agency says iran might be working on developing atomic weapons and its most critical report yet on the country its findings were widely expected in coming days after israel bluntly said military action against iran is getting closer raising fears the report could be a pretext to an attack on a church a town has more on the atomic study. 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 nuclear warheads 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 needed to trigger and you clear weapon 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 iran 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 qaida 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 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 group board 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 i mean could retaliate in conventional terms that could attack saudi arabian oil fields if you really want to see a crisis in the air 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 record 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 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 our team. political analyst adrian believes iran has never been the danger it is 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 nine hundred forty want to grab it soil when it's democratically elected president mohamed must have big nationalize the iranian oil company which is today british petroleum the cia backed coup got rid of him imposed the shah percy apocalypse until nine hundred seventy nine and one thousand 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. well we want to know how close you think a military strike against iran now is. so far the majority think 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 while slightly fewer think there will be a military strike only if iran actually admits to having a nuclear bomb at your voice now and vote on the home page of our team dot com. a former cia officer who once headed the osama bin laden intelligence unit says america's policies on the muslim world create enemies rather than security here's some of what michael sure will tell us in about twenty minutes time. washington's enemy is an enemy that doesn't exist we're fighting and an islamic enemy that washington believes is out to kill us because we have an election because we're three big. we have women in the workplace that's 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 in the 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 europeans 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 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 course will decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're going to be here in does there were two who would invent. this sort of barricades in northern have been standing for several months now for those who built them they're just a part of everyday life not only have the kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their own wanted neighbors this is the famous bridge which splits the town 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 part of the whole story 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. at the wrong spot tensions are still running high just a few cut off supply fees for every sand off the goal the k.

four troops managed to demolish stubborn serbs built two piles there are times when the two pro sisters take place and tenuously. them out. alive but. 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 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 through the mountains so now we can again

receive supplies we prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when you order 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. closer to his sin different hard times even being ok my bad turkey ones but terry's with stude old heart tests of times and every one and make sure that some nights this land is the cradle of his a 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 reporting from course.

in kosovo and still ahead for you this hour russia's first interplanetary mission fifteen years. we'll tell you why this probe wants to dig the dirt on martian moon . once ground control fixes a post launch glitch. also why india's government believes these people are no longer poor enough to get the help millions of them still need. and western europe is getting the first gas from russia via the newly built north stream pipeline that bypasses transit countries the route is meant to bring cheaper gas to homes and businesses joining me in about ten minutes or more on that on the significance of that project a number. of times up before the man who has dominated italian politics for the best part of two decades but it's not the mountain of corruption lawsuits and sex crime allegations that did it for prime minister silvio berlusconi it's italy's it will finance its his majority evaporated. italy's twenty ten

spending a key vote to decide the next budget cuts which will be voted on next week italy is europe's next big worry after greece it's a brawling 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 entire political debates. i think that. very difficult time and what is required is a safe 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 caves should warts and the side what their replacements should be rather than being true parliamentary gimmicks i think that you should have stepped down at least two. 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 can come through going back to the people and asking them. to build a new 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 we 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 are thinking 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 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 perhaps italy will get the help it needs. with the eurozone in currency crisis cross talk later asks if it's time for brussels to butt out and restore power to national governments here's what's ahead next hour. if greece last week were to have voted in order. to have passed it on the left the choice to the greek citizens would have meant that the greece greek citizens would

have got a veto on fact on economic governance within the eurozone which is almost unheard of that is the good thing of this crisis and i said that you see we are clearly moving this direction also because the about these airlines you see the action so you don't really see it losing their jobs is a good side to this crisis. that is still going to be no i said on the other side and there's only because it's on the streets people we know and you say there's a good thing to these crises. russia 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 win overs that should have taken place after the probe separated from its a booster rocket that has not happened vo and

a federal space agency officials say they have three days to sort the problem out the probes designed to bring back soil from the martian moon phobos which should on earth some secrets about our solar systems creation also on board is china's first mar satellite which will be put in observation orbit around the red planet area pushed over explains the mission's ambition. 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 six it will take eleven months for it to reach the martian orbit and another six months to approach service immediately after touchdown a remotely controlled arm will sink its claws into the unknown. and it 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 earth straight away with a fair stab 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 off of was ground 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 passengers 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 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. girls however bats not the end of the mission part of the spacecraft will remain on phobos 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 they're part of the enterprise and. after all the main thing is that we understand better the forming of the solar system and maybe it will help us to figure out if mars can be a reserve planet for mankind. and with so many people across the globe eager for this mission to succeed the hopes are it will turn towards being the impossible

into reality gary pushed over r.t. moscow and more world news now starting in thailand where the floodwaters are finally receding the cleanup is it now underway in the northern provinces but things are far from over in bangkok where there is a struggle to queer debris that's blocking of 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 confirms such as toyota honda 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 has now gone public about her to solve and she wants all four teasers to come forward cain is a surprise for the republican nomination to take on president obama twenty twelve and he. will replace india says 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. 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 eight europeans per day or think that romney was works twelve hours six days a week as a cop 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 is 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 below the poverty line you're poor and if you've got one rupee more than you are. we have to do a lot for them and that's what our strategy is 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 is also not good enough forget about that in a place like that need is no way you can survive into it for now a new law says the debate over the poverty line is meaningless in his life he just wants to be able to support his family but it's. got to get done 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 i will continue doing this business to feed and educate my kids focusing and depending on himself preassure either r.t. new delhi india and on the way a former cia officer explains why the u.s. needs to leave the middle east but finds it impossible to do so but first the latest business update with current.

thank you hello and welcome to our business update this hour western europe's getting its first russian gas father newly built to wreck more strained pipelines. wasn't germany as a class fired up. 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 some said it was take making impossible for example there's only one compressor station along the route once again you said

there were several needed to make it happen now this really has been planned since the ninety ninety second blow and will come on top next year project leaders have said that the third line troubling capacity of north stream will be discussed very soon by shareholders. and russia's largest company guess probably has reported an eighty percent leap in profits during the second quarter the gas monopoly on almost ten billion dollars during that period leaving some forecasts by ten percent market watchers say the strong bottom line is being driven by increased output and stronger prices deliveries to europe jumped twenty percent this year and are set for a further boost. network is on line and cost more than seven billion dollars and leading russian energy consoles and constantine seem enough 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 transit fees related to the gas prices in the european union but of course it will take

a view. very mild to be. told of this money away because you know the one point two . million shareholder flows through but from another point of view with the main supply will gifts and. all girls. will be here. let's look at the markets now oil is heading higher on speculation that iran's nuclear plan 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 says instead he measures the move is meant to convince investors that italy can curb its record borrowing costs and avoid the fate of greece asian markets are climbing on italian news and chinese data hong kong stocks are leading a regional rally that's up to china reported cooling inflation giving a boost to bank and property stocks china overseas land and investment bank of china leaving two percent in the black tokyo listed export areas and banks are also

rising through cent. and here in russia markets open in the black as well as in my eyes it's our point seven percent loving you come from a pizza financial corporation explains what local factors will be driving. in trading today. 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 development at this point the key focus will be on the conference call with investors and the renegotiations of european contracts is one of the key points to discuss investors are perhaps in dispute and some clarity on the evolution of the relationship with the european customers horses largest lenders bad bank is looking at buying

a bank of pole in poland as part of its expansion into central and eastern europe polish media is reporting that spare bank is most likely to acquire any or bag which is owned by the titan financial group color to sarra out of the suggest it's a good time to make acquisitions as cashed up european banks are selling assets at bargain prices and your bank has both retail and business services with a credit for year of around four billion dollars spread bank recently bought the eastern european arm of folks bank announced plans to buy into turkey's debt its. so i have for you for now but stay with us for headline news coming up next.

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ten thirty in the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top headlines the u.n. nuclear watchdog reports that iran could be developing the technology to produce weapons it is the first public revelation of such claims the findings are raising worries that they may become a pretext for a preemptive strike against. the standoff in the northern kosovo between serbs and nato backed postmen police finally draws you in attention . pristina for the trouble that the locals who don't want to live in self-proclaimed independent kosovo blend of their barricades into the sea as part of everyday life. in the financial fall of. the previously politically bulletproof prime minister finally agrees to go so.