just after seven pm here in the russian capital this is our t. now to our top story 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 the 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 an attack large he's going to japan is following developments for us and she joins us live now what do the report's findings bring for iran. well the u.s. and france have called for a meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the possibility of imposing a new round of sanctions on iran washington and some european leaders ideally would want to impose crippling economic sanctions that would further isolate iran but two of the permanent members of the u.n. security council russia and china have made it clear in the past that they don't

want to cripple the rainy an economy which would be hard on the iranian people in the first place and they say further isolating iran would be counterproductive instead russia put forward an offer which is still on the table and that is for iran to fully cooperate on inspections to prove that what they say about the civilian purpose of their nuclear research is true and is not a cover up of a weapons program and in return the international community would be ready to consider lifting set sanctions in stages that's the offer which is still standing but the latest report by the by the u.n. nuclear watchdog has very much feared attentions around iran and israel was hinting that they are gearing towards a preemptive strike washington said all options are on the table but despite tough rhetoric coming from both israel and the united states many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the report as political leverage to isolate iran and possibly to put a dent in its flourishing economic relations with china here is more on what's

actually in the report. now the un you 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 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 it you ran 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 and kill 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 bre 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 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 r.t. . all the reasons for the unprecedented pressure currently mounting on iran of late partly in the internal affairs of the u.s. and israel that's the view of a research fellow at the institute for security studies. a lot of it has already be

known through leaks and such for several years the difference now is that you incorporate could be seen from nation in stating that it is maybe two groups you can say in the sense that all of it is coming into a perfect storm i mean first of all we have the strange story of the new ring attempt to assassinate. saudi ambassador in the united states then we have the internal discussion in israel which is on president level where people are arguing whether there is a plan to attack iran with that scrutiny and then we have a report which is now incorporating some of the accusations if you will based on intelligence from western countries and saying that it can corroborate the pressure and the situation is much more tense than. through all kinds of reasons for the domestic reasons of these countries and also because of the evidence whatever it is that we have turned. well we want to know how close you think a military strike against iran now is 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 it still depends on terror as willingness to cooperate if you are think there will be a military strike only if iran actually admits having a nuclear bomb do add your voice now and vote on the home page of our dot com. and still to come for you this hour they took peacekeeper a stake over a serbian barricade erected in northern cross of vote as a long lasting standoff in the region between k. four forces and local serbs continues while the many roadblocks already started blended into the scenery. also a mission that to a martian moon is at stake an unmanned russian drone get stuck in orbit threatening the country's ambitious plans to one cover the many mysteries of our solar system. that thousands of student demonstrators are marching in central london venting their anger over education cuts and tripling fees well this comes almost

a year after similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into violence or bennett is keeping across developments for. campaigning against is jewish and fee hikes that will see universities challenging to nine thousand pounds per year from beginning next year the moment is three thousand 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 blackguards being brandished saying our education not their business so they're very unhappy about the chance to do. as well now if 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 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 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 well i'm here because 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 to university at all they're also as you suggest introducing big business into the way the universities are run and lank who was the cutting of major parts of the major causes 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 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 for filling and creative as it can be 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 protest the police have preempted what they feel be another violent outbursts and we are already in the protests we've seen a lot of and a 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. 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 was 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 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 these protests will be peaceful unless the police way in and start catching people and start harassing people and chris one from the coalition of resistance thanks very much 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 our dates coming on twitter then you can follow us at r.t. london bureau will keep you updated. now it's the end of an era for italy as prime minister silvio berlusconi declares he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade in power his promised resignation comes with

a precondition though that parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep its second economy afloat while correspondent sara for a has more on what all this means for the embattled country it was just yesterday that prime minister berlusconi announced he'd be resigning once a budget reforms had been passed but today it's least seen as boring calls soul into the danger zone it's got past that seven percent that critical point now that's really been such a 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 the 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 its debts 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 these financial problems that italy is struggling with not going to be solved by a quick fix government solution when and if government happens it is not going to be the answer to all those problems it's going to take a bit more than that he also 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 along ready very unstable to. another name is angeline l. found a 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 past having gone above and beyond the call of g.t.

sometimes in his role of minister of justice that that's the name that people here are looking at as he said an extremely unstable time and of course exactly what the u.s. and did not want to see happening in its sleeve because they don't have that big bailout fund in place right now the cash at the moment if it's really needs that bailouts is simply not that's a very very serious time for the country at the moment. and as europe and the i.m.f. grow more and more desperate to erect a cash buffer against the worsening crisis all attention is turning to the east christine the guards following up her fund raising visit to russia with a trip to china to convince beijing to pour its vast cash reserves into her agency but economists warn it china's help will only come on its own terms the initial object there is really a whole china can work more closely or words on mouth but of course china will also have their own conditions to reciprocate themselves but there are growing concern

in china over you know how the money is going to be spent and i think the government will have to be the right answer to the chinese people because because it's their tax dollars the investment should be targeted more to the valuable assets to help the industries instead arriving a bland check to buy the bonds which is now rather sticky on their house not being the reasonable or for that the proper return or risk free path is being all for either by the individual country that is facing the problem all by the eurozone or the whole. well staying with a deepening debt crisis artie's peter lavelle and his guests discuss whether it's time for the e.u. to hand the reins of power back to national governments cross-talk is heading your way in just over ten minutes time but here's a short preview. 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 greece greek citizens

would have got a veto on economic governance within the eurozone which is almost unheard of that is the good thing of this crisis that you see real clear me moving this sort of action also. so you don't really see are losing their jobs is a good side to this crisis. that is still going we know. there's only because it's on the streets people we know and you say there's a good thing to these crises. and nato peacekeepers have managed to dismantle one of the barricades in northern kossovo built by local serbs several months ago in an ongoing border dispute but the success of the case for troops was short lived after a new block was put up further down the road and would all come after the head of the un a jew attention to the increasing number of attacks on serbs living in northern kossovo are. delved deeper into the causes behind the resistance.

perhaps not the northeast venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern course we all decided to get married at the barricades and we. were going to be here and there were two who would invent. this sort of barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them they are just a part of everyday life not only have the course of the isolated themselves from the cave. but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the free. bridge in the middle of it so which splits the town into 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 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 k. four troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two pole sisters take place simultaneously. an. alibi and. people like you see. 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 the natal changes 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 are used to improvising and finding a way out we've built alternative routes to 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. or the close of all his sin different hard times even being ok my bad turkey ones but series with stude old heart tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so nice this land is the cradle of a serb culture and statehood. another deadlock in this book. melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put great through this 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 world

views they will inherit once they grow up. r.t. reporting from course. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian well in 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 well the mission is hoping to shut light on how the solar system was created artist peter all over us 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 arising now it all depends what kind of problem is now if it's a problem with the the software on board then that potentially can be fixed however if it is a problem with the hardware the actual probe itself well it could prove to be the

end of this mission pretty much before it even got underway well this is a house 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 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 now also the probe is fitted with microorganisms so that we could see

what potential effect the journey to mars and back could have on us i'll be back in the headlines shortly but first on the latest in business math. thanks for staying with us here on our treasure with your business bulletin two hundred dollars a barrel that could be the troublesome reality of oil prices in the future according to the financial times that is the war of words between the west and iran over the country's controversial nuclear program erupts into a full scale conflict other analysts argue major powers won't allow an attack on iran is a disruption to supplies from the world's third largest export or could 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 by the oil and then today's markets. because of the you'll

a mistake has very little to see is that while. china is really to ensure a little bit because of high inflation. india 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 budget of oil would be a disaster for the global economy speaking of oil let's take a look at those oil numbers crude prices heading down after seeing some gains earlier in the day light sweet currently trading at around ninety five dollars per barrel brant hovering at around one thirteen. u.s. stock suffering heavy losses after a clearing house the deposits needed to trade italian government bonds and index tied securities european stock markets also dropping sharply investors digesting the news that italian prime minister silvio berlusconi may resign after parliament approved the country's austerity measures. here in russia markets have closed

deep in the red the my six down more than three percent the r.t.s. and losing more than four percent stake a look at some of the main movers here on the my sex of oil majors are raised earlier again with. after losing more than two percent france's totality and setting the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer to russia also down the companies that have been used rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception to the downward trend losing more than six percent here is one on a list but. today russia. was closer to have bought the markets. minus fruit bursts out some say fruit percentage in red just like yours talks just like doc's recipe chews over two percent of the bread so as to where to ball the european debt crisis bought at the same time it was see the

weakness pattern is still in the market. was to be to act with. commentary from you with alpha capital while russia's largest company gazprom has reported an eighty percent leap in profits during the second quarter the gas monopoly earned nearly ten billion dollars during that period beating some forecasts by ten percent the bottom line was given a lift by increased output and stronger prices also deliveries to europe jumped twenty percent this year after eighteen long years of trying russia's finally clear the last hurdle to join the world trade organization it signed an agreement with georgia which was the final country opposing its accession on thursday the working groups are expected to conclude all the formal negotiations and this will be followed up by a vote on russia's membership in december by trade ministers who would then need to be ratified by the russian parliament barring an exceptional turn of events russia will become a member of the trade club by year's end. it looks like the life of the working man

in russia has gotten a little better a study conducted by the consulting group expertise and has shown that the average salary in the country has nearly doubled in the last five years wages have risen to six hundred fifty four dollars a month on average and outpaced inflation by fifty percent during the period but not all the regions in the country have shown the same growth the average salaries in the hante monsoon region in the year olds rose fifty three percent in the dagestan region in the south saw a one hundred twenty seven percent increase. for now remember you can find plenty more on our website r.t. dot com slash business i'll be back in the next hour with more statements.

issues that so much of the taxpayers' money or maybe even exist if it really makes you a bit of the hero of the crisis with out and eurozone leaders and national governments continue to be of loggerheads on how to rescue a currency. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that's to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to do your mass and i started out going to just do fire

fighting it's about eighty two. percent of what we do the florida problem this medical got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a frances in what for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can't turn no one away who seeks care in that emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. in canada and the us that it is legal for you to get a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shines out of most independent they are sponsored by industry and most of the things they don't claim

it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. and nobody with cancer in my family therefore i protect. because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers hurt people with family history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress.

welcome back this is our live from moscow here's a recap of all our top stories to iran says it will give to its nuclear program a denying claims of the u.n. nuclear watchdog a report that suggests its building weapons experts are worried the study is just a pretext for a preemptive strike against iran. the high price of education draws thousands of students back to the streets of london amid fears a repeat of last year's riots could be on the cards. nato peacekeepers take over a serbian. kossovo as a long lasting standoff in the region between for forces a local serbs continues all that many roadblocks already start blending into the scenery. leading tower of death collapses and italy's prime minister berlusconi has promised resignation sparking fresh market panic.