western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm but nord stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and belarus president medvedev will start to flow in germany later on tuesday. the 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 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 by software all hurdles have been asked in 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 it's a day on the sea coast of germany of course the russian president needs to be better he 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 and we're expecting a lot from this particular visit of course we'll bring you the latest as we get it . parties. for us there and in business are to around twenty minutes from now

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 this means everyone is aware. the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question kind of the time has come to start cooperating and start looking back on by the logical development just ornish is in a situation where you could ship gas to china. and you are you know i hope russia does it has to make a good. government is evident in proving everybody and or europe or canada keep pushing us your way it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind russia has the alternative leadership he us or europe has new such opportunities europe's geopolitical position we want to leave the fruit just to enter a tight partnership with russia and at the same time grand session. or that would

be a sound strategy again or into the future us the rest of us work to basically name . and you can see the full interview with former german chancellor and of chairman of nord stream in just over an hour right here on r.t. now 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 row 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 cash sarah firth's asked greeks how they assess the mess that they're. as the eurozone 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 being the epicenter if so much of this year i quite if the find out what the people of greece

have to say about it all. so he stands at the camera and. let the people take it away alone we are. well. all the people. are saying. everything they've. actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like hi my name is vicky 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. if all the european snow but all these dead cannot be paid back. why do they lend his 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 that the things could be better there are something more than that there's something more there. because often there is a lot of fun employment in greece now. that the people in greece are a very skeptical about the euro i think ok the 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 have job. 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 even. up to the mike and had a chance to have a question now is whether anyone is going to be ready to listen to the weather decisions again to keep being made behind closed. the square and. next to the financial firing line is italy where debts are piling up amid record borrowing costs prime minister berlusconi is rapidly losing support but insists he

won't quit he is resolute that he is the one to get vital cuts through 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 apparently still that suit 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 and sustainable levels 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 countless in the countries then things can be very problematic and still ahead for you this hour when a 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's arrest of 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 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 all options open political analyst ivan eland he 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 and 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 runs a much bigger country the terrain the people there are not in a good mood towards america or you'd have a lot of a lot of problems and now of course they could attack by air israel or the united states could do that and that's the that's the fear i think but there's just no good option it'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 paula slayer 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 the. jewish maidens. don't serve in the military. instead of choosing to serve the country people are choosing to serve themselves. spend 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 sorry if i wouldn and a couple of months later i realized that actually my responsibilities. are in first and foremost a human being i just couldn't take part in a 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 israelis agree with him mr friedman made sure she scored low on

her army entrance tests so instead of serving as a soldier she's not doing civil service working as an audience structure in the 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 keep 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 spend so too is that 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 an advert 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 former girlfriend israeli model barbara fady who evade. service and gave it legitimacy violations of human rights. or of our by israel 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 thing to overcome is actually social pressure. but that social pressure is loosening up which is why volunteers like so have our own are trying to stop a draft dodgers here 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 examples 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 studies show 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 to be our team television. more on all of our. presidential campaign. years ago.

he. video. and.

new york on monday became the latest occupy protest against corporate greed in the meantime police continue to crackdown on demonstrators after violent. over the weekend for the movement increasingly brings a vital issues back into the 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 to 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 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 it was stock market is surging that everything is ok but the truth is that of course the more they keep increasing last year two point six million more americans slipped over the poverty for the most americans the poverty. and if you look back 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 definitely want to give them assistance and food stamps and so on but those are only temporary solutions what they really need are job but those 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 their medicine but it's a real tough choice to make. our correspondent catherine off will continue to report from inside the occupy movement protests follow our twitter stream to keep in touch. and some 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 a painkiller propofol there was an emotional reaction inside and outside the court as 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 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 the candidate cain it 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 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 fabio god who is rejecting the results and accuses ortega of voter fraud. well for many 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 a luxury see ski resorts among the developments taking place as medina coaching over the reports the p.r. is paying off. these glamorous and extravaganza shows are the morgan face of the caucasus where an

ancient traditions vie for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not too long ago local football club biggest county 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 and i want all the 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 clubs in the world and a mission is almost everything and the caucasus discovered the land of opportunities five world class albine sports results venue where all of the northern caucasus is coming. 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 the security situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first ground in knew how it's also due to the reservoir the upcoming ski season so there's not much time left to boost 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 rights 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 happening in some kind of miracle i can't believe my eyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business interests popping up hand celebrities have been too 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 the p.r. machine spinning and full speed because where the stars go the cameras follow my dinner question our reporting from the north caucasus because the reporters all the way to take a side swipe more major money mismanagement but this time it's cathedrals rather than corporations korea has this hour's business top stories first. hello and welcome to our business boss and the south thanks for joining me as of been reporting on our t.v. set to start pumping gas to europe through the nearly belt large stream pipeline

well across the lot for you throughout the day but now nicole explains how the world's longest underwater gas tank came to fruition. 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 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 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 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 trying 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 will try to exaggerate from one of our investment group outlines the benefits russia stands to gain from north strain. it was more than just little use russian opportunity to significantly increase its gas williams and to change the rules of already contracts it supplies. in the w t o and the ability to take part in the european rescue plan this makes russia an even more interesting financial in. take a look at the markets oil is trading at their highest level in three months and prices are little changed since monday light sweet is currently trading at around ninety five dollars a barrel while brand is at one hundred fourteen dollars

a barrel stocks in asia are mixed this hour japanese and korean share as long eurozone debt anxieties exporters and one of the leading the klein has in tokyo sony down around one and a half percent banking stocks are supporting gains in hong kong with back up plan b. cations over with percent. of the markets again in early trading the r.t.s. the point four percent the my six has resumed trading and is the third of a percent in the black and here's a quick look at some shares. but only r.t.s. oil majors are mixed where it was never a point two percent and look all just a notch down at russia's biggest lenders bank is a quarter of a percent in the black star. believes investors should look to liquid energy stocks for potential good bye. so this is probably no time to be fully invested in the market if you're in there so i think it's good to us to be invested in the more

liquid stocks and guess talks here in this into russia because judging by the results of course last quarters and they're still getting more and more convinced that russian oil companies have so-called. become aware of legislation to look closer now to actually continues to make more money than the consensus. questions are quite good and the world price seems quite quite robust irregardless of the situation in the global markets and will. interesting observation actually the budgets in the middle east seem to be as in russia at a much higher price given that they financed they have the social stability from the budget so they are going to limit the supply and they will president as they have so well guess folks probably best to put both in terms of liquid c and look for the main commodity that's it for now more from the business desk in about fifteen minutes time.

the list. just seems. to.

say. to. the close up team has been to them and some region where technological breakthroughs save human lives. now archie goes to the sea. for unusual ways to protect nature on facts where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. and where future developments depends on a great. slushes black sea coast commercial close up on our t.v. . world's

longest subsidy pipeline is set to start pumping the russian gas to warm up western europe president medvedev is in germany ready to flick the switch. it's a race for the rescue funds in greece with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis. and as israel threatens a strike on the. ground invasions of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army. next max and stacey ask whether the pope should be heaping praise on a man who's lost hundreds of millions of dollars of people's money. guys are this is the kaiser report i'm here in ireland kilkenny ireland there's a new song and it goes like the.