there winning three taken from monday with the r.t.s. getting about one percent more in business in about twenty minutes. just after seven pm here in the russian capital you're watching our take that was 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 and chancellor angela merkel and their partners in the project have turned a valve that's open the receiving end of the north stream live in germany a ten a billion dollar project is the longest subsidy gas route in the world artie's daniel bushell was at the scene and the noise from watch. 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 they're all plans to send this gas on to berlin and then on to the existing european network and to countries like the united kingdom as well as the lithosphere russia is always going to great lengths to fulfill its energy obligations because 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 they 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 chancellor angela 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 one example compress the 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 debt crisis that we're seeing to keep growing through the e.u. in the coming years. now oil and gas expert indra overland says that the new pipeline is a guarantee that european consumers will not have to relive the nightmare of 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 shows of 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 of prejudice the contribution of more c. minutes off will be positive because it reduces the clout of transit countries to some extent which means that they can take 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 stream again is one contribution to making everybody feel a bit more relaxed about security of supply. well the chairman of the nord stream project former german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells our why the pipeline is important for the russia europe relationship and here's a brief preview of our interview coming up in just over an hour's 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 the logic of different issues in a situation where it could ship gas to china. and europe i hope russia never has to make a choice the russian government is evidently pro european with europe cannot keep pushing gaucher away it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind russia has the

alternative. 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 a turkey or that would be a sound strategy into the future the rest. of the russian president has warned that militarists rhetoric in the middle east and 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 a strong words against an attack on iran following statements by israel that a strike is more likely than diplomacy or the u.n. atomic watchdog is about to report on iran's nuclear activities and provide evidence that tehran has built a testing facility and computer models of warheads iran has dismissed all allegations calling that were fabricated foreign affairs analyst richard says the

i.a.e.a. report is designed to put pressure on iran in order to employ sanctions against it . first of all we have to be clear that there is a lot of obfuscation and speculation that the contents. consequences of this new. media is really. the basis. really. but if you look at the state. i think. any kind of evidence or any kind of smoking gun that would prove. any kind of program i think we should look at the new.

and how. politicized. more confrontational approach i think that's a good feature that we have to look beyond that. flexes its political muscle over iran the jewish state is hit by a recruitment crisis to report later this hour israelis are increasingly unwilling to sign up for voluntary service for the country. but first the greek ministers have all for the resignation to pave the way for a new government this comes as the country's leaders struggle to agree on a new prime minister talks over a unity coalition their second day george problem will stand down as prime minister once his replacement is announced the interim government will leave the country until elections are expected to be held in february greece is under pressure to ratify a one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package and to one that'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 there and battled country. 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 very much it this year i quite the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so he sits at the camera and. let the people of greece take it away alone we are. well. all the people. everything is made money. it's like they're trying to frighten us or 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 something else. if all the european snow but all this dead cannot be paid but. why do they lend his 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 team that 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 are 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 are very skeptical about the euro 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 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 euro is a good quote 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 the people

of greece the steps up to the mike and had a chance to have a say the question now is whether anyone is going to be ready to listen to them whether decisions again to keep. being made behind closed doors. syntagma square and. meanwhile in italy lawmakers have started debating public finances ahead of a crucial budget foad this comes after the italian prime minister's main coalition partner urged silvio berlusconi to step down well experts now fear the country is on its way to becoming the next victim of europe's financial crisis with debts piling up as borrowing costs continue to rocket tally of current affairs columnist francesco c. she says the turmoil in italy is more political than economic financially in italy was not. that bad dissertation is in italy has not war syndrome magically in the past months in fact for instance in greek banks all 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 government this is the crucial issue and when the markets started not to trust the government italian government didn't come up with a real strong measures that boosted didn't we will see what will come out with these political crises i think really is a little bit different than from greece i mean this situation in italy is more a political crisis than 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 in security countries a huge day in italy needs a prime minister who can get the confidence of the markets the markets trust to start to do recovery and change necessary for the chile to cope with with the

present crisis. coming up in the program for you if you haven't yet considered a trip to russia caucuses. reported how the region is that what attracted thousands of tourists following a strong campaign. so we need one of the members of the seventeen month long five hundred experiment who says the project is how they interacted with him on his life. but it's hard when he was threatening iran with military action confidence in the strength of the jewish state's army is crucial but with every year fewer and fewer israelis are signing up to the armed forces choosing instead to defend themselves rather than their country. reports and 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. jewish males. don't serve in the military twenty khana spent 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 a woman and a couple months later i realized that i just couldn't take part in a longer in what's called the israel defense forces which has nothing to do with difference other than by 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 former girlfriend israeli model bar refaeli who evaded service and gave it legitimacy violations of human rights. are by israel absolute

disrespect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about that study showed that by twenty twenty the number of military age jewish israelis who will not be serving will be the highest ever 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. tell of of. more world news for you this hour and we begin in 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 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 deadly stampedes are common in india last january more than one hundred people died on route to a shrine. 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 all this comes after damascus accuse the u.s. of being involved in the violence and asked the arab league for support on the issue 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 an 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 the event is going ahead amid opposition protests and a boycott over fraud claims once and talk about who won some thirty three percent

of the first in october with drew from the race last week alleging the process is rigged in the ruling party's favor on 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 . of russia's foreign ministries for risking tension that sentencing a russian and its pilots eight and a half years warning that the ruling risk relations. between the two countries the pilots were found guilty of smuggling goods violating border rules and international flight regulations well their lawyer says the accusing side did not provide legitimate evidence on their part and the witnesses were not allowed to make statements well the crew of both planes word was attained in march of the tajik airport on the afghan border after requesting an emergency landing the belongings of the sentence men as well as two airplanes used by them were confiscated by the touchup government. now members of the mars five hundred

experiment a simulated round trip to the red planet we spent over it seventeen months in isolation are enjoying their first few days back on earth and as one of the participants of the project also has the mission that became a life changing experience you know more was just to have a world which was two hundred meters square big and only five person that they could meet it was a very exciting very intense period was definitely the highlight the whole trip. even though we knew it was and it was not at all like a real trip to mars which we did 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 really most i would say in a directly. well our news can be found at any time on our website r.t. dot com and here's what else is online for you right now billions of dollars have

been changing hands during bad transfer demonstrations across the u.s. in a bid to deprive big backs of their clients and also on our website. in the march to remember the story the moment when the soviet soldiers paraded the red square before leaving it to confront in a bad city nazi army is being reenacted part of the russian capital. now for many of russia's caucuses has been synonymous with violence for years its biggest battle now is convincing people the times are changing for the better attracting tourists is a key goal with the luxury ski resorts among the developments taking shape in a quarter of our reports the p.r. is paying off. these

glamorous an extravaganza shows us the morgan face of the caucasus where an ancient tradition survived for attention with the razzmatazz of twenty first century knife and for many started hand with the beautiful game not only go local football club biggest on and she was barely known outside the region now it regularly makes international headlines with instead bulls on the global transfer market for the second i'm starting from scratch i won all the trophies possible in europe as a player can start a new course i've played with a bridge across before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the cheap 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 clumps in the world and a mission is almost everything. because this discover below the opportunity it's fine

if the world calls out on sports results then you have 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 brand new how it's also due to the residents of 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 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 centers popping up hand celebrities have been too and while some like actress hilary swank may have been forced to explain her visit the full ounce 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. well in a few moments the kaiser report takes a sideswipe of more money mismanagement but this time it's got rather corporations but before that you are brings you the latest in business.

well thanks tessa that's right time to delve into the world of business 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 meters the new autrey will likely change european energy priorities in particular the shifting of the emphasis away from alternative sources as constantin suman a from the national energy security fund explains. inside the europe. we see a very controlled there to add you to shell gas you know you were speaking about russian. for example germany france nuance this country. is the future ready to if you will always see that now the main driver of shale gas production in europe was. about who was. always in those three ball and if we tried to analyze the real situation the shale goes of course we still have could be called for in suspicious presentations but no business at the rate of two

so you can compare north through showgirls production in europe where you understand the north rim is a reality show this is to a dream. that's a look at the market stocks across europe have rebounded as investors a way to vote in each list budget that will show whether 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 whether the sovereign debt crisis the tax is more than two percent of the south. and u.s. stocks are open top italian lawmakers are preparing to vote on the country's prime minister's budget bank of america and morgan stanley are higher facing gains in financial companies as european lenders rallied. and finally hit most of the markets closed mixed. under one percent the my six was flat to negative. and here's a quick look at some moves on the might since the picture was mixed among the blue

chips last point four percent also in the red at the close the company's oil subsidiary gazprom left says a boost of its net profit by sixty four percent in the past nine months of the get and russia's biggest lender buying age two percent at the close. and all this trading near the highest level in three months lights which is currently trading at every around ninety six. dollars per barrel while brand is at one hundred sixteen dollars. well joining the world trade organization will cut russia's exposure to oil price fluctuations that's the fuel fitch credit rating agency which sees a number of benefits struck sessions the agencies such as 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 foreign investment which confirmed russia's triple a rating as tempo warning that oil price fluctuations could lead to

a downgrade. doesn't follow more business news in less than one else time here for you on our.

welcome back this is our team live from moscow here's a recap of all our top stories moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as a lot of market or stream pipeline begins some pumping russian gas straight to germany and. russia issues and other stern warning against a western attack on iran as president dmitri medvedev says catastrophe for the middle east meanwhile the u.n. the topic watchdog is about to release to report on. italian prime minister has won a crucial budget followed by those losses majority support in the parliament as experts fear the country is on its way to becoming the next victim of europe's financial crisis. and. the kaiser report to stay with us for that. easy.