nine pm tuesday night here in moscow a warm welcome if you just joined us this is our t.v. and our top story it said 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 chancellor angela merkel and the partners in the project have termed the valves open the receiving end of the nord stream live germany the ten billion dollar scheme is the longest subsidy gas route in the world bushels of say the new rules to launch. 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 world is that is that with this rush 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 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 chancellor angela merkel is optimistic about the future relations between russia and the european union. when speaking about energy supply security we also speak about diversification and russia is one of our most. in partners this loss is

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 ninety's 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. and a journalist julian lease says europe's come to rely on russia as its main source of gas because the supplies always been accessible and reliable. but there is an

overriding view within europe that diversification is important and this is such a theme that we've heard echoed for many many years now but we don't like it is generally recognized in europe and i don't know some dissenting voice really anywhere in europe but russia is now and always will be a principal provider of gas to be european continent it is simply a vast repository of natural gas resources it is on europe's eastern border it has very stable long term gas supply relationships you're in country so on and nobody's looking really to supplant russian gas what europe wants to do is to ensure that gas comes from other places why are the roots in addition to russian gas but not instead of. the russian president has warned

militarist rhetoric in the middle east as an attack on iran could lead to a catastrophic war in the region to me to my vet of statements came during the joint press conference with his german counterpart russia's been voicing strong words against an attack on iran following statements by israel that a strike is more likely than diplomacy the auto watchdogs to report as well on iran's nuclear activities and provide evidence it says that to rather has built a testing facility and computer models of warheads and iran has dismissed those allegations calling them fabricated let's talk to former cia officer philip giraldi now is on the line washington for the very good evening if we're to believe what is being leaked about this report iran is going to have some serious questions to answer isn't it but take it out on again who really benefits from portraying iran once again as the bad guy. well i think in this case it's quite clear that it's the united states and israel that are basically trying to turn the heat

up on iran and i would be very skeptical about this report that's coming out from the international atomic energy agency because the i.a.e.a. doesn't really have any intelligence capabilities of its own and if it's relying on reports that are coming from other people i would rather suspect those reports are coming from the united states and israel so it's it's you know an endless cycle of trying to prove the unprovable in this case does iran have a bomb you know does a rama have the intention to get a bomb no one knows that except the iranian leadership so i think this is a this is again this is a false situation that's being overhyped in an effort to get some political leverage out of it because for the on the eve of this report we customize but to two thousand and three and that report about iraq and those. supposed to w m d's that evidence that came forward and yet of course the end of the day was all proved

to be folds as a former intelligence officer yourself could you explain how that could be such a large mistake and of course i guess that's cause a lot of shadows over any further official findings what we're going to see tomorrow too isn't it. well that's true and the problem is with the world of intelligence it's sometimes referred to as smoke and mirrors for for reasons that are very clear the problem is that you you may have a piece of evidence of some kind but that piece of evidence is subject to your interpretation as to what it means when they saw aerial footage of photographs in iraq showing certain things they interpreted those photographs to mean something which which was it was not correct so the fact is that it is in the mind of the policymakers and of those who are directing the intelligence organization to make an analysis and determine what they are seeing and very often this analysis is shaped by political considerations and turns out to be incorrect. one country very

interested in what's being said israel this week the israeli president the prime minister tonight in the foreign minister all threatening military action against iran this kind of rhetoric is not new though it's been around for years should iran be taking these latest threats more seriously than you think. i think they should be taking it more seriously because it seems to be a more consistent pattern the debate in the israeli cabinet earlier this week was half of the cabinet was in favor of war with iran as long as the united states started the fighting and the other half was in favor with israel starting the fighting and of course if israel starts the fighting the united states will get involved so it's basically the same formula i think that the the israeli government is behaving extremely irrationally because even many senior former officials in the israeli government at mit that iran poses no military threat to israel for us folks

the iranian president just a couple of months ago that he reiterated once again that his country iran's been cooperating with the un atomic watchdog for many years so it begs the question why is its peaceful nuclear program continuing to raise so much concern among the u.s. and its allies. well i think the answer to that is actually very simple there are many countries in the middle east egypt saudi arabia turkey that have what they describe as breakout capability the ability technical ability to develop a nuclear weapon but it's only iran that seems to be in the focus and this is because of the perception that iran is a threat to israel israel is very capable of using its friends in the media and in the u.s. congress to heighten this sense of threat and i as i said before i i believe very firmly that this sense of threat is much overstated always good to get your informed view philip giraldi former cia officer talking to some long there from washington thanks for being on r.t.

. at a time when israel is threatening around with military action then come for the sin the strength of the jewish state's army is crucial but with every year fewer and fewer israelis assigning up to the forces choosing instead to defend themselves rather than a country full of state reports why the young generation is turning its back on a 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 recently jewish males who don't serve in the military want to 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 to turn around he says doing nothing while in uniform after the four of. because of this feeling that it would be parathyroid if i wouldn't 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 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 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 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 state.

just. 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's. those have role models like activia nodded a copy former girlfriend israeli model bar refaeli who evaded service and gave it bitter timoci violations of human rights. are by israel's absolute disrespect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about a 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 paula c a r t tel aviv. let's take

a look at some world news in briefs now and in india 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 instant 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 continue to push forward many women and children are reported to be among the dead and injured his deadly stampede sadly a common in india last january more than one hundred people died on route to a strine. syria's opposition 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 accused 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 mary could receive a maximum prison sentence of four years and also lose his medical license the jury took two days to reach its decision. the italian prime minister has won a crucial budget vote but has lost his majority support after a piece debated public finances choose date silvio berlusconi is now the heavy pressure from the opposition to resign experts warn the political turmoil could tip italy towards even greater instability the country is moving closer to the center of europe's financial crisis with debts piling up as borrowing costs continue to rocket or for more on this now let's cross live to rome journalists frederico masel is there frederico very good evening can you hear me or live on our t.v. . yeah well good evening to everyone this. has never been so critical in

italy for so for bill scorn you today lost his majority in parliament in the. in the representative of deputy so now connie with the say of our ministers are between about the future of the government and about eve action today more over today the president of a confident to study union of for managers decided to push out to government because they need we need more structure and. to get in from outside the crisis frederico what's the word on the street you've got your ear on the ground you're talking to your friends you talk to the people in power there what's the word about silvio berlusconi's future how long is it going to last.

please the observer told me there may be our final deal either of center right party will be the new prime minister if not maybe if there is the possibility for mario monti it will plea economists to play and to form new government to get to election. some are now spring time sorry what about this news today frederico the italy's borrowing rates have skyrocketed to a nother year that we didn't think we'd see it this far it's up to six point seven four percent today that's just so close now isn't it to that seven percent threshold at which portugal and ireland were forced to accept debts they say a lot of buyers won't buy if it gets above seven percent how dangerous is the situation now in italy. yeah is is a really alarming situation into really because the spread between seeing years in

bonds of b t p and. bonestell is reaching five hundred points or seven point six per cent it's a dramatic situation and the president of the town of republika giorgio napolitano we have to wait for his decision to get new sites around the sewers and reforms to soar again our economical it's possible to start to think about a new a new future for young love or market and for our success in sewers that it doesn't work in this in this way for this situation of ether early in this moment maybe they are talking about the economical the future is about. creasing and about new market level markets. gloss what you frederico of italy's the third largest economy in the

eurozone a lot of people saying it's just too big to fail what do you and your fellow countrymen think about. i think that we don't have time to think of new politics and of think of new government the first choice that we have is to think of the new government of transitional government as we used to call it because we need the argentine reforms and the surface to get to the reforms structural reform an economical new sewer in the financial field for example yesterday they turned on the stock exchange and he created after news of berlusconi resigned so now this is the way that we have to get inside is resigns of berlusconi and then we can think of newly ssris this is the most important way that we have to

get in all right fredricka or certainly a journalist live from rome on r.t. international thanks for being on the program. meantime a meantime as well in greece ministers of offer their resignation to pave the way for a new government this comes as the country's leaders struggled to agree on a new prime minister as talks over unity coalition into the second day george perf and dry is set to stand his replacement has been announced the interim government will lead the country until elections are expected to be held in february which is under pressure to ratify that one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package and end of political crisis this put the entire eurozone in jeopardy our correspondent sara first been asking greeks for their take on the situation and the prospects for their impact all countries right now. at the euro thing crisis rumbles on greatness once again found the focus of international attention and i think like everyone had an opinion about the situation here in the country we

decided to come to the square which is really been the epicenter it's very much in this year a quite the find out what the people of greece have to say about it all. so he says that the camera and the mike want to. let the people have taken away alone we are angry as well of those who want. all the people who will greeks are blamed thing. everything is made money bordentown back chillies it's like they're trying to frighten us or something like that hi my name is vicky i am a great 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 he 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

told his dead cannot be paid back. why do they lend his money plus don't they want their money back 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 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 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 out a very skeptical about the euro i think. 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 two years old and i don't have a job. i have to leave. my parents i don't have money i can leave i hope for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to do that bruce is a european country and greece and euro is a greek word a greek word that 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 people start to the mike and had a chance to have a question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them or the decisions again to keep being made the hiring plays. syntagma square and then. let me just take

a second tranche of course that our web site is constantly updated around the clock with all the very latest news from us if you don't need your t.v. stories get a lot of clicks tonight billions of dollars have been changing hands during bank transfer demonstrations across the u.s. this is story bit of boarding on it's in a bid to deprive big banks of the clients find out if it's working and online also on our web site the costs leave a stake microphones acts that switch dog conversation between sort of course here in a bar move you into the world just what the israeli premier never said if you don't want to get out in front of a live mike. it's coming up to twenty four minutes past nine at night here in moscow thanks for being with us just ahead our special report for you from los angeles we invite you to

follow crews from one of the city's fire stations who these days are forced to work his ambulance crews in surprise our story it's on the air from us very shortly let's check of the business before that. thanks kevin 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 and eventual capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters the new autrey will likely change european energy priorities in particular the shifting the emphasis away from alternative gasol says as constant to see minna from the national energy security fund explain. inside the europe. we see a very concern there to add you to shell gas. you know you were speaking about russian. for example germany france the new alliance this country.

is the future if you will always see that now the main driver of shale gas production in europe was all about who was. always in those three ball and you food tried to analyze the real situation the sale goes of course we still have could we see conference suspicious presentations but no business. so you can compare notes through the show goes production in europe with you on the north rim is a reality show you says to a dream. let's take a look at the markets well it's trading near the highest level in three months lights we're just currently at around ninety six dollars a barrel while brant is a one hundred fifteen dollars. and you're at stocks are higher but they quickly slipped into read off the high in the early traders italian prime minister won a budget vote without an absolute majority and the european central bank council member said the e.c.b. cond bailout governments by printing money. and markets across europe were all off

to burn us coney's budget vote in germany the country's exports rose for a second month in september helping europe's largest economy well the sovereign debt crisis. and finally. in moscow the markets close makes the r.t.s. was up just one percent but the my six was flat to negative and here's a look at some of the individual share moves in the minds of the picture was mixed here last point four percent gas bubbles also in the red at the close the company's oil subsidiary gas from left says it boosted its net profit by sixty four percent in the first nine months of the year and russia's biggest lenders burbank gained two percent a close. also relative economic data obviously also driving the market and we've seen some positive reports from the european banks such as voids and association are all today relatively positive which also helps the european exchanges up one point five percent roughly on the day which is obviously very important because the

. hit on the banking system following the greece debt situation is clearly one of the key concerns at the moment. during the world trade organization will cut russia's exposure to oil price fluctuations that's if you are fitch credit rating agency which sees a number of benefits to accession the agency suggests of being in the trade club will boost growth one hundred 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 be raging in september warning that oil price fluctuations could lead to a downgrade. that's up from now more from the business desk in about fifteen minutes.

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this is our see from moscow and our top stories moscow russia is it a new era of energy security for western europe as the string pipeline begins pumping russian gas straight to. russia issues another stern warning against a western attack on iran as president dmitri medvedev says it could spell catastrophe for the middle east meanwhile the u.n. the time watchdogs about to release a report on two rounds nuclear activities. italian prime minister has won a crucial budget vote but it's lost his majority support in the parliament as experts fear the country is on its way to becoming the next victim of europe's financial crisis. we follow life in one of los angeles fire departments where usually nearly all crews work mostly or medical emergencies rather than battling fly.