just after five pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t now iran i 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 well a few days ago israel spoke of potential military action against iran raising fears the findings could be a pretext to one attack are going to check looked into the case. 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

as 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 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 laps 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 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 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 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 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. to discuss the i.a.e.a.

report in more detail we're joined by it was bit parsi research fellow at the institute for security studies mr parr see how credible is the intelligence the i.a.e.a. is basing its findings on. or basically a lot of it has already been know through leaks it's true for several years the difference now is that the i.a.e.a. has incorporated this information and is stating that it has been able to corroborate its own. given given that i mean still there are a lot of experts who fear that the us and israel are looking for a pretext to attack iran you're saying that the information used there have been in the past and have just been put forward in this report and this in 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 draw parallels between iran and iraq and all of this is not about just finding evidence in some kind of objective sense it's about political calculations but in this case one has to say that. because of that its ability to

at least inspect some of the sites in iran has more to come with in terms of reasons to have question marks and for the iranians to answer which they have some degree so far ok well if those question marks exist how likely is an actual conflict that. well in that sense you can say that obviously for the israelis in particular they have been upping the ante rhetorically for quite some time. more than anyone else are keen on making sure that this issue is resolved before iran comes close to anything that looks like a ration of weapons i think at this point however it's a question of retore but as we know from the past as well tend to come to live on the road so we can end up with a conflict even though no one is actually intending it you say they have been for quite some time now but do you think there's any increased pressure at this point in time is there is there anything specific or special about the timing that this

is all happening. while you can see in the sense that all of it is coming into a perfect storm i mean first of all we have this strange story of a new ring attempt to assassinate the saudi ambassador in the united states then we have the internal discussion in israel which has reached unprecedented levels where people are arguing whether there is a plan to attack iran with a good amount and then we have a report which is now incorporating some of the accusations if you will based on. teligent from western countries and saying that it can corroborate it so yes the pressure and the situation is much more tense than before. for all kinds of reasons for the domestic reasons of all these countries and also because of the evidence whatever it is that we have attempted 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 writing that's 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 and united states are concerned they will of course as they have in the past initiate their own same regardless of what the u.n. decides on or not 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 and we're talking about assumptions question mark what can and should iran do to convince the world that its nuclear program is peaceful. well i mean one of the things that anyone reasonably can ask of them and which they have failed to do for the moment is of course to to follow the additional protocol to them pretty treaty which allows for more intrusive inspections on site without prior warning etc etc and these are things that iran actually agreed to and signed tentatively.

if you look to thousands but since then have not ratified it and so therefore do not feel obliged to follow and that is of course a problem for the e.u. because it. spec'd ok well thanks very much for your insight paris thursday parsi research fellow at the institute for security studies thank you you. thank. well we do want to know how close you think a military strike against iran now weighs and so far the majority thinks that 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 terror as willingness to cooperate while slightly fewer think there will be a military strike only if iran actually admits having a nuclear bomb will do add your voice now and vote on the home page of our dot com . and coming up in the program the u.n.

finally sets up and takes notice of a long lasting standoff in northern kossovo between nato as peacekeeping forces and local serbs have become used to living in the cage of barricades they are wrecked and 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 convert that many mysteries of our solar system. a student demonstrators are marching in central london that venting their anger over education cuts and tripling tuition fees ten 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 well for more on this i'm joined by artie's bennett who is keeping across developments for us of course there are concerns today that the march could turn ugly if tempers flare what's the atmosphere there like right now. literally just

live from outside the university of london where i am now they were gathered here from all over the u.k. some from universities as far as field. and the organizers were expecting up to ten thousand quite reach that number over the certainly a good few thousand year the numbers have swelled considerably in the last hour they have now just let them through it sent to london to lose the city of the. in the financial district i can still hear the helicopter hovering overhead so they're not far away and what the campaign 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 through 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 about a lot of placards being brandished saying our education not their business so they're very unhappy about that that's what a lot of the chants are centered on as well we've heard 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 of 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 process 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 what i'm eccentric ation 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 to university it's all they're also as you suggest introducing big

business into the way that universities are run and mangku was the cutting of major parts of the major cousens in university after university and why should that not happen why should business be running education education is something which is about developing human beings it's about giving people a wider perspective on society it's about it should be about learning and big business. it's own priorities it's about making profits it's not about developing people and i believe education should be as broad and as for filling 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 want to hand so long some of the jewish and fee hikes up to nine thousand pounds

per year students will be paying 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 one nine hundred thirty s. before you know the big developments in the new of the new universities the massive expansion of a university education which was 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 or the equivalent protests the police have preempted what they feel be another violent outbursts and we are already in the protests we've seen a lot of ana 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 well i mean those are loaded terms i must say i mean people 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 provocative 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 the the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been that and they. done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one 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 these protests will be peaceful unless the police. start kettling people and start harassing people or god forbid use use use ammunition against them i mean this was a deeply retrograde step it should never have happened and we be putting the maximum pressure on the police to apologize for it just like they never going to do it again christiane and from the coalition of resistance thanks very much to into

r.t. . 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 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 t's artie's i've been at their reporting live in london thanks. 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 has promised resignation comes with a precondition however the parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep it sinking economy afloat our correspondent sara firth has more on what all this means for the embattled country. it was 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 boring calls so into the danger zone it's got past that seventy percent that critical point now that's

really been starchy concern because that was the trigger point which we saw ireland greece and portugal have to then seek to cisterns from the usa and the i.m.f. certainly a very serious situation here indeed is also the point really a which investors start looking at a country's huge debts and realize that it is going to get to the point where it's going to be too big to pay back is that and then investors stop lending now that would be absolutely disastrous italy which has an absolutely mammoth one point eight trillion euros what's extremely clear here at the moment is that these financial problems that italy is now struggling with not going to be solved by a quick fix government solution when and if you like government happens here it is not going to be the answer to all those problems it's going to take a bit more than he will say named a successor with someone in the party here

a lot of people have been talking about as a possible head for whatever the new government will be and now we know that the president expected to make an announcement about a possible new government whether that will 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 i don't already very unstable time another name is angela and that's the name is being put forward as a possible new head he's been described as being very close to the berlusconi in the past having gone above and beyond the call of duty sometimes in his role of minister of justice that's a name that people here are looking at as he said an extremely unstable time and of course. exactly what the euro thing did not want to see happening in its lead because they don't have that big bear funds in place right now the cash at the moment italy needs that is simply not there so very very serious time for the

country at the moment. and as europe stumbles through its deepening debt crisis r t spittle 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 across august heading your way at three thirty g.m.t. but here's a short preview. the greece last week were to have voted in order for under to have passed that on the left the choice to the greek citizens would have meant that the greece greek citizens would have got a veto on focus on economic governance within the eurozone which is almost unheard of does the good thing of this crisis but you see real clearly moving this sort of action also. so you don't really see a losing move jobs is a good side to this crisis. we know. there's only been on the streets people we know and you say there's a good thing to these crises. now the

u.n. head has drawn attention to the increase in attacks on serbs living in northern kossovo said that the rise was caused by the decision of christian leadership to extend its control over border crossings in the serve dominated area for months now sir protesters have been blocking roads at the crossings using barricades at an ongoing standoff with security forces and nato peacekeepers are. deeper into the causes behind the resistance. that. perhaps not in the old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. get it together here in. this area 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 coastal resorts isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous

bridge which splits the. 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 cement to the barricades and to have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few people. for every sand obstacle that for troops managed to demolish built piles there are times when the too close is taking place simultaneously. alibied and. people like me 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. for troops despite constant clashes with the nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade the cost of the surge has 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 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 it's even been a lie but turkey ones but terry's with stude all tests of times and everyone and make sure that so nice 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. reporting from costs. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian moon or just hours into its mission the country's space agency says they will have a window of just a few days to try to fix the problems with the mission was hoping to shed light on how the solar system was created peter all over has all the details. well the mission itself is only at risk depending on what kind of technical failure it is

now the launch of the. ground 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 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 probe itself could pose to be 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 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 that 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 born mars they were looking at what actually makes up the surface of the red planet now also quite interestingly they'll be looking at the probe is fitted with microorganisms that will be. study to determine the effect that the three 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 has matters next. thanks for joining us here on r.t.i. matras or 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 this 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. you still would have above them getting the oil out of the markets so yes she would have a significant potential significant increase in the boys of oil and in two days markets. are busy and global because of the usual

a mistake that has very little it was a seize that while. china is really tension a little bit because of high inflation. in the high inflation so the whole world pretty much is a difficult economic situation of on top of that you would have a very significant increase 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 games 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 footsie 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 retreat 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 my six 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 also down the company's revenue rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year russia's biggest lender asperin bank no exception more than four percent in the red this hour. for me for now all this and plenty more on our website r.t. dot com slash business i'll be back in the next hour with more stay with us.

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will come to the small regions for more information log on to invest in some of the you. welcome back you're watching these are the headlines the high price of education draws thousands of students back to the streets of london the big fears a repeat of last year's riots could be on the cards. the leaning tower of death collapses and italy's prime minister berlusconi has promised resignation sparking pressure market panic and sending rome's borrowing costs soaring. the u.n. to finally said stop and takes notice of a long lasting standoff in northern kossovo between peacekeeping forces and local serbs because you see living in the cage of barricades they rented their struggle for freedom.