peons can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm and about an hour president medvedev and his european partners well flicked the switch in germany and started north stream pipeline directly pumping fuel under the baltic sea artie's daniel bushell isn't germany's coastal town of robin where the siberian gas makes a european a lot of danielle so the leaders are preparing to start the gas flowing out pretty soon actually well europe's got a massive energy demands how key is north stream in keeping the home fires burning . yes europe's leaders have flown here from the northern coast of germany this will provide a long term energy security for europe even through this year's euro crisis consumption of the e.u. has gone up 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 the ukraine and transit states which in the poles have home the energy

relations between those two countries it's a europe wide project you've got a fridge participation shareholders in nordstrom also germans and that will guarantee for at least the next fifty years the lifespan of this project just for millions of homes it fills a shortfall of projected hundred million homes by twenty thirty does need more gas natural gas is expected to be the fastest rising force is going clean energy source form for europe from the gas will go on through point lines to the rest of europe and 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 that flick of the switch or about about half an hour away from that first fuel being delivered but it has a very long in the making hasn't it. years is the pipeline people said couldn't be

built that it was too long critics said too expensive that technically it was impossible for example there's just one compressor station along the route experts were saying you needed several to make this happen is testament to engineering brilliance people here say it's been planned since the ninety's been 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 guys from he says that there will be a discussion very soon about construction of a third line he expects gas demand in europe to grow and for this project to provide vital supplies to the e.u. all right thanks very much for that daniel bushel of reporting live for us from the coastal town of men thank you. now greek leaders are struggling to decide who should become the new prime minister to lead a crisis coalition george papandreou is agreeing 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 artists are first asked greeks how they assess the mess they're in. as the year anything 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 be me up and it's so much of this year i cry if the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so we sent the camera and the money. to. let the people have taken away alone we are angry well. all the people who. are saying. everything is made money actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like that hi my

name's vicky and i'm in greek 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 something else. if all the european snow but all this debt cannot be paid but. why do the lent this money plus 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 timber 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 is something more than that there's something more

very very angry because there is a lot of fun employment in greece now. that the people in greece out a very skeptical. how do you i think. it's better we are in euro. of course definitely but there are 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. i have to leave my parents i don't have money i can leave i hope for everybody to become and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that goose is a european country in greece and euro is a good word a greek word but 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 of greece the steps up to the mike and had a chance to have a say the question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them or the decisions again to keep being made behind closed surf. syntagma square and. all going back to our stop story let's put some more perspective on the nord stream a gas pipeline project with alexander our he's director of the russia and eurasia program at the german council on foreign relations mr our role there have been questions in europe over whether russia can be a reliable partner i mean during the route with ukraine which then block the flow of gas and remember that very well will this direct route project be an assurance. i think that the north stream pipeline is making energy security better for a european union and the g.

import to. the european union will be safer now because there is next a pipeline which circumvents some of the difficult transit countries like ukraine and belarus show where a russian gas has disappeared to over the past ten fifteen. years so the majority of europeans think applaud the fact that this pipeline brings russian gas directly to germany. germany is known as responsibility to distribute the russian gas in the whole of europe which makes the position of germany very important ok again one of the recent events japan's fukushima disaster and this of course made germany decide to abandon nuclear power an important decision here while the gas flowing through north stream would be enough to fill the fill that gap. you 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 softer of a german ear is closing down all the nuclear station in the next ten years we will

need to of course more gas and since the pipelines from russia exist it will be easier to get from the east and from anywhere else so again the pipeline is being seen the strategic a 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 upcoming decades like manner like some other countries who probably have not worked. as germany in buildings as important infrastructure oh you were talking there about security but let's talk about fortunes and friendship i mean how significant is this project in the intervening of europe and russia. i think the north korean pipeline is a political project as well but for other reasons the critics of the pipe as i think this sort 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 that we can think about creating and common economic space as a free trade zone and also politically much closer 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 russia eurasia program at the german council on foreign relations thank you. well we are covering the a launch of the north stream a gas pipeline all throughout the day here and later we will bring you live transmission of that opening ceremony said do stay with us for that. now military action against iran it could spark a fully fledged war and spark a task for the middle east that's a warning for president medvedev who commented on the israeli president suggestion

that a military strike on iran is more likely than diplomacy. in the. words of some countries like israel about their readiness to strike or any other country in the middle east is exceptionally dangerous rhetoric 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 stalemate that's despite the fact that all sides of the conflict are really trying to find a solution and if now in this situation someone starts threatening anyone with military action that could trigger very grave problems that you can escalate into a conflict that's why i think we need to take a breath relax going to 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 if. all the u.n. nuclear watchdog is about to very port on 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 the u.s. says it will focus on the diplomacy but is ready to keep all options open a political analyst 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 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 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 there's no good military option here if you want to make sure you get a. all this 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 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 these rails increasingly tough talk that's driving away the very people it would need to defend itself 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 our policy of 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 rady defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at

an all time you know about fifty percent of recently jewish males. serve in the military twenty back on a 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. if i wouldn and a couple months later i realized that i just couldn't take part in longer in what's called the israel defense forces which has nothing to do with defense other than by name and a growing number of israelis agree with him or 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 keep you down from your identity and make you a 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 saw public trust in the military decline the state is about to stand still 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 an advert like this would have been unthinkable in those days not serving in the army was something shameful but now young. have role models like activia nodded to former girlfriend israeli model barbara faily who evaded service and gave it. relations of human

rights. are by israel absolute. respect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question studies showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever 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 to be our team. will do had to r.t. dot com for more on all our stories and plenty more there from you as well as the new one a great discover the 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 to topple the nazis as they made their move on moscow seventeen years ago but we've got the video and the significance of the event 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 says the voices of discontent are going on heard with government not playing fair. this was a small five person demonstration they went to the conference to deliver a message to deliver a statement about their concerns of the naval disarmament leaders and bits that are this moment there's far gravity's being held but the same with people at least station where they're currently being detained this is going to be one of the largest military bases in the world the naval bases their capacity and his bases twenty largest royer two aircraft carriers subs and it will be outdated aegis lists the missile defense system where hair less than three hundred miles away from the chinese mainland is a very attractive location for the united states military and initially there was

a vote of just eighty seven people that led to the construction of the base village protested they held another vote ninety four percent of the residents said they didn't want the base government said that they weren't going to abide by that the results they got recently the provincial government demanded that instruction be stopped the military said no fighting for five years they've been beaten they have been incarcerated the mayor is currently in prison what i fear is that the villagers of bombs are just about every legal option or fighting a very sound rational nonviolent resistance the government simply isn't listening and they're not playing fair. and here's more world news for you this hour two war people have been killed in front with the troops in syria city and the opposition is calling for international intervention in the conflict while the regime accuses the west of the violence the u.n. 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 in 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 all trying. michael jackson's doctor has been convicted of killing the king of pop the jury took two days to find conrad murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter by administering a lethal dose of the painkiller propofol there was an emotional reaction inside an outside court as the 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 in the election that secured over sixty percent of the ballots so far about some more than doubled his nearest

rival conservative fabio good there was rejecting the results and accuse us of 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 tonight these it's the fourth allegation of sexual misconduct against the candidates cain denies all charges but it's not stopping support from being away. for many russians caucuses has been a synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is can visit be. people the times are changing for the better attracting tourists is a can go with luxury ski resorts among the developments taking place as art is what made a question of all reports the p.r. is paying off. these glamorous and extravaganza shows as the morgan face of the caucasus where anxious

traditions survive for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not too long ago local football club biggest on 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 won all the trophies possible in europe as a player to start a new course i've played with a bunch of college 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 ambition is almost everything in the caucasus discover the land of opportunities fine for the world cross albine sports results the new era of the northern caucasus is is coming. and there actually more than

a dozen ski resorts ham but all currently stand empty and the states now aiming to turn that around france has already signed up to the project with one important condition the dresher guarantees the repayment of funds if this acuity situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first run in new how it alls are due to the reservoir 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 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 does barely even heard of beyond the region but which is well worth making the

effort to discover you 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 my eyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business centers popping up to hand celebrities have been too and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the fall outs only helped put the region on the front pages the p.r. machine spinning and full speed because where the stars go the cameras follow my dinner question r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. and up next is the business update with korea. hello and welcome to our business report the south thanks for joining as well then reporting russ is set to start pumping gas to europe through the newly built nor stream pipeline where across the lot for you throughout the day but now nick poor 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 at 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 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 as the minister sergei outlines why the north stream pipeline is destined to be a financial 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 or from any european countries the projects budget in total reach seven point four billion euro involving companies from russia and eleven you countries in this respect we think the north stream has already proven to have been highly economically efficient. markets across europe are on edge as investors i bought it out of italy stocks and love the move higher is a part of it results from lloyds banking group a lot of salt and marks and spencer

lighters are also gaining as precious and base metals prices rose because of the down to resources is up three point four percent on the downside shares a faster than a couple this truck. here in moscow the markets are gaining any trading of the r.t.s. is up a percent while from isaacs is a point seven percent in the afternoon and here's a quick look at some shambles otherwise it's our energy majors bounce back losses ross we have is that point eight percent. as point is over half percent in the black as well the company's also surgery as possible sixty four percent in the first five months of the year russia's biggest lenders their bag is up over to. get it over to the status our. board is trading at their highest level in three months with prices little changed since monday at light sweet is currently trading at over

ninety six dollars with our wild brant at over one hundred fifteen dollars or about . joining the world trade organization will cut russia's exposure to oil prost price fluctuations that's the view of rating agency which sees a number of benefits to accession the agency suggests being the trade club will boost growth and help diversify 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 prize fluctuation could lead to a downgrade. that's one half way at this hour join me for more on the north stream pipeline our next program. wealthy british soil it's time to.

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welcome back you're watching our live from moscow here's a recap of all our top stories the world's a longest subsume is about to start pumping the russian gas to warm up western europe without having to rely on countries just a few minutes president medvedev and his european colleagues will flip the switch in germany we'll bring you the launch live right here on our team. 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 the power to resolve the crisis in euro zone's fifteen weeks to sort out. what's. wrong on top of recent ground invasion of lebanon and gaza itself people are increasingly turning their.