hello and a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is r.c. with me here thanks for joining us to our top story now russia has switched on the north stream natural pipeline marking a new era in secure and interest supplies to europe president that of chancellor angela merkel and other partners the phones that official opening in germany allowing field to flow directly from siberia to europe by the longest underwater gas pipeline in the world the new bridge means russia can bypass traditional transit countries such as a crane in poland to avoid possible energy supply disruption daniel bushell reports not from the historic sounding. 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 life time of this current project there are plans to send this gas in and then alter the existing european network on to countries like the united kingdom as well is that is that with these 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 sure. flagler 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 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 ninety's ninety's construction did start a few years ago the second law and 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 list injured and says russia is a key partner for europe and its gas supply has always been acceptable and reliable . there is an overriding view within europe that diversification is important and this is a fein that we've heard echoed for many many years now but within that it is generally recognized within europe and i don't think know some dissenting voice really anywhere in europe that russia is now and always will be a principal provider of gas to the european continent eighty's simply a vast repository of natural gas resources it is on europe's eastern border it has very stable wootton turn gas supply in relationships with european countries and and nobody's looking really to supplant russian gas what

europe wants to do is to ensure that gas comes from other places by other routes in addition to russian gas but not instead of it. russia has called the release of the un's atomic watchdog report on iran as an appropriate the i.a.e.a. says the new findings suggest tehran has been working on developing nuclear weapons and has credible evidence to prove it russian president iranian president rather mahmoud ahmadinejad has criticized the report and said tehran won't stop its peaceful nuclear development and this comes as the russian president warns that militarists rhetoric in the middle east could lead to a catastrophic war in the region russia has been voicing strong words against an attack on iran following statements by israel that a strike is more likely than diplomacy. and let's talk more on this with international consultant and author joining us now from the us iris missile which i think is so much for your time so the findings of this report are partly

based on intelligence from your point of view high reliable is it and how much evidence could the i.a.e.a. put presents to support this claims well clearly the evidence seems to come from repeatedly mentioned several men member states and those member states are obviously the united states britain france and it might even be israel itself we are by they say that based on this information that they have gathered they have so-called proof that iran does have a nuclear weapons program however the proof is very vague it is not that is not probably substantiated at least not from the report that we've seen the twenty five page report that was released today and the point is that iran itself has said that it is evidence that is fabricated brazil new york has referred to the is. part of the united states britain france and notably israel who are permanently. going to attack iran so i think that there are many double standards here one of which is why should we trust the united states france britain and the united

kingdom for example with nuclear weapons and israel and we can not however trust iran and the whole world should. we are thrown into a kind of catastrophic war just to stop iran from having a possible nuclear deterrence. the us any zero have repeatedly threatened military action against iran if it goes ahead with nuclear weapons research i we one step closer to see those threats come true now that the report is published yes definitely israel has been threatening this for years now but they have what prime minister netanyahu has called a window of opportunity which is all about now first of all because the united states will be withdrawing some troops from iraq in the next year or second because they have this so-called plot that they discovered about iran or they say that they discovered about iran trying to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador and third because winter is coming in that region so if israel is tempted to do anything it

will have to do it now however the point that the mainstream media are making is that over the past hundred years iran has invaded and attacked nobody it has however been invaded by britain world war one by britain and the former soviet union in world war two in one thousand nine hundred want to grab its oil when its democratically elected president mohamed must have a private nationalized the iranian oil company which is today british petroleum the cia backed coup got rid of him imposed the shah of percy a park levy until nine hundred seventy nine and when in one thousand seventy nine iran recovers its own identity immediately one step down hussein i think we all remember him was in the service of the united states britain and israel with chemical weapons of mass destruction provided by the united states to lead an eight year war of attrition against iran so if anything one has to ask who is the danger

in the region the united states britain france and israel or iran who has invaded and attacked nobody in a century. adrianne's had to change cashel consultant and author thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with this thank you. i did time when threatening iran with military action confidence in the strength of the jury states army is crucial but every year more and more israelis are seeking ways to avoid conscription choosing to defend themselves rather than their country poulos here reports now on why the young generation is joining in spying 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 recently jewish males. don't serve in the military twenty connor 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 before. because of this feeling that it would be parathyroid if i wouldn't and a couple of 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 the fence other than my name and a growing number of israelis agree with him or friedman made sure she scored low on her army entrance tests so instead of serving as a soldier she's 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 the refusenik movement started in israel youngsters

refusing to serve in the army on political grounds add to that the nearly fifteen percent of potential draftees who don't serve because of religious reasons and a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military decline stay focused on. 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. does 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. and 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. r.t. tel aviv. prime minister says he will resign after parliament passes the twenty two countries budget and implements key economic reforms demanded by the e.u. then initial vote in a town and senate is shuttled for next wednesday celio berlusconi lost his majority in parliament and other public finances and faced multiple calls from the opposition and even his allies to resign experts who warned of political turmoil could tip it towards even greater instability the country has been in the eye of european financial turmoil as the boring castanet spiralling sovereign debt has spiked to the highest level since the year a of a ten years ago. the university of reading in england says that it only needs not

only berlusconi's resignation but structural changes to survive the deepening crisis it's very naive to fall queues the entire political debates just. sauna i think that can produce going to a very difficult time and what is required is a serious political debate on what kind of measure it's one to take to tackle the krises it's not much about school and italian people in caves should water on the side what their replacements should be rather then being done through parliamentary gimmicks i think that should have stepped down at least one year ago or. been able to survive just because the poor option and the bribery in parliament saw widespread these as been possible but honestly i think that what is required is serious change and serious change just through going back to the people and asking them was. school and he should be. meanwhile increased ministers have

offered their resignation to speed the formation of a new unity government this comes as the country's leaders are looked in talks with the second day in a row and struggle to agree on a new prime minister george papandreou i will stand down as pm once his replacement is announced the interim government will leave the country until elections expected to be held and greece is under pressure to ratify a one hundred thirty billion euro emergency rescue package and its political crisis that's put the entire eurozone in jeopardy our correspondent safra has been asking creaks for their take on the situation and the prospects for that embattled country . as the eurozone crisis rumbles on greece is once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone's had an opinion about the situation here in the country we decided to come. which is really be me up and if so much of this year i quite the find out what the people of greece have to say

about it all. so he says at the camera and. let the people of greece take it away alone we are. well. all the people who. are saying. everything is made money board actually. 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. if all the european snow but all this did not be but. why do the olympics money plus don't they want their

money by. 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 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 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. 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 great quote a great 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 their say the question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them or the decisions again to keep being made the hiding place those surface syntagma square in athens. and more news for you this hour in india were 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 turns of thousands of hindu pilgrims rushed towards a holy sites to offer their players some of them tipped and fell while those behind continued to push forward many women and children are reported to be among the dead and injured deadly stampede at common in india last january more than one hundred people died shrine. the result position has reportedly appealed for international presence in the central city of holmes where acts of it said least eleven people were killed on monday this comes after damascus accused the us of being involved in the violence and asked the arab league to full support on the issue the un claims at least three thousand five hundred people have been killed and the crowd down since anti-government protests started in march. polls have closed in liberia's presidential elections amid opposition protests and a boy could afford claims winston tubman who won some thirty three percent of the first round of the toba withdrew from the race last week alleging the process is

rigged in the ruling party's favor is a vacation as were rejected by international observers who people to cause their ballots is the first election since the country's fourteen year conflict ended in one thousand and three. and africa's most actually will cain you know has begun erupting again in the democratic republic of congo threatening the nearby national park the mountain is located in the east near the wonder and border it's erupted more than forty times in the past one hundred thirty years but a toilet is rare. and of course our news can be found at any time on our website and see doc home like these stories. costly mistake microphones accidentally left switched on during a conversation between sarkozy and obama revealed to the whole world. just award they think about the israeli prime yet. and ford has launched an

innovative a roma project aimed at calming passengers preflight. all all that . for the first time we talk next with the man who's been at the head of the ambitious project former german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells us why the pipeline is so important for all.

the world charles love germany from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at nordstrom's russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. we're not talking about a dependence on russia we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector. north stream is viewed as a priority project by both russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six is recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers or problem meant. that the interview minister to

nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what the third one will be added and what will be its capacity. that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters the question of whether a third or even fourth pipeline will be laid should be answered by european stock holders as you know we have gazprom on the one side and. hollins got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany's and b.s.f. windowsill on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about stink financing and then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work of. brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas prom and europe. regulator reprovision is not the issue but the e.u.

germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy and russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing now to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy is good for picture what do you think of the recent new raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the or guys i think europeans need gas gas has many uses with the political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of these you know better than anyone else for instance that britain recently switched from export to india old europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions require and it needs no way to get outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to question companies would be

a wise move of. the name to do some officials oppose russia whatever it. is for though that's most i guess it so we have to admit that way but i hope we will get over it it's understandable the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true there's no question about it the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at ideological. difference is you. that is for the could russia switch supply to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was that it's unknown as it were to your involvement of wishes in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe i hope russia never has to make a choice the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts russians pride and we have to keep in mind that while russia has the alternative of shipping to asia europe has no such alternative and europe's geopolitical position will only improve if it manages to enter

a tiny hard to ship with russia one and at the same time grant only u.s. session to turkey that would be a sound strategy and into the future the rest is yesterday's debate alice and it did but of guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe does vitter sneak no that will not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that junction but i will say again that europe kamarck it is incredibly important for russia to keep it a budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependency here but a codependency to go and we've heard plans to lay an electricity route alongside the nord stream project could germany and european in your opinion be interested in importing electricity from russia if i sniffed i've not heard about such plans you want to have long since been rumors about it but so far the talk has been detached from reality i doubt the plans will ever be realized in but ultimately it's up to

the pipelines owners not the chairman of the stockholders committee for that progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project and. i don't think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe's liquefied gas market is quite limited to move there's nowhere to sell is in germany. well and has a developing market important is that it's in no way a danger for us that's not the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there are alternative sources the low spot prices on gas their g.p.s. spot deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for three to five plague or because in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany is closing all its nuclear power plants do you support that and how will it change germany's energy mix drugs have been damaged mined lloyd and so consider this me and my team are the people who would rigidly negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers that we had agreed to make

a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy site that was followed by a short period when the federal government thought our agreement should be overturned and of course they've since gone the other way and started supporting what i had negotiated on this does not mean bridge technologies like nuclear energy cannot be used until energy efficiency is sufficiently developed that we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security that's the reason we need to buy gas from new york from other cultures but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build a gas power station. gerhard schroder chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. . from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand syrian army is not enough in-patient beds not enough or emergency department beds and not enough nurses to members there to take care of all the people who are here the only

real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mask i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical but they had a rescue a couple weeks i waited four hours for a bit i. i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency when. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

welcome back and this is a quick check of the headlines. russia switches on the longest underwater gas pipeline in the world to pump fuel directly to germany and beyond making european and interests apply say five. publication of the yuan the atomic report on iran's atomic program may cause new tension in the i.a.e.a. claims to have evidence to iran is going to duct in secret experiments to develop nuclear weapons. controversial it time for a minister silvio berlusconi promises to step down but only up to the parliament approves the country's budget for next year and crucial economic reforms to grapple with this pirating crisis it. does the headlines right now with the sundress paramedics at full stretch it seems the city's firefighters are now their fast line of response from the.