serious decision to read observers into the country split position groups some welcome the brink while this intensify calls for outside military intervention into and months of on rests. the spine fading of finding more survivors from a capsized all raygun branches are released the search goes on as people who were pulled alive from freezing waters are vital but all. my joy was one of russia's position leaders find himself red faced and the conversation is threatening to damage his relationships with allies and labels cowardly penguin.

a very warm welcome to you this is our seed life from moscow syria could be the next object of a foreign military intervention of some opposition groups get their way their calls for outside help are growing louder insisting is the only way to protect civilians from government security forces the libya stalls of mine comes despite the laces decision by the mask us to allow arab league observers to monitor how the regime's dealing with the rest there's been recent reports suggesting that dozens of army desertions killed by syrian troops at the sas and sara first found out the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war than a government crackdown. we're here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard to insurances that the civilian population here lives here was a week of the week a month after month they've had to endure. this conflicts with the ongoing violence

is taking its toll best are they of their own maybe who's that of being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who've been kidnapped we've had enough who did we do to deserve this homes is being described as a city on the brink of civil war where some of the series fiercest fighting has broken out. driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains and usually slogans on walls there's a heavy military presence we went able to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing it would be empty dangerous to visit. but in other areas of the city daily life struggles own b.s. and to the backdrop of gunfire. you can see that shows i'm playing here in a holding cell this is day one of the major. conflict continues for the safety of the civilians they continue living here in the city here the situation in homs

right now is far more complex than simply what is the opposition against the regime here deep seated sectarian conflicts coverage their heads. from the very beginning homes it was because they're equal large numbers of both sects much more than in other cities. the military funeral held yesterday gets under way for five soldiers killed by what the government says is an increasingly militant movement and on the same day reports from the opposition the harrowing accounts the civilian deaths around the country. make serious decision to allow the arab league to send observers to the more important this is naturally we want. to see. in the same time preserve our sovereignty so really it depends on the intention really want to help. most. decisions been flattened by the main opposition outside

the country b s n c. louis the opposition inside the country has welcomed in the north. we hope it's going to be implemented on the ground as it stated in the protocol and we remain completely against international intervention it would lead the country to destruction. with a fractious opposition a rising death toll with facts and information still very hard to verify even on the ground if that is a rival here in syria will be an important step but it's going to be just one of many more that will need to fully and seeing to ensure the name or lives lost. city of homs in syria. he says they want foreign intervention in syria don't really have humanitarian. we know how the syrian people feel they're all against foreign intervention and we've seen what foreign

intervention has done in our country in iraq for example and in libya recently it was a disaster so nobody no arab i think not only let alone the syrians know out i would welcome a foreign intervention that these people be so called opposition has gone out of their minds i think that they're just lost and they're beginning actually to lose contact complete contact with the syrian people it's the simple as that these people are desperate they want power they they of course they want to topple the syrian regime and they don't care about the country you know even if the country is destroyed as long as there is toppled as long as they. gain power they don't care much about their own homeland after all they've been out of their country for a long time and i don't think they have anybody who called so foreign intervention is actually. not only to the syrian government but to the syrian people to the

syrian homeland. still to come this hour on the program beaten up by the. bungles it's a bailout cash deadline as the block struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good of thank you ray. and now to the oil rig that capsized in russia's far east on sunday where rescue operations are continuing despite fading hopes of finding any more survivors a total of fourteen have now been safely brought to shore and of being treated in the hospitals taken agrees that some of them as they arrived in port. dry land and the end of a nightmare for the weary few on board the ship rescued from a horrific ordeal in which friends and colleagues were lost they are among the few to be found alive after an all rig on the toes sank in freezing waters for the servant people about some eight ports and their families awaiting them the moments

will no doubt be one of intense relief but their tale of survival differs greatly so that the majority of those aboard this ill fated oil rig. psychologists and doctors met the survivors upon arrival filled likely be an experience that will haunt them for a lifetime. i swam away from the rig a bit turned around inside capsize and i started swimming away as fast as possible in fear that i could be drawn into the board tax but those found alive you can see that in comparison they are the fortunate few dozens are still missing in the icy hoxsey following more than two days of searching planes are flying sorties to try and locate those lost and they're being accompanied by boats in the area but the hours spent scouring the horizon so far prefer as only the numbers found dead appear to grow and angry relatives for they know just who is to blame. seem to like why did they need so many sixty seven people at daybreak why what was the purpose

of having sixty seven people there. yes you know i'm the wife of captain kozlov for the voyage here dressed every official morning down there to talking was prohibited in the winter months by a war or. it may have been one of the largest oil rigs in russia but disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes. or wattles investigators are looking into three possible causes of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the tugging of the drilling rig secondly the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly the decision to turn the rig might have been taken without proper consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site . but the official findings will take some time and whatever the outcome for the families of those involved the little comfort they still to come to terms of losing their loved ones something more may experience as

a hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim jake agrees r.t. second in russia's far east. we'll continue to follow the rescue operation. on twitter monitoring developments as they happen and one of his recent tweet he reports on the anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions over why the request hailed a. follow on twitter feed on our web site. it's .

a body of north korea's late. today has been put on display his son and successor was the first to pay his final respects video from the country also shows thousands of mourners weeping in the streets the news that came death put the north and neighbors on high and that fearing instability in the region japan called a special security missing south korea said its military is standing ready for peace on the korean peninsula depends on how much. house according to the former head of the un's atomic watchdog. i think it is important that they are outside the world. does not make. threats from the outside. and we know that list with a lot of jewelry arranged for all of north korea so even with outlook you know it does this situation would be

a risky one. and if north korea were provocative. there could be a risk also of encouraging. forces. you can watch the full interview with hans blix later in the program here on sci. now public apologies and embarrassing explanations the fate of one of russia's opposition leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online but he's themself could face a split within the ranks after using insulting words to describe his allies hamsters and cowardly penguins are among the least offensive to. revelations were published in life news dot grew a notoriously tabloid sensationalist website in russia and they concern six hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls

protesters how would leave kind wins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life news is oh no for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from but all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate conspiracy and political

life isn't just a case of untangle check out our website www dot com there we look at how washington is playing big politics today the influence. of protests to follow. the russian president takes an unexpected. antiballistic missile has been test fired in kazakstan as part of the russian military defense modernization drive this is the first time the russian ministry of defense has released footage of its detests the display of firepower comes amid the long lasting russian nato standoff over the u.s.

backed missile defense system planned for eastern europe and turkey washington says it will not threaten russia's security while moscow demands legal guarantees it also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent start nuclear reduction treaty. now the e.u. missed a self-imposed monday deadline to come up with two hundred billion year a for its latest block wide bailout scheme the union fell fifty billion short of its target but this bickering paralyzing the projects the cash pool was intended as a debt and i will become one of the last lines of economic defense but the plan stalled on takeoff with that britain among others refusing to pump more cash into the their reasoning is that the year is ancient sort out its own problems but assassins and reports that maybe else going tomorrow from member states on the last one out to legs. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region reality their homeland. is the poorest country and after

spending a year being part of the euro zone these people say the positive changes they were promised are nowhere to be seen recently euro commission check their pensions are authorities told they received an average pension of six hundred euros this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred we hear get around two hundred a stone he adopted the euro last january but despite a general positive attitude towards the move until now it is mostly big businesses and politicians that are really enjoying the transition there are clearly some political advantages in terms of if you want lock in your study and more firmly in into the you know we could want you to see as well in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well here people seem to be to see the advantages you maybe politically rather than economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september story has agreed to take part in the group in

financial stability facility the board you created to combat financial crisis and bail out countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price you can not afford to buy formula for us is very bad. because we need to. march. or percentage from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from. the poorest country we need to pay off march reacher concrete the country central bank has even warned of a possible recession recent polls suggest up to sixty percent of historians are against the country's membership of the. government however doesn't seem to pay attention and refuses to drop out of this relief fund meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes and far it would then see

their pension money heading their adopting the euro soon or later was a necessary condition for a stone you to join the european union but being part of the european financial stability facility was not in the agreement and while economists are speculating whether stonier should continue its membership in this organization ordinary people are left to wonder why they have to pay someone else's debts. reporting from. kitchens and other international headlines this hour now and troops and riot police swept through close to live square before dawn on tuesday in another attempt to the protesters beating them and using live ammunition as well or fourteen people have lost their lives in five consecutive days of clashes in the capital demonstrators are calling for an immediate end to military rule in force since egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february and these are live pictures that we're now

seeing from cairo where thousands of people defiantly remain on tahrir square. piers morgan has denied phone hacking took place while he was editor of the daily mail on the news of the world the current c.n.n. host was giving evidence to an inquiry into the conduct and ethics of the british press the scandal broke after it was discovered that the news of the world had been illegally accessing the cell phones of high profile people this july so the hacking revolutions revelations rather forced the title to close off several executives and journalists have been arrested in an ongoing police investigation into the scandal . a minute's silence was held across belgium as thousands remember the victims of last week's shootout in the city of leisure the incident saw a man go on a rampage shooting and lobbing grenades at a crowd they were christmas market five people were killed in iraq hundred twenty

injured in the incident the attacker who shot himself before the police arrived was an exit convict to serve the sentence for firearms and drug related crimes. iraq's sunni vice president tariq al hashimi has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he said the allegations have been fabricated and partly in december since iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant for him yesterday on suspicion of running a hit squad that killed government figures the episode has increased tensions between sunni and shia groups just days before u.s. forces complete their withdrawal from the country. i was countries suspected of developing nuclear weapons or tried to global concern perhaps the best person for expert analysis is the former chief of the un atomic energy watch dog our interview with the man who was at the head of the agency. is up next here on asking.

well i'm joined by mr hans blix from stop calling mr blix chair of the international atomic agency for energy agency for sixteen years and was the head of the u.n.

inspection team in iraq prior to the second iraq war mr blix it's great to have you with us sir now i'd like to start with i should latest news came young male who during seventeen year old rule north korea has emerged as a nuclear state has died of a heart failure now his son in kenya and is the next national leader what do we know about him are things going to stay pretty much the same or where general security under threat how vigorously will he have push for nuclear weapons. while we are generally rather it. about the. architecture of the power building. north korea. but the change has been underway for some time but of course. there's always a risk in such a structure that there can be changes so i think it is important that the

outside world. does not make them nervous because they will feel themselves in a situation of some weakness and any threats from the outside might make them provocative for the last few years iran was number one nuclear energy for the united states do you expect maybe a shift of interest from iran to north korea or does a country need to have oil as well to justify that much attention from the west. no i think both places are of great importance in the north korean situation first of all we know that within artillery range for all of north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation there would be a risky one and if north korea were provocative. there could be a risk also of encouraging. forces in japan. i don't see that

now. but that would be a risk in the case of iran. on the other hand we see that already in. their work in iran to develop a capacity we enrich uranium has increased threat tensions enormously. and there there is a great arms race going on. and we hear who works in israel and then in the united states saying that they should bomb iran oh yes sir this is very similar similar to what happened in iraq. could we be seeing the new iraqi scenario unfolding here as far as iran goes well there are some similarities in the. escalation of the language and the threats. that we had in the case of iraq and now having case of iran on the other hand we must remember that in case of iraq

they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists today they are talking about iranian intentions of may or may or may not exist. but the difference is that iran certainly has a lot of nuclear installations iraq did not have that but in your own opinion is iran of any imminent threat to any nation at this point. i don't think so. dave is it true that the nearly doubt has come out in the very a very bad language about israel wiping israel off the map of the world but i think most people with me think that he is really talking to the arab street he has want to wanted to destabilize arab states that have supported the united states . iraq iran does not have

a track record of aggression in fact there was iraq that attacked iran. so i don't see an immediate threat from iran but i can understand that israelis are nervous but the u.s. and israel maintain the latest i ate a report provides very strong evidence that iran is seeking a nuclear weapon. here's the question do you think iran has a nuclear weapon no i think in nobody really thinks they have a nuclear weapon and i think one must read that report rather carefully what they say is that they see some evidence that could it could be explained if they were dealing with a weapon or a mere weapon and that there seems on the other evidence that is very hard to explain unless they were working towards a weapon but they have not said that they established that iraq or actually intends

to do it so they might stop short of their weapons thank you very much for this interview. history. testimony. two thousand and eleven. the swiss the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster. had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution of the most recent study that was done shows that this water

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