working on developing atomic weapons and its most critical report yet on the country its findings were widely expected and come days after israel bluntly said military action against iran is getting closer and raising fears the report could be a pretext to an attack on its account has more on the tomic study. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog found you no smoking gun but hyped up fears that iran continues research on nuclear weapons it doesn't say iran is building a weapon but it says it's collecting all the information it would need to do so and has a lot of technology and the international atomic energy agency claims to have iranian computer models of the new you were heads which the watchtower views as a possible indication that you ran plans to build an atomic bomb among other evidence a satellite image of a steel container that might be used to secretly cast the high explosives is needed to trigger and clear weapons 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 the president of u.s. intelligence presenting false evidence to build a case for the war in iraq raises alarm bells us to the accuracy of the atomic agency's latest report on it you ran 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 photographs in iraq showing certain things they interpreted those photographs to mean something which which was it was not correct back in two thousand and three the u.s. was adamant its evidence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction and terrorist activity was as solid as could be satellite images of a base where saddam hussein was believed to train terrorists evidence of more labs for biological weapons aluminum tubes presented as components of centrifuges to

enrich uranium all of the above proved to be a hoax. and yet it was enough to start a war that would last eight months and years until more than a hundred thousand civilians israel is considering military action to take out iran's nuclear facilities preemptively the question many now ask is could the un's atomic watchdog report serve as a justification to start a war with iran security experts say the consequences for such action would be catastrophic we would most likely see new kinds of attacks probably on israel from hezbollah or other groups we'd see attacks on american troops perhaps in iraq and afghanistan even more than what we've seen so far iran and could retaliate in conventional terms that could attack saudi arabian oil fields if you really want to see a crisis in the in your in the international economy despite tough rhetoric coming

from both israel and the u.s. many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the retort as political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a dandy needs jewelry she economic relations with china no one in the international community wants you brand to have nuclear weapons but what they fear is a drastic unilateral action by israel with the backing of the united states that could set the region on fire at a time when it is as on stable as it gets millions of lives could be in danger if policymakers in washington or tel aviv decide to jump the gun and start a war on grounds which are far from being transparent i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . political analyst adrian believes iran has never been the danger into being portrayed as. 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 one to grab its oil when its democratically elected president mohamed. nationalize the iranian oil company which is today british petroleum the cia backed coup got rid of him imposed the shah of persia until nine hundred seventy nine and when in one nine hundred seventy nine iran recovers its own identity immediately once saddam 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 sates 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. well we want to know how close you think a military strike against iran is right now so far the majority thinks an attack is

imminent as it runs along with american and israeli interests sixteen percent doubt it arguing that no one wants to see a bloodbath in the region around ten percent think the whole thing still depends on tehran's willingness to cooperate while slightly fewer think that there will be a militant terrorist strike only if you actually admits having a nuclear bomb at your fourth now both on the home page of r t v dot com. the un head has voiced concerns over the increased attacks on minority serbs and their property in northern kosovo bomb ki-moon put part of the blame on the decision of kosovo albanian leadership to extend its control over the serb run area for months serbs in the region have been barricading in and not only against the

unwanted authorities but also nato peacekeeping forces explains. that. perhaps not an obese venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're going to together here and does know we're doing dance. to suppress it will be serving the star barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them there just a part of everyday life not only have the kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge that it's there which splits the town into serbian and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship and was meant to symbolize that the two can easily live together but the size of the barricades on the serbian part tells the whole story of how subs are unwilling to be part of the self-proclaimed state while the

cemented barricades in the middle of it so have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers. for every sound off the call the case for a truce managed to demolish stubborn serbs built two piles there are times when the too close is taking place similar tenuously. an hour and a live and. people like you see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe albanians would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes with a nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade because civil servants have become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves. it

was hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who you. to improvising in finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we prevented a humanitarian catastrophe. the orthodox priest of the town's brand new temple sat he has never been busier with all the people flocking in lately to pray for the well being of their families. or the close of all his sin different times. my birds turkey ones but series with stude all tests of times and everyone and make sure of it so now it's this land is the cradle of its culture and statehood. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put great to the standoff but while politicians clash this sort of family has little trust in diplomacy their kids may be too young to realize what it's all about and why they are being shown

the barriers but there is little doubt what views they will inherit once they grow up. let's see russia. reporting from costa. in kosovo. and still ahead for you this hour russia's first mission in fifteen years. we'll tell you why the. government believes that these people are no longer poor enough to get the help of the. mission free cretaceous free. free arrangements free. three stooges free.

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says. time is up for the man who's dominated a tell in politics for the best part of two decades embattled prime minister silvio berlusconi has been seemingly indestructible facing a mountain of corruption lawsuits and sex crime allegations but it's woeful finances which have finally led him to agree to quit although parliament passed the key economic reforms demanded by the e.u. is going to last year's majority and giving the budget through italy is europe's next big debt worry after greece it is borrowing costs are at a record high right now and financial firms are losing faith over its debts but claiming berlusconi's political scalp might not be enough to help the country stay afloat. it's very naive to fall q.s. the entire political debate. i think that. very difficult

time and what is required is a say a serious political debate on what kind of measure. one to take to the krises it's not so much about middle school and italian people in caves should then decide what their replacements should be rather then being down through parliamentary gimmicks i think that we should have stepped down at least one year ago or and yes i mean able to sort of arrive just because the corruption and bribery in italian parliament is so widespread that these has been possible but honestly i think that's what is required is serious change and serious change just through going back to the people and asking them what. school and he should be silvio berlusconi's pledge to resign comes at the same time as the greek prime minister prepares to step down joe wiesenthal from america's business insider

online magazine says dramatic political changes are now imminent in europe. there's obviously would be a sort of financial contagion angle as the crisis goes from one country to another but there's also just political contagion and the fact that no leader in europe on any level has really behaved in a bold or admirable way at all during this the euro crisis has really been going on since mid to late two thousand and nine there's been no real progress on solving anything if italy were to go the way of greece and really of a collapse it would have huge impacts on the rest of europe and probably the united states i think italy is simultaneously too big to fail and too big to rescue the best hope is that b e c b which you know technically does have unlimited amounts of money thanks to the fact that it controls the printing press and europe could step in in a big way i think people the thing that has to be the endgame and maybe there's a chance now that berlusconi is gone that the e.c.b. will do more prior to it with berlusconi still there i think nobody wanted to you

know make things any easier for italy reward italy in any way if he leaves as he says he will perhaps. you know the eat perhaps italy will get the help it needs. with hero going to survival cross-talk later asks what's next for the beleaguered single currency join peter lavelle and his guests at seven thirty am g.m.t. here on r.t. . russia launched an unmanned probe to one of mars's moons in the early hours of wednesday but it hit technical trouble. a series of robotic maneuvers should have taken place after the probe separated from its booster rocket that has not happened and federal space agency officials say they have three days to sort the problem out there probes designed to bring back soil from the martian moon phobos which should on earth some secrets about our

solar system's creation also on board is china's first mars satellite which will be put in observation orbit around the red planet. explains the mission of them bush. ever since galileo galilei first pointed his telescope but most people couldn't help but wonder is there life on the red planet the question is still in the air now russian scientists have decided to study mass in one of its two moons phobos in a single ambitious mission. our focus is obtaining a piece of soil for a proper study. so the whole project on the probe has become known as ferber's groomed meaning soil in russian costing around one hundred fifty six million dollars it will become russia's first interplanetary mission since one thousand nine hundred six it will take eleven months for it to reach the martian orbit and another six months to approach for immediately after touchdown a remotely controlled arm will sink its claws into the unknown. and without nobody

knows how hard the surface is going to be but will be able to collect it whether it is sand or rock. the return rocket will make its way back to ass straight away with a fast of a sample from a martian moon on board this mission is one of the most complicated ever planned what you see here is two parts of four has grown to the whole structure weighs over thirteen thousand kilos but only seven kilos placed right on the top of the return rocket will make it back to earth all this just four hundred grams of precious extraterrestrial soil. however the rocket will also carry some unusual passages russian and u.s. scientists are sending a capsule with terrestrial micro-organisms on the three year round trip with a manned mission to mars high on the world's wish list but still impossible the bacteria will act as test subjects those will be able to see which spores will survive the severe radiation of an interplanetary flight and as they were put

together by different scientists there's already a lot of joking about which bacteria will survive russian or american. however that's not the end of the mission part of the spacecraft will remain on food was to continue experiments with a whole array of instruments put together by various countries with a project promising a rich scientific harvest china france and germany among other countries have made sure that part of the enterprise is nine years of the rule the main thing is that we understand better the forming of the solar system and maybe it will help us to figure out if models can be a reserve planet for mankind. and with so many people across the globe eager for this mission to succeed the hopes it will turn towards being the possible into reality. r.t. moscow. more world knows the news right now and starting in thailand where the floodwaters are finally receding. cleanups are now underway in the northern

provinces but things are far from over in bangkok where there's a struggle to clear debris that's blocking the capital's drains the floods are taking a huge toll on thailand over five hundred people have been killed and many thousands displaced while fee firms such as toyota and nestle have seen production and profits drop massively. american presidential hopeful herman cain is defiant about staying in the game despite the increasing sexual harassment claims swirling around him a second woman now gone public about her alleged assault and she wants all four kids. to come forward cain is a surprise front runner for the republican nomination to take on president obama in two thousand and twelve and denies all the claims. back india says it's got fewer poor people but the numbers don't tell the whole story the government. less than a dollar a day is enough to get by explains. in india's capital city

the sights and sounds of one of the world's fastest growing economies are everywhere. but intermingled with the new malls and shopping developments slums like this one are still home to about forty million people many of the people who live here however don't even count as being poor thanks to a new definition that has moved india's poverty line to thirty per day or think that romney works six days a week as a cobbler and to make up to two dollars per day he sends most of his money back to his village to support the wife and three children he left behind the fact that his country doesn't classify him as poor is shocking to him but he didn't thirty two rupees as the benchmark to decide the poverty line is wrong because one cannot do anything with that amount someone like me who makes three thousand rupees per month finds it hard to survive here how can someone who are only thirty two rupees survive the people behind the nation say that it's simply an adjustment based on

the current economic climate according to them the new definition actually means that there are class people living in poverty in india than twenty years ago when almost half of all indians were living below the poverty line they also claim it has no impact on who can access government welfare services and many people above the poverty line or. i mean they're not it's not as if you know if you're. poor and if you've got one rupee more than the rich we have to do a lot for them. but new day. also suggests those living in poverty should get by on the equivalent of two dollars per month for their health and education sparking outrage across india where do you feed your family where do you look after your kids where do you send them for education how is not that anywhere close to the poverty line. thirty thirty rupees per hour is also not good enough forget

about this in a place like that either is no way you can survive into it for now as the debate over the poverty line is meaningless in his life he just wants to be able to support his family. that my only wish for my future is that i continue doing this work of mine without any hindrance from anyone or anything as long as the government doesn't interfere continue doing this business to feed and educate my kids focusing and depending on himself preassure either r.t. new delhi india. will be back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes though it's the latest business of current. twenty two past eight o'clock here in moscow welcome to business news with me careening malik out of western europe's getting its first russian gas by the newly built to wreck north stream pipeline. germany supplies fired up. this new route

should bring cheaper gas for homes and businesses in the european union for the first time there are no transit fees to be paid to countries like ukraine and belarus it also eliminates the threat of supply cuts which we've seen in recent years actually leaving some e.u. states out in the cold now this is an e.u. wide project there are german shareholders also french dutch as part of this gazprom led project and it will guarantee supply to citizens of those countries for the next fifty years or so even through this year's euro debt crisis demand for gas in europe has gone up now this is the pipeline that people said couldn't be built it was too long too expensive some said it was technically impossible for example there's only one compressor station along the route when it jr said there were several needed to make it happen and now this route has been planned since the nine hundred ninety s. a second line will come on top next year project leaders have said to the third line troubling capacity of north stream will be discussed very soon by shareholders . russia largest company gas from is due to publish second quarter results later on

wednesday surveyed by the interfax news agency expect a seventy percent increase in net profit with the company benefiting from increased output and stronger prices deliveries to europe have jumped on more than twenty percent coinciding with the launch of the north stream gas pipeline it cost more than seven billion dollars and needing russian energy consultant constantine seaman off believes it will take a decade to break even. the real dynamo for total this investment will be depends on the price market because the transit fees related to rebid gas prices in the european union but of course it will take only as. they must be. told of this money away because you know that from one point of view. the main shock holdall flows through but from another point of view of the main supply route and. all girls. here. have

a look at the markets now all is heading high on speculation that iran's nuclear plants could threaten stability in the middle east another boost comes from italy where prime minister silvio berlusconi may step down if parliament passes austerity measures the move was meant to convince investors can curb its record borrowing costs and avoid the fate of greece markets in asia are climbing on italian news and chinese data hong kong stocks are leading a regional rally that's after china reported cooling inflation giving a boost to bank and property stocks china overseas land investment bank of china up two percent in the black now tokyo listed exporters and banks are also rising amid the improved sentiment of moral holdings has jumped over five percent and sony at a two percent. its two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets finished tuesday's trading session mixed the obvious ended up. and of course and for the wise expose flat to negative low you come from

a through to financial corporation explains walk local factors will be driving trade here. markets will clearly continue to be hostage by the european. developments however in terms of the local events that are worth highlighting perhaps you have guessed from numbers. out on wednesday and apart from the second quarter results which are perhaps outdated irrelevant at this point the key focus will be on the conference call with investors and the renegotiation so fewer can contract says one of the key points to discuss investors are perhaps in dispute and some clarity on the evolution of their relationship with the european customers . and russia's largest lender is a bare bank is looking in buying a bank in poland as part of its expansion into central and eastern europe polish media is reporting that is burbank is most likely to acquire al your bank which is

owned by the time international group carlo. analysts suggest it's a good time to make acquisitions cash strapped european banks are selling assets at bargain prices i know your bank has both retail and business services with a credit for four neo overall four billion dollars the bank recently bought the eastern european arm of folks bank announced plans to buy into tenants. that sold the news i have for this hour but i'll be back in about twenty five minutes with more.

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the u.n. nuclear watchdog reports that iran could be developing the technology to produce weapons in its first public revelation of such claims the findings are raising worries they might become a pretext for a strike against tehran. northern kosovo between. police finally draws. blame for the trouble. don't want to live in self-proclaimed independent kosovo. into syria part of everyday life. financial fall of. the previously political prime minister for.