weapons and its most critical report yet on the country its findings were widely expected and to come days after israel bluntly said military action against iran is getting closer raising fears the report could be a pretext to an attack and it's you can has more on the atomic study. right now the u.n. nuclear watchdog found 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 knew you were heads which the watchtower views as a possible indication that iran 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 you 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 al qaeda terrorists evidence of more by lapse with 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 plus 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 records serve as a justification to start a war with iran but 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 i mean 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 report as political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a dandy needs flourishing economic relations with china no one in the international community wants iran to have nuclear weapons but what they fear is addressed 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 it is being portrayed. 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 nine hundred forty want to grab it soil when it's democratically elected president mohamed must nationalize the iranian oil company which is today british petroleum the cia backed coup got rid of him imposed the shah of percy apocalypse until nine hundred seventy nine and when in one nine hundred 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 and we want to know how close you think a military strike against iran now is 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 ten percent think the whole thing is still depends on tehran's willingness to cooperate slightly fewer think that there will be a military strike only if you run actually admit to having a nuclear bomb and your voice now vote on the home page at www dot com. if former cia officer who once headed the osama bin laden intelligence unit says america's policies on the muslim. create on the policies on islam create enemies rather than security here is some of what michael sure will tell us next hour. washington's enemy is an enemy that doesn't exist we're fighting and in islam make enemy that washington believes is out to kill us because we have elections because we're free because we have women in the workplace is an enemy that doesn't exist didn't exist when bin laden was alive it doesn't exist now america is being

attacked because of its foreign policy and in the muslim world because of its support for israel because of its support for the saudi police state because of its presence on the arab peninsula and until we accept that until americans can say to each other whether you support aid to israel or not our relationship with israel is causing this war we are not going to be able to defeat this enemy. the un head has voiced concerns over the increased attacks on minority serbs and their property in northern kosovo 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 barricade ing in not only against the unwanted authorities but also nato peacekeeping forces. explains. that. perhaps not an old this venue for

a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and need. to cool off to get it together here and. dance . this is distressing. the star barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them there are 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 in the middle of it so which splits the town into say in an albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship it 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 sand off the gold the quay for troops managed to

demolish stubborn serbs built two piles there are times when the two pro sisters take place and tenuously. an hour. 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 of the serbs 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 are used to improvising and finding a way out we've built alternative routes. is 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. kosovo has seen different hard times even been my by turkey ones but series with stude all heart tests of times and everyone and make sure that scenarios this line. 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 serve 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.

see reporting from costa. in kosovo. and still ahead for you this hour russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years. we'll tell you why this probe wants to dig to the dirt on the martian the moon of phobos once ground control fixes a post launch which. also why india as a government believes these people are no longer poor enough to get the help of millions of them still believe. and western europe is getting its first gas from russia via the newly built north stream pipeline that bypasses trials of countries to route is designed to bring cheaper gas to homes and businesses in the join me in ten minutes more about the significance of this project of the. times before the man who's dominated italian politics for the best part of two decades prime minister silvio berlusconi's been seemingly indestructible facing

a mountain of corruption lawsuits and sex crime allegations italy's while finances which i've finally led him to agree to quit his majority of operated as parliament passed italy's twenty ten a key vote to decide the next budget cuts which will be voted on next week italy is europe's next big warry after greece its borrowing costs are at a record high and financial firms are losing faith but claiming berlusconi's political scalp might not be enough to help the country stay afloat. it's very naive to fall the entire political debate. i think that. very difficult time and what is required is a say a serious political debate on what's kind of measure. to take to the krises it's not so much about middle school and italian people in case the so. and what their replacements should be rather than being down through parliamentary gimmicks

i think that should have stepped down at least one year ago or and yes i mean able to survive just because the corruption and the 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. 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 movie 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 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 the 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 end game and maybe there's a chance now that berlusconi is gone that the e.c.b. will do more prior to when berlusconi is 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 e perhaps italy will get the help it needs. with the eurozone in currency crisis cross-talk later asked if it's time for brussels to butt out and restore power to

national governments here's what's ahead at seven thirty am g.m.t. . if greece last week were to have voted and voted for and i'm over to have passed it on and i left the choice to do greek citizens would have meant that the greece greek citizens would have got a veto on facts on economic governance within the eurozone which is almost unheard of i said there should be there couldn't be of it or against it of course that is the good thing of this crisis and i say that you see we are clearly moving this direction also the president about these are allies you see anxious say they really are losing their jobs is a good side to this crisis. that is still ongoing we know i said don't think of it and there's only because it's on the streets people will know and you say there's a good thing to this crisis. russia has launched an unmanned probe into one of mars's moons in the early hours of wednesday but it has hit technical trouble.

a series of robotic maneuvers should have taken place after the probe separated from its booster rocket if that has not happened and federal space agency officials say they have three days to sort the problem out there probably isn't designed to bring back soil from the martian moon for both which should on earth some secrets about our solar systems patient also on board is china's first mars satellite which will be put in the observation orbit around the red planet type of cover explains the missions ambitious. ever since galileo galilei first pointed his telescope at mass 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 ninety six it will take eleven months for it to reach the martian orbit and another six months to approach focus immediately after touchdown a remotely controlled arm will sink its claws into the unknown. and you will nobody knows how hard the surface is going to be but will be able to collect it whether it is sound or rock. the return rocket will make its way back to ass straight away with a fast ever sample from a martian moon on board this mission is one of the most complicated ever planned what you see here is two parts off of 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 exterior will act as test subjects dust 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 when the russian or american forces. have a back stop the end of the mission part of the spacecraft will remain on focus 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 make sure that part of the enterprise is nonya those new breed 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. it will turn possible into reality. r.t. moscow. more world news for you this hour first starting in thailand where the floodwaters are finally receding cleanups are now underway in 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 confirming such as toyota honda and nestle have seen a production profit striped bass of one. american presidential hopeful herman cain is defiant about staying in the game despite the increasing sexual harassment claims swirling around him

a second woman has now. gone public about her alleged assault and she wants all four accusers to come forward claim is a surprise the front runner for the republican nomination to take on president obama in two thousand and twelve and denies all the claims. about. india says it's got fewer poor people but the numbers don't tell the whole story the government there now thinks that less than a dollar a day is enough to get by as 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 thirty per day or think that romney works twelve hours six days a week as a cobbler and can 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 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 a lot less 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 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. but new data 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. well to not good enough forget about that in a piece they don't need is no way you can so they can do 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. i'm going to. 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. in less than ten minutes time we're going to have to rush as a wild far east to a place where nature still rules first though we'll get this business update with current. welcome to our business bulletin on the south thanks for joining me for a go straight talk top story western europe is getting its first russian gas why the newly built north pipeline. wasn't germany supplies carved 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 goes from lead 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 that it was too long too expensive something it was technically impossible for example there's only one compressor station along the route once again you said there were several needed to make it happen and now this really has been planned since the ninety ninety second blow and 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. and russia's largest company gas promise to publish second quarter results later on wednesday analysts surveyed by the interfax news agency expects a seventy percent increase in that profit with the company benefiting from increased output and stronger prices deliveries to europe jumped by more than twenty percent coinciding with the launch of the north stream gas pipeline cost more than seventy seven billion dollars and leaving russian energy consultants doesn't seem and believes it will take

a decade to break even. the real time off for total this investment will be depends on the price of gas in european markets because of the tragic stories related to the gas prices in the european union but of course it will take only a. very mild. told of this money away because you know that from one point of view is the main shareholder flows through but from another point of view with the main supply will be just and just boom gave all girls three will be here. and looking at the markets now or is heading high on speculation that iran's nuclear plans could threaten stability in the middle east another boost comes from italy where prime minister silvio berlusconi said he may step down if parliament passes measures the move is meant to convince investors that at least can curb its record borrowing costs voigt 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 and investment bank of china two percent black and tokyo listed exporters and banks are also rising and made the improved sentiment. it's one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets finished tuesday's trading session mixed. up under a percent but in my eyes it was flat to negative law you can from a creates a financial corp. aeration explains what local factors will be driving trade here. the 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 it wouldn't esters and the renegotiation so if european

contracts is one of the key points to be discussed investors are perhaps in dispute and some clarity on the evolution of their relationship with the european customers . russia's largest lenders burbank is looking and 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 at your bank which is owned by the italian financial group carlo to sarra out of a suggest it's a good time to make acquisitions ask kastrup european banks are selling assets and bargain prices either your bank has both retail and business services but a credit portfolio of around four billion dollars graham bank recently bought and used to this new can of folks banks and announced plans to buy into turkey's debt expect. it's all happening at this hour by don't forget you can always log on to a website called slash.

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broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our. bed with. the u.n. nuclear watchdog reports of the iran that could be developing the technology to produce weapons and it's a first public revelation of such claims the findings are raising worries that they might become a pretext for a preemptive strike against tehran. like the standoff in northern kosovo between serbs and nato back to kosovo police finally draws attention and partly blames christina for the trouble that says the locals don't want to live in the self-proclaimed independent kosovo blend of their barricades into the scenery as part of everyday life. as the financial fall of.