headlines on our t.v. of the world's longest subsidy pipeline a sub to start pumping a russian gas to warm up western europe. presumably that's ready to flip the nordstrom switch in germany because of the details in just a few months. rushing to secure cash for greece politicians scramble to find a viable way of sharing power to bring the country back on its feet r.t. asks what the greeks themselves think. and as israel threatens to attack the randa young israelis are increasingly say no to the uniform claiming they don't want to join the army to take part of their country's conflicts.

t.p.m. here in the russian capital this is sort of our top story western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm and about it our president of addendum in his european partners will flip a switch in germany and start the nord stream pipeline directly pumping fuel under sixty artie's daniel bushell isn't germany's coastal town of libyan where the siberian gas makes a european the last fall of daniel so the leaders are preparing to start the gas flowing out pretty soon actually will europe's got a massive energy demands how key is north stream and keeping the home fires burning . yes europe's leaders have flown here from berlin to the northern coast of germany this will provide a long term energy security for europe even through this year's euro debt crisis

consumption of gas in the e.u. has gone up and for the very first time the direct link from russia to the e.u. will be only interrupted from from russia to europe without interruption from states like ukraine and belarus transit states which in the polls have harmed the energy relations between those two countries it's a europe wide project you've got to fridge participation got shareholders in nordstrom also germans and that will guarantee for at least the next fifty years the lifespan of this project gas for millions of homes it fills the shortfall of projected hundred million homes by twenty thirty europe does need more gas natural gas is expected to be the fastest rising force is growing clean energy source form for europe from the gas will go on through point lines to the rest of europe and on to countries like the u.k. as well it should also mean cheaper gas for people in europe because it won't be interrupted by transit states to take transit fees like ukraine and belarus right

and of course are waiting for about. this which are about about half an hour away from the first ever but it has a very long way to making hazarded. yes is the pipeline people couldn't be built that it was too long critics said too expensive technically it was impossible for example there's just one compressor station along the roots exposed to saying you needed several to make this happen is testament to engineering brilliance people here say it's been planned since the ninety's in construction since two thousand and five is the second law and will come next year today we're just seeing the first line and we've just spoken to. the head of goes from me says that there will be a discussion very soon about construction of a third line he exposed in europe to grow and for this project to provide for its own supplies to the e.u. all right thanks very much for that daniel bushell reporting live for us from the

coastal town of men thank you. 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 e.u. cash arky sarfraz asked greeks how they assess the mess they're in. at the euro thing quite is rumbles on greece is once again the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about the situation here in the country we could fight it comes. which is really going to happen if very much of the euro quite a lot of people of great have to say about you know. the camera and the mike. to. let people of greece take it away

alone we are. well there's a lot of bluster. all the people who were greeks are blamed thing. everything is made money on don't actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like that hi my name's of a key moment we canadians 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 somebody else if all of the european snow but all of his dead and would be but why do they lend his money to us don't they want the money but the thing with the situation right now it really is that we don't feel real secure about anything but our salaries our health and you know in

my age thinking about the children going to make and the seasons i have to do from them 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 there is a lot of unemployed making greece now. that the people in greece are very skeptical about euro i think ok there it's better we are in utero. of course definitely but there are some serious problems. because. they lost their jobs you don't know what to call them small you can't you can't love 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 cruz is a european country in greece and euro 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. that's up to the mike and have a chance to have a say in question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them or the decisions are going to keep being made but fine close to those. things hyginus querida. well going back to our stop story let's put some more perspective on the nord stream a gas pipeline project with alexander rock he's director of the russia and russia program of the term and council on foreign relations mr are having questions in europe over whether russia can be a reliable partner i mean during the rally with ukraine which then block the flow

of gas if we remember that very well will this direct route project be an assurance . i think that the north korean pipeline is making energy security better for european union energy import. the european union will be safer now because there is an extra pipeline which circumvents the difficult transit countries like ukraine and belarus shalwar russian gas is does appear to over the past ten fifteen years so the majority of europeans think applaud the fact that this pipeline brings the russian gas directly to germany and germany is now on the responsibility to distribute the russian gas in the whole europe which makes a position of germany very important ok again one of the recent events japan's fukushima disaster and this of course may germany decide to abandon nuclear power an important decision here all the gas flowing through north stream would be enough

to fill would fill that gap. ya know people who are criticizing north seem understand how important this pipeline is for the second. reason not only for security reasons but also for getting more gas from russia because after all the germany is closing down all the nuclear station the next ten years we will need of course more of gas and since the pipelines from russia exist it will be easier to get gas from the east than from anywhere else so again the pipeline is being seen as a statistically very important also for a reason for the german economy and germany will not suffer from any kind of energy source or just in the coming decades like many like some other countries who probably have not worked for a service as germany in buildings the same port infrastructure oh you were talking there about security but let's talk about fortunes and friendship and how significant is this project in the intervening of europe and russia. i think the

north korean pipeline is a political project this well but for other reasons the critic is of the pipettes i think this is true of the energy alliance which is the european union and basically germany is forging was russia we are trying to bring russia closer to europe even integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space we'll be successful then we can think about creating uncommon economic space in a free trade zone and also politically much folded together so from my point of view of the energy alliance which is being symbolized by of this pipeline as well will help us to build a common continent and make europe more stable than it had been before all right well thanks very much for analysis there alexander rara director of the russian eurasia program at the german council on foreign relations thank you. well we are

covering the a lot of the noise free my gas pipeline all throughout the day here and later we will bring you live transmission of that opening ceremonies if you stay with us for that. now military action against iran it could spark a fully fledged war as a task for the middle east that's a warning from president medvedev who commented on the israeli president suggestion about a military strike on iran is more likely diplomacy. because of what use them is really literally the words of some countries like israel about their readiness to strike iran or any other country in the middle east is exceptionally dangerous rhetoric with that and we can see that the situation in the middle east is a fever pitch we understand that the middle east peace process is locked in still mention last week that's despite the fact that all sides in the conflict are really trying to find a solution and you've now in this situation week someone started threatening anyone with military action that could trigger very grave problems that could escalate into conflict and usually that's why i think we need to take a breath just relax and continue constructive dialogue on all middle eastern

problems including iran's nuclear issue and not threaten any kind of show of force that could lead to a fully fledged war which would result in a catastrophe for the middle east a lawyer. for the u.n. nuclear watchdog is about very poor i mean iran's nuclear activities where it's thought it will reveal computer models of atomic warheads as well as other weapons related work israel's main ally to the west says it will focus on the diplomacy but is ready to keep all options open political analyst ivan iran says washington is unlikely to support israel's push for an attack. in china when mao and the chinese got nuclear weapons now made direct threats to nuke the united states and of course lyndon johnson explored military options etc and of course they didn't take the chinese nuclear weapons 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 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 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 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 that are you 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 fear i think but there's just no good option. and it's easy or else 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 it's a 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 the israeli defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at an all time know what fifty percent of recently jewish remains. serve in the military one of our condor spent most of the year and a half he was in the army trying to convince his superiors chillies him on medical grounds they eventually did but only after he'd wasted months searching around he says doing nothing while in uniform it would be a draft for of or because of this feeling that it would be parathyroid if i wouldn't 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 do with defense other than rain and a growing number of israelis agree with him peter friedman made sure she scored low

on her army introns tests so instead of serving as a soldier she's now doing civil service working as an art instructor in the center for the mentally disabled i have our friends in the army and they saw. how do you were when they first came to the army 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 they refused 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 saw public trust in the military decline the state it's about to start so. 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 young. those have role models like actually leonardo dicaprio former girlfriend israeli model barbara fady who evaded service and gave it interesting to see the relations of human rights. that are by israel absolutely disrespectful of international law it's crystal clear there's no question or study showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever a growing trend has the military why we did 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 policy r t television will do had to r.t. dot com for more on all our stories and plenty more there for you as well as the new one a great discover the secret nuclear facility in syria are to hear from others who assist it's nothing more than

a sock factory. and history comes alive in the red square a major reason aftermath of the nomad soviet soldiers marched to topple the nazis as they needed a new one in moscow and seventy years ago believe got the video and the significance of the events at r.t. dot com. for activists protesting against america's plans to use a new south korean base for the u.s. navy have been arrested at the site opposition to the bases mainly from locals who fear it could destabilize south korea's relations with china as well as damaging the environment activist matthew hoh who's near the base as the voices of discontent are going on heard the government not playing fair. this was a small quiet person demonstration we went to the conference to deliver a message to the liberal statements about their concerns at the naval base in tucson moment we are seeing and bits that are this moment there's far gravity being probably the same with people at least and whether currently being detained this is going to be one of the largest military bases in the world i need the bases we can

kassidy it is bases twenty large destroyers aircraft carriers some subs and it will be outdated aegis missile defense system where her hair less than three hundred miles away from the chinese mainland this is a very attractive location for the united states military and initially there was a vote of just eighty second. instruction at the base milledge protesting they held another vote ninety four percent of the residents said they didn't want the base government said that they're working with that results about recently the provincial government here in haiti demanded a construction be stopped the military said no biting of pride years even leaving parser a mayor is apparently in prison ragbir and says that the villages have gone through just about every legal option with fighting a very sound rational nonviolent resistance the government simply isn't listening to him now playing fair. here's more world news for you this hour to work people

have been killed in front office with syria city. the opposition is calling for international intervention in the conflict of the regime accuses the west of the violence u.s. now claims more than three and a half thousand people have been killed in the crackdown since the protests began in march. in india over twenty people were killed and fifty injured after a stampede broke out during a religious ceremony the incident to the north of the country happened with tens of thousands of hindu pilgrims rushed towards a holy site to offer their prayers question many of the victims stampedes triggered by panic are not uncommon in india last january over one hundred worshippers died on route to the shrine. michael jackson's doctor has been convicted of killing the king of pop the jury took two days to find card murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter by administering a lethal dose of the painkiller propofol there was an emotional reaction inside and

outside court as a verdict was delivered now faces four years in prison and has lost his medical license. because i was president is cruising towards a third term in office with most votes now counted the election take a secured over sixty percent of the ballots so far but that's more than doubled his nearest rival conservative fabio good there was rejecting the results out of hubris or voter fraud. a woman who accused u.s. presidential hopeful herman cain of sexually abusing her has gone public with her accusations sharon bialek said the republican groped her when she asked for his help finding work in the night hundred ninety s. it's the fourth allegation of sexual misconduct against a candidate cain denies all charges but it's not stopping support from being away. now for many russia's caucasus has been a synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is can visit people the times are changing for the better attracting tourists is

a key goal with luxury ski resorts among the developments taking place as artists ready to question of all reports the p.r. is paying off. thank you i these glamorous and extravaganza shows are the modern 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 only go local football club biggest county and she was barely known count side the region now which regularly makes international headlines with its doubles on the global transfer market. that had been all starting from scratch i've always heard his possible europe as a player but he reckons starting new because i've played with a brutal crowd is before each old me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team the words of the cameroonian star striker and more importantly the record prize they were prepared to play and made the local team one of the most ambitious cobbs in the

world and ambition is almost everything and the caucasus discover the land of opportunity it's fine if the world crawls out on sports results then you we're out of the northern caucus is is coming. and there are actually more than a dozen ski resorts ham 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 of the trash a guarantees they repayment of funds if the security situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first in ground in new how tolls are due to resit for the upcoming ski season so there's not much time left to go with 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 least. but real life is. always so much more complicated there is another side to living down here that's very 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't believe my eyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business centuries popping up ham celebrities have been cheered and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the full ounce only have 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 and i do not question our t.v. reporting from the north caucasus. and up next it's the best stop to korea.

hello welcome to our business report the south like the guy has a very reporting russia is set to start pumping gas to go up to the newly built nor stream pipeline where across the logs for you throughout the day paul explains how the world's longest underwater gas tank. 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 up he will even the depths of the cold war failed to disrupt supply lines 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 conditions and it's resulted in a couple of so-called gas wars with ukraine and the order bust up with bella rose which is where nord stream comes in that 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 seven and a half billion euros it's undoubtedly expensive but a pipeline last for up to fifty years so there's plenty of time to generate a return the immediate benefit is 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 in the pool business r.t. as a minister so get lines why then our stream pipeline is destined to be a success. but despite the fact the project was developed in under favorable market conditions it had no problems in attracting six point four billion euros of investments and it did not involve any financial help from either russia from any european countries who produce budget in total reach seven point two billion euro and involving companies from russia and eleven you countries in this respect we

think the north has already proven to have been highly economically efficient. markets across europe are natural as investors i keep archibald's out of italy stocks another move higher is a part of it results from lloyds banking group a waterfall and marks and spencer letters are also gaming as precious and base metals prices rose because of a down to resources is up three point four percent of a downside she has a faster than a couple of this truck. here in moscow the markets are gaining trading the r.t.s. is up a percent while my six is out point seven percent in the afternoon at here is a quick look at some shambles otherwise it's our energy may just bounce back the losses ross we have is that point eight percent. gazprom as point is over half percent in the black as well the company's also said recast has posted its their

profit by sixty four percent in the first month also the year after russia's biggest lenders their bag is up over two percent get it over to the status of. forces trading at their highest level in three months with prices little changed since monday light sweet is probably trading at over ninety six dollars with our wild brant over one hundred fifty dollars or about. touring the world trade organization will cut russia's exposure to price fluctuations that's the view of fitch credit rating agency which sees a number of benefits to accession the agency suggests being the trade club will boost growth and help drive versus the economy and it expects the move will improve confidence in the business climate and encourage foreign investment which confirmed russia's triple b. rating in september warning that all price fluctuation could lead to a downgrade. that's one half of this hour join me for more on the north stream pipeline next target.

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