plucks coast should close up on hard. to. cut the cost of hospital stay at heel if it's the growing concern that the u.s. since third largest economy could become the latest take the euro crisis. also this are published time is expected to push for a vote on a cuban statehood even if it loses against the brits opponents to justify their decision which the police will be dictated by the u.s. . and western corporations centrepoint oil rich libya seeking to exploit the riches left following nato bombing mission up top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this it's early has lashed its perceived lethargic bureaucracy into action as it seeks to rush a critical sturdy package through both houses of parliament the nation's president has promised once the war is past the prime minister silvio berlusconi will resign with his possible successor being a former aide to commission a correspondent sara firth is in rome with more from there. a lot of the people a lot of the m.p.'s we've been speaking to in the last couple of days they want to send a very clear message to the markets to the international community that they can take decisive action now at a very critical moment and it's late history now we saw that very possibly reasonably easily today hundred fifty six days to twelve and it's expected tomorrow that similar things going to happen in the final approval will be given in the lower house and that of course with them pave the way for the prime minister

berlusconi to step aside is he to do once a suppose had been passed and at that point is still the italian president will try to appoint new hairs and some sort of technocratic government will be formed going to happen very quickly from what we've been hearing is that the emphasis really head now is on decisive action and the front runner that's emerged i recently is a man in mary muncie he's a former he and he says they've noticed amongst politicians here that the most fear is a need is well he's got very close links with brussels he's told to be the man he can lead to weight with this crisis situation is leave now finds itself and by no means is the new government going to be a quick fix to all the problems that is essential at this moment the sum for the action is taken to stand strong message next week to try and stem a lot of that uncertainty mistrust and the political guidance here in the country that we're seeing from the markets and from the international community and as he said mary months is a safe release so the italian president making quite

a clever chesney when he points to understand it's a polite and others made him a much more appealing candidate the m.p.'s much more politically viable to take the top spot at the we've also seen the top spot increase taken by the e.c.b. official you've now got married monti possibly carrying out state the top spot he's a former economics there is that really concern amongst the public in these countries that what you're saying. extension process in the sense of really that is what's happening again the m.p.'s that we're speaking to is saying that this take right government now is really good it just pushing through these harsh measures just getting them off the ground because they've been long promised and have failed to materialize and that's really what's needed to be seen now from the year is a new leader of course not just italy but the entire usa and each are right now looking extremely uncertain but the public very concerned about the loss is the greatest thing about whether the new governments against be acting in their

country's interests here in italy is still to this very harsh reforms that not only have to be passed but they don't have to be influence a is one thing to put in place to again see a peace process quite another to gain a public support to be seen in the past and countries like greece that a lot of public support can really have a very significant impact in d.c. by no means it's league game to be out of the way it's not need government is formed it's expected to happen as early as saturday they're not out of the woods yet there's still a long way to go they find such a very critical point in their teacher. so first reporting that the new greek prime minister lucas papademos has been sworn in as the head of a unity government the make up of his new cabinet was also announced on state television after the ceremony before work banker and european central bank vice presidents or media to ask will be to implement yet more austerity measures in return for continued payments mr papademos was valid to do all he can to bring

greece's finances under control and promise to keep the country in the euro zone and john laughlin the director of studies at the paris institute of democracy incorporation believes brussels has a scrape much of the blame for the clocks crisis. these people who have taken power in greece and shortages in italy have never been elected these are men who have made their entire careers through garnering important proper guidance in places like the european commission or the european central bank and they have no democratic mandate at all and precisely what is so frightening about that is only in the aftermath as the european union and the euro enters its death agonies because that's what i think it is is the way in which the european union really is showing and i would say this without any exaggeration in fact it's true nature as a dictatorship after all it is europe which has effectively commanded these two prime ministers to leave office and you have to leave office the moment you suggested a referendum on the debt package and berlusconi had to leave office the moment he

said that italians would become polar under the euro so we're seeing really a very ugly development the euro of course the governments are responsible for the crisis but there is a code responsible element and that is the euro itself they only need to bail outs from the european union because they don't have the option of devaluation they don't have the option of managing their own economic and monetary affairs i'm absolutely convinced that the euro project is at an end i can see when it's going to break down but it isn't and yes there's been financial irresponsibility in greece initially but the situation has been made worse well catastrophic by their membership of the euro zone lochlyn there this is r t live in moscow still ahead for you in the next few minutes here on the teeth syrian authorities ringing the alarm bells over an increased amount of weapons being smuggled into the country to boost its greenest questions fighting nation. first

nato may have finished its bombing mission in libya but now there's a full scale western invasion and if you corporations are queuing up to do business with the new government which is rewarding the military victory with lucrative oil and gas contracts but is there a smith look at how the harvest of war is being raped. first british poms tourists apart now british companies will get paid to put it back together libya is open for business and u.k. firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush is a relatively wealthy country with oil reserves and i expect that there will be opportunities for british and indeed other country companies to get involved in the reconstruction of libya philip hammond is urging c.e.o.'s and sales directors to pack their suitcases and heads to the north african country the u.k.'s bill for its part of the nato intervention in libya is estimated at just under five hundred

million dollars but according to the u.k. department of trade and investment the value of contracts to rebuild libya in areas ranging from electricity and water supplies to health care and education could amounts to upwards of three hundred billion dollars over the next ten years and the british government will make sure it takes a leading role in that just as it did in the war and that's raising more questions about the u.k.'s motives in playing such a big role in the recent conflict john hillery of war on once says it has shades of post-war iraq when companies from countries involved in the allied invasion were awarded all the best gigs. journalist john pilger says there was evidence of battering before nato even got involved in national transitional council told the french. on.

the surgery. they would give. the u.k. department for trade and investment already has staff on the ground in libya ready to welcome british companies. awarded contracts wanting to get in on the action on oil firm shell and b.p. shares rose on the news they were talking to the transitional government's engineering firms and mark macdonald also reportedly keen both the latter refused to put up spokesman when asked preferring instead to send basic statements which critics say is a new tactic to avoid defending their ethics it's better half of them involves any form of pocket discussion of life around the world. so far the conflict in libya looks like an excellent investment half a billion dollars to oust a dictator with

a return of three hundred billion in business contracts when it's all over now the humanitarian goals no longer need to be counted wall suddenly makes great business sense you're a smith forty london your insecurity council is reviewing palestine's bid for un membership in new york the motion was filed in september to march in four in the west bank and the deciding vote may come as soon as next week what is policy or ways up on science chances. palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood bid what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto rights there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china india south africa brazil levanon nigeria and gabon

both of the british and the french have announced that they will abstain from the vote there they will abstain alongside portugal and bosnia while the germany and colombia might either abstain or vote against it alongside the united states now this really leaves the palestinians with two options the one is that they can still next week demand that the security council vote on the statehood bid this will force those countries who are not supporting it to publicly justify their position and the palestinians michel ahead with us although they know that they are not going to get their admission into the security council the other option and that seems likely is that they still take a bird to the general assembly what this will give them is upgraded observer status although they will not become full members of the international body this it seems a lot of pressure going on behind the scenes the palestinians have accused the united states of meddling and putting pressure on other countries not to support

the state would put you just need to look at the united kingdom as one example and here the foreign secretary william hague has said that it is to quote him tactical judgment why the u.k. is abstaining from the bird now the palestinians were relying on the british to support the bird and the foreign secretary has now been accused of being hypocritical and abdicating responsibility when you mention the unesco admission to the palestinians in need. the following that the united states canada and israel withdrew all stops giving funding to the bodies so much so that eunice there has had to suspend temporarily its activities now that kind of pressure comes while israel continues to build settlements in occupied east jerusalem and the occupied territories or so while the palestinians a short time ago had a lot of euphoria that the international community would that the bid for statehood this kind of pressure going on behind the scenes seems to be paying off. the

reporting and we'll talk more about palestine's un membership it and are joined by . he's opposed in american business activists and writer who's in ramallah the postings except that they will not realistically make it to full u.n. membership but what's behind their wish to make opponents of the bid publicly explain their standpoint. it looks as if you can hear me there so can you hear me we just spoke a few seconds during that report to understand that we did get a communication with you can hear me. or i'm sorry about that or rather you can hear me no no you can't or i will see if we come back to you sorry about that there's a few seconds ago we just heard good yes we do sorry about that well let me just repeat that question yet now the palestinians except that they're not realistically going to make it to full u.n.

membership because of those vetoes but what is behind their wish to make opponents of the bill actually publicly explain their reasoning their point. well i honestly think the approach to the united nations is less about membership of palestine in the united nations and more of challenging the west and the ability to walk the walk of a can speak paradigm what we're seeing is forty four years of the west specifically the united states making a case for two speeds but in the first real test of bringing about has failed to move it forward and i think what is at stake is much more than just the membership issue but rather the entire truth a paradigm and that's dangerous i believe. as you say that america has clearly made it very obvious that yes that is the goal but behind the scenes he

clearly doesn't want that to happen so why is it so stubborn over this u.n. issue. yeah it's very difficult to understand to be honest with you the only explanation i can give and as a palestinian american i can give this with a little bit of insight but i believe that the u.s. foreign policy as it relates to this issue has been hijacked by a prove israeli lobby inside us politics and i don't believe the united states is acting in its interests by ignoring this big which is exactly in line with what it has been calling for not only for forty four years but for twenty intense years of new bilateral negotiations president are bad has basically put on the table very u.s. position and is asking them to vote for it and they refuse and that leaves the palestinians with very few options to keep the can state solution alive and i think the newer generations that are coming out seeing the arab spring around them are going to be

much more interested in calling and demanding their rights then calling for statehood as we move forward but by taking this position is the u.s. not in danger of alienating itself i mean look what happened with unesco put it symbolically with all that support from the international and the international community does that not mean suggests that the u.s. could indeed be sidelined. i believe that the united states is on the wrong side of history on this issue and this move towards the united nations is showing that very clearly the entire world about it is in line with resolving this based on international resolutions and international law if united states cannot implement united nations resolutions and align itself with international law then it leaves the palestinians with very few tools in the toolbox to move this issue forward pretty pretty ones or three to me there are talks are there not just

briefly surely it's all about israel talking directly with the palestinians the palestinians talking directly with israel that's exactly what the international community wants to see is this deadlock going to when are we going to see those talks happening briefly and we've done that for the last eighteen years only to see israeli settlements in the west bank increase only to see the suffocation of our economy by the israeli occupation the palestinians have been given twenty years to go she ations with these really have come to the conclusion that they are not interested in allowing a state to emerge in palestine so we have tried negotiations and if one wants to actually read the documents that were signed between the palestine liberation organization in israel they will see that israel has completely ignored its commitments in those agreements so president of bass basically is any a if

first for his political survival he cannot continue to sell to his people a first and collapsed peace process and i think that's why you completely united nations sam thanks so much for your thoughts about the communication problems earlier sample how palestinian american business activists are right that joining us live there in ramallah thank you for your time your thoughts thank you. we're just days after the u.n. atomic watchdogs disputed report on iran's nuclear activities came to light the u.s. has announced plans to sell high tech bunker buster bombs to the united arab emirates is being seen as part of washington's new plan to build a coalition against iran's influence in the region well discuss the perceived nuclear threat from iran and large joined live from los angeles and mohammad saleem a professor of chemical engineering material science at the university of southern california is joining me there have been some very good reaction to this latest i.e. a report now some are advocating an assault on iran while others denounce it as politically motivated why would be agency which has so far been very neutral up to this point

lose its objectivity. well did the latest report. publicized two days ago indicates that there was a nuclear weapon program before two thousand and three but according to the record iran started in two thousand and three but the report says that some elements of that program may have been restarted after two thousand and three and it tries to bring some evidence that indicates that the part of the program may have been a study but the evidence that it presents actually not very convincing a lot of it is speculation the report itself uses the board's alleged everywhere it uses the words maybe might possibly could have been things of that sort i'm not the same time seen. became director general of international atomic energy agency the

agency the tone of the report of the agency has moved and more decisively political directions for example. where as a model where are they differ former director never talked about united nations security council resolutions and only talked about the technical issues other than the new the new reports on all lead our year brings out the political issues right up front and says for example that iran has been asked to suspend his program but he has refused to do it and this is in violation of its international obligations which is not the job that they are ye m.r. still because the i.a.e.a. task is technical and scientific it is supposed to inspect money toward and report about some of the values member states to the board of governors so in that sense the i.a.e.a. reports and tone have moved in a very decisively political direction which in my view actually here's the critical

to go on a year because as a as i said the task of the. agency is not to talk about political issues and leave them alone for united nations security council and the international community what they're just talk about the technical issues and as i say they're used to all of you actually hasn't yet but what the reporters actually resulted in clearly a very strong reaction from the u.s. the international community and indeed israel now what israel's call for an attack on iran many say is just political rhetoric but we we have actually seen them strike nuclear facilities in iraq i cannot you know if you want in syria back in two thousand and seven do you really think a military strike could be imminent do you think that's realistic. i don't i don't believe it is over an attack iran i think before the report. was publicized about the poor israeli forces in the united states tried to hype

up the report in order to get the international community to agree to much tougher sanctions but is itself never attack iran and inflate the damage that will be lasting all they can do is attacking iran let's say and one day and maybe bomb a few places beyond that it cannot do anything and of course that will bring a very fierce retaliation by iranian forces in addition to the fact that your own forces are of capable of attacking israel from iran iran also has allies in the region in iraq in lebanon and stimulants and elsewhere and that will create significant problems for is it so i don't believe. we attack you on our list of course receives a green light from the united states is just very briefly why is it that iran is not capable of convincing the international community that it is not developing

nuclear weapons it really has failed to do so why isn't it being more and more transparent now the pressure is on it. well in my view the reason that iran is not completely transparent is because it is trying to buy time and to buy time for it wants to put itself in a position if it decides to make the nuclear weapon in self the fares and as a deterrent always short period of time it can do that iran is not there yet and the best estimate is that iran will be able to do it maybe by two thousand and fourteen or two thousand and fifteen so the delay in some of the response of iran to question the international atomic energy agency and the ambiguity is basically meant to buy iran time so that it can basically master all the all the necessary technology but i don't believe iran will actually cross the line to make the bomb unless it is threatened by foreign forces in which case it wants to put itself in

a position that it can do so over a very short period of time very interesting to hear your thoughts about how it suddenly professor of chemical engineering material science the university of southern california thank you for being with us here on r.t. . well considering now with the other news this hour two people have been wounded after stepping on a landmine planted quite syrian troops on the northern border with lebanon this is news we're receiving here a lot of the syrian authorities say it was mind to prevent illegal shipments of arms ammunition and military supplies which increased over the last few months fessor international relations mark allen says that syria has fallen victim to lebanese political games. the people doing struggling may be doing it for money but it all somebody is paying i think there's grounds for thinking that in lebanon traditions the explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the. muslim factions mr hariri also backed by the saudis for.

the fall the syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has a lot of the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny hundred entries which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seen as a cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris to the ground. it's a quick look now at some other international headlines in brief twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow israeli troops use tear gas and water cannons to drive away palestinian protesters and foreign activists in the west bank have been demonstrating against the seizure by israeli settlers of a local spring which is normally a bone of contention between the opposing sides in a separate incident dozens of palestinians gathered near the settlement of a thought claiming their land has been illegally occupied by israelis. potence independence day celebrations turned violent when hundreds of protesters attacked police in warsaw at least ten officers reportedly injured some seriously in the clashes rup least were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the

crowds are to coming under a hail of stones bottles and firecrackers situation was only brought under control after hundreds of people were detained. and also in our world update a turkish ferry with twenty three passengers on board has been hijacked it was traveling from istanbul to the western port city of business when it was seized five another divide government claiming to have a bomb or reportedly been wanting to speak to the media coast guard boats are said to be closely shadowing the ferry as it travels up the coast. but i have to take a moment out by. the program i should say crosstalk is coming up in just a few minutes from now before that i'll be back with a brief recap on top stories stay with his life illinois t.v. from moscow.

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