flashback to iraq western media fanned the flames of an hierarchy and sentiment by apparently naming a mysterious foreign expert that helped iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. yes i government free syrian army reportedly launches a major assault on a loyalist base near damascus this as the arab league turns up the heat on president assad despite his pledge to hold talks and continue reforms. but not down a string of forceful evictions of anti-corporate occupy protesters across the u.s. fails to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down royal street. and guests

and days of reports in ukraine's are just russia may have slashed prices for gas but old was the hall from moscow says there's no new deal more details coming up in twenty minutes. plus a welcome the international space station crew joined by three new members as a soyuz rocket safely delivers a cosmic travelers to orbit. i have been in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story there's been a new twist in the controversy surrounding last week's u.n. report into iran's controversial nuclear program includes the measure none of us of a mysterious for an expert who western media claims to be russian saying he's helped iran build an atomic detonator artes and he said our way explores the i.a.e.a. findings and where they could lead. iran has long been

a hot topic. and. by the. way the greatest threat that america in the world faces and faced was a nuclear iran but it's heated up since last week's report from the un's nuclear watchdog sparking fears iran was pursuing atomic weapons the i.a.e.a. says iran developed a high explosives initiation system a detonator with the help of a foreign expert question that current expert is called it the new history science or was it russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a. here report doesn't name hitters and he's not russian ukrainian many years how former weapons inspector david albright talks not for his scientists nuclear credentials on c.n.n. when he showed him how to build of a thin hemisphere ical shell with holes in it and where the detonation happens and

you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in that are going to show those explosive pell pellets in night the high explosive underneath and in a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion if islamic any and is a scientist but not a nuclear specialist those who actually know danny unca say this. he worked in a nuclear facility but not every person who does is the nucleus specialist he's actually trained to construct the airplane and it's not the i.a.e.a. that is question you know but journalists rodion nevertheless all right accuses the newly uncovered who specialized in nano diamonds in iran of working with the iranians to help them miniaturize their nuclear warhead so they can put it on top of one of their missiles so it can be fired outright has a history of pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said this in two thousand and two. terms of the chemical and biological weapons iraq has those now

how many how could they deliver them i mean these are big questions then backtrack to the l a times once no w m d's were discovered in iraq. if there are no weapons of mass destruction i'll be mad as hell i certainly accepted the administration's claims on chemical and biological weapons i figured they were telling the truth and some us politicians think non-truths could be repeating with iran but i'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda when i want to instill radical you know they didn't have the weapons of mass destruction but there were enough of three super ports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information a lot of the reason it's limited is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case iran does not have

a nuclear weapons program diplomatic days are who could be called critics say the public especially in the us are about to be inundated with another flood of so-called expert analysis the where of a dangerous mideast country that's presumably hiding secret nuclear weapons and may require a military strike the difference this time it's iran not iraq he's now artsy moscow. middle east expert professor such as my nash says the i.a.e.a. is being used as a tool to exert pressure on iran and prepare for regime change in the country. again there is your has actually denied that he has any expertise in new york basics especially here since he. is clean clean. get clean well was that he was actually giving lectures in the iran. nuclear scientists and he was helping them in the nuclear weapons in the reports are true

already theory and can do so. you show who is working. for and they have it in my hand it's. only so definitely a strange news from st an official reports do what you ask here on the websites you want to be. people happier still be. almost the whole most certainly be true as we can the war against iraq are all really well and yes it seems to be happening a year has been used an instrument. of war to actually can do regime change in iran and supporting that. always interested in your opinion and today we're asking if you think the nuclear allegations against iran are justified clicked over to participate in our latest online poll here's how it was all in are stacking up right now over

a third say iran shouldn't be allowed to go nuclear how so you feel or see the claims as a western led campaign while some think quote profit believe that evidence so far and very few think that tyrone is in fact building go online tell us what you think at r t v dot com. turning now to syria where an art where army defectors have reportedly attacked a major military installation near the capital it's the highest profile strike on loyalist forces since anti-government an arrest started in march the free syrian army fighting against the rule of president president bashar al assad now claims to number of more than twenty five thousand november has already become the bloodiest month of the entire conflict the death toll reported at more than three hundred the escalation of violence comes as the arab league readies to confirm syria's exclusion expected to bring with it even more sanctions that mask is already under a broad set of penalties from the u.s. and e.u. for cracking down on protesters but some observers think foreign interference works

and we can aggravate the situation. increasingly the arab league you know hardly representative in many ways of the middle east and people you know you have saudi arabia bahrain operation you know how they actually done similar things to what the syrian government is doing now basically acting here is an extension of the international community and i think really in that sense they are effectively kind of pandering to western interests because they really america is no longer feels like it's or thora see in the region in the same way that he used to be so you know hides behind groups like the arab league like the u.n. like the i.a.e.a. which we saw the other day who are doing weapons inspections in both syria and iran at the moment in order to try and effectively go behind the scenes be this on excuse these kind of organizations that's almost puppet groups to kind of voice their own interest the western interests and i think that's really problematic

alternately it should be for the arab league representative of middle eastern people a tool to determine what happens in syria it should be for the syrian people to. really get engaged in a struggle so i've referred to the taser should they so choose and anything any external intervention be it un observers or anyone else who starts meddling in syria is also let you go to make the situation worse. stay with us here on our team coming up teetering on the brink investor confidence shaken as europe's debt crisis spreads to other heavyweight economies while greece and italy fight for survival plus. rocket men a russian soyuz successfully docked with the international space station i made a jubilant scenes with the crew of their set to replace. but first anti-corporate occupy protesters have returned to new york city park but without their tents or sleeping here the new york supreme court ruled demonstrators can no longer count out there for the night meaning the two month long occupation of the park is over

police in riot gear storms are tuesday morning tearing down tents and evicting hundreds of activists those refusing to leave were forcibly removed amid allegations that officers use sound guns pepper spray and tear gas authorities cited health and fire hazards of the reasons behind the move protesters think it's a flimsy excuse to kick them out before the movement's two month anniversary on thursday when they say they'll a massive rally will shut down wall street archy's christopher's hour looks at how much of an impact occupy has made since it started in the bigger. you could say it started with a whisper called by canadian activist group adbusters that spread on facebook. this very spot wall street is the. crime but before long that whisper turned into a group. collective anger and wall street corruption

a growing income inequality in america and at a system in which government policy is often dictated by corporate greed before long the crowds brought police. and police brought pepper spray. to story brought on more protesters. a few days later seven hundred of them were arrested on the brooklyn bridge. instead of scaring people away scenes like this. outraged the masses and before long occupy movements multiplied from los angeles. to chicago. to boston. and just about everywhere in between the mood grew darker as authorities threaten to clear the tent city at zuccotti park the last minute they were allowed to remain

after clearing the park themselves. and compile times square was next to nothing but scenes like this is not where. the government gives the iraq war veteran shamar thomas a fighting what had become in his eyes widespread police brutality he appeared on our show a few days later they're saying if you want to fight go to iraq or afghanistan what do you mean by this you know to hurt the citizens that you swear to protect you know is this kind of you know a contradiction to the oath they should take and then there was occupy oakland here you see another veteran scott olsen standing peacefully. within moments he was hit in the head with a tear gas canister fractured his skull and left him critical condition we have a lot of the shot a spotlight now shining bright on the role of police all the while the protests

spread much to the dismay of authorities who over the weekend evicted encampments once again in oakland. and in portland. st louis to name a few and new york's you cannae park the heart of the movement also clear for the first time since the movement began now many worry what's next for occupy d.c. so one of the perp. things they did here is to clear this part of the park protesters tell me they've moved their tents closer to one another if they've condensed their efforts because they want to stay focused they want to stay organized i think there's a chance that some of the protesters from the other occupations around the country could wind up here m k street because this is one of the last places a very few clashes with police in washington christine friends now. turn out as some other stories making headlines across the globe u.s. drones have killed at least sixteen people in pakistan officials say missiles hit

two compounds in a village in the northwest of the country the region is considered a taliban stronghold hours before the strikes the militants attacked an army checkpoint in the same region with rockets killing one soldier wounding another pakistan has frequently criticized u.s. drone strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty. a school minibus has collided head on with a truck killing eighteen children and two adults the bus only had nine seats but was reportedly carrying sixty two youngsters many of them were taken to a nearby hospital and hour in critical condition officials say the crash was caused by the bus being heavily overloaded and. afghan president hamid karzai has demanded that foreign troops and night raids and stop detaining afghans addressing a council of tribal elder is currently going on in kabul he was also critical of nato claiming its departure in twenty fourteen will be good for the country hours i pledge to restore our national sovereignty after growing increasingly angry over

u.s. military action that resulted in civilian deaths. the u.s. is expanding its military presence in australia with a total of twenty five hundred troops expected to arrive over the next few years the plan was unveiled by president obama and australian pm julia guillard is seen by some as an attempt to offset china's growing global influence influence beijing has immediately questioned whether bringing in u.s. ships aircraft and vehicles would help stabilize the region. nerve racking time pretty euro zone is borrowing costs rise for governments across almost all single currently states investors are fast losing faith that a possible solution to europe's debt crisis could we found this as italy's newly appointed leader marriott marquis has unveiled his new government wednesday it will be formed of other elected experts technocrats with a banker to lead a super ministry of development infrastructure and transport part of pushkin top austerity measures to bring italy's debt crisis under control in greece affairs

minister has urged the new government to act with urgency to ratify the e.u. rescue package over a bankruptcy so he's dariel bushell found out running a country calls for a lot more than economic background. greece's new leader used to be voice president of the european central bank italy's new premier is also an expanding earth and the voices of goldman sachs to so mario monti's first actions in children prove he's been it's a helpful look going to his people number one of the first things. we have to see financial stability of course will take care of the social problems that it has problems because you have a government led by a banker that he wasn't even elected in the first place and he's not going to seek reelection so he can do whatever he pleases without having to fear is this going to go back to this previous post after two or three years but the suits the e.u.

says the institute for democracy is corporations john local and brussels has put into men who continue with going to not support the public good we do predict this is did. you actually have office the moment you suggested a referendum on that. skinny had to leave office the moment he said that italians who are under the euro he used to have insisted on elected officials taking charge in italy in greece all of those countries' leaders questions the reforms being imposed on them but the earth. from brussels up to charges of being dictatorial and the democratic one politicians think this is a wall until all the e.u. leaders who try to help their population oppose all spending cuts and you have to go public it can be done in italy and it can be done in greece and it's only a matter of time. before it can be done anywhere else good financial analyst makes causes of things because of the very worst sort to put in children this time people

say well the bankers know best well the bankers are the ones to have stolen all the money so are we going to give them more ability there's still more money in a post more austerity measures that's insane but there is saw as the e.u. may have gone to war with boiling over it's there it's images the mold to go across is seventy people have been injured in protests in italy will create civil servants and teachers weak delta big jobs will choose the open and pension cuts i think he's gearing up for more boylan so that's another public demonstration on thursday in brussels the new cultural forty. former banker is maybe taking over governments in europe but some experts say it's the lack of leadership that needs attention little more than an hour a belgian a mean pieces the euro zone's fundamental problems are not addressed. every time they had a summit and they will proclaim that they found a solution a solution only last one or two weeks and then another crisis we have another

summit i will now go in leaping from summit to summit the men in the street is worried that men industry doesn't know where this is going to end and they're worried because of their savings because of their current pensions and because of the jobs and so on the men industry has the real question which is that european leaders the elite is not in charge and doesn't know where to go and there is not an easy solution to this but. the european leaders always thought that we are doing the right thing for the citizens and they have to be grateful and what we do not be challenged and now it is challenged in the streets of of greece and italy and at the ballot box in germany and in finland and this is a message i think. still has to understand.

we've got lots more coverage on the euro crisis on our website our g.'s out on here's what else is a click away right now muslims hoping to serve in the u.s. military may be stuck in the middle of a fiery debate find out what one state politician is saying about their right to fight plus. former mayor in the mire russia's the russian capital former top official testifies about half a billion dollar fraud allegations against him find out what he said at our team dot com. after two days of space travel in the soyuz rocket three cars safely arrived at the international space station they were warmly greeted by their russian american and japanese colleagues who were due to replace marquees peter all of our reports on the mission. we can see right now the full six month crew of the s.s.

at the moment they're speaking with mission control they arrived well not a long time ago and just basically checking in with mission control stretching their legs you have to remember these guys have been trapped inside a tiny soyuz module for the best part of just over two days we can have a look now at the moment when they painted into the international space station the hatch opening and we should see. a cosmonauts appear the three men that have entered into the international space station have had a bit of a wait to get up there their mission with the made by two months puts they did make up some of that time apparently they were nine minutes early when it came to docking with the space station so i'm torn. up let off easy for me to say on a totally even ition and. all on board the international space station safe and sound the reason that this mission was delayed by two months was due to the crash

of a soyuz rocket carrying a supply module to the international space station at the end of august now that's our use rocket is a similar type of rocket that's used for months spaceflight now they were going to take any risks when it came to if there was any technical problems with the soyuz they tested it they took it apart they put it back together they tried several unmanned missions they all went off without any kind of a problem so they decided to go ahead with the mound mission at the so used to have a twenty two rockets taking off on monday docking successfully with the international space station today all the crew on board safe and sound and if you minutes we look at the environmental crisis that's devouring vast swathes of america's heartland about soccer the business news with dimitri stay with us. thanks man alone welcome to the program it is premature to suggest russia and

ukraine have reached an agreement over gas prices that's according to prime minister putin's office appears to contradict reports from the key that a deal has been done. ukrainian media have been quoting a price of two hundred thirty dollars per thousand cubic meters that's a substantial reduction under four hundred dollars plus i would have been due however moscow says negotiations have not been concluded ukraine has already made it clear it's willing to settle accounts and rubles rather than dogs. even in sac sessions of the world trade organization means russia will have to alter some of its existing contracts with foreign companies and particularly in the car industry prime minister putin says the states will partly compensate car makers for losses due to the country joining the trade boarding this year the government promised tax benefits to several foreign producers including rhino ford and walks wagon and exchange they agreed to assemble at least three hundred thousand cars

a year in russia using mostly locally made components and benefits are supposed to last till twenty twenty russia's accession to the world trade organization which will then be lifted. while has dropped from its highest level in more than three months it's in the wake of a report by the american petroleum institute which says that crude stockpiles in the u.s. rose by one point three million barrels last week lights were straining at around ninety nine dollars per barrel brant is that one hundred eleven and down six and two cents. european stocks are still in the red the footsie is a half a percent lower so is the dax that's after the bank of england said the u.k. growth outlook has worsened the dax is seeing losses for a day as infinium technology slumped of course then lower twenty twelve so. this is the picture in moscow of both nice legs and the r.t.s.

side slightly down this hour let's take a look at what's moving to my sex most blue chips such as financials per bank they're down but it's got a call. my neck is very much bucking the trend with the buyback announcement with a premium of sixty percent to the market price the company is up more than ten percent this is one of the biggest gainers despite though. the mood in europe is continuing to see across international borders and is grain on sentiment here in russia peter west and recommends buying into cash rich companies with high dividend payouts for investors willing to risk a dip in the market go for cash rich companies go for it and i mean you have to guess crafts. com as well even though the corporate governance can be clearly question in this company and they do have cash to pay one of the highest dividend in the world sector in the rationals or space. you have other companies.

in this group looks like a very interesting company utilities used to be defensive but it has had a good period but i would still argue that the too much risk ahead of the elections in that sector has been some you know the whole situation we seem to be backtracking on that that used to be a favorite sector in two thousand and ten that has completely reversed unfortunately. but it's cash and this dividend and maybe. as a fairly defensive sector defensive stuff this one. europe's deepening debt crisis is stoking concerns of a cash squeeze among russian lenders growing yields on bank bonds that prompted a regular injection of cash from the central bank bank of russia lent over twenty six billion dollars to banks on choosing the most in nine years and the same reduced ruble liquidity in russia is making lenders debt more expensive additional pressure is coming from capital flight which may double this year to reach seventy

billion dollars. russian comic could get as group is joining up with a chinese truck maker which could see ten thousand vehicles roll off the production line it will be a fifty fifty venture with a first automobile works both being tight lipped on the level of vestment but on this expected to reach of the sixty million dollars he also believes the new trucks so will face fierce competition from russia's which controls half of the domestic market meanwhile gaz move is also planning to launch assembly a local line school volkswagen chevrolet next. alright the headlines are next on our to do join our maps as of that.

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