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 develop groups president medvedev will start to flow in germany later on tuesday. as their. big key points of 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 it 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 europe 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 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 the pipeline is going to be launched today on the seacoast germany of course the russian president dmitry medvedev 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 . are reporting for us there now in business r.t. in around twenty minutes discovered journey from dream to reality and then later

this hour former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of nord stream tells us why it means everyone is a winner. to. the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question of the time has come to start cooperating and start looking back about the logical differences or niches in a situation where you could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe you know i hope russia never has to make a choice the russian government is evidently pro european or europe cannot keep pushing gusher away it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind russia has the alternative leadership. europe has new such opportunities europe's geopolitical position will be approved if it manages to enter a tight partnership with russia under the same time granny recession a turkey or that would be a sound strategy again only into the future the rest of us work to basically name.

the former german chancellor and chairman of nord stream project twenty five minutes top. 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 rout with the opposition leader over who should replace him 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 eurozone crisis rumbles on greece has 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 be me epicenter it's so 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 have taken away alone we are. all the people who. are saying. everything is made. actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like hi my name's 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 to ask. all of our european snow but old. why do they lend this money plus don't they want their money back the thing with

the situation right now and grief is that we don't feel real secure about anything but our salaries our health and you know in my aids thing about the tinder 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 the things could be better there's something more than the there's something more very very angry because often there is a lot of fun employment in greece now. that the people in greece are very skeptical about the euro i think. it's better we are in euro. of course definitely but. there are so some serious problems. because a lot of people lost they lost their jobs you don't know what. you can do you can plan your life i'm twenty years old and i don't have a job ah i have to leave with 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 greece is a european country and greece and europe is a great quote. 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 the people that thought the mike and had a chance to have that question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them or whether decisions are going to keep being made behind. their. intactness square and. well next in the financial firing line is italy where debts are piling up amid a record borrowing costs prime minister berlusconi is rapidly losing support all around him but he remains resolute in being the one to pass the country's austerity

budget even so his former allies are not so sure one great financial analyst says italy's politics are worse off than in his own country i think italy and spain a 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 but 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 to 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. still ahead for you this hour when confrontation is not an option. we look at how israel's military muscle flexing and fierce of foreign policy is turning its own people against signing up for service. and why russia's restive north caucasus is 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 iran's 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 an all options open political analyst ivan eland says washington is unlikely to support israel's push for an attack. in china 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 out so i think you can deter this we have thousands of nuclear warheads russia has thousands of nuclear warheads i think the iranians could do what japan has done because japan has taken it all the way up to actually building a nuclear weapon they haven't done it they've shown they have the capability it's or maybe that's what iran is trying to do maybe iran will never build a weapon 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. iran's a much bigger country the terrain the people there who are not in a good mood towards america etc you have a lot of a lot of problems and now of course they could attack by air or israel or the united states could do that and that the that's the fear i think but there's just no good option it's rails 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 reports on the israeli conflicts that are repellent it's conscripts for years it's been the cornerstone of the country's security but these days there's a real risk these way defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at an all time you know between the age eighteen to forty. fifty percent of these

early jewish males. don't serve in the military. instead of choosing to serve the country people are choosing to serve themselves. twenty khana spent most of the year and a half he was in the army trying to convince his superiors to release him on medical grounds they eventually did but only after he'd wasted months searching around he says doing nothing while in uniform get drafted for a. because of this feeling that there would be. if i wouldn't and a couple months later i realized that actually my sole responsibility is to. i'm first and foremost a human being i just couldn't take part in longer and there is what's called the israel defense forces which has nothing to do with difference other than by name and a growing number of his radio agree with him mr friedman made sure she scored low on her army entrance tests 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 our 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 draftees who don't serve because of religious reasons and a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military decline the state it's about to start so chose not to this video 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 and advertised 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 former girlfriend is ready model barbara faily who evade. service and gave it legitimacy relations of human rights. are 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. it's not a big dilemma the only think overcome is actually the social pressure. but that social pressure is listening up which is why volunteers maxa have a loan are trying to stop a draft dodgers by lobbying the government and speaking at schools she says part of the problem is with the army itself it's very easy to be exempt you know if you go to the mental health officer with a letter that you paid for he doesn't have the facilities the money the time to check if you lie to him or not he doesn't want to take the risk 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 why we need it won't have all the troops it needs especially now as the region heats up and the army needs all the soldiers it can get. our team tell of it. the. soviet soldiers marched to. the video.

is he. the official. from the. video. and. 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 over the weekend for the movement increasingly vital issues. 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 then 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 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

economics blogger michael snyder says the spiraling spiraling a number of people losing their jobs and hopes for the future is fueling the protests nationwide well the obama administration seems to think that it was stock market surging that everything was ok but the truth is that before the floor big keep increasing last year two point six million more americans slipped over the poverty line that was the most americans of all of the poverty. and if you look back and this is part of a long term trend back in your true selves 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 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 those jobs are leaving this country by the only school this winter many older americans are going to have to choose between heating their homes putting food on the table or

getting their medicine was a real top choice made. our correspondent will continue to report from inside the occupy movement protests follow artie's twitter stream to keep in touch. 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 pople fall there was an emotional reaction inside and outside the court and the verdict was delivered faces four years in prison and has lost his medical license. a woman who accused u.s. presidential hopeful herman cain of sexually abusing her has gone public with her accusations bialik said that 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 the 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 of the votes now counted in the election daniel ortega has secured over sixty percent of the ballots so far that is more than double his nearest rival conservative. who's rejecting the results and accuses ortega of voter fraud. for many it rushes caucuses 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 it medina and over reports the p.r. is paying off. these glamorous and extravaganza shows are the morgan face of the caucasus where an ancient tradition survived for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first

century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not too 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. just ahead i'm starting from scratch i've always trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new course i've played with a bridge across before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team the words of the cameroon 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 invention is almost everything and the caucasus discovered the land of opportunities five world class albine sports results the new era of the northern caucasus is is coming up. and there are 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 new how it alls are geared to the residence of 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 your i never thought it would be possible in such

a short amount of time what's happened in some kind of miracle i can believe moyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business interests popping up pam celebrities have been ten and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the full ounce only helped to put the region on the front pages of 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 in a few minutes the nord stream chairman explains the significance of the massive gas pipe project for europe more of that now with kareena in the business but. our welcome to our business because of the south thanks for joining me as we've been reporting on r.t. russia is set to start pumping gas to europe for the newly built north stream pipeline where across the logs for you throughout the day but now nick paul

explains how the world's longest underwater gas link came to her wish. 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 wars with ukraine and the old bust up with bella ruse which is where nord stream comes in the pipeline runs beneath the baltic linking russia directly to germany it's the longest subsidy 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 nick poole business r.t. . and went to alexandra from one of our investment group outlines the benefits russell stands to gain from not staying. it was more than a little use russian opportunity to significantly increase. and to change the rules of already contracted supplies. joining the w t o and the ability to take part in the european rescue plan this makes russia even more interested in financial and energy. markets now all prices are mixed up or could crude futures closed above ninety five dollars on monday the highest level since late july plights rate is currently trading over ninety five dollars per barrel while brant is at one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel markets in asia are showing a mixed picture of japanese and korean shares lower on eurozone debt anxieties

exporters are among the leading decliners in tokyo sony and i can hold down around one percent hong kong is moving higher hopes the policy things in china. here in moscow the r.t.s. start of the day lower point four percent while trading on the minus six has been suspended for technical reasons and the authorities will say well. all the whole global equities remained. to the g twenty failed to meet investor expectations problem. that this will continue to dominate the markets throughout the week. expect the markets to remain quiet. in this was going to be in suspicion of what what comes out of greece and italy next guess there are more risk of a downside during the course of the week though we saw on monday that the market

out of the euro please start to get even weaker with sectors or germany bill expectational and probably that trend is going to continue in the s. and the other hand the macro is probably going to be not as bad given the nature of the councils there is the regulation goes the companies are going to be doing this a lot in cap exists year versus versus next and probably ficarra music going to dip it's going to be next year or so of us market is going to be more resilient than syrian kind of parts and all eyes are going to be continued on you russia will be no different and obviously being a hybrid of market you obviously go up more than the others provide a dual price for suits as an update for this hour but don't forget you could always find more business stories on our website r.t. dot com slash that's.

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with. the world's longest subsidy pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe without relying on transit countries president is germany ready to flick the switch to receive supplies later on tuesday. it is a race for the rescue funds in greece the prime minister and the leader of the opposition scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis the euro zone's given fifteen weeks to sort out making the necessary. strike on top of a recent ground invasion of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army many have.