chancellor angela merkel along with the french prime minister. 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 for us there 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. the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question of the time has come it's don't cooperate and start looking back on a good logical differences were bush is in a situation where it could ship gas to china. and you or i hope russia does the has to make a good. government is evidently pro european or europe cannot keep pushing us your way it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind russia has the alternative ship to asia or europe has new such opportunities to europe's geo political position. if it manages to enter a tight partnership with russia under the same time grand e.u. accession a turkey or not would be

a sound strategy again or into the future us the rest of us of the world to be. and you can see that full interview with a former german chancellor and chairman of nord stream. in 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 locked in a raul with the opposition leader over who should replace him athens 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 mess that they are in. as the usa in 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. a study

much of this year a crisis if the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so we set the camera and. let the people who take it away alone we are. all the people who. are saying. everything is. actually. it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like hi my name is vicky. needy and 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. all the european snow but the old

dead don't be bad but. why do the. don't they want the money but the thing with the situation right now in greece is that we don't feel real secure about anything but our salaries our health and you know in my aids thing about the team that i'm going to make and then the season so i have to do it from then from now it's really sad because. everybody here things that you know the things could be better there's something more of them there's something more there there are very. very skeptical. i think. it's better we are in the euro. of course definitely but. because people. jobs you don't know what. you can do you can plan your life twenty years sold 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 become and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that. and. i hope something can be done so we can save this beautiful country and be able to pass it on to our grandchildren and the children after that. to the mike and had a chance to have a question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to the weather decisions again to keep being made behind. the square and. well next in the financial firing line is italy where debts are piling up amid

record borrowing costs prime minister berlusconi is rapidly losing support all around him though he remains a 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 the two largest threats to the eurozone and certainly italy is very concerning the political situation there is more unstable than it is in greece and the borrowing rates are reaching very unsustainable levels and i think there are many good reasons to worry for other countries and even cool 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 acb itself count lent to countries then things can be very problematic. and still ahead for you this hour when confrontation is not an option. we'll 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 helping 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 he 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. 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 mao 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 yet missile design takes a lot of technology etc so they've shown that they can design a warhead that will fit on a missile getting 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 etc 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 gaza three years ago policy or reports on the israeli conflicts that are repellent its conscripts. for years it's been the cornerstone of the country's security but these days there's a real risk these rady defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at

an all time no between the eighteen to forty. fifty percent of. jewish males. serve in the military. instead of choosing to serve the country people are choosing to serve themselves. most of the year and a half he was in the army trying to convince his superiors to release him. they eventually did but only after he'd wasted months searching around he says doing nothing while in uniform get drafted for. because of this feeling that i would be sorry if i would and. later i realized that actually my. to. the human being i just couldn't take. it. with a friend. and a growing number of israelis agree with him friedman made sure she scored low on

her army entrance tastes so instead of serving as a soldier she's now doing civil service working as an art instructor in a center for the mentally disabled i have a lot of fans in the army and they saw. how they were when they first came to them in how they are now and it's brainwashing actually and they just keep you down from city 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 draftees who don't serve because of religious reasons and a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military decline david it thinks about this stuff so i chose not to do this for. posted on you tube says a true israeli doesn't evade the truth in other words a true israeli avoids conscription fifteen or twenty years ago an average like this

would have been unthinkable in those days not serving in the army was something shameful but now youngsters have role models like activia nodded a copy of former girlfriend israeli model bar refaeli who evaded service and gave it richard. perle a sions of human rights. turned on by israel's absolute disrespect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about it i mean as far as moral decisions go. which is. very easy. he doesn't have. he doesn't want to.

study showed that. the number of military age. will be the highest the growing trend has the. needs especially now as the region heats up and the army needs.

the official. told talk from the top story. on the go. video on demand. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. dot com an eleven mile neighborhood march in new york on monday became the latest on

cue by 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 vital a shoes back into the eye line 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. protest in the financial district police brutality is a is a 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 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. well the obama administration seems to think that the stock market is surging that everything is ok but the truth is that the order so the floor they keep increasing last year two point six million more americans slipped under the poverty line does the most americans the fall out of poverty ever and then if you look back and that's part of a long term trend of actually or two thousand you have one out of every line of americans living in poverty today we have one out of every seven americans living in poverty abandoned we definitely 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 and this winter many elderly americans are going to have to choose between heating their homes putting food on

the table or getting their medicine will the real top choice made. our correspondent will continue to report from inside the occupy movement protests you can follow our 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 murray 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. nicaragua's president is cruising towards a third term in office with most votes counted in the election daniel ortega has secured over sixty percent of the ballots so far that's more than double his nearest rival conservative. who's rejecting the results and accuses ortega of voter fraud. for many russians. has been synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is 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 reports the p.r. is. thank you these glamorous and extravaganza shows us the morgan face of the caucasus where anxious traditions survive for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not long ago

a local football club that dystonia and she was barely known outside the region now it regularly makes international headlines with its doubles on the global transfer market. and i'm starting from scratch i've always trophies possible in europe as a player and here it is starting new plus i've played with a bunch of callers before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team the words of the cameron and star striker and more importantly the record price they were prepared to pay made the local team one of the most ambitious comps in the world and a mission is almost everything and the caucasus discovered a land of opportunities finally for the world cross albine sports results venue where out of the northern caucasus is coming. and there actually more than a dozen ski resorts ham but 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 this is the situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first run in knew how it's also due to resit for the upcoming ski season so there's not much time left to boast people's confidence in the safety of a holiday in the caucasus and that sense of a much harder task than building five star accommodation. indeed terrorism anti terror raids and armed attacks are often the first things that come to mind when you think of the caucasus because that's mostly what we hear in the news. but real life is as always much more complicated there is another side to living down hand that's barely even heard of beyond the region but which is well worth making the effort to discover you i never thought it would be mostly in such a sure as a moment of time what's happened in some kind of miracle i can't believe my eyes

and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business centers popping up and celebrities have been too and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the fall outs only helped put the region on the front pages the p.r. machine spinning and full speed because where the stars go the cameras follow my do not push no arty reporting from the north caucasus. and in a few minutes we hear from russian gas monopoly gas problem about the launch of the north stream pipeline one that also in the business update with current. thank you sean hello welcome to us this hour as we've been reporting on our team russia is said to start pumping gas to europe through the newly built north stream pipeline where across the launch for you throughout the day but now nick poole explains how the world's longest underwater gas link came to fruition. russia's

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 upheavals even the depths of the cold war failed to disrupt supplies however the breakup of the soviet union brought a new set of problems 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 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 subsea pipeline in the world at over twelve hundred kilometers and it bypasses all transit countries that 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 to the immediate benefit does it provide security of supply to europe which gets twenty five percent of its gas from russia but after thirteen years of

planning and two years of construction the first delivery is about to be made make pool business altie. going to the markets now all prices are mixed after crude futures close above ninety five dollars on monday the highest level since late july like three discarded trading at around ninety five and a half dollars a barrel while brant is at one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel asian markets are showing a mixed picture of japanese and korean shares laura that anxiety is exporters among the leading the criers in telco sonny and i kind of both down around the want to have to sell hong kong moving higher on hopes of policy as in china. here in moscow trading is less than one hour away but both my stocks 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 after the twenty failed to meet investor expectations on the eurozone debt problem. that lead to the capital

believes this will continue to dominate the markets this week. there were markets to remain. in this was going to be an inspirational for what what comes out of greece and italy next i guess there are more risk of a downside during the course of the week so we saw on monday that the market out of europe was starting to get even weaker with germany below expectations and probably that trend is going to continue in the new yes on the other hand the macro is probably going to be in others bad given the nature of the council the regulation goes the companies are going to be in there so wanted and kept exists here versus versus next and probably going to dip it's going to be next year or so of us market is going to be more resilient than syrup parts and all eyes are going to be continued on you will be no different and obviously in the high better market you obviously go up and down more than the others provided the oil price for so. well

that's it for now i'll be back. with more here on business r.t. thanks for watching.

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and welcome back it is at nine thirty on a tuesday morning here in moscow russia's capital glad to have you with us the world's longest sub but see pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up . western europe without relying on transit countries president medvedev is in germany ready to flick the switch to receive supplies later on tuesday. it's a race for the rescue funds in greece with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition is scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis the euro zone has given them fifteen weeks to sort out making the necessary cuts. and as israel threatens a strike on iran on top of the recent ground invasions of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army many have told r.t. if their country is now too severe.