office and the u.n. i 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. and by some of these countries who actually are in the league qatar 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 and if the u.s. is actively involved in supporting this then they are culpable in international court. egyptians are once again having to the polls in a third round of parliamentary elections it's widely expected that as long as groups will win and take over from the current military rulers of 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 a renegotiated our reports discontent with the current regime is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manage it sions accuse of corruption and suffocating freedom but no 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 to elections on the one hand. but the people on the streets pushing for change secularists who have links with these groups so that the big tension really between washington and kyra. cell phones and more than twenty boxes of documents were reportedly seized during raids by the police authorities promise all will be returned several questions remain what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about it and you operations 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 victualling 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 everything and didn't give a simple answer whether they wanted bank statements or anything else to make him sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vix to n.g.o.s workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge says i would surprise. the police like the. ticket system at least i'll support this. you can't take a position. that you moderates the activity. 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 over again is ations which authorities accuse of destabilizing egypt seems to be a strand of opinion in the military. machine that. is very disillusioned with the old friendship with the west may be trying to find evidence to prove that some of the trouble. has been in some way forced 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 to be permanent 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. money from us whatever their real reasons for the reins of n.g.o.s this is the increasing internal strife in the country could portend a shipwreck not just for egypt relations with the west but for the countries revolution in cairo. r.t. . and coming up on our t.v. making their brush an army trying to get your work into. moscow is reversing a downward spiral for its military with billions poured into reforms and new weaponry also. the we will. rule here. residents of a quiet german town are trying to stop anyone out the epidemic from spreading but

are there afterwards enough to investigate. 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 said the missile test sent out bad signals to the international community iran also held an exercise simulating shutting down of the strait of hormuz said it had no immediate attention of actually doing so earlier tehran threatened to block the world's most important oil route if the west stepped up sanctions against the country's nuclear program and saturday u.s. president barack obama signed a bill targeting iran's oil and financial sectors side mohammad marandi 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 you see senior american officials and politicians constantly calling for

the assassination of iranian scientists of iranian military commander 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 sure a month just simply shouldn't be crossed if the americans. 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 boil 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 or iyad assad has seen a gradual decay of russia's armed forces and major reforms have been put in place to put them back on track moscow will pour over six hundred billion dollars into refitting the army over the next ten years and there's a new man in charge as well russia's former and void to nato well now put is long experience to good use helping revamp the country's military barden explains why changes are needed. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces certainly falling behind enough for

a 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 our army now is in need of contemporary modern equipment and if the russian defense industry can't yet provide us with what we need it will buy into broad new purchases include this land the sole ship the mistral book from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones or through the particular problem the defense ministry dismayed by the russian company tasked with designing and building them yet either but when 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 exaction 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 design has come up with some excellent hardware for instance in terms of fighter combat aircraft some time the industry has trouble in maintaining these at a high level and 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 weapons undermines russia's military. depends on the mission. we are becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment on foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies with specific fuels and lubricants

and other substances needed for the new equipment norms. in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the troops out of south in just five days but experts were dismayed how outdated and clumsy the russian army looked when faced with real position it reinforced the need for serious change the money being thrown at the problem is vast regiments of rubles on the road onto enough most here at the defense ministry no no before the armed forces are ready for more than conflict a very long and very demanding war for reform must be won here in the corridors of government and in factories around russia and moscow so i have for this hour the key to success the same question everybody answers the farmer all over the world how do we radiate so we like i do it because. when we started i didn't know

anything about it but the more i worked on the line the became a farmer the more i really felt i was a person we hear from the man who moved to russia years ago to explore the country's neglected lands and transform them into fortune businesses he reveals his secrets in our special series of pathfinders. and now a look at what's making the news around the world this hour tens of thousands have rallied outside budapest opera house to protest against kerry and constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounce president viktor orban central arrive regime as a dictatorship they say they. don't mind democracy and threaten judicial independence the legislation was forced through parliament last april despite criticism from the u.s. and the. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are pushing to win over the people of iowa in the first election of the voting season the polls are the first state by state qantas

to choose barack obama's republican rival in next year's presidential election candidates wrong 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 chilly southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand hectares of forest land destroyed hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battled to control the blaze and it spread across three provinces chilly south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly vulnerable to fires and israeli tourists has been accused of negligently starting the blaze while camping in the regions of 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 war forcing their rials take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese governments have bolstered their forces in the area in an attempt to bring the situation under control the un has warned that escalating violence could lead to a major humanitarian tragedy. in the past few years many e.u. countries have seen a growth. in german war and more young people are joining the groups some point to poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame the workers 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 end the 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 bendish new book but we won't let me or nazis rule here yet not all locals agree the initiative is often criticised the neo nazi party even being three percent of votes at the most recent polls on election day put on ten thousand beans that had split our town some say where 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 to recruit new members especially among disillusioned and dejected teenagers with poor infrastructure and high unemployment and few social skills which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to streets where 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 called and peaceful or at least it used to be before two thousand and nine mr vantine and the other activists are not going to back down until after it turns back to normal but unfortunately the problem isn't in germany exists on a much wider scale thousands of new gather for a new marches in dresden often clashing with police and activists and in november german authorities called two suspects believed to be members of

a terrorist so that it is keep them for use in killing at least ten foreigners but . it's money struggles which are igniting the trouble of course economic. causes. conflict. solved we have a kind of rage but now. as you know escalated. education germany's spending billions to call the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be. unchecked it may be too long before disenfranchised you drank the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of this past. or to germany. civil rights groups have slammed a controversial new to fans bill signed by president obama

a law authorizes indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge or try. while president obama said he had serious reservations about the bill and will not put all of it into action by human rights groups called it a blight legacy as future presidents could use it to its fullest extent and this comes as a tory is going ton of a bay 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 the basic democratic rights that the u.s. claims to fight for around the world there is the threat a 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 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 in 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 pledge and he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet you have an even more reactionary moving pledging more wars expanded 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 meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. well we've plenty more stories news and analysis aligned at r.t. dot com here's some what's lined out for you this hour. tough times for the euro the ten year old single currency holder graham prospects for twenty twelve as a recession looms we've got the details. and zooming in on israel secrets a turkish satellite has some blurred the lines for its picture sounds at a former ally leaving it in focus for the world's eyes all that much more at our team dot com. is.

your for sure. your. talk from the. video. and. the palm of your. home and we continue to introduce you to foreigners who have achieved success by doing business in russia and our past minor series we talk to the x. bats who have discovered the country's full potential. john kaminski used to earn a living trading kohl 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 for twenty years we had folders growing today these lines are now working we have a well over four thousand take does this year ten twelve years ago the people applying approval for old mill and even at a rebel we started a project we thought we could make money out of that we talked to various parties they said is a good idea the mill will be there and we went ahead. the first problem we encountered i think were normal was that the work as expected that they'd lost by by mr starr didn't know john had arrived 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 still could manage such a modern farm so in the end we decided to cover our risk we would look for the season 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 nice color. cows are the easiest thing to manage is people because 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 a husband and wife and an accountant an external accountant to 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 faster we need to do some treatment we. typically hear 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 down on the good we've got. going from germany we've got company now and we've got pepsi if you work it properly you've got big plans you can do big problems and just really efficiency of scale because learns more efficiencies 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 as needed because it's not used. and their ears are

cold and temperature was ok this morning there's always a challenge and america gets boring after a while everything's there everything is simple here. the same question everybody wants 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 of the more i mean he 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 tonnes of coal i never sold a colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. and we'll be bringing you more from our special pathfinder series every day here in r.t. as we meet some of the business trailblazers and russia's capital so stay tuned for

that if you count. now next in our program is our interview shows bald lie with al gore and also and that's in a couple of minutes before that they will bring you the headlines stay with us.

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everything observers say syrian leaders how old have the weapons out of key cities and released three and a half thousand prisoners but the body confirmed snipers are still a threat and called for an end 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 and fear the military is a grip on power could remain as strong as ever. and iran's missile tests in the golf draw western condemnation iran also held an exercise simulating the shutting down of a key will route but said it had no immediate attention of actually doing so critics say the u.s.

is provoking iran by slapping down ever more crippling sanctions. well next hour he talks to america's screenwriting guru who became the inspiration for a whole generation of his hollywood successors shares some of the top tips on successful riding with us and spotlight. a little give the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our feet and i'll be no end to be my guest who's robert mckee. the filmmaking confessionals treat screenwriting as something straight at.