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 law is passed that prime minister silvio berlusconi will resign with his possible successor being a former commissioner 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 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 in its latest three now we saw that they posses reasonably easily today a hundred and fifty six days to twelve and it's expected tomorrow that similar things going to happen in the a final approval will be given in the lower house and not of course with them pave the way for the prime minister berlusconi to step aside as he vowed to do once safe reforms had been passed and at that point his thought that the italian president will try to appoint a new hairs and the 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 this emerged recently is a man named mary muncie he's a former economic and he says they've noticed among politicians here that among series and he does it while he's got very close links with brussels he's thought to be the man he can lead the way three this crisis situation is leave now finds itself in by no means is the new government going to be a quick fix to all the problems but it is essential at this moment the some form of action is taken to stand a strong message next week to try and stem a lot of that uncertainty mistrust and the political guidance here in the country that we've seen from the markets and from the international community and as he said mary monte is a safe we saw the italian president making quite a clever chesney when he appointed him a standard to life now that's made him a much more appealing candidate the m.p.'s much more politically viable to take the

top spot and we've also seen the top spot in greece taken by former e.c.b. official you've now got mary monti possibly gehring out to take the top spot for me commissioner there is definitely concern amongst the public in these countries that what you're saying. as an extension of process in the since the show really that is what's happening again the m.p.'s that we're speaking to is saying that this technocratic 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 stay now from the areas and leaders and of course it's labor the entire usa and future right now looking extremely uncertain but the public very concerned about the losses the credit say about whether the new governments are going to be acting in their country's interest here in italy to still go this very harsh reforms that not only have to be passed but they don't have to be influenced say is one thing to put in place these euro kratz who are going to apiece brussels at the quite another to

gain a public support we've seen in the past in both italy and countries like greece at that a loss of public support can really have a very significant impact in d.c. by no means it's lee getting to be out of the woods if and when that new 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 get the funds as a very critical point in the feature. so if earth reporting there the new greek prime minister lucas papademos has been sworn in as the head of a unity government and they cup of his new cabinet was also announced on state television after the ceremony the former banker and european central bank vice president's immediate task will be to implement yet more sturdy measures in return for continued payments this type of a demo says valid to do all he can to bring greece's finances under control and promised to keep the country in the euro zone and john laughlin the director of studies at the paris institute of democracy and corporation but he is brussels as escaped much of the blame for the blocks debt crisis these people who have taken

power in greece and shorted to our in italy have never been elected these are men who made their entire careers through garnering important appointments in cases like the european commission or the european central bank initially they have no democratic mandate at all and precisely what is so frightening about what is only now after 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'm 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 but andrew had 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 poorer under the euro so we're seeing really a very ugly development now you are 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 bailouts 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 am absolutely convinced that the euro project is at an end i can't say when it's going to break down but it is written and yes there's been financial irresponsibility in greece initially but the situation has been made we're. well catastrophic by the membership of the euro john laughlin there this is r.t. live in moscow still ahead for you in the next few minutes here on to the teeth syrian authorities ringing the alarm bells over an increased amount of weapons being smuggled into the country to boost its dream is to play action in fighting the regime. first nato may have finished its bombing mission in libya but now there's a full scale western invasion and edgy corporations are queuing up to do business with the new government which is rewarding the military victory with lucrative oil

and gas contracts smith looks at how the harvest of war is being raped. first british bombs tourists apart now british companies will get paid to put it back together libya is open for business and you 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. 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 head to the north african country the u.k.'s bill for its part in 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

amount to put some 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 want 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 a transitional council told the french way. they would give over to the party machinery. the u.k. department for trade and investment already has star on the ground in libya ready

to welcome british companies. awarded contracts wanting to get in on the action or oil shell and b.p. shares rose on the news they were talking to the transitional government and generic firms and mark macdonald also reportedly keen but if the latter refused to put up a spokesman when asked preferring instead to send basic statements which critics say is a new tactic to avoid defending their ethics it's better to be half of them. any form of public discussion of why that's what you're 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 that humanitarian goals no longer need to be touted wall suddenly makes great business sense nor a smith party london. u.n.

security council is reviewing palestine's bid for u.n. membership in new york the motion was filed in september to march you for in the west bank and the deciding vote may come as soon as next week or is paula slipways up on charges. 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 the british and the french have announced that they will abstain from the vote there they will abstain alongside portugal and bosnia while 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 might go ahead with this although they know that they're not going to get that admission into the security council the other option and this seems likely is that they still take the bird to the general assembly what this will give them is upgraded observer status or though 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 statehood but 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 this bid now the palestinians were relying on the british to

support their bid and the foreign secretary has now been accused of being hypocritical and abdicating responsibility when you mention the e.u. nasco admission to the palestinians in need. the following that the united states canada and israel withdrew or stopped giving funding to the bodies so much so that you miska 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 so certainly while the palestinians a short time ago had a lot of euphoria that the international community would back the bid for statehood this kind of pressure going on behind the scenes seems to be paying off part of the reporting they want to talk more about palestine's un membership but i'm not joined by. a palestinian american business activists and writer who's in ramallah the pistons 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 but i do understand that we did get a communication with you can hear you know. in ramallah. i'm sorry about that or rather you can have a no no you can't or i will see if we come back to you sorry about that just a few seconds ago we do have such 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 bid actually publicly explain their reasoning their standpoint. well honestly think the approach to the united nations is less about membership of

palestine in the united nations and more of challenging the west in the ability to walk the walk over to speak paradigm what we're seeing is forty four years of the west specifically the united states making a case for two states but in the first real test of bringing two states 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 two speed paradigm and that's the dress i believe but why as you say that america has clearly made it very obvious that yes that is the goal but behind the scenes it clearly doesn't want that to happen so why is it so stubborn over this u.n. issue then. yeah it's very difficult to understand to be honest with you the only explanation i can given as a policy in america and i can give this with

a little bit of insight that i believe that the us foreign policy as it relates to this issue has been hijacked by a prude 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 need by not only groups here asians present a bad has basically put on the table the 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 two 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 than 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 the unesco pit

symbolically with all that support from the international. 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 is in line with resolving this based on international resolutions and international law if the 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 what is are three thingy that we're all told 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 having given twenty years to negotiations with the israelis 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 and israel they will see that israel has completely ignored its commitments in those agreements so present a bass basically is any a first for his political survival he cannot continue to sell to his people if and collapse peace process and i think that's why he took it to the united nations sam thanks so much for your thoughts about the communication problems earlier

palestinian american business activists are right and joining us live there in ramallah thank you for your time and your thoughts thank you. or 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 terror and influence in the region what to discuss the perceived nuclear threat from iran and are 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 reactions to this latest i.e. a report now some are advocating an assault on iran while others denounce it as politically motivated why would the 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 report iran stopped it 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 started 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 word coup may be might possibly could have been things of that sort and of the same time scenes armano became director general of the international atomic energy agency the edge and see the tone of the reports of the agency has moved in a more decisively political direction for example. where as a moderate abroad

a diff former director never talked about united nations security council resolutions and only talked about the technical issues at hand the new the new reports by. brings out the political issues right out 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 you e.m.r. still because the i.a.e.a. task is technical and scientific it is supposed to inspect monitor and report about nuclear program of various member states to the board of governors so in that sense the are ye a reports and tone have moved in a very decisively political direction which in my view actually has the credibility of i.a.e.a. 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. as i say that was just to allow you actually hasn't yet but know 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 back in ninety one and 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 attack iran i thing before the report by i.a.e.a. was publicized 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 israel itself can never attack iran and

inflict 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 iran and forces are capable of attacking israel from iran iran also has allies in the region in iraq in lebanon among palestinians and elsewhere and that would create significant problems for israel so i don't believe. we'll attack iran unless of course it 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 god it wants to put itself in a position that is if it decides to make the nuclear weapon in self defense and as a deterrent or a 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 a 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 other news this hour two people have been wounded after

stepping on a landmine planted by syrian troops on the northern border with lebanon this is news we're receiving here on r.t. syrian authorities say it was mined 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 the smuggling may be doing it for money but of course somebody is paid and i think there is grounds for thinking that in lebanon tricksters explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the. muslim factions promised to have also backed by the saudis for. see the fall of the syrian regime because its its rival and it supports its rivals has a law on the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious

minorities and so we are seeing there are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris with the barrel of a gun. let's have a quick look now at some other international headlines in brief twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow israeli troops used tear gas and water cannons to drive away palestinian protesters and foreign activists in the west bank they've been demonstrating against the seizure by israeli settlers of a local spring which has not been a bone of contention between the opposing sides and a separate incident dozens of palestinians gathered near the settlement of and a thought claiming their land has been illegally occupied by israelis. poland's independence day celebrations turned violent when hundreds of protesters attacked police in warsaw at least ten officers reportedly injured some seriously in the clashes erupt at least before to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds after 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 izmit when it was seized five unidentified gunmen claiming to have a bomb are reportedly demonic to speak to the media coast guard boats are said to be closely shadowing the ferry as it travels up the coast. but today for the moment i'll talk about 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 of our top story and stay with us live. from moscow. to.

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live from moscow top stories now the saga telling senate approves its start you know yet hoping just i'm a growing consensus of the euro. zone's third largest economy is flowing to the ravages of the euro crisis. palestine is still pushing for a vote on its un statehood despite the fact it knows it will likely lose and if it does fairly it wants the brits opponents to justify their decision what should police will be dictated by the us. and western corporations the centerpoint oil rich libya seeking to exploit the riches left following nato's bombing mission. that's a brief summary of our main stories this hour more from me in this and half an hour from now in the meantime china's enormous cash reserves may be just what the e.u. needs to claw itself.