hello it's eleven pm wednesday night here in moscow my name's kevin owen you're watching r t in our top story iran world back down from its nuclear program in the face of any new sanctions so says the country's president to random night it was developing atomic weapons as suggested in the latest report by the international nuclear watchdog a few days ago israel spoke of potential military action against iran raising fears the findings could be a pretext to an attack artie's going to church accounts been looking into the case . the u.s. and france 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 european and some european leaders would ideally want to impose crippling economic sanctions sanctions that would further isolate iran but we know that two of the permanent members of the u.n. security council that is russia and china have made it clear that they don't want to cripple the uranium economy and that they say further isolating iran would be

counterproductive for example russia so for a deputy foreign minister said eighty additional sanctions on iran would. would be perceived by the international community as an instrument for regime change in tehran the statement itself indicates how opposed russia is to tougher sanctions against iran instead worship put forward an offer which is still on the table and that is for iran to fully cooperate on inspections and to prove that what they say about the civilian purpose of their nuclear research is true and is not a cover up for what for a weapons program and in return the international community would be ready to consider lifting sanctions and that's the offer which is still standing iran's says they won't back off from developing nuclear technologies tensions are really high israel was hinting that they are gearing towards preemptive towards a preemptive strike washington said all options are on the table but despite tough

rhetoric coming from both israel and the u.s. many agree that washington in tel aviv are most likely to use the report as political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a dent you know in flourishing economic relations with china the u.n. nuclear watchdog report itself does not reveal a smoking gun but it sure hyped up fears that iran continues research on nuclear weapons the agency says its report is based on the intelligence gathered by a number of countries including the united states but the u.s. intelligence has a history of presenting false evidence. back in two thousand and three to make a case for the war in iraq it presented evidence that seemed so very solid at the time but turned out to be a hoax the question many are now ask is could the un's atomic watched awkward port serve as a justification to start a war with iran but security experts say the consequences to such action would be catastrophic but he's going to teach you can they will bit earlier spoke to some of the very heart of the growing tension sultani use the bus to the international

atomic energy agency he told me he believes many simply don't understand just how far cooperates with the un's nuclear watchdog. this report is not professional and not balanced and is with political motivation and under political pressure by us and couple other are the western countries this report has an annex fifteen pages of the allegations and the materials which were handed over only last week to us in a confidential manner read the ten pages of the report of director general which says that all activities including a retread are continuously under to safeguard inspection the only second part which is the annex is about the american allegation the important thing is that we are party to n.p.t. all activities are under. even hundreds of snapshot short visit unannounced inspections this is great and we told months ago invited

the pretty director general to even visit the r. and d. of scientific richmond can you give me any example that any respect or have been permitted to any certainty in any other part of the war. ali asghar soltanieh the past of the international atomic energy agency speaking to me just last hour in fact will discuss the implications of the nuclear watchdog report as told now to political analyst chris bambery is on the line in london very good evening thanks for going to r.t. now to rand's accuse the head of a western bias let's talk about that first do you agree with that. well i think there is a western bias in the proof or a certain threatened strong measures against iran no right of the support of his french counterpart did the same i'm still waiting to hear of the british threatening strong measures measures against israel who just the other week tested a boy slick missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads israel has

a week and you could program which was kept secret and which benjamin netanyahu. still will not reveal we know the britain and. many years ago provided. for that for that program in c. in secret meanwhile. israel has also carried out a lawful ration using an airbase and are seeing if it's warplanes can go in there and come back in preparation for an attack on iran and why nato is allowing israel to use its base in sardinia for this purpose i don't know perhaps or you here can explain but instead we have the power which is used weapons america britain which is currently replacing its nuclear weapons trident and israel with its a legal and a secret nuclear program a country which has said it would use nuclear weapons if it was on the facing defeat in a war with one of its arab states ganging up against iran this report does not say

in any way that or in iran is developing nuclear weapons but they are going up and i think the danger is that if around is not creating nuclear weapons it may well do saw in response to the continuing war drums being breached in western capitals and . tel aviv i would be looking at this in a round and i'd be very very scared personally i don't see any you quit missiles was my point of view just look at russia's point of view yeah it's a war that any new sanctions on iran will be an instrument of regime change there should be is that the west sold him of gold you think regime change well i think we have to remember the americans still have a long and bitter memories about the revolution in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which overthrew the shah of iran they have always hated the islamic republic of iran for that and for the humiliation they suffered the whole of the subsequent hostage crisis crisis there they have unfinished business in iran it's always been

part of the so-called axis of terror in the eyes of the of the white house and the cia and i think they would wait to see regime change their. whether or not they're capable of delivering it given the debacle in iraq again the debacle in afghanistan is a different matter they must nor that any attack whether it's by britain or america and we know that britain in the middle of british military offense has a contingency plan for such an attack in alliance with america would potentially want to disaster the iranians could shut the straits of hormuz and strangle the world's all supply is the crucial question i guess after this leaked report of the details of any closer tonight to set a tag that everyone's worrying about well and there was a likelihood is they will continue to use sanctions for the moment by a level that israel israel is a wild card and you could gather from the exchange to nickel are so cozy of france and. they do have a very high opinion of netanyahu in

a new not in control of an israel is created capable of creating the attack is a long track record of attacking its neighbors but i repeat any attack would be disaster iranian iran could shut the straits of hormuz strangle the world's oil supplies there will be unrest in iraq where there's a huge shia community it will be unrest in lebanon of a west in the gaza strip the world is a very dangerous place and we should also remember sanctions were used in iraq over ten years with devastating consequences for that country's economy and for the social conditions inside that country to weaken it in preparation finally for the two thousand and three invasion sanctions against iraq in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. where essentially a softening up operation in preparation for out of asian and the continuation of sanctions against iran is quite possible another way of ratcheting up the pressure in preparation don't align for military intervention or to grieve over change or i crisper thought spittal analysts as you are joining us on the line thank you. well

let's speak story one of what you think about it how close do you think we are now to a military strike against a rat you think it's got to happen this is what you've been telling us online tonight at r.t. dot com majority. i think an attack is imminent runs along with american and israeli interest as we are telling us on the graph there sixteen percent say you doubt it given that no one wants to see a bloodbath in the region ten percent think the whole thing still depends on two rounds willingness to cooperate while slightly fewer think they'll only be a military strike iran actually admits to having a nuclear bomb you can add your voice to that pie chart at r.t. dot com. thousands of student demonstrators marched in central london venting their anger over education cuts and a tripling of chew ition fees around twenty campaigners were arrested but there's no repeat of the violent scenes witnessed on the streets of a similar demo a year ago the bennett reports for. how to speak there were over two thousand

protesters here marching through central london with students coming from universities all over britain some as far afield as scotland even to join in the demonstration they were campaigning here against two things firstly the hike in choice and freeze for university students we charge next year treble what they're being charged now so up to nine thousand pounds per year to attend the british university and secondly against education cuts the ring proposed by the government that could see if it gets accepted private providers for the first time gail to offer degrees now the students are saying that is big business profiting from their education and that's what they're angry about with a lot of placards with a slogan saying our education not their business i did catch up with some of the protesters and this is what they had to say education cuts don't have a hill i mean this is something we eat we really need the government to do because they're buying up a whole generation of working class students are going to university is just want to. so that they have

a listen now to basically saying please try we're doing whatever we can we just ask you have we please just stop what you're doing and revive the train maybe the government sees that money and the people. other than themselves name it and the whole reason why this is happening is not harmful in that they just want to make sure that they don't they said that. the demonstration was very tightly controlled with four thousand police lining the streets preventing any protesters from breaking free from the mapped out and planned out routes that's in stark contrast to last year when. barely two hundred fifty officers were overwhelmed by protesters and there's a lot of destruction to buildings vandalism and violence now to preempt that for the first time ever the police did actually free authorize the use of plastic bullets at a preplanned march on mainland u.k. now to some including chris nineham from the coalition for resistance this was an aggressive unnecessary provocation 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 my 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 they would have been that there were a few minor flash points today as protesters hold bricks and sticks at offices but the police did deal with that very quickly keeping the protesters hemmed in in a very small area and only twenty arrests were made. of bennett there reporting from central london a bit earlier still to come for you this hour our team must go a mission to a minor should moons at stake in unmanned russian drones got stuck in orbit threaten the country's ambitious plans to uncover the many mysteries of our solar systems a pity that we've got more details coming up shortly. first though it's the end of

an era for italy as prime minister silvio berlusconi declares that he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade in power is promised resignation comes with a precondition though that parliament passes suit a. a budget cuts to keep it secure column afloat correspond sort of further as more of what we know that for the battle country we've seen a lot of concern today that it's least related to easing culchie to be sucked into a death spiral from which there might be neighbor turn now we saw today if these borrowing costs pass that seven percent threshold that's extremely significant because that was the trigger point at which we saw countries searches ireland portugal and greece when they passed it have to then ask for emergency bailout systems from the usa and the i.m.f. now is to say significant because it's the point at which investors have their risk threshold and start to look at countries such as this really with a very large debt and ask with interest rates that sort of level whether or not the

country is going to be able to pay back what it is and investors will then stop lending and that would be absolutely disastrous for a country such as italy with such an extortionate debt level at the moment we see the situation develop today extremely unprecedented rate really the year is a quite a spreading from one country to the next from the financial situation to a political situation of course it's really has been a different now we know prime minister berlusconi has said that he's going to step down once a budget reforms have been passed but he said today he has no plans to stand for elections and she said he called for elections in february and he also put the name forward angeleno al found that someone who is quite close to berlusconi in his government was the minister of justice now of course is uncertain exactly what is going to happen because the decision about when if elections are going to be held doesn't lie with prime minister berlusconi and lies to the italian president and

he's yet to come out and say exactly what his plans are whether they'll be early elections or possibly some kind of interim government now of course we need to remember is that an interim governor. at this point early elections is that still even a certainty that they're going to be able to push these necessary measures through that of course such a problem in the first place in this is really what causes a much concern amongst the marketplace this is where if we have the political will to push through these measures and it was being very very clear today if the new government how and when that will be formed it's not going to be a quick fix solution to the very critical situation it's. a first really is economic problems didn't start with a crisis the country's been in a state of virtual economic stagnation ever since joy to europe and for that follow ruffo founder of the policy development safety foundation places much the blame on the trade policies certainly what we see on the financial ground is the effect of

very. strong speculative movements that is going on now for several months over the child in the economy and the child in state to g.d.p. ratio was unsustainable in fact the problem of italy ease of course debt but the major one is no growth the absence of growth which is imposed by the policies at european level and most of the german positions on how to handle the moment to really union this is causing talk to them balance in the country i think we are edging towards a very dangerous area which of course will look really impossible situation in the stock market the effect of this would be the collapse of the system but this would create a couse in the country instead of a solution. but folks i know for

a bit on greece which of course heads the line the country is destabilizing the eurozone talks about forming that new government appear to have stalled tonight despite the promises earlier statements that politicians had finally reached an agreement george perpetrator has delivered a farewell speech to the nation and is now expected to formally tender his resignation in his address however he gave no indication of who his successor might be this comes after weeks of political chaos that puts greek membership of the euro in jeopardy. take you around the world now violence has erupted once again in syria with civilians reportedly coming under fire from police after thousands took to the streets what you're seeing now is amateur footage release by a group opposed to the rule of president assad that allegedly shows military forces cracking down on demonstrations taking place in the northwest of the country activists say more than one hundred people have been killed in the region in the last week. nato peacekeepers have used tear gas to take control of one of the barricades in northern kosovo built by local serbs several months ago in an ongoing

border dispute but the success for the k. four troops was short lived because a new roadblock was put further down the road shortly afterwards the crackdown comes just days ahead of the un drawing attention to the increasing number of attacks on serbs living in northern kosovo i spoke to a political analyst alexander public should told me believes there's a bigger picture behind nato's actions in serbia. they've been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the albanian control government in prishtina and they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate as they say to keep to the warring sides are separated this is an aggressive show of force and you do that thing like an occupier instead of peacekeepers there behind the crisis in greece they're behind a crisis in iran. we're seeing right now is the slowing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints well if he's

a correspondent jess case visited the region to to delve a bit deeper into the causes behind the own going tension this is his report. that . perhaps not an obvious venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're going to be others here in. this our barricades in northern kosovo 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 unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge in that it's a 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 killed. for every sound off the call the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the too close is taking place simultaneously. and. people like you see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe albanians would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes even make a 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. 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. because of all his sin different hard times even being at my bird turkey ones but stories with stude all tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so now it's this land is the cradle of the serb 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 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 what views they will inherit once they grow up. r.t. reporting from cost. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to the martian moon just hours after its mission the country space agency says they've got a window of just a couple of days now to try and fix the problems they've just encountered the mission was hoping to shed light on how the solar system was created peter all of us got the latest on this one for you. well the mission itself is only at risk depending 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 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'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 six not one ended with a failure this time they're hoping to get there to the moon 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 put all of their lot resting on it we'll let you know how they get on our debate show crosstalk coming up in a couple of minutes time as people of el tonight news guess try to find out whether creating the european union is ever going to do in the first place it's interesting what's coming up past the first though let's get up to date with the day's business maps here. thanks for staying with us here on r t i match reza with your business bowlers and well after eighteen years of trying russia's finally cleared the final hurdle to join the world trade organization artie's laura smith has all the details. the last of georgia's objections to russia joining the world trade organization has been dealt with the agreement signed taylor in geneva allows the monitoring of old

trades between russia and georgia including the russian backed south to set c. and by a private company next steps a working group oprah pac session documents which may be approved by friday bringing to an end an eighteen year process barring of course any last minute hitches the russet w.c. a member say it will mean no it's barriers to trade with other countries and smaller attractiveness to foreign investors it will also make it easier for russia to diversify its economy away from the oil and gas sector to the w.t. it provides access to trade in services including telecommunications and financial and business services analysts say any clear indication of the deal could face the russians still ahead by five percent providing relief from not you raised a ton so since eight and the world bank says w c o entry could be the size of the economy by more than three percent in the medium term. let's take a look at the market numbers now first oil crude is stuck between gains and losses

some support given by the us government supply report showing an unexpected decline in crude inventory however concerns about eurozone debt crises still weighing on the price light sweet currently trading around ninety seven dollars per barrel brant close to one hundred fourteen. u.s. stocks trading in negative territory as italy's bond yields soared after a clearing house raised the margins required to trade government bonds european stock markets closed in the red on debt woes. both the food see and the dax down around two percent. russian markets no exception from the red the my sex clothes are more than three points and three percent down while the r.t.s. lost more than four per cent. quick look at some share moves on the my six exchange oil majors are raced earlier gains and after losing more than two percent francisco tall considering the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer iana russia also down the company

revenues rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year and russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception to the downward trend losing more than six percent that's all i've got to for now more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business stay with us here on r.t. . the close up team has been to the region where technological breakthroughs save

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is how past eleven pm here in moscow you're watching our top stories tonight says it will keep to its nuclear program denying claims in the u.n. nuclear watchdog report that suggests its building weapons experts are worried the study is just a pretext for a preemptive attack on iraq. by price of education thousands of students back to the streets of london at least twenty activists have been arrested though from using rubber bullets despite earlier warnings. nato peacekeepers have used tear gas to take control of a barricade erected in kosovo as the standoff in the region between playful forces and local serbs continues. tower of debts collapses on the city's pm berlusconi is. fresh.