the world's longest a subsidy pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe. and russian president medvedev is injury to turn the switch cause more details are just ahead for you. rushing to secure cash for greece politicians scramble to find a viable way of sharing power to bring the country back to its feet r.t. asks what greeks themselves think. and as it is real friends to attack iraq young israelis are increasingly saying no to the uniform they don't want to join the army to take part in their country's conflicts.

and broadcasting live and direct from our studios in. glad to have you with us. western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm the north stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to you customers without the line on transit countries like ukraine and belarus president could be in germany and will soon start the flow. for life you know you're there can you tell us if the pipeline can provide enough to keep the fires and are burning. oh absolutely no the pipeline is as he has said is the longest one in the world it's more than twelve hundred kilometers long it's an offshore pipeline say goes along the bottom of the baltic sea and when fully operational it will provide more than fifty five. fifty five billion cubic meters

of gas of russian gas to european customers now today only the first half of this only the first one the first by the two pipelines will actually start working this second one will become fully operational by the end of next year so at that point. we'll see all that russian gas coming for in in from russia now as we have also mentioned one of the most important parts is that there will be no intermediaries so the gas will not be there will be no chances for gas to be abruptly shut off in places like delivers or you create another interesting point about this particular gas pipeline is that it's going to come it costs for the european taxpayers i around thirty percent. of the seven billion. of the seven billion project is being financed by the consortium shareholders. the rest is being financed by international banks so customers in europe will be able to get more give us no

extra cost and that will actually increase energy security in europe. now you know we're seeing some live pictures of the president there in berlin arriving for the ceremony it's going to be an exciting time for prominent exciting time for russia but there's still some way to go before this pipeline is fully operational is that correct. that is absolutely and that is absolutely correct as i have just mentioned this is again just the first step of the pipeline now that the the pipeline was launched and the construction began in two thousand and five in russia the under sea the undersea the undersea portion of the five plane is actually going from we've got to go all the way to germany and today only the first of the first bite off the two pipes will be turned on but the second pipe is already seventy percent complete so there's not much time there's not too much time left to wait for the european customers before the rest of the bible will start working and you can

actually hear the. the opening ceremony of the presidential state is it which will of course coincide and include the opening of the north sea by played a very very i think of very interesting and significant event for europe and for russia alike all right thank you very much you know that as we can hear there the russian national anthem played live you just from berlin and president abbas for that so many thanks we'll keep you updated as more information. business r.t. in twenty minutes you can discover journey from pipe dream to reality then later this hour former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of north stream tells us why this means everybody. oh this is a deal for you to grant the european union needs russia geopolitically flood but the reverse is also true of it's not a question got kind of the time has come to start cooperating and start looking

back from a logical differences or no this isn't a situation where you can ship gas to china and all of a leader and you are you know i hope russia never has to make it or is a russian government is evidently cruel european or europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts motions pride with a few we have to keep in mind that all old russia has the alternative leadership to egypt or europe has no such alternative to europe's geopolitical position who will give you food what if it manages to enter a tight partnership with russia invades and at the same time grant a recession the thirty or that would be a sound strategy again or into the future by the rest of us the world's debatable name. gerhard schroeder the former german chancellor and chairman of north stream project starts more to our to around twenty five minutes time 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 athens is under enormous pressure to act fast and push through cuts before it can get more emergency cash sarah firth has asked greeks how they assess the mess that their end . 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 giving up a center if only much of this year a crisis if the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so we sense that the camera and the might. to. let the people of greece take it away alone we are. well. all the people. are saying. everything is made. actually

it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like that hi my name's 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 ask. if all the europeans know but told. them not be big but. why do the olympics money question 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 children going to make and then the season so i have to do it from then from now it's a really sad because. everybody here things that you know the things could be

better there's something more than the trouble there's something more very very angry because there is a lot of unemployment in greece now. and the people in greece are very skeptical about the euro i think ok there it's better we are in euro of course definitely but. there are some serious problems. because a lot of people 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. 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 greece is a european country in greece and europe is a greek word a greek word 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 people please the stats up to the mike and had a chance to have their say the question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them where the decisions again to keep being made but hiding place to surface syntagma square. and still ahead for you this hour when a confrontation is not an option. we look at how israel's military muscle flexing and fears of foreign policy is turning its own people against signing up for service. and why russia is restive north caucasus is rising from the ruins with a powerful p.r. machine hoping to attract thousands to the region. for activists protesting against washington's plans to use a new south korean base for the u.s. navy have been arrested at the site opposition to the base comprised mainly of

local residents and civics groups has centered on environmental concerns as well as fears of a destabilizing korea china relations you can now talk to activists and if you whose friends are among those arrested matthew thank you for joining us can you tell us how visa for south korean protesters been charged with anything and why were they detained in the first place. or were leaders of virus this in. the white international scene. just as we are holding this is year. annual conference. process it's the republic of korea a u.n. disarmament are being held in ten minutes away from a site. when members of our resistance rather song. who is a really existing piece leader here in the village. he was the leader of our international team and amateur filmmaker known as. young still can with my very

close colleague when the show will host out with a conference being held we have video of them simply holding signs in front of the hotel for him since an arrest. this adds will get a little number of people in prison leaving the mayor of the village held without bail for months can you give us an idea of how big the protests are at the site and what are those demonstrating hoping to achieve the learned early age of eighteen hundred people are just two weeks ago we have well over a thousand did he see this was a small five person demonstration he went on a conference to deliver a message to deliver a statement about their concerns at the naval base. and that's what are its moment there's large rallies being held will say well at least in the where they're currently being detained and also with the base about a five minute walk from where i am right now now there is more than a significant presence from the u.s.

on the korean peninsula right now how much more of a significance would this be with his new base you know was taking a consideration this is going to be one of the largest military bases in the world i need all bases we could pass to you it was bases twenty large destroyers aircraft carriers subs and it would be outdated aegis missile defense system where harry less than three hundred miles away from the chinese mainland isn't very interactive the united states military as an official at a conference now that needs all the u.s. needs any for a storm it's no secret that u.s. ships would be calling this on. now quick question previous nonviolent demonstrations relating to this naval base have been met with a strong crackdown from authorities could this situation turn violent in the future of you anticipate any further arrests inviting provided years. been incarcerated the mayor is apparently in prison initially there was

a boat of his eighty seven people led simply was direction of the base. protesting they held another vote ninety percent of the residents said they didn't want the base or government said that they want they will buy that the results of that vote recently are going to eventually government here in haiti he demanded back and start he stopped the military said no what i fear is that the villagers have gone through just about every legal often with writing a very sound rational nonviolent resistance the government simply isn't listening and you know playing fair. all right here is that it really doesn't ration really quickly if you wouldn't mind some experts believe that this could spark a cold where cold war like tensions in the area what is your take sometimes i. maybe not next year maybe not drive years down the road but i hear the changing missile crisis and rapid escalation between us and china we were ships and subs was three hundred miles off the shore here and here if you please the island of target

all right thank you very much matthew hoey international corner of the campaign to save j.j. while. 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 should the u.n. nuclear watchdog is about to report on iran's nuclear activities where it is thought it will reveal a computer model of an atomic warhead and other weapons related work israel's main ally the u.s. says it will focus on the policy but is ready to keep 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 and 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 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 your panel has done because japan has taken it all the way out to actually building a nuclear weapon and they haven't done it they have shown they have the capability it's or maybe that's what iran is trying to do maybe around never build a weapon 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 and it look easy runs a much bigger country the terrain the people there are not in a good mood towards america etc you 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 tog it's driving away the very people it would need to defend itself and that's on top of the recent aggressive foreign policy moves such as the ground invasions of lebanon in two thousand and six and gaza three years ago probably are reports on the israeli conflicts that are repelling its conscripts. for years it's been a 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 low what fifty percent of rizzoli jewish males. serve in the military when you talk honestly 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. because of this feeling that i would be a parasite if i were them and

a couple months later i realized that i just been reporting longer in what's called the israel defense forces which has nothing to go with the french rather than by name and a growing number of israelis agree with him 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 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 a lot of brainwashing actually and they just keep you down from your identity and make you basically a soldier ten years ago they refused movement started in israel youngsters refusing to serve in the army on political grounds and to back 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

little bit it's about to stay so to say 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 average like this would have been unthinkable in those days not serving in the army was something shameful but now young. does have role models like activia nodded a former girlfriend israeli model barbara fady who evaded service and gave it just a must see the relations of human rights. that are by israel absolutely this respect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about that study showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever growing train has the military why we need it won't have all the treats it needs especially now as the region heats up and the army needs all the soldiers it can get police to our teeth tell if it had

r.t. dot com for more on all of our stores twenty more there for you as well. as of the u.n. claims it has discovered a secret nuclear facility in syria r.t. hears from others who insist it's nothing more than a textile factory. and history comes alive in red square a major reenactment of the moment soviet soldiers marched tackle the nazis as they made their move on moscow seventy years ago we got the video and the significance of the event at r.t. dot com. more world news for you this hour. michael jackson's doctor has been convicted of killing the king of pop and the jury took two days to find conrad murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter by ministering a lethal dose of the painkiller propofol there was an emotional reaction inside and outside the court as the verdict was delivered or a 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 said of 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 having a way. 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 fabio god there who is rejecting the results and accusers 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 and for the better on track interests it is a key goal with luxury ski resorts among the developments taking place. over reports the p.r.

is paying off. thank you i these glamorous and extravaganza shows are the morgan face of the caucasus where anxious traditions vie for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not smalling go 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. and i'm starting from scratch i won all the trophies possible in europe as a player here and start a new course i've played with a bunch of colors before and he told me a lot about russia and i do look forward to joining the keep the words of the camera and starts trying to and more importantly the record price they were prepared to pay and made the local team one of the most ambitious clubs and the world and investment in almost everything and the caucasus discovered the land of

opportunities fine from world crawls alcohol and sports results in the new era of the northern caucasus is coming. and there actually more than a dozen ski resorts hamp at all currently stand and the states now aiming to turn that around france has already signed up to the project with one important condition the drug guarantees the repayment of funds if the security situation voicings or if there is a major incident the first the grunt in new house also due to resit for the upcoming ski season so there's not much time left to growth people's confidence in the safety of a holiday in the caucasus and absence of a much harder task than building five star accommodation. indeed terrorism anti terror raids and armed jocks are often the first things that come to mind when you think of the caucasus because that's no loosely what we at least. it's real

life is as 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 destroy you i never thought it would be mostly insurgent sure result 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 interests popping up ham celebrities have been too and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the fallout was only helped for the region and on the front pages the p.r. machine spinning at full speed because where the stars go the cameras from my dinner question r.t. reporting from the north caucasus in a few minutes away talk to the chairman of nord stream gas pipeline project more of that now in the business update with current. karen welcome to business here and artie thanks for joining me as we have been

reporting on r.t. russ is set to start pumping gas to go up to the newly built more stream pipeline well across the lawn for you throughout the day now let poor explains how the world's longest other water gas leak 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 all evils 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 political economic and visions this resulted in a couple of so-called gas was with ukraine and the old stuff 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 as it provides 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 we pool business our team. and energy minister said. why the north same pipeline a day is destined to be a financial success. yes whether or not it's going to try and project was developed in an unfavorable market conditions and had no problems in the truck to six point four billion euros of investments and it did not involve any financial help from one of the russian any european countries who produced budget intro to reach seven point two billion euros in building companies from russia and eleven new e.u. countries in this respect we think that has already proven to have been highly

economically efficient. oh yeah it was but it was a good look at the markets now all those trading in the highest level in three months where prices little changed since monday lights we are starting trading at around ninety five over ninety five and a half dollars a barrel well brant is at one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel asian stocks struggle for direction with most major indexes ending lower japanese and korean shares causing a read out of the eurozone debt anxieties exporters among the leading decline has in tokyo backing stocks or supporting the hang sang in the beginning but then the hang seng closed flat stocks in europe open higher with investors continuing to eye advance in italy and greece banking stocks among the main advances was banking group rose three point eight percent societe generale is up three point seven percent and got a phone group is up one point four as profit beat analyst expectations barriers moscow where the markets are gaining in early trading the r.t.s.

is up around a quarter of a sign of the isaacs is up nearly half a percent and here's a quick look at some share moves on a nice axis our energy majors are mixed with cross they have over a percent paul gascoigne is just north of the block and russia's biggest lenders bareback is gaining point eight percent the south. at really the capital believes investors should look to liquid energy stocks for potential good buy. so this is probably not the time to be fully invested in the market if you're in this and i think it's it's good advice to be invested in the more look at stocks and you know i'm just close to the theory in the simpler russia because judging by the results with zero of course last quarters and they're still getting more and more convinced that russian oil companies have so-called. become aware of the legislation from the pros and how to actually continuously make more money rather than a consensus. the questions are quite good and the world price seems quite a quite robust three irregardless of the situation in the global markets and we've

seen an interesting observation actually the budgets in the middle east seem to balance as in russia at a much higher price given that they financed they had the social stability from the budget so they are going to limit the surprise and the or president as they are so well guess what's probably best to put both in terms of liquid c and the outlook for the main commodity and i said when i was they were asked by headline is the sun coming up right after this. if. you.

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