flashback to iraq the same experts that tried baghdad have weapons of mass destruction now and also the i.a.e.a. suggestions that iran is developing a nuclear bomb because a report coming up tonight. the answer government free syrian army reportedly launches a major assault on a loyalist base me damascus says the arab league turns up the heat on president assad despite his pledge to continue reforms that moscow says targeting the regime is only making matters worse. but not down the street a forceful a vacation is about to call for the occupy protesters across america fails to stop

the movement from gearing up to shut down rule street again a live report ahead. it's midnight here in moscow my name's kevin knowing you're watching are most welcome thanks for being with us tonight now there's a new twist in the controversy surrounding last week's un reported to iran's nuclear program it includes the mention of a mysterious foreign expert who western media claims to be russian saying he's helped to run build an atomic detonator that he's innocent now expose the i findings and where they may lead. iran has long been a hot topic. but. the greatest threat that america in the world faces at 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 experts question that current expert is called it the mystery scientists and russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a. report doesn't name him and he's not russian by ukrainian any here's how former weapons inspector david albright talks suffered a scientist nuclear credential on c.n.n. with weapon show them how to build of a thin hemispherical shell with holes in it and where the detonation happens and you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in that of one of the shell and those explosive pell pellets a night high explosive underneath and in a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion which is love then he is a scientist but not

a nuclear specialist those who actually know danny uncut say this. he worked in a nuclear facility but not every person who does is a new clear specialist he's actually trained to construct the airplanes and it's not the i.a.e.a. that is questioning him now but journalists nevertheless all right accuses the only outcome who specialized in the know 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 her own pride and history of pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said this in two thousand and two. the. 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 just covered in iraq. if there are no weapons of mass destruction

i'll be mad as hell i certainly accept the deal administration's claims of chemical and biological weapons i figured they were telling the truth and some us politicians think non-truths could be repeating with iran and i'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on again still rather you know that they didn't have the weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports 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 if 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 way are 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 and he's now an artsy moscow or journalist i should return as he's been following the story closely he says the us media celebrations of iran could lead to catastrophic consequences. we know this is all a sham and what's so disappointing is how the media covers the story and basically un institutions can be used in this way to forge a geo strategic purposes by the united states and israel and the us allies we know that nothing new is in this report we know that the allegations the word alleged and allegation appears twenty eight times in the new annex that's been provided in this report which is actually just rehashed from previous times the vienna seems to be part of a drumbeat for war if not nuclear war british soldiers have been commenting and the media here in london is

a dog with saying weapons are on standby military deployment strategic planning is in order for a military attack on iran this isn't funny there are no games here these are populations these. you know millions of people and the way the media together with the white house and president obama in particular plays around with words and this kind of politicking is. amounts to a national crime. you know we're also interested in your opinion today we're asking if you think the nuclear allegations against iran are justified the web so the place to be to religion or you think you can cast your vote there this is what you're telling us this sale of the pie charts to the unfolds. forty three percent of voted to last say the claims of the western propaganda campaign coming second the view that the belief that iran should be allowed to go nuclear around ten percent of you figure evidence of around trying to acquire nuclear weapons is sparse at eight percent of you think the run is in fact building a bomb go online to cast your vote. syria now their army defectors say they've

attacked a major loyalist military base near the country's capital that says the arab league confirms syria's suspension and france recalled its ambassador from the country russian lawmaker foreign policy architect constantine cause of chart told me things targeting damascus is counterproductive to solving the crisis. the fact that this is escalating the violence is escalating is a reflection of the wrong approach taken by certain states a unilateral approach the keep saying keep sending messages to the people of syria you people say you are right with or it is of syria are wrong and this is the wrong approach because they're tired of messages. introduces an illusion that the people of syria can get freedom

democracy was by using violence against the ruling thoughtless and not by negotiating not by making the political groups it's not just about throwing stones against policemen or but this is both using heavy weapons and this is a real war to be or probably one of very few or maybe the only country which has which maintains this dialogue both with mr cassatt and with the opposition the opposition from abroad resulting crossrail recently and the rather another discussion more school nobody else does the same thing people either support these parts or that part we are impartial pair of dialogue we have discussions with each and every one in the country in conflict google succeed in promoting the political process. the free syrian army which crimes occurred out himself from

president bashar al assad's forces on wednesday is apparently growing in number it's legal say they now have over twenty five thousand officers in their ranks and they're fighting to bring down the regime even so the arab league's move to isolate the sad cracking down of what they call peaceful demonstrators beirut based research are modest. six's the conflict won't be resolved in this forum. is if you will stop fighting. that the arab league is pressing for the syrian government to withdraw its forces and the syrian government and the military and intelligence services are being attacked quite violently and well armed people then there's not really much chance for the syrian government to take the troops from the streets to the tanks. really right now should be putting pressure not only on the syrian government but also on the protesters and if they're going to require syria the syrian government to enter into dialogue and certainly the protesters should start

the violence and also enter into dialogue with the government so right now really the pressure is being directed only to one side and the conflict is two sided and so we really need to start focusing on a deescalation of the opposition in syria if there is a civil war is to be averted and that this point the way the opposition is framing things they're not thinking about how many people are still in the country and who support president assad and this is really really potentially destructive because they could pretend that they're a popular movement of course they have a lot of support but they also have a lot of opposition in syria people come into the streets by the tens of thousands to protest for the government and for president assad and right now the opposition is considering that they're not thinking about the fact that the markers the means that they're going have to dialogue with all syrians including those people who support president assad. on to corporate occupy protesters of returns new york's

zuccotti park but without the tents and the sleeping here a supreme court ruled and demonstrators could no longer camp out there for the night meaning the two month long occupation of the park is over police in riot gear storm zuccotti tuesday morning tearing down tents and a victim hundreds of activists refusing to leave or forcibly remove the middle occasions of officers use and cannons pepper spray and tear gas authorities cited health and fire hazards as the reasons behind the move the protesters think that's a flimsy excuse to kick them out before the movement's two month anniversary on thursday when they say they will hold a massive rally that will shut the wall street out is christine has a look so how much of an impact of the post made since it first flared up in the big apple. you could say it started with a whisper a call by canadian activist group and busters that spread on facebook i think straight i this very spot wall street is this i mean it's

a crime but before long that whisper turned into a roar. a collective anger at 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. story brought on more protesters and a few days later seven hundred of them were arrested on the brooklyn bridge. instead of scaring people away scenes like this. outrage the masses and before long occupy movements multiplied from los angeles. to chicago. to buy. austin.

and just about everywhere in between the mood grew darker as authorities threaten to clear the tent city at zuccotti park at the last minute they were allowed to remain to clean the park themselves. occupy times square was next and brought scenes like this is not where. the government in. iraq war veteran shamar thomas fighting what had become in his eyes wide spread police brutality he appeared on our show a few days later there saying if you want to fight go to iraq go to afghanistan what do you mean by this you know to hurt the citizens you swear to protect you know is this kind of you know contradiction to the oath there 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 fracture his school and left him in for the condition where

a lot of the shot a spotlight now shining bright on the roll 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 zuccotti 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 first things they did here is to clear this part of the park protesters tell me they've moved their tents closer to one another they say they've condensed their efforts because they want to stay focused they want to stay organized i say there's a chance that some of the protesters from the other occupations around the country could wind up here on k. street because this is one of the last places a very few clashes with police. in washington christine for south r.t.

. well for the law new york situation is talk to alex for tully's an associate professor of sociology at brooklyn college in new york very good evening you've watched the protests i gather you've seen a lot of fold you've seen their determination to make their mark of now activists will be banned from camping out overnight is that really they're going to stop these people from continuing their campaign do you think. i don't think so i think it's important to think about what's going on as more of a broad social movement rather than a specific encampment or event i don't think that folks who are sleeping out overnight in zuccotti park really own this thing anymore and the momentum has shifted much more to the large existing institutional actors like labor unions and well known community organizations that are picking up their basic message and i think that that message has got such resonance right now that people are going to turn out on the streets around these issues whether or not there's an encampment in

zuccotti park while the u.s. authorities showed little mostly to the protesters though that have been out in the groups and in the is using those picks making a rest because the ballots the basic truth here is that you come to rest an idea and surely you know that all the people as you say the are going to continue fighting so therefore with that in mind what's next. i think a lot of what's going on now is really a battle of the nature of the american first amendment that guarantees the right to free speech and assembly that right has really been constrained over recent years with all kinds of time place and manner restrictions and one of the things that's remarkable about this movement has been the kind of defiant attitude of a generation of young people who actually take the language of the first amendment to heart and aren't willing to abide by these various kinds of restrictions and it's exactly that kind of defiant attitude that is both made the demonstrations

powerful and inspiring to so many but has also engender this level of police backlash to months of this spread across the u.s. and other companies it's said to grow and the do you think will will it start maybe to peter out a bit also figure as well about the presidential elections movement if we could even expect some political some sort of merging from this. well i think obviously you can expect some diminishment over the winter months when outdoor protest activity is going to be less likely especially in the northeast in the northern states but i think in the spring we're going to see a resurgence of activity in part because local and state budgets are going to face renewed pressures for austerity that's going to create more unemployment more discord among labor unions and public sector workers more discord among students face to face intuition increases so i think we'll see more activity in the spring

maybe even then we saw at the height of this. level to political parties i do not see this movement morphing into a political party some elements of it will support some democratic politicians but i think there's just a much deeper level of dissatisfaction with both parties that's going to create some kind of street heat that may influence the direction of the parties but i don't think this movement will become allied with a party that's looking at some of the no if you showed it on some of the pictures we have that people are saying we've been denied the right and exercise the basic liberties in the united states and cynics of course a democracy in the land of the fray fair point. well i don't want to overstate i mean this is not serious so people are able to demonstrate people are able to express their views but there have been significant limitations placed on that and i think that you know that in many ways characterizes what's

interesting about this movement is its willingness to defy these kinds of mundine forms of repression. will see these tough economic times right across the. times to somebody who could have pulled out with just a segment of the people enjoyed themselves will times were good i guess that's the argument here isn't it. well look we see what's going on all around the world right now from the red shirt movement in thailand back to work movements in uganda the indignados in southern europe there is a lot of discontent about declining standards of living the squeezing of the middle class their gradation of the environment and i think that's playing out in some ways the u.s. is just late to the game. the associate professor of sociology at brooklyn college as well as an occupy activist one observer anyway talking to us from new york.

that we bring up to date no answer you stories from around the world 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 before the strikes militants attacked an army checkpoint in the same region with rockets killing one soldier wounding another pakistan's frequently criticized u.s. drone strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty. in western china a minibus on its way to kindergartens collided head on with a truck it's killed eighteen children two adults the bus only had nine seats but it was reportedly carrying sixty two youngsters many of them were taken to a nearby hospital in a critical condition officials say the crash was caused by the big so heavily overloaded. afghan president hamid karzai has demanded the foreign troops end the night raids and stop detaining afghans addressing a council of tribal elders he was also critical of nato claiming his departure in twenty four will be good for the country because i pledge to restore national

sovereignty after growing increasingly angry of the us military action resulting in civilian there. the u.s. is expanding its military presence in australia with a total of two thousand five hundred troops expected to arrive over the next few years was a bell by president obama under strain prime minister julia gillard it's seen by some as an attempt to offset china's growing global influence they give the media the question whether bringing in u.s. ships a problem because it would help stability in the region. programs continue next year from inside europe's financial elite tonight a belgian. tells us what he thinks went wrong for the euro zone why the debt crisis can't be resolved until the e.u. addresses its leadership problem.

europeans will storm this building the european parliament in a repeat of the french revolution according to epping member of the european parliament why are people so fed up with the e.u. well i've been become a bit less optimistic because since i wrote the book many things happened and particularly we're facing now a euro crisis a crisis in the eurozone and nobody actually knows what to do we go from one summit to the other every time we think we found a solution just to find out a few weeks later that the problem is still there and even in a bigger size so i think that. we are facing some fundamental questions in the

european union and this idea of ever closer union and ever bigger budgets and ever more institutions is basically the wrong way we have to take tough positions greece main will not get a second bailout how do you think this you are cross this will end well this is the big question everybody is wondering actually nobody knows the european parliament doesn't know the commission doesn't know the heads of government don't know everybody hopes for the best but there is no guarantee for success if this crisis is lingering or is going to infect the entire eurozone and not only italy and spain but also france so we have been facing a problem that is growing all the time whereas we thought we could minaj is by putting greece inside so greece is the worst of the problems but not the only problem there are more problems to it and sometimes wondering whether either it

will be solved by greece leaving the eurozone leaders reason not leaving the eurozone it will become worse and worse and worse two states will point at which for example. germany netherlands finland emotional say ok we're going to leave the euro and you get a completely break up of the news. of course this is something that may not happen tomorrow but it may be one of the scenarios we have to keep in mind how is this crisis affecting people in the street the currency looks to be still quite strong but that is because the dollar is very weak basically the currencies of the major powers in the world japan the united states and the euro are quite a week but of course what is the effect of this eurozone crisis is that there is little growth actually our economies are not growing in the north they are growing in the south they're not growing and the main problem of the euro crisis is not so

much the euro itself it is rather a gap of competitiveness between the north and the south the north is still growing the south is in a crisis and stagnation in recession and as long as they are in the euro zone is very hard for them to grow there's no economic growth it is also because of the fact that investors have no confidence in any growth in the in the eurozone because for the south or here of the the euro is too expensive it pushes them into a recession even greece in a depression italy in a recession and spain in a recession and portugal in a recession that has forty percent of the eurozone in trouble and the question of causey's whether the currency will survive that can be used it isn't actually to if they don't agree with a policy you see the european elites to which i myself also belong always thought we don't do we are doing the right thing for the european public we are doing good

things nice things and people have to be grateful to us for what we are doing and we are creating more institutions big buildings more competences more agencies and people are happy about it and actually what we see now why. the first time is that lots of people are angry with you and it's not only farmers it's the man in the street the germans get angry because they do not support bill out of other countries and people in italy and spain and portugal will increase their angry because they say europe is the problem. and germany is the problem problem germany should pay faster and more so the public the public opinion in both the south and the rules are going different directions in finland we've seen the rise of the party the true finns in in holland we've seen the rise of the party of mr wilbur's in germany there's a lot of discontent about what's going on. and the same you see in the south for different reasons so there are so many different forces going on but you really

have to ask the question whether the euro will survive all this do you leaders on the stand people's problems they still think that the fewer things they say about it the better it is every time they have 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 man in the street is where it the men in the street doesn't know where this is going to end and they're worried because of their savings because there are a pension. and because of their jobs and so are the men in the street has the impression that european leaders the elite is not in charge and doesn't know where to go and there is not an easy solution to it but. the european leaders always thought that we're doing the right thing for the citizens and they have to be grateful and what we do should not be challenged and now it is challenged in the

streets of greece and italy and at the ballot box in germany and in finland and this is a message i think the ukrainian still has to understand thank you. speaking without the. right to clean goes down. squandered money. about. what is now. more than sixty square kilometers of environmental devastation and those who are still surprising new lives and finding are just. getting bad out here but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. yes you know i don't

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