state department the u.k. foreign office and the u.n. i want to bring 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 the tar 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 they are culpable in international court. and tensions are once again having to the polls in a third round of parliamentary elections it's widely expected that islam is ropes will win and 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 a renegotiation of reports discontent with the current regime is trying high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager sions accused 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 falling raids on human rights organizations last week i feel this is a very dangerous situation because you have elections on the one hand producing a majority but the people on the streets pushing for change of secularists who have links with these groups so it's a sign that this big tension really between washington and kyra let dobbs cellphones and more than twenty boxes of documents were reportedly seized during raids by the police authorities promised all will be returned yet and several questions remain what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about it and you appear. 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. 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 other than macand sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vixen to n.g.o.s workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak charge this is our surprise. to the police but. the transitional you. can't take a position. against the human rights activist. says . this is a new. 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 going is ations which authorities accuse of destabilizing egypt and seems to be a strand of opinion in the military in 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 streets. 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 to stay. stabilization they want

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. i don't like the way foreign countries pressure on egyptian authorities that the pressure has to come from the egyptian and we as a human rights organizations should provide it. from us whatever the real reasons for the raids of n.g.o.s offices the increasing internal strife in the country will tend to shipwreck not just for egypt's relations with the west but for the country's revolution in cairo. and coming out here in our team making the russian army fighting think we look into how moscow is reversing a downward spiral for its military with billions poured into reforms and new weaponry also. the.

residents of a quiet german town are trying to stop anyone else the epidemic from spreading but are there asked her to now. investigates. iran has successfully test fired a selection of different missiles on the last of ten days of naval wargames in the gulf western powers have described the exercise as evidence of iran's volatile behavior for the missile test sent out bad signals to the international community iran also held an exercise simulating the shutting down of the strait of hormuz though it said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier to ron threaten 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 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 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 their 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. i think own 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 savita union 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 going to nato will now put his long experience to good use helping to revamp the country's military are just on barton explains why changes are needed. the russian armed

forces the pride of the nation or are they but i'm for certain falling behind and have 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 russian arms manufacturers are no longer what they used to be i mean 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 will buy into broad new purchases include this land the sole ship the mistral got from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones has proved a 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 way our moment is going just fine and that buying foreign weapons 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 will specifically fuel rods and lubricants and other substances needed for the new equipment norms say other. than two thousand and eight russian forces push the trojan army out of south of 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 the 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. r.t. moscow. also i have for you this hour here in r.t. the key to success. the same question everybody all over the world.

where we start you don't know anything about the world. or the board there's a person we hear from the man who moved to russia years ago to explore the country's neglected lands and transform them into florida businesses he reveals his secrets in our special series pathfinders. now let's take a look at what else is making news around the world tens of thousands have rallied in central bit of past protest against the new here in constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounce president viktor orban center right regime as a dictatorship they say the new laws will undermine democracy and threaten judicial independence the legislation was pushed through parliament last april despite criticism from the u.s. and. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are competing to win over the people of iowa why

in the first election of the voting season the polls are the first in a state by state contests to choose the republican contender for barack obama's white house chair in next year's presidential election candidates ron paul rick santorum and mitt romney are at the current favorites around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote in tuesday's party election. massive forest fires have swept through other and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand tap there is a forest land destroyed hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battle to control the blaze that spread across three provinces south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly vulnerable to fires at israeli tourist has been accused of nine. gently starting the blaze while camping in the region's forest paying national park. 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 sanded on the town of people for forcing their rivals to take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese government have bolstered their forces in the area 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 point poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame you are just going off now reports on what's driving youngsters along a dangerous path. a quiet down disturbed. a small community devoid of. it began with the appearance of nazi

symbols then the local social center was burned to the ground your. office was also vandalized says for him the final straw was when neo nazis marched through the town's main square. i used to be afraid but it helps not to have supporters i became a public person with our initiative and it sort of my protection. is actively supported by around fifty local. retired and armed posters they stand up to those who are often much younger looking to friends 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 and we won't let me rule here yet not all locals agree the initiative is often criticized the tea party even being three percent of

bullets at the most recent poll in the election did. 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 to recruit new members especially in disillusioned and dejected teenagers who infrastructure and high unemployment and few so she's skeets which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to the streets when a 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. exists on

a much wider scale. thousands of new gather for a new president clashing with police and activists and in the german authorities called two suspects believed to be members of a terrorist so that it is keep them for years. in killing at least ten foreigners but anyone. excuse it's money struggles or. trouble of course economic on the wrist causes family conflicts and families. solve we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated racist education germany's spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its spirit if you were on you know between people. you rank the entire country toward some of the biggest

mistakes of this past. the german. civil rights groups have slammed a controversial new towns bill signed by president obama as a lot arises indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge or trial president obama said he had serious reservations about the bill and will not put all of it into action but human rights groups call it a blight on obama's legacy as future presidents could use it to its fullest extent this comes as the tory's guantanamo 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 no 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 us wars are a form of absolute power there is no other way of explaining secret rendition torture kidnapping targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the us is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the us 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 fledging more wars expanded us 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. but here's some of what's lined up for you this hour tough times for the euro the ten year old single currency holds a grim prospects for twenty twelve as recession looms we've got the details. and zooming in on israel secrets a target satellite is to blur the lines for its picture a sensitive former. focus for the world's eyes all that and much more attitude dot com. is.

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john biscay used to earn a living trading co and great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia married a russian woman and became a farmer in our own 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 forests growing today these lines are now working we have a well over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a bubble for old 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 it's a good idea the middle market will be there and we went ahead. the first problem we encountered i think with normal was that the workers expected that they'd lost by by mr stalin and now 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

thought could manage such a modern farm so in the end we decided that 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 good it's. nice color. 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 theist and certain forms to fill out so that we can see they did their job either 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 asking do you want. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got down on the good we've got em in from germany we've got companies 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 lines 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 answers a farmer all over the world either 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 to become a farmer the more i really felt i was a real person i come here and i see the effect of the lives of over one hundred people the local community know 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 cold i just saw a paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. just

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welcome back you're watching a reminder of the top stories arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled have the weapons out of key cities and released three and a half thousand prisoners but the body confirms 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 with a vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups but with the 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 test in the gulf draw western condemnation tehran also held an 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 war crippling sanctions. up next financial guru max kaiser the subject of economic headlines to his own unique brand of scrutiny. as a record one of the great things about doing a show on our today is that new year lasts oh seems like almost two weeks days are over oh mags is only eight days there are lightweight we're still partying here.