the high price of education draws thousands of students back to the streets of london i made fears a repeat of last year's riots could be on the cards. the leaning tower of doubt collapses on italy's prime minister berlusconi has promised resignation sparking a fresh market panic and sending rome's borrowing costs soaring. tehran says it will keep to its nuclear program deny claims to the u.n. nuclear watchdog has leaked reports that suggest it's building weapons that spurs are worried the study is just a pretext for a preemptive attack on iraq. and some experts saying tensions with iran could lead

the oil to swell to as much as two hundred dollars per barrel well more in our business update coming your way in about twenty minutes. she stopped or five pm here in the russian capital you're watching. now iran it won't back down from its nuclear program in the face of any new sanctions so says the country's president to iran denied it was developing atomic weapons as suggested in a leaked report by the international nuclear watchdog over few days ago israel spoke of potential military action against iran raising fears the i.e.s. findings could be a pretext want to talk are going to check out looked into the case. 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 and 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 test the high explosives needed to trigger and you only 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 if 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 relieved to train al qaeda terrorists evidence of more labs who cry a logical 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 and kill more than one 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

serve as a justification to start a war with iran security experts say the consequences for such action would be catastrophic and 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 recordist 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 that we join on fire at a time when it is as on stable as it puts 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. call to discuss the reported more detail we're joined by parsi research fellow at the e.u. institute for security studies mr parsi how credible is the intelligence the i.a.e.a. is basing its findings on. basically a lot of it has already been known from the search for several years the difference now is that there. is information and he's stating that he has been able to corroborate it's ok given given that i mean still there are a lot of experts who fear that the u.s. and israel are looking for a pretext to attack iraq you're saying that the information used there have been in the past and have just been put forward in this report and and this is comparison with the iraq invasion do you think that the report is just an excuse then. i think

i mean obviously there are just a few occasions to drew parallels between iran and iraq and all of this is not about just finding evidence and something to object to the sense it's about political calculations but in this case one has to say that because of the ability to at least inspect some of the sites in iraq has more to come with in terms of reasons to have question marks and for the rainstorms or which they have failed to some degree so far ok well if those question marks exist how likely is an actual conflict. well in that sense you can say they're obviously for the israelis in particular they have been upping the ante rhetorically for quite some time and more than anyone else are keen on making sure that this issue is resolved before your own comes close to anything that looks like but. i think at this point however it's a question of retorts but as we know from the past is road tend to come to live on

their own and so we can end up with a conflict even though no one is actually intending as you say they have been happening for quite some time but do you think there's any increased pressure at this point in time is there is there anything specific about the timing that this is all happening. well you can see in the sense that all of this coming into a perfect storm i mean first of all we have this strange story of a new rain attempt to assassinate the saudi ambassador in the united states then we have the internal discussion in israel which has reached unprecedented levels were people who are going whether there is a plan to attack iran with that's good or not and then we have a report which is no incorporating some of the bikers ations if you will based on intelligence from western countries and saying that it can corroborate that so yes the pressure and the situation is much more tense than before. for all kinds of reasons for the mystic reasons of of these countries and also because of the evidence whatever it is that we have time to get one of the options of course being

pushed here are new sanctions or an outright attack on iran what can we expect in terms of international reaction from the allies for example of iran maybe china for instance. i think at this point it's very unlikely that china and russia will agree to new sanctions on iran in the united nations security council if they would it would have to be very clear and precise their writing invests the decision because they do not want it to go beyond exactly what was intended from the beginning now as far as the european union the united states are concerned they will of course as they have in the past in the shade their own sanctions regardless of what the u.n. decides on those and in this case i think they have all they need so to speak to have the motivation to continue with that ok here again we're talking about leaked reports that we're talking about a sanctions question mark what can and should iran to to convince the world that its nuclear program is peaceful. well i mean one of the things that anyone

reasonably can ask of them which they have failed to do for the moment is of course to follow the additional protocol and n.p.t. treaty which allows for more intrusive inspections. for one it's a transmitter and these are things that iran actually agreed to and signed tentatively. if you look at the two thousand but since then they have not ratified it and so therefore do not feel obliged to for that and that is of course a problem for die because it's circumscribed their ability to inspect ok well thanks very much for your insight there are certain parsi research fellow at the institute for security studies thank you. thank you we do want to know how close you think of military strike against iran now weighs so far a majority thinks that attack is imminent as it runs along with america is really interests sixteen percent doubt it arguing that no one wants to see a bloodbath in the region ten percent think the whole thing still depends on terror

as willingness to cooperate slightly fewer think there will be a military strike only if iran actually admits having a nuclear bomb or do you add your voice now and votes on the home page of r.t. dot com. and coming up in the program the u.n. that finally sets up and takes noticeable long lasting standoff in northern possible between nato as peacekeeping forces and local surface are becoming used to living in a cage of barricades they are wrecked as if their struggle for freedom. also a mission to a martian moon is at stake and i'm not a russian drone gets stuck in orbit frightening because he's ambitious plans to want to cover many mysteries of our solar system. a student demonstrators are marching in central london that venting their anger over education cuts and tripling suisham fees sounds thousand protesters are expected to join the rally and this. comes almost a year after similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into

violence with more of this. benefit is keeping it crossed of elements for us of course there are concerns today that the march could turn ugly if time per square what's the atmosphere there like right now. well the protesters have literally just left and from outside the university of london student union where i am now they were gathered here from all over the u.k. some from universities as far as field is scotland and the will denies is we're expecting up to ten thousand we haven't quite reach that number yet over the certainly a good few thousand here the numbers have swelled considerably in the last hour they have now just left they are on their march through the center of london to rules the city of london the financial district i can still hear the helicopter hovering overhead so they're not far away and what they campaigning against is jewish and fee hikes that will see universities charging up to nine thousand pounds per year from beginning next year the moment is three thousand sas an increase of three times and they're also campaigning against education cuts is

a government proposal that's been put through just this summer three it's going through parliament now they could see for the first time private providers offering degrees now the students are saying that's the privatisation of their education and big business will profit now that's what they're on happy valid placards being brandished saying our education not their business so they're very unhappy about that's what a lot of the chants are centered on as well a lot about the police tactics leading up to these protests because this time last year the student protests ended with a lot of violence and destruction of property a police have for the first time on mainland u.k. authorized the use of plastic bullets pre-authorized for a planned protest and there's already four thousand police officers on the streets here now to talk more about the protests i'm joined now by chris nine from the coalition of resistance chris thanks very much for speaking to r.t. now tell me why you hear well i'm hicks education affects everyone in society and

what is really going on here and why people are so angry is that the government is dismantling education as we know it they're making it very very hard for poor people to get so. to university it's all there also as you suggest introducing big business into the way that universities are run are mangku the cutting of major parts of the major coup says in university after university and why should that not happen why should business be running education education is something which is about the philippine human beings it's about giving people a wider perspective on society it's about it should be about learning and big business has its own priorities it's about making profits it's not about developing people and i believe education should be as broad and is fulfilling and creative as it can be and what it what it will mean is that our school sees a music course in new norcia famous new music course in university of east anglia is being slashed humanities courses that don't directly lead to profits for big

corporations will be slashed it will all be about trying to create a factory of ideas for making profits for the corporations that is wrong and people wanted and so long some of the jewish and fee hikes up to nine thousand pounds per year students would pay what will this mean for the next crop of students in the years to come but it will mean the education higher education further education to a certain extent as well will become something that is basically for the privilege will be like what it was in the nineteenth thirty's with all you know the big developments in the need of the new universities the massive expansion of a university education which is a fantastic thing for working class people it's about it's a class project it's about forcing working class people really out of education and as i say it's about turning universities into factories for for producing people for the big corporations. given last year's violence of the equivalent protests the police have preempted what they feel be another violent outburst and we're already

in the protests we've seen a lot of anna kists there is well seemingly hijacking it what does that do if there is any violence to the message here does it does it take away from it i mean those are loaded terms or not i mean people. i have all sorts of political views and i was under the impression that that was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was made to the incredibly productive announcement that was made that there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely outrageous i mean if anything is likely to increase the level of tension and increase that the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one on in their right mind could possibly say that is about trying to keep the day calm the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protest this process will be peaceful unless the police start catching people and start harassing people or god

forbid use use use ammunition against them i mean this was a deeply retrograde step that should never have happened and we are putting maximum pressure on the place to apologize for it just like they never going to do it again chris one from the coalition of resistance thanks very much to into r.c. . now as i say the protesters have actually moved on from here they are marching towards the city of london will join up with them very shortly we are keeping our dates coming on twitter then you can follow us at r.t. london bureau will keep you updated back to you thank you very much indeed for that i tease our tease i've ever pretty. well it's the end of an era for italy has prime minister silvio berlusconi declares he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade in power as promised resignation comes with a pre-condition however the parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep it simple economy afloat our correspondent sara for a thousand more and what all this means for the battle plan tree. just yesterday

the prime minister berlusconi announced he'd be resigning once a budget reforms had been passed but today it's least seen as pouring calls so into the danger zone is gone past that seventy percent that critical point really been such a concern because that was the trigger point which we saw islands greece and portugal to then seek to cisterns from the usa and the i.m.f. certainly a very serious situation here indeed is the point really which investors start looking at the countries are huge that realize that is going to get to the point where it's going to be too big to pay packets that and then investors stop lending now that would be absolutely disastrous basically which has an absolutely mammoth one point eight trillion euros if that was extremely clear here at the moment is these financial problems that italy is now struggling with not going to be solved

by a quick fix government solution when and if the lack of mention happens here in rome is not going to be the answer to all those problems it's going to take a bit more than you'll say. with someone in the party here a lot of people have been talking about the possible heads or whatever the new government will be and now we know that the president expected to make an announcement about a possible new got nowhere that would be an interim government is not yet known is certainly clear that they it's thought that they're going to try and steer away from elections which of course is going to cause even more uncertainty ready very unstable times of the name is angeline that's the name is being put forward as a possible new head he's been described as being very close to the palestinian the party having gone above and beyond the call of duty sometimes in his role of minister of justice did that feeling that people here a looking at as he said an extremely unstable time and of course. exactly what the

eurozone did not want to see happening in its lead because they don't have big funds in place right now because at the moment it's really needs that it's simply not very very close. and as europe stumbles through its deepening debt crisis artie's it all fell on his gas discuss whether this might be the time for the e.u. to give the reins of power back to national governments are setting your way at three thirty g.m.t. but here's a short preview. if greece last week were to have put in a different underwater pass that on the left the choice to do prediction persons would have meant that greece greek citizens would have. unfrocked on economic governance within the euro zone which is almost unheard of the is the grouping of this crisis and you see. clearly moving and also the. issue of losing their jobs is a good side to this crisis. and is only because it's on the

streets people. and you say there's a good thing to these crises. now the u.n. head has drawn attention to the increase in attacks are serbs living in northern kossovo about the rise was caused by the decision of christianize leadership to extend its control over border crossings in the serve dominated area for months now sir protestors have been a blocking roads are crossings using barricades and ongoing standoff and security forces and nato peacekeepers are the sexier show skew delves deeper into the causes of the resistance. perhaps not an obvious venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern kosovo decided to get married at the barricades in meter itself but google earth will get it together here and there's no woodruff who will invent. pieces which is present assuming this sort of

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 cost of a service isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their own wanted neighbors this is the famous bridge which splits that's out in the serbian and 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 serbs are unwilling to be part of the self-proclaimed state while the cemented barricades in the middle of it's a have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers. for every sand off the goal of the k. four troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two poles sisters take place simultaneously. and it.

like the. surge 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 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 used to improvise. finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we prevented a humanitarian catastrophe or do 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. has seen different hard times even be in

my good turkey ones but terry's with stude all heartiness of times and everyone and literally it's of no use this land is the cradle of culture and state. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put dates to the standoff but rather 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 that war views they will inherit once they grow up let's see russia see reporting from cause of. in kosovo the technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian lunar just hours into its mission but actually space agency says they will have a window of just a few days to try to fix the problems and the mission is hoping to shed light on

how the solar system was created artie's peter oliver has all the details. well the mission itself is only at risk of pending on what kind of technical failure it is now the launch of the the full grown and actually went off pretty much without a hitch it was shortly after that initial launch that problem started to rising at six ten minutes past six g.m.t. the russian space agency announced that there was a problem now it all depends what kind of problem it is as i said now if it's a problem with the the software on board the probe then that potentially can be fixed however if it is a problem with the hardware the actual program itself that could pose to the well it could prove to be the end of this mission pretty much before it's even got underway well this is a. hugely anticipated scientific mission from the russian space

agency it's the first time that russia tried to launch something towards bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety six not one ended with a failure the launch of the mars ninety six mission actually went completely wrong and that didn't and getting to the red planet this time they're hoping to get there to the moon a phobia place that's actually been suggested as a potential future settlement for humans now they'll be taking soil samples from the surface of the moon they'll also be monitoring the make up of the atmosphere of mars looking down on it from one of its major satellites they'll also be looking at the impact of meteorites and the impact meteorites have upon the surface of the red planet considering that we are of course considering the future of settlement on but on mars they'll be looking at what actually makes up the surface of the red

planet now also quite interestingly they'll be looking the probe is pitted with microorganisms that will be. study to determine the effect that the three good journey there and back three years that will take what effect that will have on living organisms so that we could see what effect or potential effect the journey to mars and back could have on us that's all the news this our business is not it's next. thanks for joining us here on r.t.i. match reza with your business bulletin well two hundred dollars per barrel that could be the troublesome reality of oil prices in the future according to the financial times if a war of words between the west and iran over its nuclear program erupts into a full scale conflict other analysts argue major powers won't allow any attack on iran is disruption to supplies from the world's third largest oil export exporter would be catastrophic. even if done so you would eight these with you still would

have above them getting the oil out of the markets so yes she was have a significant potential significant increase by the oil and into these markets. your business and global because of the you'll amid a guy has very little balls as he is the bottoms china is essentially a little bit because of high inflation. india high inflation so the whole world pretty much is a difficult economic situation of all bubbles that you would have a very significant ease in the price of oil would be a disaster for the global economy. take a look at the numbers now first naturally to oil crude prices heading down after seeing some gains earlier in the day light sweet currently trading at ninety five dollars a barrel brant is at one hundred thirteen. european stock markets dropping sharply investors digesting news that italian prime minister silvio berlusconi may resign

after parliament approves austerity measures u.k.'s would see down almost two percent lead lower by admiral and h.s.b.c. the german dax losing three percent this hour. here in russia markets continue trading in the red as a well prices retrieve both the r.t.s. and my sex over three percent in the red here's a quick look at some share moves on the nice sax oil majors erased earlier gains with rosneft losing nearly three percent francisco taloqan severing the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer iana russia also down the company's revenue rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception more than four percent in the red this hour. as it for me for now all this and plenty more on our website r g dot com slash business i'll be back in the next hour with more stay with us.

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