just after six pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. now it's in a storage day for western europe's energy supply which is now being bolstered by russian gas directly through a brand new pipeline president dmitry medvedev of chancellor angela merkel as their partners in the project have turned a valve that's open the receiving end of the horse stream live in germany a ten billion dollar project is the longest subsume gas rig in the world artie's down over shovels app assume. 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 to homes in those countries for the next fifty years at least the

last time of this current project there are plans to send this gas on to berlin and then on to the existing european network on to countries like the united kingdom as well as that was the lithosphere russia is always going to great lengths to fulfill its energy obligations because really it's our highest priority we will continue to supply our european partners without interruption in the future in order to attract more investment for the project i'm convinced that such involvement will minimize risks along the entire energy supply chain. but 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 gas going direct for the first time from russia to the e.u. german shores langley merkel is optimistic about the future relations between russia and the european union let's have a listen to what she had to say. when speaking about energy supply security but also speak about. diversification and russia is one of our most important partners

the sources of supply have to be safe and the demand from europe is also guaranteed we need russian gas for the economic development of our continent and this means that we will be closely linked to each other for decades to come. it is the longest subsidy pipeline the gas pipeline in the world it took some engineering brilliance just for one example compressor stations which 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 nine hundred ninety s. 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 crisis that we're seeing to keep growing through the e.u. in the coming years orland gas expert in drover alliance says that the new pipeline

is a guarantee that european consumers will not have to relive the nightmare energy cuts . i think there was a great need for this project as several incidents of shown over the last three four five six years we need as much diversification as we can of energy in europe and this project helps us to reach that and i think the successful implementation of the project scholz with what has always been quite clear is that critical standpoints arguments didn't have much basis in reality they were driven by some kind of. prejudice the contribution of morsi minute self will be positive because it reduces the clout of transit countries to some extent which means that they can take less a smaller cut from the overall price so in this sense it's positive and consumers are not only preoccupied about price they're also worried about. the security of supply and north stream again is one contribution to making everybody feel

a bit more relaxed about security of supply. now the chairman of the nordstrom project former german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells r t why the pipeline is important for russia europe relationship here's a brief preview of our interview coming up in about twenty minutes time. the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question of the time has come to start cooperating and start looking back on value logical differences in a situation where we could ship gas to china. and europe i hope russia never has to make a russian government is evidently pro european or europe cannot keep pushing gusher away it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind russia has the alternatives. europe has no such alternative to europe's geopolitical position. just to enter a tight partnership with russia and at the same time grant you

a session. or that would be a sound strategy again or into the future the rest of. the russian president has warned militarist rhetoric in the middle east as an attack on iran it could lead to a catastrophic war in the region of statements came during the joint press conference with his german counterpart russia has been voicing strong words against an attack on iran following statements by israel that a strike is more likely than diplomacy atomic watchdog is about to report on iran's nuclear activities and provide evidence that iran has built a testing facility and computer models of warheads iran has dismissed all allegations calling them a fabricated foreign affairs analyst says the i.a.e.a. report is designed to put pressure on iran in order to sanctions against it. first of all we have to be clear. and speculation that the content.

of this new. media is really. really. nice. and i think. that will prove. we should look at the new. and. be politicized. i think that's a good feature that we have to look beyond. well as israel flexes its political

muscle over iran the jewish state is hit by a recruitment crisis for the leader this our young israelis are increasingly on the willing to sign up for military service for their country. but first greek ministers have all for the resignation to pave the way for a new government because as the country's leaders struggle to agree on a new prime minister talks over a unity coalition their second day george papa dreyer will stand down as prime minister once his replacement is announced the interim government will leave the country until elections expected to be held in february well greece is under pressure to ratify a one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package and it's a political crisis that's with the entire euro zone in jeopardy our correspondents are first been asking greeks for their take on the situation and the prospects for their country. as the eurozone crisis rumbles on greece is once again found 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 out but it's so much of this year it's the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so we sense that the camera and. let the people of greece take it away alone we are. well. all the people who. are doing. everything they've made money actually. it's like they're trying to frighten are sure something like that hi my name is vicky. needy and 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 of the european snow but all these dead cannot be paid back. why do they lend this money plus don't they want their money back the thing with the situation right now and grief is that we don't feel real secure about anything but our salaries our health and you know in my aids thing about the tinder i'm going to make and the decisions i have to do from then from now it's really sad because. everybody here things that you know the things could be better there's something more than the there's something more very very angry because often there is a lot of fun employment increase now. that the people in greece are very skeptical about the euro i think ok the it's better we are in euro. of course definitely

but there are so some serious problems. because a lot of people lost they lost their jobs you don't know what. you can do you can plan your life i'm twenty years old and i don't have a job ah i have to leave with my parents i don't have money i can leave i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that greece is a european country and greece and europe is a great quote. i hope something can be done so we can save this beautiful country and be able to pass it on to our grandchildren and the children after that. to the mike and had a chance to have a question now is whether anyone is going to be ready to listen to the weather decisions again to keep being made behind closed.

the italian prime minister's main coalition partner has urged him to step aside ahead of a crucial budget fraud concerns are growing that italy is on its way to becoming the next victim of europe's financial crisis with debts piling up amid record boring costs italian current affairs columnist fresh asco see she says the crisis in italy is more political than economic. financially it really was not. that bad a situation is in italy has not war syndrome magically in the past months in fact for instance in greek banks or with a lot of money to frank and german banks italian exposure to greece was very limited however the markets didn't trust the italian governments this is the crucial issue and when the markets started not to trust the government battalion government didn't come up with the real strong measures that boosted him we will

see what will come out with these political crises i think really is a little bit different than from greece i mean the situation in italy is more a political crisis than their financial crisis and everything you know way hinges on berlusconi the opposition claims that he will surely be defeated he claims he will not be defeated and secure country is a huge back to italy needs a prime minister who can get the confidence of the markets whom the markets trust to start to do recovery and the change necessary for the telly to cope with the with the present crisis. and coming up in the program for you if you haven't yet considered a trip restored you soon might we reported how the region is now attracting thousands of tourists following a strong. also we need one of the members of the seventeen month long five hundred experiment and says the project has had eight miraculous impact on his life

. and at a time when israel is threatening iran with military action their confidence in the strength of the jewish state's army is crucial with every year fewer and fewer israelis are signing up to the armed forces choosing instead to defend themselves rather than their country artie's policy reports on why the 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 these rady defense forces could be left defenseless conscription is at an all time you know about fifty percent of the. 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 it 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 the fence 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 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 they refusenik movement started in israel youngsters refusing to serve in the army on political grounds add to that the nearly fifteen percent of potential draftees who don't serve because of religious reasons and

a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military decline they think about this stuff so chose not 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. those have role models like activia nodded a copy of former girlfriend israeli model bar refaeli who evaded service and gave it legitimacy violations of human rights. are by israel's absolute disrespect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about it study showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever the growing trend has the military worried it won't have the troops it needs especially now as the region heats up and

the army needs all the soldiers it can get. r.t. tel aviv. more world news for you this hour now and first to india where 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 well the incident happened when tens of thousands of hindu pilgrims rushed towards a holy site to offer their prayers some of them tripped and fell while those behind continued to push forward many women and children are reported to be among the dead and injured a deadly stampedes are common in india just last january more than one hundred people died trying. syria's opposition has reportedly appealed for international presence in the central city of homs where activists say at least eleven people were killed on monday this comes after damascus accuse the u.s. of being involved in the violence and asked the arab league for support on the issue of the u.n. claims at least three thousand five hundred people have been killed in the crackdown since anti-government protests started in march. michael

jackson's doctor conrad murray has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the l.a. court he was found guilty of administering a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol which killed jackson in two thousand and nine murray could receive a maximum prison sentence of four years and lose his medical license the jury took two days to reach its decision. liberians are heading to the polls to choose their country's president this despite a death during recent opposition protests and a boycott over fraud claims when tubman who won a roughly thirty three percent of the first round in october withdrew from the race last week alleging the process is rigged ruling parties favor his allegations were rejected by international observers who urged people to cast their ballots it's the first election since the country's fourteen year conflict ended in two thousand and three. members of the m r five hundred experiment

a simulated round trip to the red planet to spend over seventeen months in isolation are enjoying their first few days back on earth and as one of the participants of the project says the mission became a life changing experience. i knew no more was just to have a world which was two hundred meters square. and only five person that they could meet it was very exciting the very most was a different leader. even though we knew it was and it was not at all like a real trip to mass which would be like ten thousand times bigger and more exciting it was it was very different. and we felt like being on the front place you know the real mass but it was very different if i was to go to the real i would sign up. all our news can be found at any time on our website our viewers will still. billions of dollars have been changing hands during bad transfer

demonstrations across the u.s. in a bid to deprive big banks of their clients also on our website. a march to remember the story over soviet soldiers paraded through red square before leaving to confront the advancing a nazi army is be reenacted in the heart of the russian capital. now for many russians caucuses has been synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is convincing people that times are changing for the better attracting tourists is a key goal with luxury ski resorts the developments taking shape and the question of are reports the p.r. is paying off. these

glamorous an extravaganza shows are the morgan face of the caucasus where an ancient traditions vie for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century life and for many started hand with the beautiful game not too long ago local football club biggest county and she was barely known outside the region now it regularly makes international headlines with its doubles on the global transfer market. just ahead and i'm starting from scratch and i want all the trophies possible in europe as a player can start a new course of play with a bridge across before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team the words of the cameroon and star striker and more importantly the record prize they were prepared to pay made the local team one of the most ambitious clubs in the world and a mission is almost everything and the caucasus discovered the land of opportunities five world cross albine sports results january as the northern caucasus

is coming. and there are actually more than a dozen ski resorts ham but all currently stand empty and the states now aiming to turn that around france has already signed up to the project with one important condition the dresher guarantees the repayment of funds if the security situation worsens or if there is a major incident the first 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

that's 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 happening in some kind of miracle i can't believe my eyes and it's not just soaring skyscrapers and business centers popping up hand celebrities have been too and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the fallouts 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 artie reporting from the north caucasus. i'll be back shortly to bring a recap of today's top stories but before that the business news. how loans are very warm welcome to the business update and as we've been reporting russia has started pumping gas to europe through the north stream pipeline with an

eventual capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres the new artery will likely change european energy priorities in particular father shifting the offices away from alternative sources as similar from the national energy security fund explains . inside the europe. we see a very concerned look to add you to sale guess. you know you were speaking about russian. for example germany france nuance this country. is the future or two if you will always see that now the main driver of shale gas production in europe was. about who was in struggle always moves through them all and if we try to analyze the real situation the sale goes of course we still have could be called for in suspicious presentations but no business at last there was a road so you can compare the last through with shell gas production in europe

where you will understand the north rim is a reality show us is through a dream. time to have a check on the markets stocks across europe have rebounded as investors the way to vote on the issue is a project that will show well the country's prime minister still has a majority in germany the country's exports rose for a second month in september helping europe's largest economy where the sovereign debt crisis the tax is more than two percent up this hour. and here in moscow the markets are gaining the r.g.s. is up under one percent but the mice it's. a quarter of percent and ten here's a quick look at some of the moves on the mind set so the picture is mixed here is whizzing point seven percent gazprom has also slipped into the negative territory come from. world subsidiary gas from the left has boosted its net profit by sixty four percent in the first nine months of the dia and russia's biggest lenders are bug is on the rise gaining two percent the saudi. oil is trading near the highest

level in three months light sweet just currently trading at around nine to six dollars per barrel while the brant is hovering at one hundred and sixteen dollars. zero zero joining the world trade organization will cut russia's exposure to oil price fluctuations that's the view of fitch credit rating agency which sees a number of benefits to accession they just as suggests being in the trade club will boost growth and help diversify the economy it also says the move will improve confidence in the business climate and encourage for investment in the country fitch confirmed russia's triple b. rating in september warning that oil price fluctuations could lead to a downgrade. let's talk some more stories log onto a website or two dot com slash business.

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desire to live from moscow now here's a recap of all our top stories putting the wheels in motion. security for western europe has a lot. to get. straight to germany. when the supply of. countries which had previously left european consumers and russian gas in the cold. is another stern warning against israeli military action against iran president dmitri medvedev and says it could spell catastrophe for the middle east meanwhile the u.n. atomic watchdog is about to release a report on terror activities. to save the country as they inch towards deciding on a new crisis leader in the streets of athens to find out what makes them.