in the in the. top stories on our t.v. according to reels in the ocean moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as a landmark in the words free pipeline begins russian gas breaks in germany. the new supply route being run to the transit countries which a previous european consumers of russian guess. without the details in just a few moments. russia issues another stern warning against israeli military action against iran as president is meeting again of says it could spell a catastrophe in the middle east. if you make a deadlock politicians scramble to save the country as a towards a deal over

a new crisis leader argy types in the streets of our find out weeks themselves. just after four pm here in the russian capital this is our t. and we begin with this being a historic day for western europe's energy supply which is now being bolstered by russian gas directly through a brand new pipeline president dmitri medvedev the chancellor angela merkel and their partners in the project would have a tour of the volga about soap and the receiving end of the noise streamlined in germany they tell a billion dollar project as the longest saucy grassroot in the world of a mountain bike a steady flow of much needed russian fuel to germany of its neighbors without the need for transit countries let's get the latest details from archies and download bushell who's after scene of a north stream wash down what use been

a major customer of russian gas for many years now but how much further will this pipeline take that partnership. yes european leaders symbolically turn the wheel sending the very first gas doric to the european union and bypassing transit states it will provide long term energy security for europe which had been affected by previous transit rails with the likes of ukraine and belarus it will also fill a shortfall in gas which is projected to reach some one hundred million homes by twenty thirty now this is a europe wide project why european leaders are here is because french dutch german companies energy firms have taken stakes in the north stream pipeline that will guarantee supply of homes in those countries for the next fifty years at least to the life time of this current project there are plans to send this gas in and then on to the existing european network once a country is like the united kingdom as well. plenty of it is here russia has always. gone to great lengths fulfilling its

obligations in the energy sector and we would still say this is still our most important obligation even at times when economic consideration in russia was definitely difficult but we endeavored to continue our gas supplies without interruption to europe and we will continue to do so in the future with all european partners in order to attract investment for the parts of the project and i am convinced that such a networked involvement will mean my wrists along the energy supply. of them russian president dmitry medvedev speaking at the opening ceremony here on the german northern coast of the baltic sea just behind me now this should also provide cheaper gas for homes in europe with no transit fees to be paid for the likes of ukraine and belarus with just going direct for the first time from russia

to the e.u. . certainly this project how did it come about in the first place. well they said they couldn't be built saying it's too long it's too expensive it is the longest subsidy pipeline the gas pipeline in the world but it took some engineering brilliance just for one example compressor stations which they keep the pressure in gas pipelines usually there are several across the route this one just has has one the beginning of the route it's been planned since the ninety nine seas construction did start a few years ago the second line will come on stream next year and we've just spoken to some of the heads of the of the project who say that a third line will be discussed by shareholders very shortly because they expect demand for gas to grow and to keep growing even through this crisis the euro debt crisis that we're seeing to keep growing through the e.u. in the coming years. thanks very much for that archy's a dangle bush alive from the german coastal town of women which is on the receiving end of the nord stream past. the director of the russia and eurasia program of the

german council on foreign relations alexander rar says the northern stream crowd private scheme to secure a future for european energy. north stream pipeline is making energy security better for a european union energy import to. the european union will be safer now because there is next a pipeline which circumvents the difficult transit countries like ukraine and belarus show or russian gas as does appear to over the past ten fifteen years i think the north korean pipeline is a political project as well but for other reasons than the critic there's of the type as i think this 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 integrates europe and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space we'll be successful then we can think about creating

a common economic space a free trade zone and also politically much closer together so from my point of view the energy alliance which is being symbolized by this pipeline as well will help us to build a common continent and make europe more stable than it had been before. the russian president has wanted militarist rhetoric in the middle east and attack on iran could lead to a catastrophic war in the vision and mission advantage statements came out during a joint press conference with his german counterpart russia has been voicing strong words against an attack on iran that following statements by israel and strike is more likely than diplomacy and un atomic naushad is about to report on iran's nuclear activities and provide evidence that terror one has built a testing facility and computer models of warheads iran has dismissed all allegations calling them to fabricate let's talk more of this with foreign affairs

analyst richard hades are you on this radar and so this leaked report that is expected to come out officially very soon will it shatter new light on iran's nuclear program as has been reported by the media so far. yeah i think first of all we have to be clear that there's a lot of obfuscation and speculation we do we do respect the content and consequences so it's new i report but what i can say well first of all it depends what kind of media you're talking about the more conservative right the media is really playing on this sort of basis or foundation on that year and i was really moving towards weaponization of nuclear program there for more sanctions and possibly confrontation if you're on but if you look at the state and spy for me i just like harvard he's hanan and mr hanan and i think their approach will not come up with any kind of definitive evidence or any kind of smoking gun that would prove consequential in all of your own has really been gauging the came to any kind of fear from the station program i think we should look at the new report in light of

efforts to impose new sanctions or further sanctions against iran and how all of this report could be politicized by a western powers or. a more confrontational approach towards iran i think that's a bigger picture that you have to try to beyond the i.a.e.a. report so you know just looking at another issue here and just recently there were reports on syria that a secret nuclear plant was found in the country and that's a spy the fact that it was nothing more than a cotton picking factory smoke and everything and this i trusted. yeah i think first of all the problem with the i.a.e.a. report is that it relies heavily on satellite imagery and data provided by a western intelligence agency i suppose in european countries the united states or even mossad was involved in providing that data. so it's questionable but more than that the case of syria the. spinning corporation or if it takes. a factory that out of you cannot really rely on psychology because there's

a huge error in terms of using a imagery as a basis for saying that the country he's engaged in some sort of weaponization program in the case of iran talking about you know a steel container which iran has purportedly use for testing in her explosives and that's based on satellite imagery provided. by a western intelligence agency and if you look at the syrian case it clearly states that these kinds of evidences are to sheet. as a basis for coming up with a conclusive evidence that iran has been engaged in weaponization of its nuclear program ok let's talk about. reaction from go inside israel is actually believed to have its own nuclear capability is there a case argued that iran might be feeling threatened and therefore has to defend itself. well there are one hundred fifty three hundred clear warheads but he difference. probably iran and israel is more and more

ideational on the level of principle as i think iran has been very much in. aggressive policy. but i don't think. conventional or nuclear capability. for iran to justify using its. nuclear program i don't see it. but i definitely in terms of ideology in terms of principles there are differences between the two countries ok once a year and you can go to say yeah right sorry let's just look at a bit more of the rhetoric i mean if iran was actually developing some sort of nuclear capability one could actually be dangerous to be provoking and provoking them in such a way by saying that actually. do you mean that is where. the iran if they want to actually developing a nuclear capability want to be dangerous i think be treading along this path of actually bombing those facilities if indeed they are developing nuclear

capabilities. well i think. embedded in iran's foreign policy was which is very critical of united states and israel and i think iran has taken. but. really. its nuclear facilities because its nuclear facilities are spread across the country so highly protect that. you know. make not a lot of them so i think iran has learned from that experience. and has a very sophisticated way of protecting its nuclear facilities and i think also. america does not have any interest in creating a new war. by confronting islamic republic because you can see the united states also wants to be enough as it can. and united states of america to really push for some sort of confrontational approach

but at the heart. i think. it's national interest. for economic purposes for energy security and if it is a member of. the develop its nuclear program so. and so forth. and regime. thank you. thanks very much. well as israel flexes its political muscle over iran a jewish state is hit by a recruitment crisis as a report later this hour young israelis are increasingly unwilling to sign up for military service and fight for their country. and greek leaders are still struggling to agree on a new prime minister as talks over a unity coalition their second day the new government is required to push through

an e.u. bailout package to tackle the country's debt crisis george papandreou will stand down as prime minister once his replacement is a mouse the interim government will leave the country until elections are expected to be held in february or greece is under pressure to ratify a one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package and that's a political crisis that split the entire year result in jeopardy our correspondents are for it's been asking greeks for their take on the situation the prospects for the embattled country. and the euro think crisis rumbles on greece is once again found the focus of international attention libyans like everyone had an opinion about the situation here in the country we decided to come and. which is really to me up is that it's so much of this euro crisis if the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so we certainly can randomly.

let the people take it away alone we are. well. all the people who want to reach a plane thing. everything is made money actually it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like that hi my name's vicky 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 he 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 the european snow that old is dead cannot be paid but why do they lend 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 my aids thing about that syndrom 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 this there's something more very very angry because there is a lot of unemployment in greece now. that the people in greece are a 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 a lot of people lost their jobs you don't know what. you can 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 become and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that is a european country and euro is a great work a greek word and 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 had a chance to have a question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them where the decisions again to keep being made but hine close to the surface syntagma square in . the italian prime minister his main coalition partner has urged him to step aside ahead of a crucial part should float concerns are growing that italy is on its way to becoming of the next victim of europe's financial crisis debts piling up amid record goldman costs telly and current affairs columnist francesco c.

she says the crisis in italy is more political and economic. financially intelli was not. that bad the situation is in italy has not war syndrome magically in the past months in fact for instance in greek banks are called a lot of money to french and german banks italian exposure to greece was very limited however markets didn't trust the italian governments this is a crucial issue and when the markets started not to trust the government italian government given come up with a real strong measures to boost it in we'll see what will come out but with these political crises anything really is a little bit different then from greece i mean this equation in italy is more a political crisis then their financial crisis and everything you know way hinges on the opposition claims that he will surely be defeated he claims he will not

be defeated the security country's a huge data italy need to prime minister who can gave me confidence of the markets the markets trust to start to do recovery and change necessary for the chile to call the present crisis a lot of time israel is threatening iran with military action and confidence in the strength of the jewish state song is crucial with every year less and less israelis are signing up to the armed forces choosing instead to defend themselves rather than their country artist policy reports and why are young generation is turning its back on military service. 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 low fifty percent of recently jewish males are going to

serve in the military what about qana spent most of the year and a half was in 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 it would be a draft for a. because of this feeling that i would be a parasite if i wouldn't and a couple months later i realized that i just couldn't take part in longer and was called israel defense forces which has nothing to do with the france other than my 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 art instructor and a center for the mentally disabled i have a lot of 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 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 is about to stand so. this video posted on you tube says a true israeli doesn't even read 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. those have role models like activia nodded a couple years former girlfriend israeli model bar refaeli who evaded service and gave it a little missy relations of human rights. for an hour by israel absolute disrespect 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 waleed 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. well members of the mars five hundred experimental simulated round trip to the red planet spent over seventeen months in isolation are enjoying their first few days back on earth for a first time inside into the mission we're now joined by one of the participants of the project thanks very much for being with us here on the program with first of all i think what everyone wants to know is how do you feel i feel great great because the world no more the world again these are just so different and so nice i'm rediscovering everything you know the world has changed a lot hasn't it since you were in there when you came out it does it feel like it's

a whole new world it's different from what you live for the last couple of days inside the mill you were thinking about that something different in your world of the world relates to the one you have who isn't under so much to have every one of you come in right now but. never that's a good. seeing the sun rising seeing that small thing that makes the every day. you know more for most of all seas me can you special for me so what about inside what was normal what became your new normal for all that time in there more and i knew no more was just to have a world which was two hundred meters square the. only five person that they could meet the rate of getting insanely depressed or something like no no no not afraid of what we don't know what would happen to us because nothing was ever tried but i mean from the beginning the crew had together very well and i was confident that

we would be aboard to go through the streets and we didn't talk about the authenticity this is of course simulated so when we say back from mars you know it sounds so dramatic but inside when when they were measuring b.b. heartbeats when you're doing that experiment in mars did it feel really real to you as authentic was that the result you know physically it was very exciting. very intense and the most period was definitely the highlight of trip. even though we knew it was a relation and it was no toward a real mouse which would be like ten thousand times bigger than maurice like and it was it was very different. and we felt like being on the place and you know the real most but it was very different ok just a very briefly since you have experienced all of this when you go on an actual trip to mars as you well wouldn't have the chance to get out if you wanted to. yes if i was too good to was a real mess i would say no. you're not scared i'm not scared of that we went

through that i would say but. we are in good hands. together. and i really think that if we do it all right well welcome back to earth again like a railroad trains very much ramesh also participate in. five hundred a simulated project there. so where now more world news for you this hour well let's go to india first or at least twenty people have been killed and dozens injured after a stampede broke out during a religious ceremony in the north of the country now the incident happened tens of thousands of them well dressed rushed towards the holy sites offer their prayers and some of them stripped and fell behind and pushed. right now in syria opposition has reportedly appealed for international presence in the central city of homs were activists say at least eleven people were killed on monday this was after damascus accuse the u.s.

of being called in the violence and asked the arab league for issue support on the issue of the un claimed at least thirty five hundred people have been killed in the drive down since anti-government protests started in march. michael jackson's doctor conrad murray has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in an l.a. court was found guilty of administering a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic propofol which killed jackson of two thousand and nine were you can receive a maximum prison sentence of four years and lose his medical license which jury took just days to reach its decision. los angeles sure. that's all for now the business news is next with kareen. how welcome to our business out there in the south thanks for joining me as we've been reporting russia has started pumping gas to europe from the newly built nord stream pipeline here with me i can see her from the national energy security found

to discuss the new energy link thank you for coming to the program thanks so much has north stream changed the face of. european energy security and the holiness of the. project which will come back to russia with europe directly so was old in the phrase it's countries like ukraine or below russia so we fail reliable supplier reliable close you were. states that is why i say look it's a very good project because you know that i still insist on my poor. company or russia we all are the possible suppliers of gas except made in norway so we have been you know russia is the most reliable partner for europe you can compare us always looking you know. i was really so in that so i will be very simple so that is why you have the direct connection between russia and europe of course. your

energy as you can without a question but do you expect. it to lessen europe's reliability or if he is it is it is you're going to be more if you see as they call less enthusiastic about alternative energy at this point like i was told by holder the europe will be no sort of the shale gas some other so-called don't own different sources so gas right because you know that we speak a lot about she'll give us a lot of things to say about it but you know it's very interesting that we have several partners european partners in mostly in project germany first of all france and nuance so all these counters there are not so optimistic about shale gas for example for us pretty. give the structure room and that was i'll give the french and the simple simple to produce a oh yes but who is them when dr shale gas bill actually you were one who was then we rattle off most of who was against those three so that is why i think as it

passes by now because of poor on the side toward another project. that is why i absolutely sure the such countries as well and they will still insist on sale guess not let's see because we. know or not we i mean pool has not seen a success in probably in production of shale gas there are a lot of police station there a lot of conferences there little speeches there were prison patients but there are so many of these natural things yes soledad anyway. how is reality you can see this but the cost of the pipe is quite high it's over seventy million dollars a mistake itself sort of so how long will it take to make a return on this project you know all this and it depends on the gas prices because the present for use correlated with gas prices in the europe and. you know that all serious infrastructure projects you know they're long term so out

of question and that is why you know that is why it's very interesting the situation was so making sure why because you were up. there will be independent and with whom to manage the new pipes gas pipes and it's and this is a question if it's a long term business who invest the money if there are no guarantees you were speaking about the situation is a more clear because you know the. problem as. is not only the whole the author. if you will for the supply of gas and that is why i guess prone gave all the room to you so that this pipe will be not empty so that is why this project is a long term project but it's slow so risky for the shareholders they will until money how to push out you can find something thank you very much we have several questions but we don't have much time thank you very much for coming to the program . and that's it for now but we'll be back.