people in the u.s. state department in the case foreign office and the u.n. want to frame this argument is that assad is having a crackdown on dissidents these are not dissidents these are in some cases armed insurgent and they're being backed in a material way by the u.s. in some of these countries who actually are in the guitar also has an interest in regime change in this country libya has sent al-qaeda fighters under the command of their tripoli governor to go and fight in syria this contravenes all united name and laws ok if the u.s. is actively involved in supporting this that they are culpable in international court egyptians are once again heading to the polls in a third round of parliamentary elections it's widely expected that has a lot of groups will win and be the ones to take over from the current military

rulers but the run up to the final round of voting has seen clashes between the army and protesters as well as police raids on non-governmental organizations as reading the reports discontent with the current regime is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager accused of corruption and suffocating freedom but now it's the ruling supreme council of armed forces which finds itself in hot water with the west following raids on human rights organizations last week i feel this is a very dangerous situation because you have. but the people in the streets pushing secularists who have links with these groups so that the big tension really between washington and kyra. left up cell phones and more than twenty boxes of documents were reportedly seized during raids by the police authorities promised all will be returned yet several questions remain what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about energy all of the

races in post revolutionary egypt. and the members of the arabic center for an independent judiciary never did get an official explanation for the confiscation of their documents or the eviction from their office that followed. we don't know what they were searching for we told them we could give them anything they wanted but they came in search of everything and didn't give a simple answer whether they wanted bank statements or anything else from him sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vix it ngo workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge he says i would surprise. the police but the. ticket system just. can't take a position in the august human rights activists believe they should. say. this is

a. human rights activists in egypt believe the rays are attempts to punish them for accusing military rulers of failing to carry through democratic reforms but. western observers say the authorities are becoming increasingly wary of the ever watchful eye from washington and the true purpose of raids is to prove foreign funding. which authorities accuse of destabilizing egypt and seems to be a strand of opinion inside the military inside the state machine that. is very disillusioned with the old friendship with the west and may be trying to find evidence to prove that some of the trouble on the street some of that. has been in some way fostered by. washington tirelessly repeats the old adagio of the importance of its relations with egypt as a key player in the middle east but polite talk may hide a very different agenda washington doesn't want stabilization they want permanent

arnie's so that they can you know use that as a lever in the entire region egyptian activists aren't too happy with western help which they say can do more harm than good. and i don't like the way foreign countries put pressure on egyptian authorities that the pressure has to come from the egyptians and we as a human rights organization should provide it. whatever the real reasons for the reins of n.g.o.s says the increasing internal strife in the country could portend a shipwreck not just for egypt's relations with the west but for the country's revolution in cairo. r.t. . and coming up on our t.v. making the russian army fighting fit we will consider how moscow is reversing it downward spiral for its military with billions important reforms and new weaponry and. then this new book has been that we won't let me or nazis rule here. residents

of a quiet german town are trying to stop a neo nazi epidemic from spreading but are they are after it's enough for our team best to gates. wealthy british style. that's not on the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to conjure reports.

brighton if you live from phones to print it's. nice for instance on t.v. don't. iran has successfully test fired a selection of different missiles on the last of ten days of naval war games in the gulf western powers have described the exercise as evidence of iran's volatile behavior france had missile test sent out bad signals to the international community. iran also held an exercise simulating the shutting down of the strait of hormuz that would said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier than wrong. threatened to block the world's most important oil route if the west stepped up sanctions against the country's nuclear program on saturday u.s. president barack obama signed a bill targeting iran's oil and financial sector as a sign monitor on the from the university of tehran says america is provoking iran

. it is really the americans that are being provocative they are trying to make ordinary iranians suffer at the same time we see senior american officials and politicians constantly calling for the assassination of iranian scientists of iranian military commanders of politicians and the constant threat of attacking and bombing the country so really the problem lies with the united states the maneuvers in the persian gulf are basically to show the united states that iran is strong and can protect themselves and it is basically the only way in which to force the united states to recognize that certain lines just simply shouldn't be crossed if the americans and its allies try to make the iranian economy suffocate the iranians will have no option but to respond in a sea of severe manner this is

a region where an extraordinarily large amount of oil and gas. goes through and if there is insecurity in the region it's not just the strait of hormuz if there is a conflict in the persian gulf tankers who will be at risk that oil installations will be at risk war is hell and this instability will go beyond the persian gulf it will i think of oil exports and gas exports will be at risk in central asia and throughout the middle east and there will be a lot of backlash from the public throughout the region. the collapse of the military oriented soviet union has seen a gradual dk of russia's armed forces and major reforms have been put in place to put them back on track moscow will now pour over six hundred billion dollars into refitting the army over the next ten years and there is a new man in charge as well russia's former envoy to nato will now put his long experience to good use helping revamp the country's military are to some bargain

explains why changes are needed. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces certainly falling behind and have fallen behind some of the larger arrivals new equipment is a priority there's also a dire need for reforms in organization recruitment training pay and military doctrine the government has promised six hundred forty billion dollars over the next ten years to buy new weapons but russian arms manufacturers are no longer what they used to be me she just army now is in need of contemporary modern equipment and if the russian defense industry can't yet provide us with what we need will buy into a broad new purchases include this land assault ship the mistral book from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones to through the particular problem the defense ministry dismayed by the russian company tasked with designing

and building them yet. i asked them what was their problem and what prevented them from producing good vehicles the enterprise's bosses found plenty of excuses such as the absence of engines gliders exacta and i now know how much money they received and i saw the rubbish they produced not all new russian made weapons are falling below standard the su thirty four fighter bomber is widely considered an exceptional aircraft but so few have been delivered that the older models they were to replace are starting to fail although russian designers come up with some excellent hardware for instance in terms of fighter and combat aircraft some time the industry has trouble in maintaining these at a high level and actually producing about the kind of numbers of the armed forces needed and the reforms still have angry opponents to both in and outside the armed forces many of them argue that the we are mint is going just fine and that buying

foreign workmen's undermines russia's military. independence commission. we are becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment and foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies were specifically fuels and lubricants and other substances needed for the new equipment norms say of service in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the georgian army out of south setia in just five days but experts were dismayed at how outdated and clumsy the russian army looked when faced with real opposition it reinforced the need for serious change the money being thrown at the problem is vast regiments of rubles on their own aren't enough most here at the defense ministry now know that before the armed forces are ready for modern conflict a very long and very demanding war for reform must be one here in the corridors of government and in factories around russia tom watson r.t. moscow. so i had for you this hour here in our key to success. the same

question everybody to the farmer all over the world are the review you are doing because. when we started i didn't know anything about it but the more i worked on the lower the picture of reform on the board from others a person. we hear from the madam moved to russia years ago to explore the country's neglected lands and transform them into florida businesses and he reveals the secrets in our special series binders. watching our two live from moscow let's take a look at what's making news elsewhere in the world towns of thousands have rallied outside budapest opera house to protest against the new hungary and constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounce president viktor orban center right as dictatorship they say the new laws will undermine democracy and threaten judicial independence legislation was pushed

through parliament last april despite criticism from the u.s. and. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are pushing to win over the people of iowa in the first election of a voting season the polls are the first in a state by state qantas to choose obama's republican rival in next year's presidential election candidates ron paul rick santorum and mitt romney are the current favorites around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote on tuesday a. massive forest fires have swept through chile's southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand hectares of force landed steroid hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battle to control the blaze that spread across three provinces chile's south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly vulnerable. two fires and israeli tourists has been accused of negligently starting the blaze while camping

in the region's torah still pain national park. up to fifty thousand people have fled their homes in south sudan and scores are feared dead in the latest rash of intertribal violence at the weekend thousands of armed tribesmen descended on the town of bor forcing their rivals take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese government have bolstered their forces in the area in an attempt to bring the situation under control the un has warned that the escalating violence could lead to a major humanitarian tragedy. in the past few years many countries have seen a growth. in germany more and more young people are joining the groups some points to poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame the group is going off now reports on what's driving youngsters along a dangerous path. a quiet down disturbed.

a small community divided. it began with the appearance of nazi symbols then the local social center was burned to the ground your own office was also vandalized says for him the final straw was when your nazis marched through the town's main square. i used to be afraid but it helps not to act alone to have supporters i became a public person with our initiative and it sort of my protection the n.t. nazi initiative is actively supported by around fifty locals many are retired and armed with posters they stand up to those who are often much younger and looking not too friendly like this young man who openly calls himself a neo nazi and admits encouraging a teenager to set the social center on fire he now faces up to two years behind bars in this new book but we won't let me go now sees rule here yet not all locals

agree the initiative is often criticized the neo nazi party even being three percent of bullets at the most recent polls on election day. the beans that had split our town some say we're exaggerating and are only making things worse by attracting too much attention but i think they're simply afraid. activists say it's easy for new nazis to recruit new members especially among disillusioned and dejected teenagers with poor infrastructure and high unemployment and few social skeets which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to the streets when the population of just around six thousand people sausan is a typical small german town far away from large industries and financial centers life here is cause and peaceful or at least it used to be before two thousand and nine mr van. and the other activists are not going to back down until returns back

to normal but unfortunately the problem is in germany exists on a much wider scale thousands of. police and activists and german authorities called two suspects believed to be members. keep them for use in killing at least foreigners but. it's money struggles. the trouble of course. causes. conflict and. we have a kind of rage. you know. germany's spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home

could be. it may be for disenfranchised youth the country towards some of the biggest mistakes of this past. germany. all civil rights groups have slammed a controversial new fans bill signed by president obama the law authorizes indefinite detention of terrorist suspects without charge or trial president obama said he had serious reservations over this bill and will not invoke all the clauses that entails but human rise woops call that a blight on obama's legacy is future presidents might music to its fullest extent as. a prison remains open almost four years after president obama promised to shut it down sara flounders from the international action center says the new bill violates basic democratic rights to fight for. the threat mass detention without trial without charges being held by

the u.s. military who previously could not legally operate within the u.s. only around the world the u.s. says that they're speaking for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the u.s. wars are a form of absolute terror there is no other way of explaining secret rendition torture kidnapping targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the u.s. is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the u.s. at a time when there has been a mass movement the occupy wall street movement and more than a hundred cities across the country and every one of those occupy movements were shut down illegally by the police both president obama has violated the very pledges he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet

you have an even more reactionary hoofing pledging more wars expanded u.s. agenda of broad and against the rights of working people right here at home and all this is in a time of great economic crisis and hardship for millions of people right here a huge cowper list meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. more stories news and analysis on our web site r.t. dot com and here are some was lined up for you this hour tough times for the hero the ten year old single currency holds grim prospects well as recession with god the details. let's zoom in on israel secrets a target is to blur the lines or it's a picture of a former ally in focus for the world's eyes all that much more at our t.v.

dot com. it's. all we continue to introduce you to for nurse hove achieved success by doing business in russia and in our pathfinder series we talked to the ex-pats who have discovered the country's potential. well john of his skin used to earn a living trading co in great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia married a russian woman and became

a farmer he now owns one of the country's most profitable daily farms. when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the between two years we had folders growing today these lines are now working we have a will over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago the people applying are brutal cold milk and even as a rule we started our project we thought we could make money out of that we talked to various parties they said is a good idea the middle market will be there and we went ahead. the first problem we encountered i think normal was that the workers expected that they'd lost by by mr started and now john had a right in the first year that we were here we were changing ninety percent of the start of the month we couldn't find anybody that we thought could manage such a modern farm so in the end we decided to cover our risk we would look overseas and i interviewed many people and in the end we have a young american now running the farm he's been with us for six years with his

family we should look at the manure more what do you think it's a good. night how color. cows are the easiest thing to manage is people that cause the problem probably number one problem i saw with people was they never had to take on responsibility for themselves now we've kind of. made this a team effort here where people have personal responsibility and. we go as far as to tell them each day what they have to do and what has to be there for certain forms to fill out so that we can see they did their job you love money or you love russia without that you can't work it because the frustrations of the bureaucracy is the main thing there are just too many laws every day you just finding new ones in a farm in the west of husband and wife and an accountant an external accountant could run the farm here i've got fourteen people in the office it really is the sense that in order for you to get a desired it's a very long road in the west it's fast you need to do some treatment which.

typically here on a russian farm there's someone that's your boss. and someone's boss is someone else's boss here we don't have that it's me i'm the boss of the farm and then we have workers that's it there's no middle management. it was much harder ten years ago we had to go running around. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got. we've got. one from germany we've got campaign and we've got pepsi if you work it properly you've got big plans you can do big problems and should really efficiency of scale because lines more efficiency that's the real big advantage in america we don't have that chance anymore because the land's all taken it's very expensive to begin farming here we have a chance to take as much land is needed because it's not used. their ears are cold and temperature was ok this morning there's always a challenge in america gets boring after

a while everything's there everything is simple here. the same question everybody is a farmer all over the world that we radiate so we like it i do it because. when we started i didn't know anything about it but the more i worked on the line the became the more i did you felt i was a person i come here and i see that affected the lives of over one hundred people the local community now in the shops become better and we're producing something that really is worth something i spent all my life selling and buying millions of tons of coal i never sold a colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. i'll bring you more from our special pathfinder series every day here on r.t. as we meet some of the business trailblazers and russia's capital for that if we can now as the economic crisis is threatening the e.u.

is existence we ask former german chancellor gerhard schroeder if there is a way to avoid total collapse before that though i'll bring you the headlines stay with us.

welcome back you're watching our team and these are the top stories ever of the league observers say syrian leaders how old have the weapons out of key cities and believe three and a half thousand prisoners of the body confirmed snipers are still a threat and called for an am to the shooting. egyptians had to the polls in the third round of parliamentary elections where the vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups with recent raids on foreign n.g.o.s it's feared the military's grip on power could remain as strong as ever. and iran's missile tests in the gulf draw western condemnation tehran also palin exercise simulating the shutting down of a key oil route but said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so critics

say the u.s. is provoking to iran by slapping down ever more crippling sanctions. so they had lines next we talked to former german chancellor and current chairman of the north stream gas pipeline gary hart schroeder tells r.t. about the benefits of energy cooperation between russia and the e.u. and discusses ways for the eurozone to escape its debt crisis. gerhard schroeder was chancellor of germany from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at nordstrom's russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom has kidney i know. we're not talking about russia's dependence we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the.